Crossdisciplinarity: Kenya’s bungling and bumbling minister needs hands-on-the-deck to drive new education curriculum

Crossdisciplinarity: Kenya’s bungling and bumbling minister needs hands-on-the-deck to drive new education curriculum

The prevailing confusion is so much so that even Education Cabinet Secretary, Prof Ezekiel Machogu, does not seem to understand the aims and objectives of the new education curriculum and how it should be midwifed to producing an all-round professionals capable of fitting in any work environment. CBC lays emphasis on versatility.

Read more
Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia among countries targeted by multilaterals for debt relief for nature conservation

Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia among countries targeted by multilaterals for debt relief for nature conservation

Institutions have until Friday to confirm they will join, but those expected to do so also include the World Bank, European Investment Bank (EIB), Asian Development Bank (ADB), the Beijing-headquartered Asian Infrastructure Development Bank and a number of others, the sources added.

Read more
Burkina’s Faso jihadist conflict worsens as military junta pursues ‘total war’

Burkina’s Faso jihadist conflict worsens as military junta pursues ‘total war’

Burkina Faso’s first homegrown jihadist group was formed in 2016 in the north. Its leader, Malam Ibrahim Dicko, was known for delivering political sermons on how the state had abandoned people, and for critiquing inequality between social classes.

Read more
End of truce: Israel resumes Gaza assault after accusing Hamas of firing rockets into its territory

End of truce: Israel resumes Gaza assault after accusing Hamas of firing rockets into its territory

In Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, a witness said he could hear heavy shelling and see smoke rising in the east of the town. People were fleeing the area to camps in the west of Khan Younis for cover, he added.

Read more
While in other countries environment is the centre-bolt of the economy and governance, it’s peripheral in Uganda

While in other countries environment is the centre-bolt of the economy and governance, it’s peripheral in Uganda

We know that it is the craze for industrialisation, simultaneously with the resurgence and proliferation of the nomadic-pastoral human energy system, that jointly pose the greatest danger to our diverse ecologies and agroecological systems of Uganda. In effect diverse ecologies and agroecological systems of Uganda constitute its environmental governance. If we enhance environmental governance, we automatically enhance the staying power of the diverse ecologies and agroecological systems of Uganda.

Read more
Republicans in a fix: GOP 2024 nomination rules vague on what happens if Trump is convicted

Republicans in a fix: GOP 2024 nomination rules vague on what happens if Trump is convicted

One contingency section of longstanding party rules would allow the RNC to free a state from the rules prior to the convention if “compliance is impossible” and “the Republican National Committee determines that granting such waiver is in the best interests of the Republican Party.”

Read more
How Datar deftly swayed Israel and Hamas to make truce work, allow humanitarian supplies into Gaza

How Datar deftly swayed Israel and Hamas to make truce work, allow humanitarian supplies into Gaza

To remain focused, Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani had cleared his agenda, cancelling planned trips to Moscow and London, the source briefed on the negotiations said.

Read more