GUINEA-BISSAU STOPS VACCINE STUDY FUNDED BY TRUMP ADMINISTRATION. (PHOTO).

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 Guinea-Bissau stops vaccine study funded by Trump administration Guinea-Bissau's foreign minister has said his government has stopped a study funded by the Trump administration aiming to evaluate side effects of the life-saving hepatitis B vaccine, including any links to autism. The West African country, one of the region's poorest, has high rates of hepatitis B, and the prospective study had drawn an outcry from scientists and international health bodies because only half the newborns in the trial would get the vaccine at birth. World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Ghebreyesus said it was not ethical. Guinea-Bissau last month suspended the trial pending an ethical review. Critics had said it was being used to test theories linking vaccines to autism, long promoted by U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr but contradicted by scientific evidence. Foreign Minister Joao Bernardo Vieira said in an interview on Tuesday that the study had been closed, citing concer...

NIGERIAN WOMAN RISKS 20 YEARS IN INDIAN JAIL FOR DRUGS . (PHOTO).


 NIGERIAN WOMAN RISKS 20 YEARS IN INDIAN JAIL FOR DRUGS 


Ifeoluwa Akinwunmi, a 25-year-old Nigerian woman, risks up to 20 years jail in India after being arrested with banned substances.


Akinwunmi, reportedly a hairstylist and nail artist, was arrested by operatives of the Anti-Narcotics Wing of the Central Crime Branch in Bengaluru.


She was caught with a bag containing 5.325 kilograms of MDMA crystals, a banned party drug, worth over N1.8 billion. She was waiting for someone beside the road when operatives swooped on her.


“She is a courier," a police officer said. "She had come to hand over the drugs to a group of African peddlers."


Akinwunmi faces 10-20 years in prison for possessing the banned drug in commercial quantity. She also faces fine and deportation after serving her prison term.

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