10AM SUNDAY MORNING WAS THE LAST TIME I SAW HIM BREATHE NORMALLY
Aishah here. I didn't want to post but word has spread very fast and people are pestering my sisters and I.
Dad is in hospital in ICU from a Tiger snake bite. His pinning stick broke on catching the Snake so it got immediate access to his hand. The venom went straight his his circulation system from a deep bite and started to have neurological effects immediately. I watched him lose conciousness very fast in front of my eyes. Craig and I both thought we watched him die
Immediate first aid and hospital, There, I saw dad stop breathing multiple times. Last year he had a close scare with the brown but wasnt bitten. In 14 years, This is the 1st proper BITE dad has had:
- His pupils are dilated to 9mm. - He couldnt't talk, breathe properly and the hospital asked me to discuss him possibly go on ventilation. - 2 doses of antivenom. - No taste, Numb hands, Eyes closed and Can't see. - no blood clotting and started haemorrhaging severely. - multi organ failure. - incredibly drowsy and weak. - muscle damage and nerve damage. - heart irregularities - he needs antibiotics for follow up infections.
My sisters and I are really upset. Pls stop contacting us to be nosy pretending to care just for gossip. You have all the info you need now so pls leave us alone as two of the sisters are under 18 and Ellie especially is very upset. For now Craig is catching snakes. If you see one call me 0491120668 and I'll coordinate
For anyone wanting to post nasty things, I remind you dad is VERY strong. Dad has single-handedly raised us girls for 12 years now. This rare bite direct to the blood would have killed most but not dad. He WILL recover and ill. Show him everything written.
I would not have posted this except news has got out so I ask to respect our privacy in this very difficult time as dad has been our single source of strength for most of our lives.
But delta youths really had the audacity to massacre soldiers on peace mission.
This is why people should not tolerate and support criminals in their domain, they will later turn to monsters and bring unimaginable disaster to all and sundry, No development will come to such place as well
Rest in peace to our gallant soldiers and officers.
Righteousness2: If you a student of bible prophecies, things like this would not be a suprise to you. We are Living in live inside bible Prophecies. What an amazing time to be alive.
Just as was prophecied in the the word of GOD, the Holy Bible. ISRAEL , The apple of God's eye is the Focal point of World Politics.
One sure FACT is that all who gather against ISRAEL will be Dealt a Serious Blow of their lives.
Foreign Affairs › . by God1000(op): 5:06pm On Mar 16, 2024*. Modified: 10:08am On Mar 19, 2024
Iranian official calls for forming international coalition against Israel at NY UN meeting
Iran’s Vice President for Women and Family Affairs, Ansieh Khazali, has called to form an international coalition against Israel, Iranian-state-backed Mehr News Agency reported on Saturday.
Khazali's comments came in a meeting with Nigeria's Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development Uju Kennedy-Ohanenye in New York.
The two were in New York to attend the 68th annual meeting of the UN Commission on the Status of Women.
While discussing the war in Gaza, Khazali said that Iran was concerned over the hunger and the increasing number of dead and injured, Gazan women and children in particular.
Khazali and Kennedy-Ohanenya also raised additional issues related to women, family, the environment, and corruption.
Khazali is known to have advocated for the marriage of children in defiance of human rights critics who see the practice as sexual exploitation and abuse of young girls, according to an IranWire analysis by Roghayeh Rezaei.
The Iranian and Nigerian officials stressed the need to expand economic cooperation between the two countries.
The UN Commission on Status of Women is the UN’s largest annual gathering on gender equality and women’s empowerment. It will be held at the UN headquarters and run for 12 days, with representatives from member states in attendance.
Very sad, this conflict has killed over 13,900 people and displaced more than 8 million people in Sudan, sadly we don't talk about it much compared to Gaza and Ukraine war.
The war in Sudan is “triggering the world’s largest hunger crisis,” with more than 25 million people “trapped in a spiral” of food insecurity, a United Nations agency has warned.
Nine in 10 people across the country face “emergency levels of hunger” and are “stuck” in areas “largely inaccessible” due to “relentless violence and interference by the warring parties,” the UN’s World Food Program (WFP) said Wednesday.
The war, which has also created the world’s largest displacement crisis, according to the UN, has left 18 million people “acutely food insecure” in Sudan and millions more in neighboring South Sudan and Chad.
