Africa: A young continent ruled by old men and where democracy is strangled by gerontocrats
Youthful uprisings first flared in 2011, during the Arab Spring, when an uprising in Tunisia inspired others in Egypt and Libya. Later, powerful demonstrations erupted in Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Senegal and even Eswatini, a tiny kingdom of 1.2 million people in southern Africa.
Africa’s cultural conquest of West has gained pace through music, industrialisation is limping
African fashion had its own shows in Paris and Milan. In Venice, Africa is the focus of this year’s Architectural Biennale. Last year, an architect from Burkina Faso won the prestigious Pritzker Prize. In 2021, Tanzania-born Abdulrazak Gurnah won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
In 10 years Africa is projected to have world’s largest skilled workforce, overtaking China and India
Businesses are chasing Africa’s tens of millions of new consumers emerging every year, representing untapped markets for cosmetics, organic foods, even champagne. Hilton plans to open 65 new hotels on the continent within five years. Its population of millionaires, the fastest growing on earth, is expected to double to 768,000 by 2027, the bank Credit Suisse estimates.
Insurrection cases: Courts in Colorado, Minnesota to decide whether to bar Trump from ballot
Dozens of cases citing Section Three of the 14th Amendment have been filed in recent months, but the ones in Colorado and Minnesota seem the most important, according to legal experts. That’s because they were filed by two liberal groups with significant legal resources. They also targeted states with a clear, swift process for challenges to candidates’ ballot qualifications.
When to ignore an instruction from your boss: Avoid emails asking you to approve payments
BEC wire transfer fraud sees criminals taking advantage of an expected financial transaction such as a supplier payment, and asking the recipient to adjust the bank account information on an outgoing wire transfer. In many cases, the instruction may appear to come from the victim’s boss, and may even be written in a similar style that is used by the boss.
Jude Bellingham: Why Real Madrid fans flock Bernabeu to cheer his goals, sing his name, dance like him
Bellingham is making efforts to learn Spanish. One player says that “he doesn’t speak perfectly, but he knows how to communicate very well thanks to his personality and his way of being”. Internally, the special relationship between Bellingham and Antonio Pintus, the first team’s head physical coach, has also been much commented on.
Palestinians’ harrowing tales of carnage sum up situation in Gaza Israeli forces flatten enclave
Israel’s self-declared “second phase” of a three-week war against Iranian-backed Hamas militants has been largely kept from public view, with forces moving under darkness and a telecommunications blackout cutting off Palestinians.
Evidence shows US was expanding military base in Israel’s Negev Desert two months before Gaza war
Although President Joe Biden and the White House insist that there are no plans to send US troops to Israel amid its war on Hamas, a secret US military presence in Israel already exists. And the government contracts and budget documents show it is evidently growing.
Why I despise disciplining knowledge: It oversimplifies the world by destroying its complexity
Disciplining knowledge stifles the emergence of alternative knowledge production cultures or systems, thereby denying the learning enterprise from cultivating alternative scholarship and alternative analysts, let alone genuine team scientists.
Gaza receives largest aid shipment as deaths top 8,000 and Israel widens military offensive
Israel has allowed only a trickle of aid to enter. On Sunday, 33 trucks carrying water, food and medicine entered the only border crossing from Egypt, a spokesperson at the Rafah crossing, Wael Abo Omar, said.
