Zambia has started connecting 751 health facilities across all 10 provinces with Starlink, and the first 90 kits went to Western Province.
There's something poetic about where they started. Every year at the end of the rainy season the upper Zambezi floods the Barotse plain, and for centuries the Lozi king has left his compound at Lealui by royal barge and moved to higher ground at Limulunga. The ceremony is called Kuomboka. In Lozi it means "to get out of water."
Now picture running fiber or building towers across land that turns into a lake for part of every year. A Starlink dish only needs a clear view of the sky, so the water below stops being the problem.
In March 2020, months before Starlink had its first beta users, Elon Musk said it would serve the 3 or 4 percent hardest-to-reach customers, people with no connectivity or really bad connectivity. Six years later, with funding from the Global Fund through Zambia's Ministry of Health, clinics on one of Africa's great floodplains are being brought into the country's electronic health systems from orbit.
The 33rd APEC Economic Leaders’ Meeting will be held in Shenzhen from November 18 to 19 under the theme “Building an Asia-Pacific Community to Prosper Together.” President Xi Jinping will chair the meeting and deliver remarks.
The APEC CEO Summit will be held in Shenzhen from November 17 to 18 under the theme “promoting prosperity together for a win-win future.” President Xi Jinping will attend the opening ceremony and deliver a keynote speech.
President Xi will hold a welcome banquet for participating leaders and representatives, and hold bilateral meetings with foreign leaders on the sidelines of the meeting.
At an outdoor festival near "Camping World Stadium" in Orlando, Florida, a video went viral showing a guy handing a woman a medal for “best butt,” surprising many with how blatant the award ceremony was..
The footage shows a happy young woman in a thong receiving her medal from a guy as she smiles and poses... with lots of people around in swimsuits 😢🥲
In SW China’s Chengdu, the Chinese and US militaries held a ceremony to transfer the remains of American airmen recovered along the Hump Route back to the United States.
Eighty years after they crossed the Himalayas to aid China’s resistance against Japanese aggression, these heroes are finally homeward bound — a return made possible with China’s humanitarian assistance.
The Tea Ceremony
(Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them... Let reality be reality.- Lao Tse)
Richard Avedon, Veruschka 1966
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The President and First Lady greet President Xi Jinping of China and Madame Peng Liyuan at the South Portico during a State Arrival ceremony
September 24, 2026