Photo credit: the Guardian Muhammed Awol had a plan. The 29-year-old father of two, from Chefa Robbit in Ethiopia’s Amhara Region, believed a job in Japan would change his family’s future. Instead, he says, it emptied his pockets and left him with questions no one could answer. Borkena reports that it all started in 2024, when Awol paid…
Photo credit: TVC News Three Kenyan health workers have tested positive for Ebola after caring for the country’s first confirmed case, the Health Ministry said Saturday. The Associated Press reports that another person linked to the first case also tested positive while in quarantine, bringing the total number of infections in Kenya to seven. The ministry said the four…
Photo credit: iNewspaper Around 1,200 people were arrested in France on Saturday, as violent clashes, fire and looting marred demonstrations against rising living costs and poor conditions in schools. The I Paper reports that the City Hall in Limoges was set on fire and destroyed, with the flames still raging into the evening. French President…
I love artistes. The number one reason I love them for is because they can interpret even the most obvious things in a complex manner. I would rather believe in an artiste than a preacher. This is more so in a Nigeria where so many so-called men of God exist. Their religiosity has not saved…
Yes, they’re yet to come for me. I mean the agents of this government. So, I can afford to find funny the travails of those whose human rights are being violated. After all, they are big men. Dasuki and Kanu are two of a kind. Dasuki even went to the level of ECOWAS court. Then…
When our acquaintances, friends and age mates are dying, it’s an allegory for us to mend our ways and put things in order. It wouldn’t be out of place for us to decide how we want to be interred. When we do that, family and friends will be invitees to our self-planned funerals. Of course,…
Photo credit: NPR Donald Trump has called Ukraine’s renewed strikes on Russian oil refineries “a disgrace” and criticized Volodymyr Zelenskyy after an energy ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine failed to take hold. The Guardian reports that Ukraine resumed strikes on Russian oil refineries after Zelenskyy said Kyiv was abandoning a ceasefire unilaterally declared by Trump on…
