Qatari Company Plans Luxury Resort Near UNESCO-Protected Coral Reef

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The most prominent events this week: protest the environment a Resort project in SeychellesSudan Rapid support forces The name of a competing government, and Nigeria wins Africa Women’s Nations Cup Football Championship.

Protection conservation specialists are a campaign against a luxury resort project in SiCill, an archipelago in the Indian Ocean, which represents the smallest and lowest number of impact in Africa.

In 2027, the resort is expected to open on the island of Assation, which is located near the World Heritage Heritage Heritage website, which is “one of the most distant and virgin places on this planet,” according to Mangabay. The attack is the Aldabra Atoll Gate, an isolated coral island that includes the largest number of giant turtles in the world.

Kalabra and the assault each of them about 620 miles from the island of what is the main densely populated island in Seychelles. The distance of the two islands has so far protected them from human housing and damage, allowing wildlife to prosper. But now, environmental groups are raising warnings about the potential losses of the resort’s project, claiming that the Syshel government was not transparent about the potential environmental consequences.

Aldabra’s friends, a group of local and international environmental groups that oppose development, visited the neglect last month and told Foreign policy This construction continued despite the local objections to the project. In March, the group campaign received support from American actor Leonardo DiCaprio. “Over and repeatedly, precious ecosystems and local communities are silent for profit,” DiCaprio wrote on Instagram.

The project, funded by the set of assets that are based in Qatar, includes luxury villas and a spa; An air landing is almost from 1,200 to 2000 meters to accommodate fine tourists. The assets group says it is committed to ensuring environmental guarantees.

The attack “is an ideal and eldest destination for creating one of the best unique resorts, for those who appreciate the best in relaxation and regeneration of youth, while we also focus on protecting marine life and the broader ecosystem” Thp News Last November.

The Al -Jazeera Preservation Association (ICS), a non -profit group that receives the funding of the Seychelles government and has completed an evaluation of the impact of the project, defended the decision to separate from the resort as an economic necessity. The seychelles government believes that the development of the attack will generate revenues that it can use towards maintaining and maintaining the island.

The assets group was the only investor to make a proposal after the Seychelles government launched a tender for development in the attack in 2023. The Sayyill economy relies heavily on tourism and climate change.

ICS argues that the alternative source of revenues to support the island’s ecosystem was an Indian military base, which was more harmful to the environment. In 2018, the Syshel government signed a deal for the Indian army to establish a base to object to China’s growing influence in the Indian Ocean. However, the plan was abandoned later after the local opposition and the protests.

A spokeswoman for the government -owned carrot development company, which manages the attack, compared the resort’s development positively with the Ecuador Islands, another website of UNESCO. However, experts say that the turmoil in the Galapagos Islands resulted in garbage mountains and gaseous species.

Even while strengthening the project, ICS conducted an environmental and social evaluation that highlights the possibility of providing gas species on the island across humans; It is also a mark on the aircraft landing as a possible threat to the giant turtle.

The petition from a group of young activists against the development of the island so far has reached more than 18,000 signatures. Activists wrote the resort’s projects, “Choose profit on natural heritage.”

Wednesday, July 30: The Senate of Africa’s sub -committee in the Senate in Africa, holds a hearing on critical minerals on the continent.

Thursday, July 31: The South African Reserve Bank is making a decision of interest.

Thursday, July 31: The Minister of Finance at Zimbabwe provides a review of the mid -term budget for the government to Parliament.

The competing government of Sudan. Last week, the Rapid Support Forces Sudan Military (RSF) appointed a government council consisting of 15 people to challenge the internationally recognized Sudanese government in Khartoum. The council took advantage of the leader of RSF Muhammad Hamdan Dagalo as his leader, with the politician Mohamed Al -Hassan or the body of Al -Tayshi, who works as prime minister. Khartoum described the RSF Council as “illegal entity.”

The civil war began in Sudan in April 2023 and entered one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world. An expert in the International Crisis Group said New York Times The new parallel government of RSF “will not make the war more difficult in the end and Sudan is more difficult to decline.” In Libya, there are the nearby competitors that came out of a civil war.

