Football: Kenyan-born former South Sudanese refugee Mabil is ‘stronger’ mentally to play again for Australia
Although popular in the dressing room and boasting nine goals from his 33 Socceroos appearances, Awer Mabil battled through a confidence-sapping stint at Spanish club Cadiz in 2022-23 where he barely played before being loaned off to Sparta Prague.
Presidential candidates in US skirt around medical marijuana fearing voter reprisal
Former President Donald Trump, the Republican nominee, signalled support for a Florida legalisation measure on Saturday, following earlier comments that he increasingly agrees that people shouldn’t be jailed for the drug now legal in multiple states, “whether that’s a good thing or a bad thing.”
Hispanic voters give Harris edge on healthcare, climate as Trump’s lead on economy is shrinks
Voter sympathies could shift between now and Election Day and it remains to be seen which, if any, blocs of voters will turn out in droves. Experts say predicting the Hispanic vote is particularly hard in 2024 because Hispanic voters skew younger than the rest of the electorate, so a larger share are first time voters.
Conflict, creditors and a car crash: How Ukraine clinched a wartime debt restructuring
Eclipsed in scale only by Argentina and Greece, the restructuring of more than $20 billion of debt will save Kyiv $11.4 billion over the next three years – crucial for both its ongoing war effort and its International Monetary Fund programme.
Trump: ‘Whoever heard you get indicted for interfering with a presidential election where you have every right to do it?’
Trump’s supporters stormed the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, in an unsuccessful attempt to prevent Congress from certifying the 2020 election results after weeks of false claims by Trump that he had won.
Demoralised Kenyan police contigent in Haiti questions salary delays, slow equipment delivery
While the United States has contributed $369 million in money, equipment and services, a UN fund only has about $68 million, leaving it over $150 million short of the estimated $589 million needed for the first year’s operations.
Disempowerment: How postcolonial regimes turned Basoga, Baganda in Uganda and Luhyia in Kenya into serfs
Most writings on Busoga have created the impression that there was no Busoga before about 300 years ago. But Busoga is a water rich area with a large part of Lake Victoria within its territory, and the source of the longest river in the world – the Nile – which is mentioned in the Old Testament of the Bible (Amos 8:8: Will not the land tremble for this, and all who live in it mourn? The whole land will rise like the Nile; it will be stirred up and then sink like the river of Egypt.) has its source in Busoga. It is important to ask: Why should such an area at the source of the Nile not have a prehistory but Egypt at the mouth of the Nile has a prehistory?
Director of Public Prosecutions says Kenya wanted in US for killing girlfriend has been extradited
The preliminary investigation showed Mbitu had left her workplace and travelled with Kang’ethe to Lowell, Massachusetts, where he lived, the prosecution in Kenya said during the extradition case hearing.
Ugandan marathon runner Cheptegui burnt after being doused with petrol by boyfriend
The 33-year-old Rebecca Cheptegui, who finished 44th in Paris, has a house in Kenya where she stays when she trains in the country.
