CleanTechnica EVs

JUNE 2, 2023

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has established a causal link between climate change and the rise in armed conflicts in sub-Saharan African countries: Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Somalia, and Sudan. This region has become the global epicenter of violent extremist activity. “On the […]

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Climate Change Burkina Faso Climate Niger 120

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2023

While piloting an MH60 Blackhawk in Mogadishu, Somalia in 1993, he was shot down and captured, becoming part of the Blackhawk Down story by Mark Bowden. He is a master aviator, qualified in the UH-1 Huey, MH-6 Loach, and MH-60A, L, and K models of the Blackhawk.

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USA Somalia Companies Electric 150

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JANUARY 30, 2017

Last Friday, President Trump signed an executive order suspending “immigrant and nonimmigrant entry” into the US from Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia and Yemen for 90 days, with the potential for adding further countries of origin to the list of proscribed.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Nigeria’s rate (about 115 kWh) is an order of magnitude lower and there are many countries (Burundi, Central African Republic, Chad, Ethiopia, Guinea, Niger, Somalia, South Sudan) where the mean is below or just around 50 kWh/year, or less than 1 percent of the affluent rate. What does 50 kWh/year deliver?

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Central African Republic Electric Electrical Sudan 87

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JUNE 17, 2014

Furthermore, it is the only offshore oil column ever reported seaward of the eastern coastal margin of the African continent, from South Africa to the north- west tip of Somalia. The Sunbird-1 oil is the historic first-ever oil discovery offshore Kenya. We believe that this is a play- opening discovery in Kenya’s Lamu Basin.

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Kenya Oil South Africa Gas 210

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NOVEMBER 17, 2014

Traffic went up in every ocean during the 20 years of the study, except off the coast of Somalia, where increasing piracy has almost completely halted commercial shipping since 2006. Shipping traffic grew even faster during the second decade of the study, peaking at rate of increase of 10% per year in 2011.

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Sri Lanka Global Pollution Mariner 225

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 19, 2009

Just this past year Russia sent tanks into oil-rich Georgia, and an oil tanker was hijacked off the coast of Somalia. We would also have a degree of resilience in the face of threats. And they exist. In addition, climate change demands that we harness new, renewable sources of energy. Here, too, electricity is key.

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