How a poor father wowed by $40,000 payout worked out a plan that propelled daughters Venus and Serena world’s greatest tennis players
On one occasion when he refused to leave the practice court with his daughters, they broke his nose, jaw and fingers, and knocked out several of his teeth. Richard got home with his daughters, opened his diary, and wrote: “After today, history will remember the ‘toothless’ man as a monument of courage.”
Kenya mourns a giant whose death coincides with a youth revolution with bearing on African politics
As Kamukunji MP, Maina Wanjigi helped small-scale and petty traders start the Gikomba Market and the Shauri Moyo craftspeople yards that have evolved into key subsectors of the national economy as they have been replicated in other major towns.
Media fact-check of claims linking Covid vaccines to cancer deaths results in retraction of peer-reviewed study
The researchers found a 2.1 per cent mortality increase in 2021 and a 9.6 per cent increase In 2022. They determined that age-adjusted death rates for leukemia, breast, pancreatic and lip/oral/pharyngeal cancers increased significantly in 2022 after a large portion of the Japanese population had received the third dose of an mRNA Covid-19 vaccine.
Kenya police peacekeepers land in Haiti finally amid concerns about how they will restore order as ‘nothing clearly established’
The roots of Haiti’s problems date back to colonial times. Although the Caribbean nation became the world’s first Black republic in 1804, it was forced to pay billions to France in order to secure its freedom. That debt crippled Haiti economically and – combined with decades of dictatorships, natural disasters, political and environmental mismanagement, a long US military occupation, and a debilitating US trade embargo – contributed to its recent turmoil.
Survey: South Sudan’s six million antelope population is world’s largest land mammal migration, but poaching on the rise
The estimate from the nonprofit African Parks, which conducted the work along with the government, far surpasses other large migratory herds such as the estimated 1.36 million wildebeests surveyed last year in the Serengeti straddling Tanzania and Kenya. But they warned that the animals face a rising threat from commercial poaching in a nation rife with weapons and without strong law enforcement.
Publish or perish versus publish and prosper: Risks of putting premium on productivity at the expense of innovation
One reason universities are called “ivory towers” is that, through their generally similar structure and function and the tendency for scholars to construct communication styles that only allow communication with and in narrow audiences, they are places or spheres where people are happily cut off from the rest of the world.
Amazon Files: Emails show Amazon caved in to pressure from White House to suppress books critical of vaccines
As pressures from the White House reverberated up Amazon’s corporate ladder, the head of the books team approved the adoption of a new policy to apply a “Do Not Promote” label to so-called anti-vaccination books.
Europe and Middle East airlines cash in on thriving human trafficking as Indians, Africans scramble for the US
Along the way to the US border, Ismaila Diop, 30, a small-business owner from Senegal, landed at Managua aboard Avianca flight TA315. Traveling in a group of about a dozen Senegalese migrants, Diop was passed off to organised groups of smugglers who went by their first names only or called themselves “Mama Africa.”
Why Indians and Africans pay $72,000 to be smuggled to the US on chartered flights
Charter flights represent a new phase of illegal immigration to the US, five US officials said in interviews with Reuters. Increasingly, they said, migrants from outside Latin America are paying smuggling networks hefty fees for travel packages that can include airline tickets – on charter and commercial airlines – to fly to Central America and then bus rides and hotel stays en route to the US-Mexico border.
Conflict-related sexual violence is the only crime for which society is more apt to blame victims than perpetrators
It’s very hard to talk about the actual prevalence of conflict-related sexual violence. Just to give you one example, last year in my report to the Secretary-General, I highlighted less than 1,000 cases in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) for 2022. When I saw the data from UNICEF talking about 32,000 cases and the UN sexual and reproductive health agency, UNFPA, with 38,000 cases for the same year, I really panicked. So, I had to go to the DRC to update my data and to explain the context, the security and access challenges faced in documenting these cases.
