A monkey snatched and killed a month-old baby as he was being breastfed in Tanzania. Shayima Said had been feeding her child outside when the troop of monkeys invaded her house in the Mwamgongo village in Kigoma, on June 18, Tanzania news outlet The Citizen reported. The monkeys snatched the child from Said. The mother screamed for help, James Manyama, Kigoma Regional Police Commander, told The Citizen. "Villagers rushed to her house to assist her in getting her child—identified as Luhaiba Said—back from the troop of monkeys," Manyama said. One of the monkeys held the child in its hands and…

A human rights lawyer, Malcom Omirhobo, on Thursday, attended proceedings at the Supreme Court dressed in a traditional worshipper’s attire. Omirhobo, who appeared in court with white chalk-drawn around his right eye, had feathers stuck to his wig and cowry bracelets around his wrists. He wore his black gown over a white inner shirt with a gourd and cowries dangling on his chest. He tied a red wrapper around his waist as a replacement for grey trousers lawyers usually wear as part of their uniform. The barefooted lawyer also had two yellow bell bracelets around his two ankles. Omirhobo, who…

Starving monkeys are attacking children in eastern Ethiopia amid a severe drought. International charity Save the Children reported that the "current intensity" of the drought in the country is unprecedented. Abdirizak Ahmed, Save the Children's area operations manager for eastern Ethiopia, said in a statement that three months ago, the charity started receiving reports of wild monkey's attacking communities, particularly in Dawa and Shebelle. Monkeys have become particularly aggressive, with many families having to fend off the starving monkeys "with sticks." Ethiopia is in the grips of one of the worst droughts seen in 50 years. According to Oxfam, El…

A pair of identical twins who grew up in separate countries have somehow developed similar personality traits but significantly different IQ levels, a recent study has found. In the study published in the journal Personality and Individual Differences, researchers from Kookmin University in Seoul and California State University compared the characteristics of a woman who grew up in South Korea to that of her sister, who was raised in the U.S. The sisters were born in Seoul in 1974, but were separated from each other at the age of 2 after one of them got lost at a market. Despite…