Basketball Africa League announces host cities, venues and dates for 2024 regular season
BAL also announced on January 5 that the league will host a Combine in Rabat, Morocco from January 5-7, marking the league’s first Combine in Africa after previous editions in New York City and Paris. The three-day scouting event, which will be held at the Ibn Yassine Omnisports Hall, will feature 30 aspiring players from Africa, Europe, the US and around the world taking part in anthropometric and athletic testing, positional skill development, and 5-on-5 games in front of team executives, coaches and scouts.
Nigerian, Kenyan and Ugandan currencies tumble further against US dollar in January
Commercial banks quoted the Kenya shilling at 157.00/158.00 per US dollar compared with last Thursday’s close of 156.50/157.50.
Transdisciplinarity: Integrating certified experts, non-certified experts, stakeholders and practitioners in knowledge industry
Transdisciplinarity is linked with new frameworks for health and wellness that transcend disciplinary and interdisciplinary inputs, involvement of stakeholders outside the academy in team-based research (Klein, 2014). This is why transdisciplinarity, like interdisciplinarity, crossdisciplinarity and extradisciplinarity, is called a team science.
Liverpool prays Egypt drop out of Africa Cup Nations so Mo Salah can return early for EPL quest
If Egypt reaches the final – like it did in 2022 – it would mean Salah missing at least seven Liverpool games, potentially eight if the Merseyside club gets past Arsenal on Sunday in the third round of the FA Cup.
Trump’s rivals keeping off insurrection crimes he faces as he’s set to bag Iowa GOP ticket
Trump faces criminal charges in federal and state courts for attempting to subvert the 2020 election, but has not been charged with any crimes relating to fomenting an insurrection or rebellion on January 6. He has called the attack a “protest.”
Arsenal’s wobble in English Premier League title chase blamed on lack of depth in squad
It’s perhaps no surprise, then, that Arsenal are considering strengthening at the back in January, with a focus on the left. The club admire Jorrel Hato of Ajax as well as Miguel Gutierrez of Girona, although neither player would represent an ideal January signing.
PMI: Kenya private sector activity declines in December n the back of easing inflation
Inflation slowed to 6.6 per cent year-on-year in December from 6.8 per cent the previous month, data from the statistics office showed.
South African athlete Oscar Pistorius paroled after serving nine years in girlfriend’s death
Pistorius was expected to initially live at his uncle’s mansion in the upscale Waterkloof suburb of Pretoria, and a police van was seen parked outside of that house.
University of Pennsylvania professors in Israel speak out on US campus antisemitism
Outrage mounted on December 5 when then-president Liz Magill declined to give a US congressional committee a definitive “yes” or “no” answer to the question of whether calling for genocide of Jews violated the school code of conduct.
