How President Museveni’s Rwandan Tutsi origins power apartheid-style governance in Uganda
Segregation in education began to take root as soon as President Tibuhaburwa Museveni enforced Universal Primary Education (UPE) in 1997, followed by Universal Secondary Education (USE), without corresponding efficient equipping of the schools with necessary materials, or just salaries for teachers. Teachers have to engage in multiple types of work to make ends meet. Both UPE and USE are very poorly funded.
Doctors now doubt accuracy of BMI as prime indicator of obesity and healthy living
In 1972, American physiologist Ancel Keys examined several height-weight indices and found that Quetelet’s was the best predictor of the thickness of body fat. He renamed it the body-mass index and proposed that it was a better indicator of healthy body size than were the height-weight tables commonly used at the time.
World Economic Forum calls for collective action to fight misinformation, disinformation
The “Stop Addictive Feeds Exploitation (SAFE) for Kids Act” would limit what New York officials say are the harmful and addictive features of social media for children. The act would allow users under 18 and their parents to opt out of receiving feeds driven by algorithms designed to harness users’ personal data to keep them on the platforms for as long as possible.
Israeli military pulverise Gaza with airstrikes as humanitarian crisis worsens, death toll rises
As the latest Israel-Hamas war reaches its sixth day, the Israeli military pulverised the Gaza Strip with airstrikes, prepared for a possible ground invasion and said Thursday its complete siege would remain in place until the Hamas militants that rule the territory freed some 150 hostages taken during a grisly...
Public diplomacy in Nile Basin: Role of non-state actors in transboundary water cooperation
To-date collaboration or cooperation in the management of the Nile waters has not been as inclusive as it should. Indeed, when the inter-State manager of the Nile waters – Nile Basin Initiative (NBI) – was formed at the end of the 1980s to promote socio-economic development in the Nile Basin, it was a basically political-technical undertaking.
400,000 passport backlog headlines Kenyan minister’s acrimonious falling out with juniors
The cabinet secretary and the NIS senior have in the past been adversely named in the Westgate and Dusit terrorist attacks, but were cleared of criminal offences. The other official said to be behind the parallel passports office was tapped from the diplomatic world and is reportedly building a war-chest to run for a gubernatorial seat in 2027.
Israel vows to block humanitarian flow into Gaza unless all its hostages are freed
Gaza authorities say more than 1,200 people have been killed and more than 5,000 people have been wounded in the bombing. The sole electric power station has been switched off and hospitals are running out of fuel for emergency generators.
US spy agency CIA admits 1953 Iran coup it backed was undemocratic as it revisits Argo rescue
The CIA’s podcast, called “The Langley Files” as its headquarters is based in Langley, Virginia, focused two recent episodes on the story of the six American diplomats’ escape. While hiding at the home of the Canadian ambassador to Iran, a two-man CIA team entered Tehran and helped them fly out of the country while pretending to be members of a crew scouting for a made-up science fiction film.
YouGov poll: Australians to reject Indigenous Voice in referendum
Australia’s Indigenous citizens, about 3.8 per cent of the country’s 26 million population, have inhabited the land for about 60,000 years but are not mentioned in the constitution and track below national averages on most socio-economic measures.
Covid origin: Republican senator Rand Paul promises further revelations that Fauci lied
In February, The Wall Street Journal published a report from the United States Department of Energy (DOE) which determined with a “low confidence” rating that Covid-19 originated from a lab in China.
