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Lool, tribal e-warriors chest beating about which region has most Shoprites.

Really shameful
https://www.nairaland.com/2247867/7-shoprite-southwest-1-southeast

great thread ezeagu, its the same story everywhere.
Haters can go and ....

BluIvy:
Moffie, please don't embarrass yourself again. Please inform yourself Google and get the court document. The case was postponed to find interpreters for the four foreigners. 2Zims, 1Pakistani, 1Mozambiquen.

And yes we had long admitted we are Xenophobic and yes it reigns. But we can not hide the identities of the robbers just to quench the fire unfortunately.

There's no excuse for being xenophobic..

Not as if South Africans are innocent of breaking other country's laws.

South African Woman Smuggles N710m Into Nigeria
http://www.punchng.com/metro-plus/safrican-woman-smuggles-n710m-into-nigeria/

Africa
36.Mauritius
63.South Africa
65.Botswana
67.Tunisia
75.Namibia
85.Algeria
89.Egypt
91.Morocco
94.Ghana
97.Senegal
103.Lesotho
104.Kenya
105.Zambia
106.Rwanda
107.Swaziland

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^^^nobody waits for Nigerian leaders around here.

really now?

We set our own boundaries and care little of what others thinks of us, this is both a strength and a weakness.

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TheBlue5:
All I'm sayings is that it would make sense cause every time the Israelites got in trouble they would flee to Africa, so why not? Even Jesus Fled to Africa as a child. So their must be some lost Israel tribes in Africa

Take a look at the thread linked below, the lemba of Zim/SA are the closest you'll find of a lost isreal tribe.

www.nairaland.com/1850979/lost-jewish-tribe-found-zimbabwe

so can they migrate to Isreal?

Zulu



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BlackKenichi:
Wow!

I love Cushitic mixed Bantu women like the Kikuyu, Meru, Kamba, Tanzanian women etc. They are beautiful.
I didn't know Sheila Mwanyiga is a Taita.

How does an unmixed Bantu woman look like?

desert folks.. smh..

Yeeeeeeessss. Final CV gets their afcon. Sorry Black stars.

CV.

NAIROBI, Kenya — One gunman shot from the right, one from the left, each killing the non-Muslims lying in a line on the ground, growing closer and closer to Douglas Ochwodho, who was in the middle.

And then the shooting stopped. Apparently each gunman thought the other shot Ochwodho. He lay perfectly still until the 20 Islamic extremists left, and he appears to be the only survivor of those who had been selected for death.

Somalia's Islamic extremist rebels, Al-Shabab, attacked a bus in northern Kenya at dawn Saturday, singling out and killing 28 passengers who could not recite an Islamic creed and were assumed to be non-Muslims, Kenyan police said.

Those who could not say the Shahada, a tenet of the Muslim faith, were shot at close range, Ochwodho told The Associated Press.

Nineteen men and nine women were killed in the bus attack, said Kenyan police chief David Kimaiyo.

Al-Shabab claimed responsibility for the killings through its radio station in Somalia saying it was in retaliation for raids by Kenyan security forces carried out earlier this week on four mosques at the Kenyan coast.

Kenya's military said it responded to the killings with airstrikes later Saturday that destroyed the attackers' camp in Somalia and killed 45 rebels.

The bus traveling to the capital Nairobi with 60 passengers was hijacked about 50 kilometers (31 miles) from the town of Mandera near Kenya's border with Somalia, said two police officers who insisted on anonymity because they were ordered not to speak to the press.

The attackers first tried to wave the bus down but it didn't stop so the gunmen sprayed it with bullets, said the police. When that didn't work they shot a rocket propelled grenade at it, the officers said.

The gunmen took control of the vehicle and forced it off the road where they ordered all the passengers out of the vehicle and separated those who appeared to be non-Muslims— mostly non-Somalis— from the rest.

The survivor, Douglas Ochwodho, a non-Muslim head teacher of a private primary school in Mandera, said was travelling home for the Christmas vacation since school had closed.

Ochwodho told AP that the passengers who did not look Somali were separated from the others. The non-Somali passengers were then asked to recite the Shahada, an Islamic creed declaring oneness with God. Those who couldn't recite the creed were ordered to lie down. Ochwodho was among those who had to lie on the ground.

