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MORE THAN 100,000 CHILDREN HAVE BEEN DISPLACED BY THE LATEST ESCALATION IN EASTERN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO, UNICEF SAID ON SUNDAY, WARNING THE NUMBERS ARE EXPECTED TO RISE AS VIOLENCE SPREADS.(PHOTO).

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 More than 100,000 children have been displaced by the latest escalation in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, UNICEF said on Sunday, warning the numbers are expected to rise as violence spreads. Since Dec. 1, intense fighting has uprooted more than 500,000 people, with children accounting for over 100,000 of those displaced in South Kivu alone, the UN agency said in a statement released Sunday. It said since Dec. 2, hundreds have been killed in the fighting, and children have been among the victims, with four students killed, six injured, and at least seven schools attacked or damaged. The rapid escalation has forced hundreds of thousands of children and families to flee within Congo and into neighboring Burundi and Rwanda, it added. Many people fleeing the violence have crossed into Burundi, with over 50,000 new arrivals reported between Dec. 6 and 11, nearly half of them children, UNICEF said, adding that the numbers are expected to rise as more displaced are identified. “Chi...
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YESTERDAY IT WAS GOODLUCK AND TODAY IS BUHARI'S TURN TO VISIT OBASANJO TO SEEK HIS BLESSINGS.?.

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                   It was rumored yesterday that President Goodluck Jonathan had a secret meeting with ex-president Olusegun Obasanjo.Now the all Progressive Congress {APC} presidential candidate General Muhammadu Buhari visited Obasanjo today,just to receive his blessings.Buhari said to Obasanjo that ''I have come with my running mate,who is also your son from Ogun state to solicit your support and blessings in our journey.You know this country far better than any other person and we believe that with your wealth of experience and support,APC will do more better than what this government is doing.The issue of insecurity,unemployment,economic slide,corruption and others will be tackled with all sincerity and we promise to move this country to what you dreamt it will be''.Obasanjo responded by saying ''Let me say that for those of you that are campaigning all over,it is better you tell the people what you will do for them,campaign based o...
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143 BOKO HARAM INSURGENTS,KILLED BY THE CAMEROON ARMY.

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                According to Issa Bakary,Spokesman for the Cameroon government,said today tuesday in Yaounde that ''The insurgents were killed after they attacked a military camp in Kolofata,in the north of Cameroon.The battle ended after the army bombed the attackers,forcing them to retreat to the Nigerian border.The army however lost  one soldier during the battle''.
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