Sally grew 5.0 onions and Fred grew 9.0 onions.  They gave Sara 4.0 onions from their garden. how many onions does Sally and Fred have now? Answer:

Math Question If you have gone 4.8 miles in 24 minutes, what was your average speed in miles per hour? A. 5.0 B. 10.0 C. 12.0 D. 19.2 E. 50.0 The answer is C. 12.0. See below on how to solve the probelm. Congratulations to today’s winner Nina Fang.

A large fresh water reservoir has two types of drainage system: small pipes and large pipes.
3 large pipes and 9 small pipes, at the same time, can drain the reservoir in 8 hours.
How long will 5 small pipes, on their own, take to drain the reservoir?
Hint: What would happen in 24 hours?
Answer: 21 hours and 36 minutes.
In 12 hours: 6 large pipes can drain 1 reservoir.
In 24 hours: 6 large pipes can drain 2 reservoirs.
In 8 hours: 3 large + 9 small pipes can drain 1 reservoir.
In 24 hours: 3 large + 9 small pipes can drain 3 reservoirs.
But, by  we know that in those 24 hours 3 large pipes can drain 1 reservoir.
In 24 hours: 9 small pipes can drain 2 reservoirs.
In 24 hours: 1 small pipe can drain 2/9 reservoirs.
In 216 hours: 1 small pipe can drain 2 reservoirs.
In 216 hours: 5 small pipes can drain 10 reservoirs.
Therefore 5 small pipes can drain 10 reservoirs in 216 hours.
216 hours ÷ 10 = 21.6 hours.
21.6 hours = 21 hours and 36 minutes.

ISLAMABAD: The Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan on Sunday raided a pharmaceutical distributor company and two other pharmacies for selling spurious and overpriced drugs.
The raids were conducted under the supervision of DRAP Quality Control Chairman Dr Abdul Rasheed, and led by drug controller Umair Majeed and the Rawalpindi drug inspector.
A case was registered against New Akbar Pharmacy in Faizabad area of Rawalpindi for overcharging for drugs, a violation of sections 23, 27 and 30 of the Drug Act, 1976.
The said pharmacy was found to be charging Rs80 more than the approved price for certain drugs, which were seized by the authorities.
A similar case for overpricing was registered against Dr Raza Pharma, Peshawar.
On Sunday, a pharmaceutical distributor, Global Pharmaceuticals, was also raided by DRAP. As many as 33 packets of unregistered Tamsol-D tablets were seized.
According to a press release by the Ministry of Health Services, Regulation and Coordination, even though the firm was granted registration on September 11, 2012, it was later taken back after it was identified that the tablet’s formula did not exist both internationally and locally.
However, during the 29th meeting of the Drug Registration Board on September 12, 2013, it was decided that the manufacturer should appear before the Registration Board and present his opinion regarding the efficacy of the drug formulation.
The board further ordered that till the final decision, registration of Tamsol-D tablets will remain suspended under Section 7 (11) (A) of Drug Act, 1976.
According to Rasheed, the regulatory authority is committed to protecting and safeguarding the consumers of medicines.
“DRAP will not spare any licencing unit, distributor or retail pharmacy that is involved in manufacturing, distribution or sale of unregistered, counterfeit, misbranded, overpriced drugs including medicated cosmetics, herbal and homeopathic medicines, medicated devices, milk and baby products,” Rasheed said.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 30th, 2015.

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There were two twins. One of them was sleeping 8 hours a day, and the other one was sleeping 6 hours a day, every day.
They were living like this until they turned 72 years old.
How many years did each of them spend sleeping?
Answer: 24 and 18 years.
The first one was sleeping 8 hours a day, so he was sleeping 1/3 of his life, so in total he was sleeping 72/3 = 24 years.
The second one was sleeping 6 hours a day, so he was sleeping 1/4 of his life, so in total he was sleeping 72/4 = 18 years.
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10 women can complete a work in 7 days and 10 children take 14 days to complete the work.How many days will 5 women and 10 children take to complete the work?
1 woman's 1 day's work =1/70! !1 child's 1 day's work =1/140! !(5 women + 10 children)'s 1 day's work = (5/70 + 10/140) = (1/14 + 1/14) = 1/7! !Hence, 5 women and 10 children will complete the work in 7 days..
A shopkeeper bought an article for $120 and sold at profit of 10%. What is selling price of the article?
10% of 120!= (120*10)/100 = 12! !Selling price = 120+12 = 132.
What will be the selling price of an article that was bought for $475 and sold at a loss of 12%?
12% of 475!=(475*12)/100 = 57! !Selling price = 475-57 = 418.
S.P. = 85% of Rs. 1400 =(85/100)*1400!=Rs. 1190.
Suppose, number of articles bought =L.C.M. of 6 and 5!= 30! !C.P. of 30 articles = (5/6) * 30 = Rs. 25! !S.P. of 30 articles = (6/5)*30! = Rs. 36! !Hence, Gain % = (11/25) * 100 = 44%.
