Kenya private sector activity steadies in April as inflation continues to dip – PMI data
Kenya’s inflation rate fell for the third month in a row in April to 5.0 per cent year-on-year from 5.7 per cent in March, data from the statistics office showed.
Judge fines Trump $1,000 for contempt of court, warns he risks jail if breaks gag order again
Justice Juan Merchan said the nine $1,000 fines he had imposed so far did not seem to be deterring the wealthy business mogul from violating the order, which bars him from making public comments about jurors, witnesses and families of the judge and prosecutors if the statements are meant to interfere with the case.
Kenya’s prime cabinet secretary in protocol crosshairs again as he’s perceived to be kowtowing to junior minister
Since his appointment to the strategic position in government nearly two years ago, Mudavadi has had a few run-ins in the executive with his peers who are reportedly determined to whittle down his clout in the presidency. The row after the Monday meeting is the third time prime cabinet secretary is a having a bad run with his colleagues in government.
World Press Freedom Day: While media laws are made by rulers to tame media, it’s time for robust East African journalism curricula to protect environment
Usually, the governmental actors create economies that favour their narrow political, economic and social choices and gains, which end up complicating the environmental crisis. The solution the propose and apply to ameliorate the crisis become the new environmental challenges, problems and issues for which there is no prior experience by humanity.
Israel vows military operation in ‘very near future’ after Hamas rejected latest ceasefire offer in Cairo talks
Israel didn’t send a delegation to the latest talks. Egyptian state media reported that the Hamas delegation went for discussions in Qatar, where the group has a political office, and will return to Cairo for further negotiations on Tuesday.
Trump labels Biden’s government a ‘Gestapo’ administration’ that’s clipping his wings
The Gestapo was the secret police force of the Third Reich that squelched political opposition generally and, specifically, targeted Jewish people for arrest during the Holocaust. Trump’s unfounded comparison to Nazi-era tactics comes as he denies and tries to deflect from the charges against him – most notably his effort to overturn Biden’s 2020 victory, before a mob of Trump supporters attacked the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
South Sudan bows to pressure, waives new taxes that led to suspension of UN food airdrops
An estimated nine million people out of 12.5 million people in South Sudan need protection and humanitarian assistance, according to the UN. The country has also seen an increase in the number of people fleeing the war in neighbouring Sudan between the rival military and paramilitary forces, further complicating humanitarian assistance to those affected by the internal conflict.
Barons behind the brands: Money, power, povery and the corruption of America’s food industry
Being from rural Iowa and witnessing the 1980s Farm Crisis take hold of my family and neighbours, “Barons” takes a long overdue stand for the farm community of my youth. It’s a painful loss knowing that today’s industrial food system rises from the ashes of America’s family farms. And it is no accident.
Stripped of privacy and personal autonomy, global elites are now pushing us into ‘techno-totalitarianism’
McCollough called these entities “a group of very powerful controligarchs … who are trying to put in place techno-totalitarianism” and are “stripping the middle class of all of its assets, all of its resources, pushing us down into what is basically a serf class.”
Schools near Nairobi’s Dandora dumpsite plant bamboo to purify air, cope with vulture menace
Students hope the bamboo will help transform the school compound into a green haven in the litter-strewn Dandora neighbourhood. The publicly funded school relies on donations to afford the seedlings that retail at 400 Kenyan shillings ($3) each.
