It is now clear that Russia has failed to achieve the quick victory President Putin had hoped for when it brazenly invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022. Despite the impressive visual display of Russia’s military power, the invasion turned out to be nothing more than a terrible killing field for both soldiers and civilians on both sides.
Such a simple man he was! It was no chance but fate that threw him up. He was rough. He was impatient. He lived his whole life on the physical plane. He was easy to flatter. He was easy to provoke. When provoked he could kill.
Of all the countries in sub-Saharan Africa to be optimistic about, the most promising is Kenya. Economic and political forces are converging to put the continent’s seventh-largest nation in a relatively favorable position.
Before 1986, Acholiland was well endowed with vegetation, and the people used it judiciously without causing any large-scale deforestation. However, in the last 50 years, especially during the 20-year war (1986-2006) between the National Resistance Army (NRA) led by Yoweri Museveni and the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) led by Joseph Kony, some military officers began to exploit the pristine forests for lucrative charcoal and timber businesses ...
Few witnessed the building of the young Kenyan state from within as did Ngina Kenyatta, the widow of Kenya’s first president, Jomo Kenyatta. Mama Ngina, as she is known, will mark her 90th birthday on 24 June 2023. She was by her husband’s side when Kenya won independence 60 years ago and for many turbulent years thereafter.
The nuclear weapon missile business is contradictory, full of missteps, highly dangerous and prepared in its madness (Mutually Assured Destruction, aka MAD, they used to call it in Cold War days) to plunge the world into a nuclear war that could reduce much if not most of the world to dust.
Dear esteem readers, we regret that the March and April editions of the Nile Journal were not published due to unforeseen circumstances. We hope to resume our regular monthly publication schedule from here on.
By Okot Nyormoi, editor, environment protection activist, author of Burden of Failure
Climatic change is not a hoax as peddled by conspiracy theorists. We now know that it is caused by natural as well as human activities, with devastating effects on both living and non-living things. To combat the fast-developing adverse effects of climatic change, various actions including the establishment of international treaties, and conventions have been taken. Similarly, international and national agencies have been created to implement resulting policies on climatic change.
By Dr. Aklog Birara, former senior advisor at the World Bank, author of a new book titled Promising Ethiopia
“I am worried that the system may fail, and if the country fails, it will be a shame for all blacks” so said Lencho Leta, Founding member of the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) and trusted advisor of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali.
I agree with Mr. Leta. Tragically for the people of Oromia and the rest of Ethiopians, the projected collapse of the Ethiopian state and government
By Okot Nyormoi, editor, cell biologist, author of the novel, Burden of Failure
I was touched by an article about two cancer patients, published in the November second 2022, Daily Nation, Nairobi, Kenya, titled, “Waiting to die: The pain of being a poor cancer patient”. I am a cancer patient myself that is why the story resonated with me. Though our cancers are different, one of the two patients in the story and I were diagnosed at about the same time in November 2021.