Employees top list of fraudsters in business in sub-Saharan Africa, research firm finds
The greatest threat to business in Sub-Sahara today is the employees, research findings released by international research and data firm SNG Thornton, show. Employees, who are often underpaid, overworked and undervalued are the fault-lines through which businesses and companies make losses in the form of money, data or squandered man-hours....
As world wobbles under Covid weight, computer vision syndrome hits
There’s no way around it: Since the pandemic began, people around the world, of all ages, are spending lots more time looking at screens. This is particularly true for children, as many schools shifted from the classroom to the computer. A survey conducted by Ipsos and the Global Myopia Awareness...
Needed: Global drive to set agenda for 2b people for ‘minimally adequate toilets’
Since the sixth century BC, when the Romans began building their Cloaca Maxima (Greatest Sewer), a safe sewage system has epitomised civilisation. More than two millennia later, one Victorian novelist called a good sewer “nobler” and “holier” than the most admired Madonna ever painted. For sound reasons: the construction of...
Faced with crowded schedule Kenya Rugby Union wants relief from rigid Covid orders
Kenya Rugby Union wants the sports in general and rugby in particular spared stiff lockdown and curfew regulations to enable national teams, clubs and players to prepare for local and international assignments. The appeal to President Uhuru Kenyatta is informed by fears that the country, which is preparing for Tokyo...
President Biden removes sanctions against ICC, opens doors for possible cooperation
US President Joe Biden’s cancellation of punitive sanctions targeting the International Criminal Court (ICC) removes a serious obstacle to the court’s providing justice to the victims of the world’s worst crimes, Human Rights Watch has said. In the first week of April, Biden revoked a June 2020 order by then-President...
Kenyan and Ugandan truckdrivers boycott South Sudan roads to protest killings
South Sudan is bracing for a sharp rise in consumer goods prices after more than 3,000 drivers from Kenya and Uganda went on strike to protest spiralling insecurity on roads that link the frontier town of Nimule to the capital Juba, and towns further north. The protest follows a spate...
Science espionage: China in a corner as US ‘varsities tighten rules on research
The US government is converging on a long-awaited set of rules designed to protect American science from theft by foreign spies. A series of announcements this year describe steps that US universities and researchers must take when reporting foreign financing and collaborations to US science funders. But university groups say...
English is big and baggy, a good language of science, but precision is tough
English is the international language of science, for better or for worse, but most of the world’s scientists speak it as a second language. We shoulder an extra career challenge: not only must we gain command of our science, but we must also be able to write to professional standards...
World journalists’ body wants Kenya to hasten probe into murder of editor
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) wants the Kenya government to hasten investigations into the brutal murder of a senior video editor and television producer with the Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC) Betty Mutekhele Barasa. Ms Batty Barasa was assaulted and shot dead at her home on the outskirts of the...
Kenyan filmmakers, artistes pile pressure on president to relax rigid Covid protocols
Rendered helpless and idle by the recent rigid Covid-19 containment measures, stakeholders in Kenya’s entertainment and hospitality industries want the government through the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Youth to bail out artistes and film-makers who depend on them for a living. In a statement, Kisima Music and Film Awards,...
