Arsenal spends, but questions remain about how big money will shape Gunners’ push for elite league
Arsenal have a higher net spend than any other club in Europe since the summer of 2020, and a time will come at which he has to deliver. Here, as the three-word slogan that has come to dominate this summer’s football discourse would have it, we go. The arrival of...
Military says mastermind of ‘theft of millions’ on President Ramaphosa farm is not South African
A weekend report alleging the apparent mastermind behind what is termed the theft of “millions” in foreign currency from President Cyril Ramaphosa’s game and livestock breeding farm in Limpopo was in the ranks of the South African Army has been dismissed. South African Department of Defence (DoD) Head of Communication...
EAC army deployment in Congo raises suspicions the move’s a ploy to create business opening for outgoing Kenyan president
Tensions are spiking once again in the chronically turbulent eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The M23 rebel movement – widely thought to be long dead – has dramatically resurrected. DRC President Félix Tshisekedi is now accusing Rwandan President Paul Kagame of again backing it with military support. Tshisekedi...
Abortion is a crime: Why US Supreme Court overturned right to pregnancy termination in 26 states
The constitutional right to an abortion has been struck down in the United States. The US Supreme Court announced on June 24 that it would overturn the 1973 landmark decision Roe v. Wade, which had protected abortion access up until the point that a foetus can live outside the womb...
South African xenophobia becomes endemic as vigilante groups embrace the ‘negative nationalism’
A week after members of Operation Dudula allegedly threatened to burn it down, the iconic Yeoville market in Johannesburg was set on fire in the early hours of June 20. Most traders who rent stalls there are migrants from other African countries. The South African Human Rights Commission confirmed that...
Man United superstar transfer Ronaldo to Chelsea: Wishful thinking or work-in-progress?
Chelsea owner Todd Boehly has held talks with Cristiano Ronaldo’s agent about a potential deal to take the Manchester United striker to Stamford Bridge, reports say. The 37-year-old returned to Old Trafford last summer with Ronaldo leading the club’s scoring charts in his first season back with 24 goals in...
Mutual respect and conversation, not name-calling and conflict, are key to America’s gun violence prevention
When an 18-year-old took a semiautomatic rifle to an elementary school in Texas last month and killed 19 students and two teachers, I was looking after my 10-year-old grandson. He knows I have spent most of my life trying to prevent gun violence. I had to tell him we had...
Kenya’s unresolved murders: Why police leave stones unturned during investigations of high profile crimes
At least one person gets killed every two days in Kenya’s capital city, Nairobi. Most of these cases are never resolved. Only 94 murder cases were registered in Nairobi courts in 2021. Nairobi is Kenya’s most populous city with more than four million people. Like other major cities across Africa,...
Cristiano Ronaldo worried lack of transfer activity at Old Trafford will weaken Man United further next season
Cristiano Ronaldo is concerned about the transfer plan at Man Utd and could consider his future this summer, according to reports in Spain. The Portugal international returned to Old Trafford last summer to much fanfare with the signing of him, Jadon Sancho and Raphael Varane expected to catapult the Red...
Old, emerging and lingering economic hurdles new administration in Colombia must wrestle with
In early May, a show of force – announced by Gaitanista Self-Defence Forces of Colombia (AGC), after one of the group’s top leaders was extradited to the US – paralysed nearly a quarter of the country as the group forbade transport or economic activity for five days: a decree enforced...