“Twenty years ago, Darfur was the world’s largest hunger crisis, and the world rallied to respond. But today, the people of Sudan have been forgotten. Millions of lives and the peace and stability of an entire region are at stake,” said Cindy McCain, Executive Director of the WFP.
Thousands of people have been killed and eight million displaced since fighting broke out in April between forces loyal to two rival generals – army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, who leads Sudan’s Armed Forces (SAF), and the head of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo
Both forces and their allied militias have been accused of killing civilians, ransacking houses and ethnic cleansing, leading to accusations of crimes against humanity and fueling the exodus from the East African country.
The WFP said it was now “struggling to keep pace with the significant level of need” and described the humanitarian response in the two neighboring states as “at breaking point.”
The crisis has deepened since the program was forced to halt its operations transporting aid from Chad to Sudan’s western Darfur region after local authorities revoked permission for cross-border truck convoys, according to the WFP. Since August, more than one million people had received WFP aid via the route.
One in five children at transit centers at the main border crossing between Sudan and South Sudan are malnourished, according to the WFP
Newly arrived displaced people in South Sudan make up 35 percent of those facing catastrophic levels of hunger – the highest possible level – despite accounting for less than 3 percent of the population,” the WFP added.
Stomach-churning findings’
The warning from the WFP came as US Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield said the UN had found evidence that girls as young as 14 had been raped by “elements” of the Rapid Support Forces in WFP storage facilities controlled by the paramilitary faction.
Thomas-Greenfield on Wednesday read out sections from the UN Panel of Experts’ final report on Sudan, a report she described as “52 pages of stomach-churning findings.”
She said the report claimed that RSF snipers “indiscriminately targeted civilians, including women, pregnant women and young people,” and “schools, hospitals, markets, government buildings and humanitarian assets were looted mostly by RSF and allied militias and destroyed by shelling and bombing by the two warring parties.”
The UN has previously said that a spike in gender-based violence since fighting broke out amounts to crimes against humanity. In July, the UN said that as many as 4.2 million women and girls were at increased risk of sexual violence, while a CNN investigation has detailed widespread cases of sexual assault alleged by Sudanese activists, particularly in the Darfur region, where entire communities have reportedly been ravaged by targeted ethnic-based killings
Thomas-Greenfield said the latest report included “gruesome photos” taken in West Darfur “where the RSF has targeted members of the Masalit community.”
This is just a snapshot of the death, destruction, depravity that has defined this conflict. A conflict that, as this report details, is being fueled by arms transfers from a handful of regional powers. Armed transfers that must stop,” she said, remarking that the international community “is not doing nearly enough” to address the crisis.
“It is my hope that this sobering report will, at long last, shake the world from its indifference to the horrors playing out before our eyes,” she added.
As many as 60 people are feared to have drowned while trying to cross the Mediterranean from Libya to Italy or Malta, the operators of a charity rescue group said on Thursday.
According to Reuters, SOS Mediterranee said that it rescued 25 people in a “very weak” condition in coordination with the Italian Coast Guard on Wednesday. Two unconscious people were flown to Sicily by helicopter.
The central Mediterranean is one of the world’s deadliest migration routes. According to the UN migration agency (IOM), almost 2,500 migrants died or went missing attempting the crossing last year, and the number since the start of 2024 already stands at 226.
“The survivors departed from Zawiya, Libya, seven days before they were rescued,” said SOS Mediterranee on X. “Their engine broke after three days, leaving their boat lost [and] adrift without water and food for days. Survivors report that at least 60 people perished on the way, including women and at least one child.”
There was no immediate comment from the Italian Coastguard. The IOM, however, said that it was “deeply troubled” by the report. “Urgent action is needed to strengthen maritime patrols and prevent further tragedies,” the UN agency said on X.
SOS Mediterranee added that its Ocean Viking rescue vessel had evacuated 25 people who were on a rubber boat drifting in the Libyan search and rescue area. The charity said that it picked up a further 113 people, including two children, from a wooden boat and 88 from a packed rubber dingy, in rescue operations on Wednesday and Thursday.
It pointed out that Ocean Viking had been instructed to sail to the Italian Adriatic port of Ancona, about 1,500 km (930 miles) away, but had asked for a closer disembarkation port given the poor condition of the migrants, some of whom needed oxygen masks.
