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Genocide
Suffer the little children. It is ever the way, from Rwanda to Gaza
They are the innocents, and it is never their fight. But it is the children of conflict who always suffer the most.
- by Tony Wright
Latest
Dodging machetes and crossing sandstorms, ‘Hardest Geezer’ runs length of Africa
Russ Cook crossed 16 countries over the equivalent of 385 marathons – more than 16,300 kilometres – surviving machete-wielding villagers, desert sandstorms and crippling bouts of food poisoning.
- by Max Stephens
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Tragedy
Girl, 8, sole survivor as 45 killed after bus plunges down ravine in South Africa
The passenger bus was transporting Easter worshippers from Botswana, a landlocked country in Southern Africa, to Moria, a town in Limpopo.
- by Gerald Imray
India’s navy takes control of ship hijacked by Somali pirates
The development came after men on the bulk carrier fired at an Indian warship in international waters on Friday.
Five of Hamza’s six children have been kidnapped. She’s still in shock
Ten years after the Chibok girls were taken, 300 students have been abducted by armed gangs and Islamic extremists in Nigeria.
- by Chinedu Asadu