The work of Peter Aaby and Christine Stabell Benn has long been controversial. Until Robert F. Kennedy Jr. became US health policy chief, most vaccine scientists tended to ignore it. In 1996, Guinea-Bissau seemed like an ideal research post for budding pediatrician Lone Graff Stensballe. Her supervisor, a fellow Dane named Peter Aaby, had spent nearly two decades collecting data on 100,000 people living in the mud brick homes of the West African country's capital. Aaby and his partner, Christine Stabell Benn, believed that the years of research in the impoverished country had yielded a major discovery about vaccines--and what they described as "non-specific effects": The measles and tuberculosis vaccines, which were derived from live, weakened viruses and bacteria, they said, boosted child survival beyond protecting against those particular pathogens. But, the scientists said, shots made from deactivated whole germs, or pieces of them, such as the diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis (DTP) shot, caused more deaths--especially in little girls--than getting no vaccine at all.

Drone strikes by Mali's army have killed at least 10 civilians as they prepared to celebrate a wedding in the central region of San in another escalation of the conflict since armed groups launched a widespread coordinated assault late last month. The strikes on Sunday occurred during a security crisis after attacks on the military government's positions last month by fighters from the al-Qaeda-linked Jama'at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM) and Tuareg separatists known as the Azawad Liberation Front (FLA). "What was supposed to be a moment of joy in the village turned into immense sorrow," he said, speaking on condition of anonymity. "The tragedy occurred as the villagers were preparing the second edition of this traditional collective wedding, a major cultural event for this community," a security source who requested anonymity for safety reasons told AFP. The strikes targeted "a procession of motorbikes following one another", he added.

The killing of Abu-Bilal al-Minuki, the second-in-command of ISIL (ISIS), by United States and Nigerian forces marks a notable achievement for "counterterrorism". Yet for analysts observing the Lake Chad Basin, it highlights how persistent and complex insecurity in the region has become. Al-Minuki, a Nigerian national from Borno State, was operating out of a compound near Lake Chad, at the centre of one of the world's most active armed group theatres. Perhaps equally significant is the parallel resurgence of Boko Haram, which quietly rebuilt itself while security agencies primarily focused on the more dominant ISWAP. "While regional forces focused on countering ISWAP's threats, partly due to the group's advanced drone capabilities, Boko Haram appears to have taken advantage of the relative attention on its rival to regroup," Nimi Princewill, a security expert in the Sahel, told Al Jazeera.

ISIS shadow commander Abu-Bilal al-Minuki was killed in a precision strike in Nigeria after human intelligence penetrated defenses that had shielded him for years, analyst says.

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Cocoa (Theobroma cacao) is a critical cash crop for millions of smallholder farmers in West Africa, where Cocoa Swollen Shoot Virus Disease (CSSVD) and anthracnose cause devastating yield losses. Automated disease detection from leaf images is essential for early intervention, yet deploying such systems in resource-constrained settings demands models that are small, fast, and require no internet connectivity. Existing edge-deployable plant disease systems rely on end-to-end deep learning without uncertainty quantification, while Bayesian methods for edge devices focus on hardware-level inference architectures rather than agricultural applications. We bridge this gap with TinyBayes, the first framework to combine a closed-form Bayesian classifier with a mobile-grade computer vision pipeline for crop disease detection. Our pipeline uses YOLOv8-Nano (5.9 MB) for lesion localisation, MobileNetV3-Small (3.5 MB) for feature extraction, and the Jacobi prior; a Bayesian method that provides a closed form non-iterative estimators via projection, for the classification. The Jacobi-DMR (Distributed Multinomial Regression) classifier adds only 13.5 KB to the pipeline, bringing the total model size within 9.5 MB, while achieving 78.7% accuracy on the Amini Cocoa Contamination Challenge dataset and enabling end-to-end CPU inference under 150 ms per image. We benchmark against seven classifiers including Random Forest, SVM, Ridge, Lasso, Elastic Net, XGBoost, and Jacobi-GP, and demonstrate that the Jacobi-DMR offers the best trade-off between accuracy, model size, and inference speed for edge deployment. We have proved the asymptotic equivalence and consistency, asymptotic normality and the bias correction of Jacobi-DMR. All data and codes are available here: https://github.com/shouvik-sardar/TinyBayes

Early writing is a tale of two scripts. Egyptian hieroglyphs and Mesopotamian cuneiform both emerged independently about 5300 years ago. The political powers of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia flourished in the centuries to come, partly because writing helped states control the flow of goods and consolidate power. The pen (or ancient stylus) was mightier than the sword. Or so the conventional story goes. But there is a glaring omission here because, at the dawn of writing, there weren't two scripts. That third, mysterious script, called proto-Elamite, appeared in ancient Iran while cuneiform and hieroglyphs were both in their infancy - and has been shockingly overlooked by all but a handful of scholars since its discovery 125 years ago.

The new'AI-powered' healthcare system appears to penalise the poorest. The new'AI-powered' healthcare system appears to penalise the poorest. An AI system used to predict how much Kenyans can afford to pay for access to healthcare, has systemically driven up costs for the poor, an investigation has found. The healthcare system being rolled out across the country, a key electoral promise of President William Ruto, was launched in October 2024 and intended to replace Kenya's decades-old national insurance system. Billed as " accelerating digital transformation ", it aimed to expand access to care to Kenya's large informal economy: the day labourers, hawkers, farmers and non-salaried workers that make up 83% of its workforce.