At least 155 lives lost in Tanzania and at least 210 in Kenya due to recent floods and landslides #ClimateCrisis #ClimateJustice
Kenya, Tanzania brace for Cyclone Hidaya as flood death toll rises aje.io/duw66r via Al Jazeera English

SOAS's new MA in Global Urban Sociology with Shiv Nadar University, Delhi NCR offers equal fees to all students - half the intl tuition fee typically charged at UK unis.

The programme will focus on the global sociology of cities and urban life-worlds.

The Indian Express
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Scholarships help those who might not otherwise have the opportunity to study at university, regardless of their financial situation: SOAS Scholarship appeal 2024 soas.ac.uk/about/giving-s…

Industry puts responsibility on individuals but it’s the brands choice for the kinds of packaging they use and for embracing this throwaway model of delivering their goods. That’s what’s causing the greatest abundance of trash #pollution
#PlasticWaste theguardian.com/environment/20…

Given all we know, the Prime Minister must halt the sale of arms to Israel

Yesterday I attended the launch of Zeinab Badawi 's An African History of Africa at SOAS University of London, it was truly a momentous occasion. I look forward to reading the book, a birthday present from Ida Hadjivayanis !

Environmentalists hailed it a historic achievement yet Ethiopia’s coffee industry claims new rules unfair since almost all Ethiopia coffee grown by poor farmers owning small plots of land & lack expertise to gather complex data needed to show compliance.

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East Africa’s ‘soda lakes’ are rising, threatening their iconic flamingos - the cause of the population decline, rising water levels at many of the feeding lakes are decimating the cyanobacteria the birds have evolved to eat. theconversation.com/east-africas-s… via The Conversation

Developing countries, which have been disproportionately affected by climate breakdown through increase flooding & droughts, have repeatedly expressed anger that global north has given little support to them despite historical imbalance in carbon emissions theguardian.com/global-develop…

“Tuna mmiss Dr. Ida Hadjivayanis leo hapa - aliye tafsiri kitabu cha Prof. Gurnah - Peponi- lakini tume weka kwenye bajeti kitabu chake kinunuliwe ili kisambazwe mashuleni Tanzania” - Prof. Adolf Mkenda kwenye hotuba yake #TuzoNyerere

#spring #London

...the economy has collapsed, the war has halted agriculture, and more than 2 million people have endured more than six months of food shortages and malnutrition. #CEASEFIRE_NOW #CeaseFireInGaza theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

Our dear sister/friend Lily will be running the London Half Marathon this coming Sunday for a great cause in memory of our gorgeous Georgina who sadly lost her life to cancer. Let us cheer her on Sunday! Cc Ida Hadjivayanis Salha Hamdani

'...the injustice is compounded by decreasing fish stocks in the West African nation, where the centuries-old tradition of artisanal fishing is menaced by foreign industrial boats that export the fish away from Senegal.' aje.io/6j08dn via Al Jazeera English

Hail falling earlier today #London

#London

A community announcement about SOAS student Samaria Ayanle.

“Palestinian women deserve their independence, freedom and sovereignty.”

Cuban women express their solidarity with Palestinian women on International Women’s Day, honoring them as leaders against colonial occupation.

Israel killed over 30,000 Palestinians in less than 150 days.

These are some of the names and faces of people Israel has killed since Oct. 7 across Gaza and the occupied West Bank.

Mbuyu umeanguka, Maktaba imeungua. Tuna muomba Allah amsamehe makosa yake, na amjaalie pepo ya daraja la Juu Mzee wetu.

Naomba nichukue fursa hii kutoa shukrani zangu za dhati kwa wote mliotufariji kwa njia mbali mbali. Hatuna la kuwalipa Ila kuwaombeeni Kila la kheri. Asanteni.