Lake Victoria pollution at tipping point as study exposes how 44 towns in East Africa poison world’s second largest freshwater mass
Speaking during the release of the findings in Mwanza Tanzania, Eng Otoung, said the study provides a layered snapshot of the lake’s physical, chemical and biological condition.
State legitimacy crisis in Uganda: A hotchpotch of deep state, military state and police state that represses or suppresses alternative opinion
We see erosion of peace and security in both rural and urban areas at a rate unimaginable after 2000. Ogega Otunnu (2017) has indicated that the crisis of state legitimacy and political violence in Uganda continues. He has looked at the crisis of state legitimacy under the Uganda National Liberation Movement/Army (UNLF/A) from 1979-1980, Uganda People’s Congress during Obote II from 1981/1985, Tito Okello military junta from 1985-1986 and National Resistance Movement under Tibuhaburwa Museveni from 1986-2016 (SpringerLink Search, 2020).
There’s no such thing as a free lunch: Listening billionaires’ stories it’s obvious they are sick of human species, whom they see as inferior beings around them
In order to roll back the labour victories of the postwar era (which had become harder to justify in the wake of falling profits), American elites both empowered finance capital (leading to a series of bubbles) and embraced deindustrialization, with many industries shifting to the Global South (notably China).
Anti-graft body raises serious concerns over possible looting as current financial year closes
EACC Western Region Manager Eric Ngumbi expressed of looting public coffers when he opened a three-day integrity workshop for Bungoma County senior officials, Mohamud said the commission was closely monitoring transactions in the devolved units, where the risk of financial misconduct is highest at the close of the budget cycle.
Kenya fisheries institute establishes farmer training centre in Kakamega as blue economy takes root
KMFRI is seeking partnerships for technical support from China, Philippines, Canada, United States of America (USA) and Israel that have similar facilities for provision of expert technical assistance and training.
Republicans in House, Senate on the edge over 2026 midterm elections as Trump-Musk feud
Their buddy-movie dynamic evaporated this week as Musk and Trump openly feuded over a sweeping tax-cut and spending bill that Musk blasted as likely to add significantly to the federal government’s $36.2 trillion in debt. He called for Trump’s impeachment – something the Republican-controlled Congress is unlikely to take up – and mused publicly about the creation of a new political party.
Musk sides with hardline US Republicans to ramp up attacks on Trump tax, spending bill
Top congressional Republicans rejected his criticism and one White House official on Wednesday called the Tesla CEO’s moves “infuriating.” Another White House official, speaking on condition of anonymity, on Wednesday said Musk’s complaints represented “one disagreement” in an otherwise harmonious relationship, adding that Trump was committed to getting the bill passed despite Musk’s stance.
New study: Paradox of ‘excess deaths’ in Western countries with high Covid vaccine rates, but low in Third World
Referring to South Korea, another “highly vaccinated” country where, as recently as last year, the excess death rate was over 20 per cent, Campbell said these are “horrific figures, which are simply not being talked about.”
Lake Turkana fish: How corrupt Kenyan officials make a killing in world’s largest permanent desert lake, impoverish local communities
While data on quantities and earnings from legal fish exports is scanty, international investigators, Institute for Security Studies, estimate the 300 tonnes of fish valued at over $1.7 million from Lake Turkana is smuggled to DRC and Zambia.
WHO faces uncertain future as US accuses it of being ‘mired in bureaucratic bloat, entrenched paradigms, conflicts of interest’
During the Covid-19 pandemic, the WHO capitulated to pressure from the Chinese government by promoting “the fiction that Covid originated from bats or pangolins, rather than from Chinese government-sponsored research at a biolab in Wuhan,” Kennedy said, in a reference to the lab-leak theory of Covid-19’s origin.
