President Mohamud promises to wipe out Al Shabaab insurgency in Somalia within a year
Speaking to a crowd at London’s Royal United Services Institute, President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud said African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS) forces are working to eliminate the remaining al-Shabaab fighters in the country, but their efforts are hamstrung by recent flooding.
Reprieve for Meta as Kenyan judge rules Facebook parent company did not breach court orders
A Kenyan judge on Thursday found Facebook’s parent company Meta was not in contempt of court for failing to pay dozens of content moderators that a contractor laid off. Labour judge Mathews Nduma Nderi said Meta did not “deliberately and contemptuously” breach a court order requiring it to pay the...
African currencies in a flux as Kenya’s shilling is forecast to recover marginally, Zambia’s kwacha weakens
Commercial banks quoted the Kenya shilling at 153.20/40 to the US dollar, compared with last Thursday’s closing rate of Kenya shilling 153.15/35.
Spirits giant and Kenya Breweries partner Diageo to offload beer portfolio on margin concerns
Beer sales of 3.36 billion pounds ($4.23 billion) accounted for just over 14 per cent of total sales at Diageo for the year ended June 30, whereas spirits sales contributed a mammoth 81 per cent.
As world worries over fossil fuel carbon emissions scientists now warn factory farming is Africa’s next big challenge
Billions of caged animals in factory farms are subjected to unimaginable cruelty. To stave off diseases which fester in the cramped conditions, they are dosed with antibiotics, fuelling the spike in antimicrobial resistance. Pigs, cattle and chickens are painfully mutilated and are bred to grow fast for profit, suffering debilitating injuries in the process.
Guard the vote: Extremism discerned in Trump phrase’s backstory and why it’s raising concern
Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung said that by “guard the vote,” Trump meant “to stop any instance of voter fraud in areas where fraud happens.” He did not elaborate, and didn’t answer questions about whether the term referred to efforts by Flynn or Mellor.
Israel military takeover south Gaza City, claim they’ve surrounded Hamas leader’s house
Israeli warplanes also bombed targets across the densely populated coastal strip in one of the heaviest phases of the two-month-old war. WAFA, the official Palestinian news agency, said at least 17 were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a house in Maghazi in Central Gaza on Wednesday night
Great Reset: How unelected unaccountable billionaire class is driving domestic and foreign policy in the world
Controligarchs are good at turning a crisis into an opportunity, Bruner said. “The pandemic was the ultimate crisis and the ultimate opportunity.” The controligarchs have the solutions to all their diseases, “which can be quite profitable.”
