@KrutikaKuppalli Here's part of the answer: A health pact that covers disease outbreak surveillance and prevention signed between the US and Kenya in December last year: https://t.co/MTuKT8oJpr
Government official syndrome: when power eats the brain, every move/service becomes a photoshoot. PR stunts rain down like confetti, but the stage lights can’t hide empty governance. 🎭
Many people keep messaging me about coming to the UK🇬🇧 or USA🇺🇸 on a student visa. I had stopped talking about these things, but let me answer this question clearly and publicly. A student visa can easily become a waste of money if you do not think beyond just “getting abroad”.
For the UK 🇬🇧 , if you are not coming into a serious healthcare field like Medicine, Occupational Therapy, or Nursing, just don’t unless you are studying and going back to your home country. And even the fields mentioned above are no longer the golden ticket people think they are, because immigration rules keep changing.
The painful truth is this, many people come, pay millions, graduate, and end up on a Graduate Visa doing care jobs instead of the course they studied. By the time the Graduate Visa ends, they still have no sponsored job to allow them legally stay.
Why? Because getting a student visa is one thing. Switching to a Skilled Worker Visa is another war completely.
Outside healthcare, many jobs now need salaries around £41,700 or more to qualify for sponsorship. Which employer is rushing to pay that kind of money to someone needing sponsorship for an entry-level role? 💯none!
Now the USA🇺🇸 is not automatically heaven either. People shout “America” like it is easy, but international students there are facing serious stress. OPT approvals can take months. Some students finish school and sit there waiting for work authorization while time, rent, bills, and anxiety are eating them alive.
Then after OPT, you still have H-1B lottery uncertainty. You can study, graduate, work temporarily, do everything right, and still not win the visa lottery. That is not a plan. That is gambling with your future which is quite more often today!
And now with recent US immigration policy changes, there is also growing pressure for some people seeking green cards to leave USA🇺🇸 and apply from outside through consular processing, instead of simply adjusting status while already inside America.
So imagine this, you spend years studying in America, pay huge fees, survive OPT stress, fight for sponsorship, and still face a system that tells you to go back home and process your next step from outside.
This is the part agents will not put on the poster!
They will show you graduation gowns, nice buildings, smiling students, and “study abroad success stories”. They will not show you the person who graduated and is now stuck doing survival jobs, begging employers for sponsorship, watching their visa expiry date like a death sentence. @Kimuzi_ you remember the story of the comrade I gave you?
Before you sell land, take loans, pressure your parents, or spend family savings on UK or USA student visas, ask the real question:
After graduation, what next?
Because getting the visa is not the victory. Surviving what comes after is the real battle.
Raila Odinga’s lifelong struggle for democracy in 🇰🇪 and Africa mirrors Ousmane Sonko’s current battle in Senegal: both men embody anti-establishment resistance,fight against authoritarianism,and champion constitutional reforms,though their contexts differ in scale and outcome.
Senegalese President Faye fires Sonko, Sonko outsmarts him and becomes Speaker of Parliament with absolute majority.
Faye would not be president without Sonko. Is his presidency cooked?
Sonko fired as PM just 4 days ago, now Speaker with 132 votes. Pastef rules parliament, Faye holds the presidency. Debt crisis deepens, IMF talks frozen. Two ex-allies, now rivals, steering toward collision. #Senegal 🇸🇳
Bruno Fernandes broke down when he received the call to join Manchester United...
"For like 10, 20 seconds, I didn't say anything. I was crying, but I didn't want to talk because you know like your voice starts going a little bit shaky.”
Bruno Fernandes on Man United’s biggest mistakes:
"The main mistake that the club has made through the years is that we've changed manager to manager, they were very different. And that's already a bad sign…”
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PRESIDENTIAL Escort Commander Noah Maiyo moved to Vigilance as William Sawe takes over after a serious breach on President Ruto; several other officers moved.
Why did he take the fall?:
The escort commander despite being answerable to the Inspector General of Police, has sweeping powers and total control of the presidential escort unit.
He is the only officer in PEU who can stop the president from “moving” at any given time if he deems such movement a security risk.
The presidential escort unit draws its officers from the elite Recce squad most of whom have undergone intensive close protection training overseas.
The presidential security RING is three-phased and at any given time moves in a rhombus shape with the president at the center of it.
The outermost circle consists of individuals generally known to the security detail, the second ring is layered by top government officials and the third and most crucial circle has been vetted, cleared, and every member in the circle is known to the security detail.