Hopes fade COP28 will yield agreement during this year’s UN climate talks in Dubai
Aside from Norway, Europe’s biggest oil and gas producer, excluding Russia, this position is also backed by western producers the United States and Canada, the 27-country European Union, climate-vulnerable small island states, some African nations including Kenya and Ethiopia, and Latin American countries Chile and Colombia.
Dress code: Texas high school sends Black student back to in-school suspension over dreadlocks
George’s family has filed a formal complaint with the Texas Education Agency and a federal civil rights lawsuit against the state’s governor and attorney general along with the school district, alleging they failed to enforce the new law outlawing discrimination based on hairstyles.
Dollar-thirsty Kenya announces $1 billion Chinese loan to be used to offset maturing Eurobond
The loan was first announced by Kenyan authorities in October, marking a shift in the government of President William Ruto’s stance on Chinese lending after criticising the loans during last year’s election campaign.
Curse of palm oil farming: IFAD, World Bank may have given nod to thieves in Uganda to steal all land in the east, north
In summary the government of Uganda and IFAD, most likely with the backing of World Bank, want to establish oil palm growing over the whole of northern Uganda and most of eastern Uganda. Virtually all Ugandans are unaware of this creeping thief that will take all the land, destroy all the trees, interfere with the water cycle, displace them from their land and turn them into internal refugees and a cheap labour force that can be easily hired and fired. The leaders in the two regions must wake up. They too will be victims of the gigantic land grab.
Biden tells donors he’d not be on the ballot ‘if Trump wasn’t running’ and ‘we can’t let him win’
November was the campaign’s strongest grassroots fundraising month since Biden formally announced last April that he was seeking a second term, according to a campaign official who insisted on anonymity to discuss campaign finances before details are made public. The numbers will be released in January.
Central Bank of Kenya tries to intervene to stabilise weakening currency with huge base rate hike
Inflation dipped to 6.8 per cent year-on-year in November from 6.9 per cent in October, with the central bank saying on Tuesday that exchange rate depreciation had contributed about 3.0 percentage points to the November reading.
Does God really exist? Divinity forms centrepiece of Theory of Creation and Theory of Evolution
You will have noticed that most of the people supporting to the existence and realism of God are not from the Arts or Social Sciences but the Natural sciences fields. It marvels that scientists who would otherwise deny the existence of God are the ones convinced that God exists without experiments!