Togo suppresses the protests. The continuous pro -democracy demonstrations in Togo have left at least seven people who have been killed in recent weeks. The protests follow the transformation of the country from the presidency to the parliament system.

In 2024, the Togolese leader’s administration has long changed for Gannasingbe – who was then president – to the constitution to allow Grangabi to evade the limits of period and move to a new role called the “Prime Minister”, actually prime minister. Gnassingbé has been in office for 20 years, and he is part of his 58 -year -old family in Togo.

Gnassingbé took over the new situation in May, and followed the mass protests. Amnesty International condemned “unnecessary and excessive use against the authorities.” The organization wrote that it had documented torture by the security forces.

China invests in Angola. Sinohydro will invest $ 100 million in Angola to develop new sources of grain imports, for every deal signed on Thursday in the capital of Luanda in the country. Sinohydro has given a 25 -year -old land -free privilege to develop 30,000 hectares through six oriental provinces, Bloomberg I mentioned.

Sinohydro Agreement is the second agricultural deal between China and Angola in the past few weeks. On July 21, a subsidiary of the Chinese state -owned Citic company announced an investment of $ 250 million to develop soy and corn farmers in Angola.

The Angolan government hopes to expand local agriculture on a large scale and reduce its dependency on imported goods. About 60 percent of Sinohydro’s privilege will be exported to China, according to Angola Minister of Agriculture.

Young people take the Somali city. The rebels took control of the Islamic State affiliated with the Central Somali city of Maas on Sunday. Federal forces and allied militias fell shortly before youth entered the city, which is located about 220 miles north of Mogadishu.

The attack came shortly after the Somali officials announced that the US leadership of Africa had seized Abdel -Habeili Mohamed Youssef, the financial head of the Islamic State in Somalia. In a statement issued on Saturday, Africa announced that it had “had an operation against the terrorist network Isis Somalia in Somalia on July 25,” without revealing more details.

Football victory in Nigeria. Nigeria got an amazing return from two goals in the second half to beat the host Morocco in the Football Football Final in the African Nations Cup for women on Saturday in Rabat. The Super Falcons team won their tenth title by beating 3-2 over the Atlas Lion-which motivated its ideal record in the final appearances of the championship.

Although it is the most successful women’s team in Africa, Fallonz has interrupted in Nigeria games before on unpaid wages and expenditures, some of them date back to 2021. Their victory is a setback for Morocco, which recently made investments in its team. Morocco rented Jorge Felda a month after his dismissal as a coach of the Spanish Women’s Team in September 2023 as part of the sexual assault scandal that wandered in the Spanish Federation in the wake of the Women’s World Cup that year. But the Moroccan team has now suffered from a sharp loss on the soil.

“Moroccans love football, and they love the results. I ask them to continue to support us, until the last minute,” said Moroccan striker Ibtissam Jraidi before the final match.

Ciara gets the citizenship of Boys. The American singer Sierra became a Benin citizen at a ceremony in the city of Kotono on Saturday. Last year, the country has a law granting citizenship to the grandchildren of worshipers in an attempt to attract black tourism in the diaspora.

This month, the Benin government launched a digital platform called My Africo Origins for applications. Citizenship is open to people over the age of 18 who do not hold citizenship in another African country and can prove that the grandfather has been taken from anywhere in Africa as part of the slave trade across the Atlantic. Brown authorities accept the results of the DNA test as evidence of an African origin.

Françafrique 2.0? in Africa is a countryAbd al -Kadder, Abrarman, argues that the recent recognition of President Emmanuel Macron recently with Morocco’s sovereignty over Western Sahara is a “part of the Urvrick plan” – a long -term maneuver to reaffirm the French influence across the coast.

“The inability or rejection of many African leaders to understand this, their lack of long-term planning and strategic vision facilitates the consolidation of foreign powers-political, economic, and cultural-karat,” writes their eternity.

Amnesty International Electoral Camps. in continentChinasa T “When these technologies become more advanced and accessible, its threat to reliable democracy will only increase,” Okulu writes.