White South Africans scramble for exile in US as non-white refugees are deported on Trump orders
Some of the South African applicants have taken part in a first round of interviews in Pretoria, three of them said, describing positive encounters with US officials who seemed well-disposed towards them and their accounts of persecution.
President Ruto says Kenya keen to learn from ‘China’s remarkable journey of transformation’ day after blistering attacks on US President Trump, UN
President William Ruto, an evangelical Christian from a modest background, was elected on promises to help Kenya’s poor in a country struggling with debt. Earlier in his presidency, Ruto favoured the West and the United States over China. But as US President Donald Trump pulls back from engagement with Africa and slaps tariffs on trade partners, Ruto is making overtures to Beijing.
Farmers in Murang’a County in central Kenya to tap into expanding avocado, tea and coffee markets in China, USA
Murang’a County has an avocado farmers’ association that brings farmers together while the tea sector is managed by tea factories that contract KTDA as their management agency and the coffee sector is led through coffee co-operative societies.
Americans now admit no ‘natural’ or human origin of Covid, confirms evidence virus leaked from Wuhan lab
The Trump administration last week launched a revamped version of the government’s official Covid-19 website. The site is now dedicated exclusively to detailing evidence of the “true origins” of Covid-19” which the White House says escaped from a lab in Wuhan, China.
Study: Americans are dying younger than Europeans, richest living longer than poorest
The wealthiest 25 per cent of people in Northern and Western Europe had mortality rates that were about 35 per cent lower than participants in the wealthiest quartile in the US for those from Southern Europe, during the study period, this value ranged from 24 per cent to 33 per cent.
Revelations that CDC Vaccine safety office deleted or hid Covid vaccine injury records raises serious ethical questions about US drugs industry
California attorney Rick Jaffe said Johnson’s allegations are “troubling, but not surprising, given longstanding concerns about transparency at the CDC.”
Fears rise 122 million Americans drink water laden with unsafe cancer-causing chemicals
An analysis of testing results from community water systems in 49 states found that nearly 6,000 such systems serving 122 million people recorded an unsafe level of chemicals known as trihalomethanes at least once during testing from 2019 to 2023.
China strikes back with 84 per cent tariffs as escalating trade war with America hits markets
China told the World Trade Organization that the United States’ decision to impose what it has called reciprocal tariffs on Beijing threatens to further destabilise global trade.
Kenya, 37 African countries in quandary over ties with US as China bullies Africa to exit US-allied group
Founded in 2020, the group has coordinated sanctions on China over rights abuses in Xinjiang and Hong Kong and rallied support for Taiwan, a self-ruled democratic island Beijing claims as its territory.
Americans facing death sentences over a failed coup plot in DR Congo repatriated to the US
Among the three Americans was 21-year-old Marcel Malanga, son of opposition figure Christian Malanga, who led the foiled coup attempt that targeted the presidential palace in Kinshasa. The elder Malanga, who live-streamed from the palace during the attempt, was later killed while resisting arrest, Congolese authorities said. Marcel Malanga has said his father forced him to take part.
