Fairytale: How cassava flour, fruit kept 4 children alive for 40 days after plane crash in Colombia’s forest
Sensing that they could be alive, Colombia’s army stepped up the hunt and flew 150 soldiers with dogs into the area, where mist and thick foliage greatly limited visibility. Dozens of volunteers from Indigenous tribes also joined the search.
Doctors tell of how governments and Big Pharma reduced medics to bystanders as drugs makers raked in ‘insane’ profits
As the names of pharmaceutical giants such as Novartis, Merck, Pfizer, GSK (formerly GlaxoSmithKline), the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and others flashed across the screen, Lafay said: “It’s really tough because we’re all owned at this point. It’s easier for me to come on camera maybe and say some things like this because I am an independent practitioner now. If you don’t have your [own] practice, then you really can’t help people. And I think that is where a lot of [practitioners’] fear comes from, the fear of not being employed.”
Al Shaabab claims responsibility for restaurant attack in Mogadishu that killed 9 people
On Saturday, debris from the restaurant was strewn around the blood-stained street. Window panes were shattered. Hussein Mohamed, a waiter at another restaurant nearby, said he heard a blast followed by gunfire when the attack started.
Why Uganda has consistently failed to overcome ethnic nepotism and become a thriving democracy
The organisations in perspective are Uganda People’s Congress (UPC) and the Democratic Party (DP) both of which are the oldest parties in the country, and which were formed during the colonial times to agitate for Black rule and end to colonialism. Their top leaders have been conscripted to serve power and no longer provide meaningful leadership of their parties. There is no effective political development in these Parties anymore.
