Kenyan media women envisage digitally resilient community of African women who champion safe feminist internet
Common forms of technology facilitated-GBV attacks include; trolling, doxing, body shaming, abusive comments, revenge porn, hacking, impersonation, sextortion, deepfake, digital domestic abuse and online recruitment for exploitation that are motivated by the sexual or gender identity of the target or by underlying gender norms.
Kenyan police arrest 58 illegal Ethiopian migrants in Kitengela town as human trafficking surges
More than 100 Ethiopians were arrested last year as the lucrative human trafficking trade along the porous border continues to thrive.
Complicity or ignorance: Media accused of failing to cover powerful testimony of people injured by Covid vaccines
Commenting on her testimony, Campbell asked, “How on earth can a clinician adjudicate someone is only 59 per cent disabled? Why not 58? Why not 61? How can you be 59 per cent disabled? I don’t understand that. I simply don’t understand it.”
US foreign aid freeze cripples world hunger efforts as President Trump slashes, reshapes American public spending
US-provided cash assistance intended to help people buy food and other necessities in Sudan and Gaza also has been halted, aid workers. So has funding for volunteer-run community kitchens, an American-supported effort in Sudan to help feed people in areas inaccessible to traditional aid, these people said.
No longer at ease: Homosexuality in Uganda suffers blow as Trump freezes foreign funding
In 2023, after Ugandan lawmakers passed an anti-homosexuality bill that punishes consensual same-sex conduct with penalties including life imprisonment, Washington threatened consequences and the World Bank withheld some funding.
40 per cent of math teachers in Kenya struggle with the very concepts they teach, experts warn
Usawa Agenda Executive Director Emmanuel Manyasa attributed to systemic biases in schools to poor performance as the major concern raised at the forum was the gender disparity in mathematics achievement at higher education levels.
Masking rifts: How government workers’ fear of Elon Musk’s source of discord in Trump’s inner circle
In the space of a couple of weeks, Elon Musk and his associates have taken control of multiple government agencies, and a cadre of young and inexperienced engineers with ties to Musk have been given access to some of the most highly sensitive federal systems through DOGE.
Why Africa maybe mystical Garden of Eden ceaselessly defiled by its rulers, urged on by colonisers
Africa boasted of a more developed and sophisticated system of governance in which kings wielded authority as confirmed in the Holy Scriptures – the Bible and the Q’uran – as captured by people inspired by God.
Trump’s expansionist rhetoric meets with resistance in ME where he wants US to take over Gaza Strip
The US taking a direct stake in Gaza would run counter to long-time policy in Washington and for much of the international community, which has held that Gaza would be part of a future Palestinian state that includes the occupied West Bank.
Spiritual leader of Ismaili Muslims whose riches enabled horse racing glory, The Aga Khan, dies at 88
The Aga Khan set up the Aga Khan Development Network in 1967. The group of international development agencies employs 80,000 people helping to build schools and hospitals and providing electricity for millions of people in the poorest parts of Africa and Asia.
