Political storm brews in Britain over Covid-related excess deaths after activists accused UK Health Agency of hiding data
The advocacy group UsForThem requested the data in 2023, through the Freedom of Information Act 2000, asking UKHSA to disclose, for every adult who died between 2021 and 2023, their age at first dose, the dates of each vaccine dose and the date of death.
Kenyan police mission to tackle gangs was undermined by lack of international support – Haitians tell of exhaustion and hopelessness
The first foreign boots since the UN approved a Gang Suppression Force (GSF) to tackle Haiti’s worsening security crisis have hit the ground but there’s little confidence among Haitians that it will be anything but yet another pointless foreign intervention. A batch of 230 Kenyan police officers landed in the...
Haitians speak of exhaustion and hopelessness as new UN force gets set to tackle gangs
Slated to eventually include up to 5,500 police and military officers, the GSF aims to regain control of the country by fighting gangs through a broader and more combative mandate, while negotiations are continuing on the political front to pave the way for elections.
US Congress explores possibilities of compelling spy agencies to declassify evidence on origins of Covid
Tucked deep inside the sprawling National Defence Authorisation Act for Fiscal Year 2026 is language that requires the director of National Intelligence to conduct a declassification review with the heads of federal intelligence agencies of information about those who funded coronavirus research and what’s known about risky “gain-of-function” work performed at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
Away from Al Shabaab attacks and contraband sugar and narcotics, Garissa is emerging as Kenya’s ‘capital’ of smuggled fuel from Somalia
Garissa has also become a corridor for hard drugs trafficking such as bhang, ingredients used in shisha, cocaine and heroin are also peddled in large quantities into Kenya from Somalia through the same corridors, which link the Kenyan town to the Somali capital Mogadishu, Kismayo Port and other towns along the Indian Ocean coast of Somalia.
Children’s hair may hold clues to depression and behavioural risks years before symptoms appear
One in every 4 children is currently living with a chronic physical illness. These include various respiratory and cardiovascular conditions, such as asthma, congenital heart disease, rheumatic heart disease and stroke.
Will GSF breed to more violence? Locals complain foreigners come with preconceived plan that isolates Haitians as key partners in intervention
According to the latest BINUH – the UN’s office in Haiti – report, more than 60 per cent of gang-related casualties between June and September came during security operations.
How Kabras of Malava housed, assimilated Maasai, Teso, Kalenjin and Luo strangers and ended up with a cultural ‘United Nations’ in Kakamega
I was surprised that Malava has a large population of Maasai people who have been living there for eons, although they have now lost their aboriginal language. Add this to a high concentration of Luos and the by-product is ethnic hotchpotch cultures of diverse foreign extractions among the Kabras of the larger Luhyia sub-nation.
The Secrets We Bury: Mother told her children their dad left them only for psychic to locate his body 55 years later buried under family house
George Carroll, a Korean War veteran, vanished from his Long Island home in 1963, leaving his four children searching for answers for decades. Carroll’s wife, Dorothy, always told her children that their father had walked out on the family.
Haiti mission impossible: ‘Those who say they’ve come to help don’t like us; they make things worse and exploit us as they’ve done from colonial times’
The United States, which refused to send security personnel when the MSS was deployed, has expressed no intention to change its position. According to some experts, this is also deterring others from pitching in.