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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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PHOTOS FROM THE CRASH SITE OF GERMANWINGS PLANE CRASH.

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                      Images from the first rescue helicopters to reach the crash site showed wreckage scattered across hundreds of metres of mountainside,with some debris looking like a size of a car.According to todays report,the Germanwings flight 4 U 9525 were shroud in mystery today after air traffi controllers claimed they received no SOS,despite the jet nosediving 32,000ft in just eight minutes.All 144 passengers and six crew were today presumed dead after the Airbus A320 crashed in a remote region of the French Alps enroute from Spain to Germany.Two babies were among 45 Spanish on board and 16 children from the same school on an exchange trip were among some 100 Germans also feared to have died.Earlier reports quoted aviation sources in France as saying the pilots issued a mayday distress signal and requested an emergency descent minutes before it hit the ground.However,civil aviation authorities later denied that air traffi...
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INEC WILL TOMORROW,BRING OUT BALLOT PAPERS FOR SATURDAY POLLS,FROM ALL CBN VAULTS.

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                According to the Chief Press Secretary to the Independent National Electoral Commission {INEC} Chairman,Mr Kayode Idowu said ''On Wednesday {tomorrow},ballot papers for this saturday's Presidential and National Assembly Elections will be moved from the Central Bank Vaults.All the non sentitive materials have been distributed while the ballot papers have been kept in the vaults of the CBN branches across the country.The Ballot papers for the different positions and locations had been customised in such a way that it would be difficult to be faked by anybody''.The Chairman of  INEC,Prof Attahiru Jega has also revealed that about 56.7 million voter cards had been collected.In a stakeholders meeting hosted by Jega on tuesday,Prof Jega said that the card collected represented about 82% of the registered electorate by the close of distribution ahead of the March 28 election.
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