#Regional

Daily data (to April 10) via @IslaGlaister - Dreadful news as daily deaths rise to 980 to 8,958- Slowing growth: Apr 2 to took 3 days for deaths to double.
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Minister @Godahbarre argues as a national minister his ministry must lead the education sector; #Puntland as a state of federal #Somalia ran its education for decades & wants national gov
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1/ Jo Johnson, former Universities minister and now no longer a Tory MP, has waded into the #Covid19 and UK HE debate with "What will higher education look like after
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A Plea1. One thing being talked about a lot: over-work, workload model. Quite right too. #UCUStrikesBack BUT one thing not mentioned at all: universities nicking neighbouring unis’ "natural" students, thereby
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The goal of the Carter Doctrine: maintain access to Persian Gulf oil, prevent the rise of a regional power hostile to the US. According to those criteria, the doctrine has
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From @DefenceInfoNG: The Nigerian Military’s Air Task Force (Op Lafiya Dole) attacking ISWAP Bases around Lake Chad on Friday April 3, closely supported by the MNJTF (which is the regional
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Dad served over 2 decades as regional director in DICT, then DOTC. To send his children to good schools, he never bought brand new cars and put off buy a
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Chesapeake"Bankruptcy fears have investors fleeing the company's stock today." The shale oil industry started to exploit the easiest plots a few years ago. Now that they have to start to
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Topic of the day: should fanfic writers do basic research to make their (canon-compliant, non-AU) stories more believable in the universes they're set in? [1/?] For example, if the fanfic
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So much politics bubbling below the surface in the #Gulf atm. Exchanges of letters, visits, calls bilaterally btwn #Kuwait, #Qatar, #Oman, #Bahrain, #SaudiArabia. No info of #UAE involvement so far,
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While this may seem like a niche issue, companies playing municipalities off of each other for subsidies and preferential treatment is a significant issue in Florida. Because city annexation is
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I want to see the SNP start a fuckign dirty campaign now for indy and for Holyrood 2021, I want to see billboards that say the Tories starved yer nan,
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Ok, @e_b_bobadilla is absolutely right, we need more genuinely unpopular opinions. So here's one:Most positions should spend less time focusing on what you PhD was in and what you research
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Been a fan of tithing for years. Need to read up on different expressions of the practice, but NOW IS THE TIME TO TITHE. This thread is directed at comfortable
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an absolute victory that this map omits vinegar, the inferior and now clearly defeated enemy of Good and Correct chippy saucehttps://twitter.com/QuintinLake/status/1277373165249925126 im normally a fan of "letting people enjoy the
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Funny story (or at least I think it is). The guy I was traveling with yesterday was supposed to be picked up by his brother at Jinnah Terminal. As we
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