If Africa's top referee is inadmissible in America, who qualifies? Many are calling it racism.
Somali referee Omar Abdulkadir Artan was denied entry into the US "due to vetting concerns" even though he had a 3-month multiple entry visa and was traveling on a diplomatic passport
Omar Artan's inability to work at the World Cup - and FIFA's refusal to stand up for him - is a disgrace
It is also a direct result of Gianni Infantino cosying up to Donald Trump, writes @felixkeith
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The High Court has ordered Kenya's government to disclose details of its deal with the US to set up an Ebola quarantine facility in Laikipia.
The court also wants health and safety reports made public.
24 hours without a formal reaction from the Kenyan government even though it’s a Kenyan court that blocked the US Ebola facility.
Why is all the information about this coming from Americans?
16 kids are dead because we cannot handle a fire around a military based camp but we want to handle Ebola???? A whole pandemic??? And y'all still giving that man a platform??? Maybe we actually deserve what we're going through! This country is sickening man!💔
Cyprian,
Can you imagine this?
From Utumishi Girls to ASTU Headquarters is barely a 4-minute drive.
UGA to NYS Gilgil is around 10 minutes.
UGA to Westcom Garrison is about 10 minutes away.
UGA to Gilgil Barracks is roughly 12 minutes away.
Yet despite being surrounded by all these security and emergency installations, we still lost 17 children because help took more than one hour to arrive.
What do we even call this? Negligence? Failure of emergency response? Complete breakdown of coordination?
It is heartbreaking knowing that these children were not isolated in some remote village with no access roads or communication. They were surrounded by institutions that should have responded immediately, yet precious time was lost as innocent lives slipped away.
Kenyans are now left asking painful questions: how does such a tragedy happen in an area with multiple nearby security and emergency units? Why did it take so long for assistance to reach children in distress? Could some of these lives have been saved if the response had been immediate?
The pain, anger, and frustration people are feeling right now is understandable. Families have lost children, parents are broken, and the country is mourning while serious questions about preparedness and response continue hanging unanswered.
Al Jazeera has released a disturbing documentary exposing how Kenyans are allegedly being surveilled through their phones, and how Safaricom may have been enabling it.
According to the documentary, citizens’ phone data has reportedly been shared with security agencies, while spyware has allegedly been used to infiltrate devices and monitor people.
Think about that for a moment.
The same phone you use for M-Pesa, calls, WhatsApp and private family conversations could allegedly be turned into a surveillance tool against you.
This should terrify every Kenyan.
Because this is no longer about politicians.
It’s about ordinary people.
A boda rider criticizing taxes.
A journalist exposing corruption.
A university student tweeting against the government.
A parent complaining about the economy in a WhatsApp group.
If unchecked, Kenya could slowly return to the fear that existed during the Moi era, where people whispered inside homes because they feared the state was listening.
Only this time, the informer is in your pocket.
Your phone. That is why this story matters.
A government that watches its own citizens is not protecting democracy or them.
It is protecting leaders like Ruto.
And once people become afraid to speak freely, freedom dies quietly.
The Al Jazeera exposé confirms our worst fears. The Ruto administration didn’t just deploy police against protestors they turned our phones into tracking devices. And @SafaricomPLC sat right in the middle, enabling it. Your privacy isn't just breached; it's weaponized.
Zaha Indimuli: The justice system is failing, Interior ministry is failing, the police are failing, the entire Cabinet is failing.
If we cannot live in a country where kids can play outside, where mothers can have a break on Sunday and not have to worry that their kids can disappear, where women can go to work and not have to look at their backs 24/7.
#TheLastWordNTV @jamessmat
Auditor general Nancy Gathungu reveals that essential HIV, malaria and cancer drugs worth Sh1 billion expired while sitting in KEMSA warehouses.
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Those attacking Arsenal fans for turning up in huge numbers in Nairobi but not showing up for protests are missing the bigger point.
People do not fail to protest because they love suffering. They fail to protest because Kenyans are not angry enough, not desperate enough and not organized enough to sustain serious resistance. That is the uncomfortable truth.
A football victory march is easy because it is joy, identity, banter, music and vibes. A protest is risk, police, tear gas, arrest, job loss, injury and sometimes death. You cannot compare the two as if people are choosing Arsenal over liberation. People are choosing comfort over sacrifice because the pain has not yet crossed the point where staying home feels more dangerous than going to the streets.
That is why these 8am to 6pm CBD protests, almost arranged like someone is reporting to a job, will never shake a regime properly. People come, shout, run from police, take photos, trend for a few hours and go back home before darkness. The government simply waits them out.
A real people’s movement is not an office-hours activity. It is not something you squeeze between breakfast and supper. It is built when the anger is deep, widespread, fearless and impossible to manage with police trucks and press statements.
So stop blaming Arsenal fans. They have only exposed what we already know. Kenyans can gather when they want to. The problem is that, politically, the country is still not angry enough.
Matatu sector leaders were each given KSh 500,000 in a quiet deal reportedly facilitated through Governor Sakaja.
With about 30 leaders involved, the total payout is said to be around KSh 15 million.
I am also told flight tickets have been booked for them to travel to Mombasa for a meeting with President William Ruto.