The number of children Boko Haram terrorists have used as suicide bombers since 2014 now stands at 86; says a report published by the West and Central Africa Regional Office of the United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF.

Going by the report published on August 25, 38 of the 86 children carried out suicide attacks as recently as this year.

“Children on the Move, Children left Behind,” is released ahead of the United Nations Summit on Refugees and Migrants which comes up on September 19.

Exposing the “devastating impact” of violence by the Nigeria-based terrorist group in the Lake Chad basin, the report notes the crisis has displaced 1.4 million children and left at least one million of them trapped in hard-to-reach areas.

UNICEF also says 2.6 million people are currently displaced in Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad and Niger, while an additional 2.2million -half of which are children, are feared to be trapped in areas under the control of Boko Haram.

An estimated 475,000 children across Lake Chad will suffer from severe acute malnutrition this year, up from 175,000 at the beginning of the year, says the report.

In North-east Nigeria alone an estimated 20,000 children are reported to have been separated from their families.

“The Lake Chad crisis is a children’s crisis that should rank high on the global migration and displacement agenda. Humanitarian needs are outpacing the response, especially now that new areas previously unreachable in North-east Nigeria become accessible.” Said Manuel Fontaine, UNICEF Regional Director for West and Central Africa.

“Local communities are sharing the little they have to help those in need in an act of humanity that is replicated in thousands of homes across the conflict-affected areas,” said Fontaine.

UNICEF has received only 13 per cent of the US$ 308 million it needs to provide assistance to the families affected by Boko Haram violence across countries in the region.

Despite the inadequate funding, the organisation was able to provide psychosocial support to nearly 170,000 affected children; treated almost 100,000 suffering from severe acute malnutrition and granted over 100, 000 others, access to learning programmes this year.

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The 2017 edition of the popular Guinness World Records has been released this week and the records are as amazing as ever.
Many have contended for coveted titles like the world's longest side-wheelie in a tuk-tuk, the world's largest hot dog truck or the world's tiniest ostrich (proudly held by a lil' Saffa ostrich), but only some can have their odd talents in these coffee table books around the world.
This year the world is once again amazed by some impressive new records.
Here are a few of the new weird and wacky records!
1. The World's longest monster truck
This limo-like monster truck is a whopping 9.8m long and weighs 6.804 tons! If you're making your way to Las Vegas, work a drive in this truck into your itinerary!
2. Youngest female with a full beard
This one has an inspirational twist to it as Harnaam Kaur became the first female runway model with a beard at London Fashion Week!
Her beard is 15cm long in places and she has experienced years of bullying because of it. The almost 25-year-old is using her beard as a tool in her anti-bullying message.
3. Tallest living female dog
At first glance, this might even look like a pony, but this is Lizzy, a Great Dane, measuring 96.41m tall. Don't be fooled by the size of this gentle giant. Her owner, Greg, told Guinness World Records that she has befriended cats and tiny pet terriers
4. The longest duration full-body burn
Josef Toedtling from Austria was set on fire for 5 minutes and 41 seconds to claim the Guinness World Record for the longest duration full-body burn - no wonder this stuntman has 49 movie credits to his name.
5. Casey, Illinois, America's record shattering town
Casey patriot, Jim Bolin has helped his town in reaching the following unique records:
The largest clogs measure (3.5 m long and 1.77m wide). The largest mailbox measuring 162.63 m³, the largest knitting needles measuring 3.98 m, the largest crochet hook measures 1.87 m long, the largest golf tee measuring 9.37 m long with a head diameter of 1.91m, the largest pitchfork measuring 18.65, the largest rocking chair measuring 17.09 tall and the largest wind chime measuring 12.80m.
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The 2017 edition of the popular Guinness World Records has been released this week and the records are as amazing as ever.

Many have contended for coveted titles like the world's longest side-wheelie in a tuk-tuk, the world's largest hot dog truck or the world's tiniest ostrich (proudly held by a lil' Saffa ostrich), but only some can have their odd talents in these coffee table books around the world.

This year the world is once again amazed by some impressive new records.

Here are a few of the new weird and wacky records!

1. The World's longest monster truck

This limo-like monster truck is a whopping 9.8m long and weighs 6.804 tons! If you're making your way to Las Vegas, work a drive in this truck into your itinerary!

2. Youngest female with a full beard

This one has an inspirational twist to it as Harnaam Kaur became the first female runway model with a beard at London Fashion Week!

