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    "content": "name: Copy To Branches\non:\n  workflow_dispatch:\njobs:\n  copy-to-branches:\n    runs-on: ubuntu-latest\n    steps:\n      - uses: actions/checkout@v2\n        with:\n          fetch-depth: 0\n      - name: Copy To Branches Action\n        uses: planetoftheweb/copy-to-branches@v1\n"
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    "path": "01_03/ietf_scraper/ietf_scraper/__init__.py",
    "content": ""
  },
  {
    "path": "01_03/ietf_scraper/ietf_scraper/items.py",
    "content": "# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-\n\n# Define here the models for your scraped items\n#\n# See documentation in:\n# https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/items.html\n\nimport scrapy\n\n\nclass IetfScraperItem(scrapy.Item):\n    # define the fields for your item here like:\n    # name = scrapy.Field()\n    pass\n"
  },
  {
    "path": "01_03/ietf_scraper/ietf_scraper/middlewares.py",
    "content": "# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-\n\n# Define here the models for your spider middleware\n#\n# See documentation in:\n# https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/spider-middleware.html\n\nfrom scrapy import signals\n\n\nclass IetfScraperSpiderMiddleware:\n    # Not all methods need to be defined. If a method is not defined,\n    # scrapy acts as if the spider middleware does not modify the\n    # passed objects.\n\n    @classmethod\n    def from_crawler(cls, crawler):\n        # This method is used by Scrapy to create your spiders.\n        s = cls()\n        crawler.signals.connect(s.spider_opened, signal=signals.spider_opened)\n        return s\n\n    def process_spider_input(self, response, spider):\n        # Called for each response that goes through the spider\n        # middleware and into the spider.\n\n        # Should return None or raise an exception.\n        return None\n\n    def process_spider_output(self, response, result, spider):\n        # Called with the results returned from the Spider, after\n        # it has processed the response.\n\n        # Must return an iterable of Request, dict or Item objects.\n        for i in result:\n            yield i\n\n    def process_spider_exception(self, response, exception, spider):\n        # Called when a spider or process_spider_input() method\n        # (from other spider middleware) raises an exception.\n\n        # Should return either None or an iterable of Request, dict\n        # or Item objects.\n        pass\n\n    def process_start_requests(self, start_requests, spider):\n        # Called with the start requests of the spider, and works\n        # similarly to the process_spider_output() method, except\n        # that it doesn’t have a response associated.\n\n        # Must return only requests (not items).\n        for r in start_requests:\n            yield r\n\n    def spider_opened(self, spider):\n        spider.logger.info('Spider opened: %s' % spider.name)\n\n\nclass IetfScraperDownloaderMiddleware:\n    # Not all methods need to be defined. If a method is not defined,\n    # scrapy acts as if the downloader middleware does not modify the\n    # passed objects.\n\n    @classmethod\n    def from_crawler(cls, crawler):\n        # This method is used by Scrapy to create your spiders.\n        s = cls()\n        crawler.signals.connect(s.spider_opened, signal=signals.spider_opened)\n        return s\n\n    def process_request(self, request, spider):\n        # Called for each request that goes through the downloader\n        # middleware.\n\n        # Must either:\n        # - return None: continue processing this request\n        # - or return a Response object\n        # - or return a Request object\n        # - or raise IgnoreRequest: process_exception() methods of\n        #   installed downloader middleware will be called\n        return None\n\n    def process_response(self, request, response, spider):\n        # Called with the response returned from the downloader.\n\n        # Must either;\n        # - return a Response object\n        # - return a Request object\n        # - or raise IgnoreRequest\n        return response\n\n    def process_exception(self, request, exception, spider):\n        # Called when a download handler or a process_request()\n        # (from other downloader middleware) raises an exception.\n\n        # Must either:\n        # - return None: continue processing this exception\n        # - return a Response object: stops process_exception() chain\n        # - return a Request object: stops process_exception() chain\n        pass\n\n    def spider_opened(self, spider):\n        spider.logger.info('Spider opened: %s' % spider.name)\n"
  },
  {
    "path": "01_03/ietf_scraper/ietf_scraper/pipelines.py",
    "content": "# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-\n\n# Define your item pipelines here\n#\n# Don't forget to add your pipeline to the ITEM_PIPELINES setting\n# See: https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/item-pipeline.html\n\n\nclass IetfScraperPipeline:\n    def process_item(self, item, spider):\n        return item\n"
  },
  {
    "path": "01_03/ietf_scraper/ietf_scraper/settings.py",
    "content": "# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-\n\n# Scrapy settings for ietf_scraper project\n#\n# For simplicity, this file contains only settings considered important or\n# commonly used. You can find more settings consulting the documentation:\n#\n#     https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/settings.html\n#     https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/downloader-middleware.html\n#     https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/spider-middleware.html\n\nBOT_NAME = 'ietf_scraper'\n\nSPIDER_MODULES = ['ietf_scraper.spiders']\nNEWSPIDER_MODULE = 'ietf_scraper.spiders'\n\n\n# Crawl responsibly by identifying yourself (and your website) on the user-agent\n#USER_AGENT = 'ietf_scraper (+http://www.yourdomain.com)'\n\n# Obey robots.txt rules\nROBOTSTXT_OBEY = True\n\n# Configure maximum concurrent requests performed by Scrapy (default: 16)\n#CONCURRENT_REQUESTS = 32\n\n# Configure a delay for requests for the same website (default: 0)\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/settings.html#download-delay\n# See also autothrottle settings and docs\n#DOWNLOAD_DELAY = 3\n# The download delay setting will honor only one of:\n#CONCURRENT_REQUESTS_PER_DOMAIN = 16\n#CONCURRENT_REQUESTS_PER_IP = 16\n\n# Disable cookies (enabled by default)\n#COOKIES_ENABLED = False\n\n# Disable Telnet Console (enabled by default)\n#TELNETCONSOLE_ENABLED = False\n\n# Override the default request headers:\n#DEFAULT_REQUEST_HEADERS = {\n#   'Accept': 'text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8',\n#   'Accept-Language': 'en',\n#}\n\n# Enable or disable spider middlewares\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/spider-middleware.html\n#SPIDER_MIDDLEWARES = {\n#    'ietf_scraper.middlewares.IetfScraperSpiderMiddleware': 543,\n#}\n\n# Enable or disable downloader middlewares\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/downloader-middleware.html\n#DOWNLOADER_MIDDLEWARES = {\n#    'ietf_scraper.middlewares.IetfScraperDownloaderMiddleware': 543,\n#}\n\n# Enable or disable extensions\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/extensions.html\n#EXTENSIONS = {\n#    'scrapy.extensions.telnet.TelnetConsole': None,\n#}\n\n# Configure item pipelines\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/item-pipeline.html\n#ITEM_PIPELINES = {\n#    'ietf_scraper.pipelines.IetfScraperPipeline': 300,\n#}\n\n# Enable and configure the AutoThrottle extension (disabled by default)\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/autothrottle.html\n#AUTOTHROTTLE_ENABLED = True\n# The initial download delay\n#AUTOTHROTTLE_START_DELAY = 5\n# The maximum download delay to be set in case of high latencies\n#AUTOTHROTTLE_MAX_DELAY = 60\n# The average number of requests Scrapy should be sending in parallel to\n# each remote server\n#AUTOTHROTTLE_TARGET_CONCURRENCY = 1.0\n# Enable showing throttling stats for every response received:\n#AUTOTHROTTLE_DEBUG = False\n\n# Enable and configure HTTP caching (disabled by default)\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/downloader-middleware.html#httpcache-middleware-settings\n#HTTPCACHE_ENABLED = True\n#HTTPCACHE_EXPIRATION_SECS = 0\n#HTTPCACHE_DIR = 'httpcache'\n#HTTPCACHE_IGNORE_HTTP_CODES = []\n#HTTPCACHE_STORAGE = 'scrapy.extensions.httpcache.FilesystemCacheStorage'\n"
  },
  {
    "path": "01_03/ietf_scraper/ietf_scraper/spiders/__init__.py",
    "content": "# This package will contain the spiders of your Scrapy project\n#\n# Please refer to the documentation for information on how to create and manage\n# your spiders.\n"
  },
  {
    "path": "01_03/ietf_scraper/ietf_scraper/spiders/ietf.py",
    "content": "# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-\nimport scrapy\n\n\nclass IetfSpider(scrapy.Spider):\n    name = 'ietf'\n    allowed_domains = ['pythonscraping.com']\n    start_urls = ['http://pythonscraping.com/linkedin/ietf.html']\n\n    def parse(self, response):\n        return {'title': response.xpath('//span[@class=\"title\"]/text()').get()}\n"
  },
  {
    "path": "01_03/ietf_scraper/scrapy.cfg",
    "content": "# Automatically created by: scrapy startproject\n#\n# For more information about the [deploy] section see:\n# https://scrapyd.readthedocs.io/en/latest/deploy.html\n\n[settings]\ndefault = ietf_scraper.settings\n\n[deploy]\n#url = http://localhost:6800/\nproject = ietf_scraper\n"
  },
  {
    "path": "01_04_b/ietf_scraper/ietf_scraper/__init__.py",
    "content": ""
  },
  {
    "path": "01_04_b/ietf_scraper/ietf_scraper/items.py",
    "content": "# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-\n\n# Define here the models for your scraped items\n#\n# See documentation in:\n# https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/items.html\n\nimport scrapy\n\n\nclass IetfScraperItem(scrapy.Item):\n    # define the fields for your item here like:\n    # name = scrapy.Field()\n    pass\n"
  },
  {
    "path": "01_04_b/ietf_scraper/ietf_scraper/middlewares.py",
    "content": "# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-\n\n# Define here the models for your spider middleware\n#\n# See documentation in:\n# https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/spider-middleware.html\n\nfrom scrapy import signals\n\n\nclass IetfScraperSpiderMiddleware:\n    # Not all methods need to be defined. If a method is not defined,\n    # scrapy acts as if the spider middleware does not modify the\n    # passed objects.\n\n    @classmethod\n    def from_crawler(cls, crawler):\n        # This method is used by Scrapy to create your spiders.\n        s = cls()\n        crawler.signals.connect(s.spider_opened, signal=signals.spider_opened)\n        return s\n\n    def process_spider_input(self, response, spider):\n        # Called for each response that goes through the spider\n        # middleware and into the spider.\n\n        # Should return None or raise an exception.\n        return None\n\n    def process_spider_output(self, response, result, spider):\n        # Called with the results returned from the Spider, after\n        # it has processed the response.\n\n        # Must return an iterable of Request, dict or Item objects.\n        for i in result:\n            yield i\n\n    def process_spider_exception(self, response, exception, spider):\n        # Called when a spider or process_spider_input() method\n        # (from other spider middleware) raises an exception.\n\n        # Should return either None or an iterable of Request, dict\n        # or Item objects.\n        pass\n\n    def process_start_requests(self, start_requests, spider):\n        # Called with the start requests of the spider, and works\n        # similarly to the process_spider_output() method, except\n        # that it doesn’t have a response associated.\n\n        # Must return only requests (not items).\n        for r in start_requests:\n            yield r\n\n    def spider_opened(self, spider):\n        spider.logger.info('Spider opened: %s' % spider.name)\n\n\nclass IetfScraperDownloaderMiddleware:\n    # Not all methods need to be defined. If a method is not defined,\n    # scrapy acts as if the downloader middleware does not modify the\n    # passed objects.\n\n    @classmethod\n    def from_crawler(cls, crawler):\n        # This method is used by Scrapy to create your spiders.\n        s = cls()\n        crawler.signals.connect(s.spider_opened, signal=signals.spider_opened)\n        return s\n\n    def process_request(self, request, spider):\n        # Called for each request that goes through the downloader\n        # middleware.\n\n        # Must either:\n        # - return None: continue processing this request\n        # - or return a Response object\n        # - or return a Request object\n        # - or raise IgnoreRequest: process_exception() methods of\n        #   installed downloader middleware will be called\n        return None\n\n    def process_response(self, request, response, spider):\n        # Called with the response returned from the downloader.\n\n        # Must either;\n        # - return a Response object\n        # - return a Request object\n        # - or raise IgnoreRequest\n        return response\n\n    def process_exception(self, request, exception, spider):\n        # Called when a download handler or a process_request()\n        # (from other downloader middleware) raises an exception.\n\n        # Must either:\n        # - return None: continue processing this exception\n        # - return a Response object: stops process_exception() chain\n        # - return a Request object: stops process_exception() chain\n        pass\n\n    def spider_opened(self, spider):\n        spider.logger.info('Spider opened: %s' % spider.name)\n"
  },
  {
    "path": "01_04_b/ietf_scraper/ietf_scraper/pipelines.py",
    "content": "# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-\n\n# Define your item pipelines here\n#\n# Don't forget to add your pipeline to the ITEM_PIPELINES setting\n# See: https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/item-pipeline.html\n\n\nclass IetfScraperPipeline:\n    def process_item(self, item, spider):\n        return item\n"
  },
  {
    "path": "01_04_b/ietf_scraper/ietf_scraper/settings.py",
    "content": "# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-\n\n# Scrapy settings for ietf_scraper project\n#\n# For simplicity, this file contains only settings considered important or\n# commonly used. You can find more settings consulting the documentation:\n#\n#     https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/settings.html\n#     https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/downloader-middleware.html\n#     https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/spider-middleware.html\n\nBOT_NAME = 'ietf_scraper'\n\nSPIDER_MODULES = ['ietf_scraper.spiders']\nNEWSPIDER_MODULE = 'ietf_scraper.spiders'\n\n\n# Crawl responsibly by identifying yourself (and your website) on the user-agent\n#USER_AGENT = 'ietf_scraper (+http://www.yourdomain.com)'\n\n# Obey robots.txt rules\nROBOTSTXT_OBEY = True\n\n# Configure maximum concurrent requests performed by Scrapy (default: 16)\n#CONCURRENT_REQUESTS = 32\n\n# Configure a delay for requests for the same website (default: 0)\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/settings.html#download-delay\n# See also autothrottle settings and docs\n#DOWNLOAD_DELAY = 3\n# The download delay setting will honor only one of:\n#CONCURRENT_REQUESTS_PER_DOMAIN = 16\n#CONCURRENT_REQUESTS_PER_IP = 16\n\n# Disable cookies (enabled by default)\n#COOKIES_ENABLED = False\n\n# Disable Telnet Console (enabled by default)\n#TELNETCONSOLE_ENABLED = False\n\n# Override the default request headers:\n#DEFAULT_REQUEST_HEADERS = {\n#   'Accept': 'text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8',\n#   'Accept-Language': 'en',\n#}\n\n# Enable or disable spider middlewares\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/spider-middleware.html\n#SPIDER_MIDDLEWARES = {\n#    'ietf_scraper.middlewares.IetfScraperSpiderMiddleware': 543,\n#}\n\n# Enable or disable downloader middlewares\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/downloader-middleware.html\n#DOWNLOADER_MIDDLEWARES = {\n#    'ietf_scraper.middlewares.IetfScraperDownloaderMiddleware': 543,\n#}\n\n# Enable or disable extensions\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/extensions.html\n#EXTENSIONS = {\n#    'scrapy.extensions.telnet.TelnetConsole': None,\n#}\n\n# Configure item pipelines\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/item-pipeline.html\n#ITEM_PIPELINES = {\n#    'ietf_scraper.pipelines.IetfScraperPipeline': 300,\n#}\n\n# Enable and configure the AutoThrottle extension (disabled by default)\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/autothrottle.html\n#AUTOTHROTTLE_ENABLED = True\n# The initial download delay\n#AUTOTHROTTLE_START_DELAY = 5\n# The maximum download delay to be set in case of high latencies\n#AUTOTHROTTLE_MAX_DELAY = 60\n# The average number of requests Scrapy should be sending in parallel to\n# each remote server\n#AUTOTHROTTLE_TARGET_CONCURRENCY = 1.0\n# Enable showing throttling stats for every response received:\n#AUTOTHROTTLE_DEBUG = False\n\n# Enable and configure HTTP caching (disabled by default)\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/downloader-middleware.html#httpcache-middleware-settings\n#HTTPCACHE_ENABLED = True\n#HTTPCACHE_EXPIRATION_SECS = 0\n#HTTPCACHE_DIR = 'httpcache'\n#HTTPCACHE_IGNORE_HTTP_CODES = []\n#HTTPCACHE_STORAGE = 'scrapy.extensions.httpcache.FilesystemCacheStorage'\n"
  },
  {
    "path": "01_04_b/ietf_scraper/ietf_scraper/spiders/__init__.py",
    "content": "# This package will contain the spiders of your Scrapy project\n#\n# Please refer to the documentation for information on how to create and manage\n# your spiders.\n"
  },
  {
    "path": "01_04_b/ietf_scraper/ietf_scraper/spiders/ietf.py",
    "content": "# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-\nimport scrapy\n\n\nclass IetfSpider(scrapy.Spider):\n    name = 'ietf'\n    allowed_domains = ['pythonscraping.com']\n    start_urls = ['http://pythonscraping.com/linkedin/ietf.html']\n\n    def parse(self, response):\n        #title = response.css('span.title::text').get()\n        title = response.xpath('//span[@class=\"title\"]/text()').get()\n        return {\"title\": title}\n"
  },
  {
    "path": "01_04_b/ietf_scraper/scrapy.cfg",
    "content": "# Automatically created by: scrapy startproject\n#\n# For more information about the [deploy] section see:\n# https://scrapyd.readthedocs.io/en/latest/deploy.html\n\n[settings]\ndefault = ietf_scraper.settings\n\n[deploy]\n#url = http://localhost:6800/\nproject = ietf_scraper\n"
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    "path": "01_04_e/ietf_scraper/ietf_scraper/__init__.py",
    "content": ""
  },
  {
    "path": "01_04_e/ietf_scraper/ietf_scraper/items.py",
    "content": "# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-\n\n# Define here the models for your scraped items\n#\n# See documentation in:\n# https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/items.html\n\nimport scrapy\n\n\nclass IetfScraperItem(scrapy.Item):\n    # define the fields for your item here like:\n    # name = scrapy.Field()\n    pass\n"
  },
  {
    "path": "01_04_e/ietf_scraper/ietf_scraper/middlewares.py",
    "content": "# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-\n\n# Define here the models for your spider middleware\n#\n# See documentation in:\n# https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/spider-middleware.html\n\nfrom scrapy import signals\n\n\nclass IetfScraperSpiderMiddleware:\n    # Not all methods need to be defined. If a method is not defined,\n    # scrapy acts as if the spider middleware does not modify the\n    # passed objects.\n\n    @classmethod\n    def from_crawler(cls, crawler):\n        # This method is used by Scrapy to create your spiders.\n        s = cls()\n        crawler.signals.connect(s.spider_opened, signal=signals.spider_opened)\n        return s\n\n    def process_spider_input(self, response, spider):\n        # Called for each response that goes through the spider\n        # middleware and into the spider.\n\n        # Should return None or raise an exception.\n        return None\n\n    def process_spider_output(self, response, result, spider):\n        # Called with the results returned from the Spider, after\n        # it has processed the response.\n\n        # Must return an iterable of Request, dict or Item objects.\n        for i in result:\n            yield i\n\n    def process_spider_exception(self, response, exception, spider):\n        # Called when a spider or process_spider_input() method\n        # (from other spider middleware) raises an exception.\n\n        # Should return either None or an iterable of Request, dict\n        # or Item objects.\n        pass\n\n    def process_start_requests(self, start_requests, spider):\n        # Called with the start requests of the spider, and works\n        # similarly to the process_spider_output() method, except\n        # that it doesn’t have a response associated.\n\n        # Must return only requests (not items).\n        for r in start_requests:\n            yield r\n\n    def spider_opened(self, spider):\n        spider.logger.info('Spider opened: %s' % spider.name)\n\n\nclass IetfScraperDownloaderMiddleware:\n    # Not all methods need to be defined. If a method is not defined,\n    # scrapy acts as if the downloader middleware does not modify the\n    # passed objects.\n\n    @classmethod\n    def from_crawler(cls, crawler):\n        # This method is used by Scrapy to create your spiders.\n        s = cls()\n        crawler.signals.connect(s.spider_opened, signal=signals.spider_opened)\n        return s\n\n    def process_request(self, request, spider):\n        # Called for each request that goes through the downloader\n        # middleware.\n\n        # Must either:\n        # - return None: continue processing this request\n        # - or return a Response object\n        # - or return a Request object\n        # - or raise IgnoreRequest: process_exception() methods of\n        #   installed downloader middleware will be called\n        return None\n\n    def process_response(self, request, response, spider):\n        # Called with the response returned from the downloader.\n\n        # Must either;\n        # - return a Response object\n        # - return a Request object\n        # - or raise IgnoreRequest\n        return response\n\n    def process_exception(self, request, exception, spider):\n        # Called when a download handler or a process_request()\n        # (from other downloader middleware) raises an exception.\n\n        # Must either:\n        # - return None: continue processing this exception\n        # - return a Response object: stops process_exception() chain\n        # - return a Request object: stops process_exception() chain\n        pass\n\n    def spider_opened(self, spider):\n        spider.logger.info('Spider opened: %s' % spider.name)\n"
  },
  {
    "path": "01_04_e/ietf_scraper/ietf_scraper/pipelines.py",
    "content": "# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-\n\n# Define your item pipelines here\n#\n# Don't forget to add your pipeline to the ITEM_PIPELINES setting\n# See: https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/item-pipeline.html\n\n\nclass IetfScraperPipeline:\n    def process_item(self, item, spider):\n        return item\n"
  },
  {
    "path": "01_04_e/ietf_scraper/ietf_scraper/settings.py",
    "content": "# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-\n\n# Scrapy settings for ietf_scraper project\n#\n# For simplicity, this file contains only settings considered important or\n# commonly used. You can find more settings consulting the documentation:\n#\n#     https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/settings.html\n#     https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/downloader-middleware.html\n#     https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/spider-middleware.html\n\nBOT_NAME = 'ietf_scraper'\n\nSPIDER_MODULES = ['ietf_scraper.spiders']\nNEWSPIDER_MODULE = 'ietf_scraper.spiders'\n\n\n# Crawl responsibly by identifying yourself (and your website) on the user-agent\n#USER_AGENT = 'ietf_scraper (+http://www.yourdomain.com)'\n\n# Obey robots.txt rules\nROBOTSTXT_OBEY = True\n\n# Configure maximum concurrent requests performed by Scrapy (default: 16)\n#CONCURRENT_REQUESTS = 32\n\n# Configure a delay for requests for the same website (default: 0)\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/settings.html#download-delay\n# See also autothrottle settings and docs\n#DOWNLOAD_DELAY = 3\n# The download delay setting will honor only one of:\n#CONCURRENT_REQUESTS_PER_DOMAIN = 16\n#CONCURRENT_REQUESTS_PER_IP = 16\n\n# Disable cookies (enabled by default)\n#COOKIES_ENABLED = False\n\n# Disable Telnet Console (enabled by default)\n#TELNETCONSOLE_ENABLED = False\n\n# Override the default request headers:\n#DEFAULT_REQUEST_HEADERS = {\n#   'Accept': 'text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8',\n#   'Accept-Language': 'en',\n#}\n\n# Enable or disable spider middlewares\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/spider-middleware.html\n#SPIDER_MIDDLEWARES = {\n#    'ietf_scraper.middlewares.IetfScraperSpiderMiddleware': 543,\n#}\n\n# Enable or disable downloader middlewares\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/downloader-middleware.html\n#DOWNLOADER_MIDDLEWARES = {\n#    'ietf_scraper.middlewares.IetfScraperDownloaderMiddleware': 543,\n#}\n\n# Enable or disable extensions\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/extensions.html\n#EXTENSIONS = {\n#    'scrapy.extensions.telnet.TelnetConsole': None,\n#}\n\n# Configure item pipelines\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/item-pipeline.html\n#ITEM_PIPELINES = {\n#    'ietf_scraper.pipelines.IetfScraperPipeline': 300,\n#}\n\n# Enable and configure the AutoThrottle extension (disabled by default)\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/autothrottle.html\n#AUTOTHROTTLE_ENABLED = True\n# The initial download delay\n#AUTOTHROTTLE_START_DELAY = 5\n# The maximum download delay to be set in case of high latencies\n#AUTOTHROTTLE_MAX_DELAY = 60\n# The average number of requests Scrapy should be sending in parallel to\n# each remote server\n#AUTOTHROTTLE_TARGET_CONCURRENCY = 1.0\n# Enable showing throttling stats for every response received:\n#AUTOTHROTTLE_DEBUG = False\n\n# Enable and configure HTTP caching (disabled by default)\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/downloader-middleware.html#httpcache-middleware-settings\n#HTTPCACHE_ENABLED = True\n#HTTPCACHE_EXPIRATION_SECS = 0\n#HTTPCACHE_DIR = 'httpcache'\n#HTTPCACHE_IGNORE_HTTP_CODES = []\n#HTTPCACHE_STORAGE = 'scrapy.extensions.httpcache.FilesystemCacheStorage'\n"
  },
  {
    "path": "01_04_e/ietf_scraper/ietf_scraper/spiders/__init__.py",
    "content": "# This package will contain the spiders of your Scrapy project\n#\n# Please refer to the documentation for information on how to create and manage\n# your spiders.\n"
  },
  {
    "path": "01_04_e/ietf_scraper/ietf_scraper/spiders/ietf.py",
    "content": "# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-\nimport scrapy\nimport w3lib.html\n\nclass IetfSpider(scrapy.Spider):\n    name = 'ietf'\n    allowed_domains = ['pythonscraping.com']\n    start_urls = ['http://pythonscraping.com/linkedin/ietf.html']\n\n    def parse(self, response):\n        return {\n            'number': response.xpath('//span[@class=\"rfc-no\"]/text()').get(),\n            'title': response.xpath('//meta[@name=\"DC.Title\"]/@content').get(),\n            # 'title': response.xpath('//span[@class=\"title\"]/text()').get(),\n            'date': response.xpath('//span[@class=\"date\"]/text()').get(),\n            # 'date': response.xpath('//meta[@name=\"DC.Date.Issued\"]/@content').get(),\n            'description': response.xpath('//meta[@name=\"DC.Description.Abstract\"]/@content').get(),\n            'author': response.xpath('//meta[@name=\"DC.Creator\"]/@content').get(),\n            # 'author': response.xpath('//span[@class=\"author-name\"]/text()').get(),\n            'company': response.xpath('//span[@class=\"author-company\"]/text()').get(),\n            'address': response.xpath('//span[@class=\"address\"]/text()').get(),\n            'text': w3lib.html.remove_tags(response.xpath('//div[@class=\"text\"]').get()),\n            'headings': response.xpath('//span[@class=\"subheading\"]/text()').getall()\n        }\n"
  },
  {
    "path": "01_04_e/ietf_scraper/scrapy.cfg",
    "content": "# Automatically created by: scrapy startproject\n#\n# For more information about the [deploy] section see:\n# https://scrapyd.readthedocs.io/en/latest/deploy.html\n\n[settings]\ndefault = ietf_scraper.settings\n\n[deploy]\n#url = http://localhost:6800/\nproject = ietf_scraper\n"
  },
  {
    "path": "02_01/article_scraper/article_scraper/__init__.py",
    "content": ""
  },
  {
    "path": "02_01/article_scraper/article_scraper/items.py",
    "content": "# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-\n\n# Define here the models for your scraped items\n#\n# See documentation in:\n# https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/items.html\n\nimport scrapy\n\n\nclass ArticleScraperItem(scrapy.Item):\n    # define the fields for your item here like:\n    # name = scrapy.Field()\n    pass\n"
  },
  {
    "path": "02_01/article_scraper/article_scraper/middlewares.py",
    "content": "# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-\n\n# Define here the models for your spider middleware\n#\n# See documentation in:\n# https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/spider-middleware.html\n\nfrom scrapy import signals\n\n\nclass ArticleScraperSpiderMiddleware:\n    # Not all methods need to be defined. If a method is not defined,\n    # scrapy acts as if the spider middleware does not modify the\n    # passed objects.\n\n    @classmethod\n    def from_crawler(cls, crawler):\n        # This method is used by Scrapy to create your spiders.\n        s = cls()\n        crawler.signals.connect(s.spider_opened, signal=signals.spider_opened)\n        return s\n\n    def process_spider_input(self, response, spider):\n        # Called for each response that goes through the spider\n        # middleware and into the spider.\n\n        # Should return None or raise an exception.\n        return None\n\n    def process_spider_output(self, response, result, spider):\n        # Called with the results returned from the Spider, after\n        # it has processed the response.\n\n        # Must return an iterable of Request, dict or Item objects.\n        for i in result:\n            yield i\n\n    def process_spider_exception(self, response, exception, spider):\n        # Called when a spider or process_spider_input() method\n        # (from other spider middleware) raises an exception.\n\n        # Should return either None or an iterable of Request, dict\n        # or Item objects.\n        pass\n\n    def process_start_requests(self, start_requests, spider):\n        # Called with the start requests of the spider, and works\n        # similarly to the process_spider_output() method, except\n        # that it doesn’t have a response associated.\n\n        # Must return only requests (not items).\n        for r in start_requests:\n            yield r\n\n    def spider_opened(self, spider):\n        spider.logger.info('Spider opened: %s' % spider.name)\n\n\nclass ArticleScraperDownloaderMiddleware:\n    # Not all methods need to be defined. If a method is not defined,\n    # scrapy acts as if the downloader middleware does not modify the\n    # passed objects.\n\n    @classmethod\n    def from_crawler(cls, crawler):\n        # This method is used by Scrapy to create your spiders.\n        s = cls()\n        crawler.signals.connect(s.spider_opened, signal=signals.spider_opened)\n        return s\n\n    def process_request(self, request, spider):\n        # Called for each request that goes through the downloader\n        # middleware.\n\n        # Must either:\n        # - return None: continue processing this request\n        # - or return a Response object\n        # - or return a Request object\n        # - or raise IgnoreRequest: process_exception() methods of\n        #   installed downloader middleware will be called\n        return None\n\n    def process_response(self, request, response, spider):\n        # Called with the response returned from the downloader.\n\n        # Must either;\n        # - return a Response object\n        # - return a Request object\n        # - or raise IgnoreRequest\n        return response\n\n    def process_exception(self, request, exception, spider):\n        # Called when a download handler or a process_request()\n        # (from other downloader middleware) raises an exception.\n\n        # Must either:\n        # - return None: continue processing this exception\n        # - return a Response object: stops process_exception() chain\n        # - return a Request object: stops process_exception() chain\n        pass\n\n    def spider_opened(self, spider):\n        spider.logger.info('Spider opened: %s' % spider.name)\n"
  },
  {
    "path": "02_01/article_scraper/article_scraper/pipelines.py",
    "content": "# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-\n\n# Define your item pipelines here\n#\n# Don't forget to add your pipeline to the ITEM_PIPELINES setting\n# See: https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/item-pipeline.html\n\n\nclass ArticleScraperPipeline:\n    def process_item(self, item, spider):\n        return item\n"
  },
  {
    "path": "02_01/article_scraper/article_scraper/settings.py",
