David Malingha

BIG TAKE | The targeted attacks and killing of Iran's leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, shatters a half-century of US foreign policy @PeterMartin_PCM @EMPosts @business bloomberg.com/news/features/…

IRAN | The UAE and Qatar are privately lobbying allies to help them persuade Trump to reach for an off-ramp that would keep US military operations against Iran short, sources say. @alexwickham exclusively reports bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

The ‘Last King of Scotland’ still haunts Museveni, Uganda’s 40-year rulers, says this review of new book by Mahmood Mamdani. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

REVIEW | After 40 years in power, Uganda's Yoweri Museveni has secured a new term in office. A new book by Mahmood Mamdani argues he’s damaging the country just like 1970s dictator Idi Amin. Here's my dispatch: bloomberg.com/news/articles/… @adamblenford @bpolitics

03/01/26: GEOPOLITICAL MOMENT: US Strikes Venezuela and Captures Maduro - Bloomberg share.google/rwZpt7ayyioaVj…

DEALS | Diageo agrees to a $2.3 billion deal to sell its majority stake in East African Breweries to Asahi @herbling bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

OBITUARY | A big tree has fallen in Africa @eombok @BloombergAfrica bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

WEALTH | Cristiano Ronaldo is now a billionaire -- @halmeida5 @dylansloan_ @business bloomberg.com/news/features/…

FIRST | Kenya converted its railway loans from dollars to Chinese yuan, saving $215 million a year and potentially setting a precedent, @herbling reports bloomberg.com/news/articles/… @BloombergAfrica

Bloomberg News reporting sheds new light into the relationship between disgraced financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and prominent UK politician Peter Mandelson bloomberg.com/features/2025-… via @business

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WEEKEND READ | ''No, it’s not over,'' Tidjane Thiam, the former Credit Suisse CEO now barred from running for president in Ivory Coast, talks about blocked ambitions, prejudice and why he won’t give up. bloomberg.com/features/2025-… via @business @MishalHusain

Jane Street’s Rob Granieri says he was duped into funding AK-47s for a South Sudan coup plot, @avabmorrison @sridinats report @business bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Trump’s decision to bomb Iran in a first US direct military action on Tehran in decades, has pushed the Middle East into uncharted territory and raised geopolitical risk in a world already facing uncertainty over his trade war @RamseyAlRikabi @business bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

ISRAEL STRIKES IRAN | Israel launched airstrikes on Iran, in a major escalation in the standoff over Tehran’s atomic program that risks sparking a new war in the Middle East bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Taiwan's lifers hold >90% of their >$700b foreign assets in USD. When the dollar is strong, the model works well. But it puts them at risk of a longterm USD decline as the appeal of US exceptionalism wanes @ChienHuaWan1 @hwang61 @betty_hou_1108 @business bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, a Kenyan novelist best known for his books critiquing the hardships of post-colonial Africa, has died. He was 87. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

AFRICA STARTUPS | Here's Bloomberg's inaugural list of the top 25 African startups to watch, from fintech to healthcare, farming, climate, logistic and cybersecurity dimsum.bloomberg.com/previewframe/J…… via @technology

Dozens of White Afrikaners arrived in the US from South Africa on Monday, the first beneficiaries of a controversial resettlement program under President Trump via @gardnerakayla bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

MARKETS | Questions have emerged about US Treasuries as a safe haven after recent volatility. It hints at the nervousness about the Treasuries which act as collateral for trillions of dollars of lending daily -- @europressos @LauraNoonanX bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via @markets