Africa’s 60 per cent fallow agricultural land lures foreign investors, but their dreams end up in smoke
In 2021, the Senegalese village of Niéti Yone welcomed investors Frank Timis and Gora Seck from a US-registered company, African Agriculture. Over cups of sweet green tea, the visitors promised to employ hundreds of locals and, one day, thousands. Timis, originally from Romania, was the majority stakeholder.
France’s Le Pen refuses to bow out of 2027 vote after being convicted of graft and barred from running
Judge Benedicte de Perthuis said Le Pen had been “at the heart” of a scheme to misappropriate more than 4 million euros ($4.3 million) of EU funds and use them to pay the far-right party’s staff back home.
Make America Stupid Again: How Trump’s provincialism in education will kill Enlightenment scholarship
Long after Jefferson’s death in 1826, the seeds of Enlightenment ideas had a hard time finding purchase in the rocky soil of American xenophobia and anti-intellectualism. In 1841, the brilliant mathematician James Joseph Sylvester, only 27 years old but already writing papers whose conceptual brilliance astonished the field, was hired by the University of Virginia. As historian Lewis S. Feuer noted, Sylvester was “the first observing Jew to be called to the United States to fill a full professorship in a secular subject.”
Newly capped England international Eze inspires Palace to beat Fulham to reach FA Cup semis
London’s oldest football stadium bathed in beautiful spring sunshine alongside the River Thames was the perfect setting for the first FA Cup clash between the clubs since 1907. With so many of the usual suspects having bowed out, fans of Fulham and Palace arrived with genuine belief that this could be the year they win their first major silverware.
SADC’s failure in Congo: South African military’s strength – the backbone of the brigade – has significantly deteriorated
Tanzania’s shifting stance added to the confusion. Tanzania chose not to participate in the East African Community Regional Force deployed to eastern DRC before SAMIDRC. Although initially supportive of SAMIDRC, it gradually moved towards a neutral position.
New investigation finds Germany knew about Covid lab leak in 2020 but hid evidence from public for political reasons
The FBI had evidence in 2021 that the virus leaked from a lab, but wasn’t allowed to present it, The Wall Street Journal reported last year. Investigative journalist Paul D. Thacker said major US news outlets have not reported on the German investigation “because it doesn’t fit their politics.”
‘I will wear my persona non grata as a badge of dignity,’ expelled South African ambassador to US says as he returns home
“The supremacist assault on incumbency, we see it in the domestic politics of the USA, the MAGA movement, the Make America Great Again movement, as a response not simply to a supremacist instinct, but to very clear data that shows great demographic shifts in the USA in which the voting electorate in the USA is projected to become 48 per cent white,” Rasool said in the talk.
World apprehensive as some states in US push for digital ID adoption, fears of ‘surveillance-based technocracy’ rise
Several media reports have presented May 7 as a deadline for people to get a REAL ID-compliant driver’s licence if they intend to travel domestically by air on or after that date. For instance, Washington, DC-based radio station WTOP reported that “time is running out” for people to get a REAL ID-compliant ID card to travel domestically.
Some 100,000 motorsport fans descend on Kenya’s ‘Sin City’ for the fourth edition of World Rally Championship
The competition, which kicked off in Naivasha on Friday after President Ruto flagged it off at Nairobi’s Kasarani Stadium, is expected to push up local tourism inflows as small and large businesses open their doors for buyers.
Previously synonymous with ‘hot’ Indian cuisines pepper in Kenya is changing into a cash as demand surges on world market
Speaking during a farmers’ exhibition in Kandara, Murang’a, Kenya Agricultural Livestock Research Organization (KALRO) Director Crops System, Dr Lusike Wasilwa, said Kenya is serving less than half of its potential of its international market, with the United States of America, Netherlands, Germany, Russia, UK, Canada, France, UAE and Poland ready to buy Kenyan chilli.
