Betting intellectual power for academic capital: A walk in shadows of Uganda’s lost generation under Museveni
Ultimately, employment of the education enterprise is based on technical know-how, not professionalism. People who are employed on the basis of technical knowhow are constrained by lack of necessary skills. They have no capacity to implement anything professionally.
Dilemma reigns in GOP after two states bar Trump from primaries amid domino effect fears
Trump is already being prosecuted for the attempt to overturn his 2020 loss that culminated with January 6, but Section 3 doesn’t require a criminal conviction to take effect. Dozens of lawsuits have been filed to disqualify Trump, claiming he engaged in insurrection on January 6 and is no longer qualified to run for office.
Market analysts forecast oil prices to end year 10 per cent lower as demand concerns snap winning streak
Prices had surged to this year-high in September after the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and their allies agreed to cut production, triggering fears that demand was potentially higher than supply.
African Union troops exit from Somalia continues with handover of Qorilow base to national army
This was the fifth military facility handed over as part of the second phase of the ATMIS troop drawdown.
Piracy off Somali coast is on the on the rebound, but a full scale return is unlikely, experts say
Following previous threats, local authorities, experts and organisations tracking piracy globally warned that Somali pirates retained the capacity to launch attacks. This is also the current assessment of the International Maritime Bureau’s Piracy Reporting Centre, which acts to suppress piracy and armed robbery at sea.
Darfur genocide: Ethnic Masalit survivors tell how Sudan’s Arab army commanders hunted them down yelling, ‘slaves we’ll kill you’
Violence flared anew in early November. Hundreds of Masalit men were rounded up by Arab forces, according to dozens of survivors. Some of these captives were executed in the outlying Ardamata district of El Geneina, according to at least 30 witnesses.
When Sudan’s army commanders waged war on Masalit tribe, they raped women and slit children’s throats, then killed men
Survivors identified several other key players who led RSF and militia operations in the city: Idriss Hassan, a former RSF commander of West Darfur and currently a senior RSF officer; Massar Aseel, a top Arab tribal leader; the deputy of the slain governor, Al Tijani Karshoum; Arab militia leader Moussa Angir; and a militiaman known as Marfaeen, or “the Hyena.”
Failed state: Irony of Uganda being $12 trillion rich in gold but proud to export slave labour to Middle East
In any case behind every problem is the problem of leadership and, by extension, governance. The decisions the leaders and governors take or do not take, the choices in governance that the governors prefer to apply in governing a country and its resources (human and non-human); how they govern ecological-environmental systems on which all other systems depend for their structures, functionalities and futurities; and the administrative styles and practices
Questions raised over Del Monte pineapple farm as Kenya Police probe murder of 4 villagers
Del Monte said at the time it had initiated investigations, supported by an independent review by a specialist human rights consultancy.
Scientists: Monkeypox flare up in Congo via sex worries WHO, raises stigma risk against gay men
WHO officials said they identified the first sexually transmitted cases of the more severe type of mpox in Congo last December, shortly after a resident of Belgium who “identified himself as a man who has sexual relations with other men” arrived in Kinshasa, the Congolese capital. The UN health agency said five other people who had sexual contact with the man later became infected with mpox.
