Agreed. It is also flagrantly amateurish. If the goal is to inform, educate or entertain - it’s a flop.
Jameni @ntvkenya This is Loiyangalani, not the whole of Marsabit. Majority of Marsabit residents have probably never even seen Lake Turkana. You are taking one small corner of a county spanning over 70,000 km² and passing it off as the reality of an entire county.
Dire Dawa: the dawns are dazzlingly beautiful, though they are brief. The sun emerges over the hills..and suddenly forms a fiery sphere. And the town instantly springs into motion!
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Weird to read this as I am on a plane flying back from Sudan after spending days sitting in IDP camps talking to people about how this “new” US approach to humanitarian aid is working out.
Rubio’s claim is “unequivocally” garbage.
Let me share some of what I heard:
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Even the shimmering heat of Chalbi cannot hide the crime.
May you…
Be cursed with thirst beneath the blinding sun.
Stranded forever on some scorched land.
Where roads end, and the “uncleared” deserts run.
And on D-Day stand naked holding up that fading sign!
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It is a basic principle of American democracy that the government can’t selectively target individuals simply because of their political beliefs or what they say. But that’s exactly what the Trump Administration is doing to Congresswoman Ilhan Omar of Minnesota.
To understand why this is so appalling, it’s important to know the facts. Congresswoman Omar came to this country with her father when she was 12 years old. Five years later, her father became a naturalized citizen. If Ilhan had been 18 at the time, she would have had to apply for citizenship separately. But because she was 17, she became a naturalized citizen automatically.
Congresswoman Omar went on to graduate from college, work as a community organizer, become the first Somali-American legislator elected to public office in the U.S., and win a seat in Congress. There, she has been one of the Trump Administration’s fiercest critics, which has led the president to repeatedly single her out as someone who he believes does not belong in this country.
Now the Administration is actively trying to deport Congresswoman Omar, seemingly based solely on the unsubstantiated theory that she was actually 18 when her father was naturalized, and therefore is not a citizen. Federal agents have raided her home, confiscated personal records, and seized her phone — all to try and uncover a nonexistent smoking gun from 20 years ago that will somehow make their case.
Think about that. The full weight of the federal government is being brought down on a law-abiding elected official because she has dared to criticize the president. And it’s not the first time this has happened. Under President Trump, the Justice Department has repeatedly gone after those he considers his political enemies — from the Attorney General of New York, to the former head of the FBI, to members of the Federal Reserve.
In those cases, the prosecutions either stalled or were dismissed for having no basis in law, and the same is likely to happen in this case. But not before Congresswoman Omar’s life has been turned upside down, her legal bills have piled up, and she’s been forced to spend time fighting unsubstantiated charges instead of serving the people of Minnesota.
The fact that any president, or any administration, is willing to engage in such transparent efforts to intimidate someone should outrage all Americans, regardless of how they feel about Congresswoman Omar’s political views. Because if this becomes the new normal, there’s no reason to believe it will stop with her — or that future presidents, in either party, won’t do the same.
I Went to School in America. Started My Business in America. I Can’t Stay in America. nytimes.com/2026/09/02/opini… via @NYTOpinion
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Cooper: I've seen governments and dictators rise and fall, people and places torn apart by lies and hate and war. And I've seen people do things and heard them say things that I could never have imagined. I've seen what we humans are capable of when everything else is stripped away. Yes, great acts of barbarism and brutality. But we are also capable of remarkable acts of heroism and kindness. It's a choice, and the choice is up to us
Let's hope 50 years from now, someone standing here or somewhere on the eve of the 300th anniversary of this republic will look back and say of us: they didn’t know if they would make it through but they did.
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Starting in early 2025, Elon Musk and the Trump administration began terminating USAID's programs and firing its staff — with Musk himself boasting about "feeding it into the woodchipper." One year ago today, USAID was officially dissolved, its remaining programs haphazardly folded into the State Department. Amid all the lies and misinformation that have followed, some facts about what has actually been lost:
• USAID saved more than 3 million lives a year at a cost of less than $10/month per American. That is what was destroyed. On purpose.
