Zombification of Uganda: How a non-thinking nation slips into garbage heap of weird ideas, values

Zombification of Uganda: How a non-thinking nation slips into garbage heap of weird ideas, values

Uganda must become a country of thinkers and reasoners who don’t just say yes, yes when they mean no!

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Why in Senegal’s capital Nicaragua is popular flight path for illegal migrants headed for US

Why in Senegal’s capital Nicaragua is popular flight path for illegal migrants headed for US

US authorities arrested Senegalese migrants 20,231 times for crossing the border illegally from July to December. That’s a 10-fold increase from 2,049 arrests during the same period of 2022, according to US Customs and Border Protection. Many like Ba cross in remote deserts of western Arizona and California.

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After two daughters joined Islamic State they had no idea their family story would vie for an Oscar award

After two daughters joined Islamic State they had no idea their family story would vie for an Oscar award

The real-life story of Hamrouni and her children is the focus of “Four Daughters,” an Academy Award nominee for best documentary feature film. On camera, there are many layers to Kaouther Ben Hania’s film: It’s about the radicalisation of two teenage girls; an intimate portrait of a chaotic and often dysfunctional family life; and reflections on generational trauma, patriarchy, motherhood and adolescence.

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When one good turn deserves another: How doing good secures your life, delivers miracles

When one good turn deserves another: How doing good secures your life, delivers miracles

Prof Balunywa loves critical thinking. So do I. Creativity, initiative, innovation and imagination, are the hallmarks of Balunywa. If I have not preached these as critical human resources, I have also deployed them. So there is a good degree of congruence.

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80-year-old childless billionaire picks his 51-year old ex-gardener to inherit his $220 billion wealth

80-year-old childless billionaire picks his 51-year old ex-gardener to inherit his $220 billion wealth

The gardener is reportedly married to a woman from Spain, with two children of their own, and stands to inherit a significant portion of Puech’s fortune, which includes acquiring substantial properties in Marrakesh, Morocco and Montreux, Switzerland valued at $5.9 million.

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President Museveni is adept at choosing opponents, Bobi Wine seems set to tough it out with his son Muhoozi

President Museveni is adept at choosing opponents, Bobi Wine seems set to tough it out with his son Muhoozi

The president was certainly not sleeping, although acting normally: loving his son the same, only disarming him while coming close to him, and even making him the best man in his recent 50-year marriage. anniversary.

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Revisiting heart-wrenching story of how three Kenyan celebs killed mother of three and pauperised her bright sons

Revisiting heart-wrenching story of how three Kenyan celebs killed mother of three and pauperised her bright sons

Consequently, Quincy Timberlake, Joseph Hellon and Esther Arunga became the talk of Nairobi, Kenya’s capital city. They were the envy of many a youth and looked set for bigger things in the thriving communities of Christians and politicians. Church and politics have never been strange bedfellows. They have symbiotic relationship and cohabit – even if illicitly and the result parallels the biblical Sodom and Gomorrah.

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Christmas healing: Finding therapy in very same things or people you swore to forget forever

Christmas healing: Finding therapy in very same things or people you swore to forget forever

Once Upon a Time, I loved decorating for Christmas. The lights inside and outside, the ornaments, the garland, and the multiple decorated trees in the house (although my two trees were nothing compared to Mom’s thrree to five trees each year). I found joy in that. Then it stopped. I...

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Makeweight: De Jong getting ‘shirty’ at Man United as clueless Arsenal fail to sign De Bruyne

Makeweight: De Jong getting ‘shirty’ at Man United as clueless Arsenal fail to sign De Bruyne

The football media is particularly silly today, with Lisandro Martinez getting his dream Manchester United shirt number allocated and then taken away again… Things change very quickly in the extraordinary world of dream shirt numbers. ‘Lisandro Martinez can grab dream shirt number following Manchester United announcement’ – Manchester Evening News,...

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Beauty, brains and holiness: Pageantries have roots in Christianity, remind the living of wholeness of humanity

Beauty, brains and holiness: Pageantries have roots in Christianity, remind the living of wholeness of humanity

As a country, Kenya has had its fair share of fetching lasses who ran away with beauty pageants on national and international runways. Beautiful women like the late Gaudencia Aura and Khadija Adams, easily come to mind when we talk about pageantry. Service to mankind, though, remains a remote subject,...

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