Ethiopian PM vows to join battlefront to stop advancing Tigrayan fighters to the capital Addis Ababa
Ethiopia’s Nobel Peace Prize-winning prime minister says he will lead his country’s army “from the battlefront” beginning Tuesday, a dramatic new step in a devastating yearlong war. “This is a time when leading a country with martyrdom is needed,” Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said in a statement posted on social...
Pochettino to Man United on the cards now; deal to be sealed ‘now’ than later – it looks
Paris Saint-Germain are readying themselves for a formal approach from Manchester United for Mauricio Pochettino, according to media reports. The 49-year-old has emerged as United’s top managerial target following Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s dismissal last weekend. He’s now seemingly edging closer to a Premier League return, with the Ligue 1 club...
Why executives are inflexible about flexible work arrangements, juniors prefer ‘home work’
Ever feel like your boss just doesn’t understand you? That’s because they don’t – and that’s especially true when it comes to flexible working. Future Forum, a research group backed by Slack, runs its quarterly Pulse survey of 10,000 knowledge workers alongside focus groups with their bosses across six countries,...
Sprint for electric vehicles picks up as their batteries outperform what car firms thought they’d do
Plenty of Americans are confused about the basics of electric vehicles (EVs), says Jeff Allen, the executive director of Forth, an advocacy and research organisation focused on electric mobility. A question he still hears from drivers: “Can I take it safely through the car wash? Spoiler: Yes,” he says. Fears...
After years of hesitancy, demand for electric vehicles has soared with used cars tipping the balance
A few years ago, Greg Platt, an electric vehicle salesperson in Portland, Oregon, was having extraordinary success with a particular type of customer: foreigners. For a $250 fee, he’d ship cars north, where they usually crossed to western Canada by ferry. Other interested buyers would fly in from Europe. Platt...
African economies belt up to avoid crash as China’s appetite for large investments abroad wanes
Deep in Kenya’s Great Rift Valley, members of the National Youth Service tirelessly swing machetes to clear dense shrubs obscuring railway tracks more than a century old. It’s a distinctly low-tech phase for China’s Belt and Road drive in Africa to create the trade highways of the future. There’s not...
Free speech: Alternative data is a powerful bulwark against attempts to erode the democratic space
On October 3 the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists released the ‘Pandora Papers’ – a treasure trove of documents exposing attempts by wealthy elites to hide their assets and cash in offshore tax havens. Thirty-five current and former heads of state were named after 2.9 terabytes of leaked data that...
