Guilty as charged: Court rules Billionaire Bill Gates can stand trial in Netherlands in Covid vaccine injury lawsuit
According to Dutch independent news outlet Zebra Inspiratie, the plaintiffs allege that Bill Gates, through his representatives, deliberately misled them about the safety of the Covid-19 shots, despite knowing “that these injections were not safe and effective.”
As Sudan burns foreign powers, including UAE, reap big from precious minerals and agriculture
Gold has been one of the main drivers of the Sudan conflict. It allows both parties to fuel their war machines. The UAE is the main beneficiary of this trade. It receives nearly all the gold smuggled from Sudan and has become a hub for laundering trafficked gold into the global market. The latest available statistics show that, officially, the UAE imported precious metals from Sudan valued at about $2.3 billion in 2022.
IMF, World Bank worried about looming liquidity shortfall that’ll hurt many emerging economies
The US Treasury’s top economic diplomat has called for new ways to provide short-term liquidity support to low- and middle-income countries to head off debt crises.
Rwanda accused of trying to shrug off ‘sportswashing’ by touting economic outcomes
Rwanda President Paul Kagame has built a close working relationship with Gianni Infantino, the president of FIFA, which has opened an office in Rwanda and held its annual meeting there last year. Now he is taking the biggest step yet in his ambition to transform the country into a global sporting power, with F1 executives confirming that they are in exploratory talks with Kagame’s government about a possible Rwandan Grand Prix.
Debt-ridden Zimbabwe to compensate white farmers who lost land in seizures 20 years ago
In this file photo dated March 29, 2000, Pippa van Rechteren, left, and her two-year-old twins Catherine, second from left, and Elisabeth (third from left) are blocked from leaving their house on the white-owned commercial farm, Chiripiro, by Zimbabwe war veterans in Centenary district, 150 kilometers (93 miles) north of Harare, Zimbabwe. Credit: AP
Deadly anti-depressants: Doctors ignore findings that the drugs work less by treating illness, more by changing personality
Eli Lilly, the manufacturer of Prozac, confirmed the drug had been blamed in over 75 criminal cases. The drugmaker said it was unaware of any cases in which the defence had succeeded. That’s precisely the problem, according to Healy. Today, nearly 20 years after Pittman’s case, no jury has acquitted a person who claimed antidepressants caused them to commit a murder.
Africa set to transform from relative clean-energy laggard to world energy sector leader
Kenya and Ethiopia are both exploiting their relatively easy access to geothermal sources and are constructing the lion’s share of geothermal capacity. And around 15,000 MW of hydro is being planned across Ethiopia, Egypt, Angola, Nigeria and Tanzania, while Nigeria also has a 4,800 MW nuclear plant in pre-construction.
World Bank revises downwards sub-Saharan Africa growth forecast for 2024 over Sudan
The sub-Saharan Africa region grew at a robust annual average of 5.3 per cent in 2000-2014 on the back of a commodity supercycle, but output started flagging when commodity prices crashed. The slowdown was accelerated by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Central Bank of Kenya allows JPMorgan Chase to set up representative office in Nairobi
The JPMorgan Chase representative office will contribute to the diversity of Kenya’s financial sector and catalyse trade and investments, the statement added.
Uganda signs rail construction agreement with Turkey’s Yapi Merkezi
The rail section will run from the capital Kampala to Malaba at the border with Kenya, connecting landlocked Uganda to its neighbour’s rail network and on to the Indian Ocean seaport of Mombasa.
