ICC Appeals Chamber upholds 30-year jail term for former DRC rebel leader

ICC Appeals Chamber upholds 30-year jail term for former DRC rebel leader

The Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Court has upheld the decision by Trial Chamber VI of July 8, 2019 found Bosco Ntaganda guilty of 18 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity. Consequently, Mr Ntaganda will serve 30 years imprisonment as had been decided by the Trial Chamber...

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Covid: Fraud in US sky high as glitchy computer systems cave in to criminals

Covid: Fraud in US sky high as glitchy computer systems cave in to criminals

 Throughout the Covid crisis, unemployment programmes have served as a lifeline, channelling more than $650 billion over the past year to millions of struggling households. But the state-run agencies that distribute the funds have been overwhelmed, making their harried staff as well as their glitchy computer systems easy prey for...

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Terrorism: Mozambique crisis to get worse by June without international intervention

Terrorism: Mozambique crisis to get worse by June without international intervention

The threat to Mozambique isn’t just about gas. It isn’t just about money or security or power or territorial integrity. The conflict in Cabo Delgado is wrecking people’s lives on a vast scale. More than 700,000 people have already fled their homes in northern Mozambique and the count is still...

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Mozambique in need of urgent support to overcome terrorists and restore hope

Mozambique in need of urgent support to overcome terrorists and restore hope

“You may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I’ll rise”. Maya Angelou was so right. These profound words do ring true today when we look at the recent cowardly attacks by terrorists on defenceless Mozambicans. There’s so much at stake in Mozambique, where the separatist militia known...

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Kenya granted full membership of Canada-Africa Chamber of Business

Kenya granted full membership of Canada-Africa Chamber of Business

Kenya announced today announced that it had joined the Canada-Africa Chamber of Business as a full member of the 27-year-old organisation. The announcement was made by the East African nation’s Charge d’Affaires at the Kenya High Commission in Ottawa Stephen Lorete. The chamber of business was founded almost here decades...

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Kenya’s maritime, railway hubs now likely nodes and magnets for Chinese illicit trade

Kenya’s maritime, railway hubs now likely nodes and magnets for Chinese illicit trade

Kenya is the focal point in Africa for China’s New Silk Road project that is expected to create terrestrial and maritime trade and commerce networks that link African, European and Asian countries. And danger looms, experts warn. From sounding initially as grandiose and unachievable when it was mooted nearly a...

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Gifted researchers worry about their outstanding work at UK universities

Gifted researchers worry about their outstanding work at UK universities

A university in the United Kingdom is facing criticism over the responsible use of research metrics after it used information about scientists’ research income and publication records to identify dozens of jobs that are ‘at risk’. Critics say that using metrics in such a decision is inappropriate because they tend...

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Covid: Pefa Church cleric huffs and puffs at Kenya’s ‘careless’ President Kenyatta

Covid: Pefa Church cleric huffs and puffs at Kenya’s ‘careless’ President Kenyatta

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta and opposition leadership have come under stinging criticism for putting their love for power and money above of the safety and basic needs of millions of Kenyans grappling with the devastating effects of coronavirus pandemic. On a weekend that saw thousands of travelling Kenyans caught off-guard...

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How sex creates variation: Mix and match that results in the next generation

How sex creates variation: Mix and match that results in the next generation

Some lizard species do without males altogether. Scientists are studying these all-female species to see what they might reveal about the pros and cons of sex. But asexual reproduction comes with its own problems, as evolutionary biologist Sonal Singhal of California State University, Dominguez Hills, and her colleagues describe in...

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Biologists’ sex puzzle: You have to find a mate and it takes resources to get one

Biologists’ sex puzzle: You have to find a mate and it takes resources to get one

Many organisms dedicate their entire adult lives to finding a mate and producing offspring. The rhythms of sex govern the actions and choices of so many animals that it seems to be a rule of biology: Sex is important. But life’s multifariousness yields some exceptions. A small percentage of animals...

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