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  • Kemi Badenoch says she no longer sees herself as Nigerian despite upbringing
    Freitag, 1. August 2025 19:17 Uhr

    Conservative party leader, who grew up in Nigeria and US, says she has not renewed her Nigerian passport in decades

    ​Kemi Badenoch has said she no longer considers herself Nigerian and does not possess a Nigerian passport.

    The Conservative party leader, who was born in London, but grew up in Nigeria and the US and did not return to the UK until she was 16, said she had not renewed her Nigerian passport in two decades.

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  • Rhino horns made radioactive to foil traffickers in South African project
    Donnerstag, 31. Juli 2025 23:52 Uhr

    Isotopes can be detected at airports and borders even in large containers and are harmless to the animals

    A South African university has launched an anti-poaching campaign to inject the horns of rhinoceroses with radioactive isotopes that it says are harmless for the animals but can be detected by customs agents.

    Under the collaborative project involving the University of the Witwatersrand, nuclear energy officials and conservationists, five rhinos were injected in what the university hopes will be the start of a mass injection of the declining rhino population, which they are calling the Rhisotope Project.

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  • France under pressure to stop $9.7m of USAID contraceptives being destroyed
    Donnerstag, 31. Juli 2025 15:15 Uhr

    US reportedly planning to destroy contraceptives, probably destined for Africa, in France after dismantling USAID

    The French government has said it is closely monitoring a US plan to destroy millions of dollars of contraceptives stocked in Europe after outrage from French feminists, rights groups and family planning organisations at what they called a wasteful attack on women’s rights.

    The Guardian reported this month that Donald Trump’s administration planned to destroy $9.7m of contraceptives that are believed to be in a warehouse in Belgium but may be moved to France for incineration. They are mostly long-acting contraceptives such as IUDs and birth control implants, which had been bought under public health programmes run by the US Agency for International Development and were probably intended for women in Africa.

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  • Mass rape, forced pregnancy and sexual torture in Tigray amount to crimes against humanity – report
    Donnerstag, 31. Juli 2025 15:00 Uhr

    Warning: this article contains graphic and distressing testimony and images

    Research documents ‘horrific and extreme’ attacks by Ethiopian and Eritrean forces and warns that impunity has meant such atrocities are expanding to new regions

    Hundreds of health workers across Tigray have documented mass rape, sexual slavery, forced pregnancy and sexual torture of women and children by Ethiopian and Eritrean soldiers, in systematic attacks that amount to crimes against humanity, a new report has found.

    The research, compiled by Physicians for Human Rights and the Organization for Justice and Accountability in the Horn of Africa (OJAH), represents the most comprehensive documentation yet of weaponised sexual violence in Tigray. It reviewed medical records of more than 500 patients, surveys of 600 health workers, and in-depth interviews with doctors, nurses, psychiatrists and community leaders.

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  • Gorilla habitats and pristine forest at risk as DRC opens half of country to oil and gas drilling bids
    Dienstag, 29. Juli 2025 06:01 Uhr

    Government launches licensing round for 52 fossil fuel blocks, potentially undermining a flagship conservation initiative and affecting an estimated 39 million people

    The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is opening crucial gorilla habitats and pristine forests to bids for oil and gas drilling, with plans to carve up more than half the country into fossil fuel blocks.

    The blocks opened for auction cover 124m hectares (306m acres) of land and inland waters described by experts as the “world’s worst place to prospect for oil” because they hold vast amounts of carbon and are home to some of the planet’s most precious wildlife habitats, including endangered lowland gorillas and bonobo.

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  • Trump defends firing labor statistics chief by lying about her role in 2024 campaign – US politics live
    Samstag, 2. August 2025 01:06 Uhr

    President falsely accuses Erika McEntarfer of releasing reports before 2024 election that overstated number of jobs created by Biden and Harris

    The main US stock indices have fallen sharply at the start of trading, as investors react to the flurry of tariffs announced last night and today’s weak US jobs report.

    The Dow Jones industrial average (which contains 30 large US companies) has fallen by 1.1% at the start of trading, shedding 501 points to 43,629.

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