S63 Productions – Innovative | Interractive | Real

S63 Productions

Innovative | Interractive | Real

About Us
Featured
Daily Dose
Somali
- Productions – Somali
- Daily Dose – Somali
Contact Us

Driven By Passion, Acting By Necessity.

This is why...

The basic pillars and principles of journalism dictate that we bring to the fore and remind the captains of industry or the movers, shakers, and decision makers the status, standards and living of society in order to ignite positive change.

Read More about us

Instagram
Twitter
Facebook
Youtube

Our Production Focus

Championing social change and goodwill through poignant accounts, cultivating conversations and challenging the status quo.

Disrupted Nest

A series showcasing the fate of our endangered animal and plant species.

MORE IN THIS SERIES

Beyond All Senses

Imagine working in the service industry without hearing your customers.

MORE IN THIS SERIES

Rabiul Quluub

"The Spring of Hearts," is an educative animated miniseries targeting children.

MORE IN THIS SERIES

Video Of The Month

Over his 24 year-rule, the late President Daniel Arap Moi’s, Kenya’s second president, was responsible for the execution and subsequent cover-up of a number of massacres. Among them were the Bulla Karatasi Massacre in 1980, the Malka Mari Massacre in 1981, and the Lotirir Massacre in 1984.

VIEW MORE VIDEOS

Stay in the loop

Subscribe to Studio63

Get all videos served HOT in your inbox. We shall not spam you.

Leave this field empty if you're human:

Our Partners

BlueBird Airline

748 Air Services

Previous

Next

From Our Social Circles

Studio 63Follow

Studio 63 @Studio63_ke·

Authorities in Iran have arrested a woman for ‘insulting the Islamic Hijab,’ after a video of her cycling without a veil went viral on social media.#s63 #Islam #hijab #modesty #protest #Iran

Reply on Twitter 1319705535927717892 Retweet on Twitter 13197055359277178922 Like on Twitter 13197055359277178923 Twitter 1319705535927717892

Studio 63 @Studio63_ke·

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday, warned protesters not to "undermine national security" but avoided addressing the shooting of demonstrators after days of unrest.#s63 #EndSARS #PoliceBrutalityInNigeria #ProtestDarurat

Reply on Twitter 1319651514651205632 Retweet on Twitter 13196515146512056321 Like on Twitter 13196515146512056324 Twitter 1319651514651205632

Studio 63 @Studio63_ke·

The glitzy emirate of #Dubai broke the #record for the world’s largest fountain on Thursday, as the Gulf city seeks to #boost its hard-hit tourism sector amid the coronavirus pandemic.#s63 #dubai #pandemic #Economic

Reply on Twitter 1319641390557650944 Retweet on Twitter 13196413905576509441 Like on Twitter 13196413905576509442 Twitter 1319641390557650944

studio63_ke

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday, w

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday, warned protesters not to "undermine national security" but avoided addressing the shooting of demonstrators after days of unrest.

The leader appealed to those taking part in widespread demonstrations to "resist the temptation of being used by some subversive elements to cause chaos.”

"For you to do otherwise will amount to undermining national security and the law and order situation. Under no circumstances will this be tolerated," he said in a televised speech.

The broadcast was Buhari's first public address to the nation since security forces were accused of gunning down peaceful protesters in Lagos on Tuesday.

But he failed to make any direct mention of the incident that has helped unleash chaos in Africa's biggest city and fuelled popular ire.

The president shrugged off condemnation from the US, African Union, European Union and Britain over the excessive use of force by the authorities.

Pictures and videos of shots being fired on a crowd of around 1,000 protesters in Lagos by security forces on Tuesday were widely shared on social media, unleashing a wave of anger towards the authorities.

Protests against police abuse and bad governance were largely peaceful when they began on October 8, but violence erupted and escalated in recent days.

Amnesty International said 56 people had died in the unrest across the country.

Nigeria, where many live in extreme poverty and where the median age is 18, is a tinderbox of economic and social grievances.

The 77-year-old Buhari called on the youth to "discontinue the street protests and constructively engage government in finding solutions."

