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Nigeria: starving to death
Doctors without Borders (MSF) said a ‘catastrophic humanitarian emergency’ is unfolding at a camp in Bama where 24,000 people have taken refuge from Boko Haram and nearly 200 have starved to death in the past month.…
USA:’no bill, no break’
A week after the mass shooting in an Orlando nightclub, senate Democrats demanded action on gun control; but the measures failed to pass the senate’s sixty-vote threshold. On Wednesday Democrats in Congress started a dramatic sit-in…
USA: senators target gun laws
Four Democratic senators are asking for more gun control legislation after an American born man with an assault rifle entered a gay nightclub in Orlando, killing 49 and wounding 53. They want an immediate passage of…
South Africa: Jesus Dome gone but Jesus is alive
Last Tuesday night the sky around the city of Durban was burnished with a bright orange blaze, seen from kilometres away. Vehicles stopped on a freeway to gaze at the consuming tongues of fire. As firemen…
