Pope Francis may have endorsed same-gender unions in response to five conservative cardinals
The five cardinals, all of them conservative prelates from Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas, had challenged Francis to affirm church teaching on gays, women’s ordination, the authority of the pope and other issues in their letter.
Trump rails against New York attorney general as he’s accused of pocketing $100m via fraud
Trump’s election campaign used the start of the trial for fundraising, saying he was defending his family and reputation from New York Democrats it called “corrupt tyrants.” The case concerns accusations by the attorney general that Trump inflated his assets and his own net worth from 2011 to 2021 to obtain favourable bank loans and lower insurance premiums.
Private profit, social cost: Why governments are accused of complicity in Covid vaccine crimes
The protection against liability is not only in place for the initial vaccine formulation, but for “any or all related strains, mutations, modifications or derivatives of the foregoing that are procured by purchaser.”
How Nairobi’s upmarket Kilimani estate became world’s alluring host of contraband ‘gold embassies’
Police have red-flagged Kilimani and its environs as a sprawling crime scene that also hosts State House and the city’s “honourable” police stations – Kilimani, Kileleshwa, Muthangari and Upper Hill – where white collar criminals, international drug traffickers and gold smugglers prefer to be detained during arrest.
Modern knowledge: Unions, conventional wisdom and bureaucracy doomed in Uganda
Although we live in a world environment in which 95 per cent of the time is wasted (e.g, Peters, 1992) and resistance to change is a known vice, subserved by all sorts of conventional wisdom, it is no longer guaranteed that one can go on wasting time or resisting change using popular conventional wisdom like in the past.
Impact of ultrasound in pregnancy: Wellbeing Foundation Africa and GE HealthCare team up for change
According to the World Health Organization, the Maternal Mortality Rate in Nigeria in 2017, was estimated at 917 per 100,000 live births; it increased by nearly 14 per cent in 2020 to reach 1,047 deaths two with evidence suggesting that the increase in rates is due to three common signs of delay: in making the decision to seek maternal healthcare, in locating and arriving at a medical facility, and in receiving skilled pregnancy care when a woman gets to the health facility.
Kenya hospital first in Africa to join global alliance against heart and kidney diseases
The hospital says it has set its focus on the following centres of excellence: cardiovascular, cancer and transplant, maternal and child-health, and ambulatory surgical care. This is achieved through a multi-disciplinary approach using various specialists.
Six CIA whistleblowers received ‘significant financial incentives’ to buy their silence on Covid leaking from Chinese lab
A joint letter from the subcommittee and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Mike Turner (Republican-Ohio), sent September 12 to CIA Director William Burns, outlined the testimony of a “multi-decade, senior-level, current agency officer” alleging six of the seven analysts investigating the Covid-19 origins were given a “significant monetary incentive to change their position.”
Drug maker Johnson & Johnson hit by 11,000 more lawsuits linking baby powder to cancer
That price is a little over three times the $26 per dose the federal government paid for the last updated booster, which was exclusively distributed by the government. The price hike marks the vaccine’s move from federal distribution to the commercial market. Moderna and rival manufacturer Pfizer raised the US list price of their Covid-19 vaccines by roughly 400 per cent. (Moderna’s is listed at $128 and Pfizer’s is $115).
Why allegations that Rwanda President Paul Kagame took part in bank robberies in Uganda have never been investigated
It is true that the small ethnic group that the rulers of Rwanda and Uganda belong to has continued to dominate employment opportunities in every sector of the economy. They also dominate business, the army, police, prisons and different paramilitary groups, intelligence and even administrative jobs such as those of resident district commissioners (RDCs) and permanent secretaries.
