Police fire teargas, water cannons at tax protesters in Nairobi as demos sweep Kenya
Protesters say the tax rises will hurt the economy and raise the cost of living for Kenyans who are already struggling to make ends meet. A parliamentary panel urged the government on Tuesday to scrap some new taxes proposed in its finance bill, including new ones on car ownership, bread, cooking oil and financial transactions. The panel also recommended that a fuel tax towards road maintenance be increased.
India lays out plans for increased trade and medical technology cooperation with Kenya
Rohit Vadhwana revealed that very soon of some of the biggest hospitals in India would set base in Kenya triggering more investments of the Asian country. He said there was need for a roundtable between Kenya and India to explore more areas business cooperation particularly in the healthcare sector noting that India was the largest investor in Kenya and a systemic approach would enhance trade between the two countries.
My beef with Uganda’s ‘educated fools’: University professors steal and thievery thrives in highest institutions of learning
If we are to be effective in dealing with the educated looters and/or educated thieves, we must embrace Bet Kamya’s (IGG’s) or Singapore’s successful method of fighting corruption: the Life Style Approach, which matches legitimate income to the riches of the educated looter or educated thief. Later will be too late. Anything else may relapse into pettifoggery in the courtrooms, with most educated looters and educated thieves cleared of any wrong doing even if there is overwhelming evidence that what they have is not commensurate with their legitimate income, and must have been accumulated only by taking what is not theirs by virtue of their offices.
Conflict-related sexual violence is the only crime for which society is more apt to blame victims than perpetrators
It’s very hard to talk about the actual prevalence of conflict-related sexual violence. Just to give you one example, last year in my report to the Secretary-General, I highlighted less than 1,000 cases in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) for 2022. When I saw the data from UNICEF talking about 32,000 cases and the UN sexual and reproductive health agency, UNFPA, with 38,000 cases for the same year, I really panicked. So, I had to go to the DRC to update my data and to explain the context, the security and access challenges faced in documenting these cases.
Palestinian medics report Israeli tanks pushing deeper into Rafah, where they killed eight people
Israeli forces have laid waste to much of Gaza and seized most of the Palestinian territory but have yet to achieve Israel’s stated goal of wiping out Hamas and freeing Israeli hostages. Medics and Hamas media said eight Palestinians were killed in Al-Mawasi and many families fled north in panic. They did not identify the fatalities, and the Israeli military said it was looking into the report.
Cyril Ramaphosa is sworn in for second and last term as South African president
Dignitaries attending the inauguration included King Mswati III of Eswatini, Nigeria President Bola Tinubu, Zimbabwe President Emerson Mnangagwa and former Kenya Prime Minister Raila Odinga.
Sudan accuses UAE of fuelling war with weapons to paramilitary rivals, but the Gulf state denies allegations
Sudanese Ambassador Al-Harith Mohamed accused the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces of “destructively launching” its war with the Sudanese military and attacking civilians, aided by weapons from the UAE.
How rigid asylum rules and inhuman handling of migrants are pushing people north to UK
Europe’s increasingly strict asylum rules, growing xenophobia and hostile treatment of migrants were pushing them north. While the UK government has been hostile, too, many migrants have family or friends in the UK and a perception they will have more opportunities there.
Success and failure are never strange bedfellows, they coexist and are often mutually exclusive
In 1983-1985, while waiting to defend my MSc thesis in zoology (the Biology of Conservation) at the University of Nairobi, Kenya, I taught at Jinja Senior Secondary School at both O-and A-level. Some of the students I taught were Katumba-Wamala, Paul Kagame, Sudhir Ruperalia and Hirji. Since Jinja Senior Secondary School was the largest school in Uganda then, many young people interacted with me in school and are performing different functions in different station of life. I cannot remember all of them. If some of them read this article, let them contact me. They are all a measure of my success at that school.
Immigrants without legal status on verge of getting US citizenship under new Biden plan
About 50,000 noncitizen children with parents who are married to US citizen could also potentially qualify for the process, according to senior administration officials who briefed reporters on the condition of anonymity.