"Your voice has been heard loud and clear and we are responding," he said.#s63

The BBI Report will be officially launched on Mond

The BBI Report will be officially launched on Monday at the Bomas of Kenya, President Uhuru Kenyatta said.

Speaking in Kisii on Wednesday, as he received the report alongside ODM leader Raila Odinga, Uhuru said the experts should make it simpler for everyone to understand.

"Today we receive that report but we will get a chance on Monday at the Bomas to be taken through line by line," he said.

"I am requesting them that between now and Monday they should ensure the document is understandable. .. If you have a simple version put it in all or dailies so that they can see this version ."

The President hit back at the Building Bridges Initiative critics saying they should show leadership when they read the report rather than creating division.

Uhuru said he will not talk about the contents of the report adding that he does not want people to accuse him of influencing its outcome.

The President urged Kenyans to read the BBI report as individual citizens and not with political hats calling on citizens to read and make their contribution with a view of making it even better.

The President on Mashujaa day made a strong case for a referendum to approve changes to the Constitution before the 2022 General Elections.

Uhuru said the changes would entrench political inclusion, equity in the distribution of opportunities and resources, and end violence every electoral cycle.

The President said it would be disastrous to face another election without reforms and warned against “constitutional rigidity.”

He asked Kenyan not to shy away from making bold decisions.#s63

Peering into the lake Baringo, the village elder s

Peering into the lake Baringo, the village elder struggled to pinpoint where beneath the hyacinth and mesquite weeds lay the farm he lived in his entire life until the water rose like never before and swallowed everything up.

A clump of sodden straw marked the spot the tip of his thatch hut jutting from the murky depths, all that remained of his homestead after Kenya's Lake Baringo swelled to record highs this year, submerging villages, schools, health clinics and holiday resorts.

"In my 60 years, I have never seen or experienced anything like this," said Richard Lichan Lekuterer, his gaze level with the tops of once-towering acacia trees poking above the water, the landscape altered beyond recognition.

Baringo and the other great lakes of Kenya's Rift Valley have risen to levels not seen in at least half a century, some by several meters or more this year alone, following months of extreme rainfall that scientists have linked to a changing climate.

These tremendous bodies of water have ebbed and flowed through the ages, supporting life along the banks, but records show this latest surge is unlike any witnessed in recent memory.

"It was like the speed of the wind," said Lekuterer, who relocated deep inland when the water shot up in March and is preparing to move again as the tide inches nearer.

Tens of thousands of people have been driven to higher ground and homes, grazing land and businesses abandoned as the lakes have unrelentingly pushed outward.

The crisis shows no sign of easing, with seasonal rains forecast this month threatening more inundation.

Government scientists are exploring possible causes for the drastic upwelling, including whether silt flushing downstream from deforestation in the highland catchments could be reducing the lakes' storage capacity.

Research into other theories, such as the influence of seismic activity and increased seepage from underground aquifers, is less conclusive. It follows one of the wettest periods in East Africa in recent times.

Above-average temperatures in the Indian Ocean have spurred consecutive years of extreme and erratic rainfall, delivering frequent unseasonal downpours over the escarpments and rivers

Health officials in South Sudan on Thursday confir

Health officials in South Sudan on Thursday confirmed a new outbreak of polio, just months after declaring the wild version of the deadly virus eradicated in Africa’s youngest country.

The health ministry said 15 cases of vaccine-derived polio---a form of the illness which occurs in rare incidents when the weakened virus in the vaccine mutates—had been identified in the country’s northwest.

“Yes, there is an outbreak of vaccine-derived polio; and the Ministry of Health and its partners are working on it, and I think it is under control,” the ministry’s director general for preventative health services, DR John Pasquale Romunu, told reporters.

On August 25th, South Sudan was among four African nations to receive confirmation that wild poliovirus had been eradicated with their borders---allowing the World Health Organization (WHO) to declare the entire continent free of the crippling disease.

It was just the second time a deadly virus had been declared eradicated in Africa since smallpox 40 years earlier.

But the fanfare was short lived. Just two days later the UN confirmed that more than a dozen cases of vaccine-derived polio had sprung up nine states across Sudan.

This version of the disease particularly affects countries with low immunization rates and poor sanitation where it can transmit through contaminated water or food, health experts say.