Two gunmen started shooting those on the ground; one gunman started from the left and other from the right, Ochwodho said. When they reached him they were confused on whether either had shot him, he said.

Ochwodho lay still until the gunmen left, he said. He then ran back to the road and got a lift from a pick-up truck back to Mandera. He spoke from a hospital bed where he was being treated for shock.

Seventeen of the 28 dead were teachers, according to the police commander in Mandera County.

A shortage of personnel and lack of equipment led to a slow response by police when the information was received, said two police officers who insisted on anonymity because they were ordered not to speak to the press. They said the attackers have more sophisticated weaponry than the police who waited for military reinforcements before responding.

Kenya has been hit by a series of gun and bomb attacks blamed on al-Shabab, who are linked to al-Qaida, since it sent troops into Somalia in October 2011. Authorities say there have been at least 135 attacks by al-Shabab since then, including the assault on Nairobi's upscale Westgate Mall in September 2013 in which 67 people were killed. Al-Shabab said it was responsible for other attacks on Kenya's coast earlier this year which killed at least 90 people.

Al-Shabab is becoming "more entrenched and a graver threat to Kenya," warned the International Crisis Group in a September report to mark the first anniversary of the Westgate attack. The report said that the Islamic extremists are taking advantage of longstanding grievances of Kenya's Muslim community, such as official discrimination and marginalization.

Kenya has been struggling to contain growing extremism in the country. Earlier this week the authorities shut down four mosques at the Kenyan coast after police alleged they found explosives and a gun when they raided the places of worship.

Some Muslims believe the police planted the weapons to justify closing the mosques, Kheled Khalifa, a human rights official said Friday warning that methods being used to tackle extremism by government will increase support for radicals.

One person was killed during the raid on two of the mosques on Monday. Police said they shot dead a young man trying to hurl a grenade at them.

The government had previously said the four mosques were recruitment centers for al-Shabab.

www.bostonherald.com/news_opinion/international/africa/2014/11/somalias_al_shabab_kills_28_non_muslims_in_kenya

Ivory Coast, Cameroon, DRC...

More than 1,000 British troops and 500 armoured vehicles have been taking part in a military exercise in Poland, in a display of force not been seen since the Cold War.

Working alongside Polish counterparts, they've carried out live fire exercises and tactical training.

In a highly symbolic image, Challenger Tanks and Warrior armoured fighting vehicles have been on manoeuvres on the plains of Eastern Europe.

Some 1,350 soldiers from The King's Royal Hussars, 1st Battalion The Royal Welsh and 26 Engineer Regiment are involved.

It is intended as a show of strength against an increasingly aggressive Russian neighbour.

Defence Secretary Michael Fallon described the exercise as "sustained and substantial support to NATO’s eastern border".

Troops taking part have been prevented from using mobiles phones and iPads in case they're hacked by Russians.

The exercise was put together after Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down in Ukraine.

At the NATO Summit in Wales, member states agreed a series of military exercises in a show of support to alliance partners in Eastern Europe.

Speaking from the exercise, Lieutenant Colonel Justin Kingsford said: "It's been a few years since we deployed a force such as this at such high speed.

"But, we've got the capabilities to project force when we need to, albeit it in a training scenario such as this, at fairly high speeds and at fairly long distances."

Black Eagle is the largest British commitment to the region in almost a decade..

The Challenger tanks last saw action in Iraq in 2003. Some of them were brought out of storage in Germany.

The UK also deployed Typhoon fighter jets earlier in the year to bolster the Baltic Air Policing Mission.

Speaking on a tour of the region on Thursday, Nato's secretary general Jen's Stoltenberg revealed that jets have been scrambled 400 times in the past 12 months to ward off Russian planes flying towards Nato-controlled airspace.

This is a 50% increase on 2013.

"Russian air activity has increased all over Europe," he told reporters on a stopover in Estonia.

"This pattern is risky and unjustified. NATO continues to remain vigilant."

http://news.sky.com/story/1377455/uks-show-of-force-against-russian-aggression

I thought so, why though?
Just like the world trade buildings...

By EDWARD WONG

BEIJING — Even as his government was making red-carpet plans to host President Obama this week, the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, praised a young blogger whose writing is best known here for its anti-American vitriol.

