In today’s bulletin, Kirsty Coventry, Africa’s most-decorated Olympian, views for the International Olympic Committee Presidency. Coventry says she wants to go further in empowering female athletes by putting in place stronger safeguarding procedures and providing more support for mothers. South Sudanese authorities have blocked access to social media sites for at least 30 days after recordings showing the purported murders of South Sudanese citizens in Sudan’s El Gezira state sparked rioting and lethal retaliatory attacks. Donald Trump’s desire to “take back” the Panama Canal has been rejected by the president of Panama, who told his US counterpart that the vital economic channel “is and will remain” in Panama’s control.