Her beard is 15cm long in places and she has experienced years of bullying because of it. The almost 25-year-old is using her beard as a tool in her anti-bullying message.

3. Tallest living female dog

At first glance, this might even look like a pony, but this is Lizzy, a Great Dane, measuring 96.41m tall. Don't be fooled by the size of this gentle giant. Her owner, Greg, told Guinness World Records that she has befriended cats and tiny pet terriers

4. The longest duration full-body burn

Josef Toedtling from Austria was set on fire for 5 minutes and 41 seconds to claim the Guinness World Record for the longest duration full-body burn - no wonder this stuntman has 49 movie credits to his name.



5. Casey, Illinois, America's record shattering town

Casey patriot, Jim Bolin has helped his town in reaching the following unique records:

The largest clogs measure (3.5 m long and 1.77m wide). The largest mailbox measuring 162.63 m³, the largest knitting needles measuring 3.98 m, the largest crochet hook measures 1.87 m long, the largest golf tee measuring 9.37 m long with a head diameter of 1.91m, the largest pitchfork measuring 18.65, the largest rocking chair measuring 17.09 tall and the largest wind chime measuring 12.80m.

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In 1958 a small group of professional Algerian footballers risked their careers, their livelihoods and even their freedom to play a small but significant role in the country’s battle for independence from France – a story little known today.
On Monday, April 14 1958 a car carrying four young men approached the French-Swiss border. Nerves must have been jangling as the border guards stopped their vehicle. But rather than ask any awkward questions about where they were headed or why, the guards asked for the men’s autographs before waiving them through.
Four Algerian stars of French football – Abdelhamid Bouchouk, Abdelhamid Kermali, Rachid Mekhloufi and Mokhtar Arribi – had just passed the point of no return on a course of events that would shape the rest of their lives.
All four had promising careers at top-level French football clubs at the time – but now they were giving it all up, clandestinely slipping out of the country to play their own small but significant role inAlgeria’s bloody war for independence, led by the National Liberation Front (FLN) and already four years old at the time.
From Switzerland they would eventually make their way to Italy and then Tunis, where they would be joined by eight others who had made the journey from France, abandoning their French clubs to form the core of what would become the “Equipe FLN”, a de facto Algerian national team that would represent a country that was not yet independent.
High stakes?
The idea of an Algerian national football team was the brain child of Mohamed Boumezrag, a former professional footballer who had played in France. The FLN’s leader, Ahmed Ben Bella, who himself had once lined up for Olympique Marseille, was well aware of the political potential of football. It was a way to show that the country could stand on its own two feet in every aspect of life, even in sport. He gave Boumezrag the go ahead to start the recruitment process.
For Mekhloufi, perhaps the best known of the Algerian players, it was the start of a whirlwind journey that took him from a star at Ligue 1 champions Saint-Étienne into an unknown world where the line between sport and politics became indistinguishably blurred.
“Kermali and Arribi came to see me on the eve of a match against Beziers and told me: ‘We’re going to Tunisia to form a team’,” he recalls.
But, carrying out his military service at the time and fearing leaving France would result in him being imprisoned as a deserter, Mekhloufi was initially reluctant.
“In that game [against Beziers], I got a head injury. I fainted and was sent to hospital,” says Mekhloufi.
“I told myself it was a good thing and that [Kermali and Arribi] would forget about me. But then in the morning they were at the door of my room. I was still in my pyjamas. I told them I couldn’t go because my passport was at the head office at Saint-Étienne. We had to go and get it. It was all a rush – we had to get to the Swiss border quickly because some of the other footballers were already in Italy. I didn’t know where we were going, but Kermali and Arribi reassured me.”
At that time, Algeria was still considered a region of France. Algerians were French nationals and footballers born in the north-African colony had been representing the French national team for decades.
Among those bound to join the FLN team were some of the biggest names in French football. Mekhloufi and another player, Mustapha Zitouni, had already been selected as part of the French national squad set to take part in that year’s World Cup.
The players knew the risk they were taking. They would become traitors in the eyes of many back in France while giving up professional careers they may never be able to reestablish. Many would also be leaving behind friends and family, wives and children.
But there was even more at stake than a stalled career and public anger. The decisions to slip out of the country at a time of heightened tension could, for some of them, mean jail.
Mekhloufi managed to make it out of France without attracting the attention of the authorities. But others were not so lucky. One player, Hassen Chabri, was arrested at the French-Italian border on suspicion of trying to smuggle arms to Algeria. He spent a year in prison.
