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Thanks to Olamilaken Okebiorun and Business Insider Africa for the Headline

Interestingly I didn’t realise that Morocco had a King, King Mohammed VI whom Forbes has ranked as Africa’s wealthiest monarch.

He recently hit the headlines for going back on his previously in place policy of “humane” treatment of animals in Morocco due to the up and coming FIFA World Cup being held by Morocco in 2030. Apparently his family and him are keen animal lovers and introduced animal welfare policies in 2019 to improve the lot of stray animals in Morocco. This reversal and perhaps unrestrained, uneducated cruelty by his subjects has resulted in a lot of adverse publicity for Morocco and the King.

The government of Mali are delighted by the gift of the 5200 acre vocational training complex which offers Mali broader education initiatives including training 1000 young Malians annually in construction, public works, hospitality , tourism and foodservice. Morocco has also invested in similar centres in Cote d’Ivoire, guinea and Gabon in an effort to support the African Alliance for the Development of Vocational Training.

Maybe there should also be some centres for Vocational Training in animal welfare too, that would remove the bad publicity, just a suggestion.

Namaste and Thank You for Reading.🙏

Thanks to BBC Online News for the Headline

Yet again Central Government and Local Councils are at loggerheads, this time about ensuring children who are entitled to free school meals ( presumably because it’s the only guarantee that they will be fed at least one good meal a day) will also be looked after during the school holidays and presumably teacher training days.

Reading this article just makes me angry, the only ones that suffer are the children who need more than a school meal to have a chance and a childhood.

The fat politicians with their middle class lives can spend endless hours debating whether or not these children need this help or indeed which pot of money it will come from. Afterwards they will spend their time writing out their expense claims for attending the meetings which the value of those expenses would probably buy a weeks worth of meals and toys for neglected children.

This particular Council have decided it can come from Central Government under a scheme for £1bn from the Crisis and Resilience fund which would be used for targeted support. The local MP says that parents were only given a few weeks notice that they wouldn’t be receiving their vouchers, the Council says that they notified the parents in April this year.

The article even touches on the old welfare benefit argument that we need to get “them” off benefits long term. Which is another argument altogether and when we are talking about knowing what” Children are in Need” ( is the BBC’s mega Charity going to step in and how about all the food banks that exist with their Chief Executive Officers on fancy top end salaries).

The article forgets this is about a child in a first world country not getting fed and most likely not being looked after in many other ways. Basically guys, it should not be happening and all the hot air you spend and your soundbites in papers , do not impress me or anyone.

Namaste and Thank You for Reading.🙏

Thanks to Vikki Irwin and Richard Daniel and BBC News Online for the Headline.

Bins are very important, particularly the food waste bin , which in a hot summer like we are having now, can turn into a fetid, horrible , maggot ridden object in the space in the garden that you keep it. ( in my case right beside our back door). However, we are lucky the bin collections in our area seem efficient, in fact we were part of the pilot scheme with the food waste bins a few years ago and now they’ve been introduced throughout the County and seem to work quite well along with the other waste collections.

The model in East Suffolk however has not worked so well, perhaps because they delayed the introduction, perhaps because they didn’t like Central government being heavy handed with them. Whatever the reason , the introduction has not gone smoothly and as a result of the mishandling of the process, the shambolic bin collections have resulted in East Suffolk Council serving a “Breach of Contract ” to itself.

I would say that basically there was just not enough people on the ground employed to achieve the collections and now they are employing an “expert” with many years experience in managing “bin collections” to fix the situation. They have been appointed and will start in August. In other words someone is going to be paid a fancy salary to tell them that they didn’t have enough workers in the first place and will have to recruit.

So same old story of trying to save money upfront and in the end wasting a load of money.

Namaste and Thank You for Reading.🙏