How rare earth metal heats up and cools down tensions in corridors of US, China’s aerospace industry
Although a late-October meeting in South Korea between Chinese president Xi Jinping and his US counterpart Donald Trump raised hopes for a détente, the Chinese export restrictions introduced last April remain substantially in place.
Muslim woman in conservative coastal Kenya breaks religious and cultural ceilings to soar to the top of technical education
Latifa Mohammed, the third-born in a family of nine, says her interest in refrigeration and air conditioning (RAC) began long before she joined college. She liked observing cooling systems in homes and offices and wanted to understand how they worked.
Minister: Kenya is pushing for global environmental solutions at UNEA 7 in Nairobi
Dr Deborah Mulongo Barasa also highlighted Kenya’s domestic environmental achievements, including restoration initiatives and the 15-billion tree growing programme, which the country will showcase during UNEA-7 exhibitions and side events.
Kenya’s ex-president Gachagua mocked after his party is trumped in Mt Kenya
The opposition loss has become the focal point of a fierce political exchange with Kenya Kwanza leaders asserting that Gachagua’s kingpinship in the region was a fallacy. UDA win has given Kenya Kwanza leaders bragging rights with Public Service Cabinet Secretary Geoffrey Ruku maintaining that Gachagua’s influence in the region had waned.
EAC inaugurates $3.54 million Lake Victoria Basin Commission headquarters in Kisumu
LVBC Executive Secretary Masinde Bwire said the inauguration marks the culmination of a 17-year journey, beginning with Kenya’s donation of land and culminating in a fully funded regional project delivered through the equal contributions of all EAC partner states.
Uganda’s ritualistic coronation and Gun Power: How soldiers elect Museveni and Electoral Commission endorses decision
President Tibuhaburwa Museveni’s personalist party, the National Resistance Movement (NRM), has served since 1986 more to stupefy Ugandans into believing that they are participating in the politics of the country, yet its role has emerged to be legitimising presidential power at the expense of genuine power.
Genocide: CNN details how Tanzania president masterminded extrajudicial killing of youth, dumping bodies in mass graves
Additionally, satellite images and videos show recently disturbed soil consistent with reports of mass graves in the Kondo cemetery, north of the East African country’s main city of Dar es Salaam. Two human rights groups and witnesses interviewed by CNN say the bodies of protesters killed in the past few weeks have been buried there.
Minister: Kenya is on verge of passing Strategic Goods Control law to combat risk of biological weapons
Biological Weapons Convention remains the cornerstone of global and regional efforts to prevent the development, production and use of biological weapons, and to promote the peaceful application of biology for sustainable development.
How fallen reggae legend Jimmy Cliff and Bob Marley became political, ideological threats to US resulting in CIA assassinating Marley
Then came 1980s when the foundations of the Berlin Wall looked shaken and East and West Germany looked to be healing longstanding ideological rifts. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republic (USSR), then led by Mikhail Gorbachev, began tumbling like a house of cards. The disintegration of USSR for some time appeared like the ultimate dissipation of communism. There would be no more threat to US cultural, military and ideological hegemony.
Editors renew calls for journalist protection, reforms in tandem with rapid technological growth
The forum cited recent incidents during which more than 20 journalists were injured while covering protests, with some deliberately targeted. Cases such as that of Catherine Njeri, who was shot while on duty and the unresolved disappearance of journalist Eric Isina were highlighted.
