Covid19 is not airborne: The 60-year-old scientific screwup that helped coronavirus kill
Early one morning, linsey Marr tiptoed to her dining room table, slipped on a headset and fired up Zoom. On her computer screen, dozens of familiar faces began to appear. She also saw a few people she didn’t know, including Maria Van Kerkhove, the World Health Organization’s technical lead for...
Basketball Africa League and Flutterwave strike a multiyear partnership
The Basketball Africa League (BAL) announced on Sunday a multiyear partnership with Flutterwave that makes the payments technology company an associate partner of the BAL. The inaugural BAL season kicked off on Sunday at the Kigali Arena in Kigali, Rwanda, with 12 teams from across Africa competing in the new...
Can plasma transfusions slow down or ‘eliminate’ aging? Scientists disagree
Many age-elevated factors have been identified, but finding drugs for each one is a challenge. Plasma dilution, by comparison, knocks them all down – and others as yet unknown – in one fell swoop. The Conboys, together with blood specialist Dobri Kiprov from the California Pacific Medical Centre in San...
Covid: Overstretched Kenya scrambles for oxygen as incidents of India-like cases rise
At the peak of Kenya’s third wave of Covid-19 in March, hospitals – buckling under the strain of the virus – saw their oxygen reserves fizzle out. Since then, they have been scrambling to increase capacity of the lifesaving element, fearing the nightmare scenario currently unfolding in India due to...
Lawyer to Kenya president: Your government is a polished idea to steal, enjoy
I am a Kenyan citizen and resident taxpayer who, alongside forty-eight million of my fellow citizens, has watched with utter dismay and increasing frustration as your government has run the affairs of our land with criminal negligence thereby placing in great jeopardy not just our present fortunes but our children’s...
Why has Kenya president obscured details of $3.8 billion railway contract with China?
As you are aware, in May 2014, the government of Kenya signed a $3.8 billion contract with China Roads and Bridges Corporation (CRBC) for the construction of the standard gauge railway from Mombasa to Nairobi and on to Naivasha. According to news reports, 85 per cent of the construction cost...
Delaying a Covid vaccine’s second dose boosts immune response, research finds
Facing a limited vaccine supply, the United Kingdom embarked on a bold public-health experiment at the end of 2020: delaying second doses of Covid-19 vaccines in a bid to maximise the number of people who would be at least partially protected from hospitalisation and death. Now, a study suggests that...
Indictment: Kenya’s president faces uneasy future with a bolder, progressive judiciary
After years of being reduced to the marionettes by the executive, Kenya’s judiciary is finally taking bold steps to reclaim its powers and mandate that have been emasculated by the executive. On Thursday, the High Court asserted itself when it trashed a constitutional amendment spearheaded by President Uhuru Kenyatta and...
Cameroon updates its 2021 tax scheme to promote innovative ICT start-ups
Over the past decade, information technologies (IT) have revolutionised the way people and businesses carry out their daily activities worldwide. There is abundant evidence that the upsurge of technology has been a major contributor to fundamental economic change, notably the growth in global production and the distribution of intangible goods...
New-look Basketball Africa League unveils broadcast partners, says matches to be live
After decades of being hooked on the National Basketball Association (NBA) league of the USA, the African version of the sport is set to kick off this weekend with 12 clubs from 12 countries involved in the inaugural phase of the Basketball Africa League (BAL). The Basketball Africa League comes...
