Elders in terror-prone northeastern Kenya meet to evaluate ethnic relations in fragile region rocked by clan hostilities
In the coming days, the elders plan to launch a community sensitisation campaign and a peace caravan led by religious leaders (ulamaa) to spread messages of reconciliation and unity. There will also be a coordinated effort to mobilize support for the safe return of displaced persons to their homes and villages.
Health workers blast Nairobi Governor Sakaja as a joker, carefree and ignorant after failing to end three-month-long clinical officers’ strike
Speaking during a press briefing in Nairobi, KUCO National Chair Peterson Wachira expressed deep concern over what he termed as the ‘carefree attitude’ of the county government in addressing the ongoing healthcare inactivity.
While Africa has been vital to development of HIV medication, Trump’s funding cuts to UN threatens vaccine research
Significant advances have included clinical trials for lenacapavir, the world’s only twice-a-year shot to prevent HIV, recently approved for use by the US Food and Drug Administration. One study to show its efficacy involved young South Africans.
At 92 and in power for 43 years, Cameroon’s President Paul Biya says his best years are ahead as he seeks eighth term
In a region threatened with shrinking democratic space, several other African countries also have presidents accused of using state mechanisms to prolong their stay in power. Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni recently sought nomination for a seventh term, a move that would bring him closer to five decades in power in the East African country.
Sporting CP rebel, goal-poacher Gyokeres, has his way after Arsenal agree $74.2 million deal
Viktor Gyokeres would be Arsenal’s fourth signing of the summer window after midfielders Martin Zubimendi and Christian Norgaard joined from Real Sociedad and Brentford respectively and goalkeeper Kepa Arrizabalaga arrived from Chelsea. The club have also agreed a deal for Chelsea winger Noni Madueke.
Nigerians remember former President Buhari, who died on Sunday aged 83 as a divisive dictator and democrat
Former President Muhammadu Buhari, first took power in Africa’s most populous nation in 1983, after a military coup, running an authoritarian regime until fellow soldiers ousted him less than 20 months later. When he was elected in 2015 on his fourth attempt, he became the first opposition candidate to win a presidential election there.
Fate and future of public intellectuals in Uganda: Country needs literati capable of critical thinking, not the current ‘intellectually modified’ frauds
In most, if not all universities in Uganda in particular and Africa in general not is the field of Futures Studies absent, but the new systems of knowledge production are decades away to be accepted on the campuses.
Museveni beware: Public distrust in authority has led to significant rise of charlatans as ‘thought leaders’ in Uganda
The marketplace of ideas model remains faithfully wedded to a neoclassical view that depends on a perfectly costless and efficient exchange of ideas, but also remains vulnerable. Blocher, by addressing the “economic” objections to the marketplace metaphor, attempted to better describe, explain God and rehabilitate the marketplace of ideas.
Homa Bay County in Lake Victoria Basin launches half marathon to promote Ruma National Park tourism, protect rare antelope
The Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS)’s official Kennedy Ochieng said the event will enhance conservation of the roan antelope. He said the roan antelopes sometimes suffer environmental challenges that are being addressed.
How digital democratisation of intellectualism makes it easier for Ugandan thought leaders to ventilate in face of repression and subjugation
Winick has recently explained the difference between a thought leaders and Philosophers. Philosophers think deep thoughts about ideas. Thought leaders lead in converting an idea into reality. The ability to take your ideas, create content and shape products that help others solve their toughest problems is at the heart of thought leadership – and so is market viability.
