A retiring congressman's blessing carried a state legislator past a stacked field to lock down a deep-blue Chicago district.
Ford's path through a crowded primary
La Shawn K. Ford beat several heavyweight Democrats.
Davis personally endorsed Ford as his successor.
Conyears-Ervin got millions from an AIPAC-linked PAC.
Richard Boykin and Jason Friedman also competed.
Policy talk and baggage on the trail
Ford pushed to abolish ICE entirely.
Cheaper child care and housing were key pitches.
His 2014 federal misdemeanor tax plea resurfaced.
Probation was the sentence he received back then.
The Seventh District's quirky political geography
Democrats drew the map to favor their party.
Its crane-like shape spans Chicago's South and West...
A deep-blue Senate seat just cracked open a path for three Black women to sit in the chamber simultaneously, which is a first ever.
Stratton's big win in Illinois
Juliana Stratton crushed a three-way Democratic primary.
Pritzker's super PAC dumped $12M backing her.
She'd join Alsobrooks and Blunt Rochester in November.
Stratton replaces the retiring Richard J. Durbin.
Crypto and AIPAC burned cash for nothing
Crypto groups torched $10M on Krishnamoorthi's flop.
AIPAC funneled $20M across four House races.
Sneaky PAC names hid where the money originated.
Split results handed them two wins, two losses.
The Ninth District fight got wild
AIPAC dropped $4.4M on Laura Fine, who tanked.
Daniel Biss took the seat despite heavy opposition...
Over 150 bags of rice landed in the hands of Africmed hospital workers as their CEO kept his annual Ramadan tradition alive.
Dr. Jagne's Ramadan rice giveaway
Dr. Omar Jagne distributed 150-plus 25kg rice bags on Monday.
Every department at the Brusubi hospital got covered.
Alhagie Suwaneh called Jagne a mentor and goodwill ambassador.
Samba Bah said the timing eases real financial pressure.
Staff morale and CSR at Africmed
Jagne stressed that supported employees deliver better healthcare.
Kemo Sarr noted that every single staff member benefits equally.
Bah added that the rice helps workers extend zakat charity.
Jagne praised President Adama Barrow's private-sector environment.
Dustbins are heading to Pipeline Mosque courtesy of Takaful Insurance as a cleanliness-focused corporate gesture on Monday.
Takaful donates bins to Pipeline Mosque
Ndenneh Senghore tied the donation to Islamic organizational values.
Momodou Senghore from the mosque committee welcomed the gift.
Staff and mosque committee members attended the ceremony.
Proper waste disposal was urged by the operations manager.
A cargo-tracking fee that already got axed once is back from the dead, and Banjul port clearing agents shut everything down over it.
ACCFA halts Banjul port operations
Clearing agents suspended work over the reintroduced ECTN charge.
Momodou Sowe called the fee operationally irrelevant for Gambia.
Existing systems already handle cargo tracking just fine.
Sowe insists agents are not fighting the government directly.
Proposed fee breakdown stings importers
Small containers would get hit with an $85 charge.
Larger containers face a $170 fee per unit.
Vehicles and other cargo carry additional costs attached.
Lamin Bojang warned consumers ultimately absorb every penny.
Port efficiency gains now at risk
Recent Alport reforms slashed...
An irrigation system bankrolled by the IMF is about to change the game for women farmers in Bakau who have been hand-watering crops forever.
IMF backs Bakau Women's Garden
Deputy Director General Bo Li presented the donation personally.
Sally Kaba, garden president, called the support perfectly timed.
Erratic rainfall and manual watering plagued farmers for years.
A symbolic tree got planted to mark the partnership.
Climate resilience and gender focus
Small-scale women farmers catch the worst climate impacts.
A reliable water supply should boost productivity significantly.
Gender inclusion remains a core IMF program priority.
Youth farming participation is another target of intervention.
Youth-focused outreach across three Gambian districts is shaking up old guard village committees and pushing for real term limits.
ActionAid's youth inclusion push in Lower Nuimi
Alfu Marong praised ActionAid and the UN Peacebuilding Fund.
A caravan tour hit 12 VDCs across three districts.
Door-to-door campaigns reached 20 communities total.
Four VDCs got trained in each participating district.
Capacity building and governance gaps
Sessions covered VDC roles and core responsibilities.
Youth involvement helped pinpoint priority support areas.
Marong flagged overly long tenures for VDC members.
Kerewan Area Council was urged to back restructuring.
Term limits and youth-elder dialogue
Enforcing term limits would widen youth...
A court order is forcing police to cough up CCTV footage that prosecutors claim does not even exist in their case file.
Justice Jaiteh orders CCTV production
Justice Ebrima Jaiteh ruled Monday on a defence application.
QCell Limited's headquarters footage is central to the dispute.
Omar Cham confirmed that QCell had handed footage to the police already.
Cham said the company kept zero copies for itself.
Defence invokes the Evidence Act
Section 221 lets courts compel document production from anyone.
F.C. Anyanwu cited that statute for the defence side.
Prosecutor F. Drammeh pushed back, calling the footage nonexistent.
Jaiteh noted investigators might hold untransmitted material.
Next steps hinge on police compliance
Latrikunda...
Uganda's first homegrown certified veggie seeds are inching closer to reality after years of Korean-backed breeding work finally hit the trial stage.
VegeSeed Project hits a pivotal phase
NARO and KOICA met at NaCRRI in Namulonge on Wednesday.
Six Nakati, seven tomato, and five pepper lines are trial-ready.
Breeding kicked off in 2020 under a KOICA-Uganda finance deal.
Crops targeted are Nakati, tomato, cucumber, chili, and pepper.
Funding and sustainability are real concerns
Dr. Yona Baguma pledged to close a UGX 280 million budget gap.
Baguma stressed nutrition impact matters way beyond agriculture.
Long-term skill-building, not just education, got major emphasis.
Lab equipment installation still needs wrapping up.
Regulatory...
