Fifa President Gianni Infantino retains seat unopposed at world football body’s congress in Rwanda
Gianni Infantino has been re-elected as president of Fifa until 2027 after standing unopposed at the congress of world football’s governing body on Thursday. The 52-year-old Swiss lawyer, who succeeded the disgraced Sepp Blatter in 2016, was waved in for a third term by acclamation, just as he was four...
Exclusive: Dramatic rise in teens mortality in US divides researchers as some blame drugs, guns and cars, others cite Covid
The mortality rate for US children and teens surged to the highest levels in decades between 2019 and 2021, according to research published Monday in JAMA. Researchers at the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine and the University of Washington reported that all-cause mortality increased 10.7 per cent for people...
Petrodollar: Lionel Messi lured to Saudi Arabia with $233 per year offer to play for Al Hilal
Lionel Messi is reportedly set to be offered a £194 million ($233.3 million) per year deal to move to Saudi Arabia. The Argentine, 35, will become a free agent in the summer if he does not agree a contract extension at Paris Saint-Germain. But while the French giants remain keen...
Covid vaccine fraud: How US created Vitality Project to be an arm of a ‘state-sponsored thought-policing system’
Thursday’s – March 9 the second held by the US House of Representatives’ Select Subcommittee on the Weaponisation of the Federal Government, featured testimony by investigative journalist Matt Taibbi and author Michael Shellenberger, who contributed to prior “Twitter Files” releases. The second session addressed, among others, revelations regarding the Virality...
Somali officials warn Kenya, Ethiopia and their government against under-rating Al Shabaab
Somali officials are warning the federal and regional governments of Somalia not to underestimate the strength of militant groups al-Shabab and Islamic State as authorities plan new military operations against them. Despite recent successes in dislodging al-Shabab from vast countryside areas in central Somalia, the militant group hit back, setting...
Ethiopian journalist awarded in US for her push for press freedom in ethnically polarised nation
An Ethiopian journalist presented an award by the United States has sounded the alarm over media freedom in her country, which Secretary of State Antony Blinken is visiting visit. Meaza Mohammed, the founder of the online network Roha TV, was honoured at the White House on Wednesday on International Women’s...
Covid vaccine scandal: How US taxpayers unwittingly finance growth and power of Twitter’s ‘Censorship-Industrial Complex’
The latest “Twitter files,” published on Thursday last week by investigative journalist Matt Taibbi reveal how the federal government weaponised private companies, taxpayer-funded non-governmental organizations (NGOs) – and even commercial news media – to target social media accounts disseminating content that ran counter to official narratives. The files – dubbed...
More countries in East and Central Africa to have own coastlines as two new continents form
Africa is gradually splitting into two. The Somali and the Nubian tectonic plates are slowly disintegrating from each other, while the Arabian plate continues to pull away. Although that will take between five to 10 million years, with fault lines widening seven millimetres every year, the continent will eventually split...
EX-US VP Mike Pence faces ringing criticism for ‘homophobic joke’ at gay minister for taking ‘maternity’ leave
The White House on Monday asked former Vice President Mike Pence to apologise for what it called a “homophobic joke” he made over the weekend aimed at Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. “The former vice president’s homophobic joke about Secretary Buttigieg was offensive and inappropriate, all the more so because he...
US Secretary of State’s current tour of Ethiopia, Niger makes him most travelled top American envoy to Africa
Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s visit to Ethiopia this week singles him out as America’s most travelled foreign affairs diplomat having logged over 68,389 kilometres (42,495 miles) in flying to Africa. Blinken is President Joseph Biden’s representative in face-to-face diplomacy in Africa, which is being aggressively courted by China and...
