'Exceptional' Sierra Leonean student wins $100,000 award

Sierra Leonean student Jeremiah Thoronka was awarded $100,000 for winning the 2021 Global Student Prize. He has invented a device that uses kinetic energy from traffic and pedestrians to generate clean power. FW de Klerk, the last white person to lead South Africa and a key figure in the transition to democracy, died of cancer at 85. Liberia's opposition leader, Joseph Boakai, says he'll try to run for the presidency for the second time in 2023. Twenty-three-year-old Kenyan activist Elizabeth Wathuti thinks leaders at the COP26 are not doing enough to stop global temperatures from rising above 1.5C.

(Photo: Sierra Leonean student Jemeriah Thoronka. Credit: Joss Divin)