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A brother and sister born 126 days before their mother’s due date in Canada were named “the world’s most premature twins” by the Guinness Book of World Records on Saturday, their first birthday. This is an atypical record, to say the least. The duration of a pregnancy is usually nine …

A 30-year-old farmer has been sentenced to 12 years imprisonment with hard labour for defiling an eight-year-old girl at Sehwi Kwame Tawiakrom in the Western North Region of Ghana. “The suspect called the girl to accompany him to his farm and collect something for her mother,” reports said. When they …

A 22-year-old soldier has been killed at Taifa, a suburb of Ashaiman in the Greater Accra Region in Ghana, according to reports. “The victim was stabbed severally to death by unknown attackers as he was returning from his girlfriend’s house at Taifa,” according to reports. He was heading towards his …

“At the current rate, UN Women is setting gender equality 300 years from now, as it is moving further and further away,” denounced Antonio Guterres in a speech at the opening of two weeks of debates in New York of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) and two …

A smiling two-dimpled limestone sphinx has been discovered in Egypt, in a Byzantine pool inside a two-tiered tomb, local media reported, citing the Egyptian ministry of tourism and antiquities. “The sphinx was discovered alongside a Roman stele engraved in demotic and hieroglyphics,” the ministry said Monday. The stele still needs …

The number of pregnant women and nursing mothers suffering from acute malnutrition has increased by 25% since 2020 in 12 countries at the “epicenter” of the world food crisis, UNICEF alerted in a report this Monday, underlining the deleterious consequences on their children. The report, based on analysis of data …

Nollywood actress Regina Daniels has urged celebrities and movie producers to put an end to child labour in the entertainment industry, Pulse agency reported. In a recent video on her Instagram page, the actress spoke about the exploitation of young girls and how it can negatively affect their mental and …

The archbishop of the Anglican Church of Kenya said England will no longer be the leader of the global Anglican Church following a change in teaching to allow priests to marry same-sex couples. Archbishop Jackson Ole Sapit told a local television station that the Church’s teaching that homosexuality is a …

Two employees of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) were kidnapped on Saturday in Mali, the Malian branch of the NGO said on Twitter. “We confirm the kidnapping of two of our colleagues this morning between Gao and Kidal”, specifies the ICRC. “We ask not to speculate on …

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 …