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According to a report, nineteen gendarmes were killed in an attack in Burkina Faso near the border with Mali on Sunday. Reportedly, there have been other attacks in the border regions with Malu and Niger, two Morrocon drivers carrying unknown cargo were killed in Mali in September.

Reportedly, the community of the Sahel Saharan states was established in 1998 in Tripoli during a summit organised by Muammar Gadaffi, attended by the heads of states of Mali, Niger, Chad and Sudan. CEN-SAD became a u.n. observer in 2001, according to documentation, a purpose being the establishment of industrial and energy fields.

According to reports, in 2011 a nato offensive resulted in the capture, torture and murder of Gadaffi and his fourth son by national transitional council forces. Reportedly, his last words were, What did I do to you?

According to reports, security concerns relating to transitional crimes such as contraband and trafficking were reasons given for the u.n. military presence in the Sahel.

According to a report, a cop26 draft aims to limit global warming, currently 1.2 Celsius above pre industrial levels to 1.5-2C above pre industrial levels by way of nationally determined contributions, or plans containing targets for emmisions.

Reportedly, net zero relates to a reduction of emmisions as far as possible, and where alternative technologies aren’t available offsetting irreducible emmisions by fostering carbon sinks, that is anything that absorbs carbon such as trees and forests. Reportedly, the amount of carbon on earth has never changed, it flows from the soil to organisms to the air, being released and absorbed. Conclusion being carbon gases will be assimilated, not so any attached pollutants.

According to reports, global warming is caused by greenhouse gases emitting radiant energy with a wavelength of between 3 and 100 micrometres.

Non polluting fuels don’t create a haze, such as wood and oil fired central heating. Nuclear energy uses uranium and burns much hotter than coal. According to reports, light water reactors form the major part of new nuclear reactors for commercial and naval purposes and are available from the us, Russia and France for electricity production. Reportedly, water is taken from a nearby river or ocean as a necessary coolant, and is pumped back in a heated condition or dissipated as steam. According to reports, problems are water becoming contaminated with nuclear fissions, and decay heat, necessitating water to be pumped for one to three years after shutdown. Reportedly, if the temperature exceeds 2200 C the water becomes explosive.

Reportedly, asylum seekers are building up on the Belarus Polish border. According to a report those interviewed were from Iraq and Syria. Many migrants are probably Kurds, indigenous to the border region of Turkey, Syria and Iraq. Reportedly, Turkey objected to a Kurdish state following world war II.

According to a report, the uk claim border checks are causing difficulties for northern Ireland businesses but don’t say why. Border checks protect all consumers.

Reportedly, progress at a meeting to discuss northern Ireland protocol in Brussels was limited according to the uk who are in favour of further intensive negotiations.

According to a report, on Monday the dup boycott of meetings of the north south ministerial council was ruled unlawful by a high court judge. Reportedly, the dup said they would boycott nsmc meetings except those focused on health. According to the report, a north south meeting on health matters took place on Thursday.

According to a report, a billion euros has been approved by the nsmc, 75% is backed by the uk. The fund, to be invested over the next seven years is part of a peace plus program supporting projects in northern Ireland, the border counties and Sligo. The innitiative so far has resulted in the redevelopment of the Girdwood barracks in north Belfast and a bridge over the River Foyle, west Ulster connecting unionist and nationalist communities.

According to reports, Britain are against any border checks. Reportedly, a senior Brexit adviser tweeted that the uk could move to entirely suspend protocol dealing with customs, product standards, vat and state aid.

Paul Givan is expected to remain first minister for the summer.

According to a report, the council of Europe, unlike the european council is distinct from the European union. The council which has the same flag and anthem as the eu was created in London and is a permanent observer of the u.n., having free access to most meetings and relevant documents.

The coe says it is the continent’s leading human rights organisation, its best known best body is the european court of human rights, located in Strasbourg, France. The council is involved in overseeing the rule of law, the term relates to a political situation or constitution, and oversees via a judiciary and observation in areas such as internet governance, biological safety and the use of animals, prison standards, data protection, international justice, the evaluation of money laundering and a committee of legal advisers on international law.

Main bodies listed are the committee of ministers and the parliamentary assembly. Reportedly, the comitteeof ministers, made up of ministers for foreign affairs of member states is the coe’s main decision making body and meets weekly. The coe’s parliamentary assembly is made up of 324 parliamentarians from the national parliaments of the 47 member states and has pleanary meetings four times a year.

According to reports, on Monday three Algerian truck drivers en route from Nouakchott, Mauritania were assassinated. Nouakchott is one of the largest cities in the Sahel. Reportedly, over forty trucks were set on fire during March and April. According to the report, international truckers suspended travel to south Sudan in April following increased attacks resulting in the death of more than fifteen drivers, and dozens injured. Reportedly, between July and August, a Ugandan and three Kenyan truck drivers died of gunshot wounds, dozens more were injured.

According to a report on the Sahel region, corporate capitalism, power transfer, historical injustices and ongoing coloniality needs to be acknowledged and redressed.

