Read an article pertaining to news occurring in Africa. Summarize your article using a minimum of at least 5 sentences. Include the link of your source.
The president of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe, was thought to have died when he left the country on a plane. Lots of rumors went around, and an article suggested he had a stroke. Zimbabwe then made their vice-president in charge of the country, until Mr. Mugabe let his people know he was still alive. He announced he left for a family matter concerning one of his children. He also joked around and said, "Yes, it's true, I was dead. I resurrected as I always do. Once I get back to my country I am real." Mr. Mugabe is 92 years old and has run the country since 1980. He plans to run again in 2018. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-37265890
Chemical weapons were removed from Libya. They were developed while Moammar Gadhafi was ruling Libya. Denmark led this operation. It happened on Saturday. They removed over 500 tons of chemical weapons. A UK naval vessel helped escort the chemical weapons from Libya. http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/01/politics/libya-chemical-weapons/index.html
An unknown number of inmates have died after a fire at an Ethiopian prison where prominent anti-government protesters are reportedly being held. After the fire broke out, there was sustained gunfire coming from Qlinto prison. The government confirms "some" deaths, while local media reports at least twenty have died. There have been an unprecedented wave of protests in Ethiopia recently. Reports that the fire was started deliberately as part of an attempted jailbreak have not been confirmed. New York-based Human Rights Watch says that more than 400 people have been killed in fights with security in Oromia, but the government says disputes that. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-37274883
There are way less elephants than we thought. Slaughtered for their ivory, the elephants are left to rot. In just two days, they counted the remains of more than 20 elephants in a small area. Managers and visitors at the tourist camps are frequently alarmed by the sound of gunshots nearby. To protect the country's wildlife from poachers, the Botswana Defense Force has deployed specially trained soldiers. More than 700 are stationed across 40 bases in the far north. http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/31/africa/great-elephant-census/index.html
Just the other day there was a fire in an Ethiopian jail. There was at least twenty people killed from the fire in the cells. They don't know what started the fire for sure, but what they think was an attempted jail break. The jail hold around 3,000 inmates. the prison was in Addis Ababa. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-37274883
On Wednesday studies have shown that African elephants are declining rapidly because of the poachers wanting their tusks for ivory. The population of the savanna elephants is declining about 8 percent a year. For every 100 live elephants researchers have found 12 carcasses. There is about 90 scientist in this research/study with about 352,271 elephants. The domestic trade of ivory through countries is legal just about everywhere but the trading of ivory that threatens the elephants is banned everywhere. http://www.kwwl.com/story/32939422/africas-elephants-rapidly-declining-as-poaching-thrives Hannah Schutte
http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/29/africa/refugee-team-kakuma/index.html August 30, 2016 There was a special greeting to welcome home the five athletes that competed at the Rio Olympics. They had the party where the five of them grew up. There were signs all over saying "You are gold medal winners in our eyes." The athletes will stay with their families for about a week and then they return back to training camp. The refugee camp is held in Kakuma, Kenya.
http://www.bbc.com/news/37275553 September 5, 2016 A surge in illegal hunting is threatening the eastern gorillas. The eastern gorillas is the world's largest primate. Then International union for Conservation for Nature (IUCN) says just about 5,000 of the animals remain in their central African habitat. The number of eastern gorillas has declined more than 70% in two decades. Four of the six apes are now critically endangered. That means they are one step away from extinction.
On August 31st, scenes unfolded on Gabon's capital city of Libreville, when the protesters set the Parliament building on fire. Incumbent President Ali Bongo won narrowly over opposition candidate Jean Ping. Bongo had 49.8% of the vote, while Ping had 48.23. http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/01/africa/gabon-election-protests/index.html
South Africans are responding on social media after protests over racist hair policies at a private high school. A video posted on Instagram went viral, showing 13-year-old Zulaikha Patel and fellow school mates in a tense standoff with school security guards. Students say they spoke out after they were told by teachers that their hair is "exotic" and dirty and that their Afros needed to be tamed. Pretoria Girls' Code of Conduct does not mention Afros, but it does give rules for general appearance, including that all styles "should be conservative, neat and in keeping with the school uniform." http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/31/africa/south-africa-school-racism/index.html
http://edition.cnn.com/2016/08/30/africa/keko-drugs-music-uganda/index.html A rapper from Uganda is used to overcoming challenges. At the height of her success in 2014, she struggled with drinking and drug abuse. After overcoming her problems, she wants to help others with theirs! She created a non-profit organization called "Sober Up So High" to help others in the area with their drug and alcohol abuse issues. They use their stories & testimonies along with the arts to put out their messages. She's very passionate about her music and also helping many people overcome their own challenges.
