Rift deepens in Kenya’s Dock Workers Union as court ousts secretary general, orders forensic audit of union accounts
On the suspension of officials, including Deputy Secretary General Sulman Owuor and his co-claimants, the court found that although the National Executive Committee (NEC) had the power to suspend, due process was not followed.
‘A whole civilisation will die tonight, never to be brought back again,’ Trump warns Iran
Trump threatened to destroy all of Iran’s power plants and bridges if Tehran does not allow traffic to fully resume in the strait, through which a fifth of the world’s oil transits in peacetime. Iran’s president said 14 million people, including himself, have volunteered to fight.
Artemis II crew surpasses 400,171km Apollo 13 distance record to reach the blind side of Moon
According to Eyewitness online newspaper, “A total solar eclipse greeted the three Americans and one Canadian as the moon temporarily blocked the sun from their perspective. Mercury, Venus, Mars and Saturn nodded at them from the black void. The landing sites of Apollo 12 and 14 also were visible, poignant reminders of NASA’s first age of exploration more than half a century ago.”
World oil market experts warn end of Iran war is not guarantee prices will drop to pre-conflict levels
If hostilities fail to resolve and the maritime route continues to be blocked, the global oil market could be left in a fragile state, experts said. If shipping remains disrupted, that could force a structural shift in shipping and lead to higher long-term energy prices, reported the BBC.
Why African universities are ‘centres of docility’ that produce ‘educated fools’ capable only of citing narrow theories
I explain my deliberate rejection of the popular but deceitful banner of ‘multidisciplinarity,’ and lay out my vision for a new ecosystem of higher education institutions: the interversity, crossversity, transversity and extraversity.
‘Eyes on the road’: US cities merger of surveillance cameras with AI stir of panic data will used for political, racial discrimination
Camera-based automatic license plate readers, installed at major intersections, bridges and highway off-ramps, capture the license plate data of passing vehicles, along with images of the vehicle and time stamps. These systems are using AI to create a vast, searchable database that can be integrated with other law enforcement data repositories.
Young, Gifted and Black: Black music icon Aretha Franklin besought ‘Jesus, Be a Fence Around’ that was answered with ‘Amazing Grace’ as a ‘natural resource’
Aretha Louise Franklin was born on March 25, 1942, at the family home on 406 Lucy Avenue in Memphis, Tennessee. Her father was a Baptist circuit preacher from Shelby, Mississippi, and her mother was a pianist and gospel singer whom Mahalia Jackson once called one of the finest in the country.
US Supreme Court backs medical free speech in ruling against ban on conversion therapy
The US Supreme Court on Tuesday sided with a Colorado-licensed counsellor who challenged the state’s law banning “conversion therapy” for minors, arguing the law violates her First Amendment right to free speech. Legal experts said the ruling may positively affect the outcome of two pending medical free speech lawsuits filed by Children’s Health Defence.
Iran warns Trump: Prepare for ‘much more devastating’ and extensive retaliation if civilian targets are attacked
In another development, Ali Akbar Velayati, adviser to Iran’s supreme leader, warned on Sunday that the resistance front could target the Bab el-Mandeb Strait.
How US-Israel war with Iran has sparked global fertiliser shortage that’s hit eastern Africa hard
Iran is seriously limiting shipments through the Strait of Hormuz, a narrow passage that usually handles about a fifth of the world’s oil shipments and nearly a third of global fertilizer trade.
