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Most five star hotels in the US, Europe, South America and Africa would be 3/4 star in some countries in the Middle East and Asia.
Muloongo Muchelemba retweeted
Ethiopian Runners Break Records at Athens Marathon 2026
Ethiopia dominates the 43rd Athens Authentic Marathon, breaking both course records as Greece's Stamatia Noula sets a national record.
#GreekCityTimes #AthensAuthenticMarathon #AthensMarathon2026...
greekcitytimes.com/2026/11/0…
Muloongo Muchelemba retweeted
Κατέρριψε το ρεκόρ της κλασικής διαδρομής στον Αυθεντικό Μαραθώνιο της Αθήνας ο νικητής του 43ου αγώνα. Πρόκειται για τον Μάναζουτ Σιγιούμ Ταφέρι, από την Αιθιοπία, ο οποίος τερμάτισε πρώτος.
Η διαδρομή είναι η κλασσική διαδρομή του Μαραθωνίου της Αθήνας που ξεκινά από τον Μαραθώνα και καταλήγει στο Παναθηναϊκό Στάδιο καλύπτοντας 42.195 μέτρα.
Ο Ταφέρι τερμάτισε σε χρόνο 2 ώρες 10 λεπτά και 3 δευτερόλεπτα, πάνω από μισό λεπτό πιο γρήγορα από την προηγούμενη κορυφαία επίδοση στην κλασική διαδρομή.
Το προηγούμενο ρεκόρ που έχει καταγραφεί ήταν 2 ώρες 10 λεπτά και 34 δευτερόλεπτα και ανήκε στον Κενυάτη Εντουιν Κίπτο από 2023.
🎥 segas
📷 Eurokinissi
As with many things in life, the marathon started in Greece.
Back in 490 BC, the Athenians and Plataeans defeated the invading Achaemenid Persian forces of King Darius I.
A courier called Pheidippides ran 40km from Marathon to Athens to deliver the news. He shouted "Nenikēkamen!" ("We have won!"). Then died from exhaustion.
Some historians suggest he did a 240km run from Athens to Sparta and back (to ask for help, which they refused), then fought in the battle, before making his final 40km run.
Here’s a toast to Pheidippides 🥂
#Greece 🇬🇷
BREAKING NEWS:
#Ethiopia 🇪🇹 scored a 1-2 at the Athens Marathon women’s race happening today, 8 November 2026.
Yatane Kormoshe Dusha crossed the finish line first in 2 hours 30 minutes and 4 seconds.
Tsiyon Abebe Temesgen crossed second in 2 hours 30 minutes and 29 seconds.
@EthiopianNewsA
@ebczena
BREAKING NEWS:
#Ethiopia 🇪🇹 scored a 1-2 at the Athens Marathon men’s race happening today, 8 November 2026.
Manazot Soyuz Taferi crossed the finish line first in 2 hours 10 minutes and 3 seconds.
Asefa Tefera Mengisa crossed second in 2 hours 10 minutes and 18 seconds.
@EthiopianNewsA
@ebczena
BREAKING NEWS
Kenyan 🇰🇪 runner Patrick Ketter Kiplagat came third at the Athens Marathon today, 8 November 2026.
He crossed the finish line in 2 hours 11 minutes and 18 seconds.
@citizentvkenya
@ntvkenya
@Kenyans
@KBCChannel1
The same credit ratings agencies that rate Africa as junk give positive ratings to dodgy entities elsewhere.
Africa needs better PR and muscle.
En marzo del 2026 (hace nada), UENO Bank lanzó un título a 5 años por 350 millones de dólares en Wall Street. El cupón cortó a 6,7% anual en dólares, y la operatoria la realizaron el J.P.Morgan y el Bank of America. Unos días antes FITCH le había dado la calificación de BB, una de las mejores de la historia para un banco de un país emergente latinoamericano.
Se ve que no hubo mucha auditoría...
A former colleague from the FinCrime team in New York went to a South American country to visit a prospective correspondent banking client over a decade ago.
Her flight arrived early in the morning and she couldn’t check into her hotel so she decided to sit in the bank’s lobby to catch up on email before her noon appointment.
She sat in the “lobby” and watched a Truman Show-like set up of the “bank’s office” from scratch. All for her visit.
Everyone ignored her presence until much later.
The “bank” was never onboarded.
If you wonder why bankers like to make unannounced visits… it’s because seeing is believing.
Funcionarios del brazo de inversiones del BID sospecharon que algo no andaba bien casi desde el momento en que cruzaron las puertas de Ueno Bank en Paraguay.
El moderno edificio de oficinas en Asunción, apodado “La Matrix”, estaba abarrotado de empleados jóvenes. Paneles de vidrio, madera lustrada y obras de arte sofisticadas, y un almuerzo en suite privada, con chefs y mayordomos.
El despliegue de lujo ostentoso llamó la atención de los empleados del BID, acostumbrados a una mayor austeridad.
