UN comes under stinging criticism over Haiti jailbreak that left 12 dead amid protracted humanitarian crisis
Just 400 of 1,000 police pledged by Kenya have so far arrived, and of the other countries which pledged personnel to support Haiti’s under-resourced police, none have deployed.
How seeing neighbour die during childbirth pushed South Sudanese to train as midwife to save many
South Sudan’s health system continues to suffer. The government allocates less than two per cent of the national budget to the health ministry, whose system is propped up by aid groups and the international community. Many health centres outside the capital still have a desperate, wartime feel.
Trump’s lies about a helicopter accident, emergency landing and a non-existent Brown
Willie Brown has never shared a helicopter with Trump, the former mayor said. Instead, it was former California Governor Jerry Brown who rode with Trump in a helicopter in 2018 to survey wildfire damage, and no emergency landing was reported.
Protesters clash as opposition chiefs deny allegations of bribery to support embattled Kenyan president
Kenya’s anti-government protests entered their fifth week, having started as calls for legislators to vote against a finance bill that proposed new taxes. President William Ruto declined to sign the controversial bill and has dismissed almost all of his Cabinet ministers, but protesters have continued calling for his resignation.
State, court clash over youth uprising in Kenya as organisers call for ‘camping’ in Nairobi’s central park
Kenya’s High Court in Nairobi suspended the police order until a case filed by public interest litigation group Katiba Institute was heard and ruled upon, the court order said.
Schools near Nairobi’s Dandora dumpsite plant bamboo to purify air, cope with vulture menace
Students hope the bamboo will help transform the school compound into a green haven in the litter-strewn Dandora neighbourhood. The publicly funded school relies on donations to afford the seedlings that retail at 400 Kenyan shillings ($3) each.
South Africa asks UN court to examine Israel’s targeting of Rafah in ongoing genocide case
South Africa’s government said on Tuesday it had lodged an “urgent request” with the UN’s International Court of Justice to consider whether Israel’s military operations targeting the southern Gaza city of Rafah are a breach of provisional orders the court handed down last month in a case alleging genocide. South...
While Museveni builds 5-star hotel at Luzira Prison’s historical site, he’s droopy at academic dumpsites that are Ugandan universities
Frequently the strategy has been to destroy and then build from scratch. It is a miracle that Mulago Hospital still stands at its historical site. Others such as Uganda Broadcasting Corporation/Uganda Television and Fort Lugard lost their historical sites.
Obamacare call centre staff allowed six minutes in bathroom, now striking over steep healthcare costs
Staff at US federal contractor Maximus claim they only get six minutes a day to use the bathroom, are monitored by an AI system that reports them for going off script, and can’t afford health care. Katherine Charles’ work days are relentless. She’s one of thousands of call centre workers...
Why African universities need interdisciplinary, crossdisciplinary, transdisciplinary and extradisciplinary movement
Africa and Uganda must join the genuine knowledge integration movement. If not we shall fall by the wayside of the movement and have no influence on the mushrooming revolution in higher education. We shall continue to entrench archaic academic programmes and produce graduates we do not need in this World Wide Web dominated millennium.
