The war’s critics say that the man they oppose, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has become reliant upon the extreme right to maintain his coalition, and an opposition too cowardly to confront him in the face of mounting international accusations of genocide.
It is difficult to say how well-placed rescue efforts are to salvage people “because every rainy season we continue to see things like this,” said Al Jazeera’s Ahmed Idris, reporting from Abuja.“Warnings have been put out by authorities for people exposed or communities living along river banks to move to higher ground, especially when the rains start to peak, but every year we continue to see more and more lives and property damaged because of rainfall,” said Idris.
“In certain areas, proper drainage isn’t there … and most of these disasters take officials of emergency management agencies in various states by surprise even though there has been consistent flooding over the past three years,” said Idris. As a result, “a lot of people don’t believe it will be any different” this time around.Mokwa is a key meeting and transit point for traders from the south and food growers in the north of the country.In the town, Mohammed Tanko, 29, a civil servant, told reporters that he lost at least 15 people from the house he grew up in.
“The property [is] gone. We lost everything,” Tanko said.For fisherman Danjuma Shaba, 35, the floods destroyed his house, forcing him to sleep in a car park.
“I don’t have a house to sleep in. My house has already collapsed,” Shaba told the AFP news agency.
As Nigeria’s rainy season begins, typically lasting for six months, the Nigerian Meteorological Agency has warned of possible flash floods in 15 of Nigeria’s 36 states, including Niger State, between Wednesday and Friday.Mechanisms for holding companies accountable, however, are limited, apart from The International Criminal Court, and only address the most direct examples of harm, such as where their components are used in weapons used to target civilians.
Ukraine’s National Agency on Corruption Prevention (NACP) maintains a database of foreign components reportedly found in Russian and Iranian weapons in Ukraine, listing thousands of items from dozens of countries including the US and many members of the EU.Among the companies named in the database are household brands including Bosch, Hitachi, Canon and LG.
Bosch told Al Jazeera that it “instituted and maintains policies and procedures reasonably designed to meet and achieve regulatory compliance requirements, applicable export control laws and regulations.""It is our goal to prevent Bosch products from being used in a way that violates sanctions at the end of the direct or indirect supply chain within our sphere of influence,” a spokesperson said.