Ex-Man United striker tells Arsenal to deploy its best forward in favoured position, let youngsters run the channels
Former Manchester United and England striker Andy Cole feels Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang can no longer play the way he did as a youngster and needs to operate in his favoured position to be effective. Aubameyang, 32, joined the Gunners in January 2017 as Arsene Wenger looked for a prolific marksman. The...
Power and the glory: How the rich and powerful use politics to feed on miseries of poor, helpless Kenyans
I have spent a whole week investigating the rot in Kenya’s power sector. It has been a draining and sickening experience. As I conclude this exposé, I want to remind you of the following issues that we have discovered and discussed. In 2020, Kenya Power bought a unit of power...
How world’s richest club owner Mukesh Ambani reduces Chelsea and Arsenal’s owners to just London beggars
Roman Abramovich may have a net worth of almost £11 billion ($14.9 billion) following a rise from street trader to business mastermind – but his fortune is dwarfed by Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani The fortune of Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani makes him the richest sports team owner on the planet...
Capitol Hill riot underlines ‘You can run, but you can’t hide’ mantra as Google tech unearths suspects
Using a traditional search warrant, the FBI investigators then obtained full geolocation and communication records for some of the suspects’ Google accounts that showed them allegedly travelling to Washington, DC, and admitting in a series of text and picture messages that he had been in the Capitol. One of them...
How secret Google geofence warrant is helping FBI nail down Capitol riot mob
Court documents suggest the FBI has been using controversial geofence search warrants at a scale not publicly seen before, collecting account information and location data on hundreds of devices inside the US Capitol during a deadly invasion by a right-wing mob on January 6. While Google receives over 10,000 geofence...
Malawi’s ex-deputy speaker commits suicide inside parliament buildings
A former deputy speaker of Malawi parliament has shot himself dead inside the chambers in the capital, Lilongwe, authorities said. Clement Chiwaya, who moved in a wheelchair, had gone to the building on Thursday to discuss vehicle benefits entitled to him when he left office two years ago. Parliament “regrets...
Ethiopia expels seven UN officials, accusing them of meddling in internal affairs
Ethiopia is expelling seven senior UN officials, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Thursday, two days after the world body’s aid chief warned a government blockade of aid had likely forced hundreds of thousands of people in the northern region of Tigray into famine. There has been increasing international...
Nigeria bolsters military hardware with 100 APCs in response to deepening Boko Haram threat
The Nigerian army is facing a crisis. National and regional security dangers posed by the al Qaeda-supported terror group Bolo Haram has forced the West African economic giant to reinforce in defence infrastructure in preparation to repulse the militia group that has forced more than one million children out of...
Journalists in Afghanistan fear being killed ‘every minute of their lives under a religious dictatorship’
Hundreds of journalists working in Afghanistan have fled or gone into hiding in recent weeks following the seizure of power by the Taliban. The leader of one of the IFJ’s affiliates in Afghanistan, who has worked for over 20 years with international media as a reporter and senior editor tells...
How Trump administration, CIA plotted to kidnap and assassinate journalist Julian Assange
CIA officials under the Trump administration plotted to kidnap and assassinate journalist and Wikileaks founder Julian Assange when he was hiding at Ecuador’s embassy in London, a new report has revealed. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) reports that, the plans, if true, would mean no journalist or source is...
