Man United owners turned Red Devils into the living dead, now ten Hag can’t save the zombified team
You had to feel for Erik ten Hag in his post-game interview on Sunday. He’d strode out onto the Old Trafford pitch chest out, shoulders back, cutting an impressive and determined figure as he accepted the applause from fans. This was a man ready to get to work. A new...
Kenya’s China-built railway is a hot-button issue new government must address to halt economic drain
Fireworks popped and confetti rained down in the seaside city of Mombasa when Kenya’s president inaugurated the country’s new railway — designed, funded and built by China. President Uhuru Kenyatta proclaimed that the new train would connect the port in Mombasa to the neighbouring country of Uganda, create jobs and...
Al-Qaeda-linked al Shaabab terror group’s attacks in Ethiopia raises fresh concerns about its regional presence
The al-Shaabab extremist group has exploited Ethiopia’s internal turmoil to cross the border from neighbouring Somalia in unprecedented attacks in recent weeks that a top US military commander has warned could continue. The deadly incursions into Ethiopia, Africa’s second most populous country and long seen as an anchor of security...
Analysis of Arsenal vs Crystal Palace season opener shows the Gunners are rough diamonds
Gabriel Jesus and Wiliam Saliba were excellent, but an Arsenal duo provided cause for concern for Mikel Arteta at Selhurst Park. Jesus didn’t just thrive – as most of us predicted – but dominated as the main man in the Arsenal attack against Crystal Palace in their 2022-23 Premier League...
‘Baba-qued’ and ‘Hustled’ Kenyans wait with bated breath to vote in close presidential poll in history
Raila Amolo Odinga, a veteran Kenyan political leader and one-time prime minister, has long cast himself as an anti-establishment firebrand, despite belonging to one of the country’s top political dynasties. But his decision to strike an alliance with his arch-rival, President Uhuru Kenyatta, and secure the ruling party’s backing as...
Report: Demoralised Russian troops self-mutilating to escape war as Ukraine resumes grain exports
Vladimir Putin has been humiliated by the news that Russian soldiers are allegedly “self-mutilating” in a desperate bid to escape from the front lines, according to British newspaper The Express. “In order to return to Russia, the invading soldiers are mutilating themselves and pretending to be sick, according to Ukraine’s...
Killing al Qaeda chief al Zawahiri sets off scramble for dominance of Africa by Islamists
It was one of Ayman al-Zawahiri’s last victories. Just over a week before the al-Qaeda leader was killed in Kabul by missiles fired from a US drone, militants from the organisation’s biggest affiliate in sub-Saharan Africa attacked the most important military base in Mali. The tactics of the attack were...
Why Kenyan voter, high on heresy, has thrust an outlier presidential candidate into viral sensation
The presidential candidate swivelled his hips and shimmied his shoulders, reggae music blasting from his campaign bus. As George Wajackoyah danced, an increasingly rowdy crowd sang along to what has become his campaign anthem. “Yes I’m a ganja planter,” blared Marlon Asher’s hit song, “Ganja Farmer.” “Call me di ganja...
Man City will win Premier League, it’s also proved a good shop for gifted players after netting $213 million
Manchester City will start the season as favourites to win the Premier League, but this doesn’t necessarily make them the ‘value bet’. Such is the nature of modern football that the reaction was always going to be distinctly binary, but there was little positive that supporters could take from Erling...
With hair-trigger nature of EPL hiring and firing Arsenal manager is now sitting on time bomb
For all that is said of the grumpiness (and, increasingly, rage) of the football supporter, there is much to be said for optimism. It’s a fleeting feeling, but for a couple of weeks during the summer anything and everything is on the table, although it does usually come crashing back...
