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“Our mother tongue unites us people from the Luo community,” said Isaac Oguto, who comes from Kenya’s Nyanza region in which Lake Victoria is located. Around 4 million people speak Luo in the East African nation, mainly in the west. Other Luo speakers live in Uganda and Tanzania. Luo, also known as Dholuo, is one of the most widely spoken of Kenya’s 42 Indigenous languages — although some estimates put the number as high as 60 or 70. All of the country’s Indigenous languages are minority languages. The largest, Kikuya, is only spoken by 17% of Kenyans, while others, such as…

Since the 21st of December 2023, the half a million inhabitants of the southern French city of Montpellier and its surroundings no longer have to pay for public transport. Many of them are pleased with the measure – but there are caveats. Thirty-one-year-old Rayene Chabbi is relieved she no longer has to pay for the bus and the tram she takes to work on weekdays, like on a recent Monday morning. In the past, she’d often drive her parents’ car the seven kilometers (four miles) to the office. “Free public transport is a really good idea – especially for people like…

The UK on Wednesday announced sanctions targeting six people at the helm of the Russian Arctic penal colony where late opposition leader Alexei Navalny died.  UK says it will hold those behind Navalny’s treatment ‘accountable’  “It’s clear that the Russian authorities saw Navalny as a threat and they tried repeatedly to silence him… no one should doubt the oppressive nature of the Russian system,” British Foreign Secretary David Cameron said. “Those responsible for Navalny’s brutal treatment should be under no illusion — we will hold them accountable,” the statement added.    The individuals targeted by the punitive measures include Vadim Konstantinovich Kalinin,…

Starbucks has launched a pork-flavoured coffee in China to mark the Lunar New Year.The special latte, which comes with a slice of pork on top, is said to “integrate traditional New Year customs into coffee” and combines espresso with “Dongo pork” sauce. In a post on the Chinese social media site Weibo, the Starbucks Reserve Roastery in Shanghai also said the coffee will “create unexpected salty and sweet” flavours.It claimed “eating meat means prosperity in the coming year”.The drink combines a traditional latte with the flavour of braised pork to celebrate the Chinese new year season, one of the biggest…

Two-and-a-half-year-old Enrique sits on the living room floor, his snub nose poking out over a picture book of colorful triangles, circles and squares. “Ou est le triangle rouge?” — “Where is the red triangle?” — his French mother Chloe Bourrat asks in French. “Ici!” replies Enrique as he taps the red triangle with his finger, beaming at his mother. “Donde esta el circulo amarillo?” — “Where is the yellow circle?” — his Spanish father Juan Koers asks in Spanish. “Aqui!” exclaims Enrique. Like Enrique and his 8-month-old sister Alice, who live with their parents near Madrid, more and more children around the world…

Bayern Munich announced on Wednesday that they will part ways with head coach Thomas Tuchel after the season. Tuchel, 50, took charge of Bayern, Germany’s biggest and most successful football club, less than a year ago, and his contract was due to run until 2025. However, with the club eight points adrift in the Bundesliga title race, out of the German Cup and at risk in the Champions League, Bayern have reacted to the prospect of their first trophyless season since the 2011-12 campaign.   “In a good, open discussion, we came to the decision to end our working relationship by mutual agreement…

02/21/2024February 21, 2024Putin says Russia doesn’t intend to put nuclear weapons in spaceRussian President Vladimir Putin has said that Moscow has no intention of deploying nuclear weapons in space. “Our position is quite clear and transparent: we have always been and remain categorically opposed to the deployment of nuclear weapons in space,” Putin said. “Just the opposite, we are urging everyone to adhere to all the agreements that exist in this sphere.” The statement came after the White House said that Russia had obtained a “troubling” anti-satellite weapon capability, although the weapon is not operational yet. White House national security…

The South Korean government on Wednesday ordered thousands of striking trainee doctors to go back to their jobs.  The trainee doctors are angered by South Korea’s plans to sharply increase the number of medical students in the country. The government says the reforms are necessary because of a shortage of qualified physicians. But the protesters say better work conditions and compensation are needed before increasing the number of students. Walkout by trainee doctors ‘not justified,’ government says  “A collective action holding the lives and safety of the people cannot be justifed for whatever reason,” Interior and Safety Minister Lee Sang-min said during…

A young girl has died after being buried in sand on a beach in Florida.She was digging a deep hole with a little boy when it collapsed on Tuesday.Emergency crews arrived at the scene and found the boy buried up to his chest in sand, while the girl was trapped underneath. Image: Investigators on the beach. Pic: South Florida Sun-Sentinel/AP Officials estimate the hole was about 1.8m (6ft) deep when it collapsed at Lauderdale-by-the-Sea.Rescuers used support boards to try and prevent more sand from collapsing in, and used shovels to dig the children out.It is unclear how long they were…

Chinese authorities on Wednesday renewed an orange weather alert — the highest level in a three-tier system — for some southern regions, with already freezing temperatures set to fall even further. Swathes of China have been hit by a cold spell this week, with temperatures in some areas in the south predicted to drop by as much as 20 degrees Celsius (36 degrees Fahrenheit), according to the National Meteorological Center (NMC). The NMC has forecast subzero temperatures for the days ahead around the country’s central region, in the east, north and northwest as well as in parts of the south. State news agency…