Public diplomacy in Nile Basin: Role of non-state actors in transboundary water cooperation
To-date collaboration or cooperation in the management of the Nile waters has not been as inclusive as it should. Indeed, when the inter-State manager of the Nile waters – Nile Basin Initiative (NBI) – was formed at the end of the 1980s to promote socio-economic development in the Nile Basin, it was a basically political-technical undertaking.
400,000 passport backlog headlines Kenyan minister’s acrimonious falling out with juniors
The cabinet secretary and the NIS senior have in the past been adversely named in the Westgate and Dusit terrorist attacks, but were cleared of criminal offences. The other official said to be behind the parallel passports office was tapped from the diplomatic world and is reportedly building a war-chest to run for a gubernatorial seat in 2027.
Israel vows to block humanitarian flow into Gaza unless all its hostages are freed
Gaza authorities say more than 1,200 people have been killed and more than 5,000 people have been wounded in the bombing. The sole electric power station has been switched off and hospitals are running out of fuel for emergency generators.
US spy agency CIA admits 1953 Iran coup it backed was undemocratic as it revisits Argo rescue
The CIA’s podcast, called “The Langley Files” as its headquarters is based in Langley, Virginia, focused two recent episodes on the story of the six American diplomats’ escape. While hiding at the home of the Canadian ambassador to Iran, a two-man CIA team entered Tehran and helped them fly out of the country while pretending to be members of a crew scouting for a made-up science fiction film.
YouGov poll: Australians to reject Indigenous Voice in referendum
Australia’s Indigenous citizens, about 3.8 per cent of the country’s 26 million population, have inhabited the land for about 60,000 years but are not mentioned in the constitution and track below national averages on most socio-economic measures.
Covid origin: Republican senator Rand Paul promises further revelations that Fauci lied
In February, The Wall Street Journal published a report from the United States Department of Energy (DOE) which determined with a “low confidence” rating that Covid-19 originated from a lab in China.