25 tailors can make 35 dresses in 1 day. How many dresses can 6 tailors make in 5 days?
Let x dresses can be made.!As dresses are directly proportional to tailors and days so!x/35 = (6/25)*(5/1)!x = 42! !Hence 42 dresses can be made by 6 tailors in 5 days..
Suppose A, B and C take x, x/2, x/3 days respectively to finish the work.! !Then,!(1/x + 2/x + 3/x) = 1/2!6/x = 1/2!x=12! !So, B takes (12/2) = 6 days to finish the work..
An article was bought for $300 and sold at a loss of 8%. What is the selling price of the article?
8% of 300!= (300*8)/100 = 24! !Selling price = 300-24 = 276.
By selling a Television for $572 Adam lost 12%. What was the cost price of the television?
Let cost price of the television is x.!12% of x = 12x/100 = 3x/25! !Now!(3x/25)+572 = x!3x + 14300 = 25x!14300 = 22x!x = 650! !Hence cost price of the television is $650..
Ratio of rates of working of A and B = 2/1! !So, ratio of times taken = 1/2! !B's 1 day's work = 1/12! !A's 1 day's work = 1/6!(2 times of B's work)! !(A + B)'s 1 day's work = (1/6 + 1/12) = 1/4! !So, A and B together can finish the work in 4 days..
Let, 1 man's 1 day's work = x!and 1 boy's 1 day's work = y! !Then, 6x + 8y = 1/10!and 26x + 48y = 1/2! !Solving these two equations, we get!x = 1/100!and y = 1/200! !(15 men + 20 boy)'s 1 day's work = (15/100 + 20/200) = 1/4! !Hence, 15 men and 20 boys can do the work in 4 days..
A salesman bought a pen for Rs. 100 and sold it for Rs. 110. What is his profit percent?
Profit = 110 - 100 = 10! !Profit percentage = (10/100)*100 = 10%.
Price of an article increased from $50 to $55. What is the percentage increase?
Increase in price = 55-50 = 5!Percentage increase = (5/50)*100! =10%.
Let! C.P. be Rs. x and S.P. be Rs. y.! !Then,! 3(y - x) = (2y - x)!y = 2x! !Profit = Rs. (y - x) = Rs. x! !Profit % = (x/x)*100 = 100%.
Price of an article decreased from $70 to $56. What is the percentage decrease?
Decrease in price = 70-56 = 14! !Percentage decrease = (14/70)*100 = 20%.
Let, 1 man's 1 day's work = x!and!1 woman's 1 day's work = y! !Then, 4x + 6y = 1/8 nd 3x + 7y = 1/10! !Solving the two equations, we get!x = 11/400!y = 1/400! !So, One woman's 1 day's work = 1/400! !10 women's 1 day's work = (1/400 * 10) = 1/40! !Hence, 10 women will complete the work in 40 days..
A car was bought for $380000 four years ago and during these four year it price decreases by 12%. What is its value now?
12% of 380000!(380000/100)*12 = 45600! !Price of the car = 380000 - 45600 = 334400.
B's 10 day's work = (1/15 * 10) = 2/3! !Remaining work = (1 - 2/3) = 1/3! !Now, 1/18 work is done by A in 1 day.! ! Hence, 1/3 work is done by A in (18 * 1/3) = 6 days..
Ratio of times taken by A and B = 1/3! !The time difference is (3 - 1) 2 days while B take 3 days and A takes 1 day.! !If difference of time is 2 days, B takes 3 days.! !If difference of time is 60 days, B takes (3/2 * 60) = 90 days! !So, A takes 30 days to do the work.! !A's 1 day's work = 1/30! !B's 1 day's work = 1/90! !(A + B)'s 1 day's work = (1/30 + 1/90) = 4/90 = 2/45! !Hence, A and B together can do the work in 45/2 = 22.5 days.
By selling an article for $84 shopkeeper earns 12% profit. What was cost price of the article?
Let cost price of the article is x.!12% of x = 12x/100 = 3x/25! !Now!84 - (3x/25) = x!2100 - 3x = 25x!2100 = 28x!x = 75! !Hence cost price of the article is $75..
Ali bought a house for $450000 and sold it for $500000. What is his profit percentage?
Profit = 500000-450000 = 50000! !Profit percentage= (50000/450000)*100 = 11.11%.
(A + B)'s 1 day's work = 1/10! !C's 1 day's work = 1/50! !(A + B + C)'s 1 day's work = (1/10 + 1/50) = 6/50 = 3/25...(1)! !A's 1 day's work = (B + C)'s 1 day's work .... (2)! !From (1) and (2), we get!2 * (A's 1 day's work) = 3/25! !A's 1 day's work = 3/50! !So, B's 1 day's work (1/10 - 3/50) = 2/50 = 1/25! !Hence, B alone could do the work in 25 days..
