Kenya is badly prepared for floods: four steps to reduce devastation and deaths: Floods in Kenya in April/May 2024 led to the deaths of over 250 people and caused damage estimated at 4 billion Kenya shillings (US$ 35 million). Not for the first time, Kenya’s lack of preparedness was apparent as flooding rampaged through rural …
Census data in West Africa is badly out of date: 5 reasons fresh population statistics are crucial: Guineans living in Ivory Coast wait for their turn during a census on March 26, 2010 in Adjame, a popular district in Abidjan. SIA Kambou/AFP via Getty images West Africa, an area composed of 16 countries, is one …
Widows in Nigeria are sometimes treated badly: culture is no excuse to violate rights: Widows in the northern Nigerian city of Kano. Photo by Aminu Abubakar/AFP/Getty Images Nigeria is home to about 15 million of the world’s 258 million widows. Widowhood in an ethnically and religiously diverse country like Nigeria, with three major ethnic groups …
Ukraine: Victory Day celebrations can’t mask how badly things are going for Vladimir Putin: Russians gathered on May 9 for the annual Victory Day celebrations, a hugely symbolic commemoration of Nazism’s defeat in the second world war. Elsewhere in the world, there is general agreement that Russia’s military has so far failed to achieve the …
From ghosting to ‘backburner’ relationships: the reasons why people behave so badly on dating apps: Gorodenkoff/Shutterstock There’s no doubt that online dating and dating apps have transformed the way we initiate, form and end romantic relationships. We might also question whether the convenience of these apps has encouraged us to behave differently than we would …
Namibia badly needs refurbishment after 32 years under the ruling party: Hage Gottfried Geingob, President of Namibia. Photo by Hannah McKay – Pool/Getty Images Namibia has been a presidential democracy since independence from South Africa in 1990. Much executive power is vested in the head of state, who is elected directly every five years in …
How customers and workers can give business strategy a badly needed boost: Fresh faces. COVID forced companies around the world to urgently review their business models. Restaurants switched to selling groceries, passenger airlines moved cargo, and car manufacturers produced ventilators. The pandemic highlighted the importance of fresh thinking in the corporate world. Now the business …
African countries perform badly when it comes to drug policies: a new index shows how: Kenyan police officers display bags of heroin seized in 2011. Tony Karumba/AFP via Getty Images Awukye received a 10-year prison sentence in Ghana for cannabis possession. The experience, he said, shattered his family’s dreams. Michael Anami, a Kenyan, recalled the …
G7 summit: UK is badly conflicted between offshore tax havens and Biden’s global tax drive: US and UK finance ministers Janet Yellen and Rishi Sunak at G7 meeting in London. EPA For four decades, there has been a global race to the bottom on multinational tax, with Britain and its network of tax havens at …
European Super League collapse: US football owners badly misread supporter culture in England: Barely two days after it was unveiled, the European Super League (ESL) is dead in the water. All six of the English clubs who made up the 12 founding members of the proposed breakaway competition pulled out, following loud opposition from everyone …
European Super League: why punishing the breakaway 12 could backfire badly: Mikhael Damkier The football world has been rocked by the announcement of a breakaway European Super League (ESL). The majority think it a bad idea, from governing bodies Fifa and Uefa through to national bodies such as the FA and English Premier League. The …
South Africa in the news: Opinion: Why have we failed women so badly during Covid?: For a significant number of women and girls in South Africa, their own four walls became as dangerous and threatening as the virus outside, if not more so. Violence against women increased …: “South Africa” – BingNews Nile countries trade …
Cats don’t avoid strangers who behave badly towards their owners, unlike dogs: Shutterstock/Chendongshan There’s an old stereotype about the difference between cats and dogs. Dogs are loving and fiercely loyal, they say, while cats are aloof and indifferent. Most cat people probably disagree – I certainly find it hard to believe, with my cat purring …
Children transitioning from care to adult life are being badly let down – and falling prey to criminal gangs: Too many children are going missing from accommodations. Penn/Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND Across the UK, thousands of children are living in unregulated accommodations, designed to help them transition from living in care to an independent life as …
Has the FTSE 100 really performed as badly this century as it appears?: Apple has become the first company worth US$ 2 billion (£1.7 trillion), meaning that it is now more valuable than all the companies in the FTSE 100 (they add up to £1.5 trillion). This is extraordinary news about one American tech company, …
Stories on Stage presents “People Behaving Badly” – a Culture interest event taking place on 2019-09-22 13:30:00 in United States People Behaving Badly Sunday, September 22 at 1:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. Here's your chance to celebrate everything that's illegal, immoral or fattening! Stories on Stage presents "People Behaving Badly" on Sunday, September 22 at …
South Africa in the news: South Africa: Stepfather of Badly Abused Boy May Be Referred for Psychiatric Evaluation: The stepfather of a boy who had been abused so badly he needed to be admitted to a special care centre may be referred for psychiatric evaluation, the Western Cape High Court heard on Friday. Taswell and …
South Africa’s economy is badly skewed to the big guys: how it can be changed: Shutterstock The South African economy looks uncomfortably the same to the one inherited when the country transitioned from apartheid to democracy in 1994. Which is why it’s time for a robust economic policy agenda to make it more open, productive …