Here’s why Uganda and Africa need leadership that gives environmental development priority
There are aeroplanes too that can go thousands of feet out of the Earthly environment into outer space with people and goods, but like the high-flying birds that come back to feed and reproduce themselves, they must come down to deliver people and goods to their destinations, fuel and take others. According to Smithsonian Magazine dated July 17, 1962, American test pilot Robert White took the X-15 to an altitude of 314,688 feet (95.916902 metres). But it is Russian pilot Alexandr Fedotov who holds the world altitude record set on August 31, 1977, when his MiG E-266M reached 37,650 metres. He went and came back to our environment.
Fear rises planned affirmative action and student loan cancellation by US Supreme Court will roll back racial progress in higher education
Now, both affirmative action and the student loan cancellation plan – policies that disproportionately help Black students – could soon be dismantled by the US Supreme Court. To Green and many other people of colour, the efforts to roll them back reflect a larger backlash to racial progress in higher education.
Environment: Why it’s critical to align African politics and economic growth with cultural, moral, spiritual, ecological probity
Development is wholesome when the various dimensions of environmental development are given equal weight and integrated to achieve integrated environmental development. It is an abuse of environmental development if one aspect – in this case economic development – is pursued at the expense of the other types of development.
Overloaded Nigeria boat accident kills 50 people returning from wedding in neighbouring Niger
It was not immediately clear how many people were in the boat, but Kwara state government in a statement said the people were from five villages and rescue efforts for possible survivors were still underway.
Trump’s showmanship elicits more attention than the felony charges he denied in Florida court
The whirling drama surrounding Trump overshadowed most other news on Tuesday. His GOP presidential rivals largely refrained from any campaign events of their own. One Republican competitor, Vivek Ramaswamy, sought to capitalise on the spectacle by showing up outside the courthouse to tell reporters that he was encouraging other 2024 candidates to commit to pardoning Trump if elected to the White House.
18 months to South Sudan’s first ever elections, world’s youngest nation still has no constitution
Implementation of the peace agreement has been sluggish. The elections, originally scheduled for this year, were postponed until December 2024. Other key elements of the deal have not been implemented, sparking concern that the country could see a return to war instead of a transfer of power.
US slams brakes on online appointments for asylum-seekers at Texas border crossing after extortion reports
Several asylum-seekers say Mexican officials in Nuevo Laredo, across the border from Laredo, Texas, had threatened to hold them and make them miss their scheduled asylum appointments unless they paid them. Humanitarian groups in Laredo say they had recently warned CBP of the problems and that certain groups were controlling access to the international crossing on the Mexican side.
Russian army pound Ukraine President Zelensky home town overnight, kill 6 and injure 7
The devastation in President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s hometown is the latest bloodshed in Russia’s war in Ukraine, which began in February 2022, as Ukrainian forces are mounting counteroffensive operations using Western-supplied firepower to try to drive out the Russians.
Support for ex-US President Trump among Republicans remains high despite criminal charges he faces
Trump, who turns 77 on Wednesday, touched down in Miami at 2:54pm (1854 GMT) in a private jet with his name emblazoned on the side. Supporters gathered outside a nearby golf club he owns, where he was due to stay the night.
Civil war in Sudan turns searchlight on role of Russia and China in months-old bloodbath
Sudan shows how Russia and China’s approaches to Africa differ. Sudan received billions in loans and investment from China to facilitate oil production and economic development throughout the 2000s. Russia is a longstanding security partner of Sudan and is keen to set up a naval base in Port Sudan. Both countries sell arms and sent peacekeepers to at least one UN mission.
