Gaza City – More than 50,000 displaced Palestinians have taken refuge at the al-Shifa Hospital, squeezing in corridors, waiting rooms and outside in the courtyard. The hospital, which is barely functioning on solar-powered generators, is in a state of collapse like the rest of the healthcare system in the Gaza …
Read More »Two Families Got Fed Up With Their States’ Politics. So They Moved Out.
Steve Huckins, a native of Oregon, was preparing to move across the country when he went on Facebook to post a goodbye letter of sorts to his home state. “I had planned to die here,” Mr. Huckins, 59, wrote. “It’s a beautiful state. The mountains, the lakes, the rivers, the …
Read More »Record Number of Families Cross Southern Border Illegally in August
Federal agents arrested a record number of migrant families who crossed the southern border illegally in August, two officials with preliminary data said, highlighting the Biden administration’s most prominent immigration challenge after rolling out new border policies this spring. The roughly 91,000 migrants who crossed together as families exceeded the …
Read More »May God remove every giant in your families – May Edochie writes
Businesswoman, May Edochie has taken to Instagram to thank her followers for “standing in the gap with prayers for her and her family”. May, who is currently going through a divorce with her estranged husband, Yul Edochie, also prayed that God removes “every giant” in the families of her …
Read More »Troops rescue 25 hostages from Boko Haram captivity; reunites four kidnap victims with their families in Kaduna
Troops of 144 Battalion have successfully rescued 25 hostages held captive by Boko Haram terrorists in Borno and contiguous states. Director Army Public Relations, Brigadier General Onyema Nwachukwu, who disclosed this in a statement on Monday, August 28, 2023, said troops also reunited four kidnap victims with their families …
Read More »Zimbabwean Farmers Turn to Agroecology to Feed Their Families
Smallholder farmer Elizabeth Mpofu uses renewable energy to reduce emissions from firewood at her farm in Shashe, Mashava. Credit: Farai Shawn Matiashe/IPS by Farai Shawn Matiashe (bulawayo, zimbabwe) Friday, August 04, 2023 Inter Press Service BULAWAYO, ZIMBABWE, Aug 04 (IPS) – When Nelson Mudzingwa arrived in the Shashe farming area in …
Read More »Proposed N8,000 subsidy palliative is a lot to many families ? Gov. Abdullahi Sule
The Governor of Nasarawa State, Abdullahi Sule, says he disagrees with those arguing that the proposed N8,000 palliative by the Federal Government won’t do much to cushion the effects of the removal of fuel subsidy on poor Nigerians. While speaking on Channels TV this evening July 21, the governor …
Read More »Healthy Homes – A Right of Rural Families in Peru
Martina Santa Cruz, a peasant farmer from the village of Sacllo in the southern Peruvian Andes highlands department of Cuzco, is pleased with her remodeled kitchen where a skylight was created to let in sunlight and a chimney has been installed to extract smoke from the stove where she cooks …
Read More »Bandits release video of villagers kidnapped in Niger state; threaten to kill them if their families fail to pay ransom
Bandits have released a video of villagers kidnapped in Kafin Koro and Kwagana wards in Paikoro Local Government Area of Niger State. The victims were among over 50 people, including a former APC ward chairman, kidnapped in the area on May 10, 2023. 19 of them were released …
Read More »My father has 33 children and 120 grandchildren – Northerners boast about their large families
Some northerners have boasted about the large number of wives, children and grandchildren in their families. They disclosed this on Sunday, April 30, 2023, after a former Commissioner of Works in Kano State, Muaz Magaji, shared a photo of members of one family from the north. “Masha Allah.. …
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