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3 weeks ago |
yahoo.com | Mary Kulundu
Kenya's President William Ruto sparked protests recently after donating some $150,000 to a Nairobi church just months after saying such hand-outs fuelled corruption. Ruto's pledge of 20 million shillings to the Jesus Winner Ministry Church led to protesters gathering there a week later, demanding the return of what they called "stolen tax money", only to be teargassed by police.
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3 weeks ago |
barrons.com | Mary Kulundu
The Barron's news department was not involved in the creation of the content above. This article was produced by AFP. For more information go to AFP.com. © Agence France-Presse
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1 month ago |
barrons.com | Mary Kulundu
Like many members of the ethnic-Somali community in Kenya, 60-year-old Abdi Khalif Aden has never had a national ID despite multiple attempts to get one. Aden has been clinging on to his uncle's identification card as the only thing that offers some tentative proof he was born in Kenya. Typically for his pastoralist community, Aden was born at home and has no birth certificate.
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2 months ago |
yahoo.com | Mary Kulundu
Amid the ongoing crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo, TikTok posts are circulating videos claiming to show US soldiers arriving in the country to “rescue” an American citizen -- and son of a local coup leader -- who was sentenced to death. However, the claims are false; there are no reports of US soldiers being deployed to the DRC, and the videos in the posts are old and unrelated to the latest turmoil.
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2 months ago |
yahoo.com | Mary Kulundu
As wildfires ravaged thousands of acres across Los Angeles neighborhoods in early 2025, viral posts claimed to show a distressed animal being rescued from the inferno. However, digital investigations revealed the video is old and was taken during a bushfire in Australia six years ago. The animal being rescued is a koala, native to Australia. On January 12, 2025, an account on Threads shared a video showing a woman rescuing a koala surrounded by flames.
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