DUTCH REFEREE ROB DIEPERINK DIES WEEKS AFTER REMOVAL FROM WORLD CUP OFFICIATING LIST. (PHOTO).

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 Dutch referee Rob Dieperink dies weeks after removal from World Cup officiating list Dutch referee Rob Dieperink has died at the age of 38, weeks after FIFA removed him from its list of officials for the World Cup. The Dutch Football Association (KNVB) confirmed his death in a statement, saying it was “shocked and deeply saddened” by the news. His cause of death has not been disclosed. Dieperink was arrested in April by the Metropolitan Police in the United Kingdom following a report of an alleged sexual assault involving a teenage boy in London. A Metropolitan Police spokesperson said officers responded on April 9 to a report of sexual assault at an address in Croydon and arrested a man in his 30s on suspicion of the offence. Police later said that after reviewing available evidence, including CCTV footage and digital devices, the investigation had concluded that “the evidential threshold had not been met” and no further action would be taken. Following the investigation, FIFA co...

US PLEDGES $32.5 MILLION TO EASE HUNGER IN BORNO, NORTHERN NIGERIA. (PHOTO).


 US pledges $32.5 million to ease hunger in Borno, northern Nigeria


The United States has approved $32.5 million in humanitarian aid to Nigeria, targeting hunger in the country’s conflict-torn north, particularly Borno state.


The U.S. mission to Nigeria said the funding will deliver food and nutrition support to internally displaced people in the northeast, where communities have been battered by more than a decade of insurgency.


The aid package is expected to reach more than 764,000 people, including 41,569 pregnant and breastfeeding women and 43,235 children.


Borno state has been hardest hit, with aid agencies warning that an “unprecedented hunger crisis” could leave 1.3 million people without food and force the shutdown of at least 150 nutrition clinics. In Maiduguri, Intersos, an Italian humanitarian group, now runs the only in-patient malnutrition facility still open.


Margot van der Velden, the World Food Program’s regional director for West Africa, warned in July that funding shortages had pushed the agency to suspend food assistance in parts of West and Central Africa, leaving millions vulnerable. Food stocks in Nigeria and other affected countries were projected to run out by September.


Northern Nigeria is also reeling from rising insecurity that has killed about 35,000 civilians and displaced over two million, violent clashes between farmers and herders in the northwest and north-central regions have further strained food supplies.

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