Why aid industry has to review its Somalia strategy: Beyond funding, it’s to relook at how the system works
Famine once again threatens Somalia. In the rush to respond, we risk missing a bigger lesson – the need to reform an aid system that prioritises short-term relief over protecting people’s livelihoods and restoring their dignity. Right now, more than seven million people are going hungry, with over 365,000 children...
To play a like lion and live a like a king, Lionel Messi made huge demands Barcelona couldn’t offer
Lionel Messi’s Barcelona contract demands from 2020 have reportedly been leaked. And among the alleged wishes from his failed deal are a private jet – plus VIP boxes for his and Luis Suarez’s families. Messi, 35, sensationally left Barca after 21 years in the summer of 2021 when his contract...
Donald Trump faces serious fraud charges over financial fiddling, theft of White House classified records
Donald Trump and three of his children have been hit by fraud lawsuit after New York investigation into family business, which uncovered massive financial fiddling as an avenue to securing hefty loan facilities from financial institutiions. Consequently, the attorney general of New York state has filed on Wednesday civil lawsuit...
Wafula Buke: Shrewd strategist and ideologue Kenya’s Raila Odinga ignored, then lost 2022 polls
In the aftermath of Kenya political stalwart Raila Odinga losing a presidential election for the fifth time, political commentator Edwin Shivakale Skem took time to reflect on where the rain began beating the Azimio la Umoja – One Kenya Alliance flagbearer. The absence of former political detainee and University of...
Perseverance Rover drills sedimentary rocks on dead lakebed on Mars, cores to come to Earth in 2033
Since July, NASA’s Perseverance rover has drilled and collected four slim cores of sedimentary rock, formed in what was once a lake on Mars. They are the first of this type of rock to be gathered on another world — and scientists are excited because at least two of the...
Biden to host music legend Elton John at White House in ‘Night When Hope and History Rhyme’ concert
The White House will become a concert venue Friday evening when Elton John performs. The event is called “A Night When Hope and History Rhyme,” a reference to a poem by Seamus Heaney that President Joe Biden often quotes. The concert comes just a few days after Sir Elton John...
Ukraine invasion: No soft decision as US company Pepsi stops soda production in Russia
PepsiCo Inc has stopped making Pepsi, 7UP and Mountain Dew in Russia nearly six months after the US company said it would suspend sales and production after Moscow sent tens of thousands of troops into Ukraine. Pepsi’s announcement came after reporters visited dozens of supermarkets, retailers and gyms in Moscow...
Equatorial Guinea latest African country to ban death penalty after pressure from civil society
Equatorial Guinea has abolished the death penalty, state television announced on Monday citing a new law signed by President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo. The president’s son who serves as one of the country’s vice-presidents lauded the move he called “historic” on Twitter. The last official execution in the small country...
Engineers get closer to building surgical robots that can independently operate on patients
In 2004, the United States’ Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) dangled a $1 million prize for any group that could design an autonomous car that could drive itself through 142 miles of rough terrain from Barstow, California, to Primm, Nevada. Thirteen years later, the Department of Defence announced another...
Europa League: 12 Man United players and staff suffer food poisoning in Maldova after playing Sherrif
Manchester United players and staff have suffered food poisoning with up to 12 feeling unwell, according to reports. The news follows United’s 2-0 Europa League victory at Moldovan side FC Sheriff on Thursday and has seen a handful of players miss training as a result. Erik ten Hag’s side are...
