In a season of three very good teams, rather than one or two sides, final 90 minutes will decide EPL champions

In a season of three very good teams, rather than one or two sides, final 90 minutes will decide EPL champions

Liverpool and Arsenal are, as Guardiola says, “very good”. But exceptional? Exceptional in the way that City and Liverpool have been at their best in the Guardiola-Klopp era? Perhaps not.

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After Arsenal and Liverpool test Man City to the hilt, doubts linger if they can holdoff ‘Cityzens’ late charge

After Arsenal and Liverpool test Man City to the hilt, doubts linger if they can holdoff ‘Cityzens’ late charge

But to talk of “firing on all cylinders” means the type of performance level City reached in the final months of last season, when they scaled extraordinary heights not just in terms of results but the manner in which they swept aside opponents like RB Leipzig (7-0), Liverpool (4-1), Bayern Munich (3-0), Arsenal (4-1) and Real Madrid (4-0) in high-stakes matches between mid-March and mid-May.

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Standard Chartered picks new investment banking regional heads, source says

Standard Chartered picks new investment banking regional heads, source says

Steve Cranwell will head CIB operations for the United States, Europe and the Americas, Kariuki Ngari for Kenya and Africa, while Rola Abu Manneh will oversee the United Arab Emirates as well as the wider Middle East region and Pakistan.

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Kenya government on strike: Authorities in East African nation ‘boycott’ doctors’ industrial action

Kenya government on strike: Authorities in East African nation ‘boycott’ doctors’ industrial action

The Kenyan health sector, which doctors say is underfunded and understaffed, is routinely beset by strikes. Talks between the two sides aimed at ending the ongoing strike have so far not borne any deal and other health workers, such as clinical officers, have also joined the doctors in the strike, domestic media reported on Tuesday.

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Malaria vaccine rollout in tropical belt shines light on value of renewable power

Malaria vaccine rollout in tropical belt shines light on value of renewable power

The vaccine “cold chain” sees vaccines being stored and distributed through several layers, beginning with a national-level storage centre and cascading down to local facilities. In remote areas, where an electricity grid network is either absent or unreliable, the need for reliable refrigeration has long caused headaches, but huge progress has been made in recent years in developing fridges that use solar panels as a power source. Thousands of such devices are now in position across sub-Saharan Africa, ready to serve as the workhorse of the malaria vaccine rollout.

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Senegal swears in former opposition figure, who takes office with $6,600 in the bank

Senegal swears in former opposition figure, who takes office with $6,600 in the bank

A practicing Muslim from a small town, Faye has two wives, both of whom were present on Tuesday. Ahead of the election, he released a declaration of his assets to show transparency and called on other candidates to do the same.

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South Africa’s ruling ANC party and parliamentary speaker faces arrest over $135,000 bribe

South Africa’s ruling ANC party and parliamentary speaker faces arrest over $135,000 bribe

According to prosecutors, Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula received 11 payments totalling $135,000 between December 2016 and July 2019. She sought another bribe of $105,000 but that wasn’t paid, prosecutors said. Opposition lawmakers have called for her to step down from her position as speaker over the allegations.

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While abortion is now legal in much of Africa, few women know and providers don’t publicise it

While abortion is now legal in much of Africa, few women know and providers don’t publicise it

More than 20 countries across Africa have loosened restrictions on abortion in recent years, but experts say that like Efua, many women probably don’t realise they are entitled to a legal abortion. And despite the expanded legality of the procedure in places like Ghana, Congo, Ethiopia and Mozambique, some doctors and nurses say they’ve become increasingly wary of openly providing abortions.

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The spill of Africa: Uganda’s academic knowledge workers cut image of leftovers who can’t qualify to be mind liberators

The spill of Africa: Uganda’s academic knowledge workers cut image of leftovers who can’t qualify to be mind liberators

In Uganda, the single most threat to the belonging of species, including Man, Homo sapiens, is Man – particularly the political, entrepreneurial, corporate and nomadic-pastoral Man. Most of the blame goes to our education system, which continues to produce selfish and individualistic graduates, who in the total society manifest as the greedy, the selfish and the individualistic. When they should be building communities, society and country as “wholes” they build themselves, their families, kith and kin and ethnic groups.

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Temporary relief for Trump after he posts $175m bond in civil fraud case to avert asset seizures

Temporary relief for Trump after he posts $175m bond in civil fraud case to avert asset seizures

The bond prevents New York Attorney General Letitia James from going after Trump’s properties, including Trump Tower, his 370-acre resort and golf course in Westchester and his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. Trump has denied wrongdoing and said the case is a political witch-hunt by James, a Democrat who sued him in 2022.

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