78 killed, attack on villages

Some 78 people have been killed and scores wounded in an attack on villages in South Sudan's Jonglei state, the local MP told the BBC. The attackers were believed to be members of David Yau Yau's rebel group, said MP Deng Dau. Jonglei is badly affected by ethnic rivalries and disputes over land and cattle ownership. More than 1,500 people are estimated to have been killed in the area since South Sudan's independence in 2011. Tens of thousands have also been left homeless by the fighting. 

Cameroon Views and Values

 Views and values were expressed last Friday at the Private library at Vatican's Apostolic Palace. After thirty minutes in camera people exchanged gifts. Paul Biya asked the Pope for a bronze Statue of Virgin Mary. Then the Pope offered the President a medal. After the exchanging gifts Paul presented the first lady Chantal Biya. After taking leave of the Pope, the President held talks with the representative of the Secretariat of State of the Vatican Monseigneur Dominique Mamberty.  In the end of the speech, Paul Biya offered the representative of the Vatican Secretary a gift with a religious significance.

http://allafrica.com/stories/201310211318.html

Serge Ambomo: Sheffield's indomitable lion seeks sanctuary

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/boxing/24502333

Ambomo was one of Cameroon's five-man boxing team at London 2012. "As soon as I got on the plane to come to England, I knew I was saved," he says, suggesting he was not planning to return even then."I feel like I've been born again. "The light-welterweight felt "blessed" to be part of the greatest show on earth and was looking forward to the competition. But then, he says, the team's officials took his passport away and told him he would not get it back unless he won a medal. Ambomo bringing home the gold secures the very first gold medal for Congo as a country. After winning the gold medal Ambomo did not want to go back to Congo as he asked to move into the UK. But with 25,000 applicants a year to move to the UK making more money wasn't a good enough reason to move into the UK for them. But as an Olympian the UK accepted him.

Child Rapist Punished by Cutting Grass

Joseph Lee

TITLE: Kenyans accuse police of ignoring gang rape

SOURCE: BBC News

AUTHOR: N/A

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-24477488

Three men in Kenya raped a 16-year old girl while she was walking home from her grandfathers funeral in Western Kenya, and their punishment was to cut some grass. The attackers broke her back and now she is confined to a wheelchair. Kenyans say it is shocking and unbelievable that the police are going to practically ignore such a violent crime and give the attackers such a light sentence.

12 Dead near Alexandria

Joseph Lee

TITLE: Egypt boat capsize 12 migrants die off Alexandria 

SOURCE: BBC News

AUTHOR: N/A

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-24496737

Friday morning a boat sank with forty Syrians four Egyptians and seventy-two Palestinians on it. At least twelve have been confirmed dead from drowning and one hundred sixteen survived. The boat capsized near the Egyptian port neat Alexandria.
The people on the boat were refugees who paid large sums of money to risk their lives trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea. 

Banned Film

Director Bekolo's made the film "How Do You Know It's Time to Go?' It is about the disappearance, just a few days before the elections about their president. The film is about the country's leader Paul Biya. People in Cameroon was not please with the Cameroonian government, so they banned the film from being screened in the country. Bekolo was recently returned to Cameroon after years teaching film in American universities,and still plans to show his film to all who want to see it.

http://allafrica.com/stories/201310091413.html

Kenya: Politician 'cleans toilets for a living'

Author: N/A
Source: BBC News- Africa
Link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-24445431

         This businessman in the picture above goes by the name of Moses Gichangi. He was recently elected to serve on the county assembly as a politician. What makes him special is that while being a politician he still never gave up his day of cleaning toilets, and shoe shining. He says he never gave up his old job because he wanted to remain a role model to the young men that he was mentoring. Before becoming a politician he picked 10 youngsters and they came together and formed a environmental group. He chose to work the 6 am shift and even though that consist of him cleaning off vomit from the previous nights drunks, he still manages to come to work everyday. He must work the mornings because the county assembly meets in the afternoons.