I watched a great travel programme last week featuring Ben Fogle about his trip Into the Congo on Channel 5.
Spread over three episodes, it covered some fascinating aspects facing the Indigenous tribes within parts of the Congo.
Searching for some background, I came across this interesting website covering all the different tribes of Africa. I think it can be said that we don’t know enough about the peoples of one of the biggest continents on the planet. Certainly opened my eyes as to the number of issues threatening their ancient and varied lives as society changes around them.
Seems Tesco is in the news again, but not for the right reasons, Booker the food wholesaler—who I did not know had been bought by the Tesco group a while ago, is accused of using Booker to try and ‘squeeze’ village stores out of business through some unscrupulous tactics.
It turns out that through Booker, the same is happening to branches of Landis, Budgens and Premier shops. It seems that the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority did not pay much attention as to what might happen to smaller stores as it waived the Tesco takeover of Booker through. Hmmm!!
As the potential famine situation in Gaza and other places in the world continue to increase, an IPC Overview and Classification System report has appeared covering the Gaza Strip in detail.
It does not make good reading.
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