The polio vaccine given to children contains a weekend trace of the virus, which passes through faeces and in the right conditions can spread through an under-immunized community, mutating along the way.

An oral vaccine given to young children has been massively effective against polio around the world.

Vaccine-derived outbreaks are stopped by using the same health tactics as eradicated wild polio.

That includes the intense monitoring of populations and ensuring high vaccination coverage.

Poliomyelitis---the medical term for polio---is an acutely infectious and contagious virus which attacks the spinal cord and causes irreversible paralysis in children.#s63

Mali's ex-president Ibrahim Boubacar Keita returne

Mali's ex-president Ibrahim Boubacar Keita returned to the Sahel state on Wednesday, an official said, after leaving to seek medical treatment following his ouster in an August coup.

The 75-year-old former leader landed in the capital Bamako in the evening, an airport official said, his first time back in Mali since he departed for the United Arab Emirates on September 5.

Young army officers launched a coup against Keita on August 18, after mass protests against his leadership triggered by frustrations over a range of issues, including perceived corruption and Mali's long running jihadist insurgency.

The military detained Keita for over two weeks but he was released after he suffered a minor stroke, according to his doctors.

Journalists on Wednesday witnessed a convoy enter Keita's residence in Bamako shortly after his flight landed.

A few dozen supporters welcomed him home with chants of "long live IBK" -- using the acronym by which Keita is more commonly known.

Under intense international pressure, Mali's junta has handed over power to an interim government which is meant to rule the conflict-ridden country for 18 months, before staging elections.

Mali has struggled to contain a jihadist insurgency which first emerged in 2012, and has since spread to neighbouring Burkina Faso and Niger.

Thousands of soldiers and civilians have died in the conflict to date, and hundreds of thousands of people have had to flee their homes.#s63

Biodegrade chewing-gum, a chick-pea dessert and dr

Biodegrade chewing-gum, a chick-pea dessert and drinks made from cocoa shells were all singled out for recognition by a food fair focused on ecology and affordability this year.

Although the SIAL international food fair had to be cancelled because of the coronavirus pandemic, it did judge and award trophies for innovative products as it has for more than 50 years.

A sector often accused of offering poor quality food, loaded with fats, sugar or genetically-modified ingredients, is warming to eco-responsible social trends.

Of the 500 new products tested---from black garlic to meat-like patties—SIAL jury was impressed y products rich in vegetables that were “simple” and “clear” and better for your health with fewer additives, less transformation, and developed according to ethical, environmental and social values.

The gold medal for innovation went to frozen gnocchi by the Italian company Bocon that contained 70 percent vegetables and had a succinct list of ingredients; spinach and spirulina along with peas and green tea.

A French company, Triumph, won the bronze medal for its vegan chewing gum that has no sugar or aspartame and breaks down within three weeks, good news for those who clean school benches and movie threatre seats.

It is made with natural gum from the sapotillier tree.

As far as packaging goes however, the environmental transition has slowed considerably.

The culprit is plastic, which has made a strong comeback owing to consumer fears stemming from COVID-19 pandemic.

But a trend towards using second-tier food products with new or strong tastes has helped to fight wastage.#s63

On Monday, Tunisian authorities said police are in

On Monday, Tunisian authorities said police are investigating an MP who in a Facebook post appeared to defend the beheading of a French teacher who had shown his pupils satirical cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.

Teacher Samuel Paty, who used the cartoons during a lesson on freedom of expression, was murdered in the street outside his school on Friday afternoon, sparking outrage and countrywide rallies supporting freedom of expression in France.

Tunisian MP Rached Khiari, an independent aligned with the Islamist movement Karama which is part of the North African country's governing coalition, wrote on Facebook the next day.

"Insulting the prophet of God is the greatest of crimes and anyone who commits it, whether a state, a group or an individual, must accept the consequences."

His comments sparked a heated social media debate in Tunisia.

Mohsen Dali, a Tunis prosecutor, told reporters that a court had charged "a team specialised in terrorism with looking into the content of the post", although a full judicial enquiry has not yet been opened.

Khiari has said he is ready to give up his parliamentary immunity.