A five-day old newborn, his twin, and his mother were among 6,500 refugees and migrants rescued within 30 hours. They were trying to trek across the mediterranean sea when they were discovered and rescued.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-37274883 Published September 5, 2016 23 prisoners are dead after a prison fire in the Quilinto prison in Ethiopia. The prisoners being held there were all anti-government protesters. A statement says 21 died from suffocation and 2 died while being crushed by a stampede. There have been protests by the Oromia, the largest religious group in the region, since November 2015. The prison help 3,000 prisoners, and the cause of the fire is still unknown.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/09/rabies-vaccines-endangered-ethiopian-wolf-conservation/ In 1991 there were fewer than 1000 Ethiopian wolves left in the Bale Mountains of Africa. Claudio Sillero-Zubiri went into the mountains searching for these rare wolves. He was having trouble finding them alive, and came across arid land with their corpses. The cause of death was rabies. The population went down 75% throughout the years. Now only around 500 wolves remain in the wild. They're using rabies vaccines simular to the ones we use on dogs, and insert it into a dead rat, so it attracts the wolves to eat it. It was a success but Claudio still needs to convince the African government to start a program for vaccinating the Wolves.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/31/africa/great-elephant-census/index.html Elephants are heading toward extinction. Poachers are increasing in number and elephant deaths due to extinction are increasing. The elephants are slaughtered for their Ivory. Ivory is sold on the black market for a lot of money! It is illegal to poach elephants.
For the first time ending hunger is within our reach. There are about 800 million men, woman and children that will not eat today. There are more and more people helping out by donating food, money and just hours so that other people less fortunate than they are can have a decent meal. Africa's government is giving money to farms so that they can produce more food. The starving people in Africa has been almost cut in half since 1990.
Thursday morning, an annular solar eclipse was shown across the African skies. This eclipse is known as the “ring of fire”. This eclipse occurs when the circumference of the sun shines from behind the moon. Citizens in Gabon, Congo, Tanzania, and Madagascar had a direct view of the eclipse. The sky was dark while the eclipse was shown. In August of 2017, North America will be able to see this annular eclipse. http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/01/africa/ring-of-fire-solar-eclipse-hits-african-skies/index.html
A Ugandian Rapper named Keko uses music to help people to turn away from drugs. Its a non profit organization focusing on creating awareness about drugs. She was also struggling with drug abuse.
In many places across Africa Elephants are decreasing at a scarily fast rate. Researches in the past had been doing a bit more of guesswork, but now with the help of Mike Chase, they have since gotten better system, and the numbers were disturbing, poachers are killing a great deal of these elephants for there tusk, they just shoot them and hop off there faces. The scientist have determined that most Elephants won't even move across eastern Namibia into Angola and Zambia. They're more elephants dieing than being born.
Written september 1st, http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/31/africa/great-elephant-census/index.html
Tanzanian screen writer types with her tongue. Wakonta Kapunda a 25 year old Tanzanian women who is paralyzed from neck down types screen plays with her tongue. She was involved in a grisly accident in 2011 when she became paralyzed. She said that her biggest dream is to become a screen writer. So she has made her dream come true by learning how to type with her tongue. THAT IS CRAZY!!!!!
The country of Niger has banned the export of donkeys. It has claimed that an increase in donkey trade is threatening their donkey population. "About 80,000 donkeys have been exported so far this year compared to 27,000 last year," Atte Issa, at Niger's livestock ministry, said. Also, the government of Niger has banned the slaughter of any donkey within the country. Niger uses the donkeys for their hide, hauling goods, and even eating their meat. The price of a donkey has risen from $34 to $145 the past years. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-37286811
A Eritrean women who was fleeing to Europe when she went into labor. She was pregnant with twins and delivered them while on the boat. They are now in Italy, the babies were born premature and were suffering from dehydration, malnutrition, and hypothermia. Once they were rescued they were transferred to the Italian Navy, who then flew then to Palermo. The babies and the mother are okay and recovering in the Palermo hospital.
www.cosmopolitan.com/ A 14 year old girl, now 15, was just like most girl worried about her grades. More worried than most because most girl in West Africa don't go to school. Her teacher told her that he would only tell her, her grades in person. He would tell her everyday and so she would stop going. He had her phone number also, so he would call her everyday. She would tell him no every time, but the one time she didn't and went in she was sexually abused. She didn't tell anyone because she knew they wouldn't believe her over the teacher. When she became pregnant and her family noticed, she finally told them. They then filed a assault report. He was suspended from his job for one year, but that was it. Her parents and his parents decided that she should live with his parents, so she did for five months and he never came to visit her. Now she is back living with her mom, daughter and sisters and hasn't seen her teacher since.
