Beauty and the beast: Thousands of Black women in US diagnosed with uterine cancer linked to hair relaxers
The American Cancer Society estimates there will be about 66,000 new cases of uterine cancer diagnosed this year in the United States, less than a quarter of the number of 297,790 new cases of invasive breast cancer, and more than three times the 19,710 cases of ovarian cancer.
American rock’n’roll icon Elvis Presley shot back to life again via wife Priscilla’s film on their time together
Presley’s book, nearly 40 years old at this point, reveals things about Elvis that are, at best, unflattering. Everyone knows they met when she was 14 and he was 24. But his controlling and sometimes volatile behavior, dictating exactly what she looked like, what she was allowed to do and whom she was allowed to spend time with, might still come as a surprise to some.
Healthcare workers in hospitals suffer trauma, burnout and loss as Israel bombards Gaza
Hospitals that remain functional are only operating at one third of their normal staffing levels due to the high number of medical workers who have been displaced and killed, according to a situation report from the UN’s emergency aid coordination body, OCHA.
Largest ever demobilisation of 372,000 ex-rebels in limbo as Ethiopia can’t raise $849m needed
The Ethiopian government plans to meet around 15 per cent of the cost, with donors expected to pick up the rest of the bill, according to a copy of the demobilisation framework seen by The New Humanitarian. But so far, not a single dollar has been received.
Africa: A young continent ruled by old men and where democracy is strangled by gerontocrats
Youthful uprisings first flared in 2011, during the Arab Spring, when an uprising in Tunisia inspired others in Egypt and Libya. Later, powerful demonstrations erupted in Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Senegal and even Eswatini, a tiny kingdom of 1.2 million people in southern Africa.
Africa’s cultural conquest of West has gained pace through music, industrialisation is limping
African fashion had its own shows in Paris and Milan. In Venice, Africa is the focus of this year’s Architectural Biennale. Last year, an architect from Burkina Faso won the prestigious Pritzker Prize. In 2021, Tanzania-born Abdulrazak Gurnah won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
In 10 years Africa is projected to have world’s largest skilled workforce, overtaking China and India
Businesses are chasing Africa’s tens of millions of new consumers emerging every year, representing untapped markets for cosmetics, organic foods, even champagne. Hilton plans to open 65 new hotels on the continent within five years. Its population of millionaires, the fastest growing on earth, is expected to double to 768,000 by 2027, the bank Credit Suisse estimates.
From country music to pop music icon: Transition of Taylor Swift’s 2014 nostalgia to 2023 reality
Taylor Swift’s reimagined 1989 is here, the album that ushered in the first Peak Swift era – revisited at the height of her massive pop culture dominance. Released in 2014 and named for her birth year, the original “1989” signified a sonic rebirth. Swift had shed the Nashville country roots...
While history records that the 1918 flu killed young and healthy, skeletons tell a different story
The death toll of the “Spanish” flu (which did not arise in Spain but was covered in its newspapers because they had no wartime censorship) counted at least 50 million people, many times the recorded deaths from Covid-19.
Prone to humanitarian crises, African countries now explore ways of meeting strategic airlift needs
In 2012, as insurgents pushed to take over Mali, an Economic Community of West African States intervention was delayed for months due to a lack of airlift. Similar delays occurred in Sudan’s Darfur region in 2010, when African Union troops were grounded as the conflict exploded. Eventually, the Netherlands stepped in to provide the necessary airlift.
