Global Initiative Sites Updates 2024

                                                                     July 15th - July 26th 2024 Kenya ‘Kenya is not asleep anymore’: Why young protesters are not backing down Nearly a month after demonstrations first erupted against President William Ruto’s government, police were using tear gas, water cannons and live bullets. The city looked like a war zone. Wambua stood out because he was unafraid and unapologetic about why he was on the streets. “A president should be empathetic with his people. He is here because of us, not because of anything else,” the recent university graduate in his early 20s told Al Jazeera. “Our parents back home worried about us. We are out here trying to fight for our own rights. “I’m a student. Where do I go from here? Some of the people demonstrating are depress...

                                                                 July 3rd -July 12th 2024 Lebanon Israel war on Gaza updates: 16 killed in Israeli attack on UNRWA-run school Our correspondent reports “decapitated” bodies arrive at Al-Aqsa Hospital after Israel bombs a UN school in Nuseirat. The strike killed “more than 16” people, according to the Government Media Office. The majority of those injured are children. Gaza’s Ministry of Health has said that 29 people were killed in Gaza in the past 24 hours as reports emerge that five Palestinian journalists were among those killed. The “continuous cycle” of mass displacement of civilians in Gaza and people being in “survival mode” and “despair” must stop, the director of the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, Philippe Lazzarini, has said. I...