Charities like SOS Mediterranee complain that Italy’s right-wing government is obstructing their rescue activities, forcing them to travel to distant ports to disembark migrants and often temporarily impounding their ships.
Italy and other European Union governments are trying to curb the number of migrants making the crossing from North Africa, and have offered money or equipment to Libya and Tunisia to stop departures from their respective territories.
Data from the Italian Interior Ministry shows that 5,968 migrants have arrived by sea so far this year, down from 19,937 at the same stage in 2023.
The Russian leader gave an interview to state television that aired Wednesday, ahead of an election this week that will see him extend his rule.
President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that Russia was ready for nuclear war if it came to it, his latest warning to the West ahead of an election this week that will see him extend his rule.
“From a military-technical point of view, we are, of course, ready,” he said in an interview with Russian state television that was released early Wednesday, when asked if Russia was really ready for such a conflict.
Putin said that Russia boasts a “more modern” nuclear arsenal than anyone else and that the West is working on modernizing its own. But he said this doesn't mean the world is heading for nuclear war, and suggested that President Joe Biden’s experience ensures that he understands the potential dangers of escalation.
His comments come just days ahead of the March 15-17 presidential election that will see him re-elected for the fifth time to begin another six-year term.
It’s the second occasion in less than two weeks in which Putin has used nuclear rhetoric, and his latest foray into America's upcoming election.
During his annual state of the nation address last month, Putin warned Western countries that if they send their own troops into Ukraine, they risk a nuclear war. His comments came after French President Emmanuel Macron suggested that NATO allies could send troops to Ukraine in the future.
Putin said in the interview Wednesday that U.S. troops on the ground in either Russia or Ukraine would be seen as an intervention. But he said Biden is an old-school politician, and there are plenty of specialists in strategic deterrence in Washington to keep that from happening.
“So I don’t think that here everything is rushing so head-on” to a nuclear confrontation, he said, according to a transcript of the interview shared by the Kremlin. “But we are ready for this.”
In line with the country’s stated security doctrine, Moscow is ready to use nuclear weapons “if we are talking about the existence of the Russian state, about the threat to our sovereignty and independence,” Putin added.
He also said he never pondered deploying nuclear weapons in Ukraine, even when Kyiv reclaimed some of its land in successful counteroffensives in 2022. “There has never been such a need,” he said.
Putin has substantially ramped up his nuclear saber rattling since his invasion of Ukraine. Although Washington maintains that it does not see a change in Russia’s nuclear stance, Putin’s drastic rhetoric has raised fears about the risks of a clash between Russia and the West.
“Overall, the tone of the interview, not only the ‘nuclear’ part, was positive and reassuring — Russia was in a good position, the situation was stable, and there was no need to worry,” said Andrey Baklitskiy, a senior researcher at the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research.
“The seemingly muted reaction to possibility of West sending troops to Ukraine would be interesting to follow,” he added.
The declaration of Russia’s readiness for a nuclear war came as Putin said that Russia was ready for peace talks in Ukraine based on “realities” on the ground, and not what he called “some wants after the use of psychotropic drugs.” This was an apparent reference to the Kremlin's long-standing and baseless claim that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is a drug user.
“For us to negotiate now just because they are running out of ammunition is somewhat ridiculous on our part,” Putin said, referring to severe ammunition shortages that Ukraine has experienced as new U.S. military aid remains stalled in Congress and Kyiv’s European counterparts have struggled to supply the ammunition that has been promised.
“We are, however, ready for a serious conversation,” he said, adding that Moscow would not just negotiate a pause in fighting that would allow Ukraine to re-arm, but one that would secure serious security guarantees for Russia.
The White House announced Tuesday that it would provide $300 million in additional weapons to Ukraine amid the congressional holdup.
Putin was also asked about his stated preference for the “more experienced” Biden rather than the Republican nominee, former President Donald Trump, to win this year’s U.S. election.
Putin said that Trump, who had often praised the Russian leader, reproached him during his final year in office for wanting Biden to win the 2020 election.
“He told me so in one of the conversations. Sorry, I’ll say it like he did, it’s just direct speech: ‘You want Sleepy Joe to win,’” Putin recalled, using a label Trump often uses for Biden.
“And then, to my surprise, they began to persecute him because we allegedly supported him as a candidate,” Putin said of Trump. “Well, it’s some kind of complete nonsense.”
