A host of leading Kenyan athletes have conducted a peaceful procession in honour of the late Agnes Tirop, while escorting her body from Eldoret Hospital to her home ahead of her burial on Saturday.Faith Kipyegon, Joyciline Jepkosgei,
Eunice Sum and Mary Keitany were among the 300 or so marching behind a banner reading “End gender-based violence”. Several leading male athletes – including Ezekiel Kemboi, Julius Yego and Conseslus Kipruto – also attended.Ms Tirop was stabbed to death at her home earlier this month, and police have detained her husband Ibrahim Rotich in jail as the prime suspect.
He is being held for 20 days, during which time he will be assessed to see if he is mentally fit to stand trial.Ms Tirop’s murder has sparked other Kenyan athletes to talk about what they have faced when it comes to gender-based violence.
The African Union Commission and The International Committee of All Africa Music Awards (AFRIMA) have appointed PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) as its official international auditor of AFRIMA’s voting processes and applications.
This was announced at a joint press conference and unveiling ceremony held at the PWC Experience Centre in Lagos, Nigeria on Wednesday.
Following the appointment, PwC will perform independent stress testing of AFRIMA’s voting platform and conduct vulnerability assessment to validate the integrity of the software deployed for improved security controls.
They are also expected to carry out penetration testing covering the voting system and its interface, monitor public and academy voting portals, collate votes and present the sealed results during the award ceremony.
The Leader – Technology, media, Entertainment and telecommunication (TMET), PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), Femi Osinubi, said they are excited about this collaboration.
He said it is as a result of their experience and investment in the creative industry which contributed to the GDP of Africa in 2020.
In her welcome address, Head of Culture, Social Affairs Division, African Union Commission, Angela Martins, said“
“The African Union recognizes the role young people play as drivers of change to foster development on the continent and to promote the creative industry and rewards artistes that have produced entertaining works even with the challenges posed”.
NASA has launched an online platform with information on how much water evaporates into the atmosphere from plants, soils and other surfaces in the U.S. West, data it says could help water managers, farmers and state officials better manage resources in the parched region.
The platform, OpenET, uses satellite imagery from the Landsat program, a decades-long project of NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey that records human and natural impacts on Earth’s surface.
Specifically, it provides data for 17 Western states — down to the quarter-acre — on how much evapotranspiration has taken place. That’s the process by which moisture in leaves, soil and other surfaces evaporates into the air.
The West has been mired in drought for more than two decades. Scientists say human-caused climate change has intensified conditions.
Water levels at key reservoirs on the Colorado River have fallen to historic lows alongside growing demand, prompting the federal government to declare water cuts for some states next year.
A blazing summer and years of record-breaking wildfires have also zapped moisture from the ground.
Detailed information on soil moisture could help farmers and water managers better plan during dry conditions and reduce how much water is used for irrigation, NASA scientists said on a Thursday call with reporters.
Indian startup FSN E-Commerce Ventures, which runs beauty company Nykaa, has priced its initial public offering (IPO) at 1,085 rupees to 1,125 rupees per share, giving it a valuation of as much as $7.11 billion.
The company aims to raise nearly $500 million through a three-day IPO subscription starting from Oct. 28 to Nov 1. The IPO involves issuing new shares worth up to 5.25 billion Indian rupees ($70.13 million) and offering up to 43.1 million of its existing shares.
The company’s investors include private equity firm TPG, Fidelity and Indian film actress Alia Bhatt. Nykaa will use the IPO proceeds to set up new retail stores, fund capital spending and repay debts, according to the prospectus.
Earlier this year, food-delivery firm Zomato Ltd made a stellar stock market debut.
Other Indian startups to enter the market include Paytm, which is backed by Berkshire Hathaway Inc-backed, hospitality company Oyo Hotels and ride-hailing firm Ola.
Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II was back at Windsor Castle on Friday and in good spirits after revelations that she spent the night in a London hospital earlier this week.
Buckingham Palace said the 95-year-old British monarch went to the private King Edward VII’s Hospital in London on Wednesday for “preliminary investigations.” She returned to her Windsor Castle home at lunchtime on Thursday and was understood to be back at her desk by afternoon, undertaking light duties.
The queen underwent the tests after she canceled a scheduled trip to mark 100 years since the creation of Northern Ireland, and the palace said she had “reluctantly” accepted medical advice to rest for a few days.
The palace does not normally offer a running account of the monarch’s health, citing her privacy. However, in this case it confirmed the queen’s hospital stay after the news was reported.
On the whole, the rule of thumb is that if a senior member of the royal family undergoes a procedure or an operation, there is a medical bulletin, royal expert Robert Hardman said in an interview. But that doesn’t apply to tests.