In one widely circulated essay published by state news outlets titled “Nine Knockout Blows in America’s Cold War Against China,” the blogger, Zhou Xiaoping, argued that American culture was “eroding the moral foundation and self-confidence of the Chinese people.” He compared unfavorable American news coverage of China to Hitler’s treatment of the Jews. In another essay, he said the West had “slaughtered and robbed” China and other civilizations since the 17th century, and was now “brainwashing” it.

Mr. Xi, speaking at a forum last month aimed at tightening political control of the arts, said the blogger exhibited “positive energy.”

His embrace of Mr. Zhou, who has been hailed by propaganda officials but widely mocked by scholars here, is just the latest sign of rising anti-Western sentiment, bordering on xenophobia, that has emanated from the highest levels of the Communist Party and sent a chill through Chinese civil society and academia.

Using ideological language reminiscent of the Cold War, Chinese officials have voiced conspiracy theories with relish, accusing foreigners, foreign companies and nongovernmental organizations of plotting to weaken or overthrow the party. Chinese institutions with ties to Western entities, no matter how benign, have also come under attack. Meanwhile, state-run newspapers have
taken to blaming “hostile foreign forces” for any major disturbance, whether it is ethnic violence in western China or student-led pro-democracy demonstrations in Hong Kong.

The vilification of foreigners as enemies of China has been a staple of propaganda by the Communist Party since before its rise to power, and analysts say the leadership tends to ramp up such rhetoric when it feels under pressure at home.

“Historically, during every period with many deep conflicts within the country, there has been a surge of anti-foreign sentiments from the party,” said Zhang Lifan, a historian, pointing to Mao Zedong’s disastrous Cultural Revolution as an example. At the moment, he said, “the political establishment needs the public to turn their rage toward foreign countries” because anger over the widening gap between rich and poor in China has reached “crisis levels.”

But unlike earlier campaigns targeting the West, the current wave of nationalism comes as China is ascendant. Mr. Xi presides over a country that is on the verge of overtaking the United States as the world’s largest economy and that enjoys influence around the world, especially in Asia, where it has sought to expand its territorial footprint.

In speeches, Mr. Xi has openly called on other nations to push back against the United States on specific issues. In July, for example, he told Brazil’s National Congress that developing nations must “challenge U.S. hegemony on the Internet.” Two months earlier, Mr. Xi suggested at a conference in Shanghai that the United States should cede power in Asia, saying, “It is for the people of Asia to run the affairs of Asia."

The surge in anti-Americanism extends beyond speeches. Over the summer, for example, the Chinese government began a security review of foreign NGOs operating in China, as well as Chinese NGOs that receive foreign support, scrutinizing their finances and freezing bank accounts. A strident, 100-minute anti- American propaganda film made by the People’s Liberation Army last year laid out the case that American NGOs were out to undermine the party. (It used the martial theme music from the HBO series “Game of Thrones.”)

In Guangdong, the southern province adjacent to Hong Kong that has long been more open to foreign influence and investment, officials have considered shutting down Chinese NGOs that depend primarily on foreign funds, the state-run newspaper Global Times reported last week.

Wang Jiangsong, a professor of labor relations at the China Institute of Industrial Relations, was quoted in the newspaper saying that the authorities had secretly tracked transfers of overseas money to the Chinese organizations, and were worried that “some NGOs would be manipulated by overseas forces and conduct activities that may endanger national security and undermine social stability.”

The campaign has reached into academia as well. An employee of an American organization that promotes dialogue among scholars said some Chinese professors who work on international relations are no longer writing or saying anything in public that casts the United States in a positive light, for fear of being accused of being a spy. The employee, who spoke on condition of anonymity so as not to antagonize Chinese partners, added that one prominent Chinese university has barred visiting American scholars from giving lectures if their research did not conform to the party line.

In a speech in June, Zhang Yiwei, a senior party official at the influential Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said “accepting foreign forces’ point-to point penetration” was one of the research institute’s main ideological problems, according to People’s Daily, the official party newspaper. Mr. Zhang added that his office would not tolerate any scholar who was not in line with party thought.

Casting blame on the “black hand” of foreign forces has become increasingly common in the state news media as well. The People’s Daily has published 42 articles this year blaming China’s domestic problems on “Western,” “foreign” or “overseas” forces, nearly triple the number of similar pieces from the first 10 months of last year, according to a count by the Christian Science Monitor.

