Woman with personality disorder jailed for eight years for demanding Putin’s death over Ukraine
On May 14, 2022, she posted over three dozen times on VKontakte, a social network, hurling insults at Putin and saying he bore personal responsibility for the deaths of men, women and children whose bodies were being pulled from under the rubble of Ukrainian apartment blocks.
Russia relapses into dark era of Soviet paranoia as citizens spy on each other over Ukraine
In news reports, court cases and on social media, examples have come to light of neighbour informing on neighbour, churchgoers denouncing priests and students reporting on teachers. For some, the resulting current climate is reminiscent of the atmosphere of mutual distrust and suspicion under Soviet Communist rule.
Climate change: World meets in Baku as Uganda grapples with scourge of environmental refugees
A time or temporal dimension of the environment does exist so that we can talk of four dimensions of the environment (the ecological-biological, the socioeconomic, the sociocultural and the temporal). However, the dimensions are not mutually exclusive but are mutually inclusive. Some causes of refugee migrations are a result of interactions of the phenomena occurring in the dimensions of the environment.
How ‘gun and violence democracy’ flourished in Uganda, suffocated popular forms of governance
Some leaders combine demagoguery with force, as did happen in 2017 and 2024 in Ugandan parliament when President Tibuhaburwa Museveni wanted Age Limit Bill and Coffee Bill respectively passed. Indeed, in the visons of Socrates and Plato, demagoguery constitutes a grave danger to the security and prosperity of a democratic society (Stefan, 2023).
Why American intelligence community tag Trump as Russian autocrat Vladimir Putin’s errands boy in geopolitics
Today, the US intelligence community believes that Russia wants to help Trump win again in 2024. That means that it is vital that Americans finally understand the truth about the Trump-Russia case, and about the dangerous relationship between Trump and Russian autocrat Vladimir Putin.
Unkind governance: Nigeria’s malnutrition crisis is a proxy indicator for a weak healthcare system
Out of Nigeria’s roughly 34,000 primary healthcare centres, only 20 per cent are believed to be fully functional. The vast majority of PHC’s are dilapidated, understaffed and lack essential drugs – especially in the north.
Elon Musk’s US citizenship hangs in balance after 1,300 posts on X about immigration and voter fraud, bribing voters
Stephen Yale-Loehr, a professor at Cornell Law School and faculty director of its Immigration Law and Policy Program, says that it’s not clear that if Musk worked in the US without authorisation and attested he hadn’t, that would be considered important enough to denaturalise him.
With East Africa more vulnerable to climate swings, governments should now give priority environmental security
If the right to the 10 types of justice they mentioned exist, the right to natural justice, climate justice, environmental justice, environmental cooperation, environmental peace and environmental diplomacy also exists.
Interpol investigation exposes how transnational organised criminal gang Black Axe funds, fixes who rules Nigeria
Scrutiny is needed on governments in China and the United Arab Emirates that serve as major financial transfer hubs for Black Axe’s illicit transactions.
Taliban morality law: New code stipulates length of men’s facial hair, considers woman’s voice ‘intimate part of the body’
Without doubt, the part of the law that has received the most media attention is Article 13, which stipulates that a woman’s voice – when engaged in singing, reciting, and reading in public – is considered awrah, or an intimate part of the body. It goes on to say that a woman should “cover” her voice when out in public.