    "content": "# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-\n\n# Scrapy settings for article_scraper project\n#\n# For simplicity, this file contains only settings considered important or\n# commonly used. You can find more settings consulting the documentation:\n#\n#     https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/settings.html\n#     https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/downloader-middleware.html\n#     https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/spider-middleware.html\n\nBOT_NAME = 'article_scraper'\n\nSPIDER_MODULES = ['article_scraper.spiders']\nNEWSPIDER_MODULE = 'article_scraper.spiders'\n\n\n# Crawl responsibly by identifying yourself (and your website) on the user-agent\n#USER_AGENT = 'article_scraper (+http://www.yourdomain.com)'\n\n# Obey robots.txt rules\nROBOTSTXT_OBEY = True\n\n# Configure maximum concurrent requests performed by Scrapy (default: 16)\n#CONCURRENT_REQUESTS = 32\n\n# Configure a delay for requests for the same website (default: 0)\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/settings.html#download-delay\n# See also autothrottle settings and docs\n#DOWNLOAD_DELAY = 3\n# The download delay setting will honor only one of:\n#CONCURRENT_REQUESTS_PER_DOMAIN = 16\n#CONCURRENT_REQUESTS_PER_IP = 16\n\n# Disable cookies (enabled by default)\n#COOKIES_ENABLED = False\n\n# Disable Telnet Console (enabled by default)\n#TELNETCONSOLE_ENABLED = False\n\n# Override the default request headers:\n#DEFAULT_REQUEST_HEADERS = {\n#   'Accept': 'text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8',\n#   'Accept-Language': 'en',\n#}\n\n# Enable or disable spider middlewares\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/spider-middleware.html\n#SPIDER_MIDDLEWARES = {\n#    'article_scraper.middlewares.ArticleScraperSpiderMiddleware': 543,\n#}\n\n# Enable or disable downloader middlewares\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/downloader-middleware.html\n#DOWNLOADER_MIDDLEWARES = {\n#    'article_scraper.middlewares.ArticleScraperDownloaderMiddleware': 543,\n#}\n\n# Enable or disable extensions\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/extensions.html\n#EXTENSIONS = {\n#    'scrapy.extensions.telnet.TelnetConsole': None,\n#}\n\n# Configure item pipelines\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/item-pipeline.html\n#ITEM_PIPELINES = {\n#    'article_scraper.pipelines.ArticleScraperPipeline': 300,\n#}\n\n# Enable and configure the AutoThrottle extension (disabled by default)\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/autothrottle.html\n#AUTOTHROTTLE_ENABLED = True\n# The initial download delay\n#AUTOTHROTTLE_START_DELAY = 5\n# The maximum download delay to be set in case of high latencies\n#AUTOTHROTTLE_MAX_DELAY = 60\n# The average number of requests Scrapy should be sending in parallel to\n# each remote server\n#AUTOTHROTTLE_TARGET_CONCURRENCY = 1.0\n# Enable showing throttling stats for every response received:\n#AUTOTHROTTLE_DEBUG = False\n\n# Enable and configure HTTP caching (disabled by default)\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/downloader-middleware.html#httpcache-middleware-settings\n#HTTPCACHE_ENABLED = True\n#HTTPCACHE_EXPIRATION_SECS = 0\n#HTTPCACHE_DIR = 'httpcache'\n#HTTPCACHE_IGNORE_HTTP_CODES = []\n#HTTPCACHE_STORAGE = 'scrapy.extensions.httpcache.FilesystemCacheStorage'\n"
  },
  {
    "path": "02_01/article_scraper/article_scraper/spiders/__init__.py",
    "content": "# This package will contain the spiders of your Scrapy project\n#\n# Please refer to the documentation for information on how to create and manage\n# your spiders.\n"
  },
  {
    "path": "02_01/article_scraper/article_scraper/spiders/wikipedia.py",
    "content": "# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-\nimport scrapy\nfrom scrapy.spiders import CrawlSpider, Rule\nfrom scrapy.linkextractors import LinkExtractor\n\nclass WikipediaSpider(CrawlSpider):\n    name = 'wikipedia'\n    allowed_domains = ['en.wikipedia.org']\n    start_urls = ['https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Bacon']\n    rules = [Rule(LinkExtractor(allow=r'wiki/((?!:).)*$'), callback='parse_info', follow=True)]\n\n    def parse_info(self, response):\n        return {\n            'title': response.xpath('//h1/text()').get() or response.xpath('//h1/i/text()').get(),\n            'url': response.url,\n            'last_edited': response.xpath('//li[@id=\"footer-info-lastmod\"]/text()').get()\n        }\n"
  },
  {
    "path": "02_01/article_scraper/scrapy.cfg",
    "content": "# Automatically created by: scrapy startproject\n#\n# For more information about the [deploy] section see:\n# https://scrapyd.readthedocs.io/en/latest/deploy.html\n\n[settings]\ndefault = article_scraper.settings\n\n[deploy]\n#url = http://localhost:6800/\nproject = article_scraper\n"
  },
  {
    "path": "02_02_b/article_crawler/article_crawler/__init__.py",
    "content": ""
  },
  {
    "path": "02_02_b/article_crawler/article_crawler/items.py",
    "content": "# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-\n\n# Define here the models for your scraped items\n#\n# See documentation in:\n# https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/items.html\n\nimport scrapy\n\n\nclass ArticleCrawlerItem(scrapy.Item):\n    # define the fields for your item here like:\n    # name = scrapy.Field()\n    pass\n"
  },
  {
    "path": "02_02_b/article_crawler/article_crawler/middlewares.py",
    "content": "# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-\n\n# Define here the models for your spider middleware\n#\n# See documentation in:\n# https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/spider-middleware.html\n\nfrom scrapy import signals\n\n\nclass ArticleCrawlerSpiderMiddleware:\n    # Not all methods need to be defined. If a method is not defined,\n    # scrapy acts as if the spider middleware does not modify the\n    # passed objects.\n\n    @classmethod\n    def from_crawler(cls, crawler):\n        # This method is used by Scrapy to create your spiders.\n        s = cls()\n        crawler.signals.connect(s.spider_opened, signal=signals.spider_opened)\n        return s\n\n    def process_spider_input(self, response, spider):\n        # Called for each response that goes through the spider\n        # middleware and into the spider.\n\n        # Should return None or raise an exception.\n        return None\n\n    def process_spider_output(self, response, result, spider):\n        # Called with the results returned from the Spider, after\n        # it has processed the response.\n\n        # Must return an iterable of Request, dict or Item objects.\n        for i in result:\n            yield i\n\n    def process_spider_exception(self, response, exception, spider):\n        # Called when a spider or process_spider_input() method\n        # (from other spider middleware) raises an exception.\n\n        # Should return either None or an iterable of Request, dict\n        # or Item objects.\n        pass\n\n    def process_start_requests(self, start_requests, spider):\n        # Called with the start requests of the spider, and works\n        # similarly to the process_spider_output() method, except\n        # that it doesn’t have a response associated.\n\n        # Must return only requests (not items).\n        for r in start_requests:\n            yield r\n\n    def spider_opened(self, spider):\n        spider.logger.info('Spider opened: %s' % spider.name)\n\n\nclass ArticleCrawlerDownloaderMiddleware:\n    # Not all methods need to be defined. If a method is not defined,\n    # scrapy acts as if the downloader middleware does not modify the\n    # passed objects.\n\n    @classmethod\n    def from_crawler(cls, crawler):\n        # This method is used by Scrapy to create your spiders.\n        s = cls()\n        crawler.signals.connect(s.spider_opened, signal=signals.spider_opened)\n        return s\n\n    def process_request(self, request, spider):\n        # Called for each request that goes through the downloader\n        # middleware.\n\n        # Must either:\n        # - return None: continue processing this request\n        # - or return a Response object\n        # - or return a Request object\n        # - or raise IgnoreRequest: process_exception() methods of\n        #   installed downloader middleware will be called\n        return None\n\n    def process_response(self, request, response, spider):\n        # Called with the response returned from the downloader.\n\n        # Must either;\n        # - return a Response object\n        # - return a Request object\n        # - or raise IgnoreRequest\n        return response\n\n    def process_exception(self, request, exception, spider):\n        # Called when a download handler or a process_request()\n        # (from other downloader middleware) raises an exception.\n\n        # Must either:\n        # - return None: continue processing this exception\n        # - return a Response object: stops process_exception() chain\n        # - return a Request object: stops process_exception() chain\n        pass\n\n    def spider_opened(self, spider):\n        spider.logger.info('Spider opened: %s' % spider.name)\n"
  },
  {
    "path": "02_02_b/article_crawler/article_crawler/pipelines.py",
    "content": "# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-\n\n# Define your item pipelines here\n#\n# Don't forget to add your pipeline to the ITEM_PIPELINES setting\n# See: https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/item-pipeline.html\n\n\nclass ArticleCrawlerPipeline:\n    def process_item(self, item, spider):\n        return item\n"
  },
  {
    "path": "02_02_b/article_crawler/article_crawler/settings.py",
    "content": "# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-\n\n# Scrapy settings for article_crawler project\n#\n# For simplicity, this file contains only settings considered important or\n# commonly used. You can find more settings consulting the documentation:\n#\n#     https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/settings.html\n#     https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/downloader-middleware.html\n#     https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/spider-middleware.html\n\nBOT_NAME = 'article_crawler'\n\nSPIDER_MODULES = ['article_crawler.spiders']\nNEWSPIDER_MODULE = 'article_crawler.spiders'\n\n\n# Crawl responsibly by identifying yourself (and your website) on the user-agent\n#USER_AGENT = 'article_crawler (+http://www.yourdomain.com)'\n\n# Obey robots.txt rules\nROBOTSTXT_OBEY = True\n\n# Configure maximum concurrent requests performed by Scrapy (default: 16)\n#CONCURRENT_REQUESTS = 32\n\n# Configure a delay for requests for the same website (default: 0)\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/settings.html#download-delay\n# See also autothrottle settings and docs\n#DOWNLOAD_DELAY = 3\n# The download delay setting will honor only one of:\n#CONCURRENT_REQUESTS_PER_DOMAIN = 16\n#CONCURRENT_REQUESTS_PER_IP = 16\n\n# Disable cookies (enabled by default)\n#COOKIES_ENABLED = False\n\n# Disable Telnet Console (enabled by default)\n#TELNETCONSOLE_ENABLED = False\n\n# Override the default request headers:\n#DEFAULT_REQUEST_HEADERS = {\n#   'Accept': 'text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8',\n#   'Accept-Language': 'en',\n#}\n\n# Enable or disable spider middlewares\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/spider-middleware.html\n#SPIDER_MIDDLEWARES = {\n#    'article_crawler.middlewares.ArticleCrawlerSpiderMiddleware': 543,\n#}\n\n# Enable or disable downloader middlewares\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/downloader-middleware.html\n#DOWNLOADER_MIDDLEWARES = {\n#    'article_crawler.middlewares.ArticleCrawlerDownloaderMiddleware': 543,\n#}\n\n# Enable or disable extensions\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/extensions.html\n#EXTENSIONS = {\n#    'scrapy.extensions.telnet.TelnetConsole': None,\n#}\n\n# Configure item pipelines\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/item-pipeline.html\n#ITEM_PIPELINES = {\n#    'article_crawler.pipelines.ArticleCrawlerPipeline': 300,\n#}\n\n# Enable and configure the AutoThrottle extension (disabled by default)\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/autothrottle.html\n#AUTOTHROTTLE_ENABLED = True\n# The initial download delay\n#AUTOTHROTTLE_START_DELAY = 5\n# The maximum download delay to be set in case of high latencies\n#AUTOTHROTTLE_MAX_DELAY = 60\n# The average number of requests Scrapy should be sending in parallel to\n# each remote server\n#AUTOTHROTTLE_TARGET_CONCURRENCY = 1.0\n# Enable showing throttling stats for every response received:\n#AUTOTHROTTLE_DEBUG = False\n\n# Enable and configure HTTP caching (disabled by default)\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/downloader-middleware.html#httpcache-middleware-settings\n#HTTPCACHE_ENABLED = True\n#HTTPCACHE_EXPIRATION_SECS = 0\n#HTTPCACHE_DIR = 'httpcache'\n#HTTPCACHE_IGNORE_HTTP_CODES = []\n#HTTPCACHE_STORAGE = 'scrapy.extensions.httpcache.FilesystemCacheStorage'\n"
  },
  {
    "path": "02_02_b/article_crawler/article_crawler/spiders/__init__.py",
    "content": "# This package will contain the spiders of your Scrapy project\n#\n# Please refer to the documentation for information on how to create and manage\n# your spiders.\n"
  },
  {
    "path": "02_02_b/article_crawler/article_crawler/spiders/wikipedia.py",
    "content": "# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-\nimport scrapy\nfrom scrapy.spiders import CrawlSpider, Rule\nfrom scrapy.linkextractors import LinkExtractor\n\nclass WikipediaSpider(CrawlSpider):\n    name = 'wikipedia'\n    allowed_domains = ['en.wikipedia.org']\n    start_urls = ['https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Bacon']\n\n    rules = [\n        Rule(LinkExtractor(allow=r'wiki/((?!:).)*$'), callback='parse_info', follow=True)\n    ]\n\n    def parse_info(self, response):\n        return {\n            \"title\": response.xpath('//h1/text()').get() or response.xpath('//h1/i/text()'),\n            \"url\": response.url,\n            \"last_edited\": response.xpath('//li[@id=\"footer-info-lastmod\"]/text()').get()\n        }\n"
  },
  {
    "path": "02_02_b/article_crawler/scrapy.cfg",
    "content": "# Automatically created by: scrapy startproject\n#\n# For more information about the [deploy] section see:\n# https://scrapyd.readthedocs.io/en/latest/deploy.html\n\n[settings]\ndefault = article_crawler.settings\n\n[deploy]\n#url = http://localhost:6800/\nproject = article_crawler\n"
  },
  {
    "path": "02_02_e/article_crawler/article_crawler/__init__.py",
    "content": ""
  },
  {
    "path": "02_02_e/article_crawler/article_crawler/items.py",
    "content": "# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-\n\n# Define here the models for your scraped items\n#\n# See documentation in:\n# https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/items.html\n\nimport scrapy\n\n\nclass Article(scrapy.Item):\n    title = scrapy.Field()\n    url = scrapy.Field()\n    lastUpdated = scrapy.Field()\n\n"
  },
  {
    "path": "02_02_e/article_crawler/article_crawler/middlewares.py",
    "content": "# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-\n\n# Define here the models for your spider middleware\n#\n# See documentation in:\n# https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/spider-middleware.html\n\nfrom scrapy import signals\n\n\nclass ArticleCrawlerSpiderMiddleware:\n    # Not all methods need to be defined. If a method is not defined,\n    # scrapy acts as if the spider middleware does not modify the\n    # passed objects.\n\n    @classmethod\n    def from_crawler(cls, crawler):\n        # This method is used by Scrapy to create your spiders.\n        s = cls()\n        crawler.signals.connect(s.spider_opened, signal=signals.spider_opened)\n        return s\n\n    def process_spider_input(self, response, spider):\n        # Called for each response that goes through the spider\n        # middleware and into the spider.\n\n        # Should return None or raise an exception.\n        return None\n\n    def process_spider_output(self, response, result, spider):\n        # Called with the results returned from the Spider, after\n        # it has processed the response.\n\n        # Must return an iterable of Request, dict or Item objects.\n        for i in result:\n            yield i\n\n    def process_spider_exception(self, response, exception, spider):\n        # Called when a spider or process_spider_input() method\n        # (from other spider middleware) raises an exception.\n\n        # Should return either None or an iterable of Request, dict\n        # or Item objects.\n        pass\n\n    def process_start_requests(self, start_requests, spider):\n        # Called with the start requests of the spider, and works\n        # similarly to the process_spider_output() method, except\n        # that it doesn’t have a response associated.\n\n        # Must return only requests (not items).\n        for r in start_requests:\n            yield r\n\n    def spider_opened(self, spider):\n        spider.logger.info('Spider opened: %s' % spider.name)\n\n\nclass ArticleCrawlerDownloaderMiddleware:\n    # Not all methods need to be defined. If a method is not defined,\n    # scrapy acts as if the downloader middleware does not modify the\n    # passed objects.\n\n    @classmethod\n    def from_crawler(cls, crawler):\n        # This method is used by Scrapy to create your spiders.\n        s = cls()\n        crawler.signals.connect(s.spider_opened, signal=signals.spider_opened)\n        return s\n\n    def process_request(self, request, spider):\n        # Called for each request that goes through the downloader\n        # middleware.\n\n        # Must either:\n        # - return None: continue processing this request\n        # - or return a Response object\n        # - or return a Request object\n        # - or raise IgnoreRequest: process_exception() methods of\n        #   installed downloader middleware will be called\n        return None\n\n    def process_response(self, request, response, spider):\n        # Called with the response returned from the downloader.\n\n        # Must either;\n        # - return a Response object\n        # - return a Request object\n        # - or raise IgnoreRequest\n        return response\n\n    def process_exception(self, request, exception, spider):\n        # Called when a download handler or a process_request()\n        # (from other downloader middleware) raises an exception.\n\n        # Must either:\n        # - return None: continue processing this exception\n        # - return a Response object: stops process_exception() chain\n        # - return a Request object: stops process_exception() chain\n        pass\n\n    def spider_opened(self, spider):\n        spider.logger.info('Spider opened: %s' % spider.name)\n"
  },
  {
    "path": "02_02_e/article_crawler/article_crawler/pipelines.py",
    "content": "# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-\n\n# Define your item pipelines here\n#\n# Don't forget to add your pipeline to the ITEM_PIPELINES setting\n# See: https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/item-pipeline.html\n\n\nclass ArticleCrawlerPipeline:\n    def process_item(self, item, spider):\n        return item\n"
  },
  {
    "path": "02_02_e/article_crawler/article_crawler/settings.py",
    "content": "# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-\n\n# Scrapy settings for article_crawler project\n#\n# For simplicity, this file contains only settings considered important or\n# commonly used. You can find more settings consulting the documentation:\n#\n#     https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/settings.html\n#     https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/downloader-middleware.html\n#     https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/spider-middleware.html\n\nBOT_NAME = 'article_crawler'\n\nSPIDER_MODULES = ['article_crawler.spiders']\nNEWSPIDER_MODULE = 'article_crawler.spiders'\n\n\n# Crawl responsibly by identifying yourself (and your website) on the user-agent\n#USER_AGENT = 'article_crawler (+http://www.yourdomain.com)'\n\n# Obey robots.txt rules\nROBOTSTXT_OBEY = True\n\n# Configure maximum concurrent requests performed by Scrapy (default: 16)\n#CONCURRENT_REQUESTS = 32\n\n# Configure a delay for requests for the same website (default: 0)\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/settings.html#download-delay\n# See also autothrottle settings and docs\n#DOWNLOAD_DELAY = 3\n# The download delay setting will honor only one of:\n#CONCURRENT_REQUESTS_PER_DOMAIN = 16\n#CONCURRENT_REQUESTS_PER_IP = 16\n\n# Disable cookies (enabled by default)\n#COOKIES_ENABLED = False\n\n# Disable Telnet Console (enabled by default)\n#TELNETCONSOLE_ENABLED = False\n\n# Override the default request headers:\n#DEFAULT_REQUEST_HEADERS = {\n#   'Accept': 'text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8',\n#   'Accept-Language': 'en',\n#}\n\n# Enable or disable spider middlewares\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/spider-middleware.html\n#SPIDER_MIDDLEWARES = {\n#    'article_crawler.middlewares.ArticleCrawlerSpiderMiddleware': 543,\n#}\n\n# Enable or disable downloader middlewares\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/downloader-middleware.html\n#DOWNLOADER_MIDDLEWARES = {\n#    'article_crawler.middlewares.ArticleCrawlerDownloaderMiddleware': 543,\n#}\n\n# Enable or disable extensions\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/extensions.html\n#EXTENSIONS = {\n#    'scrapy.extensions.telnet.TelnetConsole': None,\n#}\n\n# Configure item pipelines\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/item-pipeline.html\n#ITEM_PIPELINES = {\n#    'article_crawler.pipelines.ArticleCrawlerPipeline': 300,\n#}\n\n# Enable and configure the AutoThrottle extension (disabled by default)\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/autothrottle.html\n#AUTOTHROTTLE_ENABLED = True\n# The initial download delay\n#AUTOTHROTTLE_START_DELAY = 5\n# The maximum download delay to be set in case of high latencies\n#AUTOTHROTTLE_MAX_DELAY = 60\n# The average number of requests Scrapy should be sending in parallel to\n# each remote server\n#AUTOTHROTTLE_TARGET_CONCURRENCY = 1.0\n# Enable showing throttling stats for every response received:\n#AUTOTHROTTLE_DEBUG = False\n\n# Enable and configure HTTP caching (disabled by default)\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/downloader-middleware.html#httpcache-middleware-settings\n#HTTPCACHE_ENABLED = True\n#HTTPCACHE_EXPIRATION_SECS = 0\n#HTTPCACHE_DIR = 'httpcache'\n#HTTPCACHE_IGNORE_HTTP_CODES = []\n#HTTPCACHE_STORAGE = 'scrapy.extensions.httpcache.FilesystemCacheStorage'\n"
  },
  {
    "path": "02_02_e/article_crawler/article_crawler/spiders/__init__.py",
    "content": "# This package will contain the spiders of your Scrapy project\n#\n# Please refer to the documentation for information on how to create and manage\n# your spiders.\n"
  },
  {
    "path": "02_02_e/article_crawler/article_crawler/spiders/articles.csv",
    "content": "lastUpdated,title,url\r\n\" This page was last edited on 19 September 2020, at 00:35\",Kevin Bacon,https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Bacon\r\n\" This page was last edited on 21 July 2020, at 00:07\",Screen Actors Guild Awards,https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screen_Actors_Guild_Award\r\n\" This page was last edited on 8 September 2020, at 12:45\",Golden Globe Awards,https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Globe_Award\r\n\" This page was last edited on 18 August 2020, at 20:30\", (TV series),https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Love_Dick_(TV_series)\r\n\" This page was last edited on 6 September 2020, at 23:58\",List of social networking websites,https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_networks\r\n\" This page was last edited on 3 October 2020, at 12:56\",Hollywood Walk of Fame,https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_Walk_of_Fame\r\n\" This page was last edited on 14 August 2020, at 04:30\",Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy,https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Globe_Award_for_Best_Actor_%E2%80%93_Television_Series_Musical_or_Comedy\r\n\" This page was last edited on 22 September 2020, at 10:27\",Primetime Emmy Award,https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primetime_Emmy_Award\r\n\" This page was last edited on 3 September 2020, at 14:05\",[<Selector xpath='//h1/i/text()' data='Taking Chance'>],https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taking_Chance\r\n\" This page was last edited on 1 October 2020, at 12:55\",Academy Awards,https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award\r\n\" This page was last edited on 18 September 2020, at 16:08\",[<Selector xpath='//h1/i/text()' data='The Guardian'>],https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Guardian\r\n\" This page was last edited on 26 May 2020, at 18:28\",Obie Award,https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obie_Award\r\n\" This page was last edited on 5 October 2020, at 13:16\",Richard Dean Anderson,https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Dean_Anderson\r\n\" This page was last edited on 23 July 2020, at 12:44\",Main Page,https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page\r\n\" This page was last edited on 11 September 2020, at 16:17\",[<Selector xpath='//h1/i/text()' data='The Following'>],https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Following\r\n\" This page was last edited on 23 September 2020, at 20:01\", (film),https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriots_Day_(film)\r\n\" This page was last edited on 1 October 2020, at 17:17\", (film),https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Mass_(film)\r\n\" This page was last edited on 6 October 2020, at 15:27\",Fox Broadcasting Company,https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_Broadcasting_Company\r\n\" This page was last edited on 7 October 2020, at 00:10\",HBO,https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HBO\r\n"
  },
  {
    "path": "02_02_e/article_crawler/article_crawler/spiders/wikipedia.py",
    "content": "# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-\nimport scrapy\nfrom scrapy.spiders import CrawlSpider, Rule\nfrom scrapy.linkextractors import LinkExtractor\nfrom article_crawler.items import Article\n\nclass WikipediaSpider(CrawlSpider):\n    name = 'wikipedia'\n    allowed_domains = ['en.wikipedia.org']\n    start_urls = ['https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Bacon']\n\n    rules = [\n        Rule(LinkExtractor(allow=r'wiki/((?!:).)*$'), callback='parse_info', follow=True)\n    ]\n\n    def parse_info(self, response):\n        article = Article()\n        article['title']= response.xpath('//h1/text()').get() or response.xpath('//h1/i/text()')\n        article['url'] = response.url\n\n        article['lastUpdated'] = response.xpath('//li[@id=\"footer-info-lastmod\"]/text()').get()\n        return article\n"
  },
  {
    "path": "02_02_e/article_crawler/scrapy.cfg",
    "content": "# Automatically created by: scrapy startproject\n#\n# For more information about the [deploy] section see:\n# https://scrapyd.readthedocs.io/en/latest/deploy.html\n\n[settings]\ndefault = article_crawler.settings\n\n[deploy]\n#url = http://localhost:6800/\nproject = article_crawler\n"
  },
  {
    "path": "02_03_b/article_crawler/article_crawler/__init__.py",
    "content": ""
  },
  {
    "path": "02_03_b/article_crawler/article_crawler/items.py",
    "content": "# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-\n\n# Define here the models for your scraped items\n#\n# See documentation in:\n# https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/items.html\n\nimport scrapy\n\n\nclass Article(scrapy.Item):\n    title = scrapy.Field()\n    url = scrapy.Field()\n    lastUpdated = scrapy.Field()\n\n"
  },
  {
    "path": "02_03_b/article_crawler/article_crawler/middlewares.py",
    "content": "# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-\n\n# Define here the models for your spider middleware\n#\n# See documentation in:\n# https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/spider-middleware.html\n\nfrom scrapy import signals\n\n\nclass ArticleCrawlerSpiderMiddleware:\n    # Not all methods need to be defined. If a method is not defined,\n    # scrapy acts as if the spider middleware does not modify the\n    # passed objects.\n\n    @classmethod\n    def from_crawler(cls, crawler):\n        # This method is used by Scrapy to create your spiders.\n        s = cls()\n        crawler.signals.connect(s.spider_opened, signal=signals.spider_opened)\n        return s\n\n    def process_spider_input(self, response, spider):\n        # Called for each response that goes through the spider\n        # middleware and into the spider.\n\n        # Should return None or raise an exception.\n        return None\n\n    def process_spider_output(self, response, result, spider):\n        # Called with the results returned from the Spider, after\n        # it has processed the response.\n\n        # Must return an iterable of Request, dict or Item objects.\n        for i in result:\n            yield i\n\n    def process_spider_exception(self, response, exception, spider):\n        # Called when a spider or process_spider_input() method\n        # (from other spider middleware) raises an exception.\n\n        # Should return either None or an iterable of Request, dict\n        # or Item objects.\n        pass\n\n    def process_start_requests(self, start_requests, spider):\n        # Called with the start requests of the spider, and works\n        # similarly to the process_spider_output() method, except\n        # that it doesn’t have a response associated.\n\n        # Must return only requests (not items).\n        for r in start_requests:\n            yield r\n\n    def spider_opened(self, spider):\n        spider.logger.info('Spider opened: %s' % spider.name)\n\n\nclass ArticleCrawlerDownloaderMiddleware:\n    # Not all methods need to be defined. If a method is not defined,\n    # scrapy acts as if the downloader middleware does not modify the\n    # passed objects.\n\n    @classmethod\n    def from_crawler(cls, crawler):\n        # This method is used by Scrapy to create your spiders.\n        s = cls()\n        crawler.signals.connect(s.spider_opened, signal=signals.spider_opened)\n        return s\n\n    def process_request(self, request, spider):\n        # Called for each request that goes through the downloader\n        # middleware.\n\n        # Must either:\n        # - return None: continue processing this request\n        # - or return a Response object\n        # - or return a Request object\n        # - or raise IgnoreRequest: process_exception() methods of\n        #   installed downloader middleware will be called\n        return None\n\n    def process_response(self, request, response, spider):\n        # Called with the response returned from the downloader.\n\n        # Must either;\n        # - return a Response object\n        # - return a Request object\n        # - or raise IgnoreRequest\n        return response\n\n    def process_exception(self, request, exception, spider):\n        # Called when a download handler or a process_request()\n        # (from other downloader middleware) raises an exception.\n\n        # Must either:\n        # - return None: continue processing this exception\n        # - return a Response object: stops process_exception() chain\n        # - return a Request object: stops process_exception() chain\n        pass\n\n    def spider_opened(self, spider):\n        spider.logger.info('Spider opened: %s' % spider.name)\n"
  },
  {
    "path": "02_03_b/article_crawler/article_crawler/pipelines.py",
    "content": "# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-\n\n# Define your item pipelines here\n#\n# Don't forget to add your pipeline to the ITEM_PIPELINES setting\n# See: https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/item-pipeline.html\n\n\nclass ArticleCrawlerPipeline:\n    def process_item(self, item, spider):\n        return item\n"
  },
  {
    "path": "02_03_b/article_crawler/article_crawler/settings.py",
    "content": "# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-\n\n# Scrapy settings for article_crawler project\n#\n# For simplicity, this file contains only settings considered important or\n# commonly used. You can find more settings consulting the documentation:\n#\n#     https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/settings.html\n#     https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/downloader-middleware.html\n#     https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/spider-middleware.html\n\nBOT_NAME = 'article_crawler'\n\nSPIDER_MODULES = ['article_crawler.spiders']\nNEWSPIDER_MODULE = 'article_crawler.spiders'\n\n\n# Crawl responsibly by identifying yourself (and your website) on the user-agent\n#USER_AGENT = 'article_crawler (+http://www.yourdomain.com)'\n\n# Obey robots.txt rules\nROBOTSTXT_OBEY = True\n\n# Configure maximum concurrent requests performed by Scrapy (default: 16)\n#CONCURRENT_REQUESTS = 32\n\n# Configure a delay for requests for the same website (default: 0)\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/settings.html#download-delay\n# See also autothrottle settings and docs\n#DOWNLOAD_DELAY = 3\n# The download delay setting will honor only one of:\n#CONCURRENT_REQUESTS_PER_DOMAIN = 16\n#CONCURRENT_REQUESTS_PER_IP = 16\n\n# Disable cookies (enabled by default)\n#COOKIES_ENABLED = False\n\n# Disable Telnet Console (enabled by default)\n#TELNETCONSOLE_ENABLED = False\n\n# Override the default request headers:\n#DEFAULT_REQUEST_HEADERS = {\n#   'Accept': 'text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8',\n#   'Accept-Language': 'en',\n#}\n\n# Enable or disable spider middlewares\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/spider-middleware.html\n#SPIDER_MIDDLEWARES = {\n#    'article_crawler.middlewares.ArticleCrawlerSpiderMiddleware': 543,\n#}\n\n# Enable or disable downloader middlewares\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/downloader-middleware.html\n#DOWNLOADER_MIDDLEWARES = {\n#    'article_crawler.middlewares.ArticleCrawlerDownloaderMiddleware': 543,\n#}\n\n# Enable or disable extensions\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/extensions.html\n#EXTENSIONS = {\n#    'scrapy.extensions.telnet.TelnetConsole': None,\n#}\n\n# Configure item pipelines\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/item-pipeline.html\n#ITEM_PIPELINES = {\n#    'article_crawler.pipelines.ArticleCrawlerPipeline': 300,\n#}\n\n# Enable and configure the AutoThrottle extension (disabled by default)\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/autothrottle.html\n#AUTOTHROTTLE_ENABLED = True\n# The initial download delay\n#AUTOTHROTTLE_START_DELAY = 5\n# The maximum download delay to be set in case of high latencies\n#AUTOTHROTTLE_MAX_DELAY = 60\n# The average number of requests Scrapy should be sending in parallel to\n# each remote server\n#AUTOTHROTTLE_TARGET_CONCURRENCY = 1.0\n# Enable showing throttling stats for every response received:\n#AUTOTHROTTLE_DEBUG = False\n\n# Enable and configure HTTP caching (disabled by default)\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/downloader-middleware.html#httpcache-middleware-settings\n#HTTPCACHE_ENABLED = True\n#HTTPCACHE_EXPIRATION_SECS = 0\n#HTTPCACHE_DIR = 'httpcache'\n#HTTPCACHE_IGNORE_HTTP_CODES = []\n#HTTPCACHE_STORAGE = 'scrapy.extensions.httpcache.FilesystemCacheStorage'\n"
  },
  {
    "path": "02_03_b/article_crawler/article_crawler/spiders/__init__.py",
    "content": "# This package will contain the spiders of your Scrapy project\n#\n# Please refer to the documentation for information on how to create and manage\n# your spiders.\n"
  },
  {
    "path": "02_03_b/article_crawler/article_crawler/spiders/articles.csv",