The pro-democracy demonstrations in Hong Kong have been a favorite target. Last Friday, Ta Kung Pao, a Hong Kong newspaper close to the party, ran a front-page story under a headline that said the newspaper had found “ironclad evidence” that the United States had been secretly plotting the local Occupy movement since 2006.

The government has also targeted major Western companies with high-profile investigations and imposed record fines for what officials call monopolistic practices. Some foreign businesspeople and officials say the investigations are a form of protectionism. At the same time, the Chinese government has maintained restrictions on foreign investment, ownership and market access in many industries.

As a result, American executives have tempered their optimism about doing business here, said John Frisbie , president of the U.S.- China Business Council, a trade group in Washington. “It should be more than a $350 billion market in China for U.S. companies,” he said. “Many sectors are still closed. There has generally been a lack of movement forward on further openings.”

Some have questioned the sincerity — or pointed out the hypocrisy — of the party’s tirades against the West, noting that many party officials have children or other family members living and even applying for citizenship overseas. Mr. Xi’s daughter, Xi Mingze, attended Harvard University under a pseudonym.

“How can Chinese officials really be anti-American?” asked Zhan Jiang, a media studies professor at Beijing Foreign Studies University. “Anti-foreign sentiments will always be present in China because of China’s unique history,” he said. “However, the public’s opinion of the West will not change because of what the party says.”

Dan Levin contributed reporting, and Mia Li contributed research.

http://nytimes.com/2014/11/12/world/asia/china-turns-up-the-rhetoric-against-the-west.html?_r=0&referrer=

Beijing - A chivalrous gesture by Russian President Vladimir Putin set social media buzzing and put Chinese censors into action at the Apec summit in Beijing.

As the assembled world leaders waited for a fireworks display in temperatures barely above zero degrees Celsius Monday evening, Putin offered a blanket to Chinese President Xi Jinping's wife, who was seated next to him.

A live broadcast of the event on state media showed Peng Liyuan accepting the warm shoulder covering from her Russian neighbour, handing it to an aide seconds later, and putting on her own jacket.

Users of micro-blogging site Sina Weibo immediately picked up on the gesture from the newly divorced Putin.

"The Russian gentleman," is how one blogger praised Putin, who appears to enjoy his image back home as a Russian strongman.

"Putin flirts with the first lady!" exclaimed another.

The coverage of the summit, the biggest international event that Xi has presided over, was soon attracting the attention of Chinese censors.

Just hours later, online posts relating to the incident were removed, and video of the moment was apparently pulled from news websites.

Peng Liyuan is more visible than any previous wife of a Chinese leader, and her movements are closely followed by the media and public.

It was not the first time that Putin has gone out of his way to act chivalrous toward female dignitaries.

SAPA

http://news24.com/news24/World/News/Putins-gesture-sends-social-media-buzzing-20141111-2

New York - People in New York carrying only a small amount of marijuana will not be arrested, Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Monday, adding to a growing debate in the United States over pot.

Starting 19 November, anyone carrying less than 25g of pot in New York will instead likely be fined up to $100.

"We've seen a great reduction in unnecessary stops [by police]... Today is another important step," de Blasio told a press conference, flanked by New York police chief Bill Bratton.

"Too many New Yorkers without any prior convictions have been arrested for low-level marijuana possession," added de Blasio, whose daughter Chiara last year revealed in a YouTube video that she had smoked while in college.

De Blasio said the relaxation in policy was particularly aimed at young people who would no longer have a criminal record for the rest of their lives because of an "error".

"This is part of a long-term effort to make us safer," he added.

Bratton said that possession of less than 25g would be considered "a violation, not a crime".

Proponents of a more relaxed policy on small amounts of marijuana possession say it will free police up to spend more time on serious crime.

Alaska, Oregon and the US capital Washington voted to legalise marijuana last week - a new high for the marijuana lobby, two years after two western states - Colorado and Washington - led the way in approving cannabis for recreational use.

But opponents say the drug causes long-term psychological damage, especially in people who used it in their youth.