Ali sold a house at a loss of 15% for Rs. 382500. What was the cost price of the house?
Let cost price of the house is x.!15% of x = 15x/100 = 3x/20! !Now!(3x/20)+382500 = x!3x + 7650000 = 20x!7650000 = 17x!x = 450000!Hence cost price of the house is Rs. 450000.
Ratio of times taken by A and B = 100/130 = 10/13! !Suppose B takes x days to do the work.! !Then, 10/13 = 23/x!x = (23*13)/10!x = 299/10! !A's 1 day's work = 1/23! !B's 1 day's work = 10/299! !(A + B)'s 1 day's work = (1/23 + 10/299) = 23/299 = 1/13! !Therefore, A and B together can complete the work in 13 days..
A farmer bought a cow for Rs. 14000 and sold it for Rs. 15400. Find his profit percentage.
Profit = 15400 - 14000 = 1400! !Profit percentage = (1400/14000)*100 = 10%.
Value of a house decreased from $250000 to $200000. What is the percentage decrease in the value?
Decrease in value of house = 250000 - 200000 = 50000! !Percentage decrease = (50000/250000)*100 = 20%.
What will be the selling price of an article that was bought for $1150 and sold at profit of 6%?
6% of 1150!= (1150*6)/100 = 69! !Selling price = 1150+69 = 1219.
(A's 1 day's work) / (B's 1 day's work) = 7/4! !Let A's and B's 1 day's work be 7x and 4x respectively.! !Then,!7x + 4x = 1/7!11x = 1/7!x = 1/77! !Hence, A's 1 day's work = (1/77 * 7) = 1/11.
What will be the selling price of an article that was bought for $350 and sold at a loss of 14%?
14% of 350!(350*14)/100 = 49! !selling price of the article = 350 - 49 = 301.
An article was sold at a loss of 15% for $476. What is the cost price of the article?
Let cost price of the article is x.!15% of x = (15x)/100 = 3x/20! !Now!(3x/20) + 476 = x!3x+9520 = 20x!9520 = 17x!x = 560! !Hence cost price of the article is $560..
Price of a car increased from $400000 to $420000. What is the percentage increase?
Increase in price = 420000 - 400000! = 20000! !Percentage increase = (20000/400000)*100! = 5%.
By selling an article for $200 shopkeeper looses 20%. What is cost price of the article?
Let cost price of the article is x.! !20% of x = (x*20)/100 = x/5! !Now!(x/5) + 200 = x!x+1000 = 5x!4x = 1000!x = 250! !Hence cost price of the article is 250..
C.P. of 56 kg rice = (26 x 20 + 30 x 36) = (520 + 1080) = Rs. 1600! !S.P. of 56 kg rice = Rs. (56 x 30) = Rs. 1680! !Hence, Gain = (80/1600)*100 = 5%.
Cost price of a camera was $430 and it was sold at profit of 16%. What is its selling price?
16% of 430 = (430*16)/100 = 68.8! !Selling price = 430 + 68.8 = 498.8.
C.P. of 1 orange = 350/100 = Rs. 3.50! !S.P. of 1 orange = 48/12 = Rs. 4! !Hence, Gain% = (0.50)/(3.50) * 100 = 100/7 %.
(C.P. of 17 balls) - (S.P. of 17 balls) = (C.P. of 5 balls)! !C.P. of 12 balls = S.P. of 17 balls = $720! !C.P. of 1 ball = $60.
Whole work is done by A in (20 * 5/4) = 25 days! !Now, (1 - 4/5) i.e., 1/5 work is done by A and B in 3 days.! !Whole work will be done by A and B in (3 x 5) = 15 days.! !A's 1 day's work = 1/25!(A + B)'s 1 day's work = 1/15! !So, B's 1 day's work = (1/15 - 1/25) = 4/150 = 2/75! !Hence, B alone would do the work in 75/2 = 37.5 days..
As we know that!If A can do a piece of work in n days, then A's 1 day's work = 1/n! !(A + B + C)'s 1 day's work = (1/24 + 1/6 + 1/12) = 7/24! !If A's 1 day's work = 1/n then,!A can finish the work in 'n' days.! !So, all the three together will complete the job in (24/7) days..
Let!C.P. of each article be Re. 1 C.P. of x articles = Rs. x.! !S.P. of x articles = Rs. 20.! !Profit = Rs. (20 - x)! !So, (20-x)/x * 100 = 25!2000 - 100x = 25x!125x = 2000! !Hence, x = 16.
A can do a piece of work in 4 hours; B and C together can do it in 3 hours,while A and C together can do it in 2 hours.How long will B alone take to do it?
A's 1 hour's work = 1/4! !(B + C)'s 1 hour's work = 1/3! !(A + C)'s 1 hour's work = 1/2! !(A + B + C)'s 1 hour's work = (1/4 + 1/3) = 7/12! !B's 1 hour's work = (7/12 - 1/2) = 1/12! !Hence, B alone will take 12 hours to do the work..
