Climate change forces Kenyan Maasai herders, famous for their culture and love for barbequed beef, to embrace fish
Among the Maasai and other pastoralists in Kenya and wider East Africa – like the Samburu, Somali and Borana – cattle are also a status symbol, a source of wealth and part of key cultural events like marriages as part of dowries.
Recalcitrant China expected to listen more to mineral-rich African countries, give others a short shrift
China unveiled a $60 billion financing package at the 2015 FOCAC and repeated that in 2018. By the summit in Dakar in 2021, Beijing pivoted to trade and investments – a shift largely due to domestic financial pressures, the onset of Covid-19 and a commodities crash that hurt African economies.
Families, rights groups and EU question death of inmates in Congo prison as state promises to build facility prison
The European Union on Wednesday called on Congolese authorities “to quickly shed light on these tragic events in order to establish the various responsibilities, including with regard to respect for human rights and the rule of law.”
Prison looming: Trump’s plea to federal judge to intervene in hush money conviction tossed out
In a four-page ruling, Hellerstein wrote that nothing about the high court’s July 1 ruling affected his previous conclusion that hush money payments at issue in Trump’s case “were private, unofficial acts, outside the bounds of executive authority.”
Kenya private sector business picks up as country puts behind impact of tax protests on economy
In June, President William Ruto discarded the government’s finance bill for the year, which contained tax hikes estimated to be 346 billion shillings ($2.69 billion), following deadly street protests.
Linking Busoga, Buganda and Luhyia kingdoms: East Africa’s most advanced indigenous nations in lacustrine region ravaged by colonialism
The similarities between the Luhyia and Basoga may suggest that there existed a powerful and extensive nation in this part of the Lake Victoria basin that Arabs and white colonialists interfered with, thereby interrupting its political, social and economic transformation and progress, despite the fact that it was part of the Kitara Empire (Kwayera, pers. comm) of the Chwezi. As I will show elsewhere in this treatise, the area was very rich in minerals – both gold and rare earth minerals. In fact, Buganda sub-imperialism benefitted a lot from this wealth.
US-based Climate Rights International urges banks and insurers to withhold funding for Uganda’s oil development
The report is the first of its kind to detail serious allegations against CNOOC, one of a number of partners in the project. Based on dozens of interviews, it cites forced evictions, inadequate or non-existent compensation for land and other assets, coercion and intimidation in land acquisition, loss of livelihood and sexual violence.
Cautious Pope Francis warns against religious extremism during first stop in Muslim-majority Indonesia
Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi told journalists that Francis and Widodo had not spoken specifically about the Israel-Gaza war in their meeting, but more generally about ongoing conflicts and “the importance of peace”.
South Africa: Fake railway engineer handed 15 years in prison, ordered to refund $323,000 salary
Investigators have said there was rampant corruption and mismanagement at some of South Africa’s biggest state-owned businesses between 2009 and 2018. A report last week by a special unit that is investigating high-level corruption said that more than $7 billion may have been lost to graft at some of those state-owned companies, including PRASA.
Criminal justice in Congo tested as 129 die as 12,000 inmates attempt jailbreak to protest inhuman prison conditions
Inmates had increasingly grown frustrated with the poor conditions in the facility, including inadequate beds, poor feeding and poor sanitation. However, authorities failed to act despite warnings, said Cole, president of the local Bill Clinton Peace Foundation, which has in the past visited the prison.
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