The attention paid to the development merely reflects the great affection the global community has for the monarch, said Hardman, author of “Queen of the World,” which chronicles the monarch’s influence and stature around the globe.
Nearly one in five vehicles sold in the European Union in the third quarter was an electrified model as sales continued to soar while fossil-fuel cars slumped, according to sales data released on Friday by a trade organization.
The European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association, or ACEA, which represents major European car, truck, van and bus makers, said that battery electric and plug-in hybrid model sales across the European Union made up just under 19% of all sales.
Battery electric vehicle sales jumped nearly 57% to more than 212,000 units, while plug-in hybrid models rose nearly 43% to more than 197,000 units.
This is a slower pace of growth than in 2020 when sales almost trebled from a low base.
But it compares with a 35% drop in sales for petrol cars – which still are the biggest sellers and account for nearly 40% of overall sales – and a more than 50% drop for diesel cars during the quarter.
Less than a decade ago, diesel cars made up more than 50% of sale in the EU, but accounted for under 18% of all cars sold in the third quarter.
As well as having to meet stringent new EU carbon emissions targets, car makers and consumers have benefited from government subsidies for electric vehicles.
According to the American Bible Society’s 2021 State of the Bible study, more Americans read the Bible this year than in the past few years.
The annual study, which was released last week, revealed that 50 percent of Americans (128 million people) were Bible users – meaning that they either read, prayed, or listened to the Bible at least three to four times a year apart from an event or church service.
This year’s numbers are the second highest in a decade, behind the ABS’s 2014 study (129 million people) and tied for the third-highest percentage since the initial study in 2011.
As reported by Lifeway Research, the 2021 findings are substantially higher than last summer’s number of Bible users when 48 percent or 123 million people reported reading their Bible.
As a whole, 11 percent of Americans say they interact with the Scriptures daily, 5 percent say they do so 4 to 6 times a week, 9 percent say several times a week and another 9 percent say once a week.
Additionally, 8 percent say they read the Bible once a month, and another 8 percent say they turn to it three to four times a year.
On most days during the week, one in 6 Americans (16 percent) read the Word in 2021, up from 12 percent last year. Moreover, 8 percent engaged with the Bible once or twice a year, while 13 percent reported reading the Bible less than once a year.
According to the ABS study, there was a decline in the number of Americans who said they had never read the Bible. In 2019, 35 percent reported never having read the Word, but that dropped to 31 percent in 2020 and then to 29 percent in 2021.
Altogether, this past year saw 181 million Americans opening up their Bible, a 7.1 percent increase from 2020 (169 million).
The ABS 2021 study also revealed that evangelicals have a higher percentage of “practicing” Christians than any other mainline denomination.
The National Union of Tunisian Women has outlined its five-year adult education strategy (2021/2026).
The development and upgrading of the union’s centres across the country and the modernisation of learning tools for enhanced skills are the backbone of this stategy.
UNFT President Radhia Jerbi urged international lenders to underpin the organisation’s efforts to modernise the adult education system, target more social groups and develop curricula in line with their needs, such as digitalisation and distance marketing.
Jerbi shed light on financing challenges in a number of regions, adding that the Union is relying significantly on funding by the German Adult Education Association, DVV, which is a key and effective partner in this area.
Regional Director North Africa at DVV Internationa,l Donia Ben Miloud, said constant support is lent to the UNFT’s adult education programme by means of providing equipment or supporting trainers.
Uganda’s Ministry of Education says students enrolling in Uganda to train as teachers will study for four years, instead of three, effective 2021/2022 academic year.
The changes coincide with the elimination of Grade III and Grade V certificate and diploma teaching courses, respectively, in line with a 2019 Teacher Policy that Cabinet approved to standardise the teaching profession.
Under the lapsing arrangement, National Teachers Colleges (NTCs) would admit mainly eligible Senior Six leavers and award them diplomas after a two-year training in teaching while Primary Teacher Colleges or PTCs recruited students O-Level leavers who graduated with a certificate, also after two years.
Each of the years would include a three-month teaching practice, without which a student would not qualify as a professional teacher, and after which the graduate will formally be registered with Education ministry that issues the teacher a practising certificate.
However, government is converting many of the phased-out NTCs and TTCs to secondary schools and vocational training institutions, in sub-counties or districts without them, while the retained teacher colleges will train students and only award degrees of a proposed Uganda National Institute of Teacher Education (UNITE).
Described by Education officials as an equivalent of Uganda Management Institute (UMI), UNITE will be headquartered at Shimoni Primary Teachers’ College in Wakiso in an arrangement that mirrors a resurrection of the Institute of Teacher Education Kyambogo (ITEK), which government merged with related specialised educational institutions to form Kyambogo University.
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