Like Yellow Fever certificate before it, it’ll soon be a must to get a Covid passport
Sometime soon, you might arrive at an airport or a stadium or a restaurant, open an app or flash a card, and be admitted to a place or experience that was denied you during the pandemic. You will have just deployed a vaccine passport, a certification of either vaccination status...
Free trade talks: Greens wary US will bully Kenya to unban plastics use
Kenya and the United States are on the verge of resuming free trade talks amid fears that Washington plastic manufacturers through the American Chamber of Commerce (ACC) are piling pressure on their government to compel Nairobi to unban use of plastics. Faced with a tanking economy spiralling unemployment, food shores...
Serious questions raised about how Kenya approved banned killer pesticide
Known for lax implementation of its laws and an overarching thirst for bribes, Kenyan authorities may have signed away the lives and safety of thousands of its citizens after it failed to implement international ban on a deadly weedkiller from global pesticide giant Syngenta and its predecessorcompanies – Imperial Chemical...
Rugby Africa in scrum for gender parity in the sport with new advisory committee
Rugby Africa moved its campaign for gender equality notch higher with the launch on Thursday of Women’s Rugby Advisory Committee (WRAC) and sub-committees that will be charged with the promotion of the sport among women. As part of Rugby Africa’s broader strategy, the role of WRAC and its sub committees...
Rugby Africa: Namibia’s iconic women’s rugby coach Kotze is ‘Unstoppable’
Rugby Africa’s Unstoppable Christel Janet (CJ) Kotze chose the unbeaten path when she followed her father’s footsteps to the helm rugby in Namibia, and now Africa. To her, patience and determination are the ingredients of a personality that has propelled her to the top of a sport that only began...
Most scientists believe Covid spread from animals, some say it’s lab-engineered
After the breakout of coronavirus in Wuhan city, Chinese researchers collected nearly 1,000 samples from the Huanan market in early 2020, swabbing doors, rubbish bins, toilets, stalls that sold vegetables and animals, stray cats and mice. The majority of the samples that tested positive were from stalls that sold seafood,...
WHO report into Covid pandemic origins zeroes in on animal markets, not lab
Markets that sold animals – some dead, some alive – in December 2019 have emerged as a probable source of the coronavirus pandemic in a major investigation organised by the World Health Organization (WHO). That investigation winnowed out alternative hypotheses on when and where the pandemic arose, concluding that the...
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...
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...
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...
