Mt Kenya University’s drive to become ‘Africa skills supermarket’ sees 27 nursing apprentices depart for Germany
MKU Vice-Chancellor Deogratius Jaganyi said the institution is also in the process of becoming an approved TELC (The European Language Certificates) examination centre, a move that will allow students to undertake German proficiency exams locally and enhance MKU’s language training ecosystem.
Way Museveni’s abstract policies rendered indigenous Maragoli and other communities stateless in Uganda, nativised refugees
More fundamentally, the very presence of this parallel system enables the government to neglect its obligations to indigenous children, knowing that international sympathy will ensure refugee children are not entirely abandoned.
Museveni’s architecture of erasure: How Uganda president has disempowered indigenous people since coming to power in 1986
For four decades, a singular political project has defined the history of the territory once known as the British Uganda Protectorate. It is not a project of liberation, development or unity as its proponents claim. It is a project of erasure.
Tehran vows strong retaliation if Trump makes good threats of sweeping strikes on Iran’s power infrastructure
Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf on Sunday said that energy and oil infrastructure across the region could face “irreversible” destruction if the United States targets Iran’s power plants.
Post-Raila Luo: Coming to grips with the vulgarity, ethnicity and mediocrity that define roots of Luo pride and arrogance
The senior civil servants from the Luo community are just as inadequate as their political leaders. Health Principal Secretary Oluga, had the audacity to post on his Facebook, “Tutam is a reality,” simply because Ruto visited his home, while never mentioning the failing SHA and the dismal health system
WTO projects slow global trade growth in 2026 against backdrop of rising Middle East tensions
The WTO’s new chief economist Robert Staiger told a press conference that the “unusually strong trade growth” in 2025 was mainly driven by the frontloading of imports in North America in anticipation of higher US tariffs, as well as a surge in AI-related goods. But the two forces are “unlikely to persist through 2026,” said Staiger.
European Central Bank says it on high alert to adjust rates if tensions in Middle East persist
Although the central bank had been claiming for months that it was “in a good place,” it struck a different tone on Thursday amid renewed energy price spikes driven by the US-Israeli war on Iran.
Fly-on-the-wall: Florida real estate in US is a covert corridor for Chinese, Russian spies as it’s home to 21 military installations and world’s busiest spaceport
The ex-spies blended in nicely among the engineers, techies, and tanned retirees from law enforcement and government-adjacent jobs. They’d adapted to life along the so-called Space Coast, a palm-dotted shoreline roughly 70 miles end to end, from Titusville down through Cocoa Beach and on past the guarded gates of Patrick Space Force Base, where NASA’s old infrastructure still hums, even as the privatized rocket era now sets the tempo.
Legacy of Mwalimu Nyerere in $137 million ‘sovereignty’ war: How latter-day regimes made Tanzanian businesses vulnerable to foreign banks
The High Court cleared the way for the EADB’s properties in Dar es Salaam to be auctioned and their bank accounts at Standard Chartered to be frozen to pay the businessman.
Transition: Movie icon and karate legend Chuck Norris ‘Missing in Action’ surrounded by ‘family and was at peace’ aged 86
Norris first found fame in karate films of the 1980s, including A Force of One and An Eye for an Eye. By the end of the decade, he was established as one of Hollywood’s biggest action stars. He starred in the TV series Walker, Texas Ranger, which premiered in 1993....
