At Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya’s Laikipia County, the world’s last two northern white rhinos, Najin and her daughter Fatu, live under constant protection. These two females are the final members of a species that once roamed the African grasslands in the hundreds. With the 2018 death of Sudan—the last male—the subspecies was declared functionally…
A Kenyan police officer was fatally injured in Haiti on Sunday in an operation that was part of the international effort to help combat gang violence and restore order to the Caribbean nation, officials said. It appears to be the first death of a Kenyan officer working as part of the Multinational Security Support Mission,…
Funds for vital health programs around the world remain frozen and their work has not been able to resume, despite a federal judge’s order that temporarily halted the Trump administration’s dismantling of the government’s main foreign aid agency. Interviews with people working on health initiatives in Africa and Asia found that parents in Kenya whose…
Numerous programs aimed at averting violence, instability and extremism worsened by global warming are ensnared in the effort to dismantle the main American aid agency, U.S.A.I.D. One such project helped communities manage water stations in Niger, a hotbed of Islamist extremist groups where conflicts over scarce water are common. Another helped repair water-treatment plants in…
For decades, sub-Saharan Africa was a singular focus of American foreign aid. The continent received over $8 billion a year, money that was used to feed starving children, supply lifesaving drugs and provide wartime humanitarian assistance. In a few short weeks, President Trump and the South African-born billionaire Elon Musk have burned much of that…
Funds from the world’s richest nation once flowed from the largest global aid agency to an intricate network of small, medium and large organizations that delivered aid: H.I.V. medications for more than 20 million people; nutrition supplements for starving children; support for refugees, orphaned children and women battered by violence. Now, that network is unraveling….
An executive order signed by President Trump on Monday that suspends refugee admissions to the United States puts at risk thousands of citizens of Afghanistan who helped the American mission during the war there, the president of a California-based resettlement group said. The order would affect not only scores of Afghans who are now in…
Snakes like these are giants. Black mambas can stretch to 14 feet, and the longest king cobra ever recorded was 19 feet. Puff adders are petite by contrast, as short as six inches and no longer than six feet, but very thick. They have long, retractable fangs that can deliver poison into muscle. Their venom…
Snakes like these are giants. Black mambas can stretch to 14 feet, and the longest king cobra ever recorded was 19 feet. Puff adders are petite by contrast, as short as six inches and no longer than six feet, but very thick. They have long, retractable fangs that can deliver poison into muscle. Their venom…
Adani Controversy: अमेरिकी जस्टिस डिपार्टमेंट के यूएस सिक्योरिटीज एंड एक्सचेंज कमीशन ने अडानी पर रिश्वत देने के आरोप लगाए हैं, ये खबर दूसरे दिन भी खबरों में है. अब अडानी समूह के लिए एक और खबर आई है जो ग्रुप के लिए निगेटिव है. केन्या की सरकार ने अडानी समूह के साथ देश के मुख्य…