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Poor safety record is often cited as another handicap for African aviation. Even some African airlines with good safety records are reportedly blocked from flying to the EU airports because of a lack of confidence in African safety regulators.
Certainly, the existing infrastructure is causing problems for airlines in Africa. With passenger growth in excess of 7.5% in 2017, the continent’s airports are facing grave challenges, and in some cases, the existing facilities are not designed to cater to the rapidly growing passenger numbers.
But in recent years, African governments and increasingly foreign investors, including the Chinese, have invested heavily in African infrastructure, airports in particular.
Certainly, African aviation is on the cusp of a major lift-off. Recognising aviation’s potential in catapulting the continent’s economic growth, African Union has launched the “Single African Sky” project as part of “Agenda 2063”.
The creation of a single unified air transport market in Africa will advance the liberalisation of civil aviation in Africa; IATA said and noted it will provide an impetus to the continent’s economic integration agenda.
SAATM will ensure aviation plays a major role in connecting Africa, promoting its social, economic and political integration and boosting intra-Africa trade and tourism as a result, IATA noted as it fully supports the initiative.
Analysts believe the implementation of a project to develop the African Union Passport, which should be available to all Africans from 2020, will facilitate travel within Africa.
Ethiopia, one of the fastest growing African countries, recently launched a visa-on-arrival facility for all African travellers.
The service, that took effect on November 1 last year, will probably make it easier for Africans to visit Ethiopia, home to the African Union (AU) headquarters.
With Ethiopia showing the way for some other African countries to follow, it is expected that air travel within the continent will get a lot easier as it emerges as a major global economic power house.
With open skies, public-private partnerships for airport infrastructure and operations upgrade and visa liberalisation, African aviation looks set to soar high.
Pratap John is Business Editor at Gulf Times.
Sonia Anne (Lawson) Burch, 70, died at 4:15 a.m. Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2011 at Jerseyville Nursing and Rehabilitation Center.
She was born April 19, 1941, in Hardin, one of three children born to Ezekial "Zeke" and Orlena (Silkwood) Lawson.
Sonia grew up in the Calhoun area, and graduated in 1959 from Calhoun High School. She had been employed as a cashier for many years at the Shop 'n Save in Jerseyville until retiring in 1993.
She first married Everett "Bud" Delp, and together they had two daughters, Melodie & Susan. She later married Jerry Burch Sr., and they had a son, Jerry.
Surviving are her two daughters and a son-in-law, Melodie and David Sauerwein of Charleston and Susan Delp of Jerseyville; a son, Jerry Burch of Chicago; a granddaughter, Taylor Sauerwein a student at Eastern Illinois University in Charleston; a brother, Bill Lawson of Quincy.
She was preceded in death by both her parents, and a brother, Michael Lawson.
Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Friday, Aug. 19, at the Crawford Funeral Home in Jerseyville.
Funeral services will be conducted at 10 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 20, at the Fieldon United Church of Christ, with Rev. Barbara Alley officiating.
Disability advocates are protesting Arizona legislation they describe as shocking, insulting and discriminatory.
Senate Bill 1284 would allow an individual to file a discrimination lawsuit alleging a business is not in compliance with the federal Americans With Disabilities Act only after first having a lawyer give the business written notice and then giving the business 60 days to come into compliance.
"The disability community vehemently opposes this bill," said Phil Pangrazio, Ability360 president and CEO, who uses a wheelchair as a result of a spinal-cord injury. "It encourages business to continue denying access to individuals with disabilities until someone notices."
The bill passed the Senate Government Committee 4-3 with Republicans supporting it and Democrats opposing it. It now advances to the full Senate for consideration.
Sen. John Kavanagh, R-Fountain Hills, sponsored the bill. He said the intent is to prevent lawyers from trying to use allegations of inaccessibility to shake down business owners. He said attorneys have filed hundreds of lawsuits in Arizona and California alleging hotels aren't in compliance.
Kavanagh said there have been situations where individuals will call hotels, ask if they have certain accessibility items such as a swimming-pool lift or toilet-paper rolls at a certain height, threaten a lawsuit if they say no, and then offer to go away if the hotels pay up.
Kavanagh said he has an acquaintance who manages a small hotel that was recently sued because the pool doesn't have a wheelchair lift.
"He's being sued for $5,000 because of the mental anguish suffered by a victim who never even checked into the hotel," he said. "That's the game. Lawyers are extorting money from hotels for very minor violations."
