Sunak’s stillborn refugee diplomacy: Rivals term UK’s Rwanda migrant plan ‘Alice in Wonderland adventure’
After taking office in October 2022, UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak made the plan to send migrants who arrived in Britain without permission to the East African nation one of his flagship policies, saying it would put an end to thousands of asylum seekers coming on small boats across the Channel.
Coming to America: Low-paid humans behind AI’s data in Kenya petition Biden to free them from ‘modern day slavery’ as President Ruto visits US
On Wednesday, 97 African workers who do AI training work or online content moderation for companies like Meta and OpenAI published an open letter to President Joe Biden, demanding that US tech companies stop “systemically abusing and exploiting African workers.”
VP Harris announces during Kenya’s President Ruto’s US tour plans to raise internet access in Africa by 80 per cent
Africa has struggled to receive the capital needed to build up its industrial and technological sectors. The United Nations reported last year that foreign direct investment in the continent fell to $45 billion in 2022, from a record high $80 billion in 2021.
‘There was a group of us for cooking, cleaning or marry the Al Shabaab bosses and if you looked like a monkey they killed you’
Our job [during captivity] was to find food and water for them. If you refused you were punished or killed. They were also forcing women to have sex, and when they were pregnant, they were taking babies out of their bellies.
Al Shabaab to raped Mozambican women: ‘There is no food for monkeys and dogs, you are not a person to us’
Hundreds – and possibly thousands – of women and girls have been kidnapped by the group known locally as al-Shabab (“the youth” in Arabic), which began a rebellion in the gas-rich Cabo Delgado province in 2017. Many of them have been forcibly married and repeatedly raped in military camps.
US House given details of how White House top officials scrambled to hide sensitive emails of how America funded Wuhan to develop Covid
The committee may recommend that the US Department of Justice investigate Morens for making false statements, a crime in violation of Title 18 US Code Section 1001. The testimony follows revelations last week that Morens stated he would delete any “smoking guns” implicating a connection between Daszak’s organisation and the Covid-19 pandemic.
Biden, Kenya’s President Ruto vow to defend democracy and rule of law in Africa and beyond
On Thursday evening, Ruto was the guest of honour at a lavish state dinner that drew a wide range of guests, from singer-songwriter Don McLean to NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, the CEOs of Walmart and Pfizer as well as former President Bill Clinton. Former President Barack Obama, whose father was Kenyan, made a brief appearance before the meal.
As ICJ rules on Rafah offensive, Tel Aviv has vowed ‘no power on Earth will stop Israel from protecting its citizens’
Rulings by the International Court of Justice (ICJ), also known as the World Court, are final and binding, but have been ignored in the past. The court has no enforcement powers.
Scientists attribute adverse impact of recent torrential rains in East Africa to climate change, rapid urbanisation
The downpours caused floods that killed hundreds of people, displaced thousands of others, killed thousands of livestock and destroyed thousands of acres of crops in Kenya, Tanzania, Somalia, Malawi, Mozambique and Zambia.
