Ten years after Chibok and 100 girls still held, Nigerian families cope with trauma of more school kidnappings
Unlike the Islamic extremists that staged the Chibok kidnappings, the deadly criminal gangs terrorising villages in northwestern Nigeria are mostly former herdsmen who were in conflict with farming host communities, according to authorities. Aided by arms smuggled through Nigeria’s porous borders, they operate with no centralised leadership structure and launch attacks driven mostly by economic motive.
Death of two migratory ‘super-tuskers’ prompts Kenya to raise red flag over Tanzania’s wildlife hunting
The killing broke an unofficial moratorium on hunting elephants near the Kenyan border. The ban was agreed in 1995 after an outcry over the shooting of four Kenyan elephants on the Tanzanian side in 1994, conservationists said, although the prohibition did not set out detailed regulations.
School: Senegal embarks on integration of deaf and hard-of-hearing with learners with hearing ability
Senegal lacks a national strategy for inclusive education, but it is developing one. Recent political instability in the West African nation has hindered progress. The challenges are compounded by a stigma that some in Senegal associate with disabilities. Some parents hide their children and prevent them from participating in society.
Covid vaccine lies: ‘What we’ve learnt is that scientists cannot be trusted, they lie all the time’
According to Thacker, “If you’re going to be a corrupt journal the way Science Magazine has turned itself into a completely corrupt institution, then we need to begin to think about whether or not publicly funded research can be published in these journals.”
Editors of influential science journals face US House committee for disseminating falsehoods on Covid vaccines
A House investigation and Freedom of Information Act requests later revealed that a month before publication, Fauci and Collins reviewed drafts of the paper. A July 2023 report by the subcommittee found that Fauci, key virologists and government officials used the paper to suppress the Covid-19 lab-leak theory.
Dubai company’s staggering land deals in Africa raise fears about risks to Indigenous livelihoods
A raft of agreements between at least five African countries and Blue Carbon could give the company control over large swaths of land on the continent. In Kenya, Indigenous populations already have been evicted to make way for other carbon credits projects, according to rights groups like Amnesty International and Survival International.
In a season of three very good teams, rather than one or two sides, final 90 minutes will decide EPL champions
Liverpool and Arsenal are, as Guardiola says, “very good”. But exceptional? Exceptional in the way that City and Liverpool have been at their best in the Guardiola-Klopp era? Perhaps not.
After Arsenal and Liverpool test Man City to the hilt, doubts linger if they can holdoff ‘Cityzens’ late charge
But to talk of “firing on all cylinders” means the type of performance level City reached in the final months of last season, when they scaled extraordinary heights not just in terms of results but the manner in which they swept aside opponents like RB Leipzig (7-0), Liverpool (4-1), Bayern Munich (3-0), Arsenal (4-1) and Real Madrid (4-0) in high-stakes matches between mid-March and mid-May.
While abortion is now legal in much of Africa, few women know and providers don’t publicise it
More than 20 countries across Africa have loosened restrictions on abortion in recent years, but experts say that like Efua, many women probably don’t realise they are entitled to a legal abortion. And despite the expanded legality of the procedure in places like Ghana, Congo, Ethiopia and Mozambique, some doctors and nurses say they’ve become increasingly wary of openly providing abortions.
US abolishes centuries-old biased test that kept thousands of Blacks from getting kidney transplant
At issue is a once widely used test that overestimated how well Black people’s kidneys were functioning, making them look healthier than they really were – all because of an automated formula that calculated results for Black and non-Black patients differently. That race-based equation could delay diagnosis of organ failure and evaluation for a transplant, exacerbating other disparities that already make Black patients more at risk of needing a new kidney but less likely to get one.
