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Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus Sep 14, 2025

Vaccination of frontline health workers and contacts of people infected with #Ebola has begun in the #DRC’s Kasai Province where an outbreak of the disease has been declared: www.afro.who.int/countries/de...

Norobiik @[email protected]Jun 26, 2024

#Chess players from #Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of the #Congo are introducing #children traumatised by #violence to the joys of playing the #BoardGame

Goma games: how chess offers #drcs displaced children respite from conflict – in pictures
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/gallery/2024/jun/26/goma-games-how-chess-offers-drcs-displaced-children-respite-from-conflict-in-pictures?utm_source=press.coop

Goma games: how chess offers DRC’s displaced children respite from conflict – in pictures

Chess players from Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo are introducing children traumatised by violence to the joys of playing the board game

the Guardian

readbeanicecream Jun 13, 2024

NASA Announces New System to Aid Disaster Response

https://science.nasa.gov/earth/natural-disasters/nasa-announces-new-system-to-aid-disaster-response/

#nasa #science #environment #NOAA #FEMA #USGS #earthscience #environmentalscience #DRCS

NASA Announces New System to Aid Disaster Response - NASA Science

In early May, widespread flooding and landslides occurred in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul, leaving thousands of people without food, water, or electricity. In the following days, NASA teams provided data and imagery to help on-the-ground responders understand the disaster’s impacts and deploy aid. Building on this response and similar successes, on […]

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Vint Prox Oct 30, 2023

# Give my threads back, Discord!

Oh, what a dummy, sweet summer child me... Entrusting one feature (that goes astray from #SynchronousSoftware and VoIP nature which this piece of garbage was supposed to keep focus on) with link aggregation and presentation: I'm speaking of Discord's forum threads.

After a week of quality time with #Matrix, I return to #dRCS "server" (Discord's term for group) to check up on #forum channels. Lurking, scrolling through this joke of a bulletin board in search of older posts proved futile. Most of the #threads are simply gone! It took me long enough to make these pretty cards, now for them to evaporate without any communication from Discord...

You know what? I'm done with #CentralizedPlatforms that bite more than they can chew, all the while trashing my content! #Discord, #Reddit - shut the front door!!!

I could post this showcase of links on #Kbin or potential #PersonalBlog - now I know this better. Hello, #devRant. Welcome #dRBB, my cool abode!