One-third of the elephants are gone by 2014 in Africa. There is one hot spot for elephants. The military has been ordered to shoot poachers that they find. This has helped the elephants.
Kaditru Kamra is the first girl from Africa to be a surfer. She is from the country of Sierra Leone. She is 19 years old. Her country was destroyed by Ebola. She survived and started to surf because her school was closed because of Ebola. She has been surfing for 2 years. There is a movie being made about her story.
Asnath Mahapa became South Africa’s first African female pilot in 1998. She said that she had to work ten times harder than the men in flight school. Mahapa felt sick her first few times flying, but she kept trying, and eventually she didn’t feel sick anymore. In 2012, she opened the African College of Aviation. She is committed to change the fact that the field is so male dominated. Her goal is to help women pursue their dreams of becoming pilots.
"South Africa's First Black Female Pilot Is Inspiring Girls to Aim High." CNN. Cable News Network, n.d. Web. 07 Sept. 2016.
Africa has terrorist groups that have pledged to ISIS. They are killing innocent people in their countries. One village had over 200 innocent people killed. The people are trying to fight back. War is an uphill battle and that the people want to drop bombs on the terrorist groups.
It there first time that Rwanda has made potato chips. It is the first potato chip company in this country. They sell the potato chips for $0.70 a bag. Lots of potatoes are grown in this country, but the people have never had chips. The chips are called Winnaz and it is going good.
The Ivory Coast is a country in Africa where gold is found. The first piece of gold was worth half a million dollars. The gold diggers work in the mines and in the forrest with metal detectors. There has been 150 illegal mines closed by the government. When the people find good it helps them with there families with money.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/01/africa/gallery/ivory-coast-gold-mpa/index.html The Ivory coast is where the gold is being found. They have found gold in forest. Thousands of people form villages have been working to find gold. The fist peace of gold was worth millions of dollars. there has been over 150 mines that have been shut down for mining illegal. Some people working illegal can make around $430 a week. Most of the mines have over 2000 people working in or around the mine in one week.
32-year-old Maria David Zaya, whose two-year-old daughter, Precious, was kidnapped by militants of the Islamist group in September 2014, while she was visiting her in-laws in Madagali in Adamawa state. Precious was taken captive along with six other children and two women who lived in the same neighbourhood. Two weeks later, one of the women escaped. The woman told Mrs Zaya that Precious had been favored in captivity because of her light skin and pretty face, and given to one of the wives of an "amir", a Boko Haram commander, who did not have any children of her own.Shortly after, she gave birth to her second child, a boy named Emma. Seven months after she returned, Mrs Zaya received some good news, the Nigerian military had rescued a number of Boko Haram captives from the Sambisa forest, and taken them to the Malkohi camp for displaced people in Yola. She immediatly went to find precious, and she had recegnized her and wouldn't stop staring at her until they were reunited.
Ugo Udezue is a trying to do the improbable. Creating a sports empire to rival one of the most lucrative and successful franchises in the world; the NBA. The former basketball player and NBA agent is now CEO of the African Basketball League (ABL), which aims to promote the sport on the continent and discover and cultivate young talent. Ugo hopes that the ABL will help boost sports-mad Nigeria's lagging economy and is confednet in the future that baseketball will be more popular in Nigeria than soccer. http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/07/sport/ugo-uduze-african-basketball/index.html
Ugo Udezue is working on bringing a new sport to Africa. He wants to make basketball popular in Africa because many athletes have the ability to do well. He is currently trying to make a system work that doesn't have a background in Africa. Ugo knows that the NBA brings in billions of dollars to the economy in the US, so why not try it in Africa? He wants kids in Africa to have a chance at playing something that could be popular. Ugo was a former basketball player and an agent for the NBA. He is now the CEO of African Basketball League. http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/07/sport/ugo-uduze-african-basketball/index.html
South Africans are responding on social media after protests over alleged racist hair policies at a prestigious high school. South Africans are responding on social media after protests over alleged racist hair policies at a prestigious high school. It all started with a 13 year old girl. The issue of my hair has been a thing that's followed me my entire life, I was told my hair is not natural, it's exotic, my Afro was not wanted. Pretoria Girls' Code of Conduct does not specifically mention Afros, but it does lay out rules for general appearance. The school would like the girls you have there hair straight when they go to school. Date- September 1, 2016 Work Cite- http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/31/africa/south-africa-school-racism/
