Politics and society

Authorities in The Gambia are investigating a paracetamol syrup’s suspected link to the deaths of dozens of children from kidney failure. “Dozens of children have died in the last three months. Autopsies suggest the possibility of paracetamol,” the Reuters news agency quoted Mustapha Bittaye, the Gambia’s director of health services, …

European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) condemned France on Thursday for violation of the right to privacy, after having kept data on a supposedly homosexual Frenchman, whose blood donation was repeatedly refused. The Court announced the examination of his request last year. It comes after the man had refused, during …

Cameroonian authorities have granted the Chinese mining giant Sinosteel Corporation, the very first license to exploit an iron deposit, indicates a document signed by President Paul Biya. According to the document, the Chinese firm will have to pay the State FCFA 22.9 billion in annual revenues. Cameroon is paving the …

A Moroccan parliamentary group has proposed a bill that would see women granted paid menstrual leave days. If made law, the country would be the second in Africa, after Zambia, to grant women menstrual leave. In what would be a first for the Middle East-North Africa region, the proposal by …

Chinese authorities confined more than 20 million people in Chengdu, a metropolis in the southwest of the country, on Thursday, as the country faces a limited epidemic rebound. The country continues to follow a strict health strategy despite a number of contaminations much lower than the rest of the world. …

The UN announced the suspension of its efforts to provide humanitarian aid to the beleaguered Tigray region of northern Ethiopia as fresh fighting erupted last week. Fighting between federal troops and rebel groups continues in Ethiopia despite international calls for a truce. The renewed violence – currently concentrated in neighbouring …

Cameroonian customs authorities announced the seizure of 9000 tramadol tablets last weekend in the South West region of the country. Thanks to concerted actions with law enforcement agencies in the seaside town of Buea, in the southwest region, the smugglers, who specialize in the marketing of counterfeit drugs and especially …

Rwanda is about to enter the closed stable of African natural gas producing countries as authorities announced the country’s plan to produce gas from Lake Kivu from the beginning of 2024. Rwanda has just launched the construction of a methane gas extraction and compression plant for transformation into natural gas …

More than 70 customers, mostly Russian or with Slavic names, filed a complaint in Paris for discrimination, denouncing the blockings of their accounts by certain French banks since the start of the war in Ukraine in February. Their lawyers called the blockages abusive and discriminatory. The 76 signatories of the …

All new cars sold in California will have to be “zero emission” polluting, from 2035 at the latest, according to a text which must be adopted this week in this state at the forefront of efforts for an energy transition in the country. The measure, which is to be debated …