If you aren’t constantly astonished at God’s grace in your solitude, there’s no way it can happen in public.

—Tim Keller

Ephesians 2:8

'The US is among several countries hoping that Kenya can fill a leadership vacuum created by Ethiopia’s internal struggles, the fall from grace of Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni and Rwanda’s entanglement in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).' chathamhouse.org/2024/05/rutos-…

Meg Whitman’s Trying to Be A Different Kind of US Ambassador. Washington Is Noticing. politi.co/3V7nGVU via POLITICO

Nigeria has issued bonds to refinance $3.4 billion owed to the central bank trib.al/LbYzktJ

All the ways of a man are pure in his own eyes, but the Lord weighs the spirit.
—Proverbs 16:2 ESV.org

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Ethiopia repaid just 10% of due loan payments in the first 9 months of its fiscal year after a debt suspension agreement.

Finance Minister Ahmed Shide says the country saved $1.44B due to the suspension

Link: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Even Africa’s wealthiest man has trouble traveling in his own continent. cnn.it/4bN8wdV

Debt suspension deals reached last year mean Ethiopia only paid 10% of the $512 million it should have coughed up in the first nine months of the year trib.al/k8mqYsB

Microsoft and UAE's G42 are teaming up to build a $1 billion geothermal-powered data center in Kenya, a deal that could dramatically increase cloud computing in East Africa. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

1 Samuel 2:2

'Selfish aims, ambitions and desires of the flesh are secondary in the acceptance of a higher will—the will of God.' #BillyGraham

I learnt that when I start becoming anxious, there's an idol in my heart somewhere whose absence is making me insecure.

I've learnt that my anxiety is a sign that the gaze of the eyes of my heart has been shifted to something that is not my heavenly Father and sovereign Lord.

The more people believe they are just animals and not special beings made in the image of God, the more they will be treated as animals.

'As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious, you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood.' —1 Peter 2:4-5

Hebrews 13:5

Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.
—Matthew 5:4 ESV.org

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“I sometimes wonder if all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.” - C.S. Lewis

Sales of new vehicles fell 17.66 percent in the first quarter of the year, marking the sharpest drop in seven years, largely on increased taxation, rising interest rates, and battered shilling.
businessdailyafrica.com/bd/economy/new…