Al Shaabab militants claim responsibility for Monday mortar attack on Somali parliament
Terrorist group al-Shaabab has claimed responsibility for a mortar fire attack on Somalia’s parliament on Monday that injured at least six people during a joint session. Explosions were heard in the middle of a parliamentary session. Several people were injured, but no elected officials were hit by the shrapnel that...
Traces of racism as Biden administration denies protection to Cameroonian exiles, but swift to embrace Ukrainians
The Biden administration has announced that it will offer temporary protected status to nationals of Cameroon, shielding them from deportation and enabling them to obtain work permits, amid escalating armed conflict that has spawned a humanitarian crisis in the African country. Some 40,000 nationals of Cameroon, many of whom sought...
Russia to Africa: We’ll decide for you economic and political set-ups and America will do nothing
On March 27 – a market day in Mali’s central town of Moura – Malian armed forces and suspected Russian mercenaries descended on the town in a helicopter, guns blazing. In an investigation published last week, the advocacy group Human Rights Watch said the troops closed off all exits from...
Island nation of Guyana on course to becoming one of leading oil producers in the world by 2025
A United States Geological Survey estimated in the year 2000 that the Guyana-Suriname basin’s reserves stand at 13.6 billion barrels of oil and 32 trillion cubic feet of gas, but subsequent discoveries and surveys have taken updated estimates way beyond those numbers. On this basis, the basin represents one of...
Inside Ukraine-Russia cyber warfare: Information hacking and leaking is ‘weaponised’ to unhinge the enemy
Names, birthdays, passport numbers, job titles – the personal information goes on for pages and looks like any typical data breach. But this data set is very different. It allegedly contains the personal information of 1,600 Russian troops who served in Bucha, a Ukrainian city devastated during Russia’s war and...
Returning ex-child soldiers track Uganda’s LRA rebel leader Joseph Kony’s exile to Darfur Province in Sudan
Former child soldiers who have escaped the clutches of insurgents in northern Uganda are providing new information about the whereabouts of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) founder and leader Joseph Kony. The LRA leader is said to be in the sprawling Darfur province, western Sudan. Darfur is also in the...
Why do humans die around 80? Finally, scientists solve the mystery of this longevity in the animal kingdom
The mystery of why humans die at around 80, while other mammals live far shorter or longer lives, may finally have been solved by scientists. Humans and animals die after amassing a similar number of genetic mutations, researchers have found, suggesting the speed of DNA errors is critical in determining...
World’s foremost thinker Noam Chomsky warns that in history Trump has done more to drive the human race to extinction
With the ongoing climate crisis and the looming possibility of nuclear war, Noam Chomsky, 93, often hailed as one of the world’s most important intellectuals alive, warns that “we’re approaching the most dangerous point in human history.” The renowned linguist and social critic has lived through several consequential events of...
As West accuses Russia of war crimes in Ukraine, entrenchment of Putin’s mercenaries in Sudan comes under spotlight
On March 21, the US charge d’affaires and the ambassadors of the United Kingdom and Norway in Khartoum issued an unusually strongly worded statement criticising Russia’s presence in Sudan to mark the first month of the invasion of Ukraine. In particular, the diplomats, known as the Troika, condemned the activities...
Gender equality: New research shows women are under-represented in economics globally
Women occupy roughly one in three junior academic positions in economics and just one in four senior positions, according to an analysis of gender equality at the field’s top research institutions. Most previous surveys examining equality in economics have focused on individual countries. Emmanuelle Auriol, an economist at the Toulouse...