A rare, glorious "Ring of Fire" solar eclipse took over the skies of Africa. This occurs when the sun shines brightly behind the moon. People in Gabon, Congo, and northern parts of Madagascar were able to see this eclipse clearly as the moon passed between the earth and the sun. North America will be the next to see this annular eclipse. http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/01/africa/ring-of-fire-solar-eclipse-hits-african-skies/index.html
At least 11 people were killed and six others were injured in Cameroon when Boko Haram militants opened fire on a bus late Thursday, local time, residents said. The attack took place in Waza, a region bordering northeast Nigeria. Source:cnn
Ugo Udezue is creating a sports empire to rival one of the most lucrative and successful franchises in the world. The former basketball player and NBA gent is now CEO of African basketball league. It's suppose to promote to sport on the continent and discover and cultivate young talent. http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/07/sport/ugo-uduze-african-basketball/index.html
The only surviving suspect in last Novembers Paris attack refused to talk to the judge for the third time. Sarah Abdeslam's lawyer Frank Berton says the judge repeatedly asked questions no avail on Thursday. They were hoping that Abdeslam's would link them to other ISIS networks and people that might have helped with the November 13 attacks. He kept quiet during the hearing in may and refused to go to the one in July. Adbeslam, 26 initially said he wanted to explain his path in radicalization thinking and role in the November 13 attacks on the Bataclan concert hall cafes and the national stadium. The other attackers died in the suiside bombing and under the fire of the police.
BBC News 9/8/16 http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-37311716 Recent studies have shown that the giraffe's genetics had not one species, but four. The giraffe population was considered to be sub-species, but research has proven that they are genetically very different. During experiments, mitochondrial DNA is not part of the code that builds an animal. Finally, Dr Janke, a geneticist at the Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre, decided to examine and compare parts of the nuclear DNA. He told BBC News "It turned out the whole clade of northern giraffes was very different from reticulated giraffes." Those four new species now include the southern giraffe, Masai giraffe, reticulated giraffe, and the Nubian giraffe. Matthew Cobb, professor of zoology at the University of Manchester explained that the "four groups of giraffes had "been separated for 1-2 million years, with no evidence of genes being exchanged between them" Research is still being done to find more information about these four new giraffe species and how this new information can help researches understand more things to better their environment and habitat.
Gold has been discovered in the country called the Ivory Coast. It is in Africa. The first gold brick made at the Agbauo gold mine was worth a half million dollars. They have hired 16,000 workers to get the gold. Some of the gold is sitting in the dirt so they use metal detectors to find it in the forrest.
Cape Verde's remarkable journey to the top of African football.
Cape Verde's is a island off the cost of African in the Atlantic Ocean. They have the best soccer team in Africa. 20 years ago they didn't have any soccer fields. Now they have 25 soccer fields.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-37306514 Zimbabwe's ruling party has been accused of withholding food aid from opposition supporters in areas facing starvation because of drought. Zimbabwe's human rights commission said opponents of President Robert Mugabe's ZANU PF party had been told they would never get any food aid. Mugabe declared a state of disaster in February, the government estimated that four million people would need food aid by January 2017. The government says half the rural population faces starvation without food aid. The previous statement came from a constitutionally established institution, that is significant because of its role food distribution.
Chemical weapons were removed from Libya as a part of an International maritime operation. The Denmark led operation took place Saturday and was coordinated by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW). There were 500 tons of chemical weapons removed. A UK naval vessel escorted the Danish ship carrying the chemical weapons. While the US supported the removal of the weapons the US military did not help with removing them from Libya.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/31/africa/great-elephant-census/index.html In Botswana, an elephant ecologist says he's seen far too many dead elephants in the last two years than ever before. He started noticing that they have all died the same way. Poachers have been hacking off the whole face of elephants to get their tusks. They are left to rot on the dry riverbed. He has counted the remains of more than 20 elephants in a small area. He worries that if Botswana can't protect its elephants, there's little hope for the species as a whole.
