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More info:
https://www.nairaland.com/6773150/angola-experiences-info

Family trip back home.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBs_pe3VCl8

Woman spoils her husband on his birthday

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kml47wgDRoU

Update: World Bank Suspends Funding For Ruaha National Park Project
https://www.nairaland.com/8071040/tanzania-tourism-world-bank-suspends

The World Bank has halted its funding of a $150m ($120m) tourism project in Tanzania following allegations of rape, evictions and killings.

The Ruaha National Park was reportedly meant to double in size as part of the project, but critics say the expansion has led to widespread abuses.

The bank began investigating last year after it was accused of complicity in the abuses.

On Tuesday, it said it was "deeply concerned" about the allegations.

"We have therefore decided to suspend further disbursement of funds with immediate effect," a spokesperson from the bank, which provides loans to developing countries, said.

The Resilient Natural Resource Management for Tourism and Growth (Regrow) project was launched in 2017 in an effort to improve the "management of natural resources and tourism assets" in southern Tanzania, including in a number of national parks, the bank said.

At least $100m has already been disbursed for the project, according to the US-based think tank Oakland Institute.

Work to expand the boundaries of the Ruaha National Park, a 12,950-sq-km (5,000-sq-mile) conservation area that is home to lions and other wild animals, has been under heavy scrutiny.

For over a year Oakland Institute has reported alleged abuses linked to development which, while being funded by the bank, has been carried out by the Tanzanian authorities.

The Tanzanian government had not responded to BBC requests for comment.

After the bank announced it was suspending its funding of Regrow on Tuesday, Anuradha Mittal, executive director of Oakland Institute, said the "long overdue" decision was a "crucial step towards accountability and justice".

"It sends a resounding message to the Tanzanian government that there are consequences for its rampant rights abuses taking place across the country to boost tourism."

The think tank said villagers who had been "victims of gross human rights violations" should now receive "adequate" and "prompt" reparations.

It also said the bank must prevent the forced evictions of other villagers.

The bank said it had "robust policies" in place to prevent any potential "harmful impacts" and that it would "continue to work with the authorities and the local communities to ensure all Bank-supported projects protect and improve the lives of Tanzanians".

Allegations of abuse are not limited to tourism projects is the south - in recent years groups like Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have accused the government of forcibly evicting thousands of Tanzanians from the Maasai ethnic group in order to develop a game reserve in the northern Ngorongoro region.

The government has previously denied the allegations.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-68882065

How Gulf princes, the safari industry, and conservation groups are displacing the Maasai from the last of their Serengeti homeland

It was high safari season in Tanzania, the long rains over, the grasses yellowing and dry. Land Cruisers were speeding toward the Serengeti Plain. Billionaires were flying into private hunting concessions. And at a crowded and dusty livestock market far away from all that, a man named Songoyo had decided not to hang himself, not today, and was instead pinching the skin of a sheep.
“Please!” he was saying to a potential buyer with thousands of animals to choose from on this morning. “You can see, he is so fat!”

The buyer moved on. Songoyo rubbed his eyes. He was tired. He’d spent the whole night walking, herding another man’s sheep across miles of grass and scrub and pitted roads to reach this market by opening time. He hadn’t slept. He hadn’t eaten. He’d somehow fended off an elephant with a stick. What he needed to do was sell the sheep so their owner would pay him, so he could try to start a new life now that the old one was finished.
The old life: He’d had all the things that made a person such as him rich and respected. Three wives, 14 children, a large compound with 75 cows and enough land to graze them—“such sweet land,” he would say when he could bear to think of it—and that was how things had been going until recently.

The new life: no cows, because the Tanzanian government had seized every single one of them. No compound, because the government had bulldozed it, along with hundreds of others. No land, because more and more of the finest, lushest land in northern Tanzania was being set aside for conservation, which turned out to mean for trophy hunters, and tourists on “bespoke expeditions,” and cappuccino trucks in proximity to buffalo viewing—anything and anyone except the people who had lived there since the 17th century, the pastoralists known as the Maasai.

They were the ones tourists saw through their windshields selling beaded key chains at the gates of Serengeti National Park, or performing dances after dinner at safari lodges. They were famous for their red shawls and recycled-tire sandals. They grazed their cattle with zebras and giraffes, and built mud-and-dung houses encircled by stick fences barely distinguishable from the wild landscape. They were among the lightest-living people on the planet, and yet it was the Maasai who were being told that the biggest threat to conservation and national progress was them. Their whole way of life had to go.

