Deal reached to pause fighting in Gaza for five days as death toll from Israeli airstrikes crosses 12,300
Under the agreement, all parties would freeze combat operations for at least five days while 50 or more hostages are released in groups every 24 hours, the Post reported. Hamas took about 240 hostages during its October 7 rampage inside Israel that killed 1,200 people.
Uganda can no longer afford disorder to reign in public transport, Iganga Municipality should lead redemption
When I asked Chairman Nalugoda what plans he had to improve the utility of the park and make it just a bus park, he told me, “My management team is almost helpless. Higher authorities must develop a proper plan for the park. The municipality is expanding and will need a properly constructed park. If they want they could move the park elsewhere and leave their current space for businesses.
Every dog has its day! Snoop Dogg won’t be puffing and huffing weed, wants fans not to dog him
Asking for privacy, hip-hop legend and longtime marijuana enthusiast Snoop Dogg says he’s going to stop smoking – although he didn’t specify exactly what that might mean. “After much consideration and conversation with my family, I’ve decided to give up smoke,” Snoop wrote in a message shared on Instagram and...
Israel orders Palestinians who fled attacks on Gaza City to move again as airstrikes kills 32
Al Shifa has been a primary target of Israel’s ground advance, with its military saying that the hospital sits above a vast underground Hamas bunker. Hamas and hospital staff say this is false and that Israel’s findings there have so far established no such thing.
Bus passengers in Kenyan coastal city cling on rope to wade through chest-high rain water
Heavy rains followed by flash floods have submerged towns across East Africa, rendering hundreds of thousands of people homeless.
East African universities should be centres of innovation and creativity, not dogmatic thinking
Galileo Galilei deplored the academic practice of his professors of always hyping Aristotle, Hippocrates and Galen as the unchallengeable authorities in the academia. It was taboo to question those three authorities in the academia. They were the beginning and end of knowledge. Galileo wanted to hear the voices of his professors reflecting their own thoughts, not those of ancient thinkers.
Africa Fertiliser Financing Mechanism commits $2m to support 100,000 smallholder farmers in Kenya
The fertiliser market’s leading players include importers, blenders, and the Kenyan government, which runs a fertiliser subsidy programme. In 2021, Kenya imported 758,000 tonnes of chemical fertilisers. Kenyan farmers pay $35 for a 50 kilogramme fertiliser bag.
Wuhan Cover-Up: Anthony Fauci, Bill Gates are the frontmen for military-medical-industrial complex
A powerful syndicate, composed of government public health technocrats, a rapacious pharmaceutical industry, military and intelligence officials, and media and social media titans, appropriated awesome new powers to override constitutional and civil rights, censor information, suppress dissent and engineer compliance with arbitrary diktats.
Biden averts government shutdown after signing spending bill but aid for Israel, Ukraine stalls
The House voted to prevent a government shutdown. Without enough GOP support, new Speaker Mike Johnson had to rely on Democrats. President Biden, meanwhile, has been at the APEC Summit in San Francisco this week to refocus on Asia.
Israeli PM says efforts to minimise civilian casualties hampered by Hamas fighters
Hamas said in a statement late on Thursday that claims by the Pentagon and US State Department that the group uses Al Shifa for military purposes “is a repetition of a blatantly false narrative, demonstrated by the weak and ridiculous performances of the occupation army spokesman.”