Ratio of times taken by Sakshi and Tanya = 125/100 = 5/4! !Suppose Tanya takes x days to do the work.! !5/4 = 20/x!x = (4*20)/5! !x = 16 days.! !Hence, Tanya takes 16 days to complete the work..
Cost Price (C.P.) = (4700 + 800) = Rs. 5500! !Selling Price (S.P.) = Rs. 5800! !Gain = (S.P.) - (C.P.) = (5800 - 5500) = Rs. 300! !Gain % = (300/5500) * 100 = 60/5 %.
By selling a car for Rs. 495000 an agent gains 10%. What was his cost?
Let cost price of the car is x.!10% of x = 10x/100 = x/10! !Now!495000 - (x/10) = x!4950000 - x = 10x!4950000 = 11x!x = 450000.
C.P. of 6 toffees = Re. 1! !S.P. of 6 toffees = 120% of Re. 1 = Rs. 6/5! !For Rs. 6/5,!toffees sold = 6.! !For Re. 1, toffees sold = (6 * 5/6) = 5.
C.P. = (100/122.5) * 392!= (1000/1225) * 392!= Rs. 320! !Hence, Profit = Rs. (392 - 320) = Rs. 72..
With an increase of 12% salary of Ali became Rs13440. What was his salary before increase?
Let before increase Ali's salary was x.!12% of x = 12x/100 = 3x/25! !Now!13440 - 3x/25 = x!336000 - 3x = 25x!336000 = 28x!x = 12000! !Hence Ali's salary before increase was Rs. 12000.
An estate agent sold a property at a profit of 10% for $825000. What was cost price of the property?
Let cost price of the property is x.!10% of x = 10x/100 = x/10! !Now!825000 - (x/10) = x!8250000 - x = 10x!8250000 = 11x!x = 750000! !Hence cost price of the property is $750000..
When a plot is sold for $18,700, the owner loses 15%.At what price must that plot be sold in order to gain 15%?
85 / 18700 = 115 / x! !x = (18700 * 115)/85 = 25300! !Hence, S.P. = $25,300.
(B + C)'s 1 day's work = (1/9 + 1/12) = 7/36! !Work done by B and C in 3 days = (7/36 * 3)!= 7/12! !Remaining work = (1 - 7/12)!= 5/12! !Now, 1/24 work is done by A in 1 day.! !So, 5/12 work is done by A in (24 * 5/12) = 10 days..
A group of workers can do a piece of work in 24 days. However as 7 of them were absent it took 30 days to complete the work. How many people actually worked on the job to complete it?
Let x workers are required to complete the job.!As workers and days are inversely proportional to each other so!(x-7)/x = 24/30!30x - 210 = 24x!6x = 210!x = 35! !Hence 35 workers are required to complete the job in time..
9 excavators working 10 hours a day remove 2500 cubic feet of earth in 3 days. How many excavators working 6 hours a day are required to remove 5000 cubic feet of earth in 2 days?
Let x excavators are required.!As excavators are inversely proportional to hours and days and directly proportional to work progress so!x/9 = (10/6)*(5000/2500)*(3/2)!x = 45! !Hence 45 excavators are required to remove 5000 cubic feet of earth..
In a ship the provisions are sufficient for 800 men for 50 days. How long will these be sufficient for if there would have been 200 more men?
Let provisions will be sufficient for 200 men for x days.!As men and days are inversely proportional to each other so!x/50 = 800/1000!x = 40! !Hence provisions will be sufficient for 200 men for 40 days..
In a fort there is enough food sufficient for 1200 men for 10 days. How long the food would have last for if there would have been 1000 men.
Let food will last for x days.!As men and days are inversely proportional to each other so!x/10 = 1200/1000!x = 12! !Hence food will last for 12 days if there were 1000 men..

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5a-3 = 2a+6;3 To check whether 3 is the solution of the given expression, substitute 3 for a. 5*3 - 3 = 2*3 + 6 (multiply 5*3 and 2*3) 15 -3 =6 +6(add 6+6) 15 -3 = 12(subtract 15 -3) 12 = 12 The statement is true, because the values on both sides of the equation are same. Therefore, the number 3 is the solution of the equation.

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I had left Hargeisa, Somaliland’s nominal capital, early that morning in a small convoy of 4x4s belonging to Save the Children, the charity leading the drought response here. We drove east for hours through the open plains. Termite mounds rose like fingers from the earth, some of them as tall as the thorn trees that were among the only signs of life. Under normal circumstances, rain falls here in two wet seasons a year: the short, autumn deyr rains and the longer, spring gu rains that last from March to June. Last year, the gu rains were sparse and the deyr never came. Animals began to die in January. Although the landscape seemed barren, it would take only a little moisture for it to burst into life. One good rain and the grass seeds would germinate: overnight, a low fuzz of green would spread across the earth. Another few showers and the grass would grow tall, providing grazing for gazelle and antelope, and the domesticated ungulates on which the local economy almost entirely depends. But spring brought no relief; by mid-May there was still no sign of the gu rains. The grass never grew and the animals starved. Here and there, outside a cluster of patchwork tents, we passed a field that had been tilled. The earth had been turned and perhaps planted – even meagre rains can be sufficient for a single harvest of sorghum or maize – but nothing had grown.