Kavanagh said the bill still allows lawsuits to correct deficiencies, "but without being a cash cow for lawyers who apparently seem to be interested in making this a revenue raiser." The bill would prohibit an individual or his or her attorney from demanding money from a business before filing a lawsuit.
Pangrazio said businesses are being sued because they continue to violate a federal law that's been on the books for 25 years, a law that assures individuals with disabilities have access to the same businesses and services everyone else does.
"Senator Kavanagh thinks having access to a pool lift or a toilet-roll dispenser is a trivial matter, but I don't find that a trivial matter," he said. "Why are the civil rights of Arizonans with disabilities being targeted? It's shameful. It's an insult."
Fifteen individuals and disability-rights organizations registered opposition to the bill. No one registered as supporting the bill or testified in favor of it during the committee hearing.
Jennifer Longdon, who was paralyzed in a shooting several years ago, called the bill anther solution in search of a problem.
"People with disabilities aren't asking for anything special," she said. "Businesses are asking for this carve-out, asking to be treated specially."
She said it would be outrageous to require a 60-day delay to file a discrimination lawsuit for someone who was refused service because she was a woman or Black. This is the same thing, she said.
Sen. Martin Quezada, D-Phoenix, was among the Democrats on the Senate Government Committee who voted against the bill.
"This community is being targeted by a very mean-spirited bill," Quezada said. "It's cruel. It discriminates. It takes us several steps backward in the way we as a community deal with our disabled community members."
He said Kavanagh did not consult with the disabled community before introducing the bill.
He knew how important it was to her.
It took a while for Dakotah Whitcomb to come as being bisexual to her dad.
She knew that the family had many close friends in the LGBT community, and that being bisexual wasn't something he had a problem with at all.
But still, it's different when it's your dad.
When a waitress flirted with her at a restaurant and her brother teased Dakotah saying she probably didn't mind the flirting, Dakotah knew it was time.
She told her dad that she was bisexual, and he responded in the best possible way.
"That's so cool!" He said to her.
But the adorableness doesn't stop there.
This Christmas, Dakotah asked for an LGBT pride flag as a last minute gift.
She didn't really expect her dad to follow through on the gift, so when she opened her flag on Christmas morning and read the letter he had included with it she was in no way prepared for the touching message.
Um, no, I'm not crying, it's just the effects of all the onions I've been chopping today.
Acceptance and love are crucial to any human being.
Many members of the LGBT community are rejected by their families members and made to feel unwanted and unloved.
Dakotah's dad didn't just accept her and her bisexuality, he celebrated her!
Dakotah's whole family have dedicated their lives to serving different branches of the military.
Because Dakotah is disabled, she has not been able to serve.
By telling her that he would be happy to fly her flag alongside the other flags that represent the other members of their family, he wasn't just telling her that being bisexual was "fine", he was telling her that both being bisexual and being HER was absolutely wonderful.
He'd have her no other way.
Rutgers head women’s basketball coach C. Vivian Stringer now rubs shoulders with the all-time greats of her profession. Stringer became the sixth women’s college basketball coach to reach the millennium mark in her win total, earning her 1,000th career victory with a 73-44 win over Central Connecticut State Tuesday nig...
With 1,000th victory as a collegiate women’s coach, joining former Tennessee coach Pat Summitt, Stanford’s Tara VanDerveer, UConn’s Geno Auriemma, North Carolina’s Sylvia Hatchell, and Bentley’s Barbara Stevens.
1️⃣🏀🏀🏀‼️ Congratulations to R Hall of Fame head coach @Cvivianstringer on 1,000 career victories!
Even former first lady Hillary Clinton took time out to congratulate coach Stringer on her historic milestone.
480 of Stringer’s win tally has come at Rutgers. Some of the notable alumnae to train under Stringer include WNBA stars Cappie Pondexter, Epiphanny Prince, and Kia Vaughn, the latter two currently representing the New York Liberty.
Numerous Stringer students were in attendance for her accomplishment and celebrated with her on the floor after the game.
The 70-year-old got her start at Cheyney State in 1971 and became the head coach at Iowa in 1983. She took over at Rutgers to start the 1995 season and has quickly become the coach with the most wins in basketball coach at the university on both the men’s and women’s side. She has reached the Final Four four times in h...
