Sudan crisis: International community urged to offer military incentives to surrender power to civilians
Events leading up to the resignation on January 2 of civilian Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok have returned Sudan’s rocky democratic transition to square one. This raises fundamental questions about what needs to be done differently to revive the faltering democracy project. Hamdok had been prime minister in the joint military-civilian...
Sudan’s ruling junta agrees to mediation by UN, wants African Union and Kenya on board
The United Nations has announced that it has started consultations in Sudan to try to salvage the country’s move to democracy after a military coup. UN officials were contacting parties to look for a way forward and the army had raised no objections to the initiative, UN special representative Volker...
Human rights: The minute the word gender enters dialogue, some regions get up and leave conference room
Since the beginning of the war in Tigray in November last year, more than 1,300 incidents of rape have been reported, while many argue that more cases went unreported due to societal stigma surrounding the topic. A high number of cases of gender-based violence including gang-rape and other atrocities were...
How Maryland hospital in US obtained emergency authorisation for compassionate use of pig heart transplant
The dramatic bid to save heart failure patient David Bennett’s life at University of Maryland Medical Centre in downtown Baltimore came after he had been in the hospital for more than a month, being kept alive by an artificial breathing machine, and his medical care team determined that he was...
Patient with terminal heart failure breathing on his own after pig heart transplant, his medical team says
A medical team at the University of Maryland Medical Center announced on Monday that it had accomplished a world-first: Its surgeons had transplanted a heart from a genetically engineered pig into a human. The doctors performed the eight-hour procedure on Friday evening. As of Monday night, the man, 57-year-old David...
