Africa: Ramadan – A Dietitian Offers Tips for Healthy Fasting: [The Conversation Africa] Ramadan is the month in the Islamic calendar when the Qur’an was revealed to the prophet Muhammad (PBUH). During the month, Muslims abstain from all sensory pleasures (like food and drink, sex, TV and music) from dawn to dusk. The time is centred on prayer, the Qur’an, deep mindfulness and spiritual reflection. The duration of fasting varies from 13 to 18 hours a day, depending on the daylight times in a country. Muslims believe that fasting helps to develop their submission to God, empathy with the poor a – AllAfrica News: Africa
Africa: Extractive Projects Cause Irreparable Harm to Indigenous Cultures, Speakers Tell UN Forum: [UN News] The explosive growth of extractive operations around the world often plays out on indigenous people’s lands without their consent, causing irreparable harm to their livelihoods, cultures, languages and lives, speakers told the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues on Monday, as it opened its 2022 session amid calls to respect their free, prior and informed consent on the existential decisions uprooting their communities. – AllAfrica News: Africa
Africa: Continent Faces Hard Knocks As Rich Countries Take Manufacturing Back Home: [The Conversation Africa] The global economic crisis triggered by the outbreak of the COVID pandemic in 2020 and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February this year has intensified the risk of declining trade integration between countries. A process referred to as the deglobalisation of trade. – AllAfrica News: Africa
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