Unlocking conservation’s future: Why private developers are key to pacing up Kenya’s robust tourism industry

Unlocking conservation’s future: Why private developers are key to pacing up Kenya’s robust tourism industry

Rather than viewing conservation as a constraint, developers should see it as an opportunity – one that enhances land value, attracts global attention and aligns with the growing demand for sustainable investment.

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By re-electing a man who insists climate change is the ‘greatest con job ever’ and ‘green new scam’ US became complicit in World War III

By re-electing a man who insists climate change is the ‘greatest con job ever’ and ‘green new scam’ US became complicit in World War III

Just in case you hadn’t noticed, as an imperial power (even, historically speaking, the imperial power, the only one at its height to control quite so much of the planet in one fashion or another), this country, too, is growing ever older and (again) in its own strange fashion going down (as, of course, all great imperial powers do sooner or later).

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Dissipating obsession with beggar-thy-neighbour mentality: Why China is Africa’s most willing, trusted partner

Dissipating obsession with beggar-thy-neighbour mentality: Why China is Africa’s most willing, trusted partner

What’s unfolding here is a win-win story, as the policy creates conditions for expanding African exports to China, while at the same time enriching the supply in the Chinese market and offering consumers more diverse choices.

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How Trump’s and Republican America is consistently churning out violent fascistic ideology of far-right

How Trump’s and Republican America is consistently churning out violent fascistic ideology of far-right

Donald Trump’s regime can give rise to a normie suspected assassin because the brutality and violence it has so wholly normalised and the impunity it has revelled in, is deranging.

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How looting humanitarian aid has become source of revenue for cash starved South Sudan and rebels

How looting humanitarian aid has become source of revenue for cash starved South Sudan and rebels

In one incident, government soldiers looted hundreds of boxes of medical supplies from a humanitarian-run facility near Ayod town in January, shortly after recapturing a nearby military barracks, according to an NGO incident report and multiple interviews. The facility was stripped bare.

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Fresh eruption of civil war in South Sudan ignites fierce fight for humanitarian aid between state and rebels

Fresh eruption of civil war in South Sudan ignites fierce fight for humanitarian aid between state and rebels

Photos shared on social media after the massacre convey the consequences. In one, a rail-thin young man, his arms bound behind his back, lies face-first in the ashes of a cooking fire. In another, three women and two children lie together on the ground of the hut where they had gathered to register.

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Why bitter political feud has left former Zambian president unburied nearly a year after his death

Why bitter political feud has left former Zambian president unburied nearly a year after his death

Lungu’s family wanted to bury him in South Africa because of his bitter political rivalry with current Zambian leader Hakainde Hichilema (pictured).

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Iran vows to give talks with US in Islamabad cold shoulder as Pakistan frantically pushes for direct re-engagement of the foes

Iran vows to give talks with US in Islamabad cold shoulder as Pakistan frantically pushes for direct re-engagement of the foes

Iran’s semi-official Tasnim News Agency said on Sunday that Iran currently has no decision to send a negotiating delegation for peace talks with the United States. The Iranian team has stressed that as long as the US “anti-Iran” naval blockade remains in place, there will be no negotiation with Washington, according to the report.

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Transatlantic rifts: US allies tell Trump NATO ‘is not an interventionist alliance’ as they decline to join war against Iran

Transatlantic rifts: US allies tell Trump NATO ‘is not an interventionist alliance’ as they decline to join war against Iran

Spanish Defence Minister Margarita Robles told parliament that the United States and Israel “cannot be the ones who decide what rules apply in the world.” She described the military campaign against Iran as falling outside international law.

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Letter from Mideast: Why cancer treatment has become another casualty of war and numbers are rising

Letter from Mideast: Why cancer treatment has become another casualty of war and numbers are rising

Like Abu Foul, hundreds of patients rely on leaving Gaza to receive treatment. The Rafah crossing, Gaza’s main link with Egypt, has been mostly closed since Israeli forces took control of the area in May 2024. It occasionally reopens for medical evacuations but departures remain limited.

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