How Neanderthal DNA affects human health — including the risk of getting Covid-19

By CNN,

Early modern humans originated in Africa and started spreading around the world about 80,000 years ago. As they traveled, they came across other an...

coronavirus , covid-19 vaccine , neanderthal

Argentines celebrate ‘eternal love’ for Maradona with tattoos

By Reuters,

Under his shirt, pizza shop owner Guillermo Rodriguez is a walking shrine to Diego Maradona. His entire back is covered in tattoos depicting the socce...

diego maradona

Image rights, fast cars and a ‘tank’: Maradona’s death triggers complex inheritance

By Reuters,

Diego Maradona’s death has triggered an outpouring of grief around the world. Now comes the scramble for a share of the soccer legend’s complex fi...

Daeath , diego maradona , Image rights , Inheritance

Maradona’s death casts long shadow around Argentina’s Boca Juniors stadium

By Reuters,

In the working class Buenos Aires district of La Boca, the death of Diego Maradona has cast a long shadow stretching out from the stadium of Boca Juni...

Boca Juniors , Buenos Aires district , diego maradona , La Boca

‘Adios Diego’: Maradona buried as world mourns football great

By Reuters,

Argentina’s Diego Maradona, one of the world’s greatest ever soccer players, was buried on Thursday amid a global outpouring of grief from the str...

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Maradona or Pele? Debate will continue to rage over who was greater

By Reuters,

Before Lionel Messi came along the enduring debate in football about who was the greatest player involved two men: Diego Maradona and Pele. It was an...

diego maradona , Pele

Football world mourns as Argentina great Maradona dies

By Reuters,

Diego Maradona, widely regarded as one of the greatest soccer players of all time before drug and alcohol addiction marred his career, died on Wednesd...

diego maradona

Diego Maradona: Argentina legend dies aged 60

By Agencies,

Football legend Diego Maradona has died at the age of 60. The former Argentina attacking midfielder and manager had successful surgery on a brain...

diego maradona

OPINION: Why the media should stop stigmatizing drug ‘addiction’

By Guest Writer,

By Simon Mwangi An executive order issued last week by President Uhuru Kenyatta on establishment of an ultra-modern National Mental hospital in...

Addiction , Drug Abuse

Buying a baby on Nairobi’s black market

By Guest Writer,

By Peter Murimi, Joel Gunter and Tom Watson  Babies are being stolen to order in Kenya to feed a thriving black market. Africa Eye infiltrated the...

BBC , BBC Africa eye , Black Market , Mama Lucy , Missing Child Kenya , Nairobi

‘Magic mushroom’ ingredient could work as mental health treatment

By CNN,

While magic mushrooms are known for their hallucinogenic effects, they may also have a role to play in the treatment of some mental health treatment. ...

Mental Health , mushroom

Maradona sedated to help ease withdrawal symptoms

By Reuters,

Argentina soccer great Diego Maradona has been sedated by doctors to help him cope with withdrawal symptoms and will remain in hospital, even though h...

diego maradona

Maradona ‘confused’, to spend more time in hospital

By Reuters,

Argentine soccer great Diego Maradona is to be kept in hospital for several more days after suffering from “confusion” caused by an unexplained �...

diego maradona

Tributes pour in for Maradona on 60th birthday

By Reuters,

Diego Maradona celebrated his 60th birthday on Friday with tributes from around the world and a 100-metre long billboard being erected in his honour i...

diego maradona

Insults and interruptions mar first Trump-Biden debate

By Reuters,

Interrupted repeatedly by President Donald Trump in their presidential debate on Tuesday, an exasperated Joe Biden resorted to insults and name-callin...

Trump

Nyandarua residents torch house of suspect peddling bhang to Primary School kids

By James Matheri,

Residents of Canaan village in Nyandarua have burnt to the ground, the house of a suspect believed to have been peddling bhang in the village. The ...

bhang

NACADA partners with KPA to fight drug abuse in the Coast

By Citizen Reporter,

The fight against drug and alcohol abuse in the Coast region has received a boost after Kenya Ports Authority donated Ksh.1 million to the Miritini Re...

KPA , NACADA

Experts worry over implications of pandemic-related drinking bans

By CNN,

South Africa is slowly emerging from one of the world's strictest Covid-19 lockdowns. As the threat of the pandemic loomed in March its government ...

alcoholic drinks , bars , coronavirus , NACADA

Two Kisumu businessmen to be charged in Ksh.79 million forgery case

By Benjamin Muriuki,

Two businessmen in Kisumu County are set to be arraigned for allegedly conspiring to defraud a company of Ksh.79 million through forged court document...

Experts warn of urgent need for Covid-19 mental health research

By CNN,

Mental health and brain research must be a higher priority in the response to the coronavirus pandemic, scientists have said, warning that the crisis ...

coronavirus , Mental Health