Author: catfish

ANI Cape Town (South Africa), January 18 After a brilliant show in their opening match on Monday, the Indian Women’s Hockey Team registered a stunning 7-0 victory against the home side South Africa in their second match of the South Africa Tour here in Cape Town. The visitors, riding on their recent success at the FIH Women’s Nations Cup, have shown sublime form in this tournament. They opened the campaign with a 5-1 win and on Tuesday they showed the same intent as they began with a fine 9th-minute goal by Udita. The team led by goalkeeper Savita upped the…

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Maria Guerra is excited to enroll her two daughters, who will be 3 and 4 in the fall, in preschool in St. Vrain Valley through Colorado’s new Universal Preschool program. Guerra, who lives in Mead, said her oldest is eager to learn, while her younger daughter was an early talker. She also wants both, as native Spanish speakers learning some English at home, to gain more English skills so they can become bilingual. Then there are the benefits of learning social skills and school routines. “I want to get them into preschool so they get used to the routine of…

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Jackson Richman is a journalist and Today News Africa contributor based in Washington, District of Columbia. His work can be seen in Mediaite, The Washington Examiner, Jewish News Syndicate, and other news outlets. In November 2021, the Biden administration imposed a temporary travel ban on eight African countries due to the Omicron variant. These countries included Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe. However, those countries ranged from having none of the variant to very few cases of it whereas other nations including Holland and Australia, neither of which did not face a travel ban from Washington due…

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HOUSTON – Officials from the Houston Astros announced an updated schedule for the 2023 Shriners Children’s College Classic on Tuesday, which affected the previous March 3-5 slate for the Texas Tech baseball team.   Eight of the nine previously scheduled games were adjusted, in an effort to accommodate Sunday travel issues for incoming teams.   Texas Tech will now face Rice on Friday (11 a.m.), Michigan (11 a.m.) on Saturday and conclude with Texas A&M on Sunday (7 p.m.). The Red Raiders were previously scheduled to play Michigan on Friday, Texas A&M on Saturday and Rice on Sunday.   Texas…

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Our short stay in the land of the Amazon women who fought better than many a man was memorable. I had written an earlier piece “Christmas musings in Cotonou and the “japa” syndrome” on our Christmas experience. With Christmas over and our invitation elapsed, we had to move on. Rather than go through the nauseating demands at privatised toll collection points by Nigerians in uniform, by way of the Seme-Krake land border, we chose to leave Benin Republic through the Cadjehoun Cotonou Airport. The journey to the airport on the morning of December 28, 2022, was smooth until we were…

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Persecution of Christians is rising in sub-Saharan Africa, threatening a “vast humanitarian catastrophe” for the continent, a support group for victimized Christians said Tuesday. Open Doors, a non-denominational mission that aids persecuted Christians worldwide, released Tuesday its 30th annual “World Watch List,” which details anti-Christian attacks around the world. It said that religiously motivated violence that has been “nurtured” in Nigeria and is increasing in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Mali and Niger, “has swept across the region.” Mozambique and the Democratic Republic of Congo have seen “signs of jihadist expansion” as well, Open Doors said. Overall, the number of Christians under…

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International Leadership of Texas (ILTexas), a free public charter school system, is building more campuses in the Colony Ridge communities south of Plum Grove. The International Leadership of Texas (ILTexas), a free public charter school system, is expanding in Liberty County, with two new campuses coming soon in the Colony Ridge communities south of Plum Grove. ILTexas, which boasts a 99.9 percent four-year high school graduation rate, opened its first campus in Liberty County – ILTexas Brigadier General Ramirez K-8 – in the 2022-2023 school year. Located at 1954 CR 5715, the first campus quickly filled to capacity. Now, due…

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Africa Fertilizer Financing Mechanism welcomes $10.15 million from the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation to boost fertilizer supply to 850,000 African smallholder farmers | African Development Bank – Building today, a better Africa tomorrow Source link

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DUBLIN, Jan. 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — The “The Gas Industry in South Africa 2022” report has been added to  ResearchAndMarkets.com’s offering. This report on the gas industry in South Africa provides comprehensive information on production, demand, prices and trade statistics of various forms of gas and developments including exploration, discoveries and corporate actions. There is information on gas infrastructure and pipelines, gas to power and the role of gas in energy transition.  South Africa faces a number of challenges such as a lack of supply and insufficient gas infrastructure. The Department of Mineral Resources and Energy wants to anchor gas…

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