Americans now admit no ‘natural’ or human origin of Covid, confirms evidence virus leaked from Wuhan lab
The Trump administration last week launched a revamped version of the government’s official Covid-19 website. The site is now dedicated exclusively to detailing evidence of the “true origins” of Covid-19” which the White House says escaped from a lab in Wuhan, China.
Scramble in Holy See: Guinean Cardinal Sarah among top contenders to replace fallen Pope Francis as head of Catholic Church
Any baptised Catholic male is eligible, although only cardinals have been selected since 1378. The winner must receive at least two-thirds of the vote from those cardinals under age 80 and thus eligible to participate. Pope Francis, who died on Monday, appointed the vast majority of electors, often tapping men who share his pastoral priorities, which suggests continuity rather than rupture.
After years of grassroots mobilisation, 700 young Maasai girls spurn genital mutilation for alternative rite of passage
During the three-day session, over 700 girls aged between 10-17 years received training on life skills and decision making, sexual and reproductive health, child rights and gender equality, hygiene and personal care and education and career aspirations.
Great grandchildren of former slave owners and slaves in the Caribbean up the ante for reparations at UN meeting
The Geneva-based Human Rights Council has called for global action for years, including reparations, apologies and educational reforms to make amends for racism against people of African descent. The 15-nation Caribbean Community, known as CARICOM, has a 10-point plan for reparatory justice, starting with demands for European countries where enslaved people were kept and traded to issue formal apologies.
Long before US brutally sliced international funding there were pointers donors are fatigued
Ignoring US funding to focus on the wider base of donors, the numbers show how humanitarian funding reached a peak in 2022, when donor governments gave 52 per cent above their 2015 levels. When including US funding, however, humanitarian aid continued to rise in 2023 before starting its decline.
Marionette or president? How United Arab Emirates funds Ruto’s pork barrel politics to gain easy access East African natural resources
In Nairobi, security and international diplomacy experts aver that Kenya’s credibility is headed for the headwinds following US’ Africa policy switch that signals disengagement with the continent. US aid freeze leaves African countries at the mercy of Middle East kingdoms that have become influential as alternative lenders to World Bank, International Monetary Fund and the US.
Nailing a Pharaoh: Egyptian striker Mo Salah was on verge joining Saudi Arabia before Liverpool sent out news: he’s ‘more in than out’
When Liverpool signed Salah in the summer of 2017, their sporting director at the time, Michael Edwards and chief scout Dave Fallows flew to Dubai out of respect for Abbas. They wanted to show him how keen they were to sign Salah from Roma.
Girls at War: Rattled Kenya regime fires bullets and teargas at unarmed schoolgirls to stop Echoes of War play as world filmmakers zoom in
The inconsistencies in government position on creative have at times been hilarious, even ridiculous, the kind of flip-flopping that has now attracted the likes of Hollywood to inquire about playwright’s willingness to turn the play into a film on Kenya’s outrageously corrupt Ruto administration.
Revelations that CDC Vaccine safety office deleted or hid Covid vaccine injury records raises serious ethical questions about US drugs industry
California attorney Rick Jaffe said Johnson’s allegations are “troubling, but not surprising, given longstanding concerns about transparency at the CDC.”
Unbeknown to world, Ethiopia is war again and the rebellion in one of its most powerful regions is devastating
Amhara’s large population has long created pressure to expand, and the ethnic group has claimed the western part of Tigray. The Fano and Amhara regional forces seized it during the Tigray conflict, but they were left out of peace negotiations. They were angered to learn that western Tigray’s fate might be left up to a referendum, which has not been held.
