After Ghana told African diaspora ‘Come home’, 524 are now citizens, more Black Americans queuing up
Between 10 to 15 million people were forcibly taken from Africa to the Americas during the trans-Atlantic slave trade, the majority from West and Central Africa. Ghana, then a British colony known as the Gold Coast, was a main point of departure.
While East Africa ‘coral jungle’ is richest in the world, it remains to be seen if Africa can convert biodiversity credits into hard cash
If demand for credits can take off, the potential benefits for conservation are considerable. The World Economic Forum claims, opens new tab the biodiversity credits market could reach $2 billion by 2030 and $69 billion by 2050.
US Bernie Sanders says after losing lost vote to block arms for Israel: US is ‘funding starvation of children in Gaza’
The Senate voted down on Wednesday a long-shot effort by US Senator Bernie Sanders (Independent-Vermont) and a handful of Democrats to block the sales of offensive weapons to Israel, amid a worsening humanitarian crisis in the northern Gaza Strip. Sanders’s bid to halt the sale of tank rounds, mortar rounds...
While US claims to be foremost defender of Free Press DOJ probe finds Trump regime secretely spied on journalists
The inspector general did not name the two members of Congress whose records were seized, but the report indicates both were Democrats. According to the report, a Democratic committee staffer identified the two members as the potential leakers, “but without providing any evidentiary support for the claim.” This tipster was later found to be of “uncertain credibility” and “unknown reliability,” but prosecutors still relied on the witness in at least two search warrant applications.
Geneva Academy finds post-independence African youths free of colonial hangover are worried about corruption, safety and security
International influence on Africa was important, with China and the US being seen as important, but Chinese influence appears to be most influential. Russia is not viewed negatively, although its involvement in conflicts is not seen as positive.
Fragile geopolitical relations place world on high nuclear war alert as US, Russia grow stocks
However, the most concerning changes regard North Korea, which maintained its military nuclear programme as a core national security strategy. It amassed an estimated 50 warheads and enough fissile material for up to 90 warheads, with developments in ballistic and cruise missile technologies aimed at nuclear delivery.
Conflict-generated displacements, refugee numbers hit record levels as Africa registers 45 million
Given the persistent growth in displacement, there has been a doubling in the forcibly displaced population in Africa since 2018. Three-quarters of these people – 34.5 million – are internally displaced. This represents a near tripling in the number of internally displaced people in Africa since 2017.
Kenya’s biosafety authority kicks off campaign for GMO maize against backdrop of steep ignorance
NBA Acting Director of Biosafety Research and Compliance Josphat Muchiri confirmed the authority’s readiness for the exercise in the listed counties, adding that the campaign would be expanded to cover all maize-producing regions in Kenya.
US plans WHO exit on account it ‘cannot be reformed, corruption is rampant, compromised relationship with Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, GAVI alliance
Internist, bioweapons expert and WHO critic Dr Meryl Nass wrote on her Substack that the announcement was “Great news, if reliable!” noting the article cited only “globalist attorney” Gostin and “hapless former Covid czar Ahish Jha.”
Sixth time unlucky: Zimbabwe’s new currency wobbles as illegal night bazaars flourish, conventional stores tumble
Unfettered by expenses such as rising energy costs, taxes and laws that force formal retailers to accept the local currency at artificially low official exchange rates, informal traders, including children, offer better bargains. A box of juice that sells for $3 in a supermarket costs half of that on the streets.