How South African teenage girl who spoke English, French, Arabic, Swahili and Kikuyu was instrumental in Britain’s WWII victory over Germany
Over the course of her mission, Pippa Latour sent 135 coded messages. Each one directed RAF precision bombing runs. Each one armed French Resistance cells. Each one brought D-Day closer to success.
Dorothy in the rain: Sad story of Kitale magistrate transitioned from courtroom to rented room, friend’s couch before dying alone streets
Then something cracked. Nobody knows exactly when it started. And the public is asking uncomfortable questions. How does someone move from the bench… to the pavement? Was it pressure? Politics? Isolation?
Caroli Omondi: ODM’s stealth operator who understands that in political dance financing sets the rhythm to which others must shake
When Caroli Omonfi served as Chief of Staff in the Office of the Prime Minister between 2008 and 2013, he became a keeper of secrets, a negotiator in dark rooms, and an unseen reservoir of calm when tempers flared.
Why Ruto’s unfinished 35-year old KPC-Ngong Forest land fraud is a stain Kenya’s judiciary
The key legal question was whether the land had been properly degazetted (legally removed from forest status) before it was subdivided, allocated and later sold.
Why Nyerere called fairy love story of Botswana of President Seretse Khama and his White wife Ruth ‘one of the great love stories of the world’
And three governments – Britain, South Africa and Seretse’s own tribal council – mobilised to stop them. Seretse wrote to his uncle Tshekedi, the regent who had raised him since his father’s death, announcing his intention to marry Ruth. Tshekedi was horrified.
Declassed records show US Energy Department’s lab-leak pivot was not driven by new intelligence
Most records remain hidden within the latest 186-page tranche released by the DOE, which has long run intelligence operations that leverage its unique scientific and technological expertise to protect national security. Only a relatively small number of pages, mostly of internal email discussions, contain substantive, readable material.
