LONDON— Air Tanzania, RwandAir and Uganda Airlines failed to make the cut in the top 100 carriers in the UK-based Skytrax World Airline Awards—which rates the world’s best carriers with Kenya Airways being ranked in position 81 down from 79th in last year’s report. However, the Rwandan carrier scooped some category awards in ‘Best […]
Continue ReadingTeachers are at the heart of education, and their valuable work must also lead to better salaries and working conditions, the heads of three UN agencies and a partner organization said on Wednesday. The statement comes in their joint message to mark World Teachers’ Day, celebrated annually on 5 October. The international community has […]
Continue ReadingU.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres appealed to leaders Tuesday to unite and take action to address the problems of a world “teeming with turmoil.” “We are in rough seas; a winter of global discontent is on the horizon,” he said at the opening of the annual weeklong gathering of presidents, prime ministers and other officials at […]
Continue ReadingUNITED NATIONS, The UN General Assembly is back in person after the pandemic disruption but in a world as full of crises as ever, with the war in Ukraine set to pit the West against Russia. Some 150 world leaders will descend on New York for a week of diplomacy, with all required to come […]
Continue ReadingWhen Dapo Olorunyomi, publisher of the Nigerian newspaper the Premium Times, was in school in the 1970s, he remembers receiving in the mail “glossy Chinese magazines that were sent freely, celebrating and glamorizing China’s great progress.” China’s media influence strategy in Nigeria has grown more aggressive since then, Olorunyomi said. Nigeria is the […]
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