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Forum => Kenya Discussion => Topic started by: Brynn on September 04, 2014, 10:18:03 PM
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Boko haram moving south
Ebola moving North
*watch this space and forget any nuclear chemical reaction you've seen before.
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Perspective:
Nigerian population 168 million
US population 330 million
:-)
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Bodies remain littered on the streets of a northern Nigerian town two days after it was seized by militant Islamists, a lawmaker has told the BBC.
Boko Haram fighters were patrolling the streets of Bama, preventing people from burying the dead, Ahmed Zanna said.
On Wednesday, the state government denied the town had fallen.
Officials said about 26,000 people had been displaced by fighting in Bama, a key town in the battle for control of Nigeria's north-eastern Borno state.
Earlier this week, the Nigeria Security Network (NSN) think-tank said the group had made "lightning territorial gains" in recent months, raising fears that the country could disintegrate like Syria and Iraq, where the Islamic State (IS) rebel group has declared a caliphate.
'Fought gallantly'
Boko Haram has also said it has set up a caliphate in the areas it controls - it is not clear if the two groups are allied.
Mr Zanna, a senator in Borno, said the humanitarian situation in Bama was "terrible" and there had been a "lot of killings" in the town.
"So many bodies litter the streets, and people are not allowed to even go and bury the dead ones. So the situation is getting worse and worse," Mr Zanna told the BBC's Newsday programme after speaking to a resident who fled the town.
Boko Haram has captured a string of towns in northern-eastern Nigeria in recent months, fuelling concern that it could advance towards the main city, Maiduguri.
Mr Zanna said it would be "catastrophic" if Boko Haram launched an assault on Maiduguri, which has a population of more than two million.
"I'm begging the government to send more troops and armoury to Maiduguri," he said.
"Boko Haram do come overwhelmingly because they recruited en masse in the villages [in Borno state]," he added.
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Naija is a walking contradiction. An enigma indeed.
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Uh oh
One thing I've noticed I have to be careful what I post. People for some reason pick my ideas and make them big.
Human Misery and Menace, Run Amok
Television Review
‘Frontline’: ‘Ebola Outbreak’ and ‘Hunting Boko Haram’
"Frontline" examines the outbreak of Ebola Tuesday on PBS.
Frontline / PBS
By NEIL GENZLINGER
September 8, 2014
The PBS series “Frontline” pours a double shot of dismal on Tuesday in a program that examines the Ebola outbreak in West Africa and atrocities in Nigeria related to the hunt for Boko Haram.
Though neither segment has the depth of a full documentary, each is disturbing, evidence of flawed responses to disasters of very different kinds.
The Ebola report looks at a microcosm rather than the entirety of the still-spreading outbreak.
The segment starts in July, visiting a relief operation in Sierra Leone centered on a beleaguered hospital.
“When the hospital was built four weeks earlier, 64 beds seemed more than enough,” the narration says. “That’s no longer the case.”