Stringer was enshrined in the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame in 2009, a member of a class that also included Michael Jordan, John Stockton, and David Robinson.
Shelton is a litigation partner in Alston & Bird's Los Angeles office. She focuses her practice on complex commercial litigation, with particular attention to privacy litigation, intellectual property, unfair competition and antitrust matters. She also provides strategic digital marketing and privacy compliance counsel...
Delhi Police Commissioner B.S. Bassi had to intervene in a dispute between two senior IPS officers of the same unit over postings.
It was a peculiar situation, as the tiff was between a Special CP and a Joint CP.
The Special CP heading the unit wanted his candidates in the transfer list but this was opposed by the Joint CP, leading to a spat that got ugly.
The Joint CP referred the matter to Bassi, who resolved the issue with him.
The Joint CP was vindicated, while his senior was left embarrassed.
Getting over past affiliations is not easy. It has been many years since Rajya Sabha MP Vijay Goel was president of the Delhi University Students' Union.
But even now, he comes out in support of varsity students whenever he gets an opportunity.
On Monday, Goel sought Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad's intervention to ensure that law graduates from around 70 colleges, including DU's faculty of law, are allowed to enroll as advocates.
He wrote a letter to the minister, asking why the students should suffer for any dereliction of duty by the management and faculty members of universities and law colleges.
It seems like the NDA Government is running short of ideas. It is learnt from top sources in the Urban Development Department that the PWD has put forward a five-year-old scrapped tunnel project for Union Minister Venkaiah Naidu's consideration.
The project, which was proposed in the run-up to the 2010 CWG Games to connect the Games village with the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, was scrapped after it faced opposition from environmental and heritage experts.
The PWD engineers, who had put the file for Naidu's nod, forgot that Delhi has already got a Barapullah elevated flyover and a new Metro line connecting Sarai Kale Khan to East Delhi.
Master blaster Sachin Tendulkar will flag off the "unity marathon" being organised by the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) on October 12 in the National Capital.
The force is conducting the half-marathon as part of its 75th anniversary celebrations.
The Government has cleared the appointments of naval flag officers. Rear Admiral R. Hari Kumar will be the new flag officer commanding of the Western fleet.
Rear Admiral M.S. Pawar will be the flag officer commanding of the crucial Maharashtra and Gujarat region.
The Eastern fleet, which is on an expansion, will be commanded by Rear Admiral A. B. Singh.
After Narendra Modi mispronounced the name of the Father of the Nation, the Congress took a dig at him for accidentally referring to Mahatma Gandhi as Mohanlal Karamchand Gandhi.
Congress spokespersons, including Raj Babbar, Abhishek Manu Singhvi and Shakeel Ahmad, said it would be "foolish" to expect a person to follow Gandhiji's ideals when he forgets the Father of Nation's name in public.
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A FORMER teacher who failed to make a single payment on a £30,000 car he purchased has avoided an immediate jail term.
Paul David Adams, 41, of Lakeside Way, Brynmawr, appeared at Newport Magistrates Court yesterday having pleaded guilty to one charge of fraud by false representation.
The court heard how Adams, who was sanctioned for two years over “issues with his care of students” at a teaching job before attempting to find work abroad, had bought the car in a bid to “keep up the persona” that he was doing well financially.
Adams had entered into an agreement to purchase an Audi A4 with finance company Moneybarn in June 2015, with the requirement that regular monthly payments would be paid.
Between September and October 2015, numerous messages were left by Moneybarn to no response from Adams.
During this period a default notice was issued by the creditors and the agreement was terminated.
Mr Simkins said that on one occasion, Adams had sent an email to Moneybarn “disputing the fact that he hadn’t paid”.
The car remained at large for several months, with Adams telling Moneybarn in May of that year that he had no knowledge of the car’s whereabouts.
A return of goods order was issued by Newport County Court in February 2016 but it took until February 2017 for the car to be recovered.
Between June 2015 and February 2017, Mr Simkins told the court that the car’s value had depreciated to around £18,000.
After his arrest, Adams told officers that he had used Microsoft Paint to create fraudulent pay slips that were used as proof of income.
The court also heard that Adams wanted to “keep up the persona” that he was financially sound and “doing just as well” as his estranged wife, with whom he has five children.
In a police interview, Adams said: “I took a loan knowing I couldn’t afford it, I was delusional.

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