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WhatsApp: Now one billion people send 55 billion messages per day
The eight-year old messaging app WhatsApp is now used by one billion people every day. As ZdNet reported, WhatsApp reached the one billion active monthly user milestone a year ago, and now has 1.3 billion monthly active…
The science of creativity shows that being bored is good for us
As an only child who grew up before the rise of the Internet, boredom was my constant companion. Summers were an endless stretch of riding my bike around town, reading, and staring up into the sky, imagining stories that I…
Two members of missing Burundi robotics team found, U.S. police say
Two members of a teenage robotics team from Burundi who went missing after a competition in Washington last week have been located and are safe, the city's Metropolitan Police Department said on Tuesday.The teens, Don…
6 TIPS TO HELP YOU MANAGE FATIGUE AND TIREDNESS
Tiredness is a common phenomenon amongst humans. It is caused by a number of factors, including hunger, stress (over-working oneself), a type of illness (depression for example) etc. Sometimes, you even feel tired for no…
You’re not yourself when you’re sleepy
More than a third of Americans don't get enough sleep, and growing evidence suggests it's not only taking a toll on their physical health through heart disease, diabetes, stroke, and/or other conditions, but…
Letter from Africa: Can satellite make science popular in Ghana?
In our series of letters from African journalists, veteran Ghanaian journalist Elizabeth Ohene ponders whether Ghana's new satellite will change attitudes towards science.We do not like science very much in this country. We…
Video games can change your brain
Scientists have collected and summarized studies looking at how video games can shape our brains and behavior. Research to date suggests that playing video games can change the brain regions responsible for…
Mini-skirts and morals in Uganda
A new crackdown on what civil servants can wear in Uganda has reignited a fierce debate about morality, clothes and women's rights in the country.The new directive brings new definitions to "dressing decently".…
9 ways to stop living in regrets
Don’t ruin a good today because of a bad yesterday.” — Unknown Every day is a new day to start all over, but letting the mistakes and regrets of yesterday remain in your mind can truly ruin your today.Living in regrets is…
FIDH attacks “dictatorship” and “repression” of President Nkurunziza’s regime in a report
The International Federation for Human Rights produced the report in collaboration with six Burundi human rights organisations that the government has banned.FIDH report claims President Pierre Nkurunziza and his Cndd-Fdd…
Residents abuzz after snowfall in Nyahururu
Residents in Nyahururu experienced snowfall on Tuesday as temperatures dropped with the current cold season.A few centimetres of snow covered roads and adjacent farms affecting the Rumuruti-Nyahururu road and the…
Top 10 Places to Visit in East Africa
Here at Krochet Kids intl. we are lucky enough to call multiple locations “home”. From our sunny HQ in Southern California to our empowerment projects in both Uganda and Peru, we commit to rooting ourselves in each of these…
Why youth and women enterprises fail in Africa
Informality has been singled out as a major setback for youth and women’s business ventures in Africa. Presenting the keynote address during the Partnership for Economic Policy conference at a Nairobi hotel on youth and…
5 powerful truths that can change your life
What you know is what will empower you; you are bound by what you know, and you can hardly go beyond that. There are some truths some people have come to discover in their life and it’s working for them, and there are truths…
Justice for Burundi: « 98 new warrants sent to ICC Prosecutor »
The collective of lawyers grouped into “Justice for Burundi” reports that at the end of May 2017, 98 new warrants have been sent to the Office of the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Court-ICC. “This brings to nearly…
Charles Taylor: Liberia’s former leader’s ex-wife charged with torture
The ex-wife of former Liberian President Charles Taylor has appeared at Westminster Magistrates' Court in London to face torture charges.Agnes Reeves Taylor, 51, is suspected of ordering and carrying out torture between…
Why kids from privileged families deviate
Just how do children from well off families engaged in stuff common among under privileged lower working classes?You must know a Bishops son went on to become an incorrigible alcoholic or a professor's daughter who did…
Humanizing, harmonizing effects of music aren’t a myth
Listening to music from other cultures furthers one’s pro-diversity belief Jake Harwood turned his lifelong hobby as a musician into a scholarly question: Could the sharing of music help ease interpersonal relations between…
Exclusion of “wanted” civil society leaders causes controversy at Burundi peace talks
The celebrated human rights defender Pierre Claver Mbonimpa on Thursday expressed his “surprise” that the inter-Burundian dialogue process excludes a number of key civil society leaders because they are in conflict with the…
Which are the fake bibles?
When Pastor Aloysius Bugingo, of House of Prayer Ministries, burnt a collection of Good News bibles (GNB) and King James Version (KJV) bibles because they contained the word ‘Holy Ghost’ or there were verses missing in them,…
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