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It is said that a couple of men were "playing football" behind one of the Ebola clinics in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and then all of a sudden other men came out of the bushes and gave guns to these men. They ran into the clinics throwing petroleum all over the clinic and then proceeded to throw matched into the petroleum setting the whole clinic on fire. When nurses came back they said that the pharmacy and hand washing station was completely gone. The clinic was in Butembo in the Northern Province of Kivu. The article said that this province is no stranger to militia groups that go around terrorizing people and raping their women. It is said that is is home to over 120 militia groups. This province is now also the province of the second largest Ebola outbreak. It was discovered 7 months ago and since then 1,000 people have been diagnosed with Ebola and 600 have died. It is hard for emergency medical services to get to people since the provinces or villages ...

Zambia decided to ban an energy drink because it has been found to have been adulterated with viagra. This was discovered by the local officials in Zambia. The country's medicine regulator found in December that the energy drink Power Natural High Energy Drink SX was spiked with Viagra. This drink is also exported to Uganda, Malawi, and Zimbabwe. The company that makes the energy drinks cannot be reached ever since Zambia made the announcement that they were going to ban the drink. In Uganda it is also banned since December 28 when a customer complained of heavy sweats and a 6 hour long erection. Zambia has not suspended the production of the energy drink until there can be a way to make it with viagra in it. Malawi has banned the drink since January. It is said that this drink has been very popular with men at bars and at supermarkets. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/20/zambia-bans-energy-drink-found-to-contain-viagra

In the capital of Nigeria, Lagos, a school building collapsed trapping hundreds of children as well as teachers and other staff members under them. The building was 3 stories high with the 3rd story housing a private school. The building collapsed around 10AM this morning, so about an hour ago from the time that I am writing this. It is said that Nigeria always has a lot of buildings that collapse due to the weak infrastructure and the poor way that they are built. Last year 30 people were killed when a church collapsed as well. There is still no estimated injury count but people and authorities are working as fast as they can to help save as many lives as they can. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/13/nigeria-children-feared-trapped-after-building-collapses P.S. On another note BBC reported that this incident left 10 dead.

The President of Sierra Leone, Julius Maado Bio,  has officially declared rape a national emergency. In his doing so he has also announced free hospital care to sexual assault victims, he created a special police and court divisions to deal with the cases that come in, he also established a hotline where victims can call. In this quote from the article it explains the situation, "Sierra Leone's sexual violence statistics are harrowing. According to the country's police service, there were more than 8,500 reported case of sexual- and gender-based violence in 2018 — and a third of these involved a minor. But many activists, and the country's first lady, say the number of actual cases is likely much higher, as many instances go unreported". Most of the victims are under the age of 15. The President then declared that any act of sexual assault is punishable by life imprisonment. Of the 2,900 sexual assault cases that were reported only 1.3% were successfully pros...

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/11/world/africa/nigeria-election-corruption.html Muhammad Buhari took presidency in 2015 by promising to end two important issues: corruption and the end of Islamist extremists. He got voter approval by promising to end Boko Haram and by promising to bring back female captives. He is now doing his re-election campaign and he is being accused of failing on all fronts. He got a team together to investigate corruption within government officials and the team also uncovered millions of dollars hidden inside walls of apartments. He caught on to the fact that the nations chief justice had millions of dollars in his bank account and got dismissed right away.

https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2019/02/02/africa-is-heroins-new-highway-to-the-west Heroin addicts were rare in Africa up until 2006. Before, 1980's to 1990's, they were found in areas that had white hipsters or where there were a lot of tourists. Since 2006 heroin consumption has increased faster in Africa than any other continent according to the UN office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC). The consumption of this drug has not just put a lot of people's lives at risk it has also affected the political climate in Africa.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-47042101 Women that have been raped by security forces during the night raids to suppress recent protests have been urged to report their cases to police officers. Only one attack has been reported out of the many allegations that have been made. There is a lot of mistrust between the women and the authorities because they were also involved in the crackdown of the protests. The state-funded Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission accused soldiers of using "systematic torture" in the crackdown. One woman claims that the soldiers openly agreed that they both wanted to have sex.