Tunisia's Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi voiced his condolences in a Saturday phone call with his French counterpart Jean Castex, stressing that Tunisia rejects "all forms of extremism and terrorism" and defends the right to "freedom of expression and belief."#s63

At least 11 women were killed on Wednesday, in a s

At least 11 women were killed on Wednesday, in a stampede at stadium in eastern Afghanistan where thousands had gathered to apply for visas at a nearby Pakistan consulate, officials said.

Many people were trampled when they tired to exit the stadium in the city of Jalalabad, the capital of Nangarhar province, leaving 10 others injured, provincial hospital spokesman Zaher Adel said.

“Unfortunately, this morning tens of thousands of people had come to the football stadium which led to the tragic incident,” provincial governor’s spokesman Attaullah Khogyani said.

The Pakistan consulate had resumed issuing visas last week after a seven month pause because of the coronavirus outbreak.

To avoid large crowds from gathering at the visa centre the applicants had been directed to a nearby football stadium in Jalalabad, Khogyani said.

In ultra-conservative Afghanistan it is customary for women to queue separately from men.

Thousands of Afghans from Nangarhar and other nearby provinces had arrived since the early morning to apply for medical visas or to visit relatives.#s63

The Supreme Court in Burundi sentenced former head

The Supreme Court in Burundi sentenced former head of state Pierre Buyoya and 18 high-ranking officers and state personnel to life in prison over the 1993 assassination of President Melchior Ndadaye and the massacres that followed.

Buyoya and his colleagues were found guilty of the murder that triggered a civil war in which more than 300,000 people died and 470,000 became refugees. The 70-year-old currently serves as the African Union’s High Representative for Mali and the Sahel.

Buyoya, who had been in power since 1987, lost elections in June 1993 to Ndadaye, who became the first democratically elected president in Burundi’s history. Ndadaye was killed just three months after he was sworn in, along with his ministers, the national assembly speaker and deputy speakers, governors and many other officials.

The court ordered the sentenced officials to pay 102 billion francs ($53 million) in compensation to the families of those killed.

Most of those who stood trial were sentenced in absentia because they are either refugees or working for foreign organizations.#s63

U.S film star Jeff Bridges announced on Monday, he

U.S film star Jeff Bridges announced on Monday, he has been diagnosed with lymphoma, a form of cancer that starts in the body’s infection-fighting cells called lymphocytes.

Bridges, 70, who is best known for his role as a tipsy slacker in the Coen brothers’ cult classic “The Big Lebowski,” did not give much detail about his condition.

“As the Dude would say.. New S**T has come to light. I have been diagnosed with Lymphoma. Although it is a serious disease, I feel fortunate that I have a great team of doctors and the prognosis is good. I’m starting treatment and will keep you posted on my recovery,” he said on social media.

Bridges has been nominated seven times for an Oscar, including for one of his early roles in the black-and-white movie “The Last Picture Show,” finally winning for his performance of an aging country singer in 2009’s “Crazy Heart.

He also starred in “Thunderbolt and Lightfoot” next to Clint Eastwood, and “The Fabulous Baker Boys,” in which he played a jazz musician alongside his brother Beau. He played a cold-blooded killer opposite Glenn Close in “Jagged Edge.”

He appeared in Marvel’s “Iron Man” series and starred in a remake of the John Wayne classic “True Grit.”

In a follow-up tweet, Bridges thanked well-wishers for their messages of support, adding, “And, while I have you, please remember to go vote. Because we are in this together.”#s63

Protests against police violence in Nigeria show n

Protests against police violence in Nigeria show no sign of stopping as thousands continue to take to the streets despite announcements of reforms by the government.

The demonstrations erupted this month and were initially focused on abolishing the federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), accused of unlawful detention, extortion and extra-judicial killings.

But after the government announced the unit would be dissolved, thousands of mainly young protesters have remained out on the streets pushing for genuine change in the country.

In early October a video spread on social media showing what looked like SARS officer attacking a man in Delta state.

The video was shared massively in the country of 200 million people and thousands started sharing their own stories of police abuse online.

“Nigerian youth have campaigned against SARS for years, “Bulama Bukarti wrote for the Centre for strategic and International Studies.

