Senegal’s President Macky Sall told a national dialogue Monday that elections will be held before the rainy season begins around July, and reiterated his commitment to leave office before his mandate ends in April. But the election’s 16 candidates refused to take
Left-wing drum beaters Jeremy Corbyn and Mick Lynch are set to descend on London today to preach against economic injustice despite reportedly being worth millions themselves. The pair, along with a host of other speakers, will be appearing at the War on
As the country has loosened its regulations for marijuana use, so, too, has the National Football League. The NFL’s marijuana policy was adjusted in 2021 that nixed suspensions for a positive test – it also changed the amount of testing that occurred
Some 11% of Indians are diabetic, a government study found, adding that diabetes, hypertension and obesity are much more common in India than previously estimated. The study of more than 113,000 people also found that around 15% of Indians were pre-diabetic and
A new report says an estimated 43,000 people died amid Somalia’s longest drought on record last year and half of them likely were children under 5 years old. It is the first official death toll announced in the drought withering large parts
Intelligence reports indicate nearly 700,000 migrants are in Libya awaiting an opportunity to set out by sea toward Italy, a lawmaker from Premier Giorgia Meloni’s far-right party said Sunday, but a U.N. migration official called the number not credible. Tommaso Foti, the
Some 90,000 people are diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease (PD) in the United States each year — which is roughly a 50% increase from previous estimated incidence rates, according to a recent 2022 Parkinson’s Foundation-backed study. “The soaring numbers of Parkinson’s disease cases
Chinese officials estimated that some 250 million people in the country have caught COVID-19 in the past three weeks. Sun Yang, a deputy director of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, presented the figures during a closed-door meeting of high–level