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Biden administration pressuring African country to adopt lax abortion laws in exchange for foreign aid: report
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Biden administration pressuring African country to adopt lax abortion laws in exchange for foreign aid: report

President Biden’s administration is pressuring the government of Sierra Leone to adopt more permissive abortion policies in exchange for foreign assistance, according to a Monday report.  The African nation currently bans abortion in most circumstances, but legislation before the country’s parliament would decriminalize the practice. The Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), a U.S. government-run funding allocator,

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Nigeria’s Ademola Lookman Named African Footballer Of The Year
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Nigeria’s Ademola Lookman Named African Footballer Of The Year

Last Updated:December 17, 2024, 09:03 IST Lookman succeeds compatriot Victor Osimhen, who last year became the first Nigerian winner since Nwankwo Kanu in 1999. Nigeria forward Ademola Lookman was named 2024 African men’s player of the year at a ceremony in Marrakesh on Monday, while Zambia’s Barbra Banda picked up the women’s award. Lookman succeeds

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West African states approve exit of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger
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West African states approve exit of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger

Leaders of the West African regional grouping, Ecowas, have approved the withdrawal of three countries ruled by the military from the bloc, but have offered a six-month grace period for them to reconsider. Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger plan to withdraw from Ecowas in January after refusing the bloc’s demand to restore democratic rule. This

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Reeva Steenkamp’s mother issues chilling ‘red flag’ warning to Oscar Pistorius’s new lookalike girlfriend and insists he still has ‘anger issues’ 11 years after he murdered South African model
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Reeva Steenkamp’s mother issues chilling ‘red flag’ warning to Oscar Pistorius’s new lookalike girlfriend and insists he still has ‘anger issues’ 11 years after he murdered South African model

Reeva Steenkamp’s mother has warned Oscar Pistorius’s new girlfriend that the disgraced Paralympian is still a ‘danger to women’. Pistorius, 38, is said to have found new love just months after being released from prison on parole having served nine years for killing his girlfriend at his South African home in 2013. The double amputee

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On This Day In 1992: Kapil Dev’s Historic Mankad Dismissal Of South African Peter Kirsten | Video
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On This Day In 1992: Kapil Dev’s Historic Mankad Dismissal Of South African Peter Kirsten | Video

Last Updated:December 09, 2024, 07:00 IST Kapil Dev warned Peter Kirsten multiple times about his early walk in the first ODI. Finally, he Mankaded him, knocking off the bail and making a loud appeal. On this day in 1992, India’s World Cup-winning captain Kapil Dev Mankad Peter Kirsten during India’s tour of South Africa. (Image:

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Americans’ life expectancy to crash to 66th in the world… lower than many sub-Saharan African nations
Health

Americans’ life expectancy to crash to 66th in the world… lower than many sub-Saharan African nations

US life expectancy is projected to sink to 66th in the world in the coming decades, according to a major new study. Despite being one of the wealthiest nations, Americans already die younger than their equivalents in almost 50 countries. But ‘alarming trajectory of health challenges’, which includes rampant obesity, drug use and firearm suicides,

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Fears mystery Congo disease already in America as Ohio hospital quarantines African traveler with unknown flu illness
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Fears mystery Congo disease already in America as Ohio hospital quarantines African traveler with unknown flu illness

A patient who recently traveled to the US from Africa has been quarantined in hospital with a flu-like illness — amid fears a new pathogen could be spreading worldwide. The individual is being treated at University Hospitals St. John Medical Center outside Cleveland, Ohio. They had recently arrived at Hopkins International Airport from Tanzania, which

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Central African Republic unveils statue in honour of Russia’s Wagner founder Yevgeny Prigozhin
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Central African Republic unveils statue in honour of Russia’s Wagner founder Yevgeny Prigozhin

AFP A monument in honour of the late leader of Russia’s mercenary Wagner Group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, has been unveiled in the Central African Republic (CAR). The statue of Prigozhin and his right-hand man Dmitru Utkin, who both died in a plane crash last year, was erected in the capital Bangui. The statue shows Prigozhin in

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Biden appears to rest his eyes at African summit in Angola
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Biden appears to rest his eyes at African summit in Angola

President Biden appeared to rest his eyes during a summit with African leaders in Lobito, Angola, in a moment that was caught on video.  Seated in the middle of a table with various officials from African countries, the 82-year-old president can be seen closing his eyes and resting his head while Tazania’s Vice President Philip

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France admits West African colonial ‘massacre’, Senegal President Faye says
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France admits West African colonial ‘massacre’, Senegal President Faye says

France has for the first time acknowledged that its soldiers carried out a “massacre” in Senegal in which dozens – perhaps hundreds – of West African troops were killed almost exactly 80 years ago, Senegalese President Bassirou Diomaye Faye has said. Those who died were part of the Tirailleurs Senegalais unit, recruited at the start

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