Central African Republic

• The technology can also be used for detecting type 2 diabetes.
• The mobile screening technology is used by doctors and patients in Central Africa, where there is huge demand for diabetes and cancer screening plus diagnostics.
• The Oncotech AI diagnostic and machine learning system then sends the results back to the clinician in under a minute.
• Oncotech Nordic AB CEO Andre Rafnsson concluded, "Sri Lanka is the third of what will be several new telemedicine and remote health diagnostic business partners.

• In particular, both the “Barbie” movie, released in July 2023, and a “Star Wars” franchise television series called “Andor” offer important lessons about revolutions.
• We also use films and shows in our classes to help students learn about why revolutions happen.
• Both “Barbie” and “Andor” are useful for those who want to understand why revolutions happen and what it takes for them to happen.

Repression leads to radicalization

• And the women – all called Barbie – are in charge of Barbieland.
• Yet the men – all collectively called Ken – are blissfully unaware that they experience political, economic and social repression.
• The Kens then claim all of the Barbies’ houses as their own, and grab all of the important jobs in Barbieland.
• It is not until he experiences severe repression in prison that he tries to actually overthrow the Empire.

Bottom-up revolutions are challenging

• Instead, they trick the Kens into being jealous of one another so they become divided and cannot work together to change the constitution.
• This is not the case in “Andor.” The cost of seeking change is death, and few people join in the revolution.
• In real life, recruiting others to join a revolution can becomes easier over time if more and more people participate.
• The more people there are, the harder it becomes for the government to punish all the people who are rebelling.

Maintaining peace in real life

• Both “Barbie” and “Andor” also teach us what it takes to maintain peace after a revolution: It is essential to include the opposition in government.
• Most civil wars end with one side winning, and few end in a negotiated peace deal.
• However, even with one side winning the war, research shows that the winning side still needs to include the losing side to prevent further violence.
• However, it is still challenging to maintain peace after a revolution takes place.

• To that end, the UAE calls for an urgent establishment of UN Climate Incident Observers Unit.
• Over four intensive days of the UN workshop in Abu Dhabi, participants delved into critical aspects of the UN Peace Operations.
• The "Climate Observers" would be dispatched to regions grappling with climate-change-induced events like mega fires, flooding, hurricanes, and more.
• In that regard, the UAE strongly believes in the urgent need of establishment of the UN Climate Incident Observers unit, which could be led by the UNDPO.

• Nairobi, Kenya, Sept. 04, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- New research from the Global Center on Adaptation released today shows that climate adaptation finance flows to Africa must increase up to ten-fold to over US$100 billion per year by 2035 to build resilience against the growing impacts of climate change.
• Africa only received USD$11.4 billion in adaptation finance in 2019-2020 and the increase in 2021-2022 is likely to be modest.
• At this rate, Africa will receive USD$182 billion by 2035 for climate adaptation, less than one-tenth of the up to USD$1.7 trillion by 2035 the new research estimates it needs.
• Adaptation finance must be scaled up dramatically before it is outstripped by accelerating climate impacts which would further widen the adaptation funding gap.