US considers Kenyan police to lead international war against Haiti’s violent sex and drug gangs
Kenya’s interest was announced on Saturday, with its foreign minister saying his government has “accepted to positively consider” leading a force in Haiti and sending 1,000 police officers to train the Haitian National Police, “restore normalcy” and protect strategic installations.
Bank of England raises interest rates for 14th time in a row to pile pressure on mortgage holders
The Bank of England’s announcement comes after both the European Central Bank and the US Federal Reserve hiked up respective interest rates to two-decade highs this week, with both institutions opting for a quarter-point increase amid global efforts to quell inflation.
Unholy clergy: Pope Francis blasts sex scandal-riddled Catholic Church in Portugal as he meets abuse survivors
The Vatican said Francis met with 13 abuse victims for more than an hour at the Vatican Embassy and characterised the pope’s role in the meeting as one of “intense listening.” The victims were accompanied by church personnel in charge of child protection programmes.
Trump ignored advisors, helped organise fake slates of electors, knowingly pushed lies to throw out poll results – indictment
Trump and his allies knowingly pushed those lies as part of a campaign to pressure state and federal officials to throw out the election results, prosecutors said, culminating in a mob of Trump supporters storming the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, in a failed bid to stop Congress from certifying Biden’s victory.
Africa: There is need to rethink teaching; the greatest teachers like Jesus Christ, Socrates, Albert Einstein, etc, had no degrees
It is common these days to come across learners complaining, like Galileo did more than 450 years ago, that their teachers and professors do not put their own thinking and ideas in their teaching; that they regurgitate writings of others, which they coerce them to reproduce in examinations to earn grades and/or degrees. While the situation is not too bad in the West, it is becoming serious in poor countries such as Uganda where knowledge workers now find it a burden to read and write and/or what they write are reproductions of the minds of their lecturers and professors.
