African peace mission: One step forward in geopolitics, one step back in laying bare its underbelly?
The presence of the outgoing and current African Union chairs, Macky Sall (Senegal) and Azali Assoumani (Comoros), added political weight and legitimacy. And while the regional spread of the African states involved is commendable, why was a broader constellation of African interests not pursued?
US President Biden looks to boost reelection numbers by signing order that grants right to abortion
Biden’s executive order aims to strengthen access to contraception, a growing concern for Democrats after some conservatives have signalled a willingness to push beyond abortion into regulation of contraception. In 2017, nearly 65 perc cent or 46.9 million of the 72.2 million girls and women age 15 to 49 in the US used a form of contraception.
Over 22,533 lactating Tigrayan women part of 20 million Ethiopians hit by USAID/WFP food aid pause
Samre is a farming community, but the war between the federal government and the rebel Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) not only forced more than 1.8 million people from their homes, but upturned years of investment in agricultural development, the mainstay of the Tigray economy.
Bigmanity: How consumptive politics feed sterile love for money, stokes violence in Uganda and Africa
Often, where there is Bigmanity, money is pursued as a culture over and above traditional cultures. It is a sterile culture of money. The culture of money in Big Man-run countries is always dirty. Money is dirty when it is sterile. Money is sterile when it is unfairly appropriated. This could be during budgeting when excessively huge monies are appropriated in ways that end up satisfying the big man’s wishes and choices that may have little to do with the country and its people. This explains why big men tend to become stinkingly rich after they have stayed in power for a very long time.
Why Republicans are pushing to impeach US President Biden for ‘high crimes and misdemeanours’
During Thursday’s debate, Republicans were admonished multiple times by the presiding officer to tone down their remarks. Democrats argued that the case against Biden made a mockery of the seriousness of impeachment and was merely an attempt to distract from the twice-impeached Trump, the former Republican president now indicted for hording classified documents under the Espionage Act.
Titanic submersible destroyed in ‘catastrophic implosion’ and killed all five passengers aboard
Even before the Coast Guard’s press conference, OceanGate issued a statement saying there were no survivors among the five men aboard the Titan, including the company’s founder and chief executive officer, Stockton Rush, who was piloting the Titan. The four others were British billionaire and explorer Hamish Harding, 58; Pakistani-born businessman Shahzada Dawood, 48, and his 19-year-old son, Suleman, both British citizens; and French oceanographer and renowned Titanic expert Paul-Henri Nargeolet, 77, who had visited the wreck dozens of times.