And so Songoyo, after considering his alternatives, had devised a last-ditch plan for his own survival, one that had brought him to a town in Kenya called Aitong, where a cool wind was slapping sand and dung into his face as he scanned the market for buyers. He was far from home, roughly 65 miles north of the village in Tanzania where he had been tear-gassed and shot at for the first time in his life. He had seen elderly men beaten and guns fired at old women, and now it was down to this: He was a herder for hire, working for a distant relative, trying to make enough money to buy one single cow.
“Come!” he called to the buyers who kept passing his herd and weaving through the bleating mass. “You will not find any better!”

This was his plan: one cow, because that was the starting point of what it meant to be a Maasai man, which was what he still wanted to be.

Full article here: https://archive.is/20240410125831/https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/05/maasai-tribe-tanzania-forced-land-evictions-serengeti/677835/

Angola, the seventh-largest country in Africa, is most well-known for being one of the region’s biggest oil exporters. The commodity provides around half of the country’s fiscal revenues, yet it is not oil that is piquing renewed international interest in the country of late but rather its largely untapped mineral wealth.

The Southern African country already has a thriving diamond mining sector – accounting for around 8% of global production – yet approximately 60% of its territory is thought to be unexplored for metals and minerals.

“The fascinating thing about Angola is, it has so many mineral deposits but so few mines,” says Bryony Richards, an economic geologist at the University of Utah, whose specialisms include exploration and critical minerals. “There are enormous swathes of the country that have no real information about them besides some basic geology maps.”

Within these underexplored areas there are estimated to be considerable reserves of critical and rare earth minerals including copper, cobalt, manganese and lithium. These natural resources could provide Angola with an opportunity to diversify away from its over-reliance on oil and diamonds.

Diamonds are forever
Angola’s lucrative diamond mining sector is showing no signs of slowing down, despite a downturn in demand for the precious gems. Last year the country produced 9.7 million carats but expects this to increase by 50% in 2024.

If achieved, this will largely be down to the new Luele project, where state-controlled diamond miner Catoca started production last November. The project is the biggest diamond mine in the country and one of the world’s largest by estimated resources, which are expected to be in the region of 628 million carats to be mined over 60 years, according to estimates by the company seen by Reuters. Another of the company’s diamond mines, Catoca, is the world’s fourth largest.

De Beers, the world’s largest diamond producer by volume, is also increasing its presence in the country, having signed several agreements with the government covering processing and exploration. These are in addition to other contracts signed in 2022 when the company returned to Angola after exiting in 2012.

While diamonds are set to be the biggest contributor to mining revenue in the country for some time to come, there is increasing interest from foreign mining companies in exploring the country’s other resources.

Angola’s untapped rare earth riches
Notable recent investments in Angola include Pensana’s Longonjo rare earths project and Canadian miner Ivanhoe securing exploration rights over a vast area of the country.

The Longonjo rare earths deposit is located adjacent to the Lobito rail Corridor, which is set to provide a quicker western route to market for metal and minerals. The operation, which has an upfront capital cost of $217m (Kz182.21bn), will extract, concentrate, calcine and chemically refine the free dig material to produce a high-value mixed rare earth carbonate that contains 50% total rare earth oxide, of which 24% is neodymium and praseodymium. The commodity will then be railed 273km to the Atlantic port of Lobito for export.

Read more here: https://www.mining-technology.com/features/angola-mining-resources-critical-minerals-rare-earths/?cf-view&cf-closed

More about Angolan cuisine:
https://www.chefspencil.com/most-popular-foods-of-angola/


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Djonn-S4OiU

This Mufete though

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REwjgobmCFQ

Cachupa. Looks good, but they put everything in it though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4O_z2CIr9M

I don't have any details for you, but people have good things to say about Senegal and Cote d'Ivoire.

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Beautiful women (the guys are handsome too ladies ), bomb food, good beaches, great music, clubs, and parties. Vacationing there is expensive af, but IMHO, it's worth it because they have everything.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heJ69qwmxCk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTMoh7_Erxk

Angolan cuties and food below:

I don't know about that, but consider this:
1.) There are parts of the US where no one wants to live/work/study/visit. Now, these aren't dangerous places or places full of trashy people. They just don't have much going on, low population, sprawled resources, and the job market there isn't the greatest. But, they still have opportunities. And it's a bit easier to get to the US if you're willing to work/study there. There's also the potential to get a higher salary because these companies know no one wants to be there.

2.) If you have the stomach for it, there are also work opportunities in remote areas in the US and Canada. Basically, Alaska, oil fields, mining, fishing, nurses/doctors/etc, and the tiny wilderness towns of Canada. These pay very well and aren't that hard to get. They'll train you, and there's a variety of positions. However, with most of these jobs, you're doing very long days, and in some cases, dangerous and/or strenuous work. But it's not like these jobs are all terrible. It's just not something the average person usually wants.

