Congo president commutes death sentences of three Americans as Trump’s advisor on Africa tours DRC, Kenya and Uganda
US Department of State announced late on Tuesday that President Donald Trump’s new senior advisor for Africa, Massad Boulos, will travel to Congo and three other African countries – Rwanda, Kenya and Uganda – starting April 3.
One of Kenya’s ‘small tribes’ considers fielding two candidates in the 2027 presidential election
Social Congress Party leader Atati Kengere advised the region to be decisive in settling on a single candidate for the presidency. He cautioned the youth to go slow on the issue lest they cause confusion to the embarrassment of the region.
Biosafety Authority rolls out plan to restore Kenyan capital’s greenery and lustre in nationwide campaign
Ngetich emphasised the crucial role played by the authority in ensuring the safe use of modern biotechnology in Kenya and regulating genetically modified organisms to protect human health, animal health and the environment.
African Medicines Regulatory Harmonisation approves listing of human medicines on the continent
The African Medicines Regulatory Harmonisation (AMRH) initiative is a continental programme under the African Union development agency-NEPAD, established to strengthen regulatory systems for medicinal products across Africa. It works to improve access to safe, effective and quality-assured medicines by supporting the alignment of national and regional regulatory frameworks, capacity building, and the establishment of robust oversight mechanisms.
Governor concerned about high pregnancy rate among teenaged girls ‘eating too much forbidden fruit’ in Homa Bay County
Governor Wanga noted that the latest Kenya Health and Demographic Survey (KHDS) shows that the prevalence of teen pregnancies in Homa Bay stands at 33 per cent.
Africa’s 60 per cent fallow agricultural land lures foreign investors, but their dreams end up in smoke
In 2021, the Senegalese village of Niéti Yone welcomed investors Frank Timis and Gora Seck from a US-registered company, African Agriculture. Over cups of sweet green tea, the visitors promised to employ hundreds of locals and, one day, thousands. Timis, originally from Romania, was the majority stakeholder.
France’s Le Pen refuses to bow out of 2027 vote after being convicted of graft and barred from running
Judge Benedicte de Perthuis said Le Pen had been “at the heart” of a scheme to misappropriate more than 4 million euros ($4.3 million) of EU funds and use them to pay the far-right party’s staff back home.
Kenya, FAO unveil $49.5 million climate resilient agriculture project in Lake Victoria Basin Region
With a target of supporting 140,000 farmers including 80,000 cooperative members and 63,000 farmers’ groups, the initiative, aims to build climate resilience and drive the agricultural sector towards a low-carbon, sustainable future.
Largest tax-dodging scheme by Big Pharma: How Pfizer sold $20 billion of drugs to Americans without paying tax in 2019
A recent review by The Lever also found that Big Pharma routinely engages in tax avoidance. In 2022, major US pharmaceutical companies reported over $214 billion in revenue but only $10 billion in profits in the US. Those same companies reported over $171 billion in revenue outside of the US and over $90 billion in profits – but US consumers pay the highest pharmaceutical costs.
Make America Stupid Again: How Trump’s provincialism in education will kill Enlightenment scholarship
Long after Jefferson’s death in 1826, the seeds of Enlightenment ideas had a hard time finding purchase in the rocky soil of American xenophobia and anti-intellectualism. In 1841, the brilliant mathematician James Joseph Sylvester, only 27 years old but already writing papers whose conceptual brilliance astonished the field, was hired by the University of Virginia. As historian Lewis S. Feuer noted, Sylvester was “the first observing Jew to be called to the United States to fill a full professorship in a secular subject.”
