Dormitory fire at Kenyan girls' school kills at least 16 studentsParents face anxious wait for updates after blaze tears through Utumishi girls academy in Gilgil, Nakuru countyA fire has ripped through a dormitory at a girls' school in Kenya's Rift valley, killing at least 16 students.The fire broke out just after midnight at Utumishi girls academy in Gilgil, Nakuru county, about 76 miles north-west of Nairobi, police said. Continue reading...
WHO chief calls for DRC ceasefire to tackle Ebola outbreakTedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warns of 'catastrophic collision of disease and conflict', as Uganda closes border with DRC The head of the World Health Organization has called for an immediate ceasefire in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo to help tackle the Ebola outbreak there, as Uganda closed its border with its neighbour in an effort to stop the spread.Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus posted on social media that the region was in the midst of a "catastrophic collision of disease and conflict with the Ebola outbreak in Ituri province outpacing the response". Tedros said on Monday that he would travel to the DRC this week. Continue reading...
Spread of Ebola in DRC 'outpacing' response efforts, warns WHODirector general of World Health Organization urges neighbouring countries to take immediate actionThe World Health Organization has warned that the Ebola outbreak is outpacing response efforts and countries neighbouring the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are at high risk from the disease."We are urgently scaling up operations, but at the moment the epidemic is outpacing us," said the WHO's director-general, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, as he urged neighbouring countries to take immediate action. Continue reading...
'She does not back down': the couple seeking to legalise same-sex marriage in BotswanaBonolo Selelo and Tsholofelo Kumile are going to court for right to wed but face fierce opposition from church groupsBonolo Selelo was at Botswana's national museum for a Gaborone Pride event when she spotted Tsholofelo Kumile and was struck by her good looks. The two initiated a conversation and when Kumile expressed anxiety about what a tarot reading at the event might hold, Selelo thought nothing of offering her a hug. The reading turned out positive but Kumile claimed her hug anyway and they talked for hours.That was 1 October 2023. Two months later, they moved in together. Then, on a hike during the Easter holidays in 2024, Selelo proposed to Kumile. A year later, they visited a local government office to register their intent to marry and were told it wasn't legal. Continue reading...
Guatemala requests US military cooperation against drug traffickingCentral American country says its president spoke with Pete Hegseth to confirm terms of cooperation Guatemala has requested US military cooperation spanning access to equipment, training and experts to assist Guatemalan operations against drug trafficking, the country's president, Bernardo Arévalo, said on Thursday.The joint plans stopped short of US military operations on Guatemalan soil and fall within existing bilateral agreements, the government noted. Continue reading...
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