Kenya minister Covid warning: If you fall sick today, you will not get a hospital bed
Kenya braces for the fourth wave as hospitals struggle to cope with surge in new Covid cases Hospitals in Kenya are becoming overwhelmed as the East African country witnesses a jump in cases from the Delta variant. Kenya said it is extending a night-time curfew and banning public gatherings and...
Caste barriers scientists from ‘Untouchables’ in India’s top universities must confront every day
In the summer of 1976, 26-year-old Raosaheb Kale entered the School of Life Sciences at New Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University, alongside about 34 other incoming doctoral students. At the time, a committee of teachers at the school would review the students’ records and assign each to a PhD supervisor to...
Unplayed Kenyan derby in 100 years turns searchlight on deep-seated rot in country’s football
The graft-infested Federation Kenya Football has worked itself into an intractable strait after its president Nick Mwendwa slapped hefty punishments on the East African nation’s most successful clubs – AFC Leopards and Gor Mahia – for boycotting a league match to protest non-settlement or delayed payment of prize money. Hours...
