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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
New report accuses Tanzania police, courts of complicity in wildlife crimes
In late November 2020, a judgment was made in an appeal case in the High Court of Tanzania at Mtwara, a small port city near the Mozambique border. The appeal was filed by Tanzania’s Director of Public Prosecutions against Mateso Kasian (also known as ‘Chupi’ which means ‘underwear’ in Kiswahili),...
‘Screening of emotions harmful to lives of suspects in criminal investigations’
In an experiment on how determine truth from lies, some volunteers were told to try to blend into the crowd and not look “suspicious,” because people would be trying to identify them. The other half of the group were given a regular cell phone to transport with no instructions to...
Work in progress: Psychologists grapple with how to detect a ‘true lie’
Police thought that 17-year-old Marty Tankleff seemed too calm after finding his mother stabbed to death and his father mortally bludgeoned in the family’s sprawling Long Island home. Authorities didn’t believe his claims of innocence and he spent 17 years in prison for the murders. Yet in another case, detectives...