Kadiatu Kamara is the only female surfer in Sierra Leone. She is 19 years old and has already been through enough for an entire lifetime. She started surfing about two years ago, around the time her dad passed away, also around the time ebola broke out. She says "During the Ebola break out schools shut down and there was an uptake in teen pregnancies, because the teens had nothing to do," she escaped all of the chaos by surfing in the Atlantic for days at a time. She said that surfing made her happy and was her way of forgetting all of her problems. -CNN 9/5/16 http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/05/africa/kk-sierra-leone-surfer/index.html
The president of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe, was thought to have died when he left the country on a plane. Lots of rumors went around, and an article suggested he had a stroke. Zimbabwe then made their vice-president in charge of the country, until Mr. Mugabe let his people know he was still alive. He announced he left for a family matter concerning one of his children. He also joked around and said, "Yes, it's true, I was dead. I resurrected as I always do. Once I get back to my country I am real." Mr. Mugabe is 92 years old and has run the country since 1980. He plans to run again in 2018.
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Chemical weapons were removed from Libya. They were developed while Moammar Gadhafi was ruling Libya. Denmark led this operation. It happened on Saturday. They removed over 500 tons of chemical weapons. A UK naval vessel helped escort the chemical weapons from Libya. http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/01/politics/libya-chemical-weapons/index.html
ReplyDeleteAn unknown number of inmates have died after a fire at an Ethiopian prison where prominent anti-government protesters are reportedly being held. After the fire broke out, there was sustained gunfire coming from Qlinto prison. The government confirms "some" deaths, while local media reports at least twenty have died. There have been an unprecedented wave of protests in Ethiopia recently. Reports that the fire was started deliberately as part of an attempted jailbreak have not been confirmed. New York-based Human Rights Watch says that more than 400 people have been killed in fights with security in Oromia, but the government says disputes that.
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There are way less elephants than we thought. Slaughtered for their ivory, the elephants are left to rot. In just two days, they counted the remains of more than 20 elephants in a small area. Managers and visitors at the tourist camps are frequently alarmed by the sound of gunshots nearby. To protect the country's wildlife from poachers, the Botswana Defense Force has deployed specially trained soldiers. More than 700 are stationed across 40 bases in the far north.
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ReplyDeleteJust the other day there was a fire in an Ethiopian jail. There was at least twenty people killed from the fire in the cells. They don't know what started the fire for sure, but what they think was an attempted jail break. The jail hold around 3,000 inmates. the prison was in Addis Ababa. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-37274883
ReplyDeleteOn Wednesday studies have shown that African elephants are declining rapidly because of the poachers wanting their tusks for ivory. The population of the savanna elephants is declining about 8 percent a year. For every 100 live elephants researchers have found 12 carcasses. There is about 90 scientist in this research/study with about 352,271 elephants. The domestic trade of ivory through countries is legal just about everywhere but the trading of ivory that threatens the elephants is banned everywhere.
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There was a special greeting to welcome home the five athletes that competed at the Rio Olympics. They had the party where the five of them grew up. There were signs all over saying "You are gold medal winners in our eyes." The athletes will stay with their families for about a week and then they return back to training camp. The refugee camp is held in Kakuma, Kenya.
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A surge in illegal hunting is threatening the eastern gorillas. The eastern gorillas is the world's largest primate. Then International union for Conservation for Nature (IUCN) says just about 5,000 of the animals remain in their central African habitat. The number of eastern gorillas has declined more than 70% in two decades. Four of the six apes are now critically endangered. That means they are one step away from extinction.
On August 31st, scenes unfolded on Gabon's capital city of Libreville, when the protesters set the Parliament building on fire. Incumbent President Ali Bongo won narrowly over opposition candidate Jean Ping. Bongo had 49.8% of the vote, while Ping had 48.23.
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ReplyDeleteSouth Africans are responding on social media after protests over racist hair policies at a private high school. A video posted on Instagram went viral, showing 13-year-old Zulaikha Patel and fellow school mates in a tense standoff with school security guards. Students say they spoke out after they were told by teachers that their hair is "exotic" and dirty and that their Afros needed to be tamed. Pretoria Girls' Code of Conduct does not mention Afros, but it does give rules for general appearance, including that all styles "should be conservative, neat and in keeping with the school uniform."
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ReplyDeleteA rapper from Uganda is used to overcoming challenges. At the height of her success in 2014, she struggled with drinking and drug abuse. After overcoming her problems, she wants to help others with theirs! She created a non-profit organization called "Sober Up So High" to help others in the area with their drug and alcohol abuse issues. They use their stories & testimonies along with the arts to put out their messages. She's very passionate about her music and also helping many people overcome their own challenges.
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ReplyDeleteA five-day old newborn, his twin, and his mother were among 6,500 refugees and migrants rescued within 30 hours. They were trying to trek across the mediterranean sea when they were discovered and rescued.
