Tobi Amusan is a sprinter and 100-meter hurdles specialist from Nigeria who participates in track and field events. She won the 100-meter hurdles event at the 2022 World Athletics Championships by setting a new world record of 12.12 seconds in the semifinal and 12.06 seconds in the gold-medal race. She won the competition twice at the African Games and was the 2018 Commonwealth and African champion. In the 100-meter hurdles, she won the Diamond League Trophy in Zurich in 2021.

The Vatican announced on Wednesday that Pope Francis had appointed three women—two nuns and a laywoman—to a formerly all-male group that assists him in choosing the world’s bishops.

As the most severe drought in forty years drives families to the breaking point, UNICEF warns that girls as young as twelve are being coerced into child marriage and Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) at “alarming rates” in the Horn of Africa.