    "content": "lastUpdated,title,url\r\n\" This page was last edited on 19 September 2020, at 00:35\",Kevin Bacon,https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Bacon\r\n\" This page was last edited on 21 July 2020, at 00:07\",Screen Actors Guild Awards,https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screen_Actors_Guild_Award\r\n\" This page was last edited on 8 September 2020, at 12:45\",Golden Globe Awards,https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Globe_Award\r\n\" This page was last edited on 18 August 2020, at 20:30\", (TV series),https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Love_Dick_(TV_series)\r\n\" This page was last edited on 6 September 2020, at 23:58\",List of social networking websites,https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_networks\r\n\" This page was last edited on 3 October 2020, at 12:56\",Hollywood Walk of Fame,https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_Walk_of_Fame\r\n\" This page was last edited on 14 August 2020, at 04:30\",Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy,https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Globe_Award_for_Best_Actor_%E2%80%93_Television_Series_Musical_or_Comedy\r\n\" This page was last edited on 22 September 2020, at 10:27\",Primetime Emmy Award,https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primetime_Emmy_Award\r\n\" This page was last edited on 3 September 2020, at 14:05\",[<Selector xpath='//h1/i/text()' data='Taking Chance'>],https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taking_Chance\r\n\" This page was last edited on 1 October 2020, at 12:55\",Academy Awards,https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award\r\n\" This page was last edited on 18 September 2020, at 16:08\",[<Selector xpath='//h1/i/text()' data='The Guardian'>],https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Guardian\r\n\" This page was last edited on 26 May 2020, at 18:28\",Obie Award,https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obie_Award\r\n\" This page was last edited on 5 October 2020, at 13:16\",Richard Dean Anderson,https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Dean_Anderson\r\n\" This page was last edited on 23 July 2020, at 12:44\",Main Page,https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page\r\n\" This page was last edited on 11 September 2020, at 16:17\",[<Selector xpath='//h1/i/text()' data='The Following'>],https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Following\r\n\" This page was last edited on 23 September 2020, at 20:01\", (film),https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriots_Day_(film)\r\n\" This page was last edited on 1 October 2020, at 17:17\", (film),https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Mass_(film)\r\n\" This page was last edited on 6 October 2020, at 15:27\",Fox Broadcasting Company,https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_Broadcasting_Company\r\n\" This page was last edited on 7 October 2020, at 00:10\",HBO,https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HBO\r\n"
  },
  {
    "path": "02_03_b/article_crawler/article_crawler/spiders/wikipedia.py",
    "content": "# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-\nimport scrapy\nfrom scrapy.spiders import CrawlSpider, Rule\nfrom scrapy.linkextractors import LinkExtractor\nfrom article_crawler.items import Article\n\nclass WikipediaSpider(CrawlSpider):\n    name = 'wikipedia'\n    allowed_domains = ['en.wikipedia.org']\n    start_urls = ['https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Bacon']\n\n    rules = [\n        Rule(LinkExtractor(allow=r'wiki/((?!:).)*$'), callback='parse_info', follow=True)\n    ]\n\n    def parse_info(self, response):\n        article = Article()\n        article['title']= response.xpath('//h1/text()').get() or response.xpath('//h1/i/text()')\n        article['url'] = response.url\n\n        article['lastUpdated'] = response.xpath('//li[@id=\"footer-info-lastmod\"]/text()').get()\n        return article\n"
  },
  {
    "path": "02_03_b/article_crawler/scrapy.cfg",
    "content": "# Automatically created by: scrapy startproject\n#\n# For more information about the [deploy] section see:\n# https://scrapyd.readthedocs.io/en/latest/deploy.html\n\n[settings]\ndefault = article_crawler.settings\n\n[deploy]\n#url = http://localhost:6800/\nproject = article_crawler\n"
  },
  {
    "path": "02_03_e/article_crawler/article_crawler/__init__.py",
    "content": ""
  },
  {
    "path": "02_03_e/article_crawler/article_crawler/items.py",
    "content": "# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-\n\n# Define here the models for your scraped items\n#\n# See documentation in:\n# https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/items.html\n\nimport scrapy\n\n\nclass Article(scrapy.Item):\n    title = scrapy.Field()\n    url = scrapy.Field()\n    lastUpdated = scrapy.Field()\n\n"
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    "path": "02_03_e/article_crawler/article_crawler/middlewares.py",
    "content": "# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-\n\n# Define here the models for your spider middleware\n#\n# See documentation in:\n# https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/spider-middleware.html\n\nfrom scrapy import signals\n\n\nclass ArticleCrawlerSpiderMiddleware:\n    # Not all methods need to be defined. If a method is not defined,\n    # scrapy acts as if the spider middleware does not modify the\n    # passed objects.\n\n    @classmethod\n    def from_crawler(cls, crawler):\n        # This method is used by Scrapy to create your spiders.\n        s = cls()\n        crawler.signals.connect(s.spider_opened, signal=signals.spider_opened)\n        return s\n\n    def process_spider_input(self, response, spider):\n        # Called for each response that goes through the spider\n        # middleware and into the spider.\n\n        # Should return None or raise an exception.\n        return None\n\n    def process_spider_output(self, response, result, spider):\n        # Called with the results returned from the Spider, after\n        # it has processed the response.\n\n        # Must return an iterable of Request, dict or Item objects.\n        for i in result:\n            yield i\n\n    def process_spider_exception(self, response, exception, spider):\n        # Called when a spider or process_spider_input() method\n        # (from other spider middleware) raises an exception.\n\n        # Should return either None or an iterable of Request, dict\n        # or Item objects.\n        pass\n\n    def process_start_requests(self, start_requests, spider):\n        # Called with the start requests of the spider, and works\n        # similarly to the process_spider_output() method, except\n        # that it doesn’t have a response associated.\n\n        # Must return only requests (not items).\n        for r in start_requests:\n            yield r\n\n    def spider_opened(self, spider):\n        spider.logger.info('Spider opened: %s' % spider.name)\n\n\nclass ArticleCrawlerDownloaderMiddleware:\n    # Not all methods need to be defined. If a method is not defined,\n    # scrapy acts as if the downloader middleware does not modify the\n    # passed objects.\n\n    @classmethod\n    def from_crawler(cls, crawler):\n        # This method is used by Scrapy to create your spiders.\n        s = cls()\n        crawler.signals.connect(s.spider_opened, signal=signals.spider_opened)\n        return s\n\n    def process_request(self, request, spider):\n        # Called for each request that goes through the downloader\n        # middleware.\n\n        # Must either:\n        # - return None: continue processing this request\n        # - or return a Response object\n        # - or return a Request object\n        # - or raise IgnoreRequest: process_exception() methods of\n        #   installed downloader middleware will be called\n        return None\n\n    def process_response(self, request, response, spider):\n        # Called with the response returned from the downloader.\n\n        # Must either;\n        # - return a Response object\n        # - return a Request object\n        # - or raise IgnoreRequest\n        return response\n\n    def process_exception(self, request, exception, spider):\n        # Called when a download handler or a process_request()\n        # (from other downloader middleware) raises an exception.\n\n        # Must either:\n        # - return None: continue processing this exception\n        # - return a Response object: stops process_exception() chain\n        # - return a Request object: stops process_exception() chain\n        pass\n\n    def spider_opened(self, spider):\n        spider.logger.info('Spider opened: %s' % spider.name)\n"
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    "path": "02_03_e/article_crawler/article_crawler/pipelines.py",
    "content": "# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-\n\n# Define your item pipelines here\n#\n# Don't forget to add your pipeline to the ITEM_PIPELINES setting\n# See: https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/item-pipeline.html\n\n\nclass ArticleCrawlerPipeline:\n    def process_item(self, item, spider):\n        return item\n"
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    "path": "02_03_e/article_crawler/article_crawler/settings.py",
    "content": "# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-\n\n# Scrapy settings for article_crawler project\n#\n# For simplicity, this file contains only settings considered important or\n# commonly used. You can find more settings consulting the documentation:\n#\n#     https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/settings.html\n#     https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/downloader-middleware.html\n#     https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/spider-middleware.html\n\nBOT_NAME = 'article_crawler'\n\nCLOSESPIDER_PAGECOUNT=10\n\nFEED_URI='articles.json'\nFEED_FORMAT='json'\n\nSPIDER_MODULES = ['article_crawler.spiders']\nNEWSPIDER_MODULE = 'article_crawler.spiders'\n\n\n# Crawl responsibly by identifying yourself (and your website) on the user-agent\n#USER_AGENT = 'article_crawler (+http://www.yourdomain.com)'\n\n# Obey robots.txt rules\nROBOTSTXT_OBEY = True\n\n# Configure maximum concurrent requests performed by Scrapy (default: 16)\n#CONCURRENT_REQUESTS = 32\n\n# Configure a delay for requests for the same website (default: 0)\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/settings.html#download-delay\n# See also autothrottle settings and docs\n#DOWNLOAD_DELAY = 3\n# The download delay setting will honor only one of:\n#CONCURRENT_REQUESTS_PER_DOMAIN = 16\n#CONCURRENT_REQUESTS_PER_IP = 16\n\n# Disable cookies (enabled by default)\n#COOKIES_ENABLED = False\n\n# Disable Telnet Console (enabled by default)\n#TELNETCONSOLE_ENABLED = False\n\n# Override the default request headers:\n#DEFAULT_REQUEST_HEADERS = {\n#   'Accept': 'text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8',\n#   'Accept-Language': 'en',\n#}\n\n# Enable or disable spider middlewares\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/spider-middleware.html\n#SPIDER_MIDDLEWARES = {\n#    'article_crawler.middlewares.ArticleCrawlerSpiderMiddleware': 543,\n#}\n\n# Enable or disable downloader middlewares\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/downloader-middleware.html\n#DOWNLOADER_MIDDLEWARES = {\n#    'article_crawler.middlewares.ArticleCrawlerDownloaderMiddleware': 543,\n#}\n\n# Enable or disable extensions\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/extensions.html\n#EXTENSIONS = {\n#    'scrapy.extensions.telnet.TelnetConsole': None,\n#}\n\n# Configure item pipelines\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/item-pipeline.html\n#ITEM_PIPELINES = {\n#    'article_crawler.pipelines.ArticleCrawlerPipeline': 300,\n#}\n\n# Enable and configure the AutoThrottle extension (disabled by default)\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/autothrottle.html\n#AUTOTHROTTLE_ENABLED = True\n# The initial download delay\n#AUTOTHROTTLE_START_DELAY = 5\n# The maximum download delay to be set in case of high latencies\n#AUTOTHROTTLE_MAX_DELAY = 60\n# The average number of requests Scrapy should be sending in parallel to\n# each remote server\n#AUTOTHROTTLE_TARGET_CONCURRENCY = 1.0\n# Enable showing throttling stats for every response received:\n#AUTOTHROTTLE_DEBUG = False\n\n# Enable and configure HTTP caching (disabled by default)\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/downloader-middleware.html#httpcache-middleware-settings\n#HTTPCACHE_ENABLED = True\n#HTTPCACHE_EXPIRATION_SECS = 0\n#HTTPCACHE_DIR = 'httpcache'\n#HTTPCACHE_IGNORE_HTTP_CODES = []\n#HTTPCACHE_STORAGE = 'scrapy.extensions.httpcache.FilesystemCacheStorage'\n"
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    "path": "02_03_e/article_crawler/article_crawler/spiders/__init__.py",
    "content": "# This package will contain the spiders of your Scrapy project\n#\n# Please refer to the documentation for information on how to create and manage\n# your spiders.\n"
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    "path": "02_03_e/article_crawler/article_crawler/spiders/wikipedia.py",
    "content": "# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-\nimport scrapy\nfrom scrapy.spiders import CrawlSpider, Rule\nfrom scrapy.linkextractors import LinkExtractor\nfrom article_crawler.items import Article\n\nclass WikipediaSpider(CrawlSpider):\n    name = 'wikipedia'\n    allowed_domains = ['en.wikipedia.org']\n    start_urls = ['https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Bacon']\n\n    rules = [\n        Rule(LinkExtractor(allow=r'wiki/((?!:).)*$'), callback='parse_info', follow=True)\n    ]\n\n    custom_settings={\n        'FEED_URI': 'articles.xml',\n        'FEED_FORMAT': 'xml'\n    }\n\n    def parse_info(self, response):\n        article = Article()\n        article['title']= response.xpath('//h1/text()').get() or response.xpath('//h1/i/text()')\n        article['url'] = response.url\n\n        article['lastUpdated'] = response.xpath('//li[@id=\"footer-info-lastmod\"]/text()').get()\n        return article\n"
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    "path": "02_03_e/article_crawler/scrapy.cfg",
    "content": "# Automatically created by: scrapy startproject\n#\n# For more information about the [deploy] section see:\n# https://scrapyd.readthedocs.io/en/latest/deploy.html\n\n[settings]\ndefault = article_crawler.settings\n\n[deploy]\n#url = http://localhost:6800/\nproject = article_crawler\n"
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    "path": "02_04_b/article_crawler/article_crawler/__init__.py",
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    "path": "02_04_b/article_crawler/article_crawler/items.py",
    "content": "# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-\n\n# Define here the models for your scraped items\n#\n# See documentation in:\n# https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/items.html\n\nimport scrapy\n\n\nclass Article(scrapy.Item):\n    title = scrapy.Field()\n    url = scrapy.Field()\n    lastUpdated = scrapy.Field()\n\n"
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    "path": "02_04_b/article_crawler/article_crawler/middlewares.py",
    "content": "# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-\n\n# Define here the models for your spider middleware\n#\n# See documentation in:\n# https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/spider-middleware.html\n\nfrom scrapy import signals\n\n\nclass ArticleCrawlerSpiderMiddleware:\n    # Not all methods need to be defined. If a method is not defined,\n    # scrapy acts as if the spider middleware does not modify the\n    # passed objects.\n\n    @classmethod\n    def from_crawler(cls, crawler):\n        # This method is used by Scrapy to create your spiders.\n        s = cls()\n        crawler.signals.connect(s.spider_opened, signal=signals.spider_opened)\n        return s\n\n    def process_spider_input(self, response, spider):\n        # Called for each response that goes through the spider\n        # middleware and into the spider.\n\n        # Should return None or raise an exception.\n        return None\n\n    def process_spider_output(self, response, result, spider):\n        # Called with the results returned from the Spider, after\n        # it has processed the response.\n\n        # Must return an iterable of Request, dict or Item objects.\n        for i in result:\n            yield i\n\n    def process_spider_exception(self, response, exception, spider):\n        # Called when a spider or process_spider_input() method\n        # (from other spider middleware) raises an exception.\n\n        # Should return either None or an iterable of Request, dict\n        # or Item objects.\n        pass\n\n    def process_start_requests(self, start_requests, spider):\n        # Called with the start requests of the spider, and works\n        # similarly to the process_spider_output() method, except\n        # that it doesn’t have a response associated.\n\n        # Must return only requests (not items).\n        for r in start_requests:\n            yield r\n\n    def spider_opened(self, spider):\n        spider.logger.info('Spider opened: %s' % spider.name)\n\n\nclass ArticleCrawlerDownloaderMiddleware:\n    # Not all methods need to be defined. If a method is not defined,\n    # scrapy acts as if the downloader middleware does not modify the\n    # passed objects.\n\n    @classmethod\n    def from_crawler(cls, crawler):\n        # This method is used by Scrapy to create your spiders.\n        s = cls()\n        crawler.signals.connect(s.spider_opened, signal=signals.spider_opened)\n        return s\n\n    def process_request(self, request, spider):\n        # Called for each request that goes through the downloader\n        # middleware.\n\n        # Must either:\n        # - return None: continue processing this request\n        # - or return a Response object\n        # - or return a Request object\n        # - or raise IgnoreRequest: process_exception() methods of\n        #   installed downloader middleware will be called\n        return None\n\n    def process_response(self, request, response, spider):\n        # Called with the response returned from the downloader.\n\n        # Must either;\n        # - return a Response object\n        # - return a Request object\n        # - or raise IgnoreRequest\n        return response\n\n    def process_exception(self, request, exception, spider):\n        # Called when a download handler or a process_request()\n        # (from other downloader middleware) raises an exception.\n\n        # Must either:\n        # - return None: continue processing this exception\n        # - return a Response object: stops process_exception() chain\n        # - return a Request object: stops process_exception() chain\n        pass\n\n    def spider_opened(self, spider):\n        spider.logger.info('Spider opened: %s' % spider.name)\n"
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    "path": "02_04_b/article_crawler/article_crawler/pipelines.py",
    "content": "# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-\n\n# Define your item pipelines here\n#\n# Don't forget to add your pipeline to the ITEM_PIPELINES setting\n# See: https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/item-pipeline.html\n\n\nclass ArticleCrawlerPipeline:\n    def process_item(self, item, spider):\n        return item\n"
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    "path": "02_04_b/article_crawler/article_crawler/settings.py",
    "content": "# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-\n\n# Scrapy settings for article_crawler project\n#\n# For simplicity, this file contains only settings considered important or\n# commonly used. You can find more settings consulting the documentation:\n#\n#     https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/settings.html\n#     https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/downloader-middleware.html\n#     https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/spider-middleware.html\n\nBOT_NAME = 'article_crawler'\n\nCLOSESPIDER_PAGECOUNT=10\n\nFEED_URI='articles.json'\nFEED_FORMAT='json'\n\nSPIDER_MODULES = ['article_crawler.spiders']\nNEWSPIDER_MODULE = 'article_crawler.spiders'\n\n\n# Crawl responsibly by identifying yourself (and your website) on the user-agent\n#USER_AGENT = 'article_crawler (+http://www.yourdomain.com)'\n\n# Obey robots.txt rules\nROBOTSTXT_OBEY = True\n\n# Configure maximum concurrent requests performed by Scrapy (default: 16)\n#CONCURRENT_REQUESTS = 32\n\n# Configure a delay for requests for the same website (default: 0)\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/settings.html#download-delay\n# See also autothrottle settings and docs\n#DOWNLOAD_DELAY = 3\n# The download delay setting will honor only one of:\n#CONCURRENT_REQUESTS_PER_DOMAIN = 16\n#CONCURRENT_REQUESTS_PER_IP = 16\n\n# Disable cookies (enabled by default)\n#COOKIES_ENABLED = False\n\n# Disable Telnet Console (enabled by default)\n#TELNETCONSOLE_ENABLED = False\n\n# Override the default request headers:\n#DEFAULT_REQUEST_HEADERS = {\n#   'Accept': 'text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8',\n#   'Accept-Language': 'en',\n#}\n\n# Enable or disable spider middlewares\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/spider-middleware.html\n#SPIDER_MIDDLEWARES = {\n#    'article_crawler.middlewares.ArticleCrawlerSpiderMiddleware': 543,\n#}\n\n# Enable or disable downloader middlewares\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/downloader-middleware.html\n#DOWNLOADER_MIDDLEWARES = {\n#    'article_crawler.middlewares.ArticleCrawlerDownloaderMiddleware': 543,\n#}\n\n# Enable or disable extensions\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/extensions.html\n#EXTENSIONS = {\n#    'scrapy.extensions.telnet.TelnetConsole': None,\n#}\n\n# Configure item pipelines\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/item-pipeline.html\n#ITEM_PIPELINES = {\n#    'article_crawler.pipelines.ArticleCrawlerPipeline': 300,\n#}\n\n# Enable and configure the AutoThrottle extension (disabled by default)\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/autothrottle.html\n#AUTOTHROTTLE_ENABLED = True\n# The initial download delay\n#AUTOTHROTTLE_START_DELAY = 5\n# The maximum download delay to be set in case of high latencies\n#AUTOTHROTTLE_MAX_DELAY = 60\n# The average number of requests Scrapy should be sending in parallel to\n# each remote server\n#AUTOTHROTTLE_TARGET_CONCURRENCY = 1.0\n# Enable showing throttling stats for every response received:\n#AUTOTHROTTLE_DEBUG = False\n\n# Enable and configure HTTP caching (disabled by default)\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/downloader-middleware.html#httpcache-middleware-settings\n#HTTPCACHE_ENABLED = True\n#HTTPCACHE_EXPIRATION_SECS = 0\n#HTTPCACHE_DIR = 'httpcache'\n#HTTPCACHE_IGNORE_HTTP_CODES = []\n#HTTPCACHE_STORAGE = 'scrapy.extensions.httpcache.FilesystemCacheStorage'\n"
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    "path": "02_04_b/article_crawler/article_crawler/spiders/__init__.py",
    "content": "# This package will contain the spiders of your Scrapy project\n#\n# Please refer to the documentation for information on how to create and manage\n# your spiders.\n"
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    "path": "02_04_b/article_crawler/article_crawler/spiders/articles.csv",
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    "content": "# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-\nimport scrapy\nfrom scrapy.spiders import CrawlSpider, Rule\nfrom scrapy.linkextractors import LinkExtractor\nfrom article_crawler.items import Article\n\nclass WikipediaSpider(CrawlSpider):\n    name = 'wikipedia'\n    allowed_domains = ['en.wikipedia.org']\n    start_urls = ['https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Bacon']\n\n    rules = [\n        Rule(LinkExtractor(allow=r'wiki/((?!:).)*$'), callback='parse_info', follow=True)\n    ]\n\n    custom_settings={\n        'FEED_URI': 'articles.xml',\n        'FEED_FORMAT': 'xml'\n    }\n\n    def parse_info(self, response):\n        article = Article()\n        article['title']= response.xpath('//h1/text()').get() or response.xpath('//h1/i/text()')\n        article['url'] = response.url\n\n        article['lastUpdated'] = response.xpath('//li[@id=\"footer-info-lastmod\"]/text()').get()\n        return article\n"
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    "content": "# Automatically created by: scrapy startproject\n#\n# For more information about the [deploy] section see:\n# https://scrapyd.readthedocs.io/en/latest/deploy.html\n\n[settings]\ndefault = article_crawler.settings\n\n[deploy]\n#url = http://localhost:6800/\nproject = article_crawler\n"
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    "path": "02_04_e/article_crawler/article_crawler/items.py",
    "content": "# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-\n\n# Define here the models for your scraped items\n#\n# See documentation in:\n# https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/items.html\n\nimport scrapy\n\n\nclass Article(scrapy.Item):\n    title = scrapy.Field()\n    url = scrapy.Field()\n    lastUpdated = scrapy.Field()\n\n"
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    "path": "02_04_e/article_crawler/article_crawler/middlewares.py",
    "content": "# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-\n\n# Define here the models for your spider middleware\n#\n# See documentation in:\n# https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/spider-middleware.html\n\nfrom scrapy import signals\n\n\nclass ArticleCrawlerSpiderMiddleware:\n    # Not all methods need to be defined. If a method is not defined,\n    # scrapy acts as if the spider middleware does not modify the\n    # passed objects.\n\n    @classmethod\n    def from_crawler(cls, crawler):\n        # This method is used by Scrapy to create your spiders.\n        s = cls()\n        crawler.signals.connect(s.spider_opened, signal=signals.spider_opened)\n        return s\n\n    def process_spider_input(self, response, spider):\n        # Called for each response that goes through the spider\n        # middleware and into the spider.\n\n        # Should return None or raise an exception.\n        return None\n\n    def process_spider_output(self, response, result, spider):\n        # Called with the results returned from the Spider, after\n        # it has processed the response.\n\n        # Must return an iterable of Request, dict or Item objects.\n        for i in result:\n            yield i\n\n    def process_spider_exception(self, response, exception, spider):\n        # Called when a spider or process_spider_input() method\n        # (from other spider middleware) raises an exception.\n\n        # Should return either None or an iterable of Request, dict\n        # or Item objects.\n        pass\n\n    def process_start_requests(self, start_requests, spider):\n        # Called with the start requests of the spider, and works\n        # similarly to the process_spider_output() method, except\n        # that it doesn’t have a response associated.\n\n        # Must return only requests (not items).\n        for r in start_requests:\n            yield r\n\n    def spider_opened(self, spider):\n        spider.logger.info('Spider opened: %s' % spider.name)\n\n\nclass ArticleCrawlerDownloaderMiddleware:\n    # Not all methods need to be defined. If a method is not defined,\n    # scrapy acts as if the downloader middleware does not modify the\n    # passed objects.\n\n    @classmethod\n    def from_crawler(cls, crawler):\n        # This method is used by Scrapy to create your spiders.\n        s = cls()\n        crawler.signals.connect(s.spider_opened, signal=signals.spider_opened)\n        return s\n\n    def process_request(self, request, spider):\n        # Called for each request that goes through the downloader\n        # middleware.\n\n        # Must either:\n        # - return None: continue processing this request\n        # - or return a Response object\n        # - or return a Request object\n        # - or raise IgnoreRequest: process_exception() methods of\n        #   installed downloader middleware will be called\n        return None\n\n    def process_response(self, request, response, spider):\n        # Called with the response returned from the downloader.\n\n        # Must either;\n        # - return a Response object\n        # - return a Request object\n        # - or raise IgnoreRequest\n        return response\n\n    def process_exception(self, request, exception, spider):\n        # Called when a download handler or a process_request()\n        # (from other downloader middleware) raises an exception.\n\n        # Must either:\n        # - return None: continue processing this exception\n        # - return a Response object: stops process_exception() chain\n        # - return a Request object: stops process_exception() chain\n        pass\n\n    def spider_opened(self, spider):\n        spider.logger.info('Spider opened: %s' % spider.name)\n"
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    "path": "02_04_e/article_crawler/article_crawler/pipelines.py",
    "content": "# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-\n\n# Define your item pipelines here\n#\n# Don't forget to add your pipeline to the ITEM_PIPELINES setting\n# See: https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/item-pipeline.html\n\nfrom scrapy.exceptions import DropItem\nfrom datetime import datetime\n\nclass CheckItemPipeline:\n    def process_item(self, article, spider):\n        if not article['lastUPdated'] or not article['url'] or not article['title']:\n            raise DropItem('Missing something!')\n        return article\n\n\nclass CleanDatePipeline:\n    def process_item(self, article, spider):\n        article['lastUpdated'].replace('This page was last edited on', '').strip()\n        article['lastUpdated'] = datetime.strptime(article['lastUpdated'], '%d %B %Y, at %H:%M')\n        return article\n"
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    "path": "02_04_e/article_crawler/article_crawler/spiders/wikipedia.py",
    "content": "# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-\nimport scrapy\nfrom scrapy.spiders import CrawlSpider, Rule\nfrom scrapy.linkextractors import LinkExtractor\nfrom article_crawler.items import Article\n\nclass WikipediaSpider(CrawlSpider):\n    name = 'wikipedia'\n    allowed_domains = ['en.wikipedia.org']\n    start_urls = ['https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Bacon']\n\n    rules = [\n        Rule(LinkExtractor(allow=r'wiki/((?!:).)*$'), callback='parse_info', follow=True)\n    ]\n\n    custom_settings={\n        'FEED_URI': 'articles.xml',\n        'FEED_FORMAT': 'xml'\n    }\n\n    def parse_info(self, response):\n        article = Article()\n        article['title']= response.xpath('//h1/text()').get() or response.xpath('//h1/i/text()')\n        article['url'] = response.url\n\n        article['lastUpdated'] = response.xpath('//li[@id=\"footer-info-lastmod\"]/text()').get()\n        return article\n"
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    "path": "02_04_e/article_crawler/scrapy.cfg",
    "content": "# Automatically created by: scrapy startproject\n#\n# For more information about the [deploy] section see:\n# https://scrapyd.readthedocs.io/en/latest/deploy.html\n\n[settings]\ndefault = article_crawler.settings\n\n[deploy]\n#url = http://localhost:6800/\nproject = article_crawler\n"
  },
  {
    "path": "02_05/news_scraper/news_scraper/__init__.py",
    "content": ""
  },
  {
    "path": "02_05/news_scraper/news_scraper/items.py",
    "content": "# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-\n\n# Define here the models for your scraped items\n#\n# See documentation in:\n# https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/items.html\n\nimport scrapy\n\n\nclass NewsArticle(scrapy.Item):\n    url = scrapy.Field()\n    source = scrapy.Field()\n    title = scrapy.Field()\n    description = scrapy.Field()\n    date = scrapy.Field()\n    author = scrapy.Field()\n    text = scrapy.Field()\n"
  },
  {
    "path": "02_05/news_scraper/news_scraper/middlewares.py",
    "content": "# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-\n\n# Define here the models for your spider middleware\n#\n# See documentation in:\n# https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/spider-middleware.html\n\nfrom scrapy import signals\n\n\nclass NewsScraperSpiderMiddleware:\n    # Not all methods need to be defined. If a method is not defined,\n    # scrapy acts as if the spider middleware does not modify the\n    # passed objects.\n\n    @classmethod\n    def from_crawler(cls, crawler):\n        # This method is used by Scrapy to create your spiders.\n        s = cls()\n        crawler.signals.connect(s.spider_opened, signal=signals.spider_opened)\n        return s\n\n    def process_spider_input(self, response, spider):\n        # Called for each response that goes through the spider\n        # middleware and into the spider.\n\n        # Should return None or raise an exception.\n        return None\n\n    def process_spider_output(self, response, result, spider):\n        # Called with the results returned from the Spider, after\n        # it has processed the response.\n\n        # Must return an iterable of Request, dict or Item objects.\n        for i in result:\n            yield i\n\n    def process_spider_exception(self, response, exception, spider):\n        # Called when a spider or process_spider_input() method\n        # (from other spider middleware) raises an exception.\n\n        # Should return either None or an iterable of Request, dict\n        # or Item objects.\n        pass\n\n    def process_start_requests(self, start_requests, spider):\n        # Called with the start requests of the spider, and works\n        # similarly to the process_spider_output() method, except\n        # that it doesn’t have a response associated.\n\n        # Must return only requests (not items).\n        for r in start_requests:\n            yield r\n\n    def spider_opened(self, spider):\n        spider.logger.info('Spider opened: %s' % spider.name)\n\n\nclass NewsScraperDownloaderMiddleware:\n    # Not all methods need to be defined. If a method is not defined,\n    # scrapy acts as if the downloader middleware does not modify the\n    # passed objects.\n\n    @classmethod\n    def from_crawler(cls, crawler):\n        # This method is used by Scrapy to create your spiders.\n        s = cls()\n        crawler.signals.connect(s.spider_opened, signal=signals.spider_opened)\n        return s\n\n    def process_request(self, request, spider):\n        # Called for each request that goes through the downloader\n        # middleware.\n\n        # Must either:\n        # - return None: continue processing this request\n        # - or return a Response object\n        # - or return a Request object\n        # - or raise IgnoreRequest: process_exception() methods of\n        #   installed downloader middleware will be called\n        return None\n\n    def process_response(self, request, response, spider):\n        # Called with the response returned from the downloader.\n\n        # Must either;\n        # - return a Response object\n        # - return a Request object\n        # - or raise IgnoreRequest\n        return response\n\n    def process_exception(self, request, exception, spider):\n        # Called when a download handler or a process_request()\n        # (from other downloader middleware) raises an exception.\n\n        # Must either:\n        # - return None: continue processing this exception\n        # - return a Response object: stops process_exception() chain\n        # - return a Request object: stops process_exception() chain\n        pass\n\n    def spider_opened(self, spider):\n        spider.logger.info('Spider opened: %s' % spider.name)\n"
