Trump’s foreign funding freeze exposes how USAID bribed leading media houses to censor news, peddle smear campaigns

Trump’s foreign funding freeze exposes how USAID bribed leading media houses to censor news, peddle smear campaigns

Ji said this is concerning given that BBC has expanded its influence through projects like the Trusted News Initiative (TNI), a self-described “industry partnership” that worked with Big Tech forms to identify “misinformation” and “disinformation” on their platforms.

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Doctor prescribes rigid dietary regimen for rural folk in Kenya to keep pancreatic cancer at bay

Doctor prescribes rigid dietary regimen for rural folk in Kenya to keep pancreatic cancer at bay

Dr Philip Blasto says some of the high risk factors include smoking, obesity, having a family history of diabetes adding that some people inherit the gene from their parents that raise their risk of pancreatic cancer.

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Keeping healthy with the dead: How Zimbabweans try to outpace death with exercise at club in a cemetery

Keeping healthy with the dead: How Zimbabweans try to outpace death with exercise at club in a cemetery

At dawn, 65-year-old Nelly Mutandwa swapped her pyjamas for leggings, a T-shirt and sneakers. She grabbed a bottle of water before heading to an unconventional workout spot: a cemetery in Zimbabwe’s capital, Harare. Surrounded by rows of graves, she joined other members of the Commandos Fitness Club in an hour-long...

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Uprooted by M23 rebels from their homes, rejected church and abandoned by UN, eastern Congo’s IDPs live in constant fear

Uprooted by M23 rebels from their homes, rejected church and abandoned by UN, eastern Congo’s IDPs live in constant fear

Water and electricity were slowly restored and schools and shops began reopening. Aid workers and volunteers scrambled to collect dead bodies off the streets under the watchful eye of M23 patrols. Since late January, the latest spasm of violence has left some 3,000 people dead and nearly as many injured.

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How 70-year-old woman’s fish farm in Vihiga inspires village, became internship centre for university students

How 70-year-old woman’s fish farm in Vihiga inspires village, became internship centre for university students

Deen has diversified her farm activities with dairy cattle and dairy goat keeping, tissue culture banana farming, fruits and vegetables on her farm, which she sells additional income.

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Complicity or ignorance: Media accused of failing to cover powerful testimony of people injured by Covid vaccines

Complicity or ignorance: Media accused of failing to cover powerful testimony of people injured by Covid vaccines

Commenting on her testimony, Campbell asked, “How on earth can a clinician adjudicate someone is only 59 per cent disabled? Why not 58? Why not 61? How can you be 59 per cent disabled? I don’t understand that. I simply don’t understand it.”

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Intriguing revelations by retired Kenya government chemist detail how ministers Ouko, Saitoti, Ojode, Mutula Kilonzo and Raila’s Fidel were assassinated by state 

Intriguing revelations by retired Kenya government chemist detail how ministers Ouko, Saitoti, Ojode, Mutula Kilonzo and Raila’s Fidel were assassinated by state 

The retired government chemist also led the forensic team that investigated ODM party leader Raila Odinga’s son, Fidel Castro Odinga’s death in 2015. He was the lead forensic investigator of the death of former Vice-President George Muthengi Saitoti and assistant minister Joshua Orwa Ojode in 2012.

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South African opposition accuse President Ramaphosa of poor leadership after M23 rebels kill 13 soldiers

South African opposition accuse President Ramaphosa of poor leadership after M23 rebels kill 13 soldiers

Brett Herron, Secretary General of the GOOD Party, on Tuesday echoed the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) in vigorously condemning the offensive on the North Kivu regional capital of Goma by the M23 rebels and the support given to them by the Rwanda Defence Force (RDF).

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Women take karate lessons for self-defence as alternative to police as femicide incidents in Kenya soar

Women take karate lessons for self-defence as alternative to police as femicide incidents in Kenya soar

Activists say the recent upward trend is felt across Kenya’s impoverished informal settlements, where women’s efforts to protect themselves have taken on fresh urgency. Inside a church in the Korogocho area of the capital Nairobi, Mary Wainaina, 93, thumped a punching bag. “No! No! No!” she shouted, before running away from a classmate pretending to be a male aggressor.

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Why West is unable to rein in Rwanda’s with economic sanctions to force its army out of eastern Congo

Why West is unable to rein in Rwanda’s with economic sanctions to force its army out of eastern Congo

The United States disbursed $180 million in foreign aid to Rwanda in 2023. The World Bank’s International Development Association provided nearly $221 million the same year. And in the years ahead, the European Union has pledged to invest over $900 million in Rwanda under the Global Gateway strategy, its response to China’s Belt and Road Initiative.

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