• According to Boston University's Global Impact Counter — which tracked deaths attributable to the cuts until it stopped operations in February 2026 — an estimated 781,000 people died preventable deaths in the first year, including 518,000 children.
• Global child mortality (the number of children who die before their fifth birthday) rose in 2025 for the first time in 35+ years — by 200,000 additional deaths.
• USAID's 50-country disease surveillance network — the system that cut outbreak response times from 2 weeks to 48 hours — is gone. We are now watching an unprecedented Ebola outbreak unfold in real time — with the highest first-month caseload and death rate in modern history.
• Programs reaching 93 million women and children were cut 92%. TB programs cut 56%. Water and sanitation cut 86%. Over 2,000 health facilities permanently closed.
• 25 million fewer people received humanitarian assistance in 2025. The overall humanitarian budget was slashed 74% — from $14.1 billion to $3.7 billion.
• 363 million people face acute hunger in 2026. The famine early-warning system that would have seen it coming went dark for five months.
• $1.7 billion in democracy and governance funding (election monitoring, anti-corruption work, support for independent media and civil society) was terminated.
• 360+ independent media outlets lost funding. Hundreds of legal clinics closed.
• Far from saving money, the Trump administration itself has already said the dismantlement will cost taxpayers at least $19.2 billion in cancellation fees, severance, and penalties. That's more than half of USAID's annual budget — spent on destruction and closeout, not support for vulnerable people.
• American farmers, universities, and businesses are among the casualties too. USAID partnered with more than 3,500 U.S. companies and maintained 17 university-based research labs. Its work with U.S.-based contractors and the private sector generated hundreds of thousands of American jobs and multiplied the return on every dollar spent. Those markets and partnerships are gone.
Yes, please take them out. They are a scam.
Can you do anything about the fraudulent Amazon Kindle Publishing company? They copy Amazon’s logo, get you to sign a contract with Kindle Direct Publishing then your bank sides with the fraudulent company because you agreed to it….even though they are NOT Amazon. Brand fraud yet they steal $1699 from every writer. 😢
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"It was not an easy childhood."
Omar Yaghi, whose parents were from Palestine, grew up in a refugee family of ten children, in a home with no running water and no electricity.
Last year he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing cage-like molecules that can capture and release smaller substances, like water.
#WorldRefugeeDay #WithRefugees
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These are the days when you realize why Northern Kenya needs its own strong media platforms. If you don’t tell your story, someone else will tell it for you and usually through a lens of ignorance, stereotypes, and political convenience.
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WATCH: The Adolla sub-clan of the Garee has endorsed Abukar Abdirahman, a U.S.-based financial expert, as their preferred candidate for the Mandera gubernatorial seat in the 2027 elections.
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Marsabit residents sue British multinational BP, Kenyan government | Daily Nation.
Long overdue…this tragedy has been hiding in plain sight for decades now and the impacted communities deserve justice. nation.africa/kenya/counties…
Marsabit residents sue British multinational BP, Kenyan government | Daily Nation.
Long overdue…this tragedy has been hiding in plain sight for decades now and the impacted communities deserve justice. nation.africa/kenya/counties…
The rangeland of N Horr sub county: dazzlingly verdant and blindingly green after weeks of rain.
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An amazing read. I found myself relating to so many of the experiences,particularly because we share the same nomadic background and community. Thank you for this @usadano
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Bulle Ni MTU Wa vako. Shauri yako uki Amini.
Anyhow, get a copy of Sunday Nation and read our interview with John Fox
The inspiring work of Nuria Bookstore in Nairobi, Kenya, and its founder, Abdullahi Bulle.
In a world where international books dominate shelves, Nuria stands out by amplifying Kenyan and African stories fostering pride in local literature, supporting emerging talent, and preserving cultural narratives. It's not just a bookstore; it's a cultural ecosystem.
@AbdullahiBulle @NationAfrica
