US First Lady Jill Biden starts sixth visit to Africa that will take her to Namibia and Kenya
US first lady Jill Biden opened a five-day, two-country visit to Africa on Wednesday during which she will focus on empowering women and youth and highlight food insecurity in the Horn of Africa region. Dancers representing Namibia’s different ethnic groups, some wearing red, white and blue, others dressed in bright...
Man United shares plunge on New York Stock Exchange following fears Glazers are just playing games
Manchester United’s share price plummeted over nine per cent on Tuesday amid fears the Glazer family won’t sell the club after all. Shares valued at $25.55 on the New York Stock Exchange at the opening of Tuesday’s trading had slumped to $24.27 within 30 minutes. A slight rebound...
Fighting flares up in troubled eastern DR Congo hours after EAC called for pullback by armed groups
Fighting flared on Monday between the DR Congo’s army and M23 rebels in the country’s troubled east, just days after African leaders called for a ceasefire and a pullback by armed groups. “There have been clashes since 5:00 am with the M23” in the Kitshanga area, northwest of the main...
Wary minorities say ‘Ethiopia is a federation of ethnicities and everyone deserves to feel safe’
When war broke out in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region in November 2020, residents of the town of Adebay, close to the Eritrean border, woke to the sounds of gunfire and revving engines. Eritrean soldiers were beating up civilians and forcing them onto military trucks, two witnesses say. They estimated that...
Experts vouch for decentralised economies, fear totalitarian systems by central banks via digital currencies
“We must prevent the introduction of central bank digital currencies “because that is the epitome of a centralised, controlled, even totalitarian system,” economist Richard Werner has warned. Speaking in a recent episode of The Kim Iversen Show, Prof Werner said the current inflation crisis the world is currently facing is...
Bone marrow therapy: Hope as third Aids patient is treated with HIV-resistant stem cells in Germany
A 53-year-old man in Germany has become at least the third person with HIV to be declared cleared of the virus after a procedure that replaced his bone marrow cells with HIV-resistant stem cells from a donor. For years, antiretroviral therapy (ART) has been given to people with HIV with...