Botragelad: Lol. Cry, beg, scream, Icj, Un, USA, clowns protesting. No one on Earth can stop ISRAEL from destroying Hamas.
How can you justify Hamas invasion, rape? You say it didn't start on October 7, okay so Hamas attack is a retaliation they say, even when there was a Ceasefire. Why then is Israel attack not also retaliation. Why wailing all over the media. Hamas sent thousand of rockets into Israel, iron done destroyed them. Israel retaliates everyone cries genocide. Lol. What would you have said if Hamas rocket killed a thousand of Israelis? Thanks to the iron dome and other defense mechanism.
I guess you were expecting Israel to hug the TERRORISTS. This is just the beginning, Hamas terrorists must be levelled down to the last man.
How can you ignore decades of systematic abuse, occupation of Palestinian lands and oppression by the Israelis and only be focused on the October 7th incident.
South Africa's foreign minister says her country's citizens who fight in the Israeli armed forces or alongside them in Gaza will be arrested when they return home, deepening the rift between the nations after South Africa lay accusations of genocide against Israel at the United Nations' top court.
Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor made the comment earlier this week at a Palestinian solidarity event attended by officials from South Africa's ruling African National Congress party.
She also encouraged people to protest outside the embassies of what she called the “five primary supporters” of Israel and its military action in Gaza. She didn’t name them but almost certainly was referring to the United States, the U.K. and Germany among others.
“I have already issued a statement alerting those who are South African and are fighting alongside or in the Israeli Defense Forces: We are ready. When you come home, we are going to arrest you,” Pandor said, to rapturous applause from the audience.
In December, the foreign ministry said that the South African government was concerned that some of its citizens or permanent residents had joined the IDF to fight in Gaza and warned that they could face prosecution if they hadn't been granted permission to do so under South Africa's arms control laws.
Those with dual South African-Israeli citizenship could be stripped of their South African citizenship, the foreign ministry said.
Pandor's comments represented an apparent hardening of the government's stance.
It's not clear how many South African citizens have fought for Israel during the current war in Gaza. South Africa has a significant Jewish population of around 70,000 people.
The South African government was a vocal supporter of the Palestinian people and a critic of Israel even before the current war.
The issue is close to the ruling ANC party and many South Africans, who for years have compared Israel's policies against Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank with the treatment of non-whites in South Africa during its apartheid era of forced racial segregation and oppression.
Israel denies South Africa's charge that it has enforced a form of apartheid on Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza, and strongly rejects the charge by South Africa in the International Court of Justice that it is committing genocide in Gaza. That case may take years for a verdict.
Israel has replied by accusing South Africa of being a representative of the Hamas militant group that attacked southern Israel on Oct. 7, killing around 1,200 Israelis and taking 250 hostages back to Gaza, sparking the war.
Israel's assault on Gaza has killed over 31,000 Palestinians, driven most of the coastal enclave's 2.3 million people from their homes and caused a humanitarian disaster, with hundreds of thousands of Palestinians on the brink of starvation.
Pandor asked audience members at the Palestinian solidary event this week to make posters with the words "Stop Genocide" and protest outside the embassies of what she called the “five primary supporters” of Israel.
“Don’t only come to this dinner. Be visible in the support of the people of Palestine," she said.
The Governor of Benue State, Rev Fr Hyacinth Alia has emerged Leadership Governor of the Year 2024 for his outstanding performance and leadership qualities demonstrated in the fight against corruption, and for his transformative achievements in the state in just six months.
Alia received the award on Tuesday in Abuja, during the 16th edition of Leadership Annual Conference (2023), organized by Leadership Newspapers, a leading media organisation in Nigeria.
He wrote on his Facebook page
I am deeply honoured and humbled to have been conferred with the prestigious Governor of the Year Award by the Leadership Newspaper in recognition of my commitment to good governance, transparency, and the relentless pursuit of progress and development in our beloved state.
I am truly grateful for this honour and remain dedicated to advancing the interests and welfare of my people.
I would like to extend my sincere gratitude to the Leadership Newspaper for recognising and acknowledging the efforts of my administration in serving the good people of Benue State.
Shame on Haiti, It's really a big shame for a country of 11 million people not to have a well equipped military that will defend the country at a time like this, they are now begging Kenya to send their police.
