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Jinja, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police in Kiira region have this Wednesday confirmed the arrest of a 15 year old resident of Budondo ward, in Northern division of Jinja city for procuring an abortion. The jouvenille suspect is currently detained at Budondo police station, awaiting prosecution. The suspect has reportedly …

SPECIAL FEATURE | THE INDEPENDENT | Joyce Alinga, a resident of Aujongor Village, Obalanga Sub-County in Kapelebyong district conceived during the covid-19 lockdown in 2021. The 21- year- old of senior three students gave birth to conjoined twins in Amuria Health Centre IV in Amuria District by cesarean section. Looking at …

Soroti, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A team of medics at Soroti Regional Referral Hospital has successfully separated conjoined twins, one of whom had died at birth. The team led by Dr. Joseph Epodoi, the Consultant Surgeon, entered the theatre at 11:00am Friday to conduct the complicated operation that lasted …

Yams are believed to contain gonadotropins, a chemical substance that helps women to produce twins Igbo-Ora, Nigeria | AFP | The sign greeting visitors at the entrance of Igbo-Ora in southwest Nigeria welcomes people to a place unlike anywhere on the planet: “TWINS CAPITAL OF THE WORLD”. The rather sleepy-looking …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Parliament has suspended today’s plenary sitting  to enable legislators join State Minister for Water Ronald Kibuule’s family for the burial of his two children. Twins Raiden Wasswa and Roman Kato drowned in a swimming pool at their home yard in Mbalala, Mukono district on …

Mukono, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The family and friends of State Minister of Water and also MP of Mukono North, Ronald Kibuule are in shock after it was announced yesterday that he had lost his twins, who reportedly drowned. The two boys aged two years are said to have reportedly …

Dhaka, Bangladesh | AFP |  Bangladeshi twins conjoined at birth have gone home nearly a year and a half after being separated in the country’s first such successful operation, a doctor said Tuesday. Two-year-old sisters Tofa and Tahura, joined at the spine and at the rectum, underwent a gruelling nine-hour …

Melbourne, Australia | AFP | Australian surgeons began operating early Friday to separate 15-month-old Bhutanese twins joined at the torso. Nima and Dawa, and their mother Bhumchu Zangmo, arrived in Australia a month ago with the help of an Australian charity but doctors had delayed the surgery until Friday to …

Iringa, Tanzania | AFP | A pair of conjoined sisters are settling into campus life at a Tanzanian university, a first in a country where disabled people are often marginalised or abandoned at birth. Maria and Consolata Mwakikuti, 20, who are joined at the abdomen, have become minor celebrities in the …

Antananarivo, Madagascar | AFP | In most countries health ministers are seen as bureaucrats more interested in paperwork than medical miracles. Not in Madagascar, where Mamy Lalatiana Andriamanarivo recently picked up a scalpel and separated conjoined siamese twins in a medical first for the Indian Ocean island nation. “Surgery was performed …