Senegal’s Sadio Mane win of African Player of Year cements his credentials as a national icon
After an exceptional season, the writing was on the wall that Sadio Mané was going to win the African Player of the Year award, his second in history. And on Thursday he did. Mané is more of a national symbol for the Senegalese whom he led to their first African...
Chelsea risks losing out to Barcelona again as transfer target Jules Kounde jets off to Portugal
Chelsea boss Thomas Tuchel could be in danger of losing out to Barcelona for the second time this summer, with Jules Kounde jetting off to Portugal instead of arriving in London to complete his medical. The Blues came close to signing Raphinha from Leeds United earlier this month before La...
He’s not at sell-by date, why Arsenal loan returnee Saliba has Gunners’ fans cooing over the centre-back
Living in the north, we largely have to judge Arsenal fans on what we see on Twitter. And that leaves us with the impression that Arsenal fans are fickle, prone to extremes of giddiness and glumness, argumentative and entirely split on whether Mikel Arteta and his process should be trusted...
Population of forcibly displaced people in Africa hits record 36 million as conflict and intolerance rise
The number of forcibly displaced people (internally displaced, refugees, asylum seekers) in Africa continued its uninterrupted escalation over the past decade – expanding by 12 per cent (3.7 million people) in the past year. The record 36 million people currently displaced is triple the figure of a decade earlier. Forced...
Britain: Russian army’s ‘food terrorism’ has exposed 400m in Europe and Africa to hunger
Vladimir Putin’s forces are using “food terrorism” as a weapon of war in Ukraine, leaving millions facing famine in East Africa, Parliament heard on Thursday. Human rights campaigner Lord Alton of Liverpool told the House of Lords how the Russian military is stealing Ukrainian grain, destroying the country’s agricultural infrastructure...
Drug addiction is Africa’s silent crisis WHO predicts will explode in 2030 with 40 per cent rise
A bizarre sight welcomes anybody who enters the home of Asia Bianca and her husband in the Kenyan coastal town of Malindi. An infant’s slippers, strewn with cigarette waste and drug paraphernalia. This is no ordinary home. The slippers belonged to their little daughter, who died six months after she...
Amnesty International calls for probe of recent massacre of 400 Amhara civilians in Ethiopia’s Oromia region
Amnesty International on Thursday called for an investigation into the massacre of more than 400 Amhara civilians in Ethiopia’s Oromia region last month, citing eyewitnesses who blamed a local rebel group for the killings. The Oromo Liberation Army (OLA) has denied the accusations, saying government-allied militias were responsible for the...
Presidential candidate who promises to legalise cannabis, export snakes is stealing the show in Kenya
Less than three weeks before Kenya holds a presidential election, analysts say the unexpected, growing popularity of one candidate could deliver some unpredictability to the outcome. George Wajackoyah ranks a distant third behind front-runners Raila Odinga and William Ruto. But according to one poll, his platform to legalise marijuana and...
Cambridge University in UK is on verge of growing human brain in a laboratory
A dozen tiny, creamy balls are suspended in a dish of clear, pink liquid. Seen with the naked eye, they are amorphous blobs. But under a powerful microscope and with some clever staining, their internal complexity is revealed: intricate whorls and layers of red, blue and green. These are human...
Nine Liberian peacekeepers serving in South Sudan honoured by the United Nations mission
Growing up in civil war-torn Liberia gave nine young women a different outlook on life and was integral to them becoming police officers, a choice which saw them eventually land up in South Sudan as part of the first ever Liberian United Nations (UN) police officer detachment in the word’s...