But the recent video “resonated with thousands across the country and led to youth pouring out en masse onto the streets.”

In the course of days, the hashtag #EndSARS topped the global trends on Twitter, supported by world famous Afrobeat popstars like Davido and Wizkid. Their engagement gave visibility to the movement.

There was a violent crackdown by police on some of the first protests. At least 10 people were killed and hundreds were injured according to Amnesty International.

The brutal response drew more people onto the streets and emboldened protesters began to push further.

As numbers have swelled at home, eye-catching demonstrations have also been held abroad, most notably involving the large Nigerian community in London.

Bowing to the pressure, President Muhammadu Buhari announced on October 11, SARS would be dissolved with immediate effect.

He said the move was “only the first step” in more extensive reforms to Nigeria’s police.

A new SWAT unit was announced to replace SARS, with promises that it will be “ethical”.#s63

A suicide bomber has detonated his explosives-pack

A suicide bomber has detonated his explosives-packed vehicle outside a provincial police headquarters in central Afghanistan, killing at least 15 people and wounding more than 150 others.

Afghan officials condemned yesterday's attack in Firozkoh, the capital of the impoverished Ghor province, as an act of terrorism, saying most civilians were among the victims. The powerful blast also damaged nearby government offices, they said

Mohammad Omer Lalzad, the head of the provincial hospital,said that “a number of injured people are in critical condition.” Lalzad said he expected the death toll to rise.

No group has claimed responsibility, although the Afghan Interior Ministry blamed Taliban insurgents.

“Innocent Afghans were again killed today through a senseless bombing in FerozKoh in Ghor province. This destruction and bloodshed must stop. Afghans deserve to live their lives in peace,” Ross Wilson tweeted.

Muhammad Yousuf Ahmadi, a spokesman for the Islamist Taliban, said the agreement signed in Doha, Qatar, Feb. 29 prohibits American forces from launching airstrikes in areas other than combat zones or during active fighting.

The United Nations says the fighting has displaced more than 35,000 civilians and caused about 200 casualties in the province, where the Taliban controls or influences most of the territory.

The U.S. military said last Monday, it had carried out airstrikes against Taliban positions in support of Afghan security forces to repel insurgent advances in Helmand.

The direct intra-Afghan peace talks, which stemmed from the U.S.-Taliban accord, are aimed at finding a political power-sharing arrangement among Afghan rivals to end the country’s 19-year-old war and pave the way for the complete withdrawal of American and coalition forces from Afghanistan by May 2021.

On Thursday, U.S. special envoy for Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad said his delegation and the Taliban had agreed to take steps to reduce the violence in keeping with their peace agreement.

Khalilzad did not share future details but expected the violence to go down in coming days.#s63

An inferno on the slopes of Africa’s highest mou

An inferno on the slopes of Africa’s highest mountain Kilimanjaro was almost under control on Saturday, six days after fire broke out, Authorities said.

“Basically the fire is contained and tourism activities are going on, considering that they were not affected by the inferno,” Tanzania National Parks Authority (TANAPA) spokesperson Pascal Shelutete told AFP.

“So far, we have not established any humans impact from the fire. Those who planned to climb the mountain should not worry at all as tourism activities are counting as usual.”

The fire started last Sunday and spread over around 95 square kilometres, without causing any fatalities on the mountain, which rises 5,895 metres above seal level, TANAPA revealed.

Situated in the northeast of the country near the Kenyan border Kilimanjaro, immortalized in Ernest Hemingway’s “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” is a popular destination with climbers and tourist generally.

It and the zone surrounding it form part of a national park and it is also a UNESCO World Heritage site.

Preliminary investigations indicate that the fire was caused by porters accompanying mountaineers.

The inferno was spotted last Sunday afternoon at the Whona area, a rest centre for climbers using Mandera and Horombo, two of the several routes up Kilimanjaro.

Hundreds of volunteers, residents and students were mobilized to tackle the blaze.#s63

Walking into a dusty paddock, a young nurse is qui

Walking into a dusty paddock, a young nurse is quickly surrounded by a group of donkeys gently nudging her for attention as she strokes their soft noses and feeds them carrots.