  },
  {
    "path": "02_05/news_scraper/news_scraper/pipelines.py",
    "content": "# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-\nfrom datetime import datetime\n\nclass NewsScraperPipeline:\n    def process_item(self, item, spider):\n        item.date = datetime.strptime(item.date.split('T')[0], '%Y-%B-%D')\n        item.author = item.author.replace(', CNN', '')\n        item.text = [text.strip() for text in item.text]\n        return item\n"
  },
  {
    "path": "02_05/news_scraper/news_scraper/settings.py",
    "content": "# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-\n\n# Scrapy settings for news_scraper project\n#\n# For simplicity, this file contains only settings considered important or\n# commonly used. You can find more settings consulting the documentation:\n#\n#     https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/settings.html\n#     https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/downloader-middleware.html\n#     https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/spider-middleware.html\n\nBOT_NAME = 'news_scraper'\n\nSPIDER_MODULES = ['news_scraper.spiders']\nNEWSPIDER_MODULE = 'news_scraper.spiders'\n\nCLOSESPIDER_PAGECOUNT=10\n\nFEED_URI='news_articles.json'\nFEED_FORMAT='json'\n\n# Crawl responsibly by identifying yourself (and your website) on the user-agent\n#USER_AGENT = 'news_scraper (+http://www.yourdomain.com)'\n\n# Obey robots.txt rules\nROBOTSTXT_OBEY = False\n\n# Configure maximum concurrent requests performed by Scrapy (default: 16)\n#CONCURRENT_REQUESTS = 32\n\n# Configure a delay for requests for the same website (default: 0)\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/settings.html#download-delay\n# See also autothrottle settings and docs\n#DOWNLOAD_DELAY = 3\n# The download delay setting will honor only one of:\n#CONCURRENT_REQUESTS_PER_DOMAIN = 16\n#CONCURRENT_REQUESTS_PER_IP = 16\n\n# Disable cookies (enabled by default)\n#COOKIES_ENABLED = False\n\n# Disable Telnet Console (enabled by default)\n#TELNETCONSOLE_ENABLED = False\n\n# Override the default request headers:\n#DEFAULT_REQUEST_HEADERS = {\n#   'Accept': 'text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8',\n#   'Accept-Language': 'en',\n#}\n\n# Enable or disable spider middlewares\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/spider-middleware.html\n#SPIDER_MIDDLEWARES = {\n#    'news_scraper.middlewares.NewsScraperSpiderMiddleware': 543,\n#}\n\n# Enable or disable downloader middlewares\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/downloader-middleware.html\n#DOWNLOADER_MIDDLEWARES = {\n#    'news_scraper.middlewares.NewsScraperDownloaderMiddleware': 543,\n#}\n\n# Enable or disable extensions\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/extensions.html\n#EXTENSIONS = {\n#    'scrapy.extensions.telnet.TelnetConsole': None,\n#}\n\n# Configure item pipelines\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/item-pipeline.html\n#ITEM_PIPELINES = {\n#    'news_scraper.pipelines.NewsScraperPipeline': 300,\n#}\n\n# Enable and configure the AutoThrottle extension (disabled by default)\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/autothrottle.html\n#AUTOTHROTTLE_ENABLED = True\n# The initial download delay\n#AUTOTHROTTLE_START_DELAY = 5\n# The maximum download delay to be set in case of high latencies\n#AUTOTHROTTLE_MAX_DELAY = 60\n# The average number of requests Scrapy should be sending in parallel to\n# each remote server\n#AUTOTHROTTLE_TARGET_CONCURRENCY = 1.0\n# Enable showing throttling stats for every response received:\n#AUTOTHROTTLE_DEBUG = False\n\n# Enable and configure HTTP caching (disabled by default)\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/downloader-middleware.html#httpcache-middleware-settings\n#HTTPCACHE_ENABLED = True\n#HTTPCACHE_EXPIRATION_SECS = 0\n#HTTPCACHE_DIR = 'httpcache'\n#HTTPCACHE_IGNORE_HTTP_CODES = []\n#HTTPCACHE_STORAGE = 'scrapy.extensions.httpcache.FilesystemCacheStorage'\n"
  },
  {
    "path": "02_05/news_scraper/news_scraper/spiders/__init__.py",
    "content": "# This package will contain the spiders of your Scrapy project\n#\n# Please refer to the documentation for information on how to create and manage\n# your spiders.\n"
  },
  {
    "path": "02_05/news_scraper/news_scraper/spiders/associated_press.py",
    "content": "# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-\nfrom scrapy.spiders import CrawlSpider, Rule\nfrom scrapy.linkextractors import LinkExtractor\nfrom news_scraper.items import NewsArticle\nimport json \n\nclass AssociatedPressSpider(CrawlSpider):\n    name = 'associated_press'\n    allowed_domains = ['apnews.com']\n    start_urls = ['http://apnews.com/']\n    rules = [Rule(LinkExtractor(allow=r'\\/article\\/[a-zA-Z\\-]+\\-[a-zA-Z0-9]{32}'), callback='parse_item', follow=True)]\n\n    def parse_item(self, response):\n        article = NewsArticle()\n        # <script data-rh=\"true\">\n        article['url'] = response.url\n        article['source'] = 'Associated Press'\n\n        jsonData = json.loads(response.xpath('//script[@data-rh=\"true\"]/text()').get())\n        article['title'] = jsonData['headline']\n        article['description'] = jsonData['description']\n        article['date'] = jsonData['datePublished']\n        article['author'] = jsonData['author'][0]\n        article['text'] = response.xpath('//div[@class=\"Article\"]/p/text()').getall()\n        return article\n"
  },
  {
    "path": "02_05/news_scraper/news_scraper/spiders/cnn.py",
    "content": "# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-\nfrom scrapy.spiders import CrawlSpider, Rule\nfrom scrapy.linkextractors import LinkExtractor\nfrom news_scraper.items import NewsArticle\n\nclass CnnSpider(CrawlSpider):\n    name = 'cnn'\n    allowed_domains = ['cnn.com']\n    # Articles on the front page are dynamically loaded\n    start_urls = ['https://www.cnn.com/africa']\n    # /2020/08/28/weather/rapid-fire-disasters-in-coronavirus-pandemic-weir-wxc/index.html\n    rules = [Rule(LinkExtractor(allow=r'\\/2020\\/[0-9][0-9]\\/[0-9][0-9]\\/[a-zA-Z\\-]+\\/[a-zA-Z\\-]+\\/index.html'), callback='parse_item', follow=True)]\n    \n    def parse_item(self, response):\n        article = NewsArticle()\n        # <script data-rh=\"true\">\n        article['url'] = response.url\n        article['source'] = 'CNN'\n        article['title'] = response.xpath('//h1/text()').get()\n        article['description'] = response.xpath('//meta[@name=\"description\"]/@content').get()\n        article['date'] = response.xpath('//meta[@itemprop=\"datePublished\"]/@content').get()\n        article['author'] = response.xpath('//meta[@itemprop=\"author\"]/@content').get().replace(', CNN', '')\n        article['text'] = response.xpath('//section[@data-zone-label=\"bodyText\"]/div[@class=\"l-container\"]//*/text()').getall()\n        return article\n"
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    "path": "02_05/news_scraper/news_scraper/spiders/news_articles.json",
    "content": "[\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/29/africa/blasphemy-trial-nigeria/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"The WhatsApp voice note that led to a death sentence\", \"description\": \"A heated conversation in a WhatsApp group has led to a death penalty sentence and a family torn apart in northern Nigeria over allegations of insulting Prophet Mohammed. \", \"date\": \"2020-09-29T09:51:49Z\", \"author\": \"Eoin McSweeney and Stephanie Busari\", \"text\": [\" (CNN)\", \"An intense argument recorded and posted in a WhatsApp group has led to a death penalty sentence and a family torn apart over allegations of insulting Prophet Mohammed, according to lawyers for the defendant. \", \"Music studio assistant Yahaya Sharif-Aminu was sentenced to death by hanging on August 10 after being convicted of blasphemy by an Islamic court in northern Nigeria. \", \"The judgment document states that Sharif-Aminu, 22, was convicted for making \\\"a blasphemous statement against Prophet Mohammed in a WhatsApp Group,\\\" which is contrary to the Kano State Sharia Penal Code and is an offence which carries the death sentence. \", \"The recording was shared widely, causing mass outrage in the highly conservative, majority Muslim, state, according to various reports. \", \"\\\"Whoever insults, defames or utters words or acts which are capable of bringing into disrespect ... such a person has committed a serious crime which is punishable by death,\\\" according to a translation of court documents provided to CNN by his lawyers. \", \"Read More\", \"Sharif-Aminu, described by his friend Kabiru Ibrahim, as \\\"kind, religious and dutiful,\\\" admitted charges of blasphemy during his trial, but said he had made a mistake. \", \"No legal representation\", \"Under Sharia law, a voluntary confession is binding, according to court papers. \", \"Sharif-Aminu's lawyers, who became involved in the case only after his conviction, say he was not allowed legal representation before or during his trial -- in contravention of Nigerian citizens' constitutional right to legal representation. \", \"Outrage as Nigeria sentences 13-year-old boy to 10 years in prison for blasphemy\", \"According to the lawyers, the Sharia court adjourned his case four times because no lawyer came forth from the Legal Aid Council to represent him, likely because of the sensitivity of the case. The Sharia court is, however, statute-bound to provide legal representation.\", \"Advocates from the \", \"Foundation for Religious Freedom\", \" (FRF), a not-for-profit aimed at protecting religious freedom in Nigeria, which is representing Sharif-Aminu, told CNN he has also not been permitted access to legal advice to prepare an appeal against his conviction. \", \"The FRF says it has lodged an appeal on his behalf in Kano's high court, a common-law court with constitutional powers. \", \"\\\"The state laws he is accused of breaking are in gross conflict with the Nigerian constitution,\\\" said his counsel, Kola Alapinni. \", \"No Muslim will condone it. People hold Prophet Mohammed higher than their parents. \", \"Islamic cleric, Bashir Aliyu Umar\", \"Kano's State Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje told clerics in Kano that he would sign Sharif-Aminu's death warrant as soon as the singer had exhausted the appeals process, local media reports say. \", \"\\\"I assure you that immediately the Supreme Court affirms the judgment, I will sign it without any hesitation,\\\" Ganduje said, according to \", \"Nigeria's Daily Post newspaper\", \". CNN contacted a spokesman for Governor Ganduje several times for comment but did not receive a response. \", \"Islamic scholar and cleric Bashir Aliyu Umar, who is not connected to the case, but said he had read the transcript of the court proceedings, told CNN, \\\"No Muslim will condone it. People hold Prophet Mohammed higher than their parents, and when things like this happen, it will lead to a breakdown of peace because of mob action and attacks against the accused.\\\" \", \"When news of Sharif-Aminu's alleged crime broke earlier this year, protesters marched to his family home and destroyed it, prompting his father to flee to a neighboring town, his lawyers told CNN. Sharif-Aminu went into hiding, according to Amnesty and his lawyers, but in March he was arrested by the Hisbah Corps, the religious police force that enforces Sharia law in Kano state. \", \"'A travesty of justice'\", \"Human rights organization Amnesty International has described Sharif-Aminu's trial as a \\\"travesty of justice,\\\" and called on Kano state authorities to quash his conviction and death sentence. \", \"\\\"There are serious concerns about the fairness of his trial and the framing of the charges against him based on his Whatsapp messages,\\\" said Amnesty's Nigeria director Osai Ojigho. \\\"Furthermore, the imposition of the death penalty following an unfair trial violates the right to life,\\\" she added. \", \"The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has also condemned Sharif-Aminu's death sentence. It said Nigeria's blasphemy laws were inconsistent with universal human rights standards. \", \"\\\"It is unconscionable that Sharif-Aminu is facing a death sentence merely for expressing his beliefs artistically through music,\\\" said the organization's commissioner, Frederick A. Davie, in a statement. \", \"The organization released a \", \"follow-up statement\", \" saying it had adopted Aminu-Sharif as \\\"a religious prisoner of conscience.\\\"  \", \"Atheism frowned upon \", \"Nigeria is Africa's most populous nation and religion permeates every facet of life here, with prayers routinely said in schools and public offices. 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CNN&#39;s Jon Jensen has more.\\\",\\\"thumbnailURL\\\": \\\"https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/151201062200-saudi-poet-death-sentence-jenson-pkg-00015222-large-169.jpg\\\",\\\"image\\\": \\\"https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/151201062200-saudi-poet-death-sentence-jenson-pkg-00015222-large-169.jpg\\\",\\\"duration\\\": \\\"PT1M58S\\\",\\\"uploadDate\\\": \\\"2015-12-01T11:28:00Z\\\",\\\"contentUrl\\\": \\\"https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2015/12/01/saudi-poet-death-sentence-jenson-pkg.cnn\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2015/12/01/saudi-poet-death-sentence-jenson-pkg.cnn\\\",\\\"embedUrl\\\": \\\"https://fave.api.cnn.io/v1/fav/?video=world/2015/12/01/saudi-poet-death-sentence-jenson-pkg.cnn&customer=cnn&edition=domestic&env=prod\\\"}\", \"Poet sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia\", \" \", \"01:57\", \"In 2015 and 2016 nine men and one woman were sentenced to death by hanging for insulting the Prophet Mohammed in Kano state, according to a \", \"2019 research paper by the USCIRF\", \". The sentences were not carried out. \", \"In 2000, a Muslim man in the northern state of Zamfara had his hand amputated for stealing a cow. A year later, another man had his hand cut off after he was convicted of stealing bicycles, according to the same USCIRF research paper. \", \"A constitutional violation? \", \"In the eyes of many Nigerians, the adoption of Sharia law is a violation of the \", \"country's constitution\", \", because Article 10 guarantees religious freedom when it states that \\\"the Government of the Federation or of a State shall not adopt any religion as State Religion.\\\" \", \"\\\"This issue of blasphemy is incompatible with the Nigerian constitution,\\\" Leo Igwe, chair of the board of trustees for the Humanist Association of Nigeria, told CNN. \", \"\\\"We hope this case will help Nigeria confront the biggest constitutional challenge since independence. What should take precedence, Sharia law, or the Nigerian constitution?\\\" \", \"Governors of the northern states, where Sharia law is practiced, argue that it applies only to Muslims, and not to citizens of other faiths. The FRF says it is working on six other constitutional cases which will challenge what it sees as government interference in Nigerian citizens' right to religious freedom. \", \"US national shot dead in Pakistan courtroom during blasphemy trial\", \"One of these, on behalf of the Atheist Society of Nigeria (ASN), is against the state government of Akwa Ibom, in the country's southeast, for its involvement in the construction of an 8,500-seat worship center at its High Court. \", \"The ASN says millions of dollars in state funding have been spent on the center, which it says amounts to government interference in freedom of religion. \", \"\\\"The government has no business legislating on religions. End of story,\\\" Ebenezer Odubule, a founding member of the FRF told CNN. \", \"The FRF says it has had to put some of its other cases on hold, to focus on Sharif-Aminu's case. It is also hampered by a lack of funding to fight new cases. \"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/07/africa/human-trafficking-film-nigeria/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"New Nollywood film shines a light on human trafficking in Nigeria\", \"description\": \"\\\"Oloture,\\\" a Netflix original film, features an investigative journalist covering sex trafficking in Nigeria.\", \"date\": \"2020-10-07T13:35:16Z\", \"author\": \" By Aisha Salaudeen\", \"text\": [\"Lagos, Nigeria  (CNN)\", \"Dressed in a transparent and colorful blouse, a sex worker in Lagos, the commercial center of Nigeria jumps out the window of a room at a party to avoid having sex with a potential customer. \", \"She is seen, heels in her hand, running away from the party and eventually getting into a bus heading back to a brothel, where she lives with other sex workers.\", \"These scenes are from the Netflix original film, \\\"\", \"Oloture\", \",\\\" in which we later find out that the sex worker, also named Oloture, is a Nigerian journalist who is undercover to expose sex trafficking in the country.       \", \"var id = '//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js'.replace(/\\\\s+/g, '');!!document.getElementById(id) || (function makeEmbedScript(d, id) {var js,fjs;js = d.createElement('script');js.id = id;js.charset = 'utf-8';js.setAttribute('async', '');js.src = '//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js';fjs = d.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);}(document, id));\", \"Sometimes, stay and fight. Other times, run away and come back to fight another day. \", \"pic.twitter.com/I29c7QtbSa\", \"\\u2014 Netflix Naija (@NetflixNaija) \", \"October 4, 2020\", \"\\n\", \"\\n\", \"Every year, \", \"tens of thousands of people\", \" are trafficked from Nigeria, particularly Edo State in the nation's south, which has become one of Africa's largest departure points for irregular migration.\", \"The International Organization for Migration (IMO) estimates that \", \"91% victims trafficked from Nigeria are women\", \", and their traffickers have sexually exploited more than half of them. \", \"Read More\", \"Through \\\"Oloture,\\\" the difficult realities of these women, particularly those who are sexually exploited, come to light. It shows how they are recruited and trafficked overseas for commercial gain.\", \"Directed by award-winning Nigerian filmmaker, Kenneth Gyang, the film features Nollywood actors including Sharon Ooja, Omoni Oboli and Blossom Chukwujekwu. \", \"Mo Abudu, executive producer of \\\"Oloture,\\\" told CNN that the crime drama was inspired by the numerous cases of trafficking around the world and in Nigeria. \", \"Actors pose as sex workers on the set of Netflix original film, \\\"Oloture.\\\"\", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"Actors pose as sex workers on the set of Netflix original film, &quot;Oloture.&quot;\\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"Actors pose as sex workers on the set of Netflix original film, &quot;Oloture.&quot;\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/201007071906-restricted-04-human-trafficking-film-nigeria-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"\\\"There have been many reports around the world highlighting human trafficking and modern slavery. It has been in our faces. I dug and dug and did a bit more research, and when I came across the numbers and saw how much was made annually from human trafficking, I was totally shocked,\\\" she said. \", \"Human trafficking is a \", \"$150 billion global industry.\", \" And two-thirds of this figure is generated from sexual exploitation, according to a 2014 report by the International Labor Organization. \", \"Abudu -- who is also CEO of EbonyLife Films, which produced \\\"Oloture\\\" -- added that the film mirrored some real-life reports by journalists who had gone undercover to expose sex trafficking patterns in the country.\", \"One of them, she said, was a \", \"2014 report \", \"by journalist Tobore Ovuorie, in the Nigerian newspaper, Premium Times. \", \"\\\"Upon research, we found that many journalists had gone undercover to report on human trafficking. But the Premium Times article did spark our interest as some of it plays out in the film,\\\" Abudu said. \", \"Easy prey for traffickers\", \"Ovuorie, whose report was credited in \\\"Oloture,\\\" told CNN that women often get trafficked as a result of their need to make money abroad. \", \"Ovuorie said she met many women in the course of her reporting who wanted to get to Europe in hopes of better job opportunities that would earn them more money.\", \"UK joins forces with Nigeria to fight human trafficking\", \"\\\"People were motivated by greed, you know, the need to get rich. I spoke with the women I was supposed to be trafficked with, and many of them wanted better lives motivated by money. There was one girl who had never earned more than 50,000 naira (about $130) as salary since she graduated from university,\\\" she told CNN.\", \"Most of the women were fleeing harsh economic conditions and poverty, making them easy prey for traffickers, Ovuorie said.\", \"During Ovuorie's investigation, she said she \", \"posed as a sex worker\", \" on the streets of Lagos, looking to travel to Europe.\", \"Lead actor, Sharon Ooja, and Omowunmi Dada (right) pose on set of \\\"Oloture.\\\"\", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"Lead actor, Sharon Ooja, and Omowunmi Dada (right) pose on set of &quot;Oloture.&quot;\\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"Lead actor, Sharon Ooja, and Omowunmi Dada (right) pose on set of &quot;Oloture.&quot;\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/201007072041-restricted-05-human-trafficking-film-nigeria-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"Her plan worked. She was eventually linked with a trafficker who promised to get her to Italy. In partnership with ZAM Chronicles and Premium Times, she documented her experience. \", \"After a series of \\\"humiliating trainings\\\" and physical abuse, she said she was told she and other girls would receive a \", \"fake passport\", \" in preparation to be smuggled outside the country through the border in Benin in West Africa.\", \"She escaped at the border. \", \"Physical and sexual abuse \", \"Many women who are trafficked in Nigeria face sexual, physical and mental abuse, according to \", \"a 2019 report \", \"by Human Rights Watch. \", \"The rights group interviewed many women who said they were trafficked within and across national borders under life-threatening conditions as they were starved, raped and extorted. \", \"On some occasions, according to the report, they were forced into prostitution where they were made to have abortions and \", \"coerced to have sex \", \"with customers when they were sick, menstruating or pregnant. \", \"\\\"Oloture\\\" portrays some of these harsh realities as the lead character (played by Ooja) suffers sexual violence and physical abuse, including being whipped by one of her traffickers. \", \"It was important to depict the reality of sex trafficking so viewers can understand the experiences of women who are forced into the trade, Gyang, the director, told CNN.\", \"Director Kenneth Gyang works behind the scenes of film, \\\"Oloture.\\\"\", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"Director Kenneth Gyang works behind the scenes of film, &quot;Oloture.&quot;\\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"Director Kenneth Gyang works behind the scenes of film, &quot;Oloture.&quot;\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/201007071340-restricted-01-human-trafficking-film-nigeria-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"\\\"I wanted people to know that this is the reality of these ladies. People always want closure but life is not about a Hollywood ending; you can't always get a happy ending,\\\" he said.\", \"While directing the film, Gyang visited places with sex workers to get a better idea of how they live and work, he said.\", \"\\\"I actually went to places where we have sex workers in Lagos with one of the producers of the film. We wanted to really capture their lives so that we would be able to show it realistically in the movie. We talked to them, and some of the rooms we used in the movie were actually used previously by sex workers,\\\" he explained. \", \"'The most impactful movie we have ever done'\", \"The film was shot in 21 days towards the end of 2018, he said. Post-production was covered in 2019, and it was released Friday on Netflix.\", \"In just days, it has become the top watched movie in Nigeria and is among the \", \"top 10 watched movies in the world on Netflix. \", \"\\\"It's huge for me as a filmmaker that people have access to the film from all over the world. I want many people as possible to see it and have conversations about sex trafficking,\\\" Gyang said. \", \"The film is doing well in countries like Switzerland, Brazil, and South Africa because it is authentic and \\\"deals with the truth,\\\" Abudu said.\", \"\\\"EbonyLife has done seven movies. But this is the most impactful one we have ever done. And the most important,\\\" Abudu said. \", \"A smuggler's chilling warning\", \"The \", \"National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons\", \" (NAPTIP), the law enforcement agency in charge of combating human trafficking in Nigeria, wants the film to be made available to people in rural communities who don't have access to Netflix.\", \"\\\"I haven't seen the movie, but if it is trying to portray the ills and dangers of trafficking, then it's fine since that is going to raise awareness,\\\" Julie Okah-Donli, the director-general of the agency said. \", \"And while she is happy that \\\"Oloture\\\" is shining the light on human trafficking, she told CNN that women mostly targeted by traffickers may not get to watch it.\", \"\\\"The people watching it on Netflix all know what trafficking is. It needs to go to those girls in rural communities where traffickers go to bring them from. Those are the girls that the awareness should go to,\\\" Okah-Donli said. \", \"With more people partnering with NAPTIP and raising awareness of the dangers of trafficking, sex trafficking will be minimized in Nigeria, she said. \"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/23/africa/asequals-nigeria-rape-sexual-violence-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"She's on the frontline of a rape epidemic. The pandemic has made her work more dangerous\", \"description\": null, \"date\": \"2020-06-23T09:00:49Z\", \"author\": \"Bukola Adebayo\", \"text\": [\"CNN is committed to covering gender inequality wherever it occurs in the world. This story is part of As Equals, an ongoing series.\", \" \", \"Lagos, Nigeria --\", \" At the start of each day, Dr. Anita Kemi DaSilva-Ibru and her team put on gloves, facemasks and other personal protective equipment to see their patients.\", \"They're not treating people for Covid-19, but they are on the frontline of the pandemic, working at the Women at Risk International Foundation (WARIF), a rape crisis center in Lagos, Nigeria.\", \"Wearing protective gear is the new reality for crisis center workers, like DaSilva-Ibru.\", \"\\\"We change these kits each time we see a survivor as we are mindful of the risk of transmission of the virus between the survivor and us and the cross-contamination between a survivor and the next,\\\" she told CNN.\", \"US-trained gynecologist DaSilva-Ibru has spent most of her career treating hundreds of sexual violence victims but it was the growing scale of the crisis in Nigeria that prompted her to set up WARIF in 2016.\", \"Read More\", \"The clinic in Yaba, a suburb of Lagos, provides medical treatment, legal assistance therapy and space for rape victims and survivors of sexual abuse to get back on their feet.\", \"One in four Nigerian girls \", \"has been the victim of sexual violence, according to UN estimates but DaSilva-Ibru says the numbers are higher as many cases go unreported due to the stigma attached.\", \"In recent weeks, two high profile cases of gender-based violence have brought Nigerian women out onto the streets demanding change.\", \"Uwaila Vera Omozuwa, a 22-year-old microbiology student, was \", \"found half-naked in a pool of blood\", \" in a local church where she had gone to study after the Covid-19 lockdown left universities across the country shut. \", \"\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote {\\n position: relative;\\n color: #262626;\\n margin: 25px auto;\\n padding: 10px 0 14px 0;\\n width: 100%;\\n max-width: 660px;\\n border-left: 0;\\n text-align: center;\\n}\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote:before, .cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote:after {\\n position: absolute;\\n content: '';\\n width: 50px;\\n height: 2px;\\n left: 50%;\\n transform: translateX(-50%);\\n -webkit-transform: translateX(-50%);\\n background-color: #262626;\\n}\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote:before {\\n top: 0;\\n}\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote:after {\\n bottom: -2px;\\n}\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote {\\n position: relative;\\n margin: 0;\\n text-align: center;\\n font-size: 35px;\\n font-weight: 700;\\n word-spacing: -1px;\\n line-height: 1.15;\\n padding: 24px 10px 22px 10px;\\n margin-bottom: 24px;\\n}\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote-cite {\\n margin: 0;\\n text-align: center;\\n font-size: 12px;\\n font-weight: 200;\\n color: #262626;\\n line-height: 1.15;\\n padding: 0 10px;\\n display: inline-block;\\n}\\n@media only screen and (min-width: 768px)  {\\n .cnnix-golf__pullquote {\\n  margin: 50px auto;\\n }\\n .cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote {\\n  font-size: 35px;\\n }\\n} \\n\", \"\\n \", \"\\n \", \"\\\"Rape is an epidemic in this country.\\\"\", \"\\n \", \" Dr. Anita Kemi DaSilva-Ibru, Women at Risk International Foundation\", \"\\n \", \"Her family said her attackers raped her and the student died while being treated at the hospital. A few days later, another student, Barakat Bello, was allegedly raped and killed during a robbery at her home,\", \" according to human rights group Amnesty International.\", \"\\\"Rape is an epidemic in this country,\\\" DaSilva-Ibru told CNN.\", \"She says her work with survivors of sexual violence has become more critical during the outbreak, with restrictions to curb the virus from spreading fueling a surge in calls. \", \"It's a story echoed in other parts of the region, as authorities grapple with a growing number of Covid-19 cases and the impact restrictions are having on women.\", \"Related: A transport ban in Uganda means women are trapped at home with their abusers\", \"DaSilva-Ibru said she initially closed the center after authorities locked down the city in March, she had to reconsider the decision as the organization became inundated with SOS messages from sexual violence victims and their guardians.\", \"Staff operating the 24-hour helpline at the center also reported a 64% increase in calls during this period, according to DaSilva-Ibru. \", \"\\\"Our phones were ringing. Women were calling and desperately asking how we can help them, these were women in fear of their lives, as many have now been forced into quarantine with their abusers, in an already volatile environment,\\\" DaSilva-Ibru told CNN.\", \"For the center to re-open, DaSilva-Ibru said she had to source PPE, face masks and other protective gear personally and when that was not enough, the center launched an online appeal for funds from donors to buy the equipment at no cost to survivors, she said. \", \"\\\"We carry out forensic examinations on survivors and our frontline health workers who triage and examine patients are in close proximity to the survivors. As much as we need to carry out our duties, we also need to ensure our workers are adequately protected,\\\" DaSilva-Ibru told CNN.\", \"The challenges Ibru faces to keep the center open, doesn't compare to what sexual violence victims have experienced as a result of this pandemic, she said.\", \"DaSilva-Ibru recalls a woman who told staff at the center that her male friend had raped her in her home during the lockdown.\", \"Dr. Anita Kemi DaSilva-Ibru. \", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"Dr. Anita Kemi DaSilva-Ibru. \\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"Dr. Anita Kemi DaSilva-Ibru. \\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200618151608-02-dr-kemi-dasilva-ibru-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"\\\"The first day we re-opened, we attended to women who had walked many miles in spite of the mandatory lockdown to get to the center. These are women who had been terrorized in their homes,\\\" she added.\", \"\\\"She (a survivor) had repeatedly been calling (the center) to find out how she could get help. She feared she might have contracted HIV and wanted to be tested,\\\" Ibru said. \", \"Speaking to CNN, the woman, who didn't want to use her name to protect her identity, said a co-worker raped her after he came to her apartment unannounced in April. \", \"The young banker said she had previously rebuffed his attempts to visit, but on that Sunday afternoon in April, he showed up at her doorstep.\", \"\\\"He's a friend, not a stranger, so I opened the door for him. I was still asking him what was so urgent that made him leave his home. He said he wanted to check up on me and I told him he could have done that over the phone,\\\" she told CNN.\", \"But a few minutes into his visit, the conversation became uncomfortable between them.\", \"\\\"He kept coming towards me, and when I told him to stop, he put his hand over my mouth and pinned me on the floor,\\\" she said.\", \"She says he apologized after raping her and hurriedly left her house.\", \"The survivor told CNN she did not make a police complaint because she was worried about the stigma and strain that the rape might have on her parents.  \", \"A friend she confided in told her to reach out to the \", \"Lagos Domestic and Sexual Violence Response Team\", \" who put survivors in touch with treatment centers for help.\", \"After several calls to the centers on their website, she was referred to \", \"WARIF\", \".\", \"When she went to the clinic, she says staff ran some tests and placed her on Post Exposure Prophylaxis, a HIV prevention treatment for possible exposure.