How govts criminalised Press Freedom in the name of ‘infodemic’ control
Citizens hungry for information turned to the media during the pandemic, but governments around the world used the crisis to restrict journalists. Malala Maiwand, a reporter for Enikass Radio and TV in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, was on her way to work on December 10 when gunmen opened fire on her car,...
How China built databases to track US flights, passenger lists for espionage purposes
The discovery by China that US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) seriously compromised telecommunications company Huawei’s China-based servers and jarred Chinese officials, touched off a ferocious response that left the former groping in the dark with one eye open. According to Foreign Policy magazine expose, the retaliation by the Chinese intelligence...
CIA bribed, hired Chinese moles; China hit back with mega data theft
In a classic case of the hunter becoming the hunted, Chinese secret service in Africa and Europe turned the tables on United States’ Central Intelligence Agency with the help of stolen data. This was after Chinese spy agency discovered how much Communist country had been infiltrated since 2013, a new...
US Army: We do ‘not take an oath to a king or queen, a tyrant or dictator’
The people who work with President Trump are getting scared. According to Jonathan Swan in Axios, “Trump is spending too much time with people they consider crackpots or conspiracy theorists and flirting with blatant abuses of power.” Granted, these words could define Trump’s entire tenure in office, so this is...
Equity Bank hits $9.3 billion capital base – the biggest in eastern Africa
Kenya’s Equity Bank has crossed the Ksh1,000,000,000,000 ($9,259,259,260) rubicon, becoming the first bank in East and Central Africa to cross this psychological barrier. Equity, Kenya’s largest bank by customer base, announced that it had reached the milestone following successful migration of Banque Commercial Du Congo (BCDC) to Equity’s Finacle core...
By pushing to be sworn in as ‘people’s president’ Trump is guilty of sedition
The Signal: Trump is now talking the sedition talk on a daily basis, and, one has to assume, actively planning ways to walk the sedition walk over the next month. He is meeting regularly with Sidney Powell, Steve Bannon and other plotters, and daily he is being fed a diet...
US city on verge of ‘duress law’ to give criminals ‘poverty’ shield
Elected officials in a major US city plan to pass a law that will allow thieves to sell items they steal if they do it to earn money for basic needs and trespassers to set up camp on private property when it is to obtain adequate shelter. Dozens of other...
South Africa’s minerals council seals partnership with ‘Mining Indaba’
Minerals Council of South Africa has announced a strategic investment partnership with African Mining Indaba. The partnership comes into effect in February next year. The minerals council has long been a supporter, partner and participant in the annual in-person Mining Indaba. Mining Indaba in local language refers to annual mining...
Billions poured into Covid vaccine facilitated multiple tests at the same time
The slowest part of vaccine development isn’t finding candidate treatments, but testing them. This often takes years, with companies running efficacy and safety tests on animals and then in humans. Human testing requires three phases that involve increasing numbers of people and proportionately escalating costs. The Covid-19 vaccines went through...
Fast quest for coronavirus vaccines and what it means for other diseases
When scientists began seeking a vaccine for the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus in early 2020, they were careful not to promise quick success. The fastest any vaccine had previously been developed, from viral sampling to approval, was four years, for mumps in the 1960s. To hope for one even by the summer...