Trump announces America will run Venezuela ‘until such time that we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition’

Trump announces America will run Venezuela ‘until such time that we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition’

Officials told CBS News and the BBC that Trump ordered airstrikes on various sites in Venezuela. Among the locations struck were the main military base, Fuerte Tiuna, and the main airbase, La Carlota, as well as El Volcán, a signal antenna site, and La Guaira Port, a seaport on the coast of the Caribbean, David Smolansky, a spokesman for Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, told CBS News.

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Glut of young workers: Africa is often seen through the lens of its recent past, not its potential future

Glut of young workers: Africa is often seen through the lens of its recent past, not its potential future

The world economy needs Africa’s economic growth; but it also needs Africa to take a different path than did China. The Asian giant followed the West’s pattern of early industrialization: grow quick and dirty and worry about the consequences later. Driven for years by coal, China’s economic success has also been an environmental disaster.

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Body of Kenyan doctor to be flown back home from South Korea after Kisumu County settles hospital bill

Body of Kenyan doctor to be flown back home from South Korea after Kisumu County settles hospital bill

Dr Rae travelled to South Korea early December as part of a high-level delegation to attend a Smart Cities conference. His interest centred on how artificial intelligence (AI) and digitization could be integrated into Kisumu’s urban services.

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Trump gloats over capture of Venezuela’s Maduro, expected to be tried in US for drug trafficking

Trump gloats over capture of Venezuela’s Maduro, expected to be tried in US for drug trafficking

President Maduro was captured by a team that included elite US Special Forces, including the US Army’s Delta Force, a US official said. Republican US Senator Mike Lee said Secretary of State Marco Rubio had told him Maduro would stand trial on criminal charges in the US and that no further action was anticipated inside Venezuela.

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One of world’s most iconic and oldest elephants dies in Kenya’s Amboseli National Park aged 54

One of world’s most iconic and oldest elephants dies in Kenya’s Amboseli National Park aged 54

In a statement, KWS announced that Craig died on Saturday morning at the age of 54 at Amboseli National park.

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World Bank: Africa’s glut of young workers is not a threat but an extraordinary opportunity upon which prosperity of the world depends

World Bank: Africa’s glut of young workers is not a threat but an extraordinary opportunity upon which prosperity of the world depends

The most recent UN estimates project that Africa’s population, driven by both falling mortality and high fertility, will grow from 1.4 billion today to 2.5 billion by 2050. With China, Japan, Korea and European countries all likely to experience a sharp decline in young workers, the world economy is set to slow sharply unless it receives a productivity boost from the billion young people being added to Africa’s population in the next quarter century. The dynamism of Africa’s youth is central to the future of the global economy.

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How Kenyan MP outperforms fellow legislators, puts country’s ‘happy-go-lucky’ president to shame

How Kenyan MP outperforms fellow legislators, puts country’s ‘happy-go-lucky’ president to shame

He says Kiharu has 112 public primary schools and 65 secondary schools, many built from scratch in past decade during which he has been a member of parliament. He insists that every public primary school classroom is tiled.

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Medic: Apathy following death of Kenyan doctor on official duty abroad exposes state neglect of public servants

Medic: Apathy following death of Kenyan doctor on official duty abroad exposes state neglect of public servants

According to Dr Khama Rogo, only Ksh3 million has been raised and paid through contributions from the Kenya Medical Association (KMA) with the family also making some payment leaving an outstanding balance of Ksh16.7 million that must be cleared for the body to be released.

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Lost decade: Why Raila’s loss of AU chairmanship and death means Africa’s failure to recover from punitive IMF and World Bank economic policies

Lost decade: Why Raila’s loss of AU chairmanship and death means Africa’s failure to recover from punitive IMF and World Bank economic policies

Africa’s heads of states have been emboldened in their transformative campaign by some astonishing turn of economic and political events. In 2023, the IMF forecast that in 2024, the world’s seven fastest growing economies, and 12 of the top 15, would be African. This is a result of many factors, but primarily because the continent’s vast natural and mineral resources have emerged as an indispensable engine of growth for the increasingly hi-tech orientation of industrialised economies.

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Flushing out scientists, on-boarding army: How Museveni ‘drafted’ Uganda’s fisheries, agriculture and livestock industries into wretched military

Flushing out scientists, on-boarding army: How Museveni ‘drafted’ Uganda’s fisheries, agriculture and livestock industries into wretched military

Creation of Operation Wealth Creation (OWC) is a prime example of the militarisation of conservation and the de-institutionalisation of MAAF.

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