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Caesarean sections 'kill 300,000 annually'
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Richard Galpin
BBC World Affairs reporter
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The procedure is frequently used to save the lives of mothers and their
babiesImage caption: The procedure is frequently used to save the lives of
mothers and their babies
A major new study has found that 300,000 women around the world - almost
all of them in developing countries - are dying every year as a result of
having caesarean sections.
The research, led by Queen Mary University in London, is believed to be the
most comprehensive into the issue ever carried out.
The researchers analysed data from 12 million pregnancies. And they found
that the risk of death from caesarean sections in developing countries was far
higher than they'd expected.
The common procedure is frequently used to save the lives of mothers and
their babies.
But in many areas, particularly sub-Saharan Africa, it's turning out to be
fatal.
The number of women dying in this region is 100 times higher than in
wealthy countries like the UK.
And 10% of all babies die during or shortly after caesarean sections.
The authors of the study - published in the British
magazine, The Lancet - are calling for women in
the affected countries to have better access to surgery carried out by skilled
medical staff to ensure the operations are safe.
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Nigeria's literary icon Gabriel Okara dies at 97
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Tributes have been pouring in for famous Nigerian poet and novelist Gabriel Okara who has died at the age of 97.
Local newspaper Vanguard says Mr Okara from Bayelsa State in southern Nigeria died on Sunday evening after collapsing, a month before his 98th birthday.
The
paper says Okara, referred to as the "Nigerian negritudist", was the
first modernist poet of Anglophone Africa and was famous for his first
novel, The Voice, published in 1964.
The Sun reportsthat his literary talent was discovered in 1953 when his poem, The Call
of the River Nun, won an award at the Nigerian Festival of Arts.
The
paper also says Okara wrote plays and features for broadcasting and
that many of his unpublished manuscripts were destroyed during the
Nigerian civil war between 1967 and 1970.
Gabriel Imomotimi Okara (24 April 1921 – 25 March 2019)[1] was a Nigerian poet[2] and novelist who was born in Bumoundi in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, Nigeria. The first Modernist poet of Anglophone Africa, he is best known for his early experimental novel, The Voice (1964), and his award-winning poetry, published in The Fisherman's Invocation (1978) and The Dreamer, His Vision (2005). In both his poems and his prose, Okara drew on African thought, religion, folklore and imagery,[3] and he has been called "the Nigerian Negritudist".[4] According to Brenda Marie Osbey, editor of his Collected Poems,
"It is with publication of Gabriel Okara's first poem that Nigerian
literature in English and modern African poetry in this language can be
said truly to have begun.
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UK teachers urged to talk about breast ironing
bbc
In
order to protect girls from abuse, a teachers union in the UK is
campaigning for pupils to be taught about the practice of ironing
breasts.
The
practice, sometimes used in parts of West Africa, usually involves
heating a stone or spoon on a flame then pressing, massaging or
flattening the breast.
It is done to young girls to delay breasts from growing.
Those who carry it out say they are trying to stop men from sexualising girls.
"Time does not erase that kind of pain," a woman who went through it as a child explained to the BBC.
Another woman told the BBC that later on in life it made breast feeding extremely painful.
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People don't become 'adults' until their 30s, say scientists
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Have you ever been told to
"grow up" in your 20s or need an excuse as to why you still find cat
videos on the internet really funny?
Well now you might have an
official reason as to why you're not acting like a mature adult.
People don't become fully
"adult" until they're in their 30s, according to brain scientists.
Currently the UK law says you
become a mature adult when you reach the age of 18.
Scientists who study the brain
and nervous system say the age at which you become an adult is different for
everyone.
Research suggests people aged
18 are still going through changes in the brain which can affect behaviour and
make them more likely to develop mental health disorders.
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Image caption Scientists say the brain develops at different times in each
person
Professor Peter Jones, from
Cambridge University, said: "What we're really saying is that to have a
definition of when you move from childhood to adulthood looks increasingly
absurd.
"It's a much more nuanced
transition that takes place over three decades."
He added: "I guess
systems like the education system, the health system and the legal system make
it convenient for themselves by having definitions."
When you reach 18, you can
vote, buy alcohol, get a mortgage and are also treated as an adult if you get
in trouble with the police.
Despite this, Professor Jones
says he believes experienced criminal judges recognise the difference between a
19-year-old defendant and a "hardened criminal" in their late 30s.
"I think the system is
adapting to what's hiding in plain sight, that people don't like (the idea of)
a caterpillar turning into a butterfly," he said.
"There isn't a childhood
and then an adulthood. People are on a pathway, they're on a trajectory."
Prof Jones is one of a number
of experts who are taking part in a neuroscience meeting hosted by the Academy
of Medical Sciences in Oxford.
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John Hanson the first president of the United States
United States statesman
John Hanson,
(born April 13, 1721, Charles County, Md.—died Nov. 22, 1783, Oxon
Hill, Md., U.S.), American Revolutionary leader and president under the
U.S. Articles of Confederation.
A member of the Maryland Assembly (1757–79), he represented Maryland in the Continental Congress (1780–82). On Nov. 5, 1781, he was elected by the Continental Congress “President of the United States in Congress Assembled,” an office he held for one year. He is sometimes referred to as “the first president of the United States,” but he was a congressional presiding officer and had none of the powers of the president under the Constitution.
mardi 5 mars 2019
Senegal's constitutional council has confirmed that President Macky Sall was the winner of last week's election, with 58% of the vote, reports Reuters news agency. The council confirmed that opposition candidate Idrissa Seck had placed second with 21%, while Ousmane Sonko came third with 16%. The results were initially rejected by his rivals in the presidential race, but they decided not to register an appeal.
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Senegal's
constitutional council has confirmed that President Macky Sall was the
winner of last week's election, with 58% of the vote, reports Reuters
news agency.
The
council confirmed that opposition candidate Idrissa Seck had placed
second with 21%, while Ousmane Sonko came third with 16%.
The results were initially rejected by his rivals in the presidential race, but they decided not to register an appeal.
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Rivals 'reject but won't challenge' Senegal vote
We reported earlier on Senegalese
President Macky Sall's election win, which will see him serve a second five-year
term in office.
His opposition challengers now
say they reject the results, but believe a formal challenge would be futile.
Idrissa Seck, who won the
second-largest share of votes in Sunday's poll after Mr Sall, has been holed up
at his home holding discussions with the three other opposition candidates.
From there he has told reporters:
Quote Message: We reject
firmly and with no hesitation this result. We will make no challenge before the
Constitutional Council. It is clear that the incumbent candidate has
confiscated the will of the Senegalese people and will be alone to face the
consequences before the people and before history.”
We reject firmly and with no
hesitation this result. We will make no challenge before the Constitutional
Council. It is clear that the incumbent candidate has confiscated the will of
the Senegalese people and will be alone to face the consequences before the
people and before history.”
Two well-known opposition
figures were barred from taking part in the election because of corruption
convictions which critics say were politically motivated.
The official results of
Sunday's poll saw Mr Sall win in the first round, with 58.27% of votes.
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