Stalled Sierra Leone Abortion Bill Leaves Women Few Options
Approximately 91,500 illegal abortions were carried out in Sierra Leone in 2021, according to a report by the African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC) published in 2024
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Supporters of Tunisia President Mark Revolt Anniversary
Saied was elected by a landslide in 2019 over dissatisfaction at the lack of post-revolution political and economic progress, but two years later staged a power grab and later began rolling back freedoms.
Emotions High, Hope Alive After Nigerian School Abduction
Parents have been living through trauma since armed gangs stormed the St Mary’s Catholic boarding school in remote village of Papiri in Niger state and herded away more than 300 children.
French Court Jails Doctor for Life for Poisoning 30 Patients, Killing 12
Frederic Pechier, 53, worked as an anaesthetist in two clinics in the eastern city of Besancon, when patients went into cardiac arrest in suspicious circumstances between 2008 and 2017. Twelve could not be resuscitated.
Indian pride as Asiatic lions roar back
The Asiatic lion, slightly smaller than their African cousins, and identified by a fold of skin along its belly, historically roamed from the Middle East to India.
Filmmaker Rob Reiner’s Son to Be Formally Charged With Parents’ Murder
The younger Reiner was arrested after the bodies of his 78-year-old father and mother, Michele Singer Reiner, 70, were discovered at their house in the upscale Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles on Sunday.
BBC Says Will Fight Trump’s $10 BN Defamation Lawsuit
The BBC has “been very clear that there is no case to answer in terms of Mr Trump’s accusation on the broader point of libel or defamation. I think it’s right the BBC stands firm on that point,” Kinnock told Sky News on Tuesday.
Eurovision 2026 Will Feature 35 Countries: Organisers
Public broadcasters in Iceland, Ireland, the Netherlands, Slovenia and Spain duly announced they would boycott the 70th edition of the contest, to be held in the Austrian capital in May.
Mobutu Expo Lays Bare DR Congo Dictator’s Troubled Legacy 30 years on
Mobutu era left few visible traces behind: a handful of palaces and monuments to the late dictator lie decrepit, while virtually no infrastructure from his time survives to this day
Bunge la Zambia Lapitisha Kwa Utata Muswada wa Kubadili Sheria za Uchaguzi
Muswada huo unapendekeza kurekebisha baadhi ya vifungu vya katiba ya taifa hilo lenye utajiri wa shaba kusini mwa Afrika, ikiwemo kuongeza idadi ya viti vya wabunge wanaochaguliwa pamoja na kutenga viti 40 kwa wanawake, vijana na watu wenye ulemavu. Aidha, muswada huo unapendekeza kuondoa kikomo cha mihula miwili ya miaka mitano kwa mameya.
