Fujairah authorities have begun the development of a rainwater drainage network.
The move, on the directive of Sheikh Hamad bin Mohammed Al Sharqi, Ruler of Fujairah, will also feature the development of 31km of the emirate’s road network.
The project covers several roads in Dibba Al Fujairah, Al Hail, Qarat, Qidfa, Wadi Al Sidr, Seiji, Thuban, Habhab, Al Qarya, Wadi Sahm, Al Farfar and Awhala.
Salem Mohammed Ali Al Maksah, director of the Fujairah Public Works and Agriculture Department, said that, as well as the 77km drainage network, two new road tunnels will be built. One will be in the Al Sharia area with a length of 1.2km, while the other will run for 1.4km alongside Sheikh Khalifa General Hospital.
He said that under the project additional road lighting, signage, speed bumps, side parking and pedestrian crossings with traffic lights would be created on the Corniche, Sheikh Zayed and Al Ghurfa roads. He added that this would help regulate traffic and ensure public safety for drivers.
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Estimates of the number of deaths caused by the famine range from 400,000 to 1 million, according to a document prepared for the UK House of Lords in 2024.
It has been claimed that the policies of the Ethiopian government, which took control after deposing Emperor Haile Selassie in a military-led revolution in 1974, contributed to the scale of the famine.
Dr Miriam Bradley, senior lecturer in humanitarian studies at the University of Manchester, has argued that, by the early 1980s, “several government policies combined to cause, rather than prevent, a famine which lasted from 1983 to 1985. Mengistu’s government imposed Stalinist-model agricultural policies involving forced collectivisation and villagisation [relocation of communities into planned villages].
The West became aware of the catastrophe through a series of BBC News reports by journalist Michael Buerk in October 1984 describing a “biblical famine” and containing graphic images of thousands of people, including children, facing starvation.
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Bob Geldof, singer with the Irish rock group The Boomtown Rats, formed Band Aid in response to the horrific images shown in the news broadcasts.
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Following the single’s success, the idea to stage a rock concert evolved.
Live Aid was a series of simultaneous concerts that took place at Wembley Stadium in London, John F Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia, the US, and at various other venues across the world.
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