La nota con mi colega @manuelatobiasm en @business @BBGenEspanol .
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Muloongo Muchelemba retweeted
🇵🇾 | Most foreigners who moved to #Paraguay over the last 4 years, along with the residency sellers who spent years marketing it as the ultimate freedom paradise, seriously underestimated the level of political corruption and regulatory failure in the country.
It turns out that one of Paraguay's slickest digital banks was running an old-school Latin American banking carousel behind the scenes.
The playbook was straight out of the regional corruption manual: a bank executive moves from the private sector to head the state regulator, hundreds of millions in public deposits flow into the bank, and insider lending runs unchecked until the balance sheet collapses, leaving ordinary bank customers to foot the bill.
Ueno Bank reportedly served around 3 million local customers. This is not some minor corporate scandal.
The damage to confidence in Paraguay's banking system could last for years, affecting local businesses, holding back economic growth and damaging the country's international reputation.
For a country trying to attract foreign investment and build international credibility, this is a serious step backwards.
Kenya is slipping on the Corruption Perception Index (CPI). It is currently at 30.
Did you know that the CPI is factored into how international banks determine risk appetite?
There is no point doing roadshows to woo foreign investors if they won’t be able to get funding at home.
Kenya allegedly spent $900 million more than it should have for a Chinese-built railway because of rampant corruption, fraud and graft bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Interesting theory on TikTok about the impact the World Cup had on US Midterm elections.
It specifically calls out the @LesVerts (Team Algeria) who stayed in Kansas.
Since Trump was keen to host all World Cups with his buddy Gianni, may I suggest Tennessee, Alabama, Kentucky, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Arkansas host the next World Cup in 2030.
Morocco, Spain and Portugal can take one for the team and wait.
#USMidterms2026
Back in October 2025, Richard Eden reported that he had uncovered an establishment plan called Project Thaw to bring back Harry and Meghan into the royal.
Judging by the relentless reporting and sometimes exaggerated plot lines, I wonder if Eden himself is the architect of Project Thaw.
Feedback: this strategy not working and is also completely putting off readers from you and your publication. Give Harry and Meghan a break.
Harry and Meghan to head the Commonwealth?
To read Thursday’s Eden Confidential column in full, click here:
dailymail.com/tvshowbiz/arti…
“Pick another protein” will forever be code for changing elected officials.
Thank you #Mississippi
#USElections
#Midterms2026
Muloongo Muchelemba retweeted
Projection:
Democrat Scott Colom is the Projected Winner in the Mississippi Senate election. He will defeat Incumbent Republican Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith.
Democratic Gain
#Election2026 #ElectionDay #MSSen
Muloongo Muchelemba retweeted
BREAKING: HOLY SMOKES! Democrats now control enough states to effectively abolish the Electoral College through the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact.
Republicans did NOT have this on their bingo cards...
Under the Constitution, states control their electoral votes and are allowed to decide how they are allocated during presidential elections. Currently, almost every state gives its votes to whoever wins the state.
In practice, the current system means that a candidate can win the national popular vote, but lose the election because small states like Wyoming exert undue influence on the outcome. That state has 3 electoral votes with a population of just 577,000 people. California has 54 electoral votes and a population of 39.5 million people. So a vote in Wyoming is essentially 3.8 times as valuable as one in California.
Since 1992, Democrats have won the popular vote seven out of nine times.
Under the NPV, states that join agree to give their electoral votes to whoever wins the national popular vote, not just their own state. So a state could go red on the map, but if the Democrat wins the national vote, they still get that state's votes. And vice versa of course.
The crucial mechanism is that the compact doesn't trigger until the member states have a combined power of at least 270 electoral votes, the number needed to win the White House. So far, 18 states plus D.C. have joined, totaling 222 electoral votes. We only need 48 more.
Now is the chance to pass this measure in every state possible. Democrats won both houses of the legislature in Wisconsin for the first time in 18 years (10 electoral votes). We won the Pennsylvania state Senate for the first time since 1993 (19 votes). We now have a trifecta in Michigan (15 votes). And we won the governor’s race in Nevada (6 votes).
10 + 19 + 15 + 6 = 50.
222 + 50 = 272.
And if we hold our lead in the Arizona Senate, that number could climb as high as 283, more than enough to trigger the compact.
In addition to removing an imbalance in our system that favors Republicans, this novel approach would fundamentally change how candidates run their presidential campaigns. Currently, they are incentivized to ignore most of the country. If you live in a “safe” state, red or blue, your vote for President is basically decided before you cast it. Campaigns spend their time and money in a handful of swing states while the rest of us watch from the sidelines. If the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact is adopted, they'll have reason to hit every state because they're aiming to win the largest swath of the country as a whole, not just certain states.
States have until July 20, 2028 to join the compact in time for the next presidential election.
We can fix our democracy. The time is now.
Please ❤️ and share if you support this idea!
