KWS: Eight buffaloes in Kenya electrocuted after walking into low-lying power lines
Conservationists have in the past raised alarm over the risk of wild animals being electrocuted by power lines.
Russian Wagner mercenaries mutate into beasts that are raping women in Central African Republic with abandon
A local fighter who works with Wagner asserted that he saw six of the Russians rape a local woman in the tent where he was sleeping at their base in Bambari in early 2023. He said the Russians give women canned food like sardines or bottled water afterward. He spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisal. The Russian government didn’t respond to questions.
At least a dozen killed, some 20,000 people displaced by floods in Kenya as wet season sets in
The East African country has seen thousands of people killed by flooding in previous rainy seasons, mostly in the lake regions and downstream of major rivers.
Uganda: Where poverty and opulence coexist uneasily and NRM hawks use them as raw material to oppress the citizenry
The kind of oppressive attitudes and behaviours are backed up by the institutional arrangements. This helps to clarify the confusion around what some claim to be “reverse racism”.
Resources war: Sudan conflict is a case of military orchestras conducted by foreign interests
The influence of outside players has loomed over events in Sudan since the overthrow of former leader Omar al-Bashir during a popular uprising five years ago.
Woman who stabbed classmate to please Slender Man ordered to remain in psychiatric hospital
Morgan Geyser pleaded guilty to attempted first-degree intentional homicide and was sent to the psychiatric institute because of mental illness. She was initially diagnosed with schizophrenia spectrum disorder but has been off antipsychotic medications since 2022 with no new symptoms, said Dr Ken Robbins.
Biden faces Herculean hurdle in retaining Muslim vote in US poll and ending Gaza bloodbath
The highest-profile example of the stonewalling came last week when a Palestinian American doctor walked out of a meeting with Biden. But interviews with Muslim and Arab American leaders reveal how that face-to-face protest was only the most conspicuous case of a fracture that has damaged crucial relationships and closed avenues needed to repair them.
Iran’s response to Israeli attack on embassy in Syria guided by ‘saving face without losing its head’
A source familiar with US intelligence was not aware of the message conveyed via Oman but said Iran has “been very clear” that its response to the attack on its Damascus embassy compound would be “controlled” and “non-escalatory” and planned “to use regional proxies to launch a number of attacks on Israel.”
Ten years after Chibok and 100 girls still held, Nigerian families cope with trauma of more school kidnappings
Unlike the Islamic extremists that staged the Chibok kidnappings, the deadly criminal gangs terrorising villages in northwestern Nigeria are mostly former herdsmen who were in conflict with farming host communities, according to authorities. Aided by arms smuggled through Nigeria’s porous borders, they operate with no centralised leadership structure and launch attacks driven mostly by economic motive.