3.) Nigerians can join the US military. I don't know the details, so you'll have to speak with a recruiter and talk to other Nigerians that have gone through the process. It's not for everyone, but it's definitely a good opportunity, and they're having a hard time recruiting right now, so your chances of getting in are better. You basically earn citizenship through service, and just as important, you get great benefits, free education, and valuable experience. You could turn it into a full career and retire well. Also, the military takes care of its families, so if you have a spouse and kids, it could be awesome, but again, I'm not sure of how this works for immigrants.

That said, you really need to be careful and do your research.

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Perm rod curls

Just a reminder.

Black Snow (Australian series)

It's a whodunit, conspiracy show about a murder in a South Sea Islander community. Pretty good. I'm liking how they build the characters. And each character is kind of familiar.

People are wondering why on earth someone would go to a shithole like India. I'm thinking it's because they:
a) were scammed by locals (tr4fficker network)
b) are a village person that doesn't believe it's a toilet
c) are a criminal
d) are fooled by outsourcing

I don't know what it's going to take to drive home the message that certain countries are just evil places and no one should ever go there. But government needs to figure it out.

Racism is a profound mental illness.

Imagine a man (if such a person can be called that) investing time, energy, and even money into pushing this lie about desirability. The reality is that the only foreigners that consistently have trouble getting partners in different countries are east and south Asian males. Almost everyone else does just fine.

Just a reminder. Get your paperwork together.

Statement of comparability info
https://enic.org.uk/Qualifications/SOC/Default.aspx

Assessment providers
https://getintoteaching.education.gov.uk/assessment-only-providers

Visit the link, there's a lot of info on the application process and your options.

Information here
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/apply-for-qualified-teacher-status-qts-if-you-teach-outside-the-uk/routes-to-qualified-teacher-status-qts-for-teachers-and-those-with-teaching-experience-outside-the-uk

English teacher training leads to a professional teaching qualification called qualified teacher status (QTS).

If you’re a qualified teacher from outside the UK, you can work as a teacher in England for up to 4 years without QTS.

After that, QTS is a legal requirement to teach in many English schools, and considered desirable for teachers in the majority of schools in England.

From 1 February 2023, teachers who qualified in the following 9 countries will also be able to apply to TRA for QTS:

Ghana
Hong Kong
India
Jamaica
Nigeria
Singapore
South Africa
Ukraine
Zimbabwe
This change is part of the launch of a new service, apply for QTS in England. From 1 February 2023, the way we award QTS will change.

Teachers from all eligible countries will have to show they meet a consistent set of criteria for the award of QTS. Over time, this route will be opened to qualified teachers from every country outside the UK.

Working as a teacher while you undergo assessment only QTS
You can work as a teacher in England and earn a salary while you’re assessed for QTS.

The 4-year rule means you can find a teaching job and apply to a teacher training provider offering assessment only QTS in the region of England where you work. Your employing school can support you with this.

When you apply for assessment only QTS you’ll:
have to pay a fee
not have to undergo any further training
not have to visit the UK

International qualifications
If your qualifications come from a non-UK institution, your assessment only teacher training provider may want to see a ‘statement of comparability’ showing how they compare to UK qualifications.

You can call us on 0800 389 2500 for:

guidance on the UK equivalents of your qualifications
a free statement of comparability from UK ENIC once you’ve submitted your application, if your provider asks for this
Your teaching experience must:

consist of time spent teaching (as opposed to other responsibilities in a school)
have taken place in 2 separate schools (not 2 classes within the same school or 2 school sites within the same organisation)
demonstrate you’ve taught young people from a range of different backgrounds
demonstrate you’re familiar with different approaches to teaching, learning and school management

Your teaching experience can have been:

gained in any type of school, for example, international schools, schools teaching the International Baccalaureate, and state-maintained schools outside the UK
spent teaching a non-English curriculum (though you may need to show you have knowledge of the subjects taught in the English curriculum)
divided between 2 school settings as long as you have 2 years’ teaching experience in total
British international school organisations
British international schools provide suitable experience for teachers wishing to apply for assessment only QTS. However, it is not a requirement to gain your experience at a British international school. Reputable British international school organisations include:

the Association of British School Overseas (AoBSO)
the Council of British International Schools (COBIS)
the Federation of British International Schools in Asia (FOBISIA)
British Schools in the Middle East (BSME)
the Association of International Schools in Africa (AISA)

Assessment only costs
Fees range from about £1,500 to £4,000, but vary between providers and may be substantially more if you’re outside the UK. Check with individual providers for more details.

OTTAWA - The federal Liberal government has unveiled plans for a massive increase in the number of immigrants entering Canada, with a goal of seeing 500,000 people arrive each year by 2025 as it seeks to address a critical labour shortage across the country.
While the plan was largely welcomed by industry groups and others, there are questions about whether it goes far enough - and whether it is even achievable, given a large backlog of applications at Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada.

