In Senegal’s Former Capital, a Colonial Statue in Hiding Is No Longer Welcome

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2022/04/14/world/00senegal-statue-promo/00senegal-statue-1-moth.jpg The city of Saint-Louis was shaped by Louis Faid­herbe, a French gov­er­nor who also led bru­tal mil­i­tary cam­paigns in West Africa. What to do with his lega­cy has divid­ed Sene­gal. SAINT-LOUIS, Sene­gal — For more than a cen­tu­ry, the French gen­er­al who shaped Senegal’s for­mer cap­i­tal was hailed as a hero and a father…

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Controversy emerges around new DHS disinformation board

This sto­ry, plus NBC News review finds pla­gia­rized mate­r­i­al in for­mer reporter’s sto­ries, Politi­co deci­sion to pub­lish Supreme Court draft opin­ion rais­es eth­i­cal ques­tions and more, all in today’s media head­lines. Top Sto­ries May 2, 2022 May 2, 2022 May 2, 2022 About Mis­in­for­ma­tion May 3, 2022 Press & Gov­ern­ment May 2, 2022 May 2, 2022 May 2, 2022 Audio & Podcasting…

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Indian doctor removes ‘rare’ cancerous tumour from African infant’s brain — India News

Ayr­ton Timm de Oliveira and Edwina, both 26 and from Mozam­bique, were dev­as­tat­ed when their infant son and first child, John (name changed), began expe­ri­enc­ing major vision loss, delayed growth and feed­ing dif­fi­cul­ties. He is a ten-month-old baby.After pre­sent­ing their child’s reports to sev­er­al Indi­an hos­pi­tals, the par­ents were informed that their child had a mas­sive brain tumour. Symp­toms such as insuf­fi­cient oral food con­sump­tion result­ed in the child remain­ing under­weight and con­stant­ly cry­ing. The tumour was 7x8x9 cm in size and took up one-third of the brain.The cou­ple trav­elled to India in an attempt to save the baby, where Dr Harshil Shah, a well-known neu­ro­sur­geon at Ahmed­abad’s Shal­by Hos­pi­tals, per­formed a five-hour surgery.Dr Shah said, “They [par­ents] did a CT scan in Africa and the basic diag­no­sis revealed it to be a large, ini­tial stage 2 can­cer­ous brain tumour. Every hos­pi­tal they had gone to told them that the mor­tal­i­ty rate was high. Shal­by Hos­pi­tal was able to not just detect but also per­form the lengthy and com­pli­cat­ed surgery.”“The male child was suf­fer­ing from a rare chi­as­mal tumour. This tumour aris­es from the optic nerves that were affect­ing the brain, which I was able to diag­nose on time. This is the rea­son that the child was not able to see even objects that were close to him due to an affect­ed vision,” said Dr Shah.“Post-surgery, the child’s food intake increased, and he gained three kg. He was nutri­tion­al­ly defi­cient. How­ev­er, the patient is now doing well and is com­plete­ly nor­mal,” said the doctor.“Surgery and com­plete tumour removal have a very low suc­cess rate, and patients with no deficit are extreme­ly rare. I’ve nev­er seen such a large tumour, let alone in a child,” he added.READ | Boy goes for nasal surgery, doc­tor per­forms her­nia oper­a­tion instead­WATCH | Meet the IAF doc­tor who revived can­cer patient after she suf­fered car­diac arrest on Kolkata-bound flight

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South Africa’s latest surge is a possible preview of the pandemic’s next chapter.

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2022/04/29/multimedia/29virus-briefing-south-africa/29virus-briefing-south-africa-moth.jpg Coro­n­avirus cas­es are surg­ing again in South Africa, and pub­lic health experts are mon­i­tor­ing the sit­u­a­tion, eager to know what’s dri­ving the spike, what it says about immu­ni­ty from pre­vi­ous infec­tions and what its impli­ca­tions are glob­al­ly. South Africa expe­ri­enced a decline in cas­es after hit­ting an Omi­cron-fueled, pan­dem­ic peak in Decem­ber. But in…

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NOT OUR WAR: Africans fleeing Ukraine — BBC Africa Eye documentary

It’s esti­mat­ed thou­sands of Africans were among more than five mil­lion refugees flee­ing the Russ­ian inva­sion of Ukraine. As they tried to escape the car­nage, many Africans were treat­ed like sec­ond class cit­i­zens. Reports of dis­crim­i­na­tion at Ukraine’s west­ern bor­ders were wide­spread with the UN High Com­mis­sion­er for Refugees acknowl­edg­ing racist treat­ment. BBC Africa journalist,…

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Where Foreign Correspondents Capitulated to Autocracy

https://cdn.theatlantic.com/thumbor/2plDsX419WN-NEHCWNv91W0l240=/960x540/media/img/mt/2022/04/AP22116510820035/original.jpg When Allan Au didn’t post his Wor­dle score on Face­book one morn­ing this month, his friends began to wor­ry. For Au, a long­time jour­nal­ist and media train­er in Hong Kong, the rit­u­al was less about flex­ing his vocab­u­lary skills than a delib­er­ate way to indi­cate that he was still free. His friends, it turned…

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New tools for easing cross-border trade in Africa

https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/border-crossing-kenya-tanzania.jpg?w=280 Mike Ogbalu, CEO of the Pan-African Pay­ment Set­tle­ment Sys­tem (PAPSS) at the African Export-Import Bank, dis­cuss­es PAPSS, a cross bor­der, finan­cial mar­ket infra­struc­ture enabling pay­ment trans­ac­tions across Africa. Relat­ed Con­tent Fore­sight Africa pod­cast is part of the Brook­ings Pod­cast Net­work. Sub­scribe and lis­ten on Apple, Spo­ti­fy, and wher­ev­er you lis­ten to pod­casts. Send feed­back email to podcasts@brookings.edu,…

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