How farmers in Burundi banded, transformed avocado cultivation into ‘green gold’ for export
he participation of the cooperatives is an important step toward regulating the country’s avocado exports, said Ferdinand Habimana, vice president of Green Gold Burundi’s administrative board. Although the government is promoting avocado farming to diversify exports, avocados grown in Burundi are yet to be trademarked as coming from there, he said.
New Costs of War report reveals US spent record $18 billion in military aid to Israel after Hamas invasion
The financial toll is on top of the cost in human lives: Hamas militants killed more than 1,200 people in Israel a year ago and took 250 others hostage. Israel’s retaliatory offensive has killed over 42,000 people in Gaza, according to the territory’s Health Ministry, which does not distinguish between civilians and combatants in its count.
Haitian PM Garry Conille travels to UAE, Kenya to seek security reinforcement after gang massacre
Gran Grif is the largest gang in Haiti’s Artibonite department, according to security analysts. The region is home to many of Haiti’s rice fields. The gang’s leader Luckson Elan said the attack was in retaliation for civilians remaining passive while police and vigilante groups killed his soldiers.
After the deluge, the lies: Trump’s misinformation and hoaxes about Helene cloud, the recovery
Many of the conspiracy theories focus on hard-hit North Carolina, a state key to winning the White House. Rumours circulated that FEMA was raiding storm donations and withholding body bags, forcing local hospitals to stack the bodies of victims. One claim suggested federal authorities would condemn the entire town of Chimney Rock and prohibit resettlement in order to commandeer a valuable lithium mine nearby.
Hezbollah attrition: Iran’s Quds Force chief out of contact since Beirut strikes as speculation grows about his fate
The Quds Force, the overseas arm of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, oversees dealings with militias allied with Tehran across the Middle East, such as Hezbollah.
Godless UK: While atheism has been prominent in British culture, atheists now outnumber theists
Curiously, most atheists and agnostics were found to have some kind of belief in the supernatural. The ‘Explaining Atheism’ project spanned three years and was funded by the John Templeton Foundation.
