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Within Our World, Abuja (2024)

21/01/2023

Mozambique is the only country in the world which sports a firearm on their flag, namely an AK-47 Kalashinkov. It symbolises defence, vigilance and not least the long struggle for freedom and independence. The Mozambican people were occupied by the Portuguese in 1505 and suffered colonialisation for 470 years.

It wasn’t until 1975 that FRELIMO (Frente de Libertação de Moçambique / the Mozambican Liberation Front), under the leadership of Eduardo Mondlane and Samora Machel, managed to defeat the Portuguese army and finally win independence.

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24/10/2022

Rishi Sunak emerge as the new UK Prime Minister. Sunak was born on 12 May 1980 in Southampton to African-born Hindu parents of Punjabi Indian descent, Yashvir and Usha Sunak. He is the eldest of three siblings. His father was born and raised in the Colony and Protectorate of Kenya (present-day Kenya), while his mother was born in Tanganyika (which later became part of Tanzania). His grandfathers were born in Punjab province, British India, and migrated from East Africa with their family to the UK in 1960s.

24/10/2022

STADIUM 974 - Qatar🇶🇦

Located on the shore of the gulf in the east of Doha, near the port Hamad international airport. Stadium 974 was designed by Fenwick Iribarren Architects ( A Spanish architecture firm) The 40,000 capacity stadium is constructed on 450,000 square meter waterfront and is situated on an artificial promontory. Construction began in the year 2018 and completed/opened on 30th November 2021. Stadium 974 is a temporary Venue made from 974 recycled shipping containers. the stadium will host seven matches during the 2022 fifa world cup Qatar.

13/09/2022

Ghana National Mosque Accra - West Africa's second biggest mosque. Funded by the Turkish government, Ghana's National Mosque is said to be a replica of the Blue Mosque in Istanbul. The complex cost at least $10 million dollars, 15,000 people can worship in the mosque at a time.

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13/09/2022

Did you know that New Musical Express (NME) award Former Iranian President Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti as “The bastard of the year" twice in 1990 and 1991.

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06/09/2022

WORLD VIRGIN PEAK.

Bhutan's highest mountain (40th highest mountain globally) mount “Gangkhar Puensum" which stood about 7,570m (24,836ft) located around the Bhutan/China border is said to be the only unclimbed peak in the world.
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02/09/2022

Antarctica is the fifth largest continent, being nearly twice the size of Australia and larger than Europe, and has an area of 14,200,00km². It's landmass is almost wholly covered by a vast ice sheet. Antarctica is the only continent without an indigenous human population due to it's remoteness, inhospitable weather conditions and lack of natural land, bridges connecting it to other continent. However, there are permanent human settlements where scientist and support staff live for part of the year on a rotating basis. The estimated number of scientist living there is about 1000 to 4000 seasonal.

29/08/2022

2 Air France pilots suspended after fighting in cockpit

PARIS (AP) — Fisticuffs in the cockpit, leaving a leaky engine running while cruising over Africa -- Air France pilots are under scrutiny after recent incidents that have prompted French investigators to call for tougher safety protocols.

Two Air France pilots were suspended after physically fighting in the cockpit on a Geneva-Paris flight in June, an Air France official said Sunday. The flight continued and landed safely, and the dispute didn’t affect the rest of the flight, the official said, stressing the airline’s commitment to safety.

Switzerland’s La Tribune reported that the pilot and co-pilot had a dispute shortly after takeoff, and grabbed each other by their collars after one apparently hit the other. Cabin crew intervened and one crew member spent the flight in the cockpit with the pilots, the report said.

News of the fight emerged after France’s air investigation agency, BEA, issued a report Wednesday saying that some Air France pilots lack rigor in respecting procedures during safety incidents.

It focused on a fuel leak on an Air France flight from Brazzaville in the Republic of Congo to Paris in December 2020, when pilots rerouted the plane but didn’t cut power to the engine or land as soon as possible, as leak procedure requires. The plane landed safely in Chad, but the BEA report warned that the engine could have caught fire.

It mentioned three similar cases between 2017 and 2022, and said some pilots are acting based on their own analysis of the situation instead of safety protocols.

Air France said it is carrying out a safety audit in response. It pledged to follow the BEA’s recommendations, which include allowing pilots to study their flights afterward and making training manuals stricter about sticking to procedure.

The airline noted that it flies thousands of flights daily and the report mentions only four such safety incidents.

Air France pilots unions have insisted that security is paramount to all pilots and defended pilot actions during emergency situations.

The BEA also investigated an incident in April involving an Air France flight from New York’s JFK airport that suffered flight control problems on approach to its landing in Paris.

29/08/2022

ICELAND - Is the one and only Country with no mosquitoes. According to scientific research, the oceanic climate of Iceland keeps the mosquitoes at bay. Mosquitoes can breed in a variety of environments such as hot and humid climates as well as cold climatic conditions. They are even known to breed in Antarctica which is the coldest place on earth but not in Iceland. Why?

Because in Iceland, the insects get only three major freezes which thaw once a year; making it an undesirable condition for their survival.🇮🇸

24/08/2022

The US government has agreed to return to Nigeria over $23 million that was laundered by former military ruler Sani Abacha.

Nigeria has previously recovered several other tranches of the loot, believed to have been diverted from public coffers. In 2020, the US also agreed to return over $308 million in confiscated funds to Nigeria. In 2006, about $723 million of the money was returned to Nigeria from Switzerland.

What should be done to ensure every citizen benefits from the recovered funds?

Source: DW Africa

24/08/2022

The Great Algerian Mosque is the third largest mosque in the world

Ten facts you do not know about the Great Mosque:

1- The carpet of the Great Mosque was made in Algeria
Made in 16 Algerian countries.

2- The mosque has the largest chandelier in the world with a diameter of 14 meters, made by an Austrian designer.

3- It contains 6 km of Arabic calligraphy, and there are different types of Arabic calligraphy

4- It has 7 lights according to each prayer.

5- Some doors are inspired by the doors of the historical Algerian mosques, such as the gate of the Sidi Boumediene Mosque, Tlemcen.

6- The columns inside and inside the mosque, which are designed in the form of a rose, hollow from the inside. They are rainwater collecting pipes that go to a factory inside the mosque to be re-filtered and reused.

7- The height of the base of the minaret of the mosque is 25 meters, and it has five sections, a metaphor for the five daily prayers.

8-16 A diverse garden with fruit trees mentioned in the Holy Quran

9- A 150-meter-long bridge connects the mosque to the sea

10- It consists of 12 buildings, including a museum, a Quran house, a library, a conference palace, and a car park that can accommodate 4,500 cars.

22/08/2022

Ethiopian Airlines has suspended two Pilots who fell asleep and missed their landing during a flight from Khartoum, Sudan to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

They were flying at over 30,000 feet in air.