When you consider the extraordinary gains to be had from education of women in developing nations, anything that helps in this area should not be overlooked.
This leads to greater longevity for entire families. The women live longer, but oddly enough, the men gain even more longevity when women around them are better educated.
Educated women tend to have significantly fewer children, which leads to greater standard of living for the whole family, and local community. The resulting slowdown in population growth leads to less strain on limited worldly resources, which happens to also make it the single biggest impact in the fight against global warming.
So not only is it simply the right thing to do, morally speaking, but also has such an impact for good in so many ways. Long may it continue.
Cyclone Freddy has travelled across the Indian Ocean from Australia to wreak havoc in Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe.
UN is coordinating emergency relief teams helping out with the displaced in Malawi and Mozambique . Some deaths.
More information about said alligators required. Are they fully grown adults?
At what age are alligators considered to have matured enough to be considered adults?
UNICEF has reported that 10 million children in Central Sahel are in dire need of humanitarian assistance, while 4 million are at risk in neighbouring countries because of hostilities and climate
Ukraine is not the only country where children are suffering ( at least they are getting fed)
Blinken has been on a charm offensive in Niger, handing out cash to a country in the US good books.
It’s much more complicated than that.
Under the revised French pension scheme, it will require something like 42 years of continuous employment to be eligible for the full pension on retirement. AFAIK there is no grandfathering for those in the current scheme, as compared to new in the workforce .
Raising the retirement age will also give less scope for employment on retirement. As in other countries, people in their sixties face an ageist barrier to re-employment. France was contemplating a scheme of incentives to encourage the hiring of older people
