Tyre Nichols’ death must galvanise efforts to reform police: family attorney
Reuters The attorney representing the family of Tyre Nichols, the Black man who was fatally beaten by Memphis police officers, called on Sunday for the US Congress to pass police reform legislation, and said Nichols’ mother hoped the tragedy could lead to a “greater good.” “Shame on us if we don’t use his tragic death […]
“I feel like I am in prison”: Afghan women aid workers lose hope after Taliban ban
ROHULLAH TALAASH and ANNIE BANERJI, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports that as a harsh winter grips the country already in an economic crisis, Afghan women aid workers fear they have little to no money left to survive…
Protester dies in Lima as Peru’s political crisis continues
Reuters A man in Peru’s capital Lima died on Saturday and others were hospitalized as nationwide clashes between protesters and police continued in the eighth week of the South American country’s political crisis. The death of Victor Santisteban Yacsavilca, 55, brings to 58 the nationwide toll in the protests that began in early December after […]
Essay: 100 million Nigerians are at risk of neglected tropical diseases: what the country is doing about it
UWEM FRIDAY EKPO, professor of parasitology and epidemiology at Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, looks at Nigeria’s battle against neglected tropical diseases…