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23 prisoners are dead after a prison fire in the Quilinto prison in Ethiopia. The prisoners being held there were all anti-government protesters. A statement says 21 died from suffocation and 2 died while being crushed by a stampede. There have been protests by the Oromia, the largest religious group in the region, since November 2015. The prison help 3,000 prisoners, and the cause of the fire is still unknown.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/09/rabies-vaccines-endangered-ethiopian-wolf-conservation/
ReplyDeleteIn 1991 there were fewer than 1000 Ethiopian wolves left in the Bale Mountains of Africa. Claudio Sillero-Zubiri went into the mountains searching for these rare wolves. He was having trouble finding them alive, and came across arid land with their corpses. The cause of death was rabies. The population went down 75% throughout the years. Now only around 500 wolves remain in the wild. They're using rabies vaccines simular to the ones we use on dogs, and insert it into a dead rat, so it attracts the wolves to eat it. It was a success but Claudio still needs to convince the African government to start a program for vaccinating the Wolves.
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ReplyDeleteElephants are heading toward extinction. Poachers are increasing in number and elephant deaths due to extinction are increasing. The elephants are slaughtered for their Ivory. Ivory is sold on the black market for a lot of money! It is illegal to poach elephants.
For the first time ending hunger is within our reach. There are about 800 million men, woman and children that will not eat today. There are more and more people helping out by donating food, money and just hours so that other people less fortunate than they are can have a decent meal. Africa's government is giving money to farms so that they can produce more food. The starving people in Africa has been almost cut in half since 1990.
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Thursday morning, an annular solar eclipse was shown across the African skies. This eclipse is known as the “ring of fire”. This eclipse occurs when the circumference of the sun shines from behind the moon. Citizens in Gabon, Congo, Tanzania, and Madagascar had a direct view of the eclipse. The sky was dark while the eclipse was shown. In August of 2017, North America will be able to see this annular eclipse.
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ReplyDeleteA Ugandian Rapper named Keko uses music to help people to turn away from drugs. Its a non profit organization focusing on creating awareness about drugs. She was also struggling with drug abuse.
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ReplyDeleteIn many places across Africa Elephants are decreasing at a scarily fast rate. Researches in the past had been doing a bit more of guesswork, but now with the help of Mike Chase, they have since gotten better system, and the numbers were disturbing, poachers are killing a great deal of these elephants for there tusk, they just shoot them and hop off there faces. The scientist have determined that most Elephants won't even move across eastern Namibia into Angola and Zambia. They're more elephants dieing than being born.
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Tanzanian screen writer types with her tongue. Wakonta Kapunda a 25 year old Tanzanian women who is paralyzed from neck down types screen plays with her tongue. She was involved in a grisly accident in 2011 when she became paralyzed. She said that her biggest dream is to become a screen writer. So she has made her dream come true by learning how to type with her tongue. THAT IS CRAZY!!!!!
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The country of Niger has banned the export of donkeys. It has claimed that an increase in donkey trade is threatening their donkey population. "About 80,000 donkeys have been exported so far this year compared to 27,000 last year," Atte Issa, at Niger's livestock ministry, said. Also, the government of Niger has banned the slaughter of any donkey within the country. Niger uses the donkeys for their hide, hauling goods, and even eating their meat. The price of a donkey has risen from $34 to $145 the past years.
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A Eritrean women who was fleeing to Europe when she went into labor. She was pregnant with twins and delivered them while on the boat. They are now in Italy, the babies were born premature and were suffering from dehydration, malnutrition, and hypothermia. Once they were rescued they were transferred to the Italian Navy, who then flew then to Palermo. The babies and the mother are okay and recovering in the Palermo hospital.
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ReplyDeleteA 14 year old girl, now 15, was just like most girl worried about her grades. More worried than most because most girl in West Africa don't go to school. Her teacher told her that he would only tell her, her grades in person. He would tell her everyday and so she would stop going. He had her phone number also, so he would call her everyday. She would tell him no every time, but the one time she didn't and went in she was sexually abused. She didn't tell anyone because she knew they wouldn't believe her over the teacher. When she became pregnant and her family noticed, she finally told them. They then filed a assault report. He was suspended from his job for one year, but that was it. Her parents and his parents decided that she should live with his parents, so she did for five months and he never came to visit her. Now she is back living with her mom, daughter and sisters and hasn't seen her teacher since.
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ReplyDeleteOne-third of the elephants are gone by 2014 in Africa. There is one hot spot for elephants. The military has been ordered to shoot poachers that they find. This has helped the elephants.
