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THE STANDARD Maana Lifestyle Supermarket attendant arranges bread at Luanda town in Vihiga. [Benjamin Sakwa, Standard] Your chapati is likely to grow thinner, smaller and more expensive. And your breakfast now costs more. The rising price of wheat has made its products costlier. Almost all brands of bread have also recorded a price increase, with a 400-gramme loaf that has been retailing at Sh50 for the last four years now selling at Sh55. A check at local supermarkets yesterday indicates that processed products that use wheat as an ingredient have adjusted their prices. Items like smokies, sausages, and pastries have an increased price of between Sh10 and Sh300. ....
Our Streets LUC demonstrates outside the campus of Loyola University Chicago on Aug. 22. The group has been fighting for the school to cut ties with the Chicago Police Department, among other reforms. (Courtesy of Our Streets LUC) During the summer of 2020, millions of people across the country joined protests against racism and police violence, leading The New York Times to suggest in June that Black Lives Matter was perhaps the largest social movement in U.S. history. At Catholic colleges across the U.S., students, faculty and staff have also called for their institutions to confront racism, by cutting ties with local police departments and reforming or divesting from their campus security forces. ....