Cocaine pipeline to Europe grows as drug peddlers target lucrative market
Europe has emerged as the world’s leading illicit drugs market over the past eight years for cocaine and heroin produced in Latin America, a new report by the Global Initiative Against Organised Crime shows. With the traditional market in the Untied States of America having either shrunk due to unending...
Centurion Plus launches Africa’s free trade area preliminary impact report
Long-awaited African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) that became operational January 1 this year, has published guidelines on how the world’s largest economic bloc by membership, will conduct business. However, it remains to be seen how the continent will resolve issues related to non-tariff barriers, such as infrastructure, that are...
Forget blood, your skin is able to ‘know’ if you are sick
A river of biological information flows just beneath the outermost layers of your skin, in which a hodgepodge of proteins squeezes past each other through the interstitial fluid surrounding your cells. This “interstitium” is an expansive and structured space, making it, to some, a newfound “organ.” But its wealth of...
On the trail of QAnon: How Trump turned conspiracy theory research upside down
For people around the world, the now-iconic images of a man in a horned headdress roaming the US Capitol during the January 6 insurrection came as a shock. For Kate Starbird, the images were frighteningly familiar. ‘QAnon Shaman’ – the online persona of Jacob Anthony Chansley, or Jake Angeli –...