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ReplyDeleteKaditru Kamra is the first girl from Africa to be a surfer. She is from the country of Sierra Leone. She is 19 years old. Her country was destroyed by Ebola. She survived and started to surf because her school was closed because of Ebola. She has been surfing for 2 years. There is a movie being made about her story.
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ReplyDeleteAsnath Mahapa became South Africa’s first African female pilot in 1998. She said that she had to work ten times harder than the men in flight school. Mahapa felt sick her first few times flying, but she kept trying, and eventually she didn’t feel sick anymore. In 2012, she opened the African College of Aviation. She is committed to change the fact that the field is so male dominated. Her goal is to help women pursue their dreams of becoming pilots.
"South Africa's First Black Female Pilot Is Inspiring Girls to Aim High." CNN. Cable News Network, n.d. Web. 07 Sept. 2016.
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ReplyDeleteAfrica has terrorist groups that have pledged to ISIS. They are killing innocent people in their countries. One village had over 200 innocent people killed. The people are trying to fight back. War is an uphill battle and that the people want to drop bombs on the terrorist groups.
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ReplyDeleteIt there first time that Rwanda has made potato chips. It is the first potato chip company in this country. They sell the potato chips for $0.70 a bag. Lots of potatoes are grown in this country, but the people have never had chips. The chips are called Winnaz and it is going good.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/01/africa/gallery/ivory-coast-gold-mpa/index.html
ReplyDeleteThe Ivory Coast is a country in Africa where gold is found.
The first piece of gold was worth half a million dollars. The gold diggers work in the mines and in the forrest with metal detectors. There has been 150 illegal mines closed by the government. When the people find good it helps them with there families with money.
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ReplyDeleteThe Ivory coast is where the gold is being found. They have found gold in forest. Thousands of people form villages have been working to find gold. The fist peace of gold was worth millions of dollars. there has been over 150 mines that have been shut down for mining illegal. Some people working illegal can make around $430 a week. Most of the mines have over 2000 people working in or around the mine in one week.
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ReplyDeleteTwo twin baby boys, their mother, and 6,500 refugees were rescued and in a 30-hour period while attempting to make the treacherous journey across the Mediterranean. The Médecins Sans Frontières' ship Dignity 1, and the Spanish humanitarian group Proactiva Open Arms rescued people who were aboard 15 rubber boats and also one wooden vessel Monday. An update on the twins and their mother: They were transferred via Medevac for treatment in Italy, according to a tweet from MSF.
32-year-old Maria David Zaya, whose two-year-old daughter, Precious, was kidnapped by militants of the Islamist group in September 2014, while she was visiting her in-laws in Madagali in Adamawa state.
ReplyDeletePrecious was taken captive along with six other children and two women who lived in the same neighbourhood. Two weeks later, one of the women escaped.
The woman told Mrs Zaya that Precious had been favored in captivity because of her light skin and pretty face, and given to one of the wives of an "amir", a Boko Haram commander, who did not have any children of her own.Shortly after, she gave birth to her second child, a boy named Emma.
Seven months after she returned, Mrs Zaya received some good news, the Nigerian military had rescued a number of Boko Haram captives from the Sambisa forest, and taken them to the Malkohi camp for displaced people in Yola. She immediatly went to find precious, and she had recegnized her and wouldn't stop staring at her until they were reunited.
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Ugo Udezue is a trying to do the improbable. Creating a sports empire to rival one of the most lucrative and successful franchises in the world; the NBA. The former basketball player and NBA agent is now CEO of the African Basketball League (ABL), which aims to promote the sport on the continent and discover and cultivate young talent. Ugo hopes that the ABL will help boost sports-mad Nigeria's lagging economy and is confednet in the future that baseketball will be more popular in Nigeria than soccer.
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Ugo Udezue is working on bringing a new sport to Africa. He wants to make basketball popular in Africa because many athletes have the ability to do well. He is currently trying to make a system work that doesn't have a background in Africa. Ugo knows that the NBA brings in billions of dollars to the economy in the US, so why not try it in Africa? He wants kids in Africa to have a chance at playing something that could be popular. Ugo was a former basketball player and an agent for the NBA. He is now the CEO of African Basketball League.
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South Africans are responding on social media after protests over alleged racist hair policies at a prestigious high school. South Africans are responding on social media after protests over alleged racist hair policies at a prestigious high school. It all started with a 13 year old girl. The issue of my hair has been a thing that's followed me my entire life, I was told my hair is not natural, it's exotic, my Afro was not wanted. Pretoria Girls' Code of Conduct does not specifically mention Afros, but it does lay out rules for general appearance. The school would like the girls you have there hair straight when they go to school.