AFP

http://news24.com/news24/World/News/New-York-relaxes-pot-possession-law-20141111

Lima - Russia's central bank has been forced to step up its gold buying this year to absorb domestic production that Western sanctions are making it hard for miners to sell abroad, and to boost liquidity in its foreign reserves, sources said.

Most Russian gold mine production is sold to domestic commercial banks, such as Sberbank or VTB, which can then sell the metal on to either the central bank or to foreign banks.

This year, sources say, foreign banks are holding off buying Russian gold after Western powers implemented sanctions against the country over the Ukraine crisis.

The central bank has therefore had no choice but take domestic mine production that cannot be sold to foreign banks, two sources said, and has bought most of the metal that commercial banks had available.

“This is one measure that the central bank has taken to go through this difficult period for commercial banks and most importantly to boost liquidity,” a source close to the situation said on the sidelines of the London Bullion Market Association annual conference in Peru.

While the sanctions do not expressly prohibit them from buying gold, Western banks are cautious over any business done with their Russian counterparts, sources said.

“So, it is likely that we could see a period of stabilisation, when the question around sanctions is resolved, as the central bank will stop adding more gold to its reserves,” a second source added.

Russia has stepped up its gold buying significantly this year, data from the World Gold Council showed, adding nearly 115 tonnes of gold to its reserves in the year to date, against 77.5 tonnes in the whole of 2013 and 75 tonnes in 2012.

Central banks bought gold heavily during the financial crisis that followed the collapse of Lehman Brothers in a bid to diversify their currency reserves, adding 1 800 tonnes to their holdings in the six years to June 2014.

The Russian central bank has been the most active official sector gold buyer over the last decade.

Its holdings have nearly tripled since the end of 2004 to 1 149.8 tonnes, making it the world's sixth largest gold holder among central banks.

Earlier this month, CBR's First Deputy Governor Ksenia Yudayeva said that the bank could use gold from its reserves to pay for imports, if needed.

“Central banks do not accumulate gold for no reason; you hold gold as part of your reserves to guard against these worst case scenarios,” Natixis analyst Nic Brown said.

“It would make sense that in a situation inbwhich the Russians found their dollar reserves were no longer useful, for whatever reason, they would want to use alternatives, and the country has accumulated a large amount of gold in recent years.” - Reuters

www.iol.co.za/business/markets/commodities/russia-buys-gold-as-sanctions-bite-1.1778499

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The eight, arrested in July 2013 outside Kagame's home, belonged to a sect called The Inseparable Heroes of Jesus and Mary.

Rwanda's high court convicted eight people on Monday of inciting rebellion for processing to President Paul Kagame's residence to deliver what they said was a message from God, and sentenced them to five years in prison.

The seven women and one man, arrested in July 2013 outside Kagame's home, belonged to a sect called The Inseparable Heroes of Jesus and Mary, and hoped to pass on a message that criticised his leadership, the prosecution told the court.

Kagame, who won re-election by an overwhelming margin in 2010, has secured international praise for rebuilding Rwanda after ethnic genocide in 1994. But critics accuse him of being authoritarian and trampling on civil rights, charges he rejects.

The prosecutor told the court that, during the procession, one of the group had been heard to say: "The president and his government are dictatorial and, if they don't stop, there will be more bloodshed than in the genocide."

Chantal Matumba, the leader of the group, was also arrested but was later found to be mentally ill and released. However, the judge said the eight defendants "followed and supported the words that were being made by Mutamba, and did it consciously".

The defendants' lawyer said they would appeal.

"How can God talk to the people I lead without passing first to me?" Kagame asked in a speech last July. "I have told them (religious groups) that I am also a man of God, and I need to talk to him."

www.theeastafrican.co.ke/news/Rwandan-sect-members-jailed-for-inciting-revolt-against-Kagame/-/2558/2518382/-/bns496/-/index.html

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Palestinians were marking the 10th anniversary on Tuesday of the death of Yasser Arafat, who for decades led their cause for an independent state.

Arafat, who was 75, was being remembered at a wreath laying ceremony at his tomb in the West Bank city of Ramallah, attended by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.

But a large rally scheduled for Gaza was cancelled following a series of explosions on Friday targeting the site of the event, as well as the property and cars of officials of Abbas' Fatah party, which was founded by Arafat.

Arafat became the head of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), an umbrella group in which Fatah is the leading faction, in 1969.

