Only 30% of the people are interested in the contents of the SONA. But one must survive these long speeches without losing their will to live. Many people attend the SONA for 3 things really. First they want to see the fashion parade and the whole...
This signals the decline of the separatist movement, which Algeria has supported for reasons beyond just geography, including regional influence. This decline was not caused by a sudden decision or military force, but by a series of political,...
The education sector is one of the actors that should particularly provide leadership in the process of transformation. This is crucial considering that our society emerged from a background where the right to education of children with special...
This past week, I went to one of the government departments. For you to get service before sunset, you have to arrive at around 3 am and strike a friendship with a security guard. When you arrive at that time, you will be number 83. I arrived at 5:00...
The Lions of Teranga are serious about their intentions, which is why they have not let this FIFA international week pass. They want to utilise every single minute afforded to the national side to prepare their team for the AFCON finals.But the...
Yet somewhere in that chaos, our brains begin to map meaning. A mother’s coo repeats often enough that it becomes familiar; a father’s laugh becomes music we recognise. Slowly, sound starts to segment into patterns, and patterns into...
These principles were established so that humanitarian action would be separate from politics and could not be politicised. Over time, another approach emerged from Woodrow Wilson, who believed that humanitarian aid in disaster and conflict crises...
However, far from reality, perceptions cannot be disregarded because they matter more. Social media can spread at supersonic speed both good and bad aspects of a school.Nonetheless, social media platforms tend to give much more prominence to negative...
And because sometimes your smarts desert you I failed to Google this and get out of my misery. Unfortunately for me a friend asked what actually a flash flood is and I mumbled off that it was actually just a fancy word for a flood to make it sound...
For us, summer is about more than sunshine and sandals, it’s about making memories that feel soft and warm even years later. This year, the season began with something new — a family adventure that quickly turned into one of our most cherished...
In September, Rollers failed to fulfil their fixture against Calendar Stars after the Gaborone giants' players went on strike. Subsequently, the BFL charged Rollers for bringing the game into disrepute. But now it is November, and the case is...
A sharper mind built better tools, forged tighter tribes, and dreamed beyond the visible horizon. Yet intelligence, ever restless, soon turned inward, questioning its own purpose. Perhaps evolution’s slyest twist was this: in giving us thought to...
Ethiopian Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed, has suggested that in dealing with existing conflicts and disputes on the continent, it is necessary to mobilise collective efforts to resolve them and that they “must be confined to this continent and...
Teachers have long realised and accepted the uniqueness of their profession. Teaching and learning thrive and prosper within a positive social milieu. The creation of the necessary enabling social milieu cannot be left in the hands of parents alone....
In fact two of them! Almost every year now one of our athletes is busted for doping. This is not news anymore. Experts warn that if this trend continues, the public may begin to experience ‘news fatigue,’ a condition where headlines are met with...
Despite the overwhelming rejection, he has nonchalantly hopped from one election to another. It could be two ways, his messages do not resonate with the sport (even politics) electorate or he is simply misunderstood.Over the weekend, for the...
On the field, competition distills our restless energy into something beautifully civilised: rules instead of chaos, sportsmanship instead of savagery. We run, leap, and dive not to survive the day, but to prove, if only for a moment, that we can...
The Arab Spring symbolized the power of collective action to shatter political stagnation. A little over a decade later, a new generation, Gen Z, has revived protest culture in a vastly different form. From Nepal and Sri Lanka to Morocco and...
This should be accompanied by a careful and radical selection of the leadership that would be equal to the task. Without the right leadership at all levels of the system, challenges that could be solved may appear stubborn and insurmountable. The...
The first time I made them, I was determined and I made it through. This time around, I thought I’d outsource the muscle.My husband stepped in, drying the sharpest knives like a pro (cleaver and carver), from a set gifted by my mom in-law, only to...
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