\", \"\\\"Sometimes I get really angry, and sometimes I feel numb,\\\" she said, reflecting on the assault.\", \"She says she was sick every night for 28 days because of the drugs.\", \"\\\"...even though the doctor prepared me for the side effect, it has not been easy,\\\" she told CNN. \", \"Gender-based violence is a problem in many countries, but the coronavirus pandemic has worsened the situation.\", \"The \", \"UN says\", \" the raft of measures deployed by governments to fight the pandemic have led to economic hardship, stress, and fear -- conditions that lead to violence against women and girls. \", \"Equality Now Regional Coordinator in Africa Judy Gitau told CNN that the wave of unemployment and school closures has put victims in a precarious situation.\", \"She recalls a similar situation in Sierra Leone \", \"during the 2014 Ebola outbreak\", \" when\", \" teenage pregnancies spiked\", \" in the country\", \"The government enforced strict stay-at-home orders that closed businesses and schools across the West African nation to curb the spread of the virus, she said.\", \"The restrictions made schoolgirls vulnerable to abuse as some were assaulted in their homes by relatives, and at the same time, a majority of girls from low-income families were coerced to exchange sex for money for food, Gitau said. \", \"\\\"Many of them wound up pregnant but the evidence became available when people were plugging back to life as they knew it as a normal society,\\\" she said.\", \"Gitau says authorities must know that perpetrators often take advantage of the strict measures to abuse victims without arousing much suspicion.\", \"As state resources are being re-focused to tackle the spread of coronavirus, law enforcement agencies should also respond quickly to reports of abuse and create shelters for victims in need of immediate rescue, she said.\", \"But placing women in shelters, especially in countries battling an outbreak, comes with the additional burden of proof, according to DaSilva-Ibru who said shelters in Lagos city are asking survivors to take coronavirus tests before they can be admitted to prevent infection in their facilities.\", \"\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote {\\n position: relative;\\n color: #262626;\\n margin: 25px auto;\\n padding: 10px 0 14px 0;\\n width: 100%;\\n max-width: 660px;\\n border-left: 0;\\n text-align: center;\\n}\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote:before, .cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote:after {\\n position: absolute;\\n content: '';\\n width: 50px;\\n height: 2px;\\n left: 50%;\\n transform: translateX(-50%);\\n -webkit-transform: translateX(-50%);\\n background-color: #262626;\\n}\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote:before {\\n top: 0;\\n}\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote:after {\\n bottom: -2px;\\n}\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote {\\n position: relative;\\n margin: 0;\\n text-align: center;\\n font-size: 35px;\\n font-weight: 700;\\n word-spacing: -1px;\\n line-height: 1.15;\\n padding: 24px 10px 22px 10px;\\n margin-bottom: 24px;\\n}\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote-cite {\\n margin: 0;\\n text-align: center;\\n font-size: 12px;\\n font-weight: 200;\\n color: #262626;\\n line-height: 1.15;\\n padding: 0 10px;\\n display: inline-block;\\n}\\n@media only screen and (min-width: 768px)  {\\n .cnnix-golf__pullquote {\\n  margin: 50px auto;\\n }\\n .cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote {\\n  font-size: 35px;\\n }\\n} \\n\", \"\\n \", \"\\n \", \"\\\"Violence against women and girls is one of the most pervasive forms of a human rights violation and should be recognized by all countries.\\\"\", \"\\n \", \" Dr. Anita Kemi DaSilva-Ibru, Women at Risk International Foundation\", \"\\n \", \"Authorities in Lagos designated gender-based violence services essential in May as it eased lockdown into curfews to allow service providers to get to work more smoothly, DaSilva-Ibru said. \", \"The police force says it has now deployed more officers to its stations across the country to respond to the \\\"increasing challenges of sexual assaults and domestic/gender-based violence linked with the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic.\\\" And last week, governors across the country resolved to declare \", \"a state of emergency on rape\", \", according to the Nigerian Governor's Forum (NGF).\", \"Related: Nigerian women are taking to the streets in protests against rape and sexual violence\", \"It's the first time federal and state authorities are coming out with a united voice to condemn gender violence, DaSilva-Ibru said and it validates the outcry of women in the country and the scale of the problem in Nigeria, she added.\", \"\\\"Violence against women and girls is one of the most pervasive forms of a human rights violation and should be recognized by all countries,\\\" DaSilva-Ibru said.\", \"\\\"In Nigeria, it has become a national crisis that needs urgent attention. I am pleased that this has been recognized.\\\"\", \"\\n  window.cnnAsEqualsConfig = window.cnnAsEqualsConfig || {};\\n  window.cnnAsEqualsConfig.theme = 'black';\\n\", \"\\n\", \"Click here for more stories from the As Equals series.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/20/africa/nigeria-fashion-tiffany-amber-coronavirus-ppe-spc-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"Nigerian fashion label Tiffany Amber swaps couture for PPE\", \"description\": \"Company founder Folake Akindele Coker pivoted her fashion label into PPE production after she realized that a prolonged lockdown in Nigeria would impact consumer sales.\", \"date\": \"2020-07-21T01:21:46Z\", \"author\": \"Daniel Renjifo\", \"text\": [\" (CNN)\", \"These days, things look a little different when Folake Akindele Coker gets to her office. \\\"I arrive at 9am, all geared (up) for this invisible enemy,\\\" she says. The 45-year-old designer and founder of Nigerian fashion label Tiffany Amber now starts each day with a 10-minute safety talk for her production team, \\\"who at first did not seem to understand the gravity and the potential of being infected by the (Covid-19) virus.\\\"\", \"Coker founded \", \"Tiffany Amber\", \" in 1998, and it's now considered one of Nigeria's most influential fashion and lifestyle brands.\", \"In early March, the number of colorful prints and couture runway garments that normally littered the factory floor dissipated, and the company's sewing machines began stitching hospital scrubs, gowns, stretcher sheets and non-medical face masks. Less than a month after the pandemic reached Africa, Tiffany Amber's entire factory refocused to produce personal protective equipment (PPE), something Coker notes took immense pressure to turn around. \", \"The colorful garments of the Tiffany Amber fashion line, seen here during Arise Fashion week in 2019, have since been replaced in production by PPE to help during the pandemic.\", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"The colorful garments of the Tiffany Amber fashion line, seen here during Arise Fashion week in 2019, have since been replaced in production by PPE to help during the pandemic.\\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"Tiffany Amber Nigeria fashion runway\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200715102210-tiffany-amber-fashion-nigeria-restricted-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"To make the shift, Coker says the company first had to secure more than 15 tons of raw materials including approximately 90,000 yards of fabric, 300,000 yards of elastic, and almost a million yards of thread. All of this happened, she says, right before borders closed in Nigeria and prices spiked due to the unforeseen demand for materials.\", \"See more stories from Marketplace Africa\", \"Read More\", \"As of mid-July, the World Health Organization shows Nigeria as having\", \" more than 30,000\", \" total confirmed cases of coronavirus, the second-most on the continent behind South Africa.\", \"As Covid-19 cases rose and consumer spending fell, Coker saw an opportunity for her business to stay open -- and to help out. \\\"Our expertise in garment production helped facilitate this shift to bridge the gap in the supply of medical apparel,\\\" she tells CNN.\", \"A Tiffany Amber employee sorts ready-to-ship gowns for healthcare workers.\", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"A Tiffany Amber employee sorts ready-to-ship gowns for healthcare workers.\\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"A Tiffany Amber employee sorts ready-to-ship gowns for healthcare workers.\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200626121436-tiffany-amber-ppe-production-gowns-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"The push for PPE\", \"This pivot has been a trend in the private sector worldwide, as companies around the globe have \", \"switched gears to supply the growing demand for PPE\", \".\", \"According to the World Bank, Covid-19 has pushed sub-Saharan Africa into its \", \"first recession in 25 years\", \", greatly impacting the continent's biggest revenue drivers such as energy, agriculture and manufacturing. \", \"Read more: Across Africa, the pandemic reveals both inequality and innovation\", \"Globally, the \", \"luxury market is also expected to shrink \", \"as much as 35% this year, as consumer spending sharply declines mainly due to job loss, according to consulting firm Bain and Co.\", \"Tiffany Amber employees wearing masks, and making masks.\", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"Tiffany Amber employees wearing masks, and making masks.\\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"Tiffany Amber employees wearing masks, and making masks.\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200626120613-tiffany-amber-production-ppe-employees-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"Efforts to make and source \", \"PPE in Nigeria\", \" have primarily relied on private corporations\", \" \", \"working hand in hand with suppliers. In an attempt to stay solvent, Coker says Tiffany Amber is working with partners in the financial sector to fund and distribute the PPE products.\", \"By early June, she notes, the fashion label had made approximately 500,000 cloth masks, 20,000 sets of sheets and pillowcases, 10,000 scrubs, 15,000 patient gowns and close to 5,000 surgical gowns.\", \"Alcohol ban has South African distilleries pivoting to a new product\", \"In Tiffany Amber's case, shifting to PPE production has had an unlikely silver lining: job creation. Since March, Coker says her company has actually managed to grow from 100 employees to a staff of 300.\", \"At the time of writing, Coker does not anticipate returning to regular Tiffany Amber fashion production in the near future. But even as her company responds to the current reality, she keeps planning for when that day will come. \\\"One mind is thinking about tomorrow morning and the other mind is processing the next two years,\\\" says Coker. \\\"Subconsciously, I find myself drifting away, putting together the next Tiffany Amber collection.\\\"\", \"CNN's Lamide Akintobi contributed to this report\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/26/africa/gambia-migration-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"He almost died migrating to Europe. Now he is warning other Gambians about it\", \"description\": \"Mustapha Sallah and Youth Against Irregular Migration are raising awareness in The Gambia about the dangers of migrating to Europe through irregular means.\", \"date\": \"2020-08-26T14:16:23Z\", \"author\": \"Aisha Salaudeen\", \"text\": [\" (CNN)\", \"Mustapha Sallah was in trouble.\", \"He had hoped to be in Europe by now, pursuing his dreams of studying computer science and making a better life for himself.\", \"Instead, he was sitting in a Libyan detention center, having been detained in Tripoli by the Libyan Coast Guard.\", \"\\\"We were kept in rooms with little ventilation and no toilets. We would sit for days without taking baths. It was like hell,\\\" Sallah told CNN.\", \"He added that officers at the detention center often assaulted them by \\\"beating us for the slightest things like refusing to sleep.\\\"\", \"Read More\", \"It was January 2017, and the 25-year-old Gambian had taken a gamble, risking his life in search of a better one in Europe. But no one had warned him of the dangers ahead.\", \"If and when he got out of the detention center, he vowed to help others make a more informed decision.\", \"Migrating to Europe\", \"Sallah grew up in Serekunda, southwest of The Gambia's capital city, Banjul. He said he worked hard in school to earn a scholarship so that his mother could retire from her job selling vegetables in the market.\", \"In 2016, he thought he'd have that chance when he earned a scholarship to study computer science in Taiwan. \\\"But there was no Taiwan embassy in Gambia, so I had to go to the closest one in Abuja, Nigeria,\\\" he explained.\", \"After borrowing money from his sister to travel to Nigeria, he said he spent three months there before his visa application was denied. Three years earlier, then-president of The Gambia, Yahya Jammeh, had cut diplomatic ties with Taiwan for what he called \\\"national strategic interest.\\\"\", \"At least 58 people killed as boat carrying migrants sinks off Mauritania coast\", \"\\\"I didn't know what to do: stay in Nigeria, or go to any other African country. At the end of the day, I got the mind of migrating (to Europe) because I know several people who took the journey and made it there,\\\" Sallah explained.\", \"With a population of \", \"2.3 million people\", \", The Gambia is among the smallest countries in Africa. But despite its small size, migration is a fairly common practice and plays a key role in the country's economy.\", \"According to the International Organization for Migration (IOM), overseas remittances for an average of 90,000 Gambians who live abroad make up \", \"more than 20% of the country's GDP\", \". \", \"48% of Gambians\", \" live in poverty, and many people find themselves looking outside the country for opportunities to improve their lives. \", \"But some people leave the country without proper documentation or without crossing an official border point. Between 2014 and 2018, the IOM estimates \", \"more than 35,000 \", \"Gambians reached Europe through \\\"irregular means.\\\"\", \"\\\"There's a tradition of mobility in Gambia. It's a long history of people using migration as a means of life, and of getting their income. Many of the returnees we have worked with claim they took the journey for economic reasons,\\\" Etienne Micallef, the IOM's program manager in The Gambia told CNN.\", \"\\\"They have the perception that if they migrate with the final destination as Europe, they will get a much better income to sustain themselves and their families back home,\\\" he added. \", \"How the Kenyan consulate in Lebanon became feared by the women it was meant to help\", \"But it comes at a high risk. Globally, at least \", \"33,687 migrant deaths and disappearances\", \" were recorded between January 2014 and October 2019, according to IOM -- with nearly half occurring on the route between Northern Africa and Italy. \", \"Sallah, who said he wanted an education that would allow him to find a job to support his family, reiterated that no one warned him how incredibly dangerous the journey would be.\", \"After his visa to study in Taiwan was rejected, he said he got on a bus heading north to Agadez, a city in Niger. \\\"I didn't even know the area -- I just kept asking people around what the best or possible way to reach Niger was.\\\"\", \"From there, he managed to travel to Libya. \\\"You have to pay smugglers who drive pickup trucks to put you at the back of their trucks to get to Libya and then to Europe. I spent a month with my cousin in Libya before heading in another pickup truck for Tripoli,\\\" he told CNN.\", \"His journey to Tripoli was treacherous, he said, telling CNN he was detained and extorted multiple times by armed bandits. \", \"Sallah said he was close to death from starvation and even witnessed a gun battle between armed bandits and smugglers: \\\"The man that was smuggling us told us that if we want to stay in Tripoli, we must get used to gunshots,\\\" he said. \", \"But it all came to an abrupt halt in January 2017, when he was arrested by the Libyan Coast Guard in Tripoli.\", \" Detention Center\", \"Libya is a primary transit point along the central Mediterranean route. People who get stuck there are often detained by the Libyan Coast Guard, responsible for patrolling coastal waters to prevent smuggling and trafficking.  \", \"Sallah said he was kept in a detention center in Tripoli with migrants from different West African countries for nearly four months under poor conditions.\", \"Migrants describe being tortured and raped on perilous journey to Libya\", \"There are\", \" 11 detention centers\", \" for migrants run by the U.N.-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) in Libya. Some \", \"2,362\", \" detainees are held at these facilities on any given day, according to the Global Detention Project. \", \"Human Rights Watch\", \" (HRW) and \", \"Amnesty International\", \" have criticized the conditions at these detention centers; both groups signed onto a statement released in April that urged EU member states and institutions to review their policy on migrants and cooperation with Libya. \", \"The policy, the statement says, has allowed for the \", \"\\\"arbitrary detention and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment\\\"\", \" of migrants and refugees.\", \"While in detention, Sallah met a fellow Gambian who suggested they set up the non-profit organization \", \"Youth Against Irregular Migration\", \" (YAIM) to warn others back home about the risks of irregular migration.\", \"\\\"I went around the detention center gathering details of all the Gambians I could find,\\\" estimating he registered 171 people to join the organization. \\\"We agreed that if we made it out of there, we would start an association to make people aware of how problematic the journey to Europe is,\\\" he said.\", \"Youth Against Irregular Migration\", \"In April 2017, as part of its mandate to return and reintegrate migrants stranded or detained in their transit countries, IOM facilitated the return of Sallah and many others within the detention center back to The Gambia. \", \"That same year, IOM received funding from the EU worth\", \" 3.9 million euros\", \" (about $4.6 million) over the course of three years, to expand its operations in The Gambia.\", \"Since then, according to Micallef, IOM has repatriated more than 5,000 people to the West African nation.\", \"He added that when returnees arrive at the airport or land border, they are met by IOM staff who arrange for temporary shelter, counseling, and medical support for those who need it.\", \"Weeks after returning to The Gambia, Sallah said he met with some members of YAIM who signed up in the detention center. \", \"\\\"We met almost every week after arriving in Gambia,\\\" he explained. \\\"It was difficult for us financially at the start but many of us had the support of our families.\\\"\", \"YAIM members speak to community members about the dangers of irregular migration.\", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"YAIM members speak to community members about the dangers of irregular migration.\\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"YAIM members speak to community members about the dangers of irregular migration.\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200819175004-03-gambia-migration-intl-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"He added that even though many of them struggled to make a living at the start and had to pick up menial jobs around town to survive, being around other members gave them a renewed sense of hope.\", \"Being safe at home, he said, was a better option than the dangerous journey to Europe.\", \"\\\"We bonded by sharing our stories with each other as a way to work through the trauma,\\\" Sallah said. \\\"We made sure to be there for each other.\\\"\", \"Community awareness\", \"Through YAIM, the returnees began campaigns around irregular migration in The Gambia, warning others about the perils of journeying to Europe. \", \"Tombong Kuyateh, a returnee and YAIM member, told CNN that the association visits schools to share experiences with students who may be thinking about migrating.\", \"\\\"We share our personal stories with them. We show them examples of victims who were injured or affected during the journey to prevent them from experiencing the same,\\\" he said.\", \"The 27-year-old added that a lot of people listen to them because they have first-hand experience of what it's like to attempt that trip.\", \"Members of YAIM take to the streets of Banjul, The Gambia, during one of their public campaigns.\", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"Members of YAIM take to the streets of Banjul, The Gambia, during one of their public campaigns.\\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"Members of YAIM take to the streets of Banjul, The Gambia, during one of their public campaigns.\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200819175001-04-gambia-migration-intl-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"By crowdfunding and partnering with local and international groups for support, YAIM is also able to visit small communities across the country for campaigns against irregular migration, Kuyateh said.\", \"Miko Alazas, the IOM communications officer based in The Gambia, told CNN that the organization sometimes partners with returnee associations like YAIM to get people access to the right information, in order to make better migration-related choices.\", \"\\\"We work a lot with returnees because many of them are passionate about sharing their experiences in terms of exploitation and abuse -- so they are at the forefront of a lot of campaigns to raise awareness on irregular migration,\\\" he said.\", \"Now 29, Sallah travels around his home country, visiting radio stations and communities to talk about his harrowing experience. He believes in the power of storytelling to educate others about migration.\", \"\\\"I always tell them about the difficulties,\\\" he said. \\\"Some people lost their lives on the journey. I was part of those who ended up in detention. Every time you are on that journey, you are close to death.\\\"\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/12/us/ray-hushpuppi-alleged-money-laundering-trnd/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"He flaunted private jets and luxury cars on Instagram. Feds used his posts to link him to alleged cyber crimes \", \"description\": \"A federal affidavit alleged his extravagant lifestyle was financed through hacking schemes that stole millions of dollars from major companies in the United States and Europe. \", \"date\": \"2020-07-12T04:04:56Z\", \"author\": \"Faith Karimi\", \"text\": [\" (CNN)\", \"Ramon Abbas flaunted \", \"a lavish lifestyle of private jets, designer clothes\", \" and luxury cars. \", \"To his \", \"2.5 million Instagram followers,\", \" he went by Ray Hushpuppi, a man who boarded helicopters from his Dubai waterfront apartment and walked around with shopping bags from Gucci, Versace and Fendi.  \", \"On social media, where he posted a video of himself tossing wads of cash like confetti, he told his followers he was a real estate developer. But a federal affidavit alleged his extravagant lifestyle was financed through hacking schemes that\", \" stole millions of dollars \", \"from major companies in the United States and Europe. \", \"His flamboyant posts left a digital trail of evidence that investigators used to link him to the crimes, the affidavit shows. \", \"Last month, United Arab Emirates investigators swooped into his Dubai apartment, arrested him and handed him over to FBI agents, who flew him to Chicago on July 2, federal officials said. \", \"Read More\", \"In the coming weeks, he'll be transferred to Los Angeles -- where the affidavit was filed -- to face accusations of conspiring to launder hundreds of millions of dollars through cyber crime schemes.  \", \"Ramon Abbas allegedly  conspired to launder millions of dollars.\", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"Ramon Abbas allegedly  conspired to launder millions of dollars.\\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"Ramon Abbas allegedly  conspired to launder millions of dollars.\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200703180555-01-nigerian-man-charged-money-laundering-conspiracy-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"$41 million and 13 luxury cars seized  \", \"The Nigerian national lived at the exclusive Palazzo Versace in Dubai, and led a global network that used computer intrusions, business email compromise schemes and money laundering to steal hundreds of millions of dollars from companies, federal prosecutors allege. \", \"He worked with multiple co-conspirators and was arrested along with 11 others. Investigators seized nearly $41 million, 13 luxury cars worth $6.8 million, and phone and computer evidence, \", \"Dubai Police\", \" said in a statement. They uncovered email addresses of nearly 2 million possible victims on phones, computers and hard drives, Dubai authorities said. \", \"\\\"This case targets a key player in a large, transnational conspiracy who was living an opulent lifestyle in another country while allegedly providing safe havens for stolen money around the world,\\\" US Attorney Nick Hanna said in a statement. \", \"Abbas' attorney, Gal Pissetzky, declined to get into details on how his client earns his money. But what he does for a living is going to be \\\"one of the main points of contention here,\\\" he told CNN\", \".\", \"Pissetzky called his client's arrest a kidnapping, saying Dubai handed him to the United States with \\\"no legal proceedings whatsoever.\\\" Abbas has not been formally indicted, and the government has 30 days to indict him, his attorney said Thursday.  \", \"His birthday post helped track him down\", \"Abbas made no secret of his opulent lifestyle and remarkable wealth. On Snapchat, he called himself the \\\"Billionaire Gucci Master.\\\" \", \"\\\"Started out my day having sushi down at Nobu in Monte Carlo, Monaco, then decided to book a helicopter to have ... facials at the Christian Dior spa in Paris then ended my day having champagne in Gucci,\\\" he \", \"posted on Instagram\", \". \", \"Photos of him displaying multiple models of Bentley, Ferrari, Mercedes and Rolls Royce cars included the hashtag #AllMine. Others show him rubbing elbows with international sports stars and other celebrities. \", \"In the affidavit, federal officials detailed how his social media accounts provided a treasure trove of information to confirm his identity. His Instagram, for example, had an email and phone number saved for account security purposes. Federal officials got that information and linked that email and phone number to financial transactions and transfers with people the FBI believed were his co-conspirators. \", \"\\\"The email account ... also contained emails with attachments relating to wire transfers in large dollar values,\\\" the affidavit said.\", \"His Apple and Snapchat records also provided information that helped investigators confirm his identity, address and communications with other suspects. Even his Instagram birthday celebration photos provided key information. \", \"One \", \"post displayed a birthday cake\", \" topped with a Fendi logo and a miniature image of him surrounded by tiny shopping bags. Investigators used that post to verify his date of birth on a previous US visa application. \", \"Ramon Abbas told his 2.5 million Instagram followers that he's in real estate.\", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"Ramon Abbas told his 2.5 million Instagram followers that he&#39;s in real estate.\\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"Ramon Abbas told his 2.5 million Instagram followers that he&#39;s in real estate.\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200703180655-03-nigerian-man-charged-money-laundering-conspiracy-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"Companies targeted spanned two continents \", \"His alleged cyber crimes involved jaw-dropping amounts of money.\", \"Federal documents detailed how a paralegal at a New York law firm wired nearly $923,000 meant for a client's real estate refinancing to a bank account controlled by Abbas and his co-conspirators. The paralegal had received fraudulent wire instructions after sending an email to what appeared to be a bank email address but was later identified as a \\\"spoofed\\\" email address, the affidavit said.    \", \"Abbas sent a co-conspirator an image of the wire transfer confirmation for the transaction, according to the affidavit.\", \" \", \"He\", \" \", \"and an unnamed person also conspired to launder $14.7 million from a foreign financial institution last year, according to a criminal complaint.\", \"During that alleged cyber crime, Abbas sent a co-conspirator the account information for a Romanian bank account, which he said could be used for \\\"large amounts.\\\" In other alleged schemes, he also provided Dubai bank accounts that can be used to deposit money from victims in the United States, the affidavit said. \", \"He's also accused of conspiring to try to steal $124 million from an unnamed English Premier League soccer club. But it's unclear whether the attempt was successful.\", \"FBI recorded $1.7 billion in losses from such scams\", \"Business email compromise schemes are sophisticated scams that involve a hacker redirecting business email account communications to try and intercept wire transfers. \", \"\\\"BEC schemes are one of the most difficult cyber crimes we encounter as they typically involve a coordinated group of con artists scattered around the world who have experience with computer hacking and exploiting the international financial system,\\\"  Hanna said. \", \"Last year alone, the FBI recorded $1.7 billion in losses by companies and individuals victimized through business email compromise scams, according to Paul Delacourt of the FBI field office in Los Angeles. \", \"If convicted of money laundering, Abbas faces up to 20 years in prison. His bond hearing is set for Monday. \", \"His transfer to Los Angeles has been complicated by logistics linked to coronavirus, his attorney said. \", \"CNN's Laurie Ure and Steve Almasy contributed to this report.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/24/africa/kenya-maasai-warriors-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"Kenya's Maasai gather for once-in-a-decade ceremony to turn warriors into elders\", \"description\": \"Thousands of Maasai men clad in red and purple shawls and with their heads coated in red ocher gathered this week for a ceremony that transforms them from Moran (warriors) to Mzee (elders).\", \"date\": \"2020-09-24T14:41:25Z\", \"author\": \"Story by Reuters \", \"text\": [\"Maparasha Hills, Kenya\", \"Thousands of Maasai men clad in red and purple shawls and with their heads coated in red ocher gathered this week for a ceremony that transforms them from Moran (warriors) to Mzee (elders).\", \"Around 15,000 men from all over Kenya and neighboring Tanzania congregated in Maparasha Hills in Kajiado County, 128 kilometers from Nairobi, to feast on an estimated 3,000 bulls and 30,000 goats and sheep.\", \"The ceremony occurs once every decade at the site, which is surrounded by hills and dotted with acacia trees.\", \"On Wednesday, the men roasted the meat on beds of coal from acacia trees, holding staffs and swords.\", \"\\\"I used to be a Moran, But after this ceremony, I now graduate to be a Mzee (elder),\\\" Stephen Seriamu Sarbabi, a 34-year-old livestock trader, told Reuters.\", \"Read More\", \"\\\"I will now be having a lot of responsibilities in the community. I will be chairing some different meetings, I will be consulted,\\\" he added.\", \"The arrival of coronavirus in March forced a postponement of the ceremony, which was meant to have been held earlier in the year.\", \"\\\"My role here in this ceremony, is to come and bless my boys to graduate, to another stage of being wazees (elders), and to give them their privileges,\\\" Moses Lepunyo ole Purkei, a farmer, community health volunteer and elder, told Reuters.\", \"During the ceremony, the men were accompanied by their wives, who also wore colorful shawls and beads around their necks and sang songs praising and encouraging the incoming group of elders.\", \"There are about 1.2 million Maasai living in Kenya, according to the government statistics office.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/25/africa/hauwa-ojeifo-mental-health-nigeria/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"She was diagnosed with a mental health disorder. Now she is helping others work through theirs\\n\", \"description\": \"Mental health advocate Hauwa Ojeifo is one of the 2020 winner of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Changemaker award \", \"date\": \"2020-09-25T13:54:42Z\", \"author\": \"Aisha Salaudeen\", \"text\": [\"Lagos, Nigeria (CNN)\", \"In February of 2016, \", \"Hauwa Ojeifo \", \"considered taking her own life. She had spent a significant part of her teenage and early adult life years battling symptoms such as mood swings, bouts of exhaustion, fainting spells and difficulty recollecting daily events.\", \"She told CNN that growing up, there were days she could not get out of bed to carry out mundane activities like brushing her teeth. \", \"At the time, she did not realize she was experiencing symptoms of\", \" bipolar disorder\", \", a mental health condition where a person's mood swings from high and overactive to low and dull.\", \"\\\"There were a lot of things leading to that moment where I thought about dying. I had an abusive relationship -- well, I can't call it a relationship now because I was like 14 or 15 at the time. 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CNN&#39;s Stephanie Busari reports.