Ronaldo turns Old Trafford into a new castle on his ‘second coming’ as Red Devils pummel Newcastle
Cristiano Ronaldo announced his return to Old Trafford, helping Manchester United blaze past Newcastle United with 4-1. He turned Old Trafford into his new castle, his former Theatre of Dreams during the reign of legendary Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson, who was in the in the stadium to watch...
Defiant Arsenal new boy says Gunners are ready to tango for EPL, European honours
Arsenal’s summer signing Martin Odegaard clearly does not lack for confidence after making an ambitious claim as to what Gunners could achieve in the coming years. The Norwegian playmaker, 22, joined Arsenal on a permanent deal this summer after impressing on loan last season. Odegaard was always believed to be...
Middle East crisis: Lebanon’s economic crash drives women to fight period poverty with eco-friendly alternatives
As the price of sanitary products skyrockets amidst Lebanon’s prolonged economic crash, a cohort of young women have taken it upon themselves to fight the country’s growing problem of period poverty. In doing so, they’ve also stirred up a conversation about eco-friendly alternatives, and challenged long-held cultural norms. Lebanon’s financial...
How systemic racism in US healthcare works against patients with sickle cell disease – Black or Latin
Sickle-cell disease was once a childhood ailment, simply because many children with the condition died before reaching adulthood. But since 1972, when the US National Sickle Cell Disease Programme was founded and specific funding became available, the United States has managed to drastically reduce childhood deaths from the disease. Between...
Quest to raise ‘Wikipedia’ reliability and authenticity: A woman’s mission to rewrite Nazi history
when Ksenia Coffman started editing Wikipedia, she was like a tourist in Buenos Aires in the 1950s. She came to learn the tango, admire the architecture, sip maté. She didn’t know there was a Nazi problem. But Coffman, who was born in Soviet-era Russia and lives in Silicon Valley, is...
Report: To reduce global warming 50 per cent of fossil fuel should remain untapped
Nearly 90 per cent of economically viable global coal reserves must be left in the ground to have even a 50 per cent chance of hitting internationally agreed climate-change goals, according to an updated model of limits to fossil-fuel extraction, published in Nature. For a 50 per cent chance of...
Ecowas bloc suspends Guinea for ‘loss of faith in democracy, making military coups more likely
West Africa’s main political and economic bloc has suspended Guinea’s membership following a weekend military coup that ousted President Alpha Conde and dealt the latest in a flurry of setbacks to democracy in the region. During a virtual summit, leaders from the 15-member Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas)...
Livestock herders’ conflict stirs up fears of early signs of violence as Kenya gears up for elections next year
Eight people, among them three policemen, were killed and hundreds of villagers uprooted from their homes in Laikipia County in Kenya’s Rift Valley region following weeks of bloody inter-community clashes. The police and administrators link to brewing political tensions as the country prepares for elections next year. The political angle...
President Kenyatta’s education chaos: Legacy of vacuuming tool he calls Competency Based Curriculum
A few days back I watched the CBC (Competency Based Curriculum) debate on Citizen TV talk-show. It was just a talk-show – literally – with now substance at all. This thing (curriculum) is simply indefensible. None of the panellists, including the one who said he was part of the design...
In Kenya, journalists, judges and activists are popular targets of blackmail, it’ll get nastier with 2022 elections coming
On May 18 of this year, the insidious hashtag #AnarchistJudges appeared on Kenyan Twitter timelines. Apparently driven by a number of faceless bots, and retweeted by a series of sock puppet accounts, the deluge of tweets cast suspicion on both the competence and integrity of senior High Court of Kenya...