There had been no sign of government aid in Haro Sheikh since March, the villagers told me. What little help they received from relatives in the diaspora, mainly in the US, had by now run dry. Nearly half the village came out, plastic jerry cans in hand, to greet the two water tankers that Save the Children had brought in to fill a covered reservoir. The women wore headscarves in purple, blue and green. Droughts are nothing new here. Under normal circumstances, the rains fail every few years, and shepherds can expect to lose perhaps 5 per cent of their flocks, and to replenish them when the rains return. But the failure of three wet seasons out of four was almost unheard of. Not even the oldest people in the village with whom I spoke – sunken-cheeked men with beards hennaed orange – could remember anything comparable.
Somaliland claims the same borders as the old imperial protectorate of British Somaliland, which united with the former Italian Somaliland to form the Somali Republic in 1960. The dictator Siad Barre, who took power in a coup in 1969, would for decades exclude the country’s northern clans from any share in government, or its spoils. When they rebelled in the late 1980s, Barre subjected the region to a punishing counterinsurgency campaign, flattening most of the cities of Hargeisa and Burao, and displacing as much as half the population. After his fall in 1991, the north was quick to declare independence. Chaos overtook the south, where inter-clan warfare filled the vacuum left by central government. Famine followed. Local warlords blocked the flow of humanitarian aid to their enemies, using hunger as a weapon of war. Nearly 300,000 Somalis died. Before the millennium was out, Puntland in the centre of Somalia had become an autonomous state, nominally in federation with the rump of the Federal Republic of Somalia, governed from Mogadishu. (The republic enjoys international recognition but little authority in the territories over which it claims to hold sway.) Somaliland has remained politically stable, with a more responsive government than many in the region, but is nonetheless trapped by the violence that continues to overwhelm its neighbours to the south. Its independence is acknowledged by no other nation and is unlikely to win recognition until the fighting in Somalia’s south comes to an end. Somaliland receives next to no direct foreign aid. Last year, its entire budget of £225 million was slightly less than half what the London borough of Camden spent on council services.
Pastoralism accounts for around 70 per cent of Somaliland’s economy and employs about the same proportion of its population of around 4.5 million. Goats and sheep are the primary form of capital, and fundamental to the culture: not just a source of milk and meat, but of autonomy, pride and the freedom to live as one chooses. Animals can be sold for cash or exchanged for rice, flour, medicine, water, transport, clothes. A sheep or goat fetches around £75, a camel more than £500. The Berbera blackhead is a prized breed throughout the Arabian peninsula and millions of sheep are shipped each year across the Gulf of Aden. A family with ten camels and a few hundred goats possesses real wealth, and access to the global economy, even if they are living in a dirt-floor hut roofed with branches and a quilt of stitched rags. But all this has changed. Haro Sheikh’s 750 households, the village’s deputy mayor, Mohamed Abdi, told me, have lost 90 per cent of their livestock. Nearly everyone I spoke to in the region testified to similar levels of loss. About a third of the villagers had left, Abdi said, travelling as far as Djibouti and Ethiopia in a futile hunt for pasture. ‘Now they are coming back,’ Abdi said. Their animals had died, and they had nothing.
People were calling this drought sima, ‘the leveller’. Previous droughts have affected some areas and some clans more than others, but this one stretched into Ethiopia to the west and Kenya to the south. A crowd had gathered around us, listening. When I asked Abdi what the land here would normally look like at this time of year, a young man shoved a cellphone into my hand to show me a photo of himself reclining in a field of tall green grass. He pointed to a patch of bare earth behind him, where the photo had been taken, and laughed. War rarely feels far away. The wrecks of Siad Barre’s tanks and armoured personnel carriers still rust on the edge of Burao. As we drove east out of the city, we passed lines of stones painted blue to indicate the boundaries of a mine-clearing project. In the village of Fiqi Ayuub, our destination that day, two girls, aged five and ten, had been badly injured when a mine blew up in their hands. We drove all morning to get there, crossing three wide riverbeds, all of them dry.
Nestled at the base of the Golis Mountains, Fiqi Ayuub might under other circumstances have seemed idyllic. The hills, sharp and jagged, stretched off into the distance beneath a mercilessly bright sky. One of Save the Children’s emergency health teams had already set up shop under the eaves of a long, red-roofed building, and a couple of hundred women and children were waiting in the shade to be examined at the improvised clinic. Some had walked for hours from areas even more remote.
