Kenya’s pharmaceutical regulator has recalled an oral medicine used to relieve pain and fever in children, citing urgent safety concerns. The Pharmacy and Poisons Board (PPB) said it had received…
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Mozambique: Maputo to sue shipbuilder in UK over corruption
The UK Supreme Court has ruled that Mozambique can sue the shipbuilder Privinvest in Britain, over allegations of bribery linked to a corruption scandal that caused a financial crisis. Privinvest…
South Africa: Navy submarine accident leaves three dead and four injured
Three South African navy submariners have died and four others injured after being washed off the deck of a submarine by high waves. The vessel was off the coast near…
Indonesia: Two-year jail sentence for TikTok pork video
An Indonesian court has sentenced a woman to two years in jail for posting a viral TikTok video where she said an Islamic phrase before eating pork. Lina Lutfiawati, 33,…
USA: One-year-old poisined by fentanyl kept under nursery nap mat
The fentanyl that killed a one-year-old child at a nursery in New York City was hidden in the nap room under a mat as he slept, police say. Nicholas Dominici,…
Azerbaijan: Nagorno-Karabakh forces agree to disarm
Twenty-four hours after Azerbaijan’s army launched an offensive in Nagorno-Karabakh, ethnic-Armenian forces have agreed Russian terms for a ceasefire. One of the key demands that Karabakh forces have accepted is…
Rwanda: President Paul Kagame to run for fourth term in 2024
Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame has said he will run for a fourth term in next year’s presidential election. “Yes, I am indeed a candidate,” Mr Kagame told French-language magazine Jeune…
Somalia: EU suspends food aid amid theft probe
The European Union has confirmed it’s temporarily frozen payments to the World Food Programme (WFP) for deliveries of humanitarian aid to Somalia. A spokesman for the European Commission, Balazs Ujvari,…
Nigeria: 69 ‘gay wedding’ suspects granted bail
A court in Nigeria has granted bail to 69 people who were arrested last month after a raid on what the police described as a “gay wedding”. Like in most…
Nigeria: Presidential election results case now in Supreme Court
Two losing presidential candidates, from Nigeria’s main opposition parties, have gone to the Supreme Court to challenge the dismissal of their cases against the victory of Bola Ahmed Tinubu as…