Cardinal Robert Prevost becomes first American to be elected pope, to be called Pope Leo XIV
Who is Robert Prevost? The former pope, Francis, brought Prevost to the Vatican in 2023 to serve as the powerful head of the office that vets bishop nominations from around the world, one of the most important jobs in the Catholic Church. As a result, Prevost has a prominence going into the conclave that few other cardinals had.
Beauty and the Beast: Kenya battles poisonous cosmetics as women constitute burgeoning market
According to the KEBS website, some of the skin lightening products include Jaribu Skin Lightening Lotion, Amira Skin Lightening Lotion, A3 Cleartouch Complexion Lotion, Fair White Body Clearing Milk and Precieux Treatment Beauty Lotion, Movate, Jaribu, Rico, Miki, Mekako, Tura, Fair lady, and Jambo.
Some 120 vultures die after eating carcass of elephant poisoned by poachers in South Africa’s flagship national park
The Kruger National Park covers approximately 20,000 square kilometres (7,722 square miles) and is nearly twice the size of small countries like Jamaica and Qatar.
Kakamega governor swears-in public service board but questions linger about Kenya’s once cleanest town
Residents expressed relief following the appointment and swearing-in of the Kakamega County Public Service Board and hope it will speedily restore the image of the town once associated with gold-mining, indigenous culture and large-scale sugarcane farming.
Environment in Uganda is the theatre where leaders trade indigenous rights for cheap Chinese and Indian toys
The 1995 Constitution, designed by the very group of people in power today strategically places all the natural resources of Uganda in the singular hands of the President Tibuhaburwa Museveni, who has several times stated that what matters today are interests, not identities (of the indigenous groups of Ugandans. The interests are political, military, economic, financial, as well as the use of these to dominate and conquer the indigenes well in the future.
Trusting Museveni with environment is suicidal, Ugandans must reclaim institution of president and civic power over it
In pursuit of its environmentally unconscious decisions and actions in the total environment of Uganda, power has frequently ignored the constitutional boundaries between the Executive, the Legislature and the Judiciary, with dire environmental consequences in all the dimensions of the environment: ecological-biological, socioeconomic, sociocultural and temporal.
‘Shoe-missile’ attack on President Ruto in Migori now linked to sibling rivalry among Kuria clans
According to the local politics, the Bakira and the Bugumbe clans have never enjoyed cordial relationship since time immemorial, with the later, where the current members of parliaments (MP) Mathews Robi comes from seen to be always holding senior government positions and high profile political seats at the expense of the Bakira clan.
Study finds adults exposed to chemicals used in food packaging, cosmetics and printed receipts suffer memory loss and cognitive decline
Using data from nearly 900 US adults with an average age of 69, researchers found that combined exposure to phenols, parabens and especially phthalates (PAEs) was linked to lower scores on standard tests of brain function, particularly among men.