The women’s stories were almost all the same, differing only in the age and number of children sick, the number of animals they had lost and the number that survived. Hodan Ismail had lost everything. She left her husband’s village to bring her children here, where her mother lived, ‘to save them,’ she said. ‘When I got here, I saw that she had nothing either.’ The river and streams, their usual source of drinking water, had gone dry and they had no option but to drink from a shallow well at the edge of town. The water was making all the children sick.
The clinic that day identified 30 new cases of malnutrition, nearly half of them severe, and diagnosed 24 people with ‘acute watery diarrhoea’, or AWD. Everyone knew it was cholera, but the aid workers couldn’t call it by its name without permission from the Ministry of Health. Admitting an outbreak means risking restrictions on travel and trade, so governments take shelter in euphemism. In southern Somalia, where the central government is weak to non-existent, cholera is spreading; just across the border in the stabler states of Kenya and Ethiopia, the disease is officially transformed into the innocuous-sounding but no less deadly AWD. In Fiqi Ayuub it had already killed five children and one old man.
The well, a circular stone shaft on the bank of the dry river, was a short walk from the clinic. Just above it, a goat lay decomposing in the shade of an acacia tree. The water, about three metres down, was black. I didn’t taste it, but everyone agreed that it was salty, and would only get saltier as the dry season wore on. A man I had met in the village, Chama Ali, walked down with his daughter and a camel on a lead. The camel was clearly starving. Its ribs were protruding, and it barely had a hump. Ali had already lost forty others, and more than two hundred goats. The animals he had left, he said, were weak. If the rains came now, the cold and damp would kill them. He dropped a jerry can into the well, poured the water into a stainless steel bowl, and placed the bowl on a stone for the camel to drink. It drank, slowly, but when he refilled the bowl, it pulled its head away. ‘He’s hungry,’ Ali said, and led the camel off.
In March, Stephen O’Brien, head of the UN’s Office for the Co-Ordination of Humanitarian Affairs, just back from Yemen, Somalia, South Sudan and northern Kenya, announced to the Security Council that twenty million people are facing death from starvation or hunger-related disease. All the areas O’Brien visited fall on what the Israeli theorist Eyal Weizman calls the ‘conflict shoreline’, an expanding band of climate change-induced desertification that stretches through the Sahel and across the continent before leaping the Gulf of Aden to Yemen.[*] This vast territory, once the site of fierce resistance to colonial incursions, is now paying a heavy price for the greenhouse gas emissions of the industrialised north. As the deserts spread south, fresh conflicts erupt along their arid margins. Over the last decade, nearly all the regions currently facing famine have also become fronts in another, adumbrating conflict, the US-led war on terror. One of the impressive achievements of counterterrorism rhetoric has been to cast these conflicts over scarce resources, in which international players are invariably involved, as battlegrounds in a worldwide ideological struggle.
The consequences of climate change on one hand and conflict on the other have become increasingly difficult to distinguish, especially in Somalia. One UN aid official I spoke to after she had returned from south-central Somalia assured me that the massive level of displacement she had observed was entirely the result of the drought. But she also mentioned that she’d been obliged to travel in a convoy of armoured personnel carriers, at times preceded by mine-clearance vehicles. Somalia is familiar with military intervention, from the RAF’s bombing in 1920 of the rebel ‘Dervish state’, in the heart of British Somaliland, to Bush Sr’s intervention in 1992. The famine was already winding down when he dispatched tens of thousands of troops to Somalia as part of Operation Restore Hope, the first ‘humanitarian intervention’ of the post-Cold War era. They were tasked with ‘creating a secure environment for the delivery of humanitarian aid’, but the mission ended in humiliating failure, with the deaths of hundreds, probably thousands of Somali civilians and the hasty withdrawal of US and allied troops early in 1994.
In the years that followed, humanitarian relief would continue to play a major role in the violence. A UN study in 2010 found that half the food aid destined for Somalia was diverted by contractors, ‘some of whom channel their profits, or the aid itself, directly to armed opposition groups’. Conflict drove a demand for humanitarian aid, which in turn fuelled the conflict. By then, the invasion in 2006 of US-backed Ethiopian troops had helped propel the rise of the Mujahideen Youth Movement, better known as al-Shabaab, and Somalia had become an active front in the war on terror. When drought returned in 2010, armed hostilities – this time between the fighters of al-Shabaab and US-backed Somali and African Union forces – again turned crisis into catastrophe: 258,000 Somalis died in the resulting famine. Barack Obama would soon make Somalia the prototype for a low-visibility and low-risk approach to waging war through drone strikes and targeted raids by Special Operations forces.