Over the weekend, the violence in the capital Port-au-Prince ramped up once again. Heavily armed gangs attacked the National Palace and set part of the Interior Ministry on fire with petrol bombs.
It comes after a sustained attack on the international airport, which remains closed to all flights - including one carrying Prime Minister Ariel Henry.
He tried to fly back to Haiti from the United States last week, but his plane was refused permission to land. He was then turned away from the neighbouring Dominican Republic too.
Mr Henry is now stuck in Puerto Rico, unable to set foot in the nation he ostensibly leads.
Among those who did manage to get into the stricken Caribbean nation, though, was a group of US military personnel.
Following a request from the US State Department, the Pentagon confirmed it had carried out an operation to, as it put it, "augment the security" of the US embassy in Port-au-Prince and airlift all non-essential staff to safety.
Soon after, the EU said it had evacuated all of its diplomats, fleeing a nation mired in violence and facing its biggest humanitarian crisis since the 2010 earthquake.
Millions of Haitians, however, simply don't have that luxury. They're trapped, no matter how bad things get.
The situation is dire at the State University of Haiti Hospital, known as the general hospital, in downtown Port-au-Prince. There is no sign of any medical staff at all.
A dead body, covered by a sheet and swarming with flies, lies in a bed next to patients waiting in vain for treatment.
Despite the overpowering stench, no-one has come to remove the body. It is rapidly decomposing in the Caribbean heat.
There are no doctors, they all fled last week," said Philippe a patient who didn't want to give his real name.
"We can't go outside. We hear the explosions and gunfire. So, we must have courage and stay here, we can't go anywhere."
With no prime minister and a government in disarray, the gangs' power over the capital is near absolute.
They control more than 80% of Port-au-Prince and the country's most notorious gang leader, Jimmy "Barbecue" Chérizier has again told the prime minister to resign.
"If Ariel Henry doesn't step down and the international community continues to support him," he said last week, "they will lead us directly to a civil war which will end in genocide."
Meanwhile, the police, outnumbered and demoralised, are struggling to keep looters at bay. The Salomon police station in Port-au-Prince was attacked and burnt out, and charred police vehicles lie outside the still-smouldering building.
Nevertheless, even in the face of the total collapse of law and order, people must still venture out to make a living.
At a nearby market, several street hawkers told the BBC they had no other option but to leave their homes, even with gunmen roaming the streets.
"I have three kids, and I'm all they have - I'm their mother and their father," said Jocelyn, a market trader who also didn't want to give her real name.
"So, I'm obliged to take to the streets. Yesterday gunmen came here and stole all our money. A lot of vendors lost all their money. But there's no way to stay at home when you have three mouths to feed."
"The anxiety is killing me when I'm in the street," echoed an older woman selling fruit. "I keep thinking what if I get shot dead? Who will take care of my children then? I have no family to support me."
To the west, in one of Haiti's nearest neighbours, Jamaica, the dignitaries, diplomats and heads of state of the Caricom regional group are gathering for an emergency summit.
The instability in Haiti is a problem for the entire Caribbean community, and for Washington too. The idea of a nation of some 11 million people being run by gangs is of huge concern, particularly the potential impact on outward migration during an election year in the US.
It's clear Caricom favours seeing Mr Henry resign as soon as possible, from outside of the country if necessary.
The Biden administration in the US has publicly said the unelected prime minister - who had promised to hold an election in February - should return to Haiti, but only in order to stand down and begin a transition to a new government.
Privately, though, US diplomats are increasingly aware that it might now be impossible for him to return, and that even attempting to do so could further destabilise Haiti.
A UN-backed plan for a Kenyan-led rapid reaction force to tackle the gangs is still far from becoming a reality.
To add to the lawlessness, a week ago, around 4,000 inmates escaped after the gangs attacked the main prison in Port-au-Prince.
Those prisoners are now back on the streets and bolstering the ranks of their gangs.
In the aftermath, the cell doors are now wide open, the facility is virtually abandoned and there are blood stains on the ground after gunmen overpowered the guards.
A prime minister unable to return, violent gangs in control of the capital and dead bodies piling up on the streets: Haiti is currently a nation about as close to a failed state as it's possible to be.
Crime › Re: An 11-year-old Boy Killed By His Mom's Ex-boyfriend (photo) by God1000(m): 2:57pm On Mar 17, 2024