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A rare, glorious "Ring of Fire" solar eclipse took over the skies of Africa. This occurs when the sun shines brightly behind the moon. People in Gabon, Congo, and northern parts of Madagascar were able to see this eclipse clearly as the moon passed between the earth and the sun. North America will be the next to see this annular eclipse.
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ReplyDeleteAt least 11 people were killed and six others were injured in Cameroon when Boko Haram militants opened fire on a bus late Thursday, local time, residents said.
ReplyDeleteThe attack took place in Waza, a region bordering northeast Nigeria.
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Ugo Udezue is creating a sports empire to rival one of the most lucrative and successful franchises in the world. The former basketball player and NBA gent is now CEO of African basketball league. It's suppose to promote to sport on the continent and discover and cultivate young talent.
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The only surviving suspect in last Novembers Paris attack refused to talk to the judge for the third time. Sarah Abdeslam's lawyer Frank Berton says the judge repeatedly asked questions no avail on Thursday. They were hoping that Abdeslam's would link them to other ISIS networks and people that might have helped with the November 13 attacks. He kept quiet during the hearing in may and refused to go to the one in July. Adbeslam, 26 initially said he wanted to explain his path in radicalization thinking and role in the November 13 attacks on the Bataclan concert hall cafes and the national stadium. The other attackers died in the suiside bombing and under the fire of the police.
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ReplyDeleteRecent studies have shown that the giraffe's genetics had not one species, but four. The giraffe population was considered to be sub-species, but research has proven that they are genetically very different. During experiments, mitochondrial DNA is not part of the code that builds an animal. Finally, Dr Janke, a geneticist at the Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre, decided to examine and compare parts of the nuclear DNA. He told BBC News "It turned out the whole clade of northern giraffes was very different from reticulated giraffes." Those four new species now include the southern giraffe, Masai giraffe, reticulated giraffe, and the Nubian giraffe. Matthew Cobb, professor of zoology at the University of Manchester explained that the "four groups of giraffes had "been separated for 1-2 million years, with no evidence of genes being exchanged between them" Research is still being done to find more information about these four new giraffe species and how this new information can help researches understand more things to better their environment and habitat.
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ReplyDeleteGold has been discovered in the country called the Ivory Coast. It is in Africa. The first gold brick made at the Agbauo gold mine was worth a half million dollars. They have hired 16,000 workers to get the gold. Some of the gold is sitting in the dirt so they use metal detectors to find it in the forrest.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/30/football/cape-verde-soccer-behind-the-scenes/index.html
ReplyDeleteCape Verde's remarkable journey to the top of African football.
Cape Verde's is a island off the cost of African in the Atlantic Ocean. They have the best soccer team in Africa. 20 years ago they didn't have any soccer fields. Now they have 25 soccer fields.
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ReplyDeleteZimbabwe's ruling party has been accused of withholding food aid from opposition supporters in areas facing starvation because of drought. Zimbabwe's human rights commission said opponents of President Robert Mugabe's ZANU PF party had been told they would never get any food aid. Mugabe declared a state of disaster in February, the government estimated that four million people would need food aid by January 2017. The government says half the rural population faces starvation without food aid. The previous statement came from a constitutionally established institution, that is significant because of its role food distribution.
Chemical weapons were removed from Libya as a part of an International maritime operation. The Denmark led operation took place Saturday and was coordinated by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW). There were 500 tons of chemical weapons removed. A UK naval vessel escorted the Danish ship carrying the chemical weapons. While the US supported the removal of the weapons the US military did not help with removing them from Libya.
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ReplyDeleteIn Botswana, an elephant ecologist says he's seen far too many dead elephants in the last two years than ever before. He started noticing that they have all died the same way. Poachers have been hacking off the whole face of elephants to get their tusks. They are left to rot on the dry riverbed. He has counted the remains of more than 20 elephants in a small area. He worries that if Botswana can't protect its elephants, there's little hope for the species as a whole.
Kadiatu Kamara is the only female surfer in Sierra Leone. She is 19 years old and has already been through enough for an entire lifetime. She started surfing about two years ago, around the time her dad passed away, also around the time ebola broke out. She says "During the Ebola break out schools shut down and there was an uptake in teen pregnancies, because the teens had nothing to do," she escaped all of the chaos by surfing in the Atlantic for days at a time. She said that surfing made her happy and was her way of forgetting all of her problems. -CNN 9/5/16
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