Immigration Minister Sean Fraser revealed the new plan on Tuesday. It puts a heavy emphasis on admitting more permanent residents with needed work skills and experience, alongside more-modest targets for family members and refugees.

“Make no mistake. This is a massive increase in economic migration to Canada,” Fraser told The Canadian Press. “We have not seen such a focus on economic migration as we've seen in this immigration levels plan.”

The new plan envisions a flood of new arrivals that will see 465,000 people come in from outside the country in 2023, rising to 500,000 in 2025. By comparison, the immigration department says 405,000 permanent residents were admitted last year.

Most of those new arrivals will be what are known as economic immigrants, who will be expected to fill some of the roughly one million jobs that are currently sitting empty across various sectors of the economy.

“There were a million jobs available in the Canadian economy at a time when immigration already accounts for nearly all of our labor force growth,” Fraser said. “We cannot maximize our economic potential if we don't embrace immigration.”

The minister also underscored the long-term stakes as Canada's labour force continues to age, with fewer workers supporting not only those who have already retired but also vital public services such as schools and hospitals.

While the influx could put even more pressure on already scarce affordable housing in many parts of the country, Fraser suggested the new workers could actually enable the construction of more homes by addressing a shortage of tradespeople.

He added that the new plan will also try to ensure immigrants are able to easily transition into local communities by directing them to areas that already have capacity for newcomers, and with an increase in federal support and settlement services.

While most of the planned growth in immigration over the next three years will be focused on bolstering the economy, the new plan also calls for a small increase in the number of family members who will be admitted into Canada.

It also projects an overall decrease in the number of refugees, from a high of 76,000 in 2023 to fewer than 73,000 in 2025, which Fraser attributed to the government's plan to finish resettling 40,000 Afghan refugees next year.

“In each of the last two years, we have resettled more than one-third of the total number of refugees who were settled globally,” he added. “And each of the last three years, we have resettled more refugees than any other country in the world.”

Despite the decrease, a representative for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees welcomed the government's continued support for accepting asylum seekers fleeing war and other threats.

“The United Nations Refugee Agency welcomes Canada's continued commitment to refugee resettlement as part of its overall immigration growth plan,” UNHCR Representative in Canada Rema Jamous Imseis said in a statement.

“Refugees need life-saving solutions like resettlement, and they also make important contributions to Canada's economy and the fabric of our communities.”

The response from Canadian industry was more mixed, with the Business Council of Canada arguing the government's plan didn't go far enough in addressing the country's unprecedented labour shortage.

“The Business Council of Canada welcomes the federal government's plan to increase the number of new permanent residents settling in Canada over the next three years,” Business Council CEO and president Goldy Hyder said in a statement.

“But with employers across the country unable to fill nearly one million job openings, bolder targets for economic-class admissions are required to tackle ongoing skill and labour shortages.”

Conservative immigration critic Tom Kmiec also welcomed the plan to dramatically increase the number of new arrivals in Canada, but questioned whether the government would actually be able to meet its own targets.

Kmiec noted officials within the immigration department have 2.6 million applications sitting on their desks waiting to be processed. While around 1.6 million are requests for temporary residence, about 615,000 are from people seeking permanent residence.

“Now they're talking about trying to bring in a half a million immigrants,” Kmiec said. “I just don't believe them that they're going to be able to do it. And that's completely unfair for people who are applying and hoping for a reasonable timeline to get a yes or no.”

Fraser defended the government's targets, saying he was confident that recent investments and a hiring spree in the department, along with changes to how applications are being processed, would address the issue and ensure that people arrive in a timely manner.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Nov. 1, 2022.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/feds-reveal-plan-to-welcome-500-000-immigrants-per-year-by-2025-1.6133962

I don't believe her. She's trolling for clicks, or got paid to spout nonsense.

She's bleached. That's disgusting.

How can anyone clown this?

Congrats on his gains, muscle and money.

Fried or chips. But boiled is fine for certain dishes.

1. Genetics play a major role in how you look. Some guys can't get big or toned without steroids.

2. Do not use steroids. They do terrible things to your body.

3. If you just want size, you can lift weights and eat more. Do the main compound lifts: squat, deadlift, benchpress, and etc. But again, this may not give you the results you want because of genetics. It could also take a good 5 years to get the body you want.

4. There's plenty of videos, guides, meal plans, and workout plans online that work. Don't do too much too soon or you could injure yourself. Listen to your body.

5. It could be fairly expensive because you usually have to eat a certain way to pack on size, e.g. lots of protein and carbs.

Make sure you thoroughly investigate that company. It's risky, but potentially a good opportunity.

If you go, be careful and protect yourself. People call them xenophobic, but they're just racist.