Kenyan military deployed to flood ravage regions as East Africa reels under fury of Mother Nature
In neighbouring Tanzania, the death toll from the rains has reached 155, Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa told parliament on Thursday. Hundreds of thousands have had to flee their homes in Burundi. East Africa was hit by record floods during the last rainy season in late 2023. Scientists say climate change is causing more intense and frequent extreme weather events.
Senior Hamas official says group is willing to lay down arms in exchange for Palestinian independence
Speaking to the AP in Istanbul, Al-Hayya said Hamas wants to join the Palestine Liberation Organization, headed by the rival Fatah faction, to form a unified government for Gaza and the West Bank. He said Hamas would accept “a fully sovereign Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and the return of Palestinian refugees in accordance with the international resolutions,” along Israel’s pre-1967 borders.
Kenya’s better diversified sources of dollar revenues to rein inflation as Nigeria, Ghana’s spikes
Inflation in Nigeria is expected to quicken to 29.1 per cent this year from an average of 24.5 per cent last year, before it slows to 17.2 per cent next year. It hit a 28-year high of 33.2 per cent in annual terms last month. Nigeria central bank governor Olayemi Cardoso raised the monetary policy rate by 200 basis points to 24.75 per cent last month after a 400 basis point hike in February.
Heritage sells, which is why most English Premier League clubs won’t leave ‘ancestral’ grounds
In the 20 years since Arsenal began demolishing existing premises on the Ashburton Grove site, there has been an escalation in the prices of core materials. According to figures from the Building Costs Information Service (BCIS), one cubic metre of ready-mix concrete in 2004 cost on average £63. By 2014, it was £98, while today it is £136, a 40 per cent increase in 10 years.
Curse or blessing? Fears that dog English clubs when making decsion to build new stadiums as did Arsenal and Spurs
The geography of the Tottenham Hotspur stadium is one of its many aspects. Much is made of the contrast between a £1 billion stadium and the old council estates it brushes up alongside and Spurs’ former home, White Hart Lane, built 120 years ago, felt more of a fit in that respect. But Martin Cloake of the Tottenham Hotspur Supporters’ Trust is delighted the new stadium is where it is.
Human Rights Watch report accuses Burkina Faso army of killing 223 civilians, including babies
The once-peaceful nation has been ravaged by violence that has pitted jihadis linked to al-Qaeda and the Islamic State group against state-backed forces. Both sides have targeted civilians caught in the middle, displacing more than two million people, of which over half are children. Most attacks go unpunished and unreported in a nation run by a repressive leadership that silences perceived dissidents.
Why Museveni created non-opposition for ethnicising politics and politicising ethnicity in Uganda
It should be remembered that during the burial or Professor Adoniya Tiberondwa, a UPC stalwart, at his home in Bushenyi, General Kahinda Otafiire told mourners who dressed in UPC colours that as combatants, they would wear the red T-shirts and then go on the rampage. At other times, they would wear the uniform of the UNLA, which they had in plenty, since the majority had just walked out of the UNLA. This way the population would be easily hoodwinked to believe that it was UPC youth wingers killing people.
FTC report lays bare how corporate greed puts huge bite on working families who spend most of their income on food
Time and again, big companies tell us that if they could only get bigger, they would pass savings on to consumers. This is almost never true. Instead, they give money back to their investors and reward executives – like Walmart’s Doug McMillon, who takes home over $25 million a year, and Kroger’s Rodney McMullen, who makes more than $19 million. That’s 671 times more than the amount an average Kroger worker makes.
Malaria remains leading killer in Kenya, but prospect of local vaccine production offers hope for patients
Kenya had an estimated five million malaria cases and over 12,000 deaths reported in 2022, according to the World Health Organization. Most of those affected are children under 5 and pregnant women. Kenya continues to combat malaria with traditional methods such as distributing bed nets that are treated with insecticides, spraying breeding areas and promoting prompt diagnosis and treatment, but experts say progress against the disease with those approaches has plateaued.
How political impunity failed justice-building in governance for inclusive development in Uganda
With the passage of time, President Tibuhaburwa Museveni has tended to appoint members of his family and ethnic group to high-ranking offices, which has introduced a high degree of political and other injustices, political careerism, political impunity, political hereditarism and political corruption, hence exclusionism in leadership and governance of the country. The latest, which did not come as a surprise, was the appointment of his son, General Muhoozi Kainerugaba, as the Chief of Defence Forces of the Uganda Peoples Defence Forces (UDPDF). This is the most glaring show of political and military impunity of the president of Uganda
