@AbiyAhmedAli Current policies in Asmara remain a major obstacle to lasting peace and stability in the region. Stronger regional deterrence and political action are urgently needed.
Raising postdoc licence fees from 5k to 15k misses the reality of academic research. Early-career researchers often pay out-of-pocket just to gather data and pitch for grants, funding is never guaranteed. NACOSTI is taxing the search for opportunity.
@WehliyeMohamed@Lawton_Times@Lawton_Times
Pack up your colonial mentality. Kenya isnโt just central to track and field, it is track and field, far more than a soon-to-be disintegrated UK. Besides, in Nairobi, you won't get your phone snatched on a stroll through the city. ๐ฐ๐ช๐๐จ
The World Athletics Championships are coming home!
Our country has won the right to host the 2029 World Athletics Championships, making Kenya the first African nation to stage the premier global athletics competition.
This is Kenyaโs moment, Africaโs moment and a victory for generations of athletes who made our nation synonymous with excellence on the track, on the road and cross country.
I congratulate our bid team, Athletics Kenya, the Ministry of Sports, Youth Affairs and the Creative Economy, our athletes and everyone who worked tirelessly to deliver this historic feat.
We thank World Athletics for the confidence it has placed in Kenya. We will honour that confidence by delivering an unforgettable championship worthy of our athletes, our country and our continent.
@TerryanneChebet We can import crude oil ๐ข๏ธ. It's that simple, Kenya used to do it and refine it at Changamwe before egocentric oli marketers corrupted the executive and started to import finished products.
Is that logic hard to digest?
@waluwande The Americans should have it, we can sue, rally public pressure on social media, and report corrupt actors to the FBI. The Chinese will just bribe a few officials and strip our minerals. Their model relies on elite capture, just like the SGR and Expressway projects.
The lack of perspective in Kenya is wild. Eti Burundians, oh xenophobia... Useless.
Go try selling chewing gum as a Kenyan at Kariakor market in Dar-es-salaam and see how fast reality hits.
@Asmali77 MashaAllah, strong! However, avoid weight lifting exercises in the evening, it will load you with adrenaline and compromise your sleeping pattern. Keep it in the morning.
@Polymarket Hard to believe the party of George Bush, Condoleezza Rice, Colin Powell, and John McCain has morphed into todayโs GOP under Trump, Vance, and Hegseth. Night and day.
Correcting the Mercator map matters. Maps shape worldviews, and despite its massive size, Africa has been visually minimized and rendered insignificant for far too long.
What's wrong with United States? It's the only country against the truth.
Today, the UN General Assembly voted overwhelmingly in support of an African-led resolution to correct the Mercator-based world map, addressing a 450 years injustice that has visually shrunk Africa for centuries, shaping how the continent is perceived in media, education, and policy.
Look at a world map. Africa looks about the same size as Greenland, right?
Africa is actually 14x bigger than Greenland.
The Mercator projection โ the map hanging in your classroom, stretches landmasses near the poles and shrinks everything near the equator. It was made in 1569 for sailors, not truth.
Hereโs what actually fits inside Africaโs real borders:
๐บ๐ธ The United States
๐จ๐ณ China
๐ฎ๐ณ India
๐ซ๐ท France, Spain, Germany, and most of Western Europe
๐ฏ๐ต Japan
โฆall of them. At once. With room to spare.
Football deserves leadership that respects the sport, not constant political favor-trading and commercial sell-offs.
โHow much more of this can the beautiful game take?
How is Gianni Infantino still running FIFA?
โFrom inventing a "FIFA Peace Prize" out of nowhere just to hand it to Donald Trump, to pushing a controversial plan to sell off private stakes in World Cup commercial rights, the scandals just keep piling up.