Nairobi’s new infrastructure a classic case of how bad urban plans clash with orderly development
Orbit Chemical Industries bought the site where it located in Nairobi’s Industrial Area in 1987. The firm wanted to build a factory but was unable to, as the land was inhabited. After years of legal wrangling, Orbit Chemical says it decided, in 2008, to try to sell the land off...
Road to link airport to Nairobi’s rich neighbourhoods leaves 40,000 destitute in poor settlements
About 40,000 people have been made homeless by demolition works for a major Chinese-backed toll road in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi. Amnesty International Kenya says it believes the roadworks have created a humanitarian crisis, as schools, businesses and 13,000 homes spread across nearly 40 hectares (100 acres) of the Mukuru Kwa...
French police detain suspect in journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s murder as Saudi embassy queries the arrest
A Saudi man held at a Paris airport over suspected links to the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi was arrested because his passport triggered an alert, a police source said on Wednesday, after Saudi Arabia said it was a case of mistaken identity. French law enforcement sources have named the...
US slaps sanctions on senior government officials in Iran, Syria and Uganda for human rights abuses
The United States imposed this week sanctions on more than a dozen people and entities in Iran, Syria and Uganda, accusing them of being connected to serious human rights abuses and repressive acts. In an action marking the week of the US Summit for Democracy, the Treasury Department said in...
Extreme sisters: World’s ‘most identical twins’ want to get pregnant at same time with shared fiancé
Identical twins tend to do a lot of things together. But one pair of similar siblings have taken that philosophy to a whole new level. Anna and Lucy DeCinque, 35, say they are the world’s “most identical twins”, and have made a name for themselves by living eerily similar lives...
Goal-starved Arsenal switch interest from European targets to young Brazilian striker Yuri Alberto
Arsenal are reportedly interested in trying to push through a deal to sign Internacional striker Yuri Alberto in one of the next two transfer windows. The Gunners are on the lookout for a new striker and have been linked with the likes of Dominic Calvert-Lewin, Jonathan David, Alexander Isak and...
‘Mysterious hut’ captured by Chinese rover stokes conspiracy theories of alien’s habitat on the moon
In an act of sheer lunar-cy, some people reckon there’s an actual alien hut on the surface of the moon. Pictures beamed back to Earth from the Chinese Yutu-2 lunar rover, which currently calls the far side of the moon home, show something mysterious. It’s a cube-shaped structure (or, most...
