Democrats target college football games to pummel Donald Trump and his conservative Project 2025
A large portion of Saturday’s game crowds, meanwhile, may support Trump. Many college football fans hail from rural, more Republican areas, well beyond the confines of reliably Democratic college towns.
Kenyan pathologists, morticians start identifying bodies of pupils who died in school dormitory fire
Eighteen boys aged between 10 and 14 are known to have died and 27 were hospitalised after the Thursday night fire at Hillside Endarasha Primary school, but 70 others are still unaccounted-for.
Chwezi and witchcraft: Why Ugandans fear Museveni and Kagame are keen on Tutsi political hegemony in East Africa
Currently, encouraged by the fact that power in Uganda is dominated by people of Tutsi/Hima extraction, the Tutsi wield the real power in the country. Many are local council leaders at all levels of administration, resident district commissioners, institutional leaders and even represent Ugandans at local and parliamentary levels. Others sit on the bench of judges while many hold ministerial positions. Many are definitely holding big positions in the Uganda armed forces, including prisons. This means that the best paid people in Uganda tend to belong to the same ethnicity. It is more or less the same people fuelling corruption in the country.
South African minister implicated in $112 million bank heist denies corruption allegations
Justice Minister Thembi Simelane was only appointed to her position in June in the country’s newly-formed government of national unity, after the former ruling African National Congress party lost its parliamentary majority in the May 29 election.
China reluctant to commit to debt relief sought by Africa but pledges $58 billion support over three years
During those peak years, Beijing bankrolled the construction of roads, railways and bridges. But a drying up of funds since 2019 has left Africa with stalled construction projects.
Trump struggles as Kamala Harris is endorsed by 90 company CEOs, 100 law enforcement officials
Laurene Powell Jobs, head of the Emerson Collective and widow of former Apple CEO Steve Jobs, also endorsed Harris, as did the former chief executives of Merck, Aetna, GoDaddy, Blackstone and Starbucks, among others.
Murdered Ugandan athlete Cheptegei earns place in Olympics folklore as Paris names sports venue in her honour
Cheptegei is the third prominent sportswoman to be killed in Kenya since October 2021. Kenyan Sports Minister Kipchumba Murkomen described Cheptegei’s death as a loss “to the entire region”.
UN Security Council plans to extend Kenyan-led MSS mission in Haiti, commute it to peacekeeping
The UN Secuirity Council would have to eventually vote on a separate resolution if they want to formally transition the mission into a formal UN peacekeeping operation in Haiti. Such a move would ensure funding for the mission.
A Michigan judge who insulted gays and described Black people as lazy dumped
In the phone recordings, Ryan uses an anti-gay slur against David Coulter, the county’s highest elected official, who is gay. She also referred to Blacks in the US as lazy.
Two astronauts are left behind in space as Boeing’s troubled capsule returns to Earth empty
Boeing insisted after extensive testing that Starliner was safe to bring the two home, but NASA disagreed and booked a flight with SpaceX instead. Their SpaceX ride won’t launch until the end of this month, which means they’ll be up there until February – more than eight months after blasting off on what should have been a quick trip.
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