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‘Code red for humanity’: UN report gives stark warning on climate change, says wild weather events will worsen

INTERNATIONAL Climate change is widespread, rapid, and intensifying, and some trends are now irreversible, at least during the present time frame, according to the latest much-anticipated Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, released on Monday. Human-induced climate change is already affecting many weather and climate extremes in every region across the globe. Scientists are also observing changes across the whole of Earth’s climate system; in the atmosphere, in the oceans, ice […]

10 August 2021

Opinions

Combating the virus of fear with compassion

By Shafiq Morton AN unwelcome and epoch-changing visitor has landed on our shores. Called Covid-19, and a member of the corona virus family, its science is not our brief here. What we do know, from the street view, is that it is hugely infectious, has a long shelf life on surfaces and if infected, one has to isolate (quarantine) for a period of 14 days. This visitor – which doesn’t […]

31 March 2020

News

AMA inspires through its 30 year service to humanity

After 30 years of hard work in the trenches of Africa’s most impoverished communities, African Muslim Agency (AMA) indeed had much to celebrate on Saturday 14th October at a gala dinner held in Cape Town. With some of the country’s esteemed scholars, academics, businesspeople and community activists in attendance, AMA marked its 30th anniversary with theme 'Laytul Hikmah’ by reflecting on its most successful projects and mapping its vision going […]

19 October 2017

humanity

‘Code red for humanity’: UN report gives stark warning on climate change, says wild weather events will worsen

Combating the virus of fear with compassion

AMA inspires through its 30 year service to humanity

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