\\\",\\\"thumbnailURL\\\": \\\"https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/181213143041-nigeria-suicide-prison-africa-large-169.jpg\\\",\\\"image\\\": \\\"https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/181213143041-nigeria-suicide-prison-africa-large-169.jpg\\\",\\\"duration\\\": \\\"PT3M\\\",\\\"uploadDate\\\": \\\"2018-12-31T13:03:29Z\\\",\\\"contentUrl\\\": \\\"https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2018/12/30/imprisoned-suicide-illegal-nigeria-busari-pkg.cnn\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2018/12/30/imprisoned-suicide-illegal-nigeria-busari-pkg.cnn\\\",\\\"embedUrl\\\": \\\"https://fave.api.cnn.io/v1/fav/?video=world/2018/12/30/imprisoned-suicide-illegal-nigeria-busari-pkg.cnn&customer=cnn&edition=domestic&env=prod\\\"}\", \"Locked up where suicide is still a crime\", \" \", \"02:59\", \"She added that she was sexually abused in 2014 and did not know how to express being raped by a trusted partner to the people around her. \", \"Read More\", \"Her experiences, she said, piled up till she eventually snapped and started nursing suicidal notions. \", \"\\\"Trying to explain what was going on in my head was difficult. I looked fine physically, but it started to affect me mentally. I could go a day without being able to construct sentences, and I was a research analyst at the time which meant I had to write daily reports but I couldn't,\\\" she said. \", \"After expressing her suicidal thoughts to a friend, she was encouraged to see a psychiatrist at a psychiatric hospital in Lagos, one of Nigeria's largest cities. \", \"She was diagnosed with Bipolar and post traumatic stress disorder with mild psychosis. \\\"I poured out my heart, got some tests done and eventually got a diagnosis.\\\"\", \"Creating awareness \", \"Two months after Ojeifo's diagnosis, she said she decided to turn her difficult experiences around. She started to create awareness on the far-reaching impacts of mental health in Nigeria. \", \"In April 2016, she created\", \" She Writes Woman\", \", a non-profit organization focused on providing mental health support for those who may need it in the west African nation. \", \"There is minimal mental health awareness and there are not enough mental health professionals in Nigeria. \", \"In a country of more than \", \"200 million\", \" people, there are only 250 practicing psychiatrists, according to the\", \" Association of Psychiatrists of Nigeria. \", \"Ojeifo told CNN that She Writes Woman started as a blog but she realized she could do more with it, \\\"At first, I was just using it as an outlet to share my experiences and that of other women,\\\" she explained. \", \"Eventually, it morphed into a support community for people with mental health conditions. \", \"The 28-year-old got trained as a mental health coach so that she could start a helpline to talk to people experiencing overwhelming mental health symptoms.\", \"\\\"From sharing stories on the blog and social media, She Writes Woman blew up into a helpline which was run by me for a while, and then to a support group for people in vulnerable conditions,\\\" she said. \", \"24-hour mental health helpline\", \"She Writes Woman provides a\", \" 24-hour mental health helpline\", \" for anyone within Nigeria.\", \"The helpline serves as a first point of contact for people in distress or those who just want to talk about their mental health and symptoms. \", \"\\\"People call the helpline to get what we call a first-aid treatment. On the call you don't get immediate professional counseling, what happens is you get a first response communication where someone listens to you and what you have to say,\\\" Ojeifo explained.\", \"She added that after the first responders, callers can be referred to mental health professionals for therapy or a diagnosis if needed, \\\"depending on what the issue is we que people in to either a therapist or a psychiatrist.\\\"\", \"Data on mental health in Nigeria is hard to find, but according to a 2016 report in the Annals of Nigerian Medicine journal, an estimated\", \" 20-30% \", \"of the country's population is suffering from mental disorders.\", \"And in 2017, a World Health Organization report found that Nigerians have the highest incidences of depression in Africa, with \", \"more than 7 million people \", \"in the country suffering from depression.\", \"Despite the numbers, there is an absence of \", \"effective mental health legislation\", \" setting standards for psychiatric treatment or encouraging mental health awareness in the country. \", \"In February, following deliberations by legislators to pass a proposed mental health bill, Ojeifo became the first person to testify before the Nigerian parliament on the rights of persons with mental health conditions in the country.\", \"var id = '//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js'.replace(/\\\\s+/g, '');!!document.getElementById(id) || (function makeEmbedScript(d, id) {var js,fjs;js = d.createElement('script');js.id = id;js.charset = 'utf-8';js.setAttribute('async', '');js.src = '//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js';fjs = d.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];window.WM.UserConsent.addScriptElement(js, [\\\"vendor\\\",\\\"measure-ads\\\"], fjs);}(document, id));\", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" View this post on Instagram\", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \"We are so proud of our founder @hauwa_ojeifo for the great milestone achieved today. . She graciously spoke before the Senate at the public hearing of the #mentalhealth bill earlier today on behalf of all persons living with mental health conditions. . If you were there, you'd have been so proud. Word on the street is that this is the first time a person with a mental health condition is speaking before the Senate. . Go Hauwa!!\\ud83d\\udc83\\ud83c\\udffd . Want to know more about the mental health bill? Check out our stories to make your suggestions.\", \" \", \"A post shared by \", \" SWW | Mental Health in Nigeria\", \" (@shewriteswoman) on \", \"Feb 17, 2020 at 10:46am PST\", \"\\n\", \"The bill has yet to be implemented. \", \"To close the mental health gap in Nigeria, Ojeifo's organization also offers a support group for women and girls called \", \"Safe Place\", \" in six Nigerian states. \", \"\\\"Safe Space provides a community of shared experiences for women and girls. It provides a space for women to connect and share their experiences on whatever topic, to be there for one another and understand that they are not alone in their journeys,\\\" she explained, estimating that there have been over 50 meetings of the support group since the inception of the organization.\", \"In the beginning, Ojeifo, a former investment banker,  self-funded the organization. \", \"But now, with donations and grants from organizations such as One Young World, Airtel Nigeria and Disability Rights Advocacy Fund, it is able to expand and carry out more activities in Nigeria's mental health space.\", \"In 2018, the activist received a\", \" Queen's Young Leaders Award\", \" in in recognition of her work with the 24-hour mental health helpline and Safe Space support group. \", \"Changemaker Award Winner \", \"On Tuesday, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation named Ojeifo as its\", \" Changemaker Award winner for 2020\", \" for her work with She Writes Woman. \", \"The Changemaker Award is one of the Goalkeepers Global Goals Awards pushed yearly by the foundation. It celebrates individuals who have inspired change from a position of leadership or using their personal experience. \", \"In a statement released Tuesday, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation said it recognized the activist for her work in promoting\", \" Gender Equality\", \", the fifth global goal for sustainable development prescribed by the United Nations. \", \"These Africans are among the world's 100 most influential people, according to Time magazine\", \"Ojeifo said that she was in \\\"disbelief\\\" when she first received the email alerting her that she was a recipient of the award. \", \"\\\"It was so unexpected and it came as a surprise because I was not expecting it. It's like an added validation to the work She Writes Woman does,\\\" she said. \", \"\\\"During one of the meetings with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation I asked them how I was selected because I was just so blown away. I was told that it was because I had used my personal experience to build hope for people and to drive change,\\\" she added. \", \"Through the 2020 Changemaker Award, Ojeifo is hoping to gather a network that will help amplify the work She Writes Woman does even more. \", \"\\\"The Changemaker award means I am part of this network that is dedicated to amplifying my cause and giving me visibility,\\\" she said.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/18/africa/kenyan-comic-sensation-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"This chip-eating Kenyan comic is keeping Africans entertained on social media \", \"description\": \"Kenyan teenager, Elsa Majimbo is making viral monolgues on social media \", \"date\": \"2020-08-18T11:06:18Z\", \"author\": \"Aisha Salaudeen\", \"text\": [\" (CNN)\", \"Elsa Majimbo is taking over social media by providing comic relief on Instagram and Twitter amid the \", \"Covid-19 pandemic\", \". \", \"The Kenyan comic, whose relatable monologues often go viral, films from her home in Nairobi, the country's capital city. \", \"Majimbo first went viral after posting a video in March when initial restrictions such as intermittent lockdowns, border controls, and closure of schools and restaurants were\", \" imposed by the Kenyan government\", \" to curb the spread of Covid-19.\", \"In the video, the 19-year-old talked about being in isolation at the time and wanting to be left alone.\", \"var id = '//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js'.replace(/\\\\s+/g, '');!!document.getElementById(id) || (function makeEmbedScript(d, id) {var js,fjs;js = d.createElement('script');js.id = id;js.charset = 'utf-8';js.setAttribute('async', '');js.src = '//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js';fjs = d.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];window.WM.UserConsent.addScriptElement(js, [\\\"vendor\\\",\\\"measure-ads\\\"], fjs);}(document, id));\", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" View this post on Instagram\", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \"'Sending love,sending hugs,sending kisses'. Kama Hautumi Mpesa don't waste my time\", \" \", \"A post shared by \", \" Elsa Mpho Majimbo\", \" (@majimb.o) on \", \"Mar 30, 2020 at 10:20am PDT\", \"\\n\", \"\\\"Ever since corona started, we've all been in isolation, and I like, miss no one,\\\" she said, laughing and eating potato-based crunchy chips\", \" in the video\", \". \", \"Read More\", \"\\\"Why am I missing you? There is no reason for me to miss you... do I pay your rent? Do I provide food for you? Why are you missing me?\\\" she added, still laughing. \", \"The quirky humor in the video earned Majimbo many reshares and more than 250,000 views from users across the continent, including South Africa, Kenya and Nigeria. \", \"She told CNN she did not expect the video to get as much attention as it did, but many people related to it. \", \"Gentlemen, start your wheelbarrows! Meet the Nigerian kids ingeniously remaking famous videos with household objects\", \"\\\"It was the time we had just gotten to lockdown, and everyone was telling me they missed me, and I literally like being away from people, so I thought to myself, 'Let me make a video about that,'\\\" she said. \", \"\\\"I did not expect all the attention, but it happened, and I am glad it did.\\\"\", \"Since going viral, Majimbo has made more videos combining dry humor and criticism around the subject matters she decides to film about. \", \"Many of the videos have more than 250,000 views on Instagram and an average of 50,000 views on Twitter.  \", \"Some of the videos have also been featured on American owned cable channel, \", \"Comedy Central\", \". \", \"Eating crunchy chips \", \"Majimbo often incorporates eating crunchy chips, which has become one of her signature moves, to emphasize her points in her monologues.\", \"\\\"In the first video that trended, I ate chips. A lot of people seemed to like it. There were a lot of comments asking me to do it again. So, I was like, OK whatever, and I did it again,\\\" she told CNN. \", \"The comic sensation additionally wears tiny dark sunglasses as a prop in her videos. Just like crunching on chips, the '90s shades are for emphasizing on points made in her skits, she said. \", \"var id = '//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js'.replace(/\\\\s+/g, '');!!document.getElementById(id) || (function makeEmbedScript(d, id) {var js,fjs;js = d.createElement('script');js.id = id;js.charset = 'utf-8';js.setAttribute('async', '');js.src = '//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js';fjs = d.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];window.WM.UserConsent.addScriptElement(js, [\\\"vendor\\\",\\\"measure-ads\\\"], fjs);}(document, id));\", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" View this post on Instagram\", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \"If I pay for the app I own the abs\", \" \", \"A post shared by \", \" Elsa Mpho Majimbo\", \" (@majimb.o) on \", \"Jun 11, 2020 at 10:10am PDT\", \"\\n\", \"\\\"How do I manage to be this hot? The key to being hot is Photoshop,\\\" she said in \", \"one of her videos\", \" titled \\\"If I pay for the app, I own the abs.\\\"\", \"In the video, Majimbo joked about using Photoshop to look good in pictures, \\\"Why get a six-pack in five months when you can get them in five minutes?\\\" she added, putting on the sunglasses to make her point. \", \"Her videos have received support from \", \"celebrities \", \"like actor Lupita Nyongo and current Miss Universe, Zozibini Tunzi. \", \"Majimbo, who records all her monologues using her iPhone 6, said she does not write her lines down before filming, instead she simply \\\"goes with the flow.\\\"\", \"\\\"The thing I like the most about my videos is that they come to me so easily and so naturally. I could just be sitting and feel like making a video about something, and I do it. Anything that comes to my mind, I record,\\\" she said. \", \"\\\"If I don't have any lines to record. I don't even bother, I just skip it and say no video today,\\\" she added. \", \"'I've been able to find myself in a way I hadn't before'\", \"Since becoming an internet sensation, Majimbo said she partnered with brands such as Canadian cosmetics manufacturer, MAC cosmetics, to create content aimed at promoting their products in fun ways. \", \"The teenager, who is currently a journalism student at Strathmore University in Nairobi, is thinking about a completely different career.\", \"According to her, she is taking the time to explore different and newer options, particularly in entertainment, \\\"I think the career I wanted before is not what I want now. A lot of things have changed, I've been able to find myself in a way I hadn't before.\\\" \", \"She added that she is looking into acting roles and having her own comedy show. \", \"This Nigerian comic is getting a lot of love on TikTok with the 'Don't Leave Me' challenge\", \"But regardless of the career part Majimbo takes, she is already influencing social media users in Africa. \", \"She has been given a South African name \\\"Mpho\\\" by her fans in the country. The name means \\\"gift\\\" in Tswana language spoken in Southern Africa, Botswana, Namibia and Zimbabwe. \", \"Majimbo says she will continue to make relatable and funny monologues but will not be limited to them.\", \"\\\"I don't like setting expectations for my future plans because I don't want to be limited. I am open to exploring and becoming many things in the future.\\\"\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/07/africa/africa-engineering-prize-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"A 26-year-old is first woman to win Royal Academy of Engineering's Africa Prize for innovation\", \"description\": \"A 26-year-old has become the first woman to win the prestigious Royal Academy of Engineering's Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation.\\n\\n\", \"date\": \"2020-09-07T13:54:59Z\", \"author\": \"Aisha Salaudeen\", \"text\": [\" (CNN)\", \"A 26-year-old from Ivory Coast has won the 2020 Royal Academy of Engineering's Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation.\", \"Charlette N'Guessan is the \", \"first woman to win the award\", \", which could revolutionize cyber security and help curb identity fraud on the continent. \", \"N'Guessan and her team won the \\u00a325,000 award (about $33,000) for BACE API, a digital verification system that uses Artificial Intelligence and facial recognition to verify the identities of Africans remotely and in real time.\", \"BACE API works by matching the live photo of a user to the image on their documents such as passports or ID card, N'Guessan said. \", \"For websites and online applications that have BACE API integrated in them, users will be verified via their webcam to establish their  identity. \", \"Read More\", \"\\\"For the person trying to submit their application, we ask them to switch on their camera to make sure the person behind the camera is real, and not a robot. \", \"\\\"We are able to capture the face of the person live and match their image with the one on the existing document the person submitted,\\\" she explained. \", \"BACE API verifies users identities in real time using their phone camera or webcam\", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"BACE API verifies users identities in real time using their phone camera or webcam\\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"BACE API verifies users identities in real time using their phone camera or webcam\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200904115946-restricted-03-africa-engineering-prize-intl-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"BACE API can be integrated into already existing applications and systems for identity verification and is targeted at mostly financial institutions on the continent, N'Guessan told CNN. \", \"N'Guessan and her team won the Africa Prize for Innovation in a virtual award ceremony on September 3 where the Africa Prize judges and a live audience voted in their favor, the Royal Academy of Engineering said in\", \" a statement\", \". \", \"\\\"We are very proud to have Charlette N'Guessan and her team win this award,\\\" said Rebecca Enonchong, an entrepreneur from Cameroon entrepreneur and Africa Prize judge in the statement. \", \"\\\"It is essential to have technologies like facial recognition based on African communities, and we are confident their innovative technology will have far reaching benefits for the continent.\\\"\", \"BACE API matches a user's live photo with the image on their official documents to verify their identity. \", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"BACE API matches a user&#39;s live photo with the image on their official documents to verify their identity. \\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"BACE API matches a user&#39;s live photo with the image on their official documents to verify their identity. \\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200904115800-restricted-02-africa-engineering-prize-intl-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"Curbing identity fraud\", \"N'Guessan, who is the CEO and co-founder of Ghana-based software company, \", \"BACE Group\", \", told CNN that the idea came about while she was studying at the \", \"Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology\", \" (MEST) in Accra, Ghana's capital city. \", \"While there, she worked with a team of four and it was during one of their research projects in 2018 they decided to create BACE API, and later a software company. \", \"\\\"We ... talked to tech entrepreneurs. That's when we noticed that there is a huge problem with cyber security with online services and businesses,\\\" she said.\", \"N'Guessan said their research found that many financial institutions in the west African country deal with identity fraud, estimating that they spend up to $400 million dollars yearly to identify their customers. \", \"\\\"We decided to make our contribution as software engineers and data scientists by building a solution that can be useful for this market,\\\" N'Guessan added. \", \"Before the winner was announced on September 3, N'Guessan and other entrepreneurs shortlisted for the Africa Prize received eight months of training from experts across the world and her team was paired with an AI specialist who helped with improvements to their system. \", \" An African woman in tech\", \"N'Guessan's interest in technology started at a young age. Growing up in Ivory Coast, west Africa, she was encouraged to focus on science and technology subjects by her father, a mathematics professor.  \", \"\\\"He inspired my choice for studying STEM. I was actually really good in science-related courses. After high school, I went on to study software engineering at university,\\\" she said. \", \"Now running her own technology company, she told CNN that winning the Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation has helped to boost her confidence as a CEO leading a technical team of men.\", \"The Academy was founded in 1976 and has been running the award to reward engineering innovation in Africa since 2014. \", \"Globally, the technology industry is growing, but women led startups are in short supply with\", \" only 22%\", \" founded by at least one woman, according to a report in Disrupt Africa.\", \"This 9-year-old has built more than 30 mobile games\", \"Data specific to Africa is hard to come by but some studies suggest that \", \"only 9% of startups\", \" on the continent have women founders. \", \"N'Guessan says she hopes that her achievement will motivate more women to consider careers in tech. \", \"\\\"I will be happy if people are inspired by my story, being the first woman to win the Africa Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation and by my work as a woman in tech,\\\" she said. \"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/16/africa/amnesty-mozambique-video-killing-investigation-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"Amnesty International calls for investigation into video showing execution of woman in Mozambique\", \"description\": \"Amnesty International has called for an immediate investigation into the apparent extrajudicial killing of a woman in Mozambique that was shared widely in a horrifying video on social media earlier this week. \", \"date\": \"2020-09-16T17:31:35Z\", \"author\": \"David McKenzie, Brent Swails and Vasco Cotovio\", \"text\": [\" (CNN)\", \"Amnesty International has called for an immediate investigation into the apparent extrajudicial killing of a woman in Mozambique that was shared widely in a horrifying video on social media earlier this week. \", \"In the nearly two-minute-long video, men wearing military uniforms are seen chasing down a naked woman, surrounding and verbally harassing her along a rural road. One of the men repeatedly beats her with a stick before another man shoots her at close range. \", \" \", \"She is then repeatedly shot by the men while lying on the road before one of the men shouts \\\"Stop, stop, enough, it's done.\\\" \", \" \", \"Read More\", \"The video ends as the men turn and walk away, with one of them announcing, \\\"They've killed the al-Shabaab,\\\" the local name given to the growing insurgency in the far north of the country. \", \"It has no known links to the Somali terrorist group of the same name. The uniformed man looks directly into camera and raises his two fingers before the recording stops. \", \" \", \"\\\"The horrendous video is yet another gruesome example of the gross human rights violations taking place in Cabo Delgado by the Mozambican forces,\\\" said Deprose Muchena, Amnesty International's Director for East and Southern Africa.\", \"A young boy was killed by a police stray bullet during a coronavirus curfew. Now his parents want answers\", \" \", \"In its own analysis of the video, the human rights group says that the men were wearing the uniform of the Mozambican military. Amnesty says four different gunmen shot the woman a total of 36 times with AK-47s and PKM-style machine guns. Its investigation concluded that the incident took place near Awasse in the country's northernmost province Cabo Delgado. \", \" \", \"\\\"The incident is consistent with our recent findings of appalling human rights violations and crimes under international law happening in the area,\\\" said Muchena. \", \" \", \"CNN could not independently the authenticity of the video, the date and location it was filmed, nor the identity of the gunmen. \", \" \", \"Mozambique's Minister of Interior Amade Miquidade denied the accusations of atrocities, though did not address the video specifically, on national television Tuesday, saying that insurgents frequently wear army uniforms. \", \" \", \"\\\"When they want to produce their propaganda against the security and defense forces, against the Mozambican state, they remove those signs/characters that identify them and make videos to promote an image of atrocity practiced by those who defend the people,\\\" he said. \", \"Ammonium nitrate that exploded in Beirut bought for mining, Mozambican firm says \", \" \", \"Cabo Delgado is home to a $60 billion natural gas development that is heavily guarded by Mozambican military and private security. \", \" \", \"Loosely aligned with ISIS, the insurgents have undertaken increasingly sophisticated attacks in recent months, overrunning large parts of Mocimba de Praia, a strategic port north of the regional capital Pemba in August. Unlike in previous attacks, government forces have struggled to fully retake the territory. \", \" \", \"The insurgents have been accused by the government and human rights groups of their own violent abuses -- including beheadings, looting, and indiscriminate killing of civilians. \", \" \", \"And the interior minister highlighted those alleged abuses on Tuesday. \", \" \", \"\\\"Once more, our country continues to be the object of aggression by the terrorists, namely in the province of Cabo Delgado, where they've enforced cruel, inhuman, atrocious acts against our population,\\\" said Miquidade.\", \" \", \"Security analysts and human rights workers say that insurgents operating in the area do sometimes wear Mozambican military uniforms. But the uniformed men in the video showing the woman's killing speak Portuguese, generally more common to Mozambicans from the South. \", \"CNN's David McKenzie and Brent Swails reported from Johannesburg and Vasco Cotovio reported from London.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/23/africa/china-ethiopia-test-kits-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"China's BGI wins 1.5 million coronavirus test kit order from Ethiopia\", \"description\": \"Ethiopia has agreed to purchase 1.5 million coronavirus testing kits that will be manufactured at a factory in the African country that has been newly built by China's BGI Group, China's state media agency Xinhua said late on Tuesday.\", \"date\": \"2020-09-23T11:22:20Z\", \"author\": \"Story by Reuters\", \"text\": [\"Beijing \", \"Ethiopia has agreed to purchase 1.5 million coronavirus testing kits that will be manufactured at a factory in the African country that has been newly built by China's BGI Group, China's state media agency Xinhua said late on Tuesday.\", \"The BGI factory, the first coronavirus test production facility in Ethiopia that opened earlier this month, is designed to be able to make 6-8 million tests in a year and can expand the annual capacity to up to 10 million in accordance with local demand, Xinhua reported.\", \"BGI, which makes genome sequencing and medical devices, is hoping to use its footprint in Ethiopia in expanding its supplies to other African countries, Xinhua quoted a BGI official as saying in a separate report on Wednesday.\", \"BGI did not immediately respond to a request for comment.\", \"BGI Group's unit BGI Genomics had said it supplied over 35 million coronavirus testing kits overseas and built 58 labs in 18 countries as of June 30.\", \"Read More\", \"The Ethiopia factory could be later converted to make test kits for HIV, malaria and tuberculosis once the Covid-19 pandemic ends, Xinhua said.\", \"Ethiopia, one of the countries that has the most new daily infections on average in Africa, has reported 69,709 infections and 1,108 coronavirus-related deaths since the pandemic began.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/29/africa/togo-female-prime-minister-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"Togo names first female Prime Minister\", \"description\": \"President's former chief-of-staff Victoire Tomegah Dogbe, 60, has become the first female prime minister of Togo, a tiny West African nation of about eight million people.\", \"date\": \"2020-09-29T18:09:26Z\", \"author\": \"Orji Sunday\", \"text\": [\" (CNN)\", \"Togo's President Faure Gnassingbe has appointed the country's first female prime minister.\", \"Victoire Tomegah Dogbe, 60, became the first female prime minister of the tiny West African nation of about eight million people.\", \" \", \"Dogbe, whose appointment was confirmed by President Faure Gnassingbe on Monday, replaces Komi Selom Klassou, who resigned as prime minister on Friday, a position he held since 2015.\", \" \", \"Read More\", \"Dogbe is well known and respected in Togo, having served in several positions under Gnassingbe's government in the past decade, including working as his chief-of-staff, director of the cabinet of the President of the Republic and more recently as Minister for youth and grassroots development, according to local media reports.\", \"Ethiopia appoints its first female president \", \" \", \"Prior to joining politics, she worked with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) according to information from the agency. \", \" \", \"Her appointment comes after an expected cabinet reshuffle, which was delayed by the country's fight against coronavirus pandemic, following the controversial re-election of Gnassingbe, \", \"who has ruled Togo since 2005\", \". \", \"He took power from his father who, before his death,  ruled Togo for 38 years, dating back to a 1967 coup. \", \"Despite a \", \"series of protests between 2017 -- 2019\", \" calling for an end to a single family rule in Togo, Gnassingbe forced a constitutional reform in 2019 that allowed him to run for an election which he won easily in February 2020. His current tenure runs till 2025.  \", \"Faure must go: How one Togolese woman is risking her life to end the 50-year Gnassingb\\u00e9 dynasty\", \"The 56-year-old leader has seen growing opposition, following slowed economic growth, accusations of electoral fraud, \", \"corruption and human rights violations.\", \" \", \"Dogbe's has vast experience in governance and administration which is well positioned to help the country achieve a long-expected economic boom which has eluded the country since independence in 1960.\", \" \", \"Dogbe has been deeply involved in the country's fight against youth unemployment and poverty, introducing reforms that have been praised as a local success in her country, according to \", \"Togo-First, an online publication\", \" in the country. \", \" \", \"As the parliament awaits Dogbe's policy plan, observers are keen to see what economic difference her reforms can make in a country where half its population live below the poverty line, according to a \", \"2014 report by the International Monetary Fund\", \". \"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/30/africa/zimbabwe-elephant-disease-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"Zimbabwe suspects bacterial disease behind elephant deaths\", \"description\": \"Zimbabwe suspects a bacterial disease called hemorrhagic septicemia is behind the recent deaths of more than 30 elephants but is doing further tests to make sure, the parks authority said.\", \"date\": \"2020-09-30T14:48:29Z\", \"author\": \"Story by Reuters\", \"text\": [\"Zimbabwe suspects a bacterial disease called hemorrhagic septicemia is behind the recent deaths of more than 30 elephants but is doing further tests to make sure, the parks authority said.\", \"The elephant deaths, which began in late August, come soon after hundreds of elephants died in neighboring Botswana in mysterious circumstances.\", \"Officials in Botswana were initially at a loss to explain the elephant deaths there but have since blamed toxins produced by another type of bacterium.\", \"Toxins in water blamed for deaths of hundreds of elephants in Botswana \", \"Experts say Botswana and Zimbabwe could be home to roughly half of the continent's 400,000 elephants, often targeted by poachers.\", \"Elephants in Botswana and parts of Zimbabwe are at historically high levels, but elsewhere on the continent -- especially in forested areas -- many populations are severely depleted, said Chris Thouless, head of research at Save the Elephants.\", \"Read More\", \"\\\"Higher populations equal greater risk from infectious diseases,\\\" Thouless told Reuters, adding that climate change could put pressure on elephant populations as water supplies diminish and temperatures rise, potentially increasing the probability of pathogen outbreaks.\", \"Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority Director-General Fulton Mangwanya told a parliamentary committee on Monday that so far 34 dead elephants had been counted.\", \"\\\"It is unlikely that this disease alone will have any serious overall impact on the survival of the elephant population,\\\" he said. \\\"The northwest regions of Zimbabwe have an over-abundance of elephants and this outbreak of disease is probably a manifestation of that ... particularly in the hot, dry season elephants are stressed by competition for water and food resources.\\\"\", \"Postmortems on some of the dead elephants showed inflamed livers and other organs, Mangwanya said. The elephants were found lying on their stomachs, suggesting a sudden death.\", \"Vernon Booth, a Zimbabwe-based wildlife management consultant, told Reuters it was difficult to put a number on Zimbabwe's current elephant population. He estimated it could be close to 90,000, up from 82,000 in 2014 when the last national survey was conducted, assuming that roughly 2,000-3,000 have died each year from all causes.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/01/world/covid-girls-child-marriage-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"Half a million more girls are at risk of child marriage in 2020 because of Covid-19, charity warns\", \"description\": \"The pandemic has put 500,000 more girls at risk of being forced into child marriage this year, reversing 25 years of progress that saw child marriage rates decline, according to a new report by the charity Save the Children.\", \"date\": \"2020-10-01T12:59:25Z\", \"author\": \"Tara John\", \"text\": [\"London (CNN)\", \"The pandemic has put 500,000 more girls at risk of being forced into child marriage this year, reversing \", \"25 years of progress\", \" that saw child marriage rates decline, according to a new report by the charity Save the Children.\", \"Before the global outbreak, 12 million girls married each year, now the charity warns that up to 2.5 million more girls could be at risk of \", \"child marriage\", \" over the next five years.  \", \"How saying 'I do' can help millions of girls to say 'I don't'\", \"With up to 117 million children estimated to fall into poverty in 2020, many will face pressure to work and help provide for their families.