New findings show heart failure and stroke incidence is markedly higher in people who’d recovered from Covid
Even a mildest case of Covid-19 can increase a person’s risk of cardiovascular problems for at least a year after diagnosis, a new study shows. Researchers found that rates of many conditions, such as heart failure and stroke, were substantially higher in people who had recovered from Covid-19 than in...
Russian nuclear disaster: No matter the consequences of lingering radiation, there are massive benefits to people leaving
Some other research teams have not found significant radiation effects on the genetic diversity or abundance of certain animals around Chernobyl nuclear disaster scene. In one widely publicised 2015 survey of a Belarus area near the power plant, a team of scientists determined that the numbers of elk, roe deer...
How unprepared British foreign secretary Truss flew to Moscow with ‘just language’ to stop looming Russia-Ukraine war
Oh, how I envy Liz Truss her opportunity! Oh, how I regret her utter failure to make use of it! For those who have never heard of her, Truss is the lightweight British foreign secretary who went to Moscow this week to tell her Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, that his...
Radiation at Chernobyl in Russia have fallen since initial accident, but scientists disagree on its impact on wildlife
Is Chernobyl a radioactive wasteland reeling from chronic radiation, or a post-nuclear paradise with thriving populations of animals and other life forms? Studies don’t always agree about levels of mutations and other ill effects. Thirty-five years after the meltdown at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in northern Ukraine, reports often...
Kenyan scholar: Right working culture pays dividends when juggling between academia and parenting in Africa
In the fifth instalment of an eight-part series about African women in science, Elizabeth Kimani-Murage, head of maternal and child well-being at the African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC) in Nairobi, describes the importance of quiet hours to write as an early-career public-health researcher. After I earned my master’s...
African woman’s odyssey: How political mess at home sends continent’s younger generation into modern day slavery in America
On October 30, 2020, Julliana Essengue, a Cameroonian woman on the run from persecution at home, left the Border Patrol station where she’d been held. But when she arrived in Bradenton, Florida, in November, Dalmacy’s cousin was unable to house her, although he did put her up in a hotel....
Black odyssey: ‘As the baby was crying…one officer threw the bottle away and said the baby was too old to continue drinking milk
As their limited opportunities in Brazil and the discrimination against them in Mexico demonstrated, poor Black migrants like Julliana Essengue from Cameroon and Dalmacy from Haiti are at the bottom of a de facto migrant hierarchy. In their attempt to reach the United States, which is often still a safer...
Tale of daring Cameroonian woman who risks her life in Panamanian jungle where Colombian thugs call the shots to reach America
Hundreds of thousands of migrants to the United States of America have made the dangerous trip since 2010. According to a March 2021 report from Duke University, three-quarters of these migrants are from Cuba and Haiti, with increasing numbers coming from the Indian subcontinent and African countries, notably Eritrea, the...
A woman’s odyssey of justice: Essengue was told to leave Cameroon, if not, the military would take her to Yaoundé…and kill her
Sometime during that week, an official in the detention camp in Cameroon accosted Julliana Essengue and ordered her to have sex with him. “I said no,” she told me. “When I refused, he forced me, and he slept with me. And later, his colleagues came and did the same thing....
From Africa to the Americas: The odyssey of a black migrant running away from war in Cameroon
Julliana Essengue arrived in Tapachula, Mexico, from São Paulo, Brazil, in March 2020. She was broke but determined to reach the United States. After nearly two months traversing rain forests, borders and rivers by bus, car, boat, and foot, she needed money. At first, Essengue and her travel companions squatted....
