Stashed inside pickup trucks and guarded by armed militias and jihadists, every year billions of illicit cigarettes wind their way through the lawless deserts of northern Mali bound for the Sahel and North Africa.
The profits from their long journey fuel north Mali’s many armed conflicts, lining the pockets of offshoots of al-Qaida and the so-called Islamic State (IS) group, as well as local militias, and corrupt state and military officials. This violence is now spilling out across West Africa, displacing more than two million people in Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, and Niger.
Cigarettes made by one of the world’s largest tobacco companies, British American Tobacco (BAT) and distributed with the help of another major, Imperial Brands, through a company partially owned by the Malian state, dominate this dirty and dangerous trade.
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Area colleges have seen enrollment increase in their College Credit Plus programs since the pandemic started.
College Credit Plus is Ohio’s dual enrollment program that gives students in grades seven through 12 the opportunity to earn college and high school credits at the same time by taking courses from Ohio colleges or universities.
Sinclair Community College has seen its highest enrollment in the program ever in 2021.
“We’ve seen continual growth,” said Liz Cicchetti, director of the CCP program at Sinclair.
Sinclair has also seen an increase in the “full time equivalency,” suggesting that students overall are taking more classes.
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“Over the coming years, farmers will continue to face significant challenges, including adaptation to changing climate conditions and regulation.” The partnership with Lincoln meant the company was taking an active role in finding solutions for the next 100 years of farming, he said. The university’s acting vice-chancellor Professor Bruce McKenzie said the specialist land-based university was committed to using partnerships to solve some of the world’s pressing land-based challenges.
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Miraka Dairy Company is owned by a group of MÄori trusts and sources milk from over 100 farms in the central North Island region. The partnership would allow Lincoln University students and academics “to test innovative and multi-dimensional ideas in a real-world context on Miraka farms,” said Professor Pablo Gregorini, head of Lincoln’s Centre of Excellence for Designing Future Productive Landscapes.