Hospitals in Gaza on brink of collapse as after, power and medicine supplies run out
More than a week after Israel stopped entry of essential supplies, all eyes were on the Rafah crossing between Gaza and Egypt, where trucks carrying aid have waited for days to pass through. Israeli airstrikes last week forced the shutdown of Rafah, Gaza’s only connection to Egypt.
Thrilla in Manila: Women’s financial inclusion is a fight for Sustainable Development Goals
Unlocking women’s economic power and closing the gender gap will not only help us achieve Sustainable Development Goal 5 – which is focused on gender equality – it will also help accelerate progress towards many of the 16 other goals.
Uganda under pressure to implement on World Bank gay safeguards before it resumes funding
World Bank project documents will make it clear that LGBTQ Ugandans should not face discrimination and that staff will not be arrested for including them, Victoria Kwakwa, the bank’s head for eastern and southern Africa, said.
African Medical Centre of Excellence targets world class medical care as it holds meeting
The facility will also provide first-class medical equipment and infrastructure that include PET CT scans, Cyclotrons that will produce nuclear isotopes, Linear Accelerators for radiotherapy, chemotherapy suites, fully equipped modular theatres, HTR/ HDR machines, among many others which are currently not available in sub-Saharan Africa in order to deliver superior quality of diagnostic and specialty services.
Robert F Kennedy Jr dumps Democratic Party, enters race for White House as ‘unpolluted’ independent
Kennedy accused both parties of being beholden to corporate donors, telling the crowd: “How can we guard life when for-profit corporations have captured the public agencies that are supposed to protect us? How can we enjoy liberty when a surveillance state seeks to hide the truth and quash dissent?”
‘Beheaded babies’ report spreads wide and fast, but Israel military won’t confirm it
Attempting to even measure the volume of viral falsehoods currently spreading throughout X has become difficult, if not impossible, due to changes implemented under the new ownership of Musk. “It’s very difficult for academic research teams to gauge the volume question on X at this point because many, including us, no longer have API access,” said DiResta, of the Stanford Internet Observatory.
Big Tech threatened: What Google’s antitrust trial in the US means for search engine dependents
Google’s search engine earned its huge market share by almost instantaneously presenting people with helpful information culled from the billions of websites that have been indexed since former Stanford University graduate students Larry Page and Sergey Brin developed the technology during the late 1990s.
US boosts Middle East firepower as Americans and Israelis discuss President Biden Tel Aviv visit
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken – speaking in Cairo, Egypt, on Sunday after days of Middle East shuttle diplomacy – delivered a blunt message and a veiled warning to US foe Iran: “When it comes to Israel security, we have Israel’s back.”
How Vandals of Uganda captured state, created a slave society where investors trample on workers
It is not surprising that recent scientifically-backed assertions have put the number of mentally deranged Ugandans at 14 million out of a population of 45 million. If one was not reserved in use of words, one would say that this deplorable situation reflects poor governance of the country. A country is its people and resources. Governance that separates people from resources and concentrates on exploiting the resources without any strategy to renew, conserve or distribute them fairly among the people, is failed governance, a result of misgovernance. In this case the people and their communities are taken as roadblocks to progress.
