Cristiano Ronaldo, please go to Saudi Arabia; we’re sick of the pageantry you engender and encourage
An unnamed club from Saudi Arabia has reportedly offered Ronaldo a two-year contract worth £2 million($2.5 million)-a-week. Manchester United would pocket a £25 million ($30 million) transfer fee, while the megastar’s representatives would earn a tidy £17 million ($20 million). Nearly quadrupling his wages, it must be a tempting offer;...
As Ukraine crisis bites UNHCR is planning to redeploy staff from other operations in Latin America
As donors divert millions in development funding towards Eastern Europe, the South Asian country is edging closer towards what should be a preventable collapse, United Nations staff fear. “If it turns into a humanitarian emergency, then there will be some attention and some funds, but we want to avoid that,”...
How war in Ukraine has diverted attention from humanitarian crises in Africa and South Asia
In the more than four months since Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, aid workers say attention, resources and expertise have been diverted away from crises elsewhere, forcing cuts to life-saving services and interrupting the distribution of vital supplies. Now, as rates of inflation spike and supply chains falter,...
Terrorism: Nigeria’s multiple conflicts – from jihadists and bandit militias to separatists will decide 2023 poll outcome
After dividing themselves into three squads, more than a hundred gunmen stormed a Nigerian prison, using explosives to blast though a wall and free dozens of jailed jihadists. But the assault did not take place in some remote town in the country’s violence-torn northeast. Instead, the raid unfolded just 40...
Experts say ‘Kamikaze drones’ in use in Russis vs Ukraine war is a preamble of future battlefields
An attack on a Russian oil refinery this week highlighted the use of loitering munitions by both sides in the Ukraine war to inflict targeted losses using cheap technologies capable of waiting for targets to emerge. When a Russian oil refinery worker pointed his camera phone into the sky earlier...
US Senate to amend Electoral Count Act to clarify vice president’s role in confirming presidential poll winner
A bipartisan group of senators has agreed on a series of provisions to reform the Electoral Count Act, a move aimed at clarifying the role of the vice president and Congress in confirming the winner of a presidential election in the wake of January 6 chaos at Capitol Hill. The...
DRC, Egypt, Ethiopia, Nigeria and Tanzania populations projected to grow fastest by 2050
More than half of the projected increase in the global population up to 2050 will be concentrated in eight countries, the UN has said, five of which are in Africa. The Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Nigeria, and Tanzania, the new UN report – World Population Prospects 2022...
World population to hit eight billion mark in November with China and India retaining lead
The United Nation’s latest global population projection predicts there will be eight billion people on the planet by November and that the population will gradually increase to 8.5 billion by 2050 and to more than 10 billion by 2080. That growth will come with significant economic and environmental implications. The...
Saudi Arabian club offers Cristiano Ronaldo $250 million deal to prize him away from Man United
Cristiano Ronaldo has only received one firm offer – but it’s a doozy. The Portuguese megastar is said to want to leave Manchester United this summer to remain in the European Cup but despite tentative interest from the likes of Chelsea, Bayern Munich, Napoli and Roma, no club has yet...
Why eccentric presidential candidate’s quest for a ‘happy nation’ is rocking Kenya’s political and religious class
Once a street child in Kenya and a grave-digger in the UK, George Wajackoyah, has become a political sensation by running for Kenya’s presidency on a promise to turn the East African nation into a major exporter of marijuana, snake venom and hyenas’ testicles. However, both his voters and rivals...
