Experts: Famine redefinition unlikely to ease assistance mobilisation to Gaza
The IPC famine thresholds require specific assessments: of mortality, of the percentage of households facing an extreme lack of food and of the percentage of malnourished children.
Human suffering in Gaza is immense but hunger watchdog refrains from describing the acute food shortage as famine
Most days, Shay said he treated on average 40 new patients who were admitted to the hospital. Many had severe cases of pneumonia, and several others suffered from meningitis, an illness that can kill in hours. Newborns were often small for their age, he said.
Leaked Trump’s tax returns: Whistleblower Charles Littlejohn at risk of revenge as Biden’s in office winds down
With Biden winding down his time in office, Littlejohn’s advocates, including tax code reformers from the groups Revolving Door Project and Patriotic Millionaires, are worried for the incarcerated IRS consultant. They’re calling on Biden to commute Littlejohn’s sentence before it is too late and he is forced to spend Trump’s second term in prison at risk of retribution.
Street protests resume in Kenya to press for unconditional release of youths abducted by police
Initially aimed at overturning proposed tax hikes, the demonstrations eventually evolved into a movement that cut across Kenya’s traditional ethnic divisions, becoming the biggest threat to the incumbent President William Ruto’s government.
Ugandans are so psychologically beaten that they believe China assembles plastic rice and eggs
One thing is true. If there can be fake rice and fake eggs, there can also be fake water melon, fake Avocado, fake banana, fake mango and fake everything which could find their way into supermarkets and markets as unscrupulous people try to maximise dishonest income from unaware customers. And there are unscrupulous people everywhere on the globe; not only in China.
Role of Russian billionaires that finance chemical factories that fuel Russia’s war machine laid bare
Peter Harrell, a former senior White House official who worked on Russia sanctions during the war’s first year and is now a scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, said perhaps it’s time to review those 2022 decisions now that nations that once relied on Ukraine and Russia for wheat and fertilizer have had time to find alternative sources.
Sacred and the materialities of religion in Uganda: How God finds expression in different cultures and economies
Anthropomorphic (i.e. the attribution of human characteristics or behaviour to a god, animal or object) positions about material cultures, offering relational theories (such as the new animism and the new materialism) that allow indigenous religious materialities to reveal new understandings about the ontological and other potentialities of so-called “things”.
Government critics in Kenya are now an endangered species as human rights groups worry over abductions
In October, nine European envoys raised concerns over enforced disappearances and urged Ruto to ensure justice. The envoys spoke after four Turkish nationals were abducted from Kenya and repatriated despite registering with the UN as asylum seekers, citing threats to their lives back home.
He may have lacked political shrewdness but fallen former US president Jimmy Carter won hearts of many as a humanitarian
Jimmy Carter lived longer than any US president and, after leaving the White House, earned a reputation as a committed humanitarian. He was widely seen as a better former president than he was a president – a status he readily acknowledged.
