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Weight-loss jab could be made for $3 a month, study finds
Cheap semaglutide, the drug in Ozempic and Wegovy, could help millions with diabetes and obesity in 160 countries
Weight-loss jabs such as Wegovy could be made for just $3 a month, according to new analysis, potentially making the treatment available to millions in poorer countries as patents expire.
More than
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Three men deported by US file legal case against Eswatini over detention
The men, sent to Africa after completing criminal sentences in the US, are from Cuba, Jamaica and Yemen
Three men deported by the US to Eswatini – rather than their home countries – have filed a case against Eswatini’s government with the African Union’s human rights body, claiming their detention was an unlawful violation of their rights.
Two of the claimants, from Cuba and
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South Africa’s president calls Trump’s policy to offer refuge to white Afrikaners ‘racist’
US president is ‘truly uninformed’ for spreading claims of ‘white genocide’ in South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa tells New York Times
South Africa’s president, Cyril Ramaphosa, has called Donald Trump’s policy of allowing white Afrikaners to apply for refugee status in the US “racist”, saying the US president was “truly uninformed” in a rare instance of direct criticism.
Ramaphosa
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Lewis Hamilton sets sights on racing in an African grand prix before retiring
British former champion hits out at former colonial rulers
‘I’m hoping countries unite and take Africa back’
Lewis Hamilton has called for a movement to “take Africa back”, claiming the continent is being “controlled” by European powers. On the eve of the new
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South Sudan risks return to full-blown civil war as violence escalates
At least 169 killed in raid near Sudan border as clashes between government and opposition forces intensify
South Sudan is reeling from an escalating conflict between the government-aligned army and opposition forces and allied groups that observers say risks returning the country to a full-blown civil war.
Violent confrontations in the world’s youngest country between the
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‘An ideological guest list’: Trump invites Latin America’s rightwing leaders to Florida summit
Omission of presidents of Brazil, Mexico and Colombia, however, exposes failure of US president’s ‘theatrical’ doctrine, say experts
Donald Trump will welcome the leaders of at least 10 Latin American countries to a palm-dotted golf resort in Miami on Saturday as the president continues his quest to transform the US’s standing in the region and outmuscle China.
Since returning to
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Peruvian state responsible for mother’s death in forced sterilisation, court rules
Landmark ruling in Celia Ramos case finds 310,000 women, most Indigenous, were targeted in brutal 1990s campaign
The highest human rights court in Latin America condemned Peru on Thursday over the death of its citizen Celia Ramos, who
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Iranian mathematician missing in Canada may have been targeted by Tehran, activists say
Police say Masood Masjoody was most likely murdered; Iranian expats suspect he was killed for his criticism of the theocratic regime
Police in Canada have concluded that a missing Iranian activist was most likely the victim of murder, prompting fears that his disappearance has the hallmarks of a transnational repression campaign
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Iran is not Venezuela, despite Trump’s hopes of repeating ‘regime capture’ strategy
Experts say US influence over South American neighbour will be hard to replicate in country with deep and long-standing antipathy to the west
First, the CIA tracks the head of an oil-rich, US-baiting nation to a heavily guarded compound at the heart of his country’s mountain-flanked capital.
Then, that leader is removed from power with a deadly and irresistible show of US military
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US and Venezuela move to restore diplomatic ties two months after Maduro’s capture
Re-establishing diplomatic relations will support Venezuela’s economy, US state department claims, amid push for minerals access
Venezuela and the US are restoring diplomatic ties, the two countries announced Thursday, in a new sign of thawing relations after Washington ousted former president Nicolás Maduro.
The announcement came as US interior secretary Doug Burgum wrapped up a
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