EPL transfers: Analysts say Arsenal manager Arteta is replicating Guardiola’s Man City script at Emirates
Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta’s plan for the remaining weeks of the summer transfer window bears plenty of similarities to Pep Guardiola’s approach during his early years in charge of Manchester City. Arteta has worked tirelessly to improve his squad in the months since the end of the previous campaign, with...
English Premier League set for bizarre ‘crisis club derby’ as winless Liverpool faces Man United
Really, it’s Graeme Souness we feel sorry for. Just a day after he finally got his Men’s Game for Burly Men back it was once again cruelly snatched from him as Our League – our glorious league – was forced to endure the shameful sight of a dastardly foreign making...
Kenya: Presidential candidate terms poll result ‘null and void’ as BBC fact checkers say tally ‘not suspicious’
Former Prime Minister Raila Odinga has rejected the results of Kenya’s presidential election saying that the figures announced on Monday were “null and void”. According to the official results, Odinga narrowly lost to Deputy President William Ruto. Odinga accused the head of the electoral body of a “blatant disregard of...
Kenya comes to terms with veteran Raila Odinga losing presidential election for the fifth time
After a tumultuous political day in Kenya, the country on Tuesday began to come to terms with the reality of a new president-elect, William Ruto, a sharply divided electorate and uncertainty over how the election’s apparent loser would react to defeat in a nation pivotal for the economy and stability...
‘Changing people’s behaviour is like trying to change your socks while a whole football team holds you down’
As I survey the landscape of my past year’s collaboration experiment, I see that there actually are signs of hope among the smouldering remains. The benefits of a shared computer space, where groups of people can collectively create, access and edit information, are undeniable. There’s no better way to get...
Scrappy Project Management: Brace for huge adoption hurdle for new tools and behaviours
Each New Year’s Day, I choose a theme to guide and inspire me throughout the year, or at least distract me from whatever ills are plaguing the planet – most recently the “doom and gloom” economy. When January 1 rolled around last time, I was still swooning from the aftereffects...
Kenya’s elections agency declares Ruto president-elect at event skipped by his boss President Kenyatta
Kenya Deputy President William Ruto will take over from President Uhuru Kenyatta, the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) announced six days after the August 9 General Election. Mr Ruto polled 7,176141 or 50.9 per cent of people who voted and his closest rival Raila Odinga garnered 6,0942930 or 48.8...
Fake news dominates Kenya elections as country waits to know successor of President Kenyatta
As Kenyans awaited the outcome of Tuesday’s presidential election, disinformation linked to the results cluttered multiple social media platforms, prompting warnings from international observers. In a joint statement, Amnesty International and several other civil society groups voiced concern about “the rising levels of false or misleading information being shared on...
Why and how Arsenal young centre-back convinced defensive partner not to move to Juventus
William Saliba may have played a role in convincing Gabriel to stay at Arsenal despite the defender attracting interest from Serie A giants Juventus. The Brazilian partnered the young Frenchman for the first time in competitive action in the Gunners’ opening day win over Crystal Palace and has been keen...
Scorched earth: US and European officials accuse Russia of using food as a weapon in Ukraine conflict
Russia’s war in Ukraine has pushed global displacement figures to record levels, the UN refugee agency said Thursday, calling the statistics a “tragic milestone.” Over the past decade, levels of displacement have increased every year, the United Nations noted in its global trends report – with figures currently at the...