A walk in the night: Day Kenya’s Secret Service chief Michal Gichangi asked me tell Raila to accept 2013 election loss
“I did not believe I had played an important role in Kibaki being forced to share power with Raila, until Raila told me Cabinet Secretary Muthaura had given government appointments to all his officers including their nemesis Miguna. But Salim will never get one.”
How rare earth metal heats up and cools down tensions in corridors of US, China’s aerospace industry
Although a late-October meeting in South Korea between Chinese president Xi Jinping and his US counterpart Donald Trump raised hopes for a détente, the Chinese export restrictions introduced last April remain substantially in place.
Muslim woman in conservative coastal Kenya breaks religious and cultural ceilings to soar to the top of technical education
Latifa Mohammed, the third-born in a family of nine, says her interest in refrigeration and air conditioning (RAC) began long before she joined college. She liked observing cooling systems in homes and offices and wanted to understand how they worked.
Alcoholism in central Kenya rises to epidemic levels as nearly every family grapples with men wedded bootleg liquor
The menace is not limited to the unemployed. Professionals and civil servants have not been spared either. Local leaders are continuously calling for stronger regulations of illicit brews and increased public awareness, warning that left unchecked a whole generation risks being wiped out.
Genocide: CNN details how Tanzania president masterminded extrajudicial killing of youth, dumping bodies in mass graves
Additionally, satellite images and videos show recently disturbed soil consistent with reports of mass graves in the Kondo cemetery, north of the East African country’s main city of Dar es Salaam. Two human rights groups and witnesses interviewed by CNN say the bodies of protesters killed in the past few weeks have been buried there.
How fallen reggae legend Jimmy Cliff and Bob Marley became political, ideological threats to US resulting in CIA assassinating Marley
Then came 1980s when the foundations of the Berlin Wall looked shaken and East and West Germany looked to be healing longstanding ideological rifts. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republic (USSR), then led by Mikhail Gorbachev, began tumbling like a house of cards. The disintegration of USSR for some time appeared like the ultimate dissipation of communism. There would be no more threat to US cultural, military and ideological hegemony.
‘If we imagine poor countries can fund own transition while drowning in debt and climate disasters, we’re facing collective collapse’
A lack of money also affected the humanitarian presence at COP30, with fewer numbers attending than previous recent summits, a consequence of the deep cuts that have rocked the aid sector this year.
Lobby raises red flag over rising pollution in Kenya despite ban on single-use plastics
According to Greenpeace Africa, an earlier report by the Kenya Plastics Pact (KPP) to ensure all plastic packaging in the country is recyclable in eight years’ time was too ambitious and unattainable. The lobby group claimed the country’s production of plastic materials currently outstrips her ability to recycle the wastes.
Eastern Congo’s triple tragedy: Pro-state militia in Uvira is as atrocious as M23 rebels and national army
With more than 700,000 inhabitants and sitting on the border with Burundi, Uvira is the last major stronghold of the Congolese government in South Kivu – one of two provinces that the M23 and Rwandan troops are currently occupying.
After Rwandan Tutsi refugees installed Museveni in Uganda, there’s suspicion they want to reign in Great Lakes Region ‘genetically’
Perturbed people in East Africa think, believe and are convinced the expanded economic region would be politically dominated by Rwandan nomadic pastoralists in the same fashion they dominated their ancient Kitara Kingdom that spread over Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Malawi and parts of Zambia before the emergence of the Bunyoro Kitara Kingdom of the Babito.
