A promising future for Mbappé but bad news for Qatari-owned PSG FC that is in tricky transition
Mbappé was 12 years old, playing for his local club AS Bondy in the Paris suburbs, when Qatari owners QSI bought PSG in June 2011. The club was reeling from years of soccer violence, resulting in the death of two PSG fans in the streets around Parc des Princes Stadium, and results on the field were poor with no league title won since 1994.
Ghana MP proposes non-custodial sentence for LGBT offenders to prevent sodomy in prison
LGBT community in Ghana already faces abuse and hostility and discussion of the proposed bill has heightened fears, activists say. While some MPs opposed the proposal to replace jail terms with non-custodial sentences, parliament voted for the bill to have another reading, where amendments can be made.
Under Taliban rule Afghan women say there has been drastic erosion of their rights
The women also outlined the intergenerational and gendered impact of the de facto authorities’ restrictions and the accompanying conservative shifts in social attitudes towards children. Some respondents said boys appeared to be internalising the social and political subordination of their mothers and sisters.
As a ‘late bloomer’ in digital culture the smartphone is a bad intruder in our 44-year-old marriage
The smartphone is a bad intruder in our home. We talk far less than ever before, yet talking and laughing together have in the past has glued us together, sharing our ups and downs. We hardly watch television together because of the smartphone. The smart phone consumes a lot of time that would go to keep the old people talking to one another. Worse still, when our children and their children visit us, each one has a smart phone.
Navalny’s death dampens democracy drive in Russia as disparate opposition gropes for his successor
Prosecutors warned Russians against participating in any mass protests in Moscow. Police watched as some Russians came to lay roses and carnations at a monument to victims of Soviet repression in the shadow of the former KGB headquarters on Moscow’s Lubyanka square.
Zimbabwe announces plan to ban university scholarships for gays as crackdown on same sex unions continues
Like many African countries, Zimbabwe has laws criminalising homosexual activity. Sex between men carries a potential sentence of up to a year in prison, and the country’s constitution bans same-sex marriages.
Eating chiefs: Nigeria’s currency hits rock bottom as central bank discovers $2.4 billion false foreign exchange claims
CBN Governor Olayemi Cardoso has said the bank has cleared $2.5 billion of the foreign exchange backlog out of the $7 billion that had been outstanding. The bank, however, found that $2.4 billion of that backlog were false claims that it would not clear, Cardoso said, leaving a balance of about $2.2 billion, which he said will be cleared “soon.”
UN human rights office ‘appalled’ at death of Navalny in prison, tells Moscow to take responsibility
UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Alice Edwards said that several UN independent experts, including herself, had privately and publicly urged the Russian government to end the punitive conditions in which Navalny was held.
Senegal president caves in to pressure, agrees to presidential election ‘as soon as possible’
Senegal has been seen as one of the region’s most stable democracies, but election disputes have plunged the country into a political crisis that has sparked deadly protests and cuts to mobile internet. At least three people have been killed by security forces and dozens injured.
Former US President Trump fined $355 million for financial fiddling, 3-year ban in fraud case
During defiant and meandering trial testimony in November, Trump conceded that some of his property values were inaccurate but insisted banks were obligated to do their own due diligence. Engoron criticised Trump for his behaviour during his testimony – and wrote that the testimony hurt his cause.
