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Kenya’s First Lady Rachel Ruto has declared national prayers against homosexuality in the country, saying the family unit was under attack. Mrs Ruto said the country cannot condone the Supreme Court ruling last month that upheld the LGBTQ community’s right of association. “We should not even try to talk about …

Since the end of November, the official Iranian media have counted several hundred cases of mysterious diseases, from which hundreds of schoolgirls suffer, in particular in the holy city of Qom. On Wednesday, dozens of girls’ establishments in the same city, Ardabil, in the north-west of the country, were victims …

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has defended his government’s decision to terminate the operations of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in the country. He was responding to a journalist questioning Uganda’s decision to close OHCHR operations, during a press conference at the Uganda-South Africa …

The parents of an obese British teenager who died aged 16 at the family home in particularly squalid conditions were sentenced on Wednesday to more than six years in prison for manslaughter by gross negligence. Kaylea Titford, 16, was found in conditions described in court as “unbecoming of any animal”, …

Bulgarian justice went on Wednesday against a judgment of the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) by refusing to issue a birth certificate to the stateless daughter of a lesbian couple. The Supreme Court overturned the decision of the Administrative Court of Sofia dated May 2022, which obliged the …

The US has congratulated Nigerian President-elect Bola Tinubu and citizens following the just-concluded general elections. “This competitive election represents a new period for Nigerian politics and democracy,” US State Department spokesman Ned Price said in a statement. The State Department called on the electoral body to improve on the highlighted …

A Ugandan pastor who has been on remand on allegations of raping a Latvian tourist has finally been granted bail. Pastor Joseph Collins Twahirwa was on Wednesday granted a cash bail of Shs1 million by the High Court deputy registrar Mr Festo Nsenga who ordered him to deposit his passport …

Beijing said on Wednesday that the FBI was undermining its credibility after comments by its director saying that a laboratory accident in the Chinese city of Wuhan is “very likely” at the origin of the Covid-19 pandemic. FBI boss Christopher Wray’s statements to Fox News on Tuesday came two days …

Ugandan musician Jose Chameleone, real name Joseph Mayanja, has apologized for kissing his brother on the lips while he was on stage at a concert Friday in the capital, Kampala. Jose Chameleone’s kiss with his musician brother Weasel saw an influential preacher registering a complaint with the Uganda police against …

The world is not sufficiently prepared to face disasters, to which governments too often only react after the fact, deplores a report published on Tuesday which calls for a rethinking of risk management. In 2015, the international community adopted the Sendai targets aimed at reducing the number of victims and …