Two pandemics create 'perfect storm' in South Africa
Victoria Gill
Science reporter, BBC News
Leading HIV and Covid researcher, Prof Penny Moore, says that two pandemics colliding has created a “perfect storm” in South Africa.
Prof Moore, from the National Institute for Communicable Diseases in South Africa, is at the scientific front line of the mission to understand the threat that the Omicron variant poses to the world.
“Unfortunately in South Africa we have a massive HIV pandemic and many, many untreated people,” she told BBC Radio 4’s Inside Science programme.
Poland plans to set up register of pregnancies to report miscarriages
Proposed register would come into effect in January, a year after near-total ban on abortion
The Polish government are planning to introduce a centralised register of pregnancies which would oblige doctors to report all pregnancies and miscarriages to the government.
The proposed register would come into effect in January 2022, a year after Poland introduced a near-total ban on abortion.
This has raised serious concerns for women’s rights activists, who believe that in light of Poland’s near-total abortion ban, the register could be used to cause legal difficulties for women who have self-administered abortions.
‘A woman is not a property’: Taliban issue decree on female rights
The Taliban remained silent on basic rights, including education and work
The Taliban government issued a decree saying women in Afghanistan should not be considered “property” and should consent to marriage.
The militant group’s latest diktat issued on Friday, however, still remains silent on basic rights for women, including the right to get educated and work outside their homes.
The group has been ruling Afghanistan for over three months now.
Burkina Faso caught between terror and protests for change
Following protests in Burkina Faso, President Roch Marc Christian Kabore has vowed to step up the fight against terrorism. Many people feel these are empty words, and are calling for his resignation.
A surge of Islamic militant violence in Burkina Faso is taking on a new dimension.
The situation is particularly worrying in Nadiagou, located in the southeast, not far from the border with Benin and Togo.
DW reported on how the al-Qaeda-linked jihadist militia group JNIM, which originated in Mali, brought a town under its control for the first time. The men fled, the churches closed.
Protesters are frustrated with the state's failure to stop the violence.
Steve Simon, the man who took on Beijing for Peng
By Eryk Bagshaw
In the summer of 2018, Steve Simon made a deal. It was to be the biggest one of his career.
There was at least $42 million on the line for the amateur tennis player turned sports executive. The Women’s Tennis Association would have to play nine tournaments in China, equal to the number hosted by tennis powerhouse the United States.
“Obviously it’s the largest deal we have had in our 45-year history, to say the least,” said Simon.
How real is the threat of a Russian invasion of Ukraine?
Experts are divided on whether Moscow is planning an imminent incursion, or merely posturing to win geopolitical sway.
As early as January, the Kremlin may unleash a “brief and victorious” war on Ukraine, a top military expert has told Al Jazeera, as world leaders and international bodies weigh the possibility of such a conflict.
Russian President Vladimir Putin wants his troops to reach the Dnieper River that dissects Ukraine, seize a land corridor to annexed Crimea and ensure the resumption of water supply to the arid peninsula that was cut off in 2014 causing a chronic drought, said Ihor Romanenko, a retired lieutenant general and Ukraine’s former deputy chief of staff.
The blitzkrieg will not just involve tens of thousands of Russian servicemen currently deployed to the border with Ukraine, which is east of the capital Kyiv, and to Crimea, which is south of mainland Ukraine, he said.
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