Blogs

Thousands of internally displaced people (IDPs) in Luuq, in Somalia's southern Gedo Region, say their overcrowded settlements are desperately short of basic needs, from shelter to clean water read more:  http://www.irinnews.org/Report/96603/SOMALIA-IDPs-in-Luuq-seek-more-assi...

The African Union's (AU) deadline for securing the continent's territorial waters - the world's last major geographical region without a maritime strategy - has been set at 2050, a target that may prove untenable. Without a comprehensive strategy to police, patrol and promote the maritime economy and resources along its 42,000km coastline, Africa loses billions of dollars in revenue annually and leaves itself vulnerable to myriad criminal activities read more: http://www.irinnews.org/Report/96608/SECURITY-Is-Africa-s-maritime-strat...

Let's talk about Resilience. How does your organization view resilience? Are you demanding it,  mainstreaming it  or promoting it? We encourage members of our network to start this discussion. As other institutions are taking a cooler look at this theme, can the STAR-TIDES network state that " resilience" is the most appropriate approach to aid? If you have another approach, please discuss. Read more: http://www.irinnews.org/Report/96549/AID-POLICY-Resisting-the-mantra-of-...

It’s cheap, plentiful, versatile, and biodegradable, but can cardboard provide a viable method of transportation? Izhar Gafni, an Israeli inventor, describes his $20 cardboard bicycle, and how he hopes it will change global transportation , manufacturing, and production norms. http://reut.rs/XclFmc

Panetta said Rodriguez played a critical role in the surge of U.S. forces to Afghanistan and was a key architect of the military campaign plan now being implemented there. Rodriguez was the No. 2 U.S. commander in Afghanistan from 2009-2011. Panetta said Rodriguez would be taking over a challenging job that has been involved in some very recent important missions read more:  http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/whitehouse/panetta-obama-to-nomin...

Over the past few weeks, the worst flooding Nigeria has seen in at least half a century has led to deaths of hundreds of Nigerians, the displacement of over a million people, and the destruction of hundreds of thousands of hectares of farmland. Huge swathes of the country have been affected, particularly in central and south-eastern regions, with houses, bridges and roads devastated.

This week, military delegations from Algeria, Defense Attaches from Republic of Congo, Egypt, Senegal and the United Arab Emirates stopped by  the TIDES Pentagon demo.

TIDES is displaying our HA/DR technologies at the Pentagon courtyard.

UK and Scottish governments have funded  the creation of power plants that use sea and ocean energy to generate power: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=8-crazy-ocean-power-pla...

Some 1.3 million Nigerians have been displaced and 431 have died in what the authorities say is the worst flooding in over 40 years, with 30 of the country's 36 states affected since July, according to the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) read more: http://www.irinnews.org/Report/96504/NIGERIA-Worst-flooding-in-decades