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A Brazilian doctor recently lost his job after allegedly prescribing chocolate ice cream and video games to a 9-year-old with a sore throat and flu-like symptoms. On May 18th, Priscila da Silva Ramos, a 37-year-old mother from Osasco, in Greater São Paulo, took her 9-year-old child for a checkup at …

South Africa is going to change its law so that it has the power to decide whether or not to arrest a leader wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC), a deputy minister has told the BBC. Earlier this year, Russia’s leader was invited to a summit in South Africa, …

The owner of Hilton Hotel in Ile-Ife, Nigeria, Dr Rahmon Adedoyin has been sentenced to death by hanging, along with two workers of the hotel, for the murder of a student, Timothy Adegoke. Justice Oyebola Ojo, Osun State Chief Judge sitting at the High Court in Osogbo, said based on …

play video President of the United States, Joe Biden, has demanded the repeal of Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Law barely a day after it was signed into law by his counterpart, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni. The White House, on May 29, published a statement in which Biden referred to the new law as …

The new president of Africa’s largest democracy, Nigeria, has used his inaugural address to make a major policy announcement to ease pressure on government finances. Bola Tinubu said the decades-long subsidy on petroleum products was being scrapped. “Fuel subsidy is gone,” he told a packed crowd in the capital, Abuja. …

The Ghana National Ambulance Service has reacted to a video in circulation claiming one of the ambulances belonging to the service has been shipped to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for sale. In a statement dated Monday, [May 29, 2023], the Ambulance Service explained that the vehicle in …

Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s supporters celebrated well into the night after Turkey’s long-time president secured another five years in power. “The entire nation of 85 million won,” he told cheering crowds outside his enormous palace on the edge of Ankara. But his call for unity sounded hollow as he ridiculed his …

A government official in India has been suspended after he ordered a reservoir to be drained to retrieve his phone. It took three days to pump millions of litres of water out of the dam, after Rajesh Vishwas dropped the device while taking a selfie. By the time it was …

In a distressing incident, a job seeker in India reportedly became a victim of a sex racket orchestrated by a resident of New Town, which led to her being forced into a harrowing encounter with two Ghanaian footballers at a city guest house, where she was subjected to gang rape. …

A court in Kenya has ruled that a cash gift of about $738,000 (£599,000) sent to 23-year-old student Felista Nyamathira Njoroge by her Belgian boyfriend can be confiscated by the government. The money was sent to her in 2021 by Marc De Mesel, a YouTube cryptocurrency enthusiast from Belgium. However, …