In a system designed to kill you, invisibility is survival: How silence saved German girl assigned to serve Nazi murders
They settled in Queens. Flora worked multiple jobs – seamstress, whatever she could find – long hours at immigrant wages that barely covered rent. But she had a purpose beyond survival: her son would have the freedom, opportunity and voice stolen from her.
How in a tiny rented in 1896 in Detroit, US, Henry Ford built the first gasoline-powered car and changed the way the world travels
Seven years later, on June 16, 1903, Ford launched the Ford Motor Company in a small converted carriage factory in Detroit. The company’s first year brought in $37,000 in profit against $28,000 in investment.
How philosopher John Dewey’s ‘school of chaos’ similar to Competency-Based Education in Kenya catapulted America to industrial giant
There were no rigid lessons. Children learned math by running a store, science by cooking, history by building tools. They moved. They spoke. They failed in public. Dewey treated mistakes as data, not disobedience. Knowledge came from experience, not recitation.
How South African teenage girl who spoke English, French, Arabic, Swahili and Kikuyu was instrumental in Britain’s WWII victory over Germany
Over the course of her mission, Pippa Latour sent 135 coded messages. Each one directed RAF precision bombing runs. Each one armed French Resistance cells. Each one brought D-Day closer to success.
Prices in steep fall as drought decimates livestock, people forced to depend on alms in Kenya’s Wajir County
The drought has also disrupted livestock markets, which are a key source of income for households in the arid and semi-arid region. At the Orahey livestock market, traders report a drastic reduction in the number of animals brought for sale as well as a sharp fall in prices due to poor body condition.
New study finds causal link between Moderna Covid vaccine and high incidence of heart damage, death
The study, published last week in the journal Vaccines, found that among males ages 18-25, the Moderna mRNA-1273 Covid-19 vaccine was associated with 8 per cent to 52 per cent more hospitalisations for vaccine-attributable myocarditis and pericarditis (VAM/P) than the number of Covid-19 hospitalizations it prevented.
Searchlight turns to deep-seated dog-fight ravaging spy agency after reports ‘Burundian refugees demand’ arrest of Kenya opposition leaders
Early last year, a security expert George Musamali warned that the health minister – then charge for defence – was clandestinely ‘importing’ foreign national, who are then ferried Kakuma Refugee Camps through Uganda. Once in the camp, they learn basic Kiswahili and secretly given Kenyan identity cards.
IOM launches $91 million funding appeal to support migrants in Africa
IOM Director General Amy Pope stressed in a video message that sustainable financing is key to tackling the migration crisis in the Greater Horn of Africa and southern Africa regions, fuelled by climate change, instability, and poverty.
Transition: America’s prime Black civil rights activist, Rev Jesse Jackson, waves world last goodbye as he ‘returns to the Pavilion’ aged 84
Jesse Jackson famously marched with the Rev Martin Luther King Jr in civil rights demonstrations in the 1960s and was with King the morning he was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968.
Report says racism aimed at Aborigines, Africans, Chinese and Asians is ravaging Australian universities
Based on a survey of more than 76,000 students and staff at 42 universities, the report said that 70 per cent of respondents reported experiencing indirect racism.