In his last year in office, Obama began accelerating that campaign, and Donald Trump appears determined to expand it. In March, Trump issued an order declaring parts of Somalia an ‘area of active hostilities’, giving US commanders greater autonomy to order attacks and allowing for more civilian deaths than the Obama administration had been willing to tolerate. In April, aid groups working in Somalia received a letter from the US government requesting that they submit the geographical co-ordinates of their operations, which would be shared with the military for purposes of ‘deconfliction’. General Thomas Waldhauser, who heads the US Africa Command, explained that the US has not yet escalated its assaults because the many thousands of civilians travelling in search of pasture have made it difficult to track and target al-Shabaab.
Somaliland, though not a direct party to this conflict, remains its hostage. So do the people of north-east Kenya, the vast majority of whom are ethnic Somalis and, like their northern neighbours, pastoralists. In Wajir county, bordering on Somalia, I found circumstances similar to those I had seen in Somaliland, though the drought had not been as severe. Twenty per cent of the children screened by the clinic I visited there had been diagnosed with malnutrition (the rate in Fiqi Ayuub, where I had been ten days earlier, was more than 70 per cent). The pastoralists I interviewed in Wajir had lost a fifth of their livestock (in Fiqi Ayuub they had lost almost all of it). The only people I encountered in Wajir who looked reasonably well fed were the soldiers manning checkpoints in every village I passed. In the middle of the last drought, in 2011, Kenya had responded to al-Shabaab kidnappings on its territory by deploying thousands of troops in Somalia. Al-Shabaab has not let up since then: 67 killed in a Nairobi shopping mall in 2013, 48 killed in the coastal town of Mpeketoni in 2014, 147 massacred at a university in the north-eastern city of Garissa in 2015. That year, the US budget for counterterrorism assistance to Kenya leaped by 163 per cent, helping the government in Nairobi wage a dirty war in the neglected north-east of the country, where dozens of ethnic Somalis have been disappeared or murdered by security forces since 2013.
The counterterrorist rhetoric may be new, but the oppression is not. Throughout the colonial period, Britain regarded what was then called the Northern Frontier District as a valueless waste inhabited by ‘hostile tribes’. With independence in 1963, Kenya inherited a war to suppress a Somali separatist movement in the north-east. Thousands were killed. That conflict ended in 1967, but the bloodshed persisted. In 1980, Kenyan security forces killed as many as 3000 ethnic Somali civilians in a single incident in Garissa; four years later, Kenyan soldiers executed nearly 5000 at an airstrip outside Wajir. The US military recently helped rebuild the Wajir airbase, where it maintains a presence, but the Kenyan central government’s neglect of the north-east has been nearly absolute. There are 24 kilometres of tarmac roads in all of Wajir county’s 56,600 square kilometres. Life expectancy is lower by twenty years than in Nairobi. Since the drought began, malnutrition in the region has nearly doubled and emergency food supplies have nearly run out. If they aren’t replenished soon, one aid official told me, ‘we are very sure we will be dealing with deaths.’ If they occur, the drought will not be the only culprit.
In Late Victorian Holocausts, Mike Davis argued that the massive famines which struck the global south in the late 19th century – he estimates a combined death toll of between thirty and sixty million in India, China and Brazil alone – effectively integrated ‘the great non-European peasantries’ into the global economy, breaking once resilient social arrangements and forging in their place the structures of exploitation that gave birth to what we would later call the Third World. It isn’t clear if the current crisis will result in a catastrophe of comparable scale, but given the pace of climate change it would be odd if it didn’t. In Africa and the Middle East, it is already creating a vast surplus population that is no longer able to survive in the economy as it stands. Those who have sufficient resources to make the journey are migrating north to Europe and west to North America. Those without keep moving until there is nowhere left to go.
[*] Naomi Klein wrote about the conflict shoreline in the LRB of 2 June 2016.

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Answer: The man died by not pulling the parachute ring soon enough so he fell to his death.

The newly released European Club Association (ECA) study on the transfer system1 suggests that the solidarity mechanism, a tool that helps strengthen the economic redistributive power of the system, is not working properly.
The conclusions reached in the report are relevant for South America and Argentina in particular, because the said contribution represents an important source of income for our clubs. South America is the region that receives the biggest share of the solidarity contribution paid by European clubs (94%)2.
Briefly, for those not familiar with the mechanism, the solidarity contribution set by FIFA in its regulations (article 20 and Annex 5 of the Regulation on the Status and Transfer of Players (RSTP) rewards the clubs involved in a player´s training and education between the seasons of his 12th and 23rd birthdays with 5% (distributed on a pro rata basis) of any compensation paid by the new club to his former club in case such player is transferred internationally (from one national Association to another) during the course of his contract.
The ECA report shows that, while the total solidarity contribution payments for the seasons 2011/12 and 2012/13 amounted to $258m only $57.9m was actually paid out. So, instead of the total 5% provided for in the regulations, clubs only paid an equivalent of 1.15% of the total transfer expenditure incurred over the period. The study further analyzes the effects a potential increase in the mechanism up to 8% would have.
