Experts vouch for decentralised economies, fear totalitarian systems by central banks via digital currencies
“We must prevent the introduction of central bank digital currencies “because that is the epitome of a centralised, controlled, even totalitarian system,” economist Richard Werner has warned. Speaking in a recent episode of The Kim Iversen Show, Prof Werner said the current inflation crisis the world is currently facing is...
Bone marrow therapy: Hope as third Aids patient is treated with HIV-resistant stem cells in Germany
A 53-year-old man in Germany has become at least the third person with HIV to be declared cleared of the virus after a procedure that replaced his bone marrow cells with HIV-resistant stem cells from a donor. For years, antiretroviral therapy (ART) has been given to people with HIV with...
Body of Ghanaian football star Christian Atsu killed in Turkey earthquake arrives home
The remains of Ghanaian football star Christian Atsu arrived home Sunday following his death in Turkey’s devastating earthquake. Atsu’s coffin, draped in Ghana’s flag, arrived by plane in Accra and was received by his family and with military honours. The 31-year-old athlete was discovered dead on Saturday following the 7.8-magnitude...
How a simple equation proves the US armed forces have triumphed in the war agaainst terror
4,000,000,029,057. Remember that number. It’s going to come up again later. But let’s begin with another number entirely: 145,000 – as in, 145,000 uniformed soldiers striding down Washington’s Pennsylvania Avenue. That’s the number of troops who marched down that very street in May 1865 after the United States defeated the...
China ‘spy balloon’ scare wakes up America and Big Tech conglomerates to new era of surveillance
A day of Biden administration briefings on the Chinese spy balloon that travelled across US airspace last week ended in predictably partisan fashion, with multiple Republicans airing frustration while most Democrats defended the incident’s handling. What was unmissable was a replay of scenes from the Cold War era and a...
Extremism: Human rights abuses like seeing a father arrested or brother taken away by military forces feed radicalism
A lack of job opportunities is the leading factor driving people to join fast-growing violent extremist groups in sub-Saharan Africa, according to a new report released by the UN Development Programme. The report titled Journey to Extremism in Africa: Pathways to Recruitment and Disengagement, underscores the importance of economic factors...
War anniversary: Russia launches 17 missile attacks in Ukraine’s Kharkiv and Zaporizhzhia cities
Russia launched a wave of attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure in the cities of Kharkiv and Zaporizhzhia on Friday morning as Ukrainian officials said a long-awaited Russian offensive was under way in the east. At least 17 missiles hit the south-eastern city of Zaporizhzhia in an hour, acting mayor Anatolii Kurtiev...
Lucky to be alive! Earthquakes trigger traumatic memories for survivors in Türkiye and Syria
“The way the floor began shaking under my feet made me think I was back in Syria,” photographer Abdulsalam Jarroud, 24, a Syrian refugee originally from Idlib, says of the moment a 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit the southern Turkish city of Gaziantep on February 6. “It re-awakened traumatic memories I’ve been...
Zoom boom doom: Big Tech layoffs after making a killing when Covid pandemic ravaged the world
Layoffs continue to hit the tech industry, and this week they came for one of the pandemic’s biggest winners: Zoom. Yesterday, the video conferencing platform cut 15 per cent of its staff or about 1,300 people. That came after Zoom had tripled its head count in two years. “We didn’t...
Covid lessons: WHO drafts new code to help world to better prepare for future pandemics
The global response to Covid-19 represented a “catastrophic failure of the international community in showing solidarity and equity”. This frank assessment and admission comes in the opening line of the first or ‘zero’, draft of a new international pandemic agreement, published by the World Health Organization (WHO) last week. The...