Outcry in France, victory on the pitch
Back in France, news of the players’ departures sparked an outcry. France immediately sought to have any nation that played against the new FLN team punished by FIFA, while Mekloufi and other players still subject French military service rules were sentenced in absentia to 10 years in prison for desertion.
But from the FLN’s point of view, it was a propaganda coup, showing that the independence cause could pervade every corner of society.
It helped that the new Algerian team proved to be rather good. Despite France’s protestations, they lined up matches against a number of national sides and handed out some considerable thrashings to many of them: 6-1 against Yugoslavia, 6-2 against Hungary and 6-0 against the USSR were just a few of their impressive victories.
For Mekhloufi, suddenly finding himself thrust from a sports star to a political symbol, it was an eye opener.
“I can say ‘thank god’ for giving me this team because without it I would be incapable of speaking to you the way I am today,” he says.
“The contact we had with heads of state, revolutionaries, the people, journalists, it opened my mind. Before I was a donkey! With my friends, we were playing football, we laughed, we chased girls, we went to the movies, and that was it.”
Return to France
The Equipe FLN played more than 50 matches over the next four years, as all the while Algeria edged towards its independence.
On March 19, 1962, the Evian Accords were signed, ending the war and granting Algeria its liberation from its colonial master of more than 130 years. Not that the bloodshed ended there. There were severe, often deadly reprisals for Algerians who had supported the French, while hundreds of thousands Algerians of European descent, the pieds-noirs, fled to France.
But amid the fallout of the two countries’ separation, football proved a rare example of bridges being rebuilt. Of the 30 professionals who left France to play for the FLN, 13 returned to France after Algerian independence, many going back to their previous clubs.
They did so under a cloud of apprehension, fearing they would be seen as traitors by supporters. Instead fans cheered their names, glad to have their sporting heroes back. Contemporary reports tell of an awed silence when Mekhloufi touched the ball for the first time upon his return to Saint-Étienne, followed by rapturous applause. He would go on to win a further three titles with the club, as well as represent Algeria’s first official national team, along with some of his former FLN teammates.
‘A choice of the heart’
Half a century later and football still inextricably links France and its former colony. When France won the 1998 World Cup it was a French-Algerian, one Zinedine Zidane, who powered them to victory, becoming a national hero in the process.
Others with Algerian roots, including current France players Samir Nasri and Karim Benzema, have also worn the jersey of Les Bleus. The current Algerian squad is also packed with players born in France but have chosen to represent the country of their parents.
Mekhloufi understands the difficulty dual-nationality players face in choosing who to play for – knowing full well the fear of being seen as betraying one’s country.
“It is a national team. It is something profound, which enters into the veins,” he says. “It has to be a choice of the heart.”
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A gritty images of a smoking hand gun laying on the floor with narrow focus on the tip if the barrel
Johannesburg metro police officers and petrol attendants miraculously escaped a hail of bullets fired by an armed robber at a Diepsloot Engen garage, Johannesburg Metro Police Department said on Friday.
Metro officers were waiting for assistance from a fleet maintenance vehicle after they got a flat tyre near the garage, Chief Superintendent Wayne Minnaar said.
"While the officers were waiting for help, nine men robbed the Engen garage," Minnaar said.
Minnaar said the suspects saw the patrol vehicle parked at the garage and approached a room where the officers and petrol attendants were sitting.
In a video doing the rounds on social media, the three officers are seen sitting in a room at the garage with three petrol attendants.
An armed robber opens the door and starts shooting at the officers.
One of the officers, who falls to the ground during the ensuing chaos, bravely returns fire.
No one was wounded during the shoot-out.
The incident happened late on Sunday evening.
It was still unclear what was stolen.
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It was a very ugly and surprising sight when two politicians did not quite act like role models in front of the people that they lead. Two prominent politicians had a very hot argument and even went to the extent of throwing a punch. It was more like a battle between two different supporters. There was drama when goons associated with a Kenyan governor whose name is Kenneth Lusaka tried to stop Kakamega senator Boni Khalwale from flooding facts to the electorate. The masses rushed to stop the goons.
This happened in the on going elections in the country. The senator went further to warn the Governor to stop spending government resources on his personal affairs. Things escalated quickly and got physical.
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