Children flee violence in Sudan!

Photo credit: ABC News Sidan’s Tawila refugee camp has become a lifeline for hundreds of children separated from their families while fleeing the escalating violence in SWest Darfur. African News reports that according to the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), over 400 unaccompanied minors have arrived in the camp over the past month alone. NRC’s advocacy manager Mathilde…

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A story of luck and kindness!

Lucky Lee jokes he’s lucky because of his name. His journey has indeed been one of luck – but also of kindness and hard work, an extraordinary story of resilience. He was born to Chinese parents in the 1950s. He spent his early life growing up between Cambodia, Hong Kong and Vietnam, his parents moving…

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Inside Nigeria! – Adeeale Sobowale

Nigeria claims to be a democratic country. Note my word, ‘claims’. Isn’t it in Nigeria that we have prisoners, even in spite of court orders setting them free? We have people like Sambo Dasuki, Ibrahim Zakzaky, Omoyele Sowore and others currently languishing in various detention rooms across the nation. The silly department in charge of…

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Circles! – Adewale Sobowale

One thing that keeps astounding me is the regularity at which seasons move in circles. In spite of the so called global warming, the seasons do not fail us. In the tropics, we have the harmattan, dry and rainy seasons. In the western world there are the winter, summer, spring and autumn seasons. In the…

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