Pope Leo tells Chagos refugees all people have a right to return home after unjust exile

Pope Leo tells Chagos refugees all people have a right to return home after unjust exile

Preparations, including the building of infrastructure on the islands, now must begin to allow the forcibly deported Chagossians, like himself, to go home.

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Despite high potential for gold mining Kenya still allocates the sector paltry budget

Despite high potential for gold mining Kenya still allocates the sector paltry budget

Despite promising gold deposit discoveries that include coltan – used in the manufacture of smartphones and electrical vehicle batteries – in Tana River, Elgeyo Marakwet, Turkana and Embu – the mining sector is routinely allocated a pittance in the national government budget.

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Somali capital Mogadishu is one of cities urbanising rapidly but weak state and clan politics leave its displaced in limbo

Somali capital Mogadishu is one of cities urbanising rapidly but weak state and clan politics leave its displaced in limbo

Clan dynamics are a particular complication. Mogadishu is dominated by powerful major clans, especially the Hawiye. The majority of IDPs, however, are from marginalised so-called minority groups, including farm-based Bantu people.

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President Museveni allows deported migrants from US to go to Uganda, but should not have criminal records

President Museveni allows deported migrants from US to go to Uganda, but should not have criminal records

Uganda has had challenges with the US after lawmakers passed an anti-homosexuality bill in 2023 that punishes consensual same-sex conduct with penalties including life imprisonment. Washington threatened consequences and the World Bank withheld some funding.

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Eberechi Eze’s switch to Arsenal illustrates just how Premier League transfers are an incoherent mix of art and craft

Eberechi Eze’s switch to Arsenal illustrates just how Premier League transfers are an incoherent mix of art and craft

Except, it wasn’t really a hijacking at all. Arsenal had actually struck the principles of an agreement with Palace as early as the morning of August 10. They managed to keep it extraordinarily quiet as illustrated by how it was only after Wednesday evening’s sensations that multiple sources were willing to talk about it.

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Students in northern Kenya at risk of crocodile, hippo attacks as world’s largest desert lake burst banks

Students in northern Kenya at risk of crocodile, hippo attacks as world’s largest desert lake burst banks

Since 2018 when the lake’s water level began rising, students population has fallen from 400 to 150 at El Molo Bay Primary School.

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Why Liverpool’s Mo Salah is prolific: He spends time on meditating and visualising  matches, then studies goalkeepers

Why Liverpool’s Mo Salah is prolific: He spends time on meditating and visualising matches, then studies goalkeepers

Mohamed Salah’s performances last season were an accumulation of many factors, both on and off the pitch. The thread that connects them all is his willingness and desire to do everything he can to perform at his best, no matter what his age.

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Mohamed Salah: A fitness ‘freak’, who like wine, is delivering better performances as he gets older

Mohamed Salah: A fitness ‘freak’, who like wine, is delivering better performances as he gets older

Salah is also a Pilate’s devotee, and has stationed a Pilate’s reformer among the squat rack, weight stacks and treadmill in his home gym. “When you’re playing any sport, it takes movement away from you,” explains Rosenblatt. “A footballer might lose range around their ankle, hip or thoracic spine (the middle section) and Pilates will help restore that.”

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Visionary British colonialism: When we talk about East African federation, just bare in mind no foreigner gives free service

Visionary British colonialism: When we talk about East African federation, just bare in mind no foreigner gives free service

The new East African universities immediately became affiliated to the University of London. From that time, all degrees obtained by students of Makerere University College, Royal University College, Nairobi and University College, Dar-es-Salaam were granted by the Federal University of East Africa 1963-1970. In 1970 the University of East Africa was dissolved.

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Japan joins US, China in renewed scramble for Africa as it calls for ‘economic zone’ that links it to Indian Ocean

Japan joins US, China in renewed scramble for Africa as it calls for ‘economic zone’ that links it to Indian Ocean

Guterres said “unjust and unfair international financial architecture” must enhance African representation and endorse a strong African voice in the decision-making process, adding that building AI capacity in developing countries in Africa would help ease digital divide in the region.

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