RWANDA STARTS VACCINE TRIALS AGAINST DEADLY MALBURG VIRUS
Rwanda has said it will begin vaccine trials for the fatal Marburg virus, which has already killed at least 12 people in the country – most of them health workers.…
ANTISEMITIC INCIDENTS IN US SURGE TO RECORD HIGH – REPORT
Reports of antisemitic incidents in the US have reached a record high since last year’s Hamas attack in Israel, according to a preliminary report from the Anti-Defamation League Center for…
TUNISIA’S PRESIDENT SEEKS NEW TERM WITH ONE CANDIDATE IN JAIL
Tunisia’s President Kais Saied, seen as a saviour by supporters and an autocrat by critics, is running for re-election on Sunday in a vote that he is all but certain…
‘NIGHTMARE IS OVER’ – POGBA BAN REDUCED TO 18 MONTHS
Paul Pogba says his “nightmare is over” after a four-year ban for a doping offence was reduced to 18 months following a successful appeal to the Court of Arbitration for…
SERIAL RAPIST IN SOUTH AFRICA GETS 42 LIFE SENTENCES
A South African serial rapist – who assaulted children as young as nine years old – has received 42 life sentences. Nkosinathi Phakathi was convicted of 90 counts of rape…
BLUNT AND BOLD – KENYA’S ‘TRUTH SPEAKER’ FACES THE SACK
Kenya’s embattled Deputy President, Rigathi Gachagua, calls himself the “truthful man”, attributing his remarkable rise to the fact that he speaks truth to power. But as he faces impeachment proceedings,…
NBA LEGEND MUTOMBO DIES FROM BRAIN CANCER AGED 58
NBA Hall of Famer Dikembe Mutombo has died from brain cancer at the age of 58. The eight-time NBA All-Star, who retired in 2009, spent 18 years playing in the…
GANG RAPISTS SENTENCED TO LIFE IN TANZANIA PRISON
A court in Tanzania’s capital has sentenced four men to life imprisonment for the gang rape and sodomy of a girl under the age of 18 in a case which…
‘THIS FELT LIKE THE END FOR TEN HAG – IF NOT NOW, VERY SOON’
Manchester United manager Erik ten Hag wore the haunted, hunted expression of someone reaching the end of the road after Tottenham Hotspur inflicted abject embarrassment at Old Trafford. Since United…
MCDONALD’S AND SUPERMARKETS FAILED TO SPOT SLAVERY
Signs that modern slavery victims were being forced to work at a McDonald’s branch and a factory supplying bread products to major supermarkets were missed for years, the BBC has…