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Somalia’s prime minister this month announced a 30% quota for female lawmakers chosen in February’s indirect election by Somali clans. If upheld by the clans, it would raise the number of female representatives by 6%, but women’s groups see even that slight jump as doubtful in patriarchal Somalia
More than 176,000 people, including 90,000 children, in central Mozambique are likely to need humanitarian assistance in the aftermath of Cyclone Eloise, UNICEF said today
Heavily dependent on tourism and exports, Thailand is one of Asia’s worst-hit economies by the coronavirus. Now as a second wave strikes, an unpopular government is desperately trying to avoid more economic damage
If you want to protect yourself from disease, you get a shot in the arm. But this was not always the case. Who developed the first vaccine and where?
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres (right) is interviewed by Maria Khrenova of TASS Russian News Agency
Angry protests over widespread corruption and the arrest of opposition leader Aleksei Navalny swept across Russia on January 23. What brought so many more people onto the streets compared to lots of previous protests, despite Kremlin threats and a forceful crackdown? Observers also saw more violence directed against police than most protests in the past
Nigerians are hopeful after U.S. President Joe Biden reversed former President Donald Trump’s travel ban on several predominantly Muslim and African nations, including Nigeria
Disneyland Park in Anaheim, California, will become the first mass vaccination site for the COVID-19 vaccine distribution in Orange County
All of Ukraine’s statues of Soviet leader Vladimir Ilyich Lenin should have been taken down under a law passed in 2015. But in three small villages, indomitable Lenins still hold out — due to lack of money for demolition, apathy, and, in one case, a road so bad they couldn’t get a crane to it
The mayor of Los Angeles, California, Eric Garcetti, recently announced that police will begin arresting anti-mask protesters who harass others for wearing face masks