Initially operating against Israel from exile in Arab countries, he returned to the West Bank following the 1993 interim Oslo peace accords.

But violence and stalemate derailed the peace process and Arafat spent the last phase of his life under siege at his Ramallah headquarters, with Israeli tanks outside. Israel had declared him an "obstacle to peace" because of his dual support for armed attacks and peace negotiations.

Arafat was later transferred to a hospital near Paris, where he died on November 11, 2004 - according to hospital records of a brain haemorrhage caused by complications from a bowel infection.

In November 2013, a Swiss study of exhumed samples of Arafat's remains found high levels of polonium, which "moderately" supported a hypothesis that he could have been poisoned with the radioactive material - an allegation put forward by his widow Suha.

But separate French and Russian studies concluded he died of natural causes. The Swiss study also acknowledged that the polonium could have been naturally occurring in air pockets or soil around Arafat's decomposing remains.

Nonetheless a theory that Arafat was poisoned by Israel is still believed by many Palestinians.

www.timeslive.co.za/world/2014/11/11/palestinians-mark-the-10th-anniversary-of-yasser-arafat-s-death

Eight women have died in India and dozens more are in a critical condition after a state-run sterilisation programme designed to control the country’s billion-plus population went badly wrong, officials said Tuesday.

More than 60 women are in hospital after suffering complications from the surgery over the weekend and 24 of them are seriously ill, authorities in the central state of Chhattisgarh said.

“Reports of a drop in pulse, vomiting and other ailments started pouring in on Monday from the women who underwent surgery,” said Sonmani Borah, the commissioner for Bilaspur district where the camp was held.

“Since Monday, eight women have died and 64 are in various hospitals,” he told AFP by telephone.

State governments in India frequently organise mass sterilisation camps under a national programme whereby women are given 1,400 rupees ($23) as an incentive to undergo the procedure.

Under pressure to meet targets, some local governments also offer other incentives such as cars and electrical goods to couples volunteering for sterilisation.

Although the surgery is voluntary, rights groups say the target-driven nature of the programme has led to women being coerced into being sterilised, often in inadequate medical facilities.

Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh ordered four top health officials suspended over the deaths, while a police complaint was lodged against the surgeon who performed the operations.

Singh also announced compensation of 400,000 rupees ($6,500) for the each of the families of those women who died.

Angry residents took to the streets of Bilaspur where many of the women have been hospitalised demanding action against those responsible.

- Women dumped in fields -

The women had undergone laparoscopic sterilisation, a process in which the fallopian tubes are blocked usually under general anaesthesia.

The Indian Express daily said the surgeries were carried out by one doctor and his assistant in around five hours.

“There was no negligence. He is a senior doctor. We will probe (the incident),” the chief medical officer of Bilaspur R.K. Bhange told the newspaper.

The medical superintendent of the main hospital in Bilaspur said it was difficult to say what could have caused the deaths.

“It would be premature to speculate on the reasons for this tragedy. We are giving priority to treating the women admitted here as their blood pressure has gone down,” Ramnesh Murthy told reporters late Monday.

“We will know the reasons only once the post- mortem is completed.”

Last year, authorities in eastern India came under fire after a news channel unearthed footage showing scores of women dumped unconscious in a field following a mass sterilisation.

The women had all undergone the procedure at a hospital that local officials said was not equipped to accommodate such a large number of patients.

In 2011, the government issued guidelines outlining the standard operating procedures for sterilisation services in camps.

But a 2012 report by Human Rights Watch urged the government to set up an independent grievance redress system to allow people to report coercion and poor quality services at sterilisation centres.

It also said the government should prioritise training for male government workers to provide men with information and counselling about contraceptive choices, but despite the recommendations to the national government, problems persist on the ground.

India’s family planning programme has traditionally focused on women, and experts say that male sterilisation is still not accepted socially.

Government figures from 2008 show that around one third of the 54 percent of the population that reported using any form of family planning opted for female sterilisation.

www.punchng.com/news/eight-india-women-die-after-mass-sterilisation/

agaugust / AugustineAgain you've been unbanned from the spambot.

SeverusSnape:
Wow!...I never knew, I thought all west African countries were member states. Thanks for the correction.

Cameroon is Central African not west African.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Africa

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Africa