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🇳🇬🗳️ Nigerian ruling party candidate Bola Tinubu was named the victor of Saturday’s presidential election. The country’s election commission said Tinubu received 37% of the vote, ahead of his two main competitors: Atiku Abubakar of the main opposition party (29%), and Peter Obi of the Gen Z-backed Labour Party (25%). Both Abubakar and Obi disputed the election results, saying they plan to challenge them through legal and peaceful means. Results showed 26% of registered voters participated in the election, meaning Tinubu was elected president of Nigeria’s 210+ million people with just ~8.8 million votes.

📝 It’s unlikely that the mysterious condition known as “Havana syndrome” came from a weapon or foreign adversary. That’s according to a report published yesterday by US intelligence officials, which didn’t pinpoint an exact cause for the wide range of symptoms – including severe headaches, fatigue, and memory loss – that have been reported by 1,500+ US federal employees since the first cases emerged in Havana, Cuba, just over six years ago. The report says the incidents were “probably” caused by a combination of factors, including pre-existing medical conditions, conventional illnesses, and environmental issues.

🇮🇷 Over 350 students were hospitalized across Iran yesterday, in a fresh set of suspected poisoning attacks targeting schoolgirls. More than 1,000 girls across 40+ schools in Iran have been poisoned by toxic gas since November, with a majority of victims ending up in the hospital with complaints of being unable to breathe (though no deaths have been reported). Iranian officials had initially dismissed the incidents as isolated – but on Tuesday, they described them as a series of intentional attacks targeting female students, and said a government investigation was underway. Some Iranians have speculated that schoolgirls are being poisoned as payback for their role in ongoing mass protests, which began following the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Ahmini last September, per the BBC.