US Air Force stealth fighters arrive in Seoul as America and South Korea resume joint military exercises
US Air Force F-35A stealth fighters arrived in South Korea on Tuesday on their first publicly announced visit since 2017 as the allies and nuclear-armed North Korean engage in an escalating cycle of displays of weapons. Joint military drills had been publicly scaled back in recent years, first in 2018...
DR Congo and Rwanda keen to avert war after agreeing to meet in Angola to discuss rebel insurgencies
Democratic Republic of Congo President Felix Tshisekedi will meet his Rwandan counterpart, Paul Kagame, for talks in Angola this week, officials from both countries have announced. There were no details on what they would discuss, but the neighbours have been at diplomatic loggerheads since a surge of attacks in eastern...
Somalia opens doors to foreign investments as Egyptian, Turkish banks set up shop in Mogadishu
Somalia has granted licenses to two foreign banks, a move that has swung open the Horn of Africa country’s to international investment for the first time in more than 30 years. The Egyptian bank Banque Misr and the Turkish bank Ziraat Katilim are the first foreign banks to be allowed...
Ghana launches See Something, Say Something campaign to repulse rising threat of extremism
Facing the threat of extremist groups encroaching into its northern border regions, Ghana recently announced its “See Something, Say Something” campaign that urges citizens to report suspicious activity. “Launching this campaign is to ensure we have all-inclusive, society involvement,” government spokesman Palgrave Boakye-Danquah was quoted by Joy News television. “The...
Ronaldo’s next destination after Man United may be Bayern Munich if the Bavarians fork out $20 million
Manchester United reportedly want to recoup the money they spent to bring Cristiano Ronaldo to Old Trafford in order to allow the Portuguese star leave this summer. Ronaldo dropped a bombshell on Saturday as it was revealed he wants to leave United to play Champions League football. The 37-year-old –...
Ronaldo to Arsenal? Pundit jokes about God and (Gabriel) Jesus pairing in Gunners’ attack
Football pundit Piers Morgan has revealed that he’s already sent a message to Cristiano Ronaldo in an attempt to lure him to sign for Arsenal this summer. Ronaldo has reportedly asked Manchester United to let him leave this summer, if the right offer comes in. According to The Times, Ronaldo...
Theatre of Dreams: Man United squads of recent seasons would be European champions if titles were won on excuses
Manchester United have made it very easy to be pessimistic about anything emerging from Old Trafford. Almost a decade of mis-management has made it the instinct of anyone with even a casual relationship with reality to be sceptical about the Red Devils’ prospects, despite the dawn of the latest of...
Congo buries remains of independence hero Patrice Lumumba 62 years after assassination
The remains of Congolese independence hero and first Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba were laid to rest in Kinshasa on Thursday, the country’s Independence Day, 62 years after his assassination by Belgian-backed rebels. The ceremony was made possible after a gold-capped tooth, all that remained of the body, was returned to...
China abandons non-interference policy, now wants to ‘silence the guns in Horn of Africa’
China is offering to help “silence the guns in the Horn of Africa,” an ambitious undertaking given the multiple conflicts in the region, and an indication that Beijing may be moving away from its traditional “non-interference” stance towards more active diplomatic engagement. China’s special envoy for the Horn of Africa,...
Scientists develop Artificial Intelligence that can predict a crime a week before it happens
An artificial intelligence can now predict the location and predict rate of crime across a city a week in advance with up to 90 per cent accuracy. Similar systems have been shown to perpetuate racist bias in policing, and the same could be true in this case, but the researchers...
