Nairobi’s vehicles with modified with ramps and swivel seats are a relief for disabled commuters
Users can book rides through the Ace Mobility app. Drivers are trained as caregivers, ensuring they understand how to provide respectful and appropriate assistance to passengers with disabilities.
Ambani’s Reliance lobbies for India satellite spectrum auction in new clash with Starlink
Reliance, which has dominated India’s telecom sector for years, is concerned that after spending $19 billion in airwave auctions it risks losing broadband customers to Musk, and potentially even data and voice clients later as technology advances, Reuters previously reported.
‘Donald Trump won, we did it’: January 6 rioters think Republican victory is their get-out-of-jail-free card
The atmosphere at “Freedom Corner,” the stretch of pavement outside the DC Jail where January 6 activists have gathered every night for three years for a “vigil,” was jubilant on Wednesday evening. Fellows was in attendance and said that they were popping bottles of champagne. And, as they do every night, leaders of the vigil took calls from January 6-ers from prisons and jails around the country.
Trump domino effect: Republicans widen Senate majority, on track to win House
With control of the Senate, Republicans will be in a position to confirm Trump’s personnel and judicial appointments, although they will still be short of the 60 votes needed to quickly advance most legislation.
Reporter’s diary: Tossed between wars, South Sudanese are soothed by hope amidst misery
Over the past 18 months, I have interviewed dozens of returnees like Gatdet who have fled the bruising battle between Sudan’s army and the South Sudanese returnee from Sudan speaks with a medical worker at a transit centre in the town of Malakal. More than 600,000 South Sudanese have returned home since Sudan’s conflict erupted last year.
Covid Vaccines pose 112,000 per cent greater risk of brain clots, strokes than flu shots
A peer-reviewed study published last week in the International Journal of Innovative Research in Medical Science found reports of 5,137 cases of cerebral thromboembolism after Covid-19 shots over 36 months, compared with 52 reported cases following flu vaccines and 282 cases for all vaccines over the past 34 years.
Ongoing political and security crisis has turned Haiti into hellhole for women, they’re fighting back
Survivors rarely get invited to the policy meetings dedicated to confronting GBV. Bearing witness to their pain and to their exhausting struggle to survive – and committing to take responsive action – should be a true imperative of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women on November 25 and of the subsequent 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence.
Worsening post-election violence in Mozambique forces South Africa to close border again
Protesters in Mozambique, organised by opposition leaders and their supporters disputing the outcome of the October 9 elections that saw the ruling Frelimo party extend its 49-year rule. Police have reportedly fired teargas to disperse protesters in the capital of Maputo.
Democrats say Biden was a burden to Harris campaign, hence VP’s resounding loss to Trump
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Democrats got caught up in a wave of anti-incumbency in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic that upturned governments in democracies around the globe irrespective of ideology. She did not directly respond to questions about criticism that Biden waited too long to bow out.
While US government and civil society push world to elect women, they don’t walk the talk
For the second time in US history, a major party nominated a woman for president and for the second time she lost. Democrat Kamala Harris’ election loss to Republican Donald Trump on Tuesday followed Hillary Clinton’s loss to him in 2016. Reasons for Harris’ loss were many – an Edison...
