Years-old dirt in US spy agency resurfaces as investigation into Capitol insurrection starts
A long-percolating conflict between two prominent alumni of the CIA’s secretive internal watchdog office has burst into public view, creating a headache for the House’s investigation of the January 6 Capitol riot. David Buckley is now the top Democratic staffer on the select committee investigating the insurrection. But 11 years...
Kenya minister Covid warning: If you fall sick today, you will not get a hospital bed
Kenya braces for the fourth wave as hospitals struggle to cope with surge in new Covid cases Hospitals in Kenya are becoming overwhelmed as the East African country witnesses a jump in cases from the Delta variant. Kenya said it is extending a night-time curfew and banning public gatherings and...
Caste barriers scientists from ‘Untouchables’ in India’s top universities must confront every day
In the summer of 1976, 26-year-old Raosaheb Kale entered the School of Life Sciences at New Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University, alongside about 34 other incoming doctoral students. At the time, a committee of teachers at the school would review the students’ records and assign each to a PhD supervisor to...
Unplayed Kenyan derby in 100 years turns searchlight on deep-seated rot in country’s football
The graft-infested Federation Kenya Football has worked itself into an intractable strait after its president Nick Mwendwa slapped hefty punishments on the East African nation’s most successful clubs – AFC Leopards and Gor Mahia – for boycotting a league match to protest non-settlement or delayed payment of prize money. Hours...
Media blackout: Burkina Faso official said ‘women request sex because their husbands had been killed’
Some displaced people in Burkina Faso have expressed fear of sexual abuse and exploitation will be further ignored and marginalised after the national government banned journalists from visiting and reporting on situation in displacement camps. Aid workers say the ban, effective from around last October, was stems from reports in...
Is there really a link between obesity and health problems? Question asked more regularly today
Rising obesity rates have set off alarm bells for years. In 2018, 42 per cent of US adults were obese, up from about 30 per cent two decades earlier, and prevalence is climbing rapidly in other countries, as well. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) defines obesity...
How confusing government messaging landed displaced Burkinabe women into hands of sex predators
Metsi Makhetha, the UN’s highest ranking official in Burkina Faso says the refugee situation in the West African is “getting more complex” and that aid agencies “simply must and will do more” to protect women and girls from sexual exploitation. A senior aid official, whose name is being withheld as...
World Ranger Day: Men and women who braved Covid to keep poachers at bay
One year ago, members of IFAW’s Team Lioness – eight remarkable women who work as Community Wildlife Rangers in the Olgulului-Ololarashi Group Ranch in Kenya’s Amboseli ecosystem – were returning home after four months of Covid-19 quarantine kept them at their posts. The demands of protecting wildlife during a global...
Kenya registers rapid increase in rhino population despite ravages of Covid
A new report on wildlife conservation in Kenya says the country did not experience poaching, which resulted in an 11 per cent increase in rhino numbers from 1441 in 2019 to 1605 in 2020. The pandemic elicited fears of an increase in wildlife poaching as tourist revenues used to pay...
Olympics: Spain pump three past Ivory Coast in extra time to reach soccer semis
Spain ended a 21-year wait to reach the men’s Olympic soccer semi-finals as substitute Rafa Mir scored a hat-trick to secure a 5-2 victory over Ivory Coast in extra time on Saturday. Winger Max Gradel appeared to have secured Ivory Coast’s place in the final four when he made it...