In my opinion, the flaws of the system are only part of the explanation, and there are other reasons for such a low collection percentage.
Since 2012, article 2.3 of Annex 5 of the RSTP3 demands of any National Association claiming the mechanism, which would in principle otherwise be due to one of its affiliated clubs, a “clear proof” of the link between the player and said club and evidence that the club in question no longer exists.
The reform was introduced after several CAS awards and decisions by the FIFA Dispute Resolution Chamber issued in the same sense, rejecting claims of federations for previous years’ contributions that remained unclaimed by clubs within their remit. Federations argue in those cases that since the player lived in the country, even without knowing for which club he played (or even if he didn´t play in any affiliated club), they were entitled to the contribution otherwise due to the club under the mechanism. FIFA and CAS decided that clear evidence of the development in at least one affiliated club was required4. So, many “unknown” years that were previously collected by national federations are now simply “lost”, thus reducing the total 5%.
However, this additional cause does not hide the flaws of the system. While collection seems harder for the European clubs than for the South American clubs, the reason behind this data is simply that the contributions are far more relevant for South American , so they make greater efforts to collect it.
As shown in the ECA study, European clubs are net debtors, especially to South American clubs. It is not a surprise that those clubs participating in the big leagues (classified as “the bundle” in the Study)5 are better payers than those in the “low bundle”. The majority of the clubs in the top bundle are subject to UEFA licensing regulations (they apply for a license to enter the Champions League and the Europa League) which demands no overdue debts in relation to transfer payments, including no overdue contributions owing under the solidarity mechanism.
In addition to this “indirect” incentive to comply with the redistribution regulations, there are many flaws in the collection process. One of the most notable is the way FIFA procedures in club´s claims before the Dispute Resolution Chamber are handled. Procedures take a long time (averaging 2 years), and FIFA has to date chosen not to impose sanctions, despite the possibility being expressly covered under the regulations6). There is also a relatively modest annual interest rate of 5%.
Also, for claims over CHF 50.000, (approx. USD 55.000) the claimant club is required to pay an “advance of costs” fee to FIFA ranging from between CHF 1.000 (USD 1.100) to CHF 5.000 (USD 5.500), which is almost unreachable for many Argentine clubs (developers, especially in the early years of the players, are usually really small amateur clubs and CHF 5.000 represents many months of its budget). This is also a problem for the FIFA administration, which receives and handles thousands of cases for small amounts. As a result, the process is delayed until the claimant club can pay the advance of costs, at which point the respondent makes every effort to delay the case as much as possible since there´s no risk of a sanction and the applicable interest rate is low (as explained in my previous post, it is a “FIFA loan” at a really low rate with the aggravating circumstance that a small club is financing a big one). Normally, the debtor will make an offer to the developer club to settle the debt, but at a reduced amount as the “price” to get the payment without further delays. This conduct (common among clubs) also reduces the amount finally paid as contributions under the mechanism.
There are also flaws in the monitoring process, although it is fair to say that, with the introduction of the FIFA Transfer Matching System (TMS) system, many of them are gradually disappearing. Now, Federations are aware that if a player who once trained in a country is transferred between two foreign associations, in every transfer the national federation of the original club must upload an updated version of the player´s passport, and FIFA discloses in the first letter of any solidarity contribution claim the transfer value inserted in the TMS, so the percentage can be correctly calculated.
In my opinion, the TMS is probably the “ultimate tool” for detection and also for collection of the solidarity contribution: there´s enough data in the system to make the collection almost automatic with the intervention and interaction of the relevant associations.
As to the process, one feels FIFA should in the future include sanctions and increase the interest rate for late payment. These simple measures will certainly have a deterrent effect on the debtors and will speed up the collection of the solidarity contributions.
2. See page 89 of the report.
3. “An association is entitled to receive the proportion of solidarity contribution which in principle would be due to one of its affiliated clubs, if it can provide evidence that the club in question – which was involved in the professional’s training and education – has in the meantime ceased to participate in organised football and/or no longer exists due to, in particular, bankruptcy, liquidation, dissolution or loss of affiliation. This solidarity contribution shall be reserved for youth football development programmes in the association(s) in question”.
4. See CAS 2008/A/1751 C.B.F. vs Sport Lisboa Benfica SAD https://jurisprudence.tas-cas.org/sites/CaseLaw/Shared%20Documents/1751.pdf CAS 2011/A/2635 Real Madrid CF v. CBF & Sao Paulo FC, CAS 2011/A/2652 Bulgarian Football Union vs Manchester City FC.
5. See page 11 of the Study. Top bundle includes ENG, GER, SPA, ITA, FRA, POR, HOL; RUS & TUR.
Ariel is a lawyer in Argentina focused exclusively on the sports sector, mainly the football industry. He has particular experience advising on third party player ownership issues, player´s transfers and international sports disputes before FIFA and CAS. He has also spoken at conferences on these issues in Argentina and at international level.

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