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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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BEN AFFLECK,SEEKS COMFORT IN THE HANDS OF HIS MOM,AFTER DIVORCE ANNOUNCEMENT WITH JENNIFER GARNER.

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                                                                                            Is so sad that these Hollywood couple could not stand their selves anymore,so few days ago,they announced their divorce.Though a source claimed that Jennifer Garner could not stand Ben Affleck's gambling any more that was why they decided to divorce.So today,Ben Affleck was paying a visit to his mother,to sick comfort from her after the divorce went public.Another source is claiming that one of the major reasons they decided to divorce is that Jennifer Garner feels like Ben Affleck is just another one of their children and she is tired of having to care for him the way she does her own other children.Ben is now filling that nurtring from a mother,while Jenner is now turn...
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BOKO HARAM ATTACKS MAIDUGURI,STATE CAPITAL OF BORNO STATE YESTERDAY.

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       According to sources,suspected Boko Haram Insurgents attacked the outsirts of the state capital of Borno state Nigeria on friday,escalating their attacks these week in which more 150 people have been confirmed in these week attack.Hearvy gunfire was heard coming from the fringes of Maiduguri,the capital of Borno state,for about half an hour yesterday friday evening.A military source said the insurgents attacked a village on the edge of the city but they were repulsed.Before friday's attack on Maiduguri,gunmen killed nearly 50 people in a village on tuesday,rounded up and shot dead about 100 in Kukawa on wednesday and killed 12 in a dawn raid on another village on friday.Two suicide bombers killed at least 10 people along a highway on thursday.I am yet to receive casualty report of yesterday's attack.
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POLICE IN SOUTH CAROLINA,DECLARES THAT NATURAL CAUSES STARTED THE FIRE IN A BLACK CHURCH.

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              According to the police,a fire that destroyed a Mount Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church in Greeleyville,South Carolina,on tuesday was from natural causes and not linked to a spate of fires at similar churches across the South.The U.S Department of Justice is investigating the fires and has so far determined that one was an electrical fire and two others were from natural causes.The fires were being investigated against the backdrop of the June 17 shooting of nine black church goers at a historic black church in Charleston,South Carolina.The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division said in a statement on thursday that the Greeleyville church fire probe as completed and ''Investigators observed no indicator of criminal intent.Based upon the scene examination,the fire debris analysis,witness statements and a lighting strike report,the cause of the fire was best classified as natural''.
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LAGOS STATE GOVT,TO ASSIST A WOMAN WHO GAVE BIRTH TO 3 SET OF TWINS,AFTER HER HUSBAND ABANDONED HER.

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                    Mrs Ruth Uche,the mother of three sets of twins who was abandoned by her husband Mr Uche who is a factory worker,after she gave birth to the last set of twins,will now be supported by the Lagos state government.Governor Akinwumi Ambode in a statement signed by his Chief press secretary,Mr Habib Aruna,said yesterday friday that ''It is not proper for anyone to abandon his family,especially young children that they willing brought to life.It is only when such children are properly taken care of that they can achieve their full potentials in life and become responsible citizens''.The Governor got to know about Mrs Ruth Uche's situation,through a newspaper publication which narrated her ordeals,and also her distress visit to the Government Secretariat Alausa on thursday.Ambode said his government would continue to provide good leadership that would guarantee adequate protection of lives and property of all residence.His g...
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