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Domestic violence in sub-Saharan Africa could triple by 2060, warns report

In the worst-case scenario where emissions rise, temperatures warm by more than 4° C by the end of the century, & socioeconomic development stalls, the number of people experiencing intimate partner violence in sub-Saharan Africa will almost triple from 48 million in 2015>140 million in 2060
https://phys.org/news/2024-09-domestic-violence-saharan-africa-triple.html

#women #SubSaharan #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #GlobalBurning #ClimateDestruction #environment #climate

#Kenya #SubSaharan #EastAfrica #Allies https://youtube.com/shorts/mqSH5dli7Mo?si=3SJseQAvZuBMYLZa

QGIS Plugin To Schedule School Hours Around Rain In Africa [podcast]
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https://thegeomob.com/podcast/episode-235 <-- link to GeoMob podcast
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[heck of a use case, the noise from heavy rain on metal roofs prevents kids from hearing the lessons]
#GIS #spatial #mapping #usecase #opensource #opendata #Africa #education #qgis #plugin #rain #rainfall #noise #distraction #school #schoolhours #subsaharan #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #appliedscience #Finland #OSM #openstreetmap #openscience #Geomob #podcast
@geomob

photo - schoolchildren around laptop, Africa

photo - teacher at blackboard, computer class, Africa

photo - new design of classroom, Burkina Faso, Africa

#Champion #gymnast #LukeStrong on his #trip to #Syria, #traveling the #world & just how many #speedos he owns

After a #careerending #injury, Strong aimed to visit 100 #countries by 30. He's on track, expecting to reach his goal by early December, right before his 31st birthday. He plans to #celebrate this #milestone in #Namibia, the #driest #country in #subSaharan #africa

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Travel #Tourism #PinkTourism #Representation #Culture

https://www.queerty.com/champion-gymnast-luke-strong-on-his-trip-to-syria-traveling-the-world-just-how-many-speedos-he-owns-20240523

How Accurate Are Existing Land Cover Maps For Agriculture In Sub-Saharan Africa? [metrics]
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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-03306-z <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #earthobservation #EO #Africa #SubSaharan #metrics #foodsecurity #agriculture #farming #crops #cropland #landcover #monitoring #quantative #datasources #statistics #geostatistics #accuracy #precision #model #modeling #Kenya #Malawi #Mali #Rwanda #Tanzania #Togo #Uganda #Zambia

charts - Fraction of pixels that agree (predict same class) for each pair of compared maps, ordered by spatial resolution (high to low). Diagonal entries are set to 0.

Map showing the number of maps that predict cropland in each 10 m/pixel location. Panel A shows the maps in the context of the African continent while Panel B gives larger views of the maps (countries not to scale). Blue and red indicate regions of high or unanimous agreement between maps for the crop and non-crop classes, respectively. Yellow indicates regions of high disagreement between maps.

charts - Time series of 16-day MODIS MOD13A1.061 Terra Vegetation Indices averaged within (A) each country and (B) an administrative level 1 region, masked using each crop mask assessed in this study.

RT @MattAhlborg@Twitter.com

Sub-Saharan Africa P2P volume hit a new all time high last week on @Paxful and @LocalBitcoins.

Bitcoin is most useful in places with capital controls, high levels of bureaucracy, and weakening local currencies.

https://twitter.com/MattAhlborg/status/1379792945604390917

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Source:
https://usefultulips.org/combined_Sub%20Saharan%20Africa_Page.html

#Bitcoin :bitcoin: #P2P #PeerToPeer #Pleb2Pleb #P2PTrader #P2PPlatform #P2PTradingPlatform #Africa 🌍 #SubSaharan #SubSahara #Nigeria 🇳🇬 #Kenya 🇰🇪 #Ghana 🇬🇭 #SouthAfrica 🇿🇦 #UsefulTulips #Paxful #localbitcoins

RT @GadgeteerZA@Twitter.com

Africa may have no Mastodon instances (I could not believe this) but it does have a decentralised Lemmy (Reddit clone) instance to foster social dialogue across African nations

https://twitter.com/GadgeteerZA/status/1353397373246955520

See https://baraza.africa

On #Mastodon follow @gadgeteer

#technology #decentralisation #reddit #alternativeto #Africa #lemmy #Kenya #SubSaharan #Fedi #Fediverse #Baraza #BarazaAfrica #Reddit

Bringing Bitcoin to the Next Billion People 🌍🌎🌏

https://lightninglabs.substack.com/p/bringing-bitcoin-to-the-next-billion

"Statista found that 32% of Nigerians, 21% of Vietnamese, and 20% of Philippinos have used cryptocurrency, but on-chain fees averaging $20 make it very difficult for users in these areas to use bitcoin on a daily basis."

"Lightning fixes this."

#Bitcoin :bitcoin: #LightningNetwork ⚡ #Lightning #Network #Wallet #BitcoinWallet #LightningPool #LightningLabs #StackSats #SubsaharanAfrica #SubSaharan #Africa #EastAsia #Asia

RT @MwangoCapital@Twitter.com

3/ Banking in Subsharana Africa:

"only 37 percent of women have a bank account, compared with 48 percent of men, a gap that has only widened over the past several years"

[@IMFNews]

#IWD2021

https://twitter.com/MwangoCapital/status/1368914091105005568

#Bitcoin :bitcoin: #SubSaharan #Africa #Unbanked #Banked #Women #Bank #Account

INFOGRAPHIC: WHAT IS SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA’S CONTRIBUTION TO GLOBAL CO2 EMISSIONS?

https://www.energyforgrowth.org/blog/infographic-what-is-sub-saharan-africas-contribution-to-global-co2-emissions

"Here’s the takeaway from the tiny light blue boxes in the bottom corner: 48 countries, home to more than one billion people, are responsible for 0.55% of cumulative emissions."

#CO2 #Carbon #Emission #ClimateChange #Africa #SubSaharan #SubSaharanAfrica