When someone places a 10-day-old colt in her arms, Monica Morales squeals with delight, visibly relaxed after a few hours unwinding at El Burrito Feliz, “The Happy Little Donkey”, an association offering free donkey therapy sessions to medics fighting the virus.

Known as animal-assisted therapy, such encounters can help with a range of physical and mental disorders, including stress, depression and anxiety.

Although such therapy is more associated with horses, experts say donkeys are better suited to helping mental or emotional disorders given their gentle nature and intuitive respect for personal space.

“The situation is quite overwhelming, what we went through before is now happening again,” says Morales, 25, who spent months working in a Madrid hospital when the pandemic hit. She is now based in the south as Spain faces a second wave.

Located by a sprawling forest on the edge of Andalusia’s Donana National Park in southern Spain, El Burrito Feliz is a non-profit association with 23 donkeys that have worked with Alzheimer’s patients and children with problems.

The “Doctor Donkey” project began in late June as a way of offering respite to frontline workers battling a virus that has killed around 33,000 people, infected more than 900,000 and left medics traumatized and exhausted.#s63

A French teacher who had recently shown students c

A French teacher who had recently shown students cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed was beheaded outside his school on Friday, in what President Emmanuel Macron called an “Islamist terrorist attack.”

The assailant, whose identity has not been established, was shot by police as they tried to arrest him and later died of his injuries, police said.

The attacker shouted “Allahu Akbar” (“God is greatest”) as police confronted him, a cry often heard in jihadist attacks, a police source said.

France has seen a wave of Islamist violence since the 2015 terror attacks on the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and a Jewish supermarket in the capital.

French anti-terror prosecutors said they were treating the assault as “a murder linked to a terrorist organization”.

The attack happened on the outskirts of Paris at around 5:00 pm near the middle school where the teacher worked in Conflans Saint-Honorine, a northwestern suburb around 30 kilometres (20 miles) from the city centre.

The killing bore the hallmarks of “an Islamist terrorist attack”, Macron said as he visited the scene.

Visibly moved, the president said that “the entire nation” stood ready to defend teachers and that “obscurantism will not win”.

The victim was a history teacher who recently showed cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed as part of a class discussion on freedom of expression, police said.

A parent of a pupil at the school said the teacher might have stirred “controversy” by asking Muslim pupils to leave the room before showing the cartoons.

The teacher “simply said to the Muslim children; ‘Leave, I don’t want it to hurt your feelings.’ That’s what my son told me,” the parent said.

According to a judicial source, an identity card found on the assailant indicated he was born in Moscow in 2002, although investigators were waiting for formal identification.#s63

A former Mexican defense minister has been detaine

Marshall Bruce Mathers III, famously known as Emin

Marshall Bruce Mathers III, famously known as Eminem celebrates his 48th birthday today. Born in October 17, 1972 in St. Joseph, Missouri, he grew up to be a rapper, record producer, and actor who was known as one of the most-controversial and best-selling artists of the early 21st century.

He dropped out of school in the ninth grade and worked odd jobs until finally making it as a rapper upon the release of The Slim Shady LP in early 1999. The album went multi-platinum, garnering Eminem two Grammy Awards and four MTV Video Music Awards.

Eminem never knew his father, Marshall Mathers Jr., who abandoned the family when Eminem was still an infant and rebuffed all of his son's many attempts to contact him during his childhood.

As a result, Eminem was raised by his mother, Deborah Mathers. Eminem has been scathingly critical of the way his mother raised him. Through his song lyrics, he has publicly accused her of being addicted to prescription drugs as well as subjecting him to emotional and physical abuse.

Eminem attended Lincoln High School in Warren, Michigan, where he failed the ninth grade three times and eventually dropped out at the age of 17. Yet despite being a poor student, Eminem always had a deep affinity for language, devouring comic books and even studying the dictionary.

"I found that no matter how bad I was at school, and no matter how low my grades might have been at some times, I always was good at English ... I just felt like I want to be able to have all of these words at my disposal, in my vocabulary at all times whenever I need to pull them out. You know, somewhere, they'll be stored, like, locked away."

In 2020, Eminem’s net worth is estimated at $230 million. This makes him one of the richest rappers in the world, next to the likes of Dr. Dre, Sean Combs, Jay Z and more.

