Report: To address violent extremism in Africa, the AU needs to prioritise non-military responses

Report: To address violent extremism in Africa, the AU needs to prioritise non-military responses

At the end of October 2022, the Somali capital Mogadishu suffered another suicide bomb attack, which killed 121 people and injured more than 300. According to United Nations sources, in 2022 alone, 613 civilians died and 948 were wounded in attacks by the Islamist al-Shabaab terrorist group. Last year’s death...

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Fear, corruption and neglect push Ghanaians to bury evidence of illegal fishing, abuse on Chinese vessels

Fear, corruption and neglect push Ghanaians to bury evidence of illegal fishing, abuse on Chinese vessels

On July 5, Ghanaian fisherman Essien went missing from the Meng Xin 15 trawler off Accra coast. Is brother James says that Essien had dinner with the rest of the crew of the Chinese vessel before they headed back to their cubicle to sleep. The next morning, he was nowhere...

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How Chinese terror and unbridled greed decimating Ghanaian fish resources, locals reduced to slaves

How Chinese terror and unbridled greed decimating Ghanaian fish resources, locals reduced to slaves

When it comes to abuse and corruption on Chinese fishing vessels in Ghana, Bright Tsai Kweku has seen it all. He has seen Chinese crew treating local fishermen like “slaves”, he says. “They beat them, they spit on them, they kick them,” Kweku says. “I have been through that before.”...

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Preliminary data for Omicron infection, deaths in China show Covid outbreak peaked in December

Preliminary data for Omicron infection, deaths in China show Covid outbreak peaked in December

China’s massive Covid-19 outbreak probably peaked in late December, according to a preliminary analysis on the number of infections late last year and data on travel between cities. But public-health experts are frustrated by a lack of official data on the magnitude and severity of the outbreak. For close to...

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New report links baldness and excessive male hair loss to high consumption of sugary liquids

New report links baldness and excessive male hair loss to high consumption of sugary liquids

Male pattern hair loss (MPHL) is on the rise and scientists are linking it to increased consumption of sugary liquids. According to research findings, the phenomenon is the most common form of hair loss in men, affecting around 30-50 per cent of men by age 50. According to Medical News...

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How ‘Other Backward Classes’ tag derived from caste system stalls diversity in science in India

How ‘Other Backward Classes’ tag derived from caste system stalls diversity in science in India

Samadhan is an outlier in his home village in western India. Last year, he became the first person from there to start a science PhD. Samadhan, a student in Maharashtra state, is an Adivasi or indigenous person – a member of one of the most marginalised and poorest communities in...

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Big Pharma Covid scam: Why 15,000 physicians and medical scientists warned against vaccinating healthy children

Big Pharma Covid scam: Why 15,000 physicians and medical scientists warned against vaccinating healthy children

In 2012, Pfizer paid $1.2 billion to settle claims by nearly 10,000 women that its hormone replacement therapy drug, Prempro, caused breast cancer. The Prempro settlements came after six years of trials. Several plaintiffs were awarded tens of millions of dollars, including punitive damages for the drug maker’s actions in...

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 North Africa is now a key transit point of illegal tobacco trafficked from eastern Europe – report

 North Africa is now a key transit point of illegal tobacco trafficked from eastern Europe – report

The trafficking of tobacco is a multibillion-dollar business worldwide. One of the major global smuggling routes flows through the Balkans in Eastern Europe to North Africa, where a lack of security, high corruption, porous borders, and little cooperation among countries has created fertile ground for this trade. In 2017, over...

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Eating healthy and exercising are part of obesity control, but tirzepatide drug is a promising add-on – research

Eating healthy and exercising are part of obesity control, but tirzepatide drug is a promising add-on – research

There could be an even more effective drug in town for weight management – namely tirzepatide. As the world struggles with obesity ‘epidemic’ tirzepatide has emerged has emerged as one of the newest antidotes to a problem that is ravaging the younger population as a result of rapidly changing lifestyles....

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Weight control breakthrough: New class of drugs that quash hunger stun obesity researchers

Weight control breakthrough: New class of drugs that quash hunger stun obesity researchers

The hotel ballroom was packed to near capacity with scientists when Susan Yanovski arrived. Despite being 10 minutes early, she had to manoeuvre her way to one of the few empty seats near the back. The audience at the Obesity Week conference in San Diego, California, in November 2022, was...

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