New Mozilla study says TikTok is supercharging young voter apathy as Kenya heads to August 9 polls
Last year, Kenya’s Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC), the country’s elections management body, set a target to register six million new voters for this August’s upcoming general election. With 2019 census data indicating that nearly five million young Kenyans had reached voting age since the 2017 elections, that goal...
Why United Kingdom is turning to mushroom farming in peatland to meet is Climate Change goals
In a huge industrial shed on Leckford Estate, a farm owned by the supermarket Waitrose in a beautiful part of southern England, a revolution is stirring in the world of mushroom growing. UK production of this crop relies on peat, the incredibly carbon-rich organic matter found in bogs and fens...
Rwanda, DR Congo on brink of war as United Nations accuses Kigali of bankrolling M23 rebels
The seeming rapid deterioration of security in the eastern DRC and resurgence of M23 are an outcome of longstanding regional rivalries between Rwanda and Uganda. The precipitous escalation of the security crisis in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) risks reigniting interstate conflict in the Great Lakes region....
Tooth of Congolese founding prime minister buried in Kinshasa 62 years after his assassination
A ceremony was on Thursday held in the Democratic Republic of Congo to bury the gold-crowned tooth of independence hero Patrice Lumumba more than 60 years after he was assassinated. It is the only part of his body that exists after his remains were dissolved in acid. The Belgian policeman...
It’s not all white for Arsenal defender Ben as he faces still competition from sure-footed returnee Saliba
Arsenal should axe “absolutely dreadful” Ben White for William Saliba for the 2022-23 season, according to Gabriel Agbonlahor. White joined the Gunners from Brighton last season in a £52 million ($61.9 million) move and he was at the heart of their defence alongside Gabriel Magalhaes for the majority of last...
US derives its legitimacy from deciding whether legislative enactments comport with the Constitution
In the eyes of many institutionalists, the Supreme Court of the United States – or any court, for that matter – would be less legitimate if it factored public opinion into its decision-making. As former Chief Justice William Rehnquist argued in 1992, “The judicial branch derives its legitimacy, not from...
US abortion rights nullification kicked up a storm over civil liberties and legitimacy of the Supreme Court itself
In a scathing joint dissent, Supreme Court Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Stephen Breyer declared that the nullification of the constitutional right to abortion last week was a catastrophic decision not just for American civil liberties, but also for the legitimacy of the court itself. “In overruling Roe and...
Fallen American music icon R Kelly to serve 30 years in jail for sexual abuse and racketeering offences
Disgraced R&B superstar R. Kelly was sentenced on Wednesday to 30 years in prison for using his fame to sexually abuse young fans, including some who were just children, in a systematic scheme that went on for decades. Through tears and anger, several of Kelly’s accusers told a court, and...
Prophet Mohammed: Filmed retaliatory murder of tailor by Muslim men sparks a religious row in India
The victim, a tailor named Kanhaiya Lal, was killed in Udaipur district on Tuesday by two Muslim men, who filmed the act and posted it online. They claimed the act was in retaliation for the victim’s support for controversial remarks made by a politician on the Prophet Muhammad. The police...
Thai team confirms cats just as hamsters, are spreaders of Covid, prescribes masks for pets
First there were sneezing hamsters, now sneezing cats. A team in Thailand reports the first solid evidence of a pet cat infecting a person with SARS-CoV-2, adding felines to the list of animals that can transmit the virus to people. Researchers say the results are convincing. They are surprised that...