Rare pink dolphins are returning to the waters bet

Rare pink dolphins are returning to the waters between Hong Kong and Macau after the coronavirus pandemic halted ferries, but scientists remain deeply concerned about their long-term survival in one of the world's busiest sea lanes.

Conservationists like Brennan regularly board boats in the Pearl River Delta to document how the mammals, known for their eye-catching pink colouring, are faring.

"Today we encountered three different groups of dolphins -- six adults and two sub-adults," she explained.

Adding, "They were engaging in a range of behaviour, from feeding to travelling and socialising."

The population of the dolphins has fallen by 70-80 percent in the past 15 years , one of the world's most industrialised estuaries.

But this year their numbers have bounced back and they have the pandemic to thank.

Ferries between Hong Kong and Macau have been suspended since February, providing local marine scientists an opportunity to study how the mammals have adapted to the "unprecedented quiet".

"We're seeing much larger group sizes as well as much more socialising, mating behaviour, which we hadn't really been seeing for the last five years or so," said Dr. Lindsay Porter, a Hong Kong-based marine scientist.

According to Porter's research team, the number of pink dolphins has increased by roughly a third in those waters since March.

"These areas seem to be important for feeding and socialising. So it's great that there's this refuge for them," added Brennan, a member of Porter's team.#s63

Japan will release more than a million tonnes of t

Japan will release more than a million tonnes of treated radioactive water from the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant into the sea in a decades-long operation, reports said on Friday, despite strong opposition from local fishermen.

The release of the water, which has been filtered to reduce radioactivity, is likely to start in 2022 at the earliest.

The decision ends years of debate over how to dispose of the liquid that includes water used to cool the power station after it was hit by a massive tsunami in 2011.

A government panel said earlier this year that releasing the water into the sea or evaporating it were both “realistic options”.

There are 1.23 million tonnes of waste water sorted in tanks at the facility, according to plant operator TEPCO, which also declined to comment on the reports.

Environmental activists have expressed strong opposition to the proposals and fishermen and farmers have voiced fear that consumers will shun seafood and produce from the region.

South Korea, which bans imports of seafood from the area, has also repeatedly voiced concern about the environmental impact.

A decision is becoming urgent as space to store the water, which also includes groundwater and rain that seeps daily into the plant, is running out.

Most of the radioactive isotopes have been removed by an extensive filtration process.

The expert panel advised in January that discarding the water into the sea was a viable option because the method is also used at working nuclear reactors.

The treated water is currently kept in a thousand huge tanks at the Fukushima Daiichi site, where reactors went into meltdown nearly a decade ago after the earthquake trigged tsunami.#s63

Hundreds of health workers took to the streets of

Hundreds of health workers took to the streets of Paris yesterday afternoon, to protest against conditions in French hospitals, as the number of new coronavirus cases surges across the country.

Doctors, nurses and other health workers, faces covered with medical masks, waved banners and flags as they marched from the city’s Invalides monument to the Health Ministry in the 7th arrondissement (district).

Demonstrations also took place in a number of other French cities, including Annecy, Besançon, Saint-Étienne and Rennes.

In the last week alone, the number of hospitalizations for coronavirus increased in France by 6,529, according to the latest figures from the government agency France Public Health (Santé Publique France) with 1,750 new patients admitted to the country’s ICUs.

“Hospitals and other public institutions have been crumbling under exponential activity since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, without the necessary human and physical resources,” the General Confederation of Labour for Health and Social Work union said.

Yesterday's demonstrations came a day after President Emmanuel Macron announced a number of new restrictions to contain the virus’ spread including a 9pm to 6am curfew in Paris and eight other hotspots while acknowledging the growing strain on the country’s health services.

Overall, there is currently a total of 809,684 confirmed coronavirus cases in France, making it the country with the second highest infection rate in Europe, behind Spain.#s63

Load More… Follow on Instagram

S63 Productions

Innovative | Interractive | Real

+254 769 769 975

info@s63productions.com

Merchant Square, Riverside Drive, Block A, 3rd Floor

© 2020 Studio 63 Productions | Site by Brainverse Technologies

Shopping Basket