According to a report, a replica of the tent of meeting or Jewish tabernacle has been built in Timna park. The Timna valley is located in southern Israel, 30 km from Eilat. Reportedly, the area had ancient copper mines, called King Solomon’s mines, dated around 5th Century bc. According to reports, archaeological excavations have uncovered a temple dedicated to Hathor, the egyptian god of mining. Persia conquered Egypt in 450 bc. Reportedly, the temple serviced egyptian miners who worked in the area, possibly as slave labour during the neo Assyrian empire.

Reportedly, the tent of meeting was 13.72  metres long, 4.57 metres wide and 4.57 metres high. It consisted of an outer court with an alter, called the brazen alter on which lambs were cooked and a laver or washing bowl. According to the report, the fire on the alter was kept burning at all times. There was an inner alter for the burning of incense, a table and bread, new bread was brought twice a week. The inner sanctuary contained the ark of the covenant, said to contain god’s presence.

Reportedly, the earliest mention of the word Israel was carved on a 13th Century bc stone written in the name of the Pharoah Merneptah. In the stele, Merneptah, reigned 1213-1203 claimed to have laid waste to Israel and other cities and kingdoms in the eastern mediterranean

According to reports, during the 13th Century, tribes of Israel left slavery in Egypt intending to enter what was known as Canaan during the middle Assyrian empire, but there were many tribes living in the land and they spent forty years wandering in the desert. The ark of the covenant was constructed by Israel during the period in the wilderness to contain the tablets of the law, a pot of mana, symbol of God’s love, provision and care and the rod of Moses’ brother, Aaron, symbolizing guidance and correction.

Israel carried the ark to the city of Jericho where they destroyed every man, women and beast living there. In another battle Philistines captured the ark, but began to believe it was connected to a series of misfortunes, and gave it back. According to a report, battles were recorded with other tribes during the 13th Century, but no record of battles in central Canaan, which may have been inhabited by Israelites who didn’t go to Egypt.

According to a report, a group of ten european countries led by France have asked the european commission to recognise nuclear energy as part of the eu green taxonomy. Other signatories are Bulgaria, Croatia, Czec republic, Finland, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia and Romania.

According to reports, most of the five hundred commercial nuclear power reactors operating or under construction globally require enriched uranium for the nuclear chain reaction. Reportedly, the heat released from continual fission of atoms of the fuel produces steam to drive the turbines that produce electricity.

According to reports, France operated mines in Gabon for forty years after uranium was discovered in 1956. Reportedly, today the uranium deposits are exhausted and the mine no longer working. According to the report, land reclamation such as reforestation is ongoing. Uranium is an essential component of soil temperature, necessary for life.

Natural uranium consists of 99% Uranium-238 and about 0.7% Uranium-235. In conventional nuclear reactors uranium is enriched to contain up to 5% Uranium-235. Reportedly, plans in the u.s. are for uranium enriched with 5-20% Uranium-235. According to a report, uranium mining in the united states in 2019 represented 0.3% of anticipated u.s. uranium fuel requirements for the year.

According to reports Cameroon was a german protectorate, beginning around 1860 with the establishment of a company exporting coffee, sugar and other commodities. Reportedly, during ww1 Kamerun was occupied by british and french troops, a league of nations mandate around 1922 divided the land. According to the report, France administered most of the region, the british mandate was a small portion in the west, possibly Bakassi, administered as part of the protectorate of Nigeria. Reportedly, the british mandate in Nigeria was governed through the rulers defeated by the British. Following ww2 the districts were made u.n. territories.

Reportedly, in 1960 the mandates in french Cameroun and Nigeria terminated, french Cameroun became the Cameroon republic. According to the report, the mandate for uk controlled south Cameroon was soon to expire, but a british report insisted it would not survive alone economically. Reportedly, the u.n. organised a referendum in which english speaking Cameroons were asked whether they wanted to join the Cameroon republic or Nigeria. According to the report, 60% of people from the north were in favour of joining Nigeria whilst 70.5% of southerners were in favour of integration with the republic of Cameroon. Reportedly, northern Cameroon officially became part of Nigeria whilst southern Cameroon became part of Cameroon.

According to a report, the republic of Cameroon claimed the uk had violated the trusteeship agreement by creating such conditions that the trusteeship had led to the attachment of northern Cameroon to Nigeria. According to reports, an economic crisis in the republic during the mid eighties was due to oil prices, and the need to begin importing oil. Reportedly, the crisis resulted in acceptance of the intervention of the international monetary fund and foreign aid.

According to reports, the Bakassi peninsula was an area of large oil reserves, and was the subject of a border dispute between Cameroon and Nigeria. Reportedly, in 1994 Cameroon took the matter to the international court of justice. According to the report, Nigeria claimed a pre 1913 border, and Cameroon in parity with the uk and germany referred to a colonial era anglo-german agreement. The verdict was Bakassi was handed over to the republic of Cameroon.

According to a report, oil production in Cameroon, once a major export is dwindling since the turn of the Century. Reportedly, in 2019 oil was both a major export ($1.89 billion) and import ($347 million). According to reports, conflict between english speaking seperatists, government troops and other groups have killed over 4,000 people and displaced over 765,000, of which 65,000 are refugees in Nigeria.

According to a report, boko harem, an anti western jihad group is active in Nigeria, Cameroon, Niger, Chad and possibly Mali. Reportedly, ideology is sunni Islamic revival.