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TopicEast africa

Topic: east africa

East Africa’s rising ‘soda lakes’ are threatening its iconic pink flamingos

Rising water levels in East Africa’s salty and highly-alkaline soda lakes are decimating the cyanobacteria the birds have evolved to eat.

Behind killing of Arshad Sharif lies ISI’s deepest secret—an empire of heroin in East Africa

There's a strange story of how the Generals who ran the ISI worked with Afghan and Pakistani drug cartels to raise funds for global jihadists—and to enrich themselves.

This is how Swahili became Africa’s most spoken language

In Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania, Swahili became a tool for international alliances. It's now the only language with 200 million speakers.

On Camera

Iran conflict reaches Indian Ocean. India’s balancing act gets harder

The Indian govt has maintained a veil of silence in a sense to allow it to manoeuvre with the US, which is an increasingly important technological partner and supremely important for Indian exporters.

Maharashtra Budget: Fadnavis hands farmers another loan waiver even as 6 lakh await benefits of 1st one

Other key promises in the budget include AI- and other technology-enabled services for farmers and continuation of the Ladki Bahin Yojana, which will have the same outlay. 

Iranian naval ship Lavan with crew of 184 docked in Kochi same day US torpedoed IRIS Dena

IRIS Lavan was in the region for the International Fleet Review held last month and ‘sought urgent docking in Kochi citing technical issues,’ it is learnt.

Trump brings the Age of Humiliation for friends. Modi needs stoicism abroad, humility at home

Trump has ushered in the age of humiliation. His method is to push around America’s friends rudely and publicly. He knows none of them can afford to fight back.