Dire straits: Uncertainty in money markets forces Kenya to focus funding strategy on concessional loans
On Monday the World Bank said it foresaw $12 billion of financial support to Kenya over the next three years. The IMF last week reached a staff-level agreement with Kenya, unlocking access to a $682 million funding tranche and boosting its lending programme by $938 million.
Big Oil lobbyists sabotage plastics treaty talks in Nairobi as environmentalists warn of surge in pollution
Lobbyists for the fossil fuel and petrochemical sectors – which have been pressuring negotiators to oppose a deal that limits plastics production – made their presence felt during the third round of plastics treaty talks since last year when nations agreed to develop a binding plastics treaty by 2024.
NBA Africa’s first original basketball documentary series Born & Bred premieres on NBA
The first two episodes were available since November 21, 2023. Basketball Chose Me featuring Chinyelu will be available free on the NBA App. Dunk at First Sight featuring Neto and the remainder of the series will be available exclusively via NBA League Pass, the league’s premium live game subscription service. The final three episodes will be available weekly beginning Monday, November 27.
New report based on UK government data shows teenagers are dying of cancer at ‘explosive’ rates
Breast cancer dominates in women. The most common cause of fatal cancer in women, ages 15-44, is breast cancer, representing about 25 per cent of the total excess death rate caused by malignant tumours in women in 2022. The next most dangerous cancers for women, based on excess death rates, were colon cancer and cancer of the cervix uteri.
Trump sustains tradition of cavorting with autocrats as he lavishes Argentina’s new president with praise
Rising populism and anger at the perceived establishment could shape not just next year’s US presidential election, but votes across the world. The United Kingdom, Mexico, India, Pakistan and Taiwan are all expected to vote on new leaders in 2024.
Israel, Hamas to free hostages in instalments, pause fighting to allow humanitarian aid into Gaza
Hamas said the 50 hostages would be released in exchange for 150 Palestinian women and children who are held in Israeli jails. The truce deal will also allow hundreds of trucks of humanitarian, medical and fuel aid to enter Gaza, the Palestinian group said in a statement.
New probe questions why Data Analytical Services has never been subjected to congressional oversight
The scale of the data available to and routinely searched for the benefit of law enforcement under the Hemisphere Project is stunning in its scope. One law enforcement official described the Hemisphere Project as “AT&T’s Super Search Engine” and … “Google on Steroids,” according to emails released by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) under the Freedom of Information Act.
Revealed: How for 10 years US presidents funded shadowing project that allows cops access to trillions of phone records
There is no law requiring AT&T to store decades’ worth of Americans’ call records for law enforcement purposes. Documents reviewed by Wired show that AT&T officials have attended law enforcement conferences in Texas as recently as 2018 to train police officials on how best to utilize AT&T’s voluntary, albeit revenue-generating, assistance.
