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Tuesday 27 February 2018
Students too scared to return to Nigeria school after attack

By SAM OLUKOYA the Government Girls Sci- number of girls missing, but open when "frayed nerves 906 students were in the
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — ence and Technical Col- students were absent. cool down," Yobe state school at the time.
Frightened students on lege in Dapchi has remind- "They are too frightened to education commissioner The military rejected reports
Monday stayed away from ed many of Boko Haram's go there. We parents are Mohammed Lamin said. that its recent withdrawal
the school in northern Nige- kidnapping of 276 girls equally frightened to see The fate of the 110 girls is from Dapchi caused the
ria where Boko Haram ex- from a boarding school in our daughters go there," not known, but witnesses Boko Haram attack, but in
tremists seized 110 girls in a Chibok in 2014. said Mohammed Mele, have said the Islamic ex- a statement it confirmed
raid a week ago, while the Anger has been growing as who has two children in the tremists specifically asked having handed over se-
military said it had handed the government struggles school. "Many other par- where the girls' school was curity of the town to local
over the town's security to to respond to the latest at- ents are not likely to send located. Some witnesses police "on the premise that
police ahead of the attack tack. Teachers resumed their children back," an- reported seeing young Dapchi has been relatively
because it was "relatively classes a day after Nige- other parent, Mohammed women taken away at calm and peaceful." The
calm." ria's government for the first Ibrahim, told The Associat- gunpoint. Information Min- military has not said when
The mass abduction from time acknowledged the ed Press. The school will re- ister Lai Mohammed said that handover occurred.q

South Africa's new president replaces finance minister

economies by appointing "lifestyle audits" on govern-
two widely respected for- ment officials, starting with
mer finance ministers. his office.
One of them, Nhlanhla Ramaphosa, a former
Nene, will return to that trade union leader and
post after being replaced businessman who was
by Zuma in late 2015. And deputy president under
Pravin Gordhan, whose fir- Zuma, made the Cabinet
ing by Zuma last year sent announcement 90 minutes
South Africa's economy after it had been sched-
briefly into recession, will re- uled despite his calls for the
join the Cabinet as public government to do things
enterprises minister. on time.
The finance minister who The new president apolo-
replaced Gordhan, Malusi gized for the delay and said
Gigaba, has been criti- "last-minute consultations"
cized for his ties to the Gup- had to be made, an indi-
ta business family that is cation of the negotiations
accused of using its associ- he is having behind the
ation with Zuma to manipu- scenes with Zuma's allies as
late state companies for its he seeks to unify the ruling
own financial benefit. Ra- African National Congress
maphosa moved Gigaba party ahead of next year's
South Africa's new President, Cyril Ramaphosa, delivers his State of the Nation address in parlia- back to the home affairs elections.
ment in Cape Town, South Africa. Ramaphosa has announced a Cabinet shuffle that replaces ministry. South Africa's largest op-
the finance minister and puts a former finance minister, Malusi Gigaba, in charge of the country's
troubled state-owned companies. Ramaphosa said Da- position parties quickly criti-
(AP Photo/Ruvan Boshoff) vid Mabuza will become cized parts of the Cabinet
deputy president after he reshuffle. The Democratic
By CHRIS TORCHIA that replaces the finance month after former South is sworn in Tuesday as a Alliance party said Rama-
CARA ANNA minister and puts a former African leader Jacob Zuma member of parliament. phosa had fired "Zuma
Associated Press finance minister in charge resigned in the face of mul- Last week, Ramaphosa loyalists," hinting that the
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — of the country's troubled tiple corruption allegations, said his Cabinet would changes were more about
South Africa's new presi- state-owned companies. signaled his intent to clean shrink after a months-long factional maneuvering
dent announced a Cabi- President Cyril Ramapho- up the graft that has weak- review and that his gov- within the ruling party than
net shuffle late Monday sa, who was sworn in this ened one of Africa's top ernment would conduct anything else. q

Famine again a threat in South Sudan, new report says

By SAM MEDNICK threat without aid, accord- Food Program, told The As- counties where 100,000 ignore them, we’ll be faced
Associated Press ing to the report released sociated Press. He said a people faced starvation. with a growing tragedy.”
JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — Monday by the United Na- political solution in South After a rapid aid response, One in three people in
One year after South Sudan tions and South Sudan’s Sudan is needed so that further crisis was averted South Sudan have been
briefly declared a famine, government. It says 150,000 its people can rebuild their and the famine declara- forced from their homes
more than half of the peo- people in 11 counties in lives. tion was lifted in June. by the civil war, resulting
ple in the world’s young- Jonglei, Upper Nile, Unity Five years of fighting have “The situation is extremely in the worst production of
est nation face extreme and Western Bahr el Ghazal devastated the East African fragile, and we are close the country’s staple grains
hunger amid civil war and states could slip into famine nation. Tens of thousands to seeing another famine,” since the conflict began in
famine could return, a new this year. of people have been killed said Serge Tissot, represen- late 2013, the FAO said.
report says. “These are unprecedented and more than two million tative of the U.N.’s Food While supportive of the aid
More than six million peo- levels of food insecurity,” have fled the country. and Agriculture Organiza- response, South Sudan’s
ple, up about 40 percent Ross Smith, senior program A year ago South Sudan tion in South Sudan. “The government worries that it
from a year ago, are at officer for the U.N’s World declared famine in two projections are stark. If we is crippling the nation.q