Private equity: How US Democratic Party’s fundraisers found themselves jobless in just minutes after tea-break
Less than two years after a British private equity firm acquired the campaign tech firm that holds the Democratic Party’s most sensitive data, the new parent company laid off at least 140 people. In a companywide email on January 12, Mark Layden, the chief executive of Bonterra, the new merged...
Is Uganda’s ‘President for Life’ remotely preparing country for his imminent exit or just playing games with son?
On Twitter, the Ugandan president’s son has mused about invading neighbouring Kenya, praised Russian President Vladimir Putin and offered cattle for the Italian prime minister’s hand in marriage. Pointedly, when he declared his presidential ambitions Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba, slammed the old generation of leaders, including his father, President Yoweri Museveni...
Report raises red flag over spiralling kidnapping for ransom, extortion in South Africa in past 10 years
Kidnapping in South Africa is four times higher than 10 years ago, latest research findings show. In the last three months of 2022, the latest period for which there are official crime statistics, a daily average of 45 kidnappings were reported to the police. Kidnapping for ransom or extortion cases...
Fifa President Gianni Infantino retains seat unopposed at world football body’s congress in Rwanda
Gianni Infantino has been re-elected as president of Fifa until 2027 after standing unopposed at the congress of world football’s governing body on Thursday. The 52-year-old Swiss lawyer, who succeeded the disgraced Sepp Blatter in 2016, was waved in for a third term by acclamation, just as he was four...
Exclusive: Dramatic rise in teens mortality in US divides researchers as some blame drugs, guns and cars, others cite Covid
The mortality rate for US children and teens surged to the highest levels in decades between 2019 and 2021, according to research published Monday in JAMA. Researchers at the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine and the University of Washington reported that all-cause mortality increased 10.7 per cent for people...
Petrodollar: Lionel Messi lured to Saudi Arabia with $233 per year offer to play for Al Hilal
Lionel Messi is reportedly set to be offered a £194 million ($233.3 million) per year deal to move to Saudi Arabia. The Argentine, 35, will become a free agent in the summer if he does not agree a contract extension at Paris Saint-Germain. But while the French giants remain keen...
Covid vaccine fraud: How US created Vitality Project to be an arm of a ‘state-sponsored thought-policing system’
Thursday’s – March 9 the second held by the US House of Representatives’ Select Subcommittee on the Weaponisation of the Federal Government, featured testimony by investigative journalist Matt Taibbi and author Michael Shellenberger, who contributed to prior “Twitter Files” releases. The second session addressed, among others, revelations regarding the Virality...
