Kate, princess of Wales, announces return to public duties after completing chemotherapy
The princess, who has acknowledged that she has good days and bad days while undergoing treatment, last appeared in public for the men’s final at Wimbledon in July. She appeared moved by the standing ovation she received.
It’s likely ancient civilisation of humanity began at the source of River Nile in Busoga, Uganda, not Egypt
Indigenous peoples are and regard themselves as guardians and stewards of nature. Moreover, they invariably recognise linkages between health, diet, properties of different foods and medicinal plants, and horticultural/natural resources management practices – all within a highly articulated cosmological /social context (Hugh-Jones, 1999; Posey, 1999). The Basoga, therefore, should be seen in this light is vis-à-vis Budhagali falls. The Falls were a critical element in what can be called the sacred balance of the Basoga with nature.
Kenya finance minister John Mbadi says government will seek public views on laws to fix economy
Mbadi, who initially said he would revive some tax hikes in the abandoned finance bill before rowing back after a public outcry, ruled out the restructuring of the country’s debt.
Pope Francis arrives in East Timor where half of nation’s citizens are expected to attend Mass on Tuesday
East Timor, a half-island nation north of Australia, gained independence from Indonesia in 2002, after a brutal, decades-long occupation. Francis is the second pope to visit, following John Paul II, who came in 1989, in a trip that gave the country’s independence movement an historic boost.
Out of school for two years, Gazan children eke out a living by crushing rubble used to build new graves
Humanitarian workers say the extended deprivation of education threatens long-term damage to Gaza’s children. Younger children suffer in their cognitive, social and emotional development and older children are at greater risk of being pulled into work or early marriage, said Tess Ingram, regional spokesperson for UNICEF, the United Nations agency for children.
Investment in Uganda is euphemism for thievery as presidents Museveni and Kagame chaperon the looters
Uganda’s new generation of materialistic leadership is today dominated by people who spent five years in the bush (1981-86) robbing banks, cooperative unions, et cetera. They are now brazenly looting Uganda’s natural resources and depleting the national treasury by allocating taxpayers’ money to themselves and to preferred so-called investors who are predominantly foreigners from India and China.
