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Flooding in New York City caused by Hurricane Ida. The following is a list of weather events that occurred in 2021. The year began with La Niña conditions. There were several natural disasters around the world from various types of weather, including blizzards, cold waves, droughts, heat waves, tornadoes, and tropical cyclones.
The airline cites problems resulting from both air traffic control and the weather. Disasters and accidents. 2021 Menzelinsk parachute Let L-410UVP-E crash. A Let L-410 aircraft carrying a group of parachute jumpers, with 22 people on board, crashes after take-off from Menzelinsk Airport, Tatarstan, Russia. Sixteen people are killed and six ...
Kanifing is one of the eight LGAs of the Gambia, and is only one that contains only one district. [7] The LGA has a land area of 75.5 km 2 (29.2 sq mi). [8] It lies immediately west of the capital city Banjul; this joint conurbation is known as the Greater Banjul Area. [5] Serekunda, the country's largest urban area, is in Kanifing. [9]
The Gambia River flows throughout the country and is the principal source of water and transport medium. The banks of the river have swampy beaches, while it has alluvial soil in all other parts, which is conducive for the growth of rice. Peanuts are the major cashcrop. The weather is usually warm and dry. [1]
The Gambia, officially the Republic of The Gambia, [9] [a] is a country in West Africa. Geographically, The Gambia is the smallest country in continental Africa; [b] it is surrounded by Senegal on all sides except for the western part, which is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean. [10]
October 2021 Sudanese coup d'état, Sudanese transition to democracy. Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok and other senior members of the civilian government are detained by the military in a coup d'état. The military also seizes state television and blocks internet access. Thousands of people gather in Khartoum to protest the coup. (The Guardian)
The paper, Gambia's first daily newspaper, [2] [self-published source] was founded by Mae Gene and Kenneth Best in 1990. [3] Kenneth Best had previously managed another paper called the Daily Observer in Liberia , until the First Liberian Civil War caused him to relocate with his family to the Gambia. [ 2 ]
In Sierra Leone, the term 'Aku Marabout' or 'Aku Mohammedan' refers to the Oku people, while in the Gambia, the term 'Aku' refers to the Creole people, [9] who are Christians residing mainly in and around Banjul. [2] The Aku Marabout people of the Gambia are a non-Creole migrant community descended from the Oku people of Sierra Leone. [10] [11]