\", \"\\\"The pandemic means more families are being pushed into poverty, forcing many girls to work to support their families, to go without food, to become the main caregivers for sick family members, and to drop out of school -- with far less of a chance than boys of ever returning,\\\" Inger Ashing, CEO of Save the Children International, \", \"said in a press release\", \".\", \"The pandemic led to school closures and \\\"experience during the Ebola outbreak suggests many girls will never return\\\" to class due \\\"to increasing pressure to work, risk of child marriage, bans on pregnant girls attending school, and lost contact with education,\\\" the charity wrote.\", \"Read More\", \"A girl gets married every 2 seconds somewhere in the world\", \"This year, 191,200 girls in South Asia will be disproportionately affected by the risk of increased child marriage, the report says. It is followed by West and Central Africa, where 90,000 girls are at risk of child marriage, Latin America and the Caribbean (73,400), and Europe and Central Asia (37,200).  \", \"Girls affected by humanitarian crises, such as wars, floods and earthquakes, face the greatest risk of child marriage, the report notes. Before the pandemic, data showed child marriage was increasing among refugee populations. In Lebanon, child marriage among Syrian refugee girls rose by 7% between 2017 and 2018.\", \"\\\"Every year, around 12 million girls are married, 2 million before their 15th birthday,\\\" Ashing said. \\\"Half a million more girls are now at risk of this gender-based violence this year alone -- and these only are the ones we know about. We believe this is the tip of the iceberg.\\\"\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/16/africa/blasphemy-nigeria-boy-sentenced-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"Outrage as Nigeria sentences 13-year-old boy to 10 years in prison for blasphemy\", \"description\": \"Child rights agency UNICEF has condemned the sentencing of a 13-year-old boy to 10 years in prison for blasphemy in northern Nigeria. \", \"date\": \"2020-09-16T14:09:33Z\", \"author\": \"Stephanie Busari and Eoin McSweeney\", \"text\": [\" (CNN)\", \"Child rights agency UNICEF has condemned the sentencing of a 13-year-old boy to 10 years in prison for blasphemy in northern Nigeria. \", \"Omar Farouq was convicted in a Sharia court in Kano State in northwest Nigeria after he was accused of using foul language toward Allah in an argument with a friend. \", \"He was sentenced on August 10 by the same court that recently sentenced a studio assistant Yahaya Sharif-Aminu to death for blaspheming Prophet Mohammed, according to lawyers. \", \"Farouq's punishment is in violation of the African Charter of the Rights and Welfare of a Child and the Nigerian constitution, said his counsel Kola Alapinni, who told CNN they filed an appeal on his behalf on September 7. \", \"Farouq was tried as an adult because he has attained puberty and has full responsibility under Islamic law. \", \"Read More\", \"Alapinni told CNN he or other lawyers working on the case have not been granted access to Farouq by authorities in Kano State. \", \"He said he found out about Farouq's case by chance when working on the case of Sharif-Aminu, who was sentenced to death for blasphemy at the Kano Upper Sharia Court. \", \"\\\"We found out they were convicted on the same day, by the same judge, in the same court, for blasphemy and we found out no one was talking about Omar, so we had to move quickly to file an appeal for him,\\\" he said. \", \"\\\"Blasphemy is not recognized by Nigerian law. It is inconsistent with the constitution of Nigeria.\\\"\", \" \", \" .m-infographic--1600276717888 { background: url(//cdn.cnn.com/cnn/.e/interactive/html5-video-media/2020/09/16/20201609_kano_state_map_375px.jpg) no-repeat 0 0 transparent; margin-bottom: 30px; padding-top: 111.4513981358189%; width: 100%; -moz-background-size: cover; -o-background-size: cover; -webkit-background-size: cover; background-size: cover; } @media (min-width: 640px) { .m-infographic--1600276717888{ background-image: url(//cdn.cnn.com/cnn/.e/interactive/html5-video-media/2020/09/16/20201609_kano_state_map_780px.jpg); padding-top: 84.2948717948718%; } } @media (min-width: 1120px) { .m-infographic--1600276717888{ background-image: url(//cdn.cnn.com/cnn/.e/interactive/html5-video-media/2020/09/16/20201609_kano_state_map_780px.jpg); padding-top: 84.2948717948718%; } } \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \"The lawyer said Farouq's mother had fled to a neighboring town after mobs descended on their home following his arrest. \", \"\\\"Everyone here is scared to speak and living under fear of reprisal attacks,\\\" he said. \", \"UNICEF Wednesday issued a statement \\\"expressing deep concern\\\" about the sentencing. \", \"\\\"The sentencing of this child -- 13-year-old Omar Farouq -- to 10 years in prison with menial labour is wrong,\\\" said Peter Hawkins, UNICEF representative in Nigeria. \\\"It also negates all core underlying principles of child rights and child justice that Nigeria -- and by implication, Kano State -- has signed on to.\\\" \", \"Kano State, like most predominantly Muslim states in Nigeria, practices Sharia law alongside secular law. \", \"Islam Fast Facts\", \"CNN contacted a spokesman for the Kano State governor for comment but had not heard back before publication. \", \"UNICEF has called on the Nigerian government and the Kano State government to urgently review the case and reverse the sentence, the organization said in a statement. \", \"\\\"This case further underlines the urgent need to accelerate the enactment of the Kano State Child Protection Bill so as to ensure that all children under 18, including Omar Farouq are protected -- and that all children in Kano are treated in accordance with child rights standards,\\\" Hawkins said.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/18/africa/disney-partners-with-nollywood/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"Disney partners with Nollywood to bring American movies to English-speaking West Africa\", \"description\": \"FilmOne Entertainment is now the sole distributor of Disney titles in English speaking West Africa\", \"date\": \"2020-09-18T12:02:13Z\", \"author\": \"Aisha Salaudeen\", \"text\": [\"Lagos, Nigeria (CNN)\", \"Disney, is joining forces with a Nigerian production and distribution company to market some of the American entertainment conglomerate's new releases such as \\\"Mulan\\\" in English-speaking West Africa.\", \"The deal makes FilmOne Entertainment the sole distributors of Disney-owned films in Nigeria, Ghana, and Liberia. \", \"\\\"It is a major career highlight, that we're able to get the world's biggest movie studio as a partner,\\\" Moses Babatope, a director at FilmOne, told CNN. \", \"Bollywood and Nollywood collide in a tale of a big fat Indian-Nigerian wedding\", \"FilmOne Entertainment has been at the forefront of growing Nigeria's cinema culture and has built cinemas across the country, including IMAX screens.\", \"The firm has also distributed and produced \", \"Nigerian box office hits \", \"such as \\\"The Wedding Party,\\\" and \\\"New Money.'\\\"\", \"Read More\", \"\\\"What the deal means is that we are exclusive marketers and distributors of Disney titles in the English-speaking West African countries that have studio licensed cinemas. We will distribute the films to all those cinemas in the territory,\\\" he explained. \", \"The agreement, which commenced this month, covers titles from all Disney studio divisions including Pixar, Marvel Studios, Walt Disney Pictures, and Blue Sky pictures. \", \"\\\"With their in-depth knowledge of the region and expertise in bringing theatrical releases to fans, we are thrilled to welcome FilmOne as our distribution partner for this territory,\\\" Disney Africa's country manager, Christine Service said in a statement. \", \"Bigger opportunities\", \"Film analysts in the country say this deal may convince investors and film producers to look further into the African movie industry. \", \"\\\"This deal is huge because it means that Disney is paying attention. Their presence can open doors for movie collaborations,\\\" said Shola Thompson, a Nigeria-based film consultant.\", \"Thompson added that distributing Disney movies is a pathway to getting the best content to cinemas, which can improve the cinema-going culture in the region as well as increase their potential earnings.\", \"As a result of restrictions following the Covid-19 pandemic, many cinemas in West Africa are not operating at full capacity. But FilmOne Entertainment says it is working on improving the cinema experience as a way of encouraging people to show up when all restrictions have been lifted.\", \"Netflix partners with Nigerian filmmaker in new major deal \", \"\\\"We will let people know that they enjoy films better when they watch with other people. To say that the experience out of home is very different,\\\" Babatope said. \", \"\\\"We will communicate that cinemas are safe in our communications to audiences. We will document what the cinemas are doing regarding incorporating safety procedures,\\\" he added. \", \"Disney's deal is not the first time a multinational entertainment company is partnering with film companies in West Africa.\", \"In 2019, FilmOne Entertainment signed a deal with Chinese media giant Huahua to co-produce the first \", \"major China-Nigeria film. \", \"In the same year, French Media giant,\", \" Canal+ acquired leading Nollywood film studio, ROK film studios\", \" to create more hours of Nigerian content for its French-speaking audience.\", \"Independence key to collaboration\", \"Thompson who is also a film analyst says the growing influence of entertainment companies like Disney on the continent may create room for greater Hollywood influence in Africa, without a corresponding influence of African film content in Hollywood.\", \"\\\"We need to be a bit careful to make sure we don't lose creative control of our stories. With more multinationals looking into Africa for partnerships, we don't want to find ourselves stuck with them dictating what we start to produce,\\\" he said. \", \"\\\"At the same time, we can still be glad that they are paying attention as that means growth for our film industry,\\\" he added. \", \"As FilmOne Entertainment prepares to start distributing Disney content, Babatope says the partnership is an opportunity that can lead to future collaborations involving largely African content. \", \"\\\"It's true that a lot of the content we will be distributing are from other parts of the world but if we are able to demonstrate that we are accountable and transparent, then there will be room to attract future investments involving content from this region.\\\"\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/29/health/who-rapid-test-kits-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"WHO announces Covid-19 rapid tests for low and middle income countries\", \"description\": \"The World Health Organization has announced an agreement to make rapid Covid-19 tests available to lower and middle-income countries across the world.\", \"date\": \"2020-09-29T14:08:02Z\", \"author\": \"Amanda Watts \", \"text\": [\" (CNN)\", \"The World Health Organization has announced an agreement to make rapid Covid-19 tests available to lower and middle-income countries across the world.\", \"Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO director-general said, \\\"a substantial proportion of these rapid tests - 120 million - will be made available to low and middle-income countries. 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Experts fear the toll may double before a vaccine is ready\", \"The first orders are expected already to be placed this week and it will be rolled out in up to 20 countries in Africa starting in October. \", \"Peter Sands, executive director of the Global Fund said the tests are hugely valuable as a complement to PCR tests but warned that they are not \\\"a silver bullet.\\\" \", \" \", \"\\\"Although they're a bit less accurate - they're much faster, cheaper, and don't require a lab,\\\" he explained. \\\"Being able to deploy quality antigen RDTs, rapid diagnostic tests, will be a significant step forward in enabling countries to contain and combat Covid-19,\\\" Sands added. \", \"The PCR test is the most widespread and most accurate diagnostic test for determining whether someone is currently infected with coronavirus.  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People hold Prophet Mohammed higher than their parents, and when things like this happen, it will lead to a breakdown of peace because of mob action and attacks against the accused.\\\" \", \"When news of Sharif-Aminu's alleged crime broke earlier this year, protesters marched to his family home and destroyed it, prompting his father to flee to a neighboring town, his lawyers told CNN. 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The sentences were not carried out. \", \"In 2000, a Muslim man in the northern state of Zamfara had his hand amputated for stealing a cow. A year later, another man had his hand cut off after he was convicted of stealing bicycles, according to the same USCIRF research paper. \", \"A constitutional violation? \", \"In the eyes of many Nigerians, the adoption of Sharia law is a violation of the \", \"country's constitution\", \", because Article 10 guarantees religious freedom when it states that \\\"the Government of the Federation or of a State shall not adopt any religion as State Religion.\\\" \", \"\\\"This issue of blasphemy is incompatible with the Nigerian constitution,\\\" Leo Igwe, chair of the board of trustees for the Humanist Association of Nigeria, told CNN. \", \"\\\"We hope this case will help Nigeria confront the biggest constitutional challenge since independence. What should take precedence, Sharia law, or the Nigerian constitution?\\\" \", \"Governors of the northern states, where Sharia law is practiced, argue that it applies only to Muslims, and not to citizens of other faiths. The FRF says it is working on six other constitutional cases which will challenge what it sees as government interference in Nigerian citizens' right to religious freedom. \", \"US national shot dead in Pakistan courtroom during blasphemy trial\", \"One of these, on behalf of the Atheist Society of Nigeria (ASN), is against the state government of Akwa Ibom, in the country's southeast, for its involvement in the construction of an 8,500-seat worship center at its High Court. \", \"The ASN says millions of dollars in state funding have been spent on the center, which it says amounts to government interference in freedom of religion. \", \"\\\"The government has no business legislating on religions. 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It shows how they are recruited and trafficked overseas for commercial gain.\", \"Directed by award-winning Nigerian filmmaker, Kenneth Gyang, the film features Nollywood actors including Sharon Ooja, Omoni Oboli and Blossom Chukwujekwu. \", \"Mo Abudu, executive producer of \\\"Oloture,\\\" told CNN that the crime drama was inspired by the numerous cases of trafficking around the world and in Nigeria. \", \"Actors pose as sex workers on the set of Netflix original film, \\\"Oloture.\\\"\", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"Actors pose as sex workers on the set of Netflix original film, &quot;Oloture.&quot;\\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"Actors pose as sex workers on the set of Netflix original film, &quot;Oloture.&quot;\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/201007071906-restricted-04-human-trafficking-film-nigeria-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"\\\"There have been many reports around the world highlighting human trafficking and modern slavery. It has been in our faces. I dug and dug and did a bit more research, and when I came across the numbers and saw how much was made annually from human trafficking, I was totally shocked,\\\" she said. \", \"Human trafficking is a \", \"$150 billion global industry.\", \" And two-thirds of this figure is generated from sexual exploitation, according to a 2014 report by the International Labor Organization. \", \"Abudu -- who is also CEO of EbonyLife Films, which produced \\\"Oloture\\\" -- added that the film mirrored some real-life reports by journalists who had gone undercover to expose sex trafficking patterns in the country.\", \"One of them, she said, was a \", \"2014 report \", \"by journalist Tobore Ovuorie, in the Nigerian newspaper, Premium Times. \", \"\\\"Upon research, we found that many journalists had gone undercover to report on human trafficking. But the Premium Times article did spark our interest as some of it plays out in the film,\\\" Abudu said. \", \"Easy prey for traffickers\", \"Ovuorie, whose report was credited in \\\"Oloture,\\\" told CNN that women often get trafficked as a result of their need to make money abroad. \", \"Ovuorie said she met many women in the course of her reporting who wanted to get to Europe in hopes of better job opportunities that would earn them more money.\", \"UK joins forces with Nigeria to fight human trafficking\", \"\\\"People were motivated by greed, you know, the need to get rich. I spoke with the women I was supposed to be trafficked with, and many of them wanted better lives motivated by money. There was one girl who had never earned more than 50,000 naira (about $130) as salary since she graduated from university,\\\" she told CNN.\", \"Most of the women were fleeing harsh economic conditions and poverty, making them easy prey for traffickers, Ovuorie said.\", \"During Ovuorie's investigation, she said she \", \"posed as a sex worker\", \" on the streets of Lagos, looking to travel to Europe.\", \"Lead actor, Sharon Ooja, and Omowunmi Dada (right) pose on set of \\\"Oloture.\\\"\", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"Lead actor, Sharon Ooja, and Omowunmi Dada (right) pose on set of &quot;Oloture.&quot;\\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"Lead actor, Sharon Ooja, and Omowunmi Dada (right) pose on set of &quot;Oloture.&quot;\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/201007072041-restricted-05-human-trafficking-film-nigeria-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"Her plan worked. 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In partnership with ZAM Chronicles and Premium Times, she documented her experience. \", \"After a series of \\\"humiliating trainings\\\" and physical abuse, she said she was told she and other girls would receive a \", \"fake passport\", \" in preparation to be smuggled outside the country through the border in Benin in West Africa.\", \"She escaped at the border. \", \"Physical and sexual abuse \", \"Many women who are trafficked in Nigeria face sexual, physical and mental abuse, according to \", \"a 2019 report \", \"by Human Rights Watch. \", \"The rights group interviewed many women who said they were trafficked within and across national borders under life-threatening conditions as they were starved, raped and extorted. \", \"On some occasions, according to the report, they were forced into prostitution where they were made to have abortions and \", \"coerced to have sex \", \"with customers when they were sick, menstruating or pregnant. \", \"\\\"Oloture\\\" portrays some of these harsh realities as the lead character (played by Ooja) suffers sexual violence and physical abuse, including being whipped by one of her traffickers. \", \"It was important to depict the reality of sex trafficking so viewers can understand the experiences of women who are forced into the trade, Gyang, the director, told CNN.\", \"Director Kenneth Gyang works behind the scenes of film, \\\"Oloture.\\\"\", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"Director Kenneth Gyang works behind the scenes of film, &quot;Oloture.&quot;\\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"Director Kenneth Gyang works behind the scenes of film, &quot;Oloture.&quot;\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/201007071340-restricted-01-human-trafficking-film-nigeria-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"\\\"I wanted people to know that this is the reality of these ladies. People always want closure but life is not about a Hollywood ending; you can't always get a happy ending,\\\" he said.\", \"While directing the film, Gyang visited places with sex workers to get a better idea of how they live and work, he said.\", \"\\\"I actually went to places where we have sex workers in Lagos with one of the producers of the film. We wanted to really capture their lives so that we would be able to show it realistically in the movie. We talked to them, and some of the rooms we used in the movie were actually used previously by sex workers,\\\" he explained. \", \"'The most impactful movie we have ever done'\", \"The film was shot in 21 days towards the end of 2018, he said. Post-production was covered in 2019, and it was released Friday on Netflix.\", \"In just days, it has become the top watched movie in Nigeria and is among the \", \"top 10 watched movies in the world on Netflix. \", \"\\\"It's huge for me as a filmmaker that people have access to the film from all over the world. I want many people as possible to see it and have conversations about sex trafficking,\\\" Gyang said. \", \"The film is doing well in countries like Switzerland, Brazil, and South Africa because it is authentic and \\\"deals with the truth,\\\" Abudu said.\", \"\\\"EbonyLife has done seven movies. But this is the most impactful one we have ever done. And the most important,\\\" Abudu said. \", \"A smuggler's chilling warning\", \"The \", \"National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons\", \" (NAPTIP), the law enforcement agency in charge of combating human trafficking in Nigeria, wants the film to be made available to people in rural communities who don't have access to Netflix.\", \"\\\"I haven't seen the movie, but if it is trying to portray the ills and dangers of trafficking, then it's fine since that is going to raise awareness,\\\" Julie Okah-Donli, the director-general of the agency said. \", \"And while she is happy that \\\"Oloture\\\" is shining the light on human trafficking, she told CNN that women mostly targeted by traffickers may not get to watch it.\", \"\\\"The people watching it on Netflix all know what trafficking is. It needs to go to those girls in rural communities where traffickers go to bring them from. Those are the girls that the awareness should go to,\\\" Okah-Donli said. \", \"With more people partnering with NAPTIP and raising awareness of the dangers of trafficking, sex trafficking will be minimized in Nigeria, she said. \"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/23/africa/asequals-nigeria-rape-sexual-violence-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"She's on the frontline of a rape epidemic. The pandemic has made her work more dangerous\", \"description\": null, \"date\": \"2020-06-23T09:00:49Z\", \"author\": \"Bukola Adebayo\", \"text\": [\"CNN is committed to covering gender inequality wherever it occurs in the world. This story is part of As Equals, an ongoing series.\", \" \", \"Lagos, Nigeria --\", \" At the start of each day, Dr. Anita Kemi DaSilva-Ibru and her team put on gloves, facemasks and other personal protective equipment to see their patients.\", \"They're not treating people for Covid-19, but they are on the frontline of the pandemic, working at the Women at Risk International Foundation (WARIF), a rape crisis center in Lagos, Nigeria.\", \"Wearing protective gear is the new reality for crisis center workers, like DaSilva-Ibru.\", \"\\\"We change these kits each time we see a survivor as we are mindful of the risk of transmission of the virus between the survivor and us and the cross-contamination between a survivor and the next,\\\" she told CNN.\", \"US-trained gynecologist DaSilva-Ibru has spent most of her career treating hundreds of sexual violence victims but it was the growing scale of the crisis in Nigeria that prompted her to set up WARIF in 2016.\", \"Read More\", \"The clinic in Yaba, a suburb of Lagos, provides medical treatment, legal assistance therapy and space for rape victims and survivors of sexual abuse to get back on their feet.\", \"One in four Nigerian girls \", \"has been the victim of sexual violence, according to UN estimates but DaSilva-Ibru says the numbers are higher as many cases go unreported due to the stigma attached.\", \"In recent weeks, two high profile cases of gender-based violence have brought Nigerian women out onto the streets demanding change.\", \"Uwaila Vera Omozuwa, a 22-year-old microbiology student, was \", \"found half-naked in a pool of blood\", \" in a local church where she had gone to study after the Covid-19 lockdown left universities across the country shut. \", \"\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote {\\n position: relative;\\n color: #262626;\\n margin: 25px auto;\\n padding: 10px 0 14px 0;\\n width: 100%;\\n max-width: 660px;\\n border-left: 0;\\n text-align: center;\\n}\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote:before, .cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote:after {\\n position: absolute;\\n content: '';\\n width: 50px;\\n height: 2px;\\n left: 50%;\\n transform: translateX(-50%);\\n -webkit-transform: translateX(-50%);\\n background-color: #262626;\\n}\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote:before {\\n top: 0;\\n}\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote:after {\\n bottom: -2px;\\n}\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote {\\n position: relative;\\n margin: 0;\\n text-align: center;\\n font-size: 35px;\\n font-weight: 700;\\n word-spacing: -1px;\\n line-height: 1.15;\\n padding: 24px 10px 22px 10px;\\n margin-bottom: 24px;\\n}\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote-cite {\\n margin: 0;\\n text-align: center;\\n font-size: 12px;\\n font-weight: 200;\\n color: #262626;\\n line-height: 1.15;\\n padding: 0 10px;\\n display: inline-block;\\n}\\n@media only screen and (min-width: 768px)  {\\n .cnnix-golf__pullquote {\\n  margin: 50px auto;\\n }\\n .cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote {\\n  font-size: 35px;\\n }\\n} \\n\", \"\\n \", \"\\n \", \"\\\"Rape is an epidemic in this country.\\\"\", \"\\n \", \" Dr. Anita Kemi DaSilva-Ibru, Women at Risk International Foundation\", \"\\n \", \"Her family said her attackers raped her and the student died while being treated at the hospital. A few days later, another student, Barakat Bello, was allegedly raped and killed during a robbery at her home,\", \" according to human rights group Amnesty International.\", \"\\\"Rape is an epidemic in this country,\\\" DaSilva-Ibru told CNN.\", \"She says her work with survivors of sexual violence has become more critical during the outbreak, with restrictions to curb the virus from spreading fueling a surge in calls. \", \"It's a story echoed in other parts of the region, as authorities grapple with a growing number of Covid-19 cases and the impact restrictions are having on women.\", \"Related: A transport ban in Uganda means women are trapped at home with their abusers\", \"DaSilva-Ibru said she initially closed the center after authorities locked down the city in March, she had to reconsider the decision as the organization became inundated with SOS messages from sexual violence victims and their guardians.\", \"Staff operating the 24-hour helpline at the center also reported a 64% increase in calls during this period, according to DaSilva-Ibru. \", \"\\\"Our phones were ringing. Women were calling and desperately asking how we can help them, these were women in fear of their lives, as many have now been forced into quarantine with their abusers, in an already volatile environment,\\\" DaSilva-Ibru told CNN.\", \"For the center to re-open, DaSilva-Ibru said she had to source PPE, face masks and other protective gear personally and when that was not enough, the center launched an online appeal for funds from donors to buy the equipment at no cost to survivors, she said. \", \"\\\"We carry out forensic examinations on survivors and our frontline health workers who triage and examine patients are in close proximity to the survivors. As much as we need to carry out our duties, we also need to ensure our workers are adequately protected,\\\" DaSilva-Ibru told CNN.\", \"The challenges Ibru faces to keep the center open, doesn't compare to what sexual violence victims have experienced as a result of this pandemic, she said.\", \"DaSilva-Ibru recalls a woman who told staff at the center that her male friend had raped her in her home during the lockdown.\", \"Dr. Anita Kemi DaSilva-Ibru. \", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"Dr. Anita Kemi DaSilva-Ibru. \\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"Dr. Anita Kemi DaSilva-Ibru. \\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200618151608-02-dr-kemi-dasilva-ibru-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"\\\"The first day we re-opened, we attended to women who had walked many miles in spite of the mandatory lockdown to get to the center. These are women who had been terrorized in their homes,\\\" she added.\", \"\\\"She (a survivor) had repeatedly been calling (the center) to find out how she could get help. She feared she might have contracted HIV and wanted to be tested,\\\" Ibru said. \", \"Speaking to CNN, the woman, who didn't want to use her name to protect her identity, said a co-worker raped her after he came to her apartment unannounced in April. \", \"The young banker said she had previously rebuffed his attempts to visit, but on that Sunday afternoon in April, he showed up at her doorstep.\", \"\\\"He's a friend, not a stranger, so I opened the door for him. I was still asking him what was so urgent that made him leave his home. He said he wanted to check up on me and I told him he could have done that over the phone,\\\" she told CNN.\", \"But a few minutes into his visit, the conversation became uncomfortable between them.\", \"\\\"He kept coming towards me, and when I told him to stop, he put his hand over my mouth and pinned me on the floor,\\\" she said.\", \"She says he apologized after raping her and hurriedly left her house.\", \"The survivor told CNN she did not make a police complaint because she was worried about the stigma and strain that the rape might have on her parents.  \", \"A friend she confided in told her to reach out to the \", \"Lagos Domestic and Sexual Violence Response Team\", \" who put survivors in touch with treatment centers for help.\", \"After several calls to the centers on their website, she was referred to \", \"WARIF\", \".\", \"When she went to the clinic, she says staff ran some tests and placed her on Post Exposure Prophylaxis, a HIV prevention treatment for possible exposure.\", \"\\\"Sometimes I get really angry, and sometimes I feel numb,\\\" she said, reflecting on the assault.\", \"She says she was sick every night for 28 days because of the drugs.\", \"\\\"...even though the doctor prepared me for the side effect, it has not been easy,\\\" she told CNN. \", \"Gender-based violence is a problem in many countries, but the coronavirus pandemic has worsened the situation.\", \"The \", \"UN says\", \" the raft of measures deployed by governments to fight the pandemic have led to economic hardship, stress, and fear -- conditions that lead to violence against women and girls. \", \"Equality Now Regional Coordinator in Africa Judy Gitau told CNN that the wave of unemployment and school closures has put victims in a precarious situation.\", \"She recalls a similar situation in Sierra Leone \", \"during the 2014 Ebola outbreak\", \" when\", \" teenage pregnancies spiked\", \" in the country\", \"The government enforced strict stay-at-home orders that closed businesses and schools across the West African nation to curb the spread of the virus, she said.\", \"The restrictions made schoolgirls vulnerable to abuse as some were assaulted in their homes by relatives, and at the same time, a majority of girls from low-income families were coerced to exchange sex for money for food, Gitau said. \", \"\\\"Many of them wound up pregnant but the evidence became available when people were plugging back to life as they knew it as a normal society,\\\" she said.\", \"Gitau says authorities must know that perpetrators often take advantage of the strict measures to abuse victims without arousing much suspicion.\", \"As state resources are being re-focused to tackle the spread of coronavirus, law enforcement agencies should also respond quickly to reports of abuse and create shelters for victims in need of immediate rescue, she said.\", \"But placing women in shelters, especially in countries battling an outbreak, comes with the additional burden of proof, according to DaSilva-Ibru who said shelters in Lagos city are asking survivors to take coronavirus tests before they can be admitted to prevent infection in their facilities.\", \"\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote {\\n position: relative;\\n color: #262626;\\n margin: 25px auto;\\n padding: 10px 0 14px 0;\\n width: 100%;\\n max-width: 660px;\\n border-left: 0;\\n text-align: center;\\n}\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote:before, .cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote:after {\\n position: absolute;\\n content: '';\\n width: 50px;\\n height: 2px;\\n left: 50%;\\n transform: translateX(-50%);\\n -webkit-transform: translateX(-50%);\\n background-color: #262626;\\n}\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote:before {\\n top: 0;\\n}\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote:after {\\n bottom: -2px;\\n}\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote {\\n position: relative;\\n margin: 0;\\n text-align: center;\\n font-size: 35px;\\n font-weight: 700;\\n word-spacing: -1px;\\n line-height: 1.15;\\n padding: 24px 10px 22px 10px;\\n margin-bottom: 24px;\\n}\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote-cite {\\n margin: 0;\\n text-align: center;\\n font-size: 12px;\\n font-weight: 200;\\n color: #262626;\\n line-height: 1.15;\\n padding: 0 10px;\\n display: inline-block;\\n}\\n@media only screen and (min-width: 768px)  {\\n .cnnix-golf__pullquote {\\n  margin: 50px auto;\\n }\\n .cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote {\\n  font-size: 35px;\\n }\\n} \\n\", \"\\n \", \"\\n \", \"\\\"Violence against women and girls is one of the most pervasive forms of a human rights violation and should be recognized by all countries.\\\"\", \"\\n \", \" Dr. Anita Kemi DaSilva-Ibru, Women at Risk International Foundation\", \"\\n \", \"Authorities in Lagos designated gender-based violence services essential in May as it eased lockdown into curfews to allow service providers to get to work more smoothly, DaSilva-Ibru said. \", \"The police force says it has now deployed more officers to its stations across the country to respond to the \\\"increasing challenges of sexual assaults and domestic/gender-based violence linked with the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic.