Current+Events

**Deadly Violence in Africa.** Last week in Nigeria's second largest city, Kano, more than 150 people were killed in a coordinated bombing. Islamist militants called the Boko Haram have claimed responsibility for this heinous act of violence against the relatively people of Nigeria. Five days later more bombs went off in Kano. The bombers, Boko Haram, again. Suicide bombers bombed residential neighborhoods, killing an estimated 185 people. They bombed a police station, also wounding three people. No one knows why these people decided to do this. People everywhere are outraged. These people must be stopped.

A Bombed City

The gift of water. Donors from all over the world are sending millions of dollars to the needy in all parts of Africa. Children and adults are suffering from water neglect diseases. Women have been breaking their back, carrying 40lb buckets of water to and from their homes. Little by little people’s lives in Africa are being drastically changed. Water is a very important part of everyone’s lives and without it there’s no chance of survival. People all over are creating water related charities all over. What’s not helping is that prices in parts of Africa are sky-high. People have also donated water containers to the Africans so they wouldn’t have to by bottled water which helps with expenses. It was such a great thing that it arrived right on Christmas day! We are grateful to have helped and I'm sure they are thankful that we did.

Wave of water.

Oldest dinosaur nesting site. The oldest dinosaur nest was found South Africa. The nest was more than 100 million years older than other nesting sites found. The nesting site belonged to Jurassic also known as the Massospondylus. The mother of the dinosaur had seemed to have maintained a nest there. Prof. Robert Reiz of the University of Toronto at Mississauga led the study. They seem to think that there are still more nests, even though they already found ten. The study was co-authored by Doctors Hans-Dieter Sures, Eric Roberts, & Adam Yates. The eggs were found in Southern Africa. They also found more evidence of clutched eggs, and many embroys and also tiny dinosaur footprints. The search of the site began in 2006 and ended this year in 2012. Dinosaur Nest.

**The Lost Generation.** On January 27, 2012 Martha Netshiozwe had a huge change in her life. Martha's parents passed away because they had AIDS. Martha also had to quit high school because she didn't have enough money to continue. Martha Netshiozwe was 23 when all of this occured. She was the first post~apartheid person that went to a new and exciting education system.

Child Trafficking Child Trafficking is happening a lot in Africa. Trafficking is making people do forced labor and harsh treatment. Traffickers are kidnapping children and women to make money quick! Children who are orphaned are easy targets for traffickers. These poor children are helpless, and innocence. Once traffickers kidnap the children, they force them to do hard work. These people abuse the children and pay them nothing. African countries do not see this as a big problem, until December of 2000 people didn’t really care this was happing at the time. Trafficking is basically modern day slavery. These helpless children need support.

Shackles. **New infrastructure plan in Africa** On 2-1-2012 a new plan was endorsed by African leaders. This program is for infrastructre development in Africa. This program would last until around the year 2040. It would increase intra-Africa trade and would raise Africa in the world economy. PIDA's short term goals would be reached about 2020 and the longer term one being complete at about the year 2040.

With this plan it would raise the African countries by 6% per year. And also making the countries grow six times what they are now. PIDA would fix some of the transportation probloms within the countries. This program would help Africa because right now Africa's infrastructure is the worst in the world. Creating 15 million new jobs in Africa this would really help out the less fortunate countries that need help.