Author: KahawaTungu Reporter

Saudi Arabia’s bid to host the 2034 World Cup was considered “medium risk” for human rights by FIFA in its evaluation report, which said implementing reforms could take “significant time and effort”. The release of the report Saturday comes ahead of the FIFA Congress on December 11, when a vote will be held to officially appoint the hosts for the 2030 and 2034 World Cups. Saudi Arabia is the lone candidate for 2034 while Morocco, Spain and Portugal have formed a joint bid for the 2030 tournament, with Uruguay, Argentina and Paraguay all set to host a match as part…

Elon Musk has again asked a US court to stop ChatGPT-maker OpenAI from converting into a for-profit enterprise, CNBC reported Saturday. Attorneys representing the billionaire and his AI startup, xAI, filed the injunction Friday, the financial news site reported. The injunction also requests that OpenAI be stopped from allegedly barring its investors from funding competing companies. The move is the latest development in a business feud between OpenAI and Musk, who co-founded the group in 2015 but has since left. OpenAI has seen its profile skyrocket over recent years as it has become a star player in the growing field…

The body of a police officer was found in his workplace after a suspected suicide incident in Nyeri Town. The incident happened on Saturday November 30 at the Nyeri Central Sub County offices, police said. Constable George Kimiti Gichuki was the armorer at the Administration Police Service offices where he died. His body was found on the floor and he is said to have his AK47 rifle to shoot himself in the chest. The bullet went through the back killing him instantly, police said. Central Regional Police Commander Samuel Ndanyi who visited the scene said the body had a single…

US President-elect Donald Trump has picked a former aide, Kash Patel, to lead the Federal Bureau of Investigation, an agency Patel has often criticised. A former US defence department chief of staff in the first Trump administration, Patel has been a steadfast supporter of the incoming Republican president. For Patel to take the job, the current FBI director Christopher Wray would need to resign or be fired – although Trump did not call on him to do so in his post. Separately, Trump said he plans to nominate Chad Chronister, sheriff of Florida’s Hillsborough County, as head of the Drug…

President-elect Donald Trump announced Saturday that he has selected Charles Kushner as his pick for ambassador to France.  Mr Kushner is a real-estate developer and the father of Jared Kushner, husband of his daughter Ivanka Trump. Trump pardoned Mr Kushner during his first term, waving away a federal conviction in 2020. In a post to his social media site Truth Social, Trump said Mr Kushner is “a tremendous business leader, philanthropist, & dealmaker, who will be a strong advocate representing our Country & its interests”. The nomination appears to be the first administration position that Trump has formally offered to…

“I had to work while I was nine months pregnant,” says Sophie, a sex worker in Belgium. “I was having sex with clients one week before giving birth.” She juggles her job with being a mother of five – which is “really hard”. When Sophie had her fifth child by Caesarean, she was told she needed bed rest for six weeks. But she says that wasn’t an option, and she went back to work immediately. “I couldn’t afford to stop because I needed the money.” Her life would have been much easier had she had a right to maternity leave,…

A medical intern based at the Kisii Training and Referral Hospital and his lover are believed to have died by suicide at an apartment in Nyamataro area, Kisii County. They were missing for days before their bodies were found dead at the apartment on Friday November 29. The medic identified as Vincent Nyambunde Bosire is suspected to have killed the woman first before he died by suicide in the house. The woman was identified as Angela Moraa Ongeri, 28. Bosire had been unwell and was admitted at the KTRH before being discharged from the facility on November 26. He then…

Georgia’s pro-Western president has said she will stay in post until new parliamentary elections are held, as protests continue over the government’s decision to put EU accession negotiations on hold.  Speaking to the BBC, Salome Zourabichvili, who has sided with the opposition, described the current parliament as “illegitimate” after allegations of fraud in last month’s elections. Zourabichvili said she would retain her role as president, despite the country’s newly elected parliament saying it would choose her replacement on 14 December. Mass protests in the capital are continuing to erupt for a third consecutive night on Saturday in the capital Tbilisi.…

President William Ruto is the new East African Community chairperson.  He succeeds South Sudan President Salva Kiir whose one-year term has come to a close. Ruto has described his predecessor’s leadership in the bloc as “exemplary” and “visionary”. “Under his steady stewardship, the EAC has made remarkable strides in deepening integration,” Ruto said. He takes over the regional mantle at a time when the eight-member economic bloc is pursuing a political confederation. At the 24th Ordinary Summit of the EAC Heads of State High-Level Side Event on EAC@25 in Arusha on Friday November 29, Kenya committed to continue playing the…

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is in Florida to meet Donald Trump as Canada seeks to head off the president-elect’s threat to impose a 25% tariff on Canadian goods, a source has confirmed to the BBC. Canadian media reported that Trudeau landed in Palm Beach International Airport on Friday evening to visit Trump at his Mar-a-Lago estate. The two spoke by phone earlier in the week after Trump announced that, upon taking office in January, he would slap an across-the-board tariff on all products entering the US from Mexico and Canada. Neither the prime minister’s office nor Trump’s team have responded…

A coalition of Canada’s biggest news outlets is suing OpenAI, the maker of artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT, alleging the company is illegally using news articles to train its software. News organisations including the Toronto Star, Metroland Media, Postmedia, The Globe and Mail, The Canadian Press and CBC have all joined the suit, reportedly the first of its kind in the country. “Journalism is in the public interest. OpenAI using other companies’ journalism for their own commercial gain is not. It’s illegal,” the media organisations said in a joint statement. OpenAI says its models are “trained on publicly available data”. The…

A medic based at the Kisii Training and Referral Hospital and his lover were found dead at an apartment in Nyamataro area, Kisii County. The man identified as Vincent Mongare is suspected to have killed the woman first before he died by suicide in the house. The woman was identified as only Moraa, 29. Moraa was in Kisii for a short holiday as she stays in the US with her family, friends and relatives said. She is believed to have another family in the US. The apartment the bodies were found in had been locked from inside. The bodies were…

A Palestinian opened fire on an Israeli bus near the Jewish settlement of Ariel in the occupied West Bank on Friday, wounding at least eight people before he was killed by Israeli troops, the Israeli military said. Israel’s MDA medical service said four people suffered gunshot wounds, with three in a serious condition, and four others were hurt by flying glass. The Palestinian Health Ministry identified the shooter as a 46-year-old local man. Hamas’s armed wing al-Qassam Brigades said he man belonged to the group. Violence has surged across the West Bank since the start of the Hamas-Israel war in…

The death toll from landslides which hit several villages in eastern Uganda rose to 20, with more than 100 still unaccounted for, the Red Cross said Friday. The Red Cross said the toll had risen “following the retrieval of 19 bodies and the unfortunate passing of one survivor at the hospital,” without giving an estimate on how many people were missing. Authorities had Thursday put the death toll at 15 with 113 listed as missing. An official from the affected Bulambuli district told AFP the toll was expected to rise. “The number of disappeared has surpassed one hundred and it…

Liverpool defender Ibrahima Konate has expressed his frustration at suffering a knee injury that will rule him out of Sunday’s top-of-the-table Premier League clash against Manchester City. Konate picked up the issue in the dying seconds of the Reds’ 2-0 Champions League win over Real Madrid after a clash with Brazilian striker Endrick. The French international’s form has been key to Liverpool’s stunning start to Arne Slot’s time in charge. Liverpool are eight points clear at the top of the Premier League and have won all five of their Champions League games. Konate has started every Premier League and Champions…