\\\" And last week, governors across the country resolved to declare \", \"a state of emergency on rape\", \", according to the Nigerian Governor's Forum (NGF).\", \"Related: Nigerian women are taking to the streets in protests against rape and sexual violence\", \"It's the first time federal and state authorities are coming out with a united voice to condemn gender violence, DaSilva-Ibru said and it validates the outcry of women in the country and the scale of the problem in Nigeria, she added.\", \"\\\"Violence against women and girls is one of the most pervasive forms of a human rights violation and should be recognized by all countries,\\\" DaSilva-Ibru said.\", \"\\\"In Nigeria, it has become a national crisis that needs urgent attention. I am pleased that this has been recognized.\\\"\", \"\\n  window.cnnAsEqualsConfig = window.cnnAsEqualsConfig || {};\\n  window.cnnAsEqualsConfig.theme = 'black';\\n\", \"\\n\", \"Click here for more stories from the As Equals series.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/24/africa/kenya-maasai-warriors-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"Kenya's Maasai gather for once-in-a-decade ceremony to turn warriors into elders\", \"description\": \"Thousands of Maasai men clad in red and purple shawls and with their heads coated in red ocher gathered this week for a ceremony that transforms them from Moran (warriors) to Mzee (elders).\", \"date\": \"2020-09-24T14:41:25Z\", \"author\": \"Story by Reuters \", \"text\": [\"Maparasha Hills, Kenya\", \"Thousands of Maasai men clad in red and purple shawls and with their heads coated in red ocher gathered this week for a ceremony that transforms them from Moran (warriors) to Mzee (elders).\", \"Around 15,000 men from all over Kenya and neighboring Tanzania congregated in Maparasha Hills in Kajiado County, 128 kilometers from Nairobi, to feast on an estimated 3,000 bulls and 30,000 goats and sheep.\", \"The ceremony occurs once every decade at the site, which is surrounded by hills and dotted with acacia trees.\", \"On Wednesday, the men roasted the meat on beds of coal from acacia trees, holding staffs and swords.\", \"\\\"I used to be a Moran, But after this ceremony, I now graduate to be a Mzee (elder),\\\" Stephen Seriamu Sarbabi, a 34-year-old livestock trader, told Reuters.\", \"Read More\", \"\\\"I will now be having a lot of responsibilities in the community. I will be chairing some different meetings, I will be consulted,\\\" he added.\", \"The arrival of coronavirus in March forced a postponement of the ceremony, which was meant to have been held earlier in the year.\", \"\\\"My role here in this ceremony, is to come and bless my boys to graduate, to another stage of being wazees (elders), and to give them their privileges,\\\" Moses Lepunyo ole Purkei, a farmer, community health volunteer and elder, told Reuters.\", \"During the ceremony, the men were accompanied by their wives, who also wore colorful shawls and beads around their necks and sang songs praising and encouraging the incoming group of elders.\", \"There are about 1.2 million Maasai living in Kenya, according to the government statistics office.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/20/africa/nigeria-fashion-tiffany-amber-coronavirus-ppe-spc-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"Nigerian fashion label Tiffany Amber swaps couture for PPE\", \"description\": \"Company founder Folake Akindele Coker pivoted her fashion label into PPE production after she realized that a prolonged lockdown in Nigeria would impact consumer sales.\", \"date\": \"2020-07-21T01:21:46Z\", \"author\": \"Daniel Renjifo\", \"text\": [\" (CNN)\", \"These days, things look a little different when Folake Akindele Coker gets to her office. \\\"I arrive at 9am, all geared (up) for this invisible enemy,\\\" she says. The 45-year-old designer and founder of Nigerian fashion label Tiffany Amber now starts each day with a 10-minute safety talk for her production team, \\\"who at first did not seem to understand the gravity and the potential of being infected by the (Covid-19) virus.\\\"\", \"Coker founded \", \"Tiffany Amber\", \" in 1998, and it's now considered one of Nigeria's most influential fashion and lifestyle brands.\", \"In early March, the number of colorful prints and couture runway garments that normally littered the factory floor dissipated, and the company's sewing machines began stitching hospital scrubs, gowns, stretcher sheets and non-medical face masks. Less than a month after the pandemic reached Africa, Tiffany Amber's entire factory refocused to produce personal protective equipment (PPE), something Coker notes took immense pressure to turn around. \", \"The colorful garments of the Tiffany Amber fashion line, seen here during Arise Fashion week in 2019, have since been replaced in production by PPE to help during the pandemic.\", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"The colorful garments of the Tiffany Amber fashion line, seen here during Arise Fashion week in 2019, have since been replaced in production by PPE to help during the pandemic.\\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"Tiffany Amber Nigeria fashion runway\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200715102210-tiffany-amber-fashion-nigeria-restricted-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"To make the shift, Coker says the company first had to secure more than 15 tons of raw materials including approximately 90,000 yards of fabric, 300,000 yards of elastic, and almost a million yards of thread. All of this happened, she says, right before borders closed in Nigeria and prices spiked due to the unforeseen demand for materials.\", \"See more stories from Marketplace Africa\", \"Read More\", \"As of mid-July, the World Health Organization shows Nigeria as having\", \" more than 30,000\", \" total confirmed cases of coronavirus, the second-most on the continent behind South Africa.\", \"As Covid-19 cases rose and consumer spending fell, Coker saw an opportunity for her business to stay open -- and to help out. \\\"Our expertise in garment production helped facilitate this shift to bridge the gap in the supply of medical apparel,\\\" she tells CNN.\", \"A Tiffany Amber employee sorts ready-to-ship gowns for healthcare workers.\", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"A Tiffany Amber employee sorts ready-to-ship gowns for healthcare workers.\\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"A Tiffany Amber employee sorts ready-to-ship gowns for healthcare workers.\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200626121436-tiffany-amber-ppe-production-gowns-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"The push for PPE\", \"This pivot has been a trend in the private sector worldwide, as companies around the globe have \", \"switched gears to supply the growing demand for PPE\", \".\", \"According to the World Bank, Covid-19 has pushed sub-Saharan Africa into its \", \"first recession in 25 years\", \", greatly impacting the continent's biggest revenue drivers such as energy, agriculture and manufacturing. \", \"Read more: Across Africa, the pandemic reveals both inequality and innovation\", \"Globally, the \", \"luxury market is also expected to shrink \", \"as much as 35% this year, as consumer spending sharply declines mainly due to job loss, according to consulting firm Bain and Co.\", \"Tiffany Amber employees wearing masks, and making masks.\", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"Tiffany Amber employees wearing masks, and making masks.\\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"Tiffany Amber employees wearing masks, and making masks.\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200626120613-tiffany-amber-production-ppe-employees-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"Efforts to make and source \", \"PPE in Nigeria\", \" have primarily relied on private corporations\", \" \", \"working hand in hand with suppliers. In an attempt to stay solvent, Coker says Tiffany Amber is working with partners in the financial sector to fund and distribute the PPE products.\", \"By early June, she notes, the fashion label had made approximately 500,000 cloth masks, 20,000 sets of sheets and pillowcases, 10,000 scrubs, 15,000 patient gowns and close to 5,000 surgical gowns.\", \"Alcohol ban has South African distilleries pivoting to a new product\", \"In Tiffany Amber's case, shifting to PPE production has had an unlikely silver lining: job creation. Since March, Coker says her company has actually managed to grow from 100 employees to a staff of 300.\", \"At the time of writing, Coker does not anticipate returning to regular Tiffany Amber fashion production in the near future. But even as her company responds to the current reality, she keeps planning for when that day will come. \\\"One mind is thinking about tomorrow morning and the other mind is processing the next two years,\\\" says Coker. \\\"Subconsciously, I find myself drifting away, putting together the next Tiffany Amber collection.\\\"\", \"CNN's Lamide Akintobi contributed to this report\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/16/africa/amnesty-mozambique-video-killing-investigation-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"Amnesty International calls for investigation into video showing execution of woman in Mozambique\", \"description\": \"Amnesty International has called for an immediate investigation into the apparent extrajudicial killing of a woman in Mozambique that was shared widely in a horrifying video on social media earlier this week. \", \"date\": \"2020-09-16T17:31:35Z\", \"author\": \"David McKenzie, Brent Swails and Vasco Cotovio\", \"text\": [\" (CNN)\", \"Amnesty International has called for an immediate investigation into the apparent extrajudicial killing of a woman in Mozambique that was shared widely in a horrifying video on social media earlier this week. \", \"In the nearly two-minute-long video, men wearing military uniforms are seen chasing down a naked woman, surrounding and verbally harassing her along a rural road. One of the men repeatedly beats her with a stick before another man shoots her at close range. \", \" \", \"She is then repeatedly shot by the men while lying on the road before one of the men shouts \\\"Stop, stop, enough, it's done.\\\" \", \" \", \"Read More\", \"The video ends as the men turn and walk away, with one of them announcing, \\\"They've killed the al-Shabaab,\\\" the local name given to the growing insurgency in the far north of the country. \", \"It has no known links to the Somali terrorist group of the same name. The uniformed man looks directly into camera and raises his two fingers before the recording stops. \", \" \", \"\\\"The horrendous video is yet another gruesome example of the gross human rights violations taking place in Cabo Delgado by the Mozambican forces,\\\" said Deprose Muchena, Amnesty International's Director for East and Southern Africa.\", \"A young boy was killed by a police stray bullet during a coronavirus curfew. Now his parents want answers\", \" \", \"In its own analysis of the video, the human rights group says that the men were wearing the uniform of the Mozambican military. Amnesty says four different gunmen shot the woman a total of 36 times with AK-47s and PKM-style machine guns. Its investigation concluded that the incident took place near Awasse in the country's northernmost province Cabo Delgado. \", \" \", \"\\\"The incident is consistent with our recent findings of appalling human rights violations and crimes under international law happening in the area,\\\" said Muchena. \", \" \", \"CNN could not independently the authenticity of the video, the date and location it was filmed, nor the identity of the gunmen. \", \" \", \"Mozambique's Minister of Interior Amade Miquidade denied the accusations of atrocities, though did not address the video specifically, on national television Tuesday, saying that insurgents frequently wear army uniforms. \", \" \", \"\\\"When they want to produce their propaganda against the security and defense forces, against the Mozambican state, they remove those signs/characters that identify them and make videos to promote an image of atrocity practiced by those who defend the people,\\\" he said. \", \"Ammonium nitrate that exploded in Beirut bought for mining, Mozambican firm says \", \" \", \"Cabo Delgado is home to a $60 billion natural gas development that is heavily guarded by Mozambican military and private security. \", \" \", \"Loosely aligned with ISIS, the insurgents have undertaken increasingly sophisticated attacks in recent months, overrunning large parts of Mocimba de Praia, a strategic port north of the regional capital Pemba in August. Unlike in previous attacks, government forces have struggled to fully retake the territory. \", \" \", \"The insurgents have been accused by the government and human rights groups of their own violent abuses -- including beheadings, looting, and indiscriminate killing of civilians. \", \" \", \"And the interior minister highlighted those alleged abuses on Tuesday. \", \" \", \"\\\"Once more, our country continues to be the object of aggression by the terrorists, namely in the province of Cabo Delgado, where they've enforced cruel, inhuman, atrocious acts against our population,\\\" said Miquidade.\", \" \", \"Security analysts and human rights workers say that insurgents operating in the area do sometimes wear Mozambican military uniforms. But the uniformed men in the video showing the woman's killing speak Portuguese, generally more common to Mozambicans from the South. \", \"CNN's David McKenzie and Brent Swails reported from Johannesburg and Vasco Cotovio reported from London.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/26/africa/gambia-migration-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"He almost died migrating to Europe. Now he is warning other Gambians about it\", \"description\": \"Mustapha Sallah and Youth Against Irregular Migration are raising awareness in The Gambia about the dangers of migrating to Europe through irregular means.\", \"date\": \"2020-08-26T14:16:23Z\", \"author\": \"Aisha Salaudeen\", \"text\": [\" (CNN)\", \"Mustapha Sallah was in trouble.\", \"He had hoped to be in Europe by now, pursuing his dreams of studying computer science and making a better life for himself.\", \"Instead, he was sitting in a Libyan detention center, having been detained in Tripoli by the Libyan Coast Guard.\", \"\\\"We were kept in rooms with little ventilation and no toilets. We would sit for days without taking baths. It was like hell,\\\" Sallah told CNN.\", \"He added that officers at the detention center often assaulted them by \\\"beating us for the slightest things like refusing to sleep.\\\"\", \"Read More\", \"It was January 2017, and the 25-year-old Gambian had taken a gamble, risking his life in search of a better one in Europe. But no one had warned him of the dangers ahead.\", \"If and when he got out of the detention center, he vowed to help others make a more informed decision.\", \"Migrating to Europe\", \"Sallah grew up in Serekunda, southwest of The Gambia's capital city, Banjul. He said he worked hard in school to earn a scholarship so that his mother could retire from her job selling vegetables in the market.\", \"In 2016, he thought he'd have that chance when he earned a scholarship to study computer science in Taiwan. \\\"But there was no Taiwan embassy in Gambia, so I had to go to the closest one in Abuja, Nigeria,\\\" he explained.\", \"After borrowing money from his sister to travel to Nigeria, he said he spent three months there before his visa application was denied. Three years earlier, then-president of The Gambia, Yahya Jammeh, had cut diplomatic ties with Taiwan for what he called \\\"national strategic interest.\\\"\", \"At least 58 people killed as boat carrying migrants sinks off Mauritania coast\", \"\\\"I didn't know what to do: stay in Nigeria, or go to any other African country. At the end of the day, I got the mind of migrating (to Europe) because I know several people who took the journey and made it there,\\\" Sallah explained.\", \"With a population of \", \"2.3 million people\", \", The Gambia is among the smallest countries in Africa. But despite its small size, migration is a fairly common practice and plays a key role in the country's economy.\", \"According to the International Organization for Migration (IOM), overseas remittances for an average of 90,000 Gambians who live abroad make up \", \"more than 20% of the country's GDP\", \". \", \"48% of Gambians\", \" live in poverty, and many people find themselves looking outside the country for opportunities to improve their lives. \", \"But some people leave the country without proper documentation or without crossing an official border point. Between 2014 and 2018, the IOM estimates \", \"more than 35,000 \", \"Gambians reached Europe through \\\"irregular means.\\\"\", \"\\\"There's a tradition of mobility in Gambia. It's a long history of people using migration as a means of life, and of getting their income. Many of the returnees we have worked with claim they took the journey for economic reasons,\\\" Etienne Micallef, the IOM's program manager in The Gambia told CNN.\", \"\\\"They have the perception that if they migrate with the final destination as Europe, they will get a much better income to sustain themselves and their families back home,\\\" he added. \", \"How the Kenyan consulate in Lebanon became feared by the women it was meant to help\", \"But it comes at a high risk. Globally, at least \", \"33,687 migrant deaths and disappearances\", \" were recorded between January 2014 and October 2019, according to IOM -- with nearly half occurring on the route between Northern Africa and Italy. \", \"Sallah, who said he wanted an education that would allow him to find a job to support his family, reiterated that no one warned him how incredibly dangerous the journey would be.\", \"After his visa to study in Taiwan was rejected, he said he got on a bus heading north to Agadez, a city in Niger. \\\"I didn't even know the area -- I just kept asking people around what the best or possible way to reach Niger was.\\\"\", \"From there, he managed to travel to Libya. \\\"You have to pay smugglers who drive pickup trucks to put you at the back of their trucks to get to Libya and then to Europe. 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People who get stuck there are often detained by the Libyan Coast Guard, responsible for patrolling coastal waters to prevent smuggling and trafficking.  \", \"Sallah said he was kept in a detention center in Tripoli with migrants from different West African countries for nearly four months under poor conditions.\", \"Migrants describe being tortured and raped on perilous journey to Libya\", \"There are\", \" 11 detention centers\", \" for migrants run by the U.N.-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) in Libya. Some \", \"2,362\", \" detainees are held at these facilities on any given day, according to the Global Detention Project. \", \"Human Rights Watch\", \" (HRW) and \", \"Amnesty International\", \" have criticized the conditions at these detention centers; both groups signed onto a statement released in April that urged EU member states and institutions to review their policy on migrants and cooperation with Libya. \", \"The policy, the statement says, has allowed for the \", \"\\\"arbitrary detention and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment\\\"\", \" of migrants and refugees.\", \"While in detention, Sallah met a fellow Gambian who suggested they set up the non-profit organization \", \"Youth Against Irregular Migration\", \" (YAIM) to warn others back home about the risks of irregular migration.\", \"\\\"I went around the detention center gathering details of all the Gambians I could find,\\\" estimating he registered 171 people to join the organization. \\\"We agreed that if we made it out of there, we would start an association to make people aware of how problematic the journey to Europe is,\\\" he said.\", \"Youth Against Irregular Migration\", \"In April 2017, as part of its mandate to return and reintegrate migrants stranded or detained in their transit countries, IOM facilitated the return of Sallah and many others within the detention center back to The Gambia. \", \"That same year, IOM received funding from the EU worth\", \" 3.9 million euros\", \" (about $4.6 million) over the course of three years, to expand its operations in The Gambia.\", \"Since then, according to Micallef, IOM has repatriated more than 5,000 people to the West African nation.\", \"He added that when returnees arrive at the airport or land border, they are met by IOM staff who arrange for temporary shelter, counseling, and medical support for those who need it.\", \"Weeks after returning to The Gambia, Sallah said he met with some members of YAIM who signed up in the detention center. \", \"\\\"We met almost every week after arriving in Gambia,\\\" he explained. \\\"It was difficult for us financially at the start but many of us had the support of our families.\\\"\", \"YAIM members speak to community members about the dangers of irregular migration.\", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"YAIM members speak to community members about the dangers of irregular migration.\\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"YAIM members speak to community members about the dangers of irregular migration.\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200819175004-03-gambia-migration-intl-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"He added that even though many of them struggled to make a living at the start and had to pick up menial jobs around town to survive, being around other members gave them a renewed sense of hope.\", \"Being safe at home, he said, was a better option than the dangerous journey to Europe.\", \"\\\"We bonded by sharing our stories with each other as a way to work through the trauma,\\\" Sallah said. \\\"We made sure to be there for each other.\\\"\", \"Community awareness\", \"Through YAIM, the returnees began campaigns around irregular migration in The Gambia, warning others about the perils of journeying to Europe. \", \"Tombong Kuyateh, a returnee and YAIM member, told CNN that the association visits schools to share experiences with students who may be thinking about migrating.\", \"\\\"We share our personal stories with them. We show them examples of victims who were injured or affected during the journey to prevent them from experiencing the same,\\\" he said.\", \"The 27-year-old added that a lot of people listen to them because they have first-hand experience of what it's like to attempt that trip.\", \"Members of YAIM take to the streets of Banjul, The Gambia, during one of their public campaigns.\", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"Members of YAIM take to the streets of Banjul, The Gambia, during one of their public campaigns.\\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"Members of YAIM take to the streets of Banjul, The Gambia, during one of their public campaigns.\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200819175001-04-gambia-migration-intl-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"By crowdfunding and partnering with local and international groups for support, YAIM is also able to visit small communities across the country for campaigns against irregular migration, Kuyateh said.\", \"Miko Alazas, the IOM communications officer based in The Gambia, told CNN that the organization sometimes partners with returnee associations like YAIM to get people access to the right information, in order to make better migration-related choices.\", \"\\\"We work a lot with returnees because many of them are passionate about sharing their experiences in terms of exploitation and abuse -- so they are at the forefront of a lot of campaigns to raise awareness on irregular migration,\\\" he said.\", \"Now 29, Sallah travels around his home country, visiting radio stations and communities to talk about his harrowing experience. 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Investigators seized nearly $41 million, 13 luxury cars worth $6.8 million, and phone and computer evidence, \", \"Dubai Police\", \" said in a statement. They uncovered email addresses of nearly 2 million possible victims on phones, computers and hard drives, Dubai authorities said. \", \"\\\"This case targets a key player in a large, transnational conspiracy who was living an opulent lifestyle in another country while allegedly providing safe havens for stolen money around the world,\\\" US Attorney Nick Hanna said in a statement. \", \"Abbas' attorney, Gal Pissetzky, declined to get into details on how his client earns his money. But what he does for a living is going to be \\\"one of the main points of contention here,\\\" he told CNN\", \".\", \"Pissetzky called his client's arrest a kidnapping, saying Dubai handed him to the United States with \\\"no legal proceedings whatsoever.\\\" Abbas has not been formally indicted, and the government has 30 days to indict him, his attorney said Thursday.  \", \"His birthday post helped track him down\", \"Abbas made no secret of his opulent lifestyle and remarkable wealth. On Snapchat, he called himself the \\\"Billionaire Gucci Master.\\\" \", \"\\\"Started out my day having sushi down at Nobu in Monte Carlo, Monaco, then decided to book a helicopter to have ... facials at the Christian Dior spa in Paris then ended my day having champagne in Gucci,\\\" he \", \"posted on Instagram\", \". \", \"Photos of him displaying multiple models of Bentley, Ferrari, Mercedes and Rolls Royce cars included the hashtag #AllMine. 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Even his Instagram birthday celebration photos provided key information. \", \"One \", \"post displayed a birthday cake\", \" topped with a Fendi logo and a miniature image of him surrounded by tiny shopping bags. 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The paralegal had received fraudulent wire instructions after sending an email to what appeared to be a bank email address but was later identified as a \\\"spoofed\\\" email address, the affidavit said.    \", \"Abbas sent a co-conspirator an image of the wire transfer confirmation for the transaction, according to the affidavit.\", \" \", \"He\", \" \", \"and an unnamed person also conspired to launder $14.7 million from a foreign financial institution last year, according to a criminal complaint.\", \"During that alleged cyber crime, Abbas sent a co-conspirator the account information for a Romanian bank account, which he said could be used for \\\"large amounts.\\\" In other alleged schemes, he also provided Dubai bank accounts that can be used to deposit money from victims in the United States, the affidavit said. \", \"He's also accused of conspiring to try to steal $124 million from an unnamed English Premier League soccer club. 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CNN&#39;s Stephanie Busari reports.\\\",\\\"thumbnailURL\\\": \\\"https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/181213143041-nigeria-suicide-prison-africa-large-169.jpg\\\",\\\"image\\\": \\\"https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/181213143041-nigeria-suicide-prison-africa-large-169.jpg\\\",\\\"duration\\\": \\\"PT3M\\\",\\\"uploadDate\\\": \\\"2018-12-31T13:03:29Z\\\",\\\"contentUrl\\\": \\\"https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2018/12/30/imprisoned-suicide-illegal-nigeria-busari-pkg.cnn\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2018/12/30/imprisoned-suicide-illegal-nigeria-busari-pkg.cnn\\\",\\\"embedUrl\\\": \\\"https://fave.api.cnn.io/v1/fav/?video=world/2018/12/30/imprisoned-suicide-illegal-nigeria-busari-pkg.cnn&customer=cnn&edition=domestic&env=prod\\\"}\", \"Locked up where suicide is still a crime\", \" \", \"02:59\", \"She added that she was sexually abused in 2014 and did not know how to express being raped by a trusted partner to the people around her. \", \"Read More\", \"Her experiences, she said, piled up till she eventually snapped and started nursing suicidal notions. \", \"\\\"Trying to explain what was going on in my head was difficult. I looked fine physically, but it started to affect me mentally. I could go a day without being able to construct sentences, and I was a research analyst at the time which meant I had to write daily reports but I couldn't,\\\" she said. \", \"After expressing her suicidal thoughts to a friend, she was encouraged to see a psychiatrist at a psychiatric hospital in Lagos, one of Nigeria's largest cities. \", \"She was diagnosed with Bipolar and post traumatic stress disorder with mild psychosis. \\\"I poured out my heart, got some tests done and eventually got a diagnosis.\\\"\", \"Creating awareness \", \"Two months after Ojeifo's diagnosis, she said she decided to turn her difficult experiences around. She started to create awareness on the far-reaching impacts of mental health in Nigeria. \", \"In April 2016, she created\", \" She Writes Woman\", \", a non-profit organization focused on providing mental health support for those who may need it in the west African nation. \", \"There is minimal mental health awareness and there are not enough mental health professionals in Nigeria. \", \"In a country of more than \", \"200 million\", \" people, there are only 250 practicing psychiatrists, according to the\", \" Association of Psychiatrists of Nigeria. \", \"Ojeifo told CNN that She Writes Woman started as a blog but she realized she could do more with it, \\\"At first, I was just using it as an outlet to share my experiences and that of other women,\\\" she explained. \", \"Eventually, it morphed into a support community for people with mental health conditions. \", \"The 28-year-old got trained as a mental health coach so that she could start a helpline to talk to people experiencing overwhelming mental health symptoms.\", \"\\\"From sharing stories on the blog and social media, She Writes Woman blew up into a helpline which was run by me for a while, and then to a support group for people in vulnerable conditions,\\\" she said. \", \"24-hour mental health helpline\", \"She Writes Woman provides a\", \" 24-hour mental health helpline\", \" for anyone within Nigeria.\", \"The helpline serves as a first point of contact for people in distress or those who just want to talk about their mental health and symptoms. \", \"\\\"People call the helpline to get what we call a first-aid treatment. On the call you don't get immediate professional counseling, what happens is you get a first response communication where someone listens to you and what you have to say,\\\" Ojeifo explained.\", \"She added that after the first responders, callers can be referred to mental health professionals for therapy or a diagnosis if needed, \\\"depending on what the issue is we que people in to either a therapist or a psychiatrist.\\\"\", \"Data on mental health in Nigeria is hard to find, but according to a 2016 report in the Annals of Nigerian Medicine journal, an estimated\", \" 20-30% \", \"of the country's population is suffering from mental disorders.\", \"And in 2017, a World Health Organization report found that Nigerians have the highest incidences of depression in Africa, with \", \"more than 7 million people \", \"in the country suffering from depression.\", \"Despite the numbers, there is an absence of \", \"effective mental health legislation\", \" setting standards for psychiatric treatment or encouraging mental health awareness in the country. \", \"In February, following deliberations by legislators to pass a proposed mental health bill, Ojeifo became the first person to testify before the Nigerian parliament on the rights of persons with mental health conditions in the country.\", \"var id = '//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js'.replace(/\\\\s+/g, '');!!document.getElementById(id) || (function makeEmbedScript(d, id) {var js,fjs;js = d.createElement('script');js.id = id;js.charset = 'utf-8';js.setAttribute('async', '');js.src = '//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js';fjs = d.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];window.WM.UserConsent.addScriptElement(js, [\\\"vendor\\\",\\\"measure-ads\\\"], fjs);}(document, id));\", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" View this post on Instagram\", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \"We are so proud of our founder @hauwa_ojeifo for the great milestone achieved today. . She graciously spoke before the Senate at the public hearing of the #mentalhealth bill earlier today on behalf of all persons living with mental health conditions. . If you were there, you'd have been so proud. Word on the street is that this is the first time a person with a mental health condition is speaking before the Senate. . Go Hauwa!!\\ud83d\\udc83\\ud83c\\udffd . Want to know more about the mental health bill? Check out our stories to make your suggestions.\", \" \", \"A post shared by \", \" SWW | Mental Health in Nigeria\", \" (@shewriteswoman) on \", \"Feb 17, 2020 at 10:46am PST\", \"\\n\", \"The bill has yet to be implemented. \", \"To close the mental health gap in Nigeria, Ojeifo's organization also offers a support group for women and girls called \", \"Safe Place\", \" in six Nigerian states. \", \"\\\"Safe Space provides a community of shared experiences for women and girls. It provides a space for women to connect and share their experiences on whatever topic, to be there for one another and understand that they are not alone in their journeys,\\\" she explained, estimating that there have been over 50 meetings of the support group since the inception of the organization.\", \"In the beginning, Ojeifo, a former investment banker,  self-funded the organization. \", \"But now, with donations and grants from organizations such as One Young World, Airtel Nigeria and Disability Rights Advocacy Fund, it is able to expand and carry out more activities in Nigeria's mental health space.\", \"In 2018, the activist received a\", \" Queen's Young Leaders Award\", \" in in recognition of her work with the 24-hour mental health helpline and Safe Space support group. \", \"Changemaker Award Winner \", \"On Tuesday, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation named Ojeifo as its\", \" Changemaker Award winner for 2020\", \" for her work with She Writes Woman. \", \"The Changemaker Award is one of the Goalkeepers Global Goals Awards pushed yearly by the foundation. It celebrates individuals who have inspired change from a position of leadership or using their personal experience. \", \"In a statement released Tuesday, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation said it recognized the activist for her work in promoting\", \" Gender