World Bank: African economies’ growth won’t be strong to dent poverty despite positive forecast
The East African Community region, in contrast, is expected to grow 5.3 per cent this year, due to strong growth in Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. West Africa’s biggest economy, Nigeria, is forecast to grow 3.3 per cent this year, below its long-term average.
Lights go out for Orenthal James Simpson, the Black man who changed American football forever
Nicknamed “The Juice,” Simpson was one of the best and most popular athletes of the late 1960s and 1970s. He overcame childhood infirmity to become an electrifying running back at the University of Southern California and won the Heisman Trophy as college football’s top player. After a record-setting career in the NFL with the Buffalo Bills and San Francisco 49ers, he was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Transition: American football legend and Hollywood icon OJ Simpson ‘returns to the Pavilion’ aged 76
OJ Simpson earned fame, fortune and adulation through football and show business, but his legacy was forever changed by the June 1994 knife slayings of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman in Los Angeles.
Uproar over efficacy of its Covid vaccine forces Moderna to pause plans to build factory in Kenya
The drugmaker said it had taken more than $1 billion in losses and write-downs related to the cancellation of previous orders from Africa.
Death of two migratory ‘super-tuskers’ prompts Kenya to raise red flag over Tanzania’s wildlife hunting
The killing broke an unofficial moratorium on hunting elephants near the Kenyan border. The ban was agreed in 1995 after an outcry over the shooting of four Kenyan elephants on the Tanzanian side in 1994, conservationists said, although the prohibition did not set out detailed regulations.
Sudan civil war: Freight evidence in hands of media proves Iran is supplying military hardware
Six Iranian sources, regional officials and diplomats – who like the army source, asked not to be identified because of the sensitivity of the information – also said the military had acquired Iranian-made unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) over the past few months.
How tax in Uganda is a tool of exploitation, poverty generation, dominance and oppression
Material poverty gets worse if it is dominated by what is called intellectual poverty. When intellectual poverty is allowed to proliferate throughout society from bottom to top and throughout leadership and governance from top to bottom, there is inadequate intellectual capital and power to address the complex issues generated by an impoverished environment, populace, leadership and governance of a country. Everything to do with development, transformation and progress becomes a gigantic lie. Taxes are wasted. Investment in anything does not yield benefits to the taxpayers. Those who are supposed to use the taxes to develop social services and infrastructure target them for personal aggrandisement and/or enrichment.
Freedom of expression: Biden signals he’s ready to end chase for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange
Assange’s wife, Stella Assange, has said the WikiLeaks founder “is being persecuted because he exposed the true cost of war in human lives.” She has said his health continues to deteriorate in prison and she fears he’ll die behind bars.
Once a juggernaut in India’s politics under Nehru and Gandhis, Congress party now trails Modi’s BJP
The BJP’s critics, who say that Modi’s government discriminates against religious minorities such as Muslims and has weaponised law enforcement agencies against political opponents, fear a third term would be corrosive to democracy in the world’s most populous nation.
Ethiopia’s rights body calls for investigation into the killing of a prominent opposition figure
Daniel Bekele, head of the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission, called for “a prompt, impartial and full investigation by both the Oromia regional and Ethiopian federal authorities to hold perpetrators to account.”
