The speed limit on the Dubai to Hatta road has been reduced from 100kph to 80kph.
Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority said the change came into effect on January 12.
The new limit applies to the stretch of road between Dubai, Ajman and Al Hosn roundabout, a distance of about 6km.
New speed limit signs are in place to show the change and red lines will be marked at the start of the speed reduction zone to alert motorists.
The move was carried out by the RTA and Dubai Police following a study that took into account the Hatta Master Development Plan.
As part of the tourism plan announced by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid, Vice President and Ruler of Dubai, 11.5km of cycling trails have been developed, stretching from Hatta bus station to Hatta Dam.
Known for its greenery, the region’s landscape has been boosted by the addition of more than 13,000 indigenous trees.
Planning is also under way for the Hatta Beach Project.
Conflict, drought, famine
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.
Band Aid
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.
With Midge Ure of the band Ultravox, he wrote the hit charity single Do They Know it’s Christmas in December 1984, featuring a string of high-profile musicians.
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.
The combined event was broadcast to an estimated worldwide audience of 1.5 billion.
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