How three chickens inheritance from mother in-law blossomed into thriving poultry farm for Kiambu woman

How three chickens inheritance from mother in-law blossomed into thriving poultry farm for Kiambu woman

Her background a compelling story of a humble beginning. For capital, she inherited three chickens from her mother-in-law.

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Trump, Elon Musk brawl over contracts and impeachment as their bromance turns murky

Trump, Elon Musk brawl over contracts and impeachment as their bromance turns murky

The trouble between the two started brewing days ago, when Musk denounced Trump’s sweeping tax-cut and spending bill. The president initially held his tongue while Musk campaigned to torpedo the bill, saying it would add too much to the nation’s $36.2 trillion in debt.

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Musk sides with hardline US Republicans to ramp up attacks on Trump tax, spending bill

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.

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Parliamentary committee on climate change criticises Treasury for slashing budget by half

Parliamentary committee on climate change criticises Treasury for slashing budget by half

Kajwang, however, regretted that over the past nine years, the Climate Change Council established under the Act has never been reconstituted due to ongoing litigations. The senator said that Kenyan parliament has benefited from over Ksh100 million ($772,200) from the global green climate fund for capacity building purposes.

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Trump is building a global gulag for immigrants captured by bureau of Immigration, Customs and Enforcement

Trump is building a global gulag for immigrants captured by bureau of Immigration, Customs and Enforcement

The White House did not respond to a request for clarification about which countries are receiving third-country nationals. In the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, the George W. Bush administration created a worldwide network of secret prisons and torture sites as part of its global war on terror. Its crown jewel, the Guantánamo Bay detention centre, was established in January 2002 as a place for the United States to hold so-called enemy combatants.

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Gold rush: How exposure to mercury, which causes irreversible brain damage and loss of vision, is a disaster in Senegal

Gold rush: How exposure to mercury, which causes irreversible brain damage and loss of vision, is a disaster in Senegal

A 2018 Duke University-led study found mercury levels in soils, sediments and water near artisanal gold mining villages in southeastern Senegal that exceeded safety thresholds set by the World Health Organization and US Environmental Protection Agency by 10 to 100 times.

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Revenue starved Elon Musk’s X goes after advertisers over alleged ‘massive advertiser boycott’

Revenue starved Elon Musk’s X goes after advertisers over alleged ‘massive advertiser boycott’

In November 2023, about a year after Musk bought the company, a number of advertisers began fleeing X over concerns about their ads showing up next to pro-Nazi content and hate speech on the site in general, with Musk inflaming tensions with his own posts endorsing an antisemitic conspiracy theory.

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Paris Olympics: Labelling Algerian boxer Imane Khelif ‘insufficiently female’ is illogic and fascistic gender ideology

Paris Olympics: Labelling Algerian boxer Imane Khelif ‘insufficiently female’ is illogic and fascistic gender ideology

Khelif is a female athlete who was deemed by the International Olympic Committee to be eligible to compete. She is only the latest woman of colour in sports to be deemed insufficiently female by a right-wing commentariat obsessed with forging the strictest gender binaries, contrary to social, biological and medical realities.

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