Ex-Man United ace Jesse Lingard opens up on how struggle with alcohol, mum’s depression affected his game
Jesse Lingard has revealed how he “was drinking to try to take the pain away” as his Manchester United career fell apart and he battled mental demons. The England international footballer has opened up on how the pressure to perform, abuse from fans, and his mother’s struggle with depression totally...
UN peacekeepers eastern DR Congo stumble on mass graves containing 42 bodies in Ituri province
A MONUSCO patrol in the wake of attacks by militia group CODECO in Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC’s) Ituri province found mass graves containing 42 bodies. Farhan Haq, deputy spokesman for United Nations (UN) secretary general Antonio Guterres, said there were 12 women and six children in the 42 body...
Investigative journalist lays bare how Big Pharma bribed social media to conceal facts on Covid vaccines
Covid-19 vaccine manufacturers, including Pfizer, BioNTech and Moderna, lobbied Twitter and other social media platforms to set moderation rules that would flag purported Covid-19-related “misinformation,” according to Lee Fang, who reported on the latest “Twitter Files.” Published January 16 on Twitter and in The Intercept by investigative journalist Lee Fang,...
Report: To address violent extremism in Africa, the AU needs to prioritise non-military responses
At the end of October 2022, the Somali capital Mogadishu suffered another suicide bomb attack, which killed 121 people and injured more than 300. According to United Nations sources, in 2022 alone, 613 civilians died and 948 were wounded in attacks by the Islamist al-Shabaab terrorist group. Last year’s death...
Crystal Palace Olise’s stunning stoppage time free-kick a was a welcome twist Man United rebuild
If you’re feeling a strange pang in your stomach, a shiver down your spine or bile in the back of your throat while watching Manchester United these days, you are not alone. They’re feelings that arrive upon a realisation that is the antithesis of everything you were told by your...
Guantanamo: While Trump vowed ‘we gonna load it up with some bad dudes’ there’s slim hope Biden will close it
All told, although President Barack Obama’s administration poured far more energy into the effort to close Gitmo than his predecessor George W. Bush’s administration had, Obama failed during his terms in office to do so. In his last year, Obama continued to push hard with the rallying cry, “Let’s go...
Fear, corruption and neglect push Ghanaians to bury evidence of illegal fishing, abuse on Chinese vessels
On July 5, Ghanaian fisherman Essien went missing from the Meng Xin 15 trawler off Accra coast. Is brother James says that Essien had dinner with the rest of the crew of the Chinese vessel before they headed back to their cubicle to sleep. The next morning, he was nowhere...
How Chinese terror and unbridled greed decimating Ghanaian fish resources, locals reduced to slaves
When it comes to abuse and corruption on Chinese fishing vessels in Ghana, Bright Tsai Kweku has seen it all. He has seen Chinese crew treating local fishermen like “slaves”, he says. “They beat them, they spit on them, they kick them,” Kweku says. “I have been through that before.”...
Guantanamo Bay: Will America’s forever prison finally close on President Joe Biden’s watch?
As of December 8, 2022, Guantánamo Bay detention facility – a prison offshore of American justice and built for those detained in this country’s never-ending Global War on Terror – has been open for nearly 21 years (or, to be precise, 7,627 days). Thirteen years ago, I published a book,...
Glimmer of hope in DRC as M23 rebels agree to orderly withdrawal, respect ‘strict ceasefire’ in North Kivu
Democratic Republic of Congo rebel group M23 has, according to the East African Community (EAC), agreed to an orderly withdrawal and respect “a strict ceasefire” in North Kivu province in the east of the central African nation. A statement by EAC released on Monday says M23 leaders further agreed to...
