by TIMOTHY CERULLO on Friday, 28 June 2024 - 12:31 pm Eldoret residents stage counter-protests against striking medics in Eldoret Town on April 15, 2024. Eldoret residents stage counter-protests against striking medics in Eldoret Town on April 15, 2024. The High Court on Friday, June 28, issued a directive barring the national police service from using water canons and tear gas against peaceful demonstrators. Police officers were ordered to halt using live ammunition, rubber bullets, crude weapons and other draconian measures against those protesting against the Finance Bill. The High Court also directed the officers manning demonstrators to stop deploying brute force or any form of violence or committing any extrajudicial killings. The High Court further ordered police to stop unnecessary arrests, abductions, detentions, harassment, intimidation, torture, and cruel, inhuman

Kenya,The Fastest Growing Economy In Africa, Is On The Brink Of A Fiscal Calamity. Across Africa, Nations Are Spending More On Interest Than On Health Or Education. A Kenyan police officer wearing riot gear telling protesters to move back during a protest in Nairobi on Tuesday.Credit...Patrick Meinhardt/Getty Images The immediate trigger for the raging protest that gripped Kenya’s capital on Tuesday was a raft of proposed tax increases — additional shillings that ordinary citizens would owe their government. The underlying cause, though, are the billions of dollars their government owes its creditors. Kenya has the fastest growing economy in Africa and a vibrant business center. But its government is desperate to stave off default. The country’s staggering $80 billion in domestic and foreign

South African Communist Party Saturday, 15 June 2024: The South African Communist Party (SACP) welcomes the democratic return of the African National Congress (ANC) as the leader of our government, with President Cyril Ramaphosa re-elected on Friday night, 14 June 2024, and Thoko Didiza elected as the Speaker of the National Assembly. The balance of political forces under which this happened, measured by the distribution of seats and conduct of a number of political parties prior to the first sitting of and in the National Assembly following the May 2024 elections, was characterised by precarity. While following the elections the ANC remains the largest political party by electoral support, for the first time since our April 1994 democratic breakthrough it fell short

The lawmakers say the cost of maintaining the 19-year-old aircraft used by Mr Tinubu is high, leading to longer aircraft downtime and higher fleet running costs. ByBakare Majeed  June 13, 2024 The House of Representatives Committee on National Security and Intelligence has asked the federal government to immediately purchase new aeroplanes for the use of President Bola Tinubu and Vice President Kashim Shettima. The Committee made the call in a report issued after its technical subcommittee conducted a hearing on the status and airworthiness of aircraft in the Presidential Air Fleet (PAF). “The Committee is of the strong and informed opinion that considering the fragile structure of the Nigerian federation and recognising the dire consequences of any foreseen or unforeseen mishap that may arise as a result

KENYAN PRESIDENT WILLIAM RUTO & US PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN An Open Letter to William Ruto By Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o Dear William Ruto, The images of your recent State visit to the USA were very disturbing to me and to every patriotic Kenyan. I saw you seated on a chair, grinning, while Biden stood behind you, his face beaming with satisfaction. Why not? He had just announced that you had signed off our beloved Kenya to make it a non-member ally of NATO. In other words you had agreed to become Nato’s errand boy in America’s struggle with Russia and China for access to resources of the continent. Ruto, do you know that Nato, murdered Muammar Gaddafi, so that Libyan oil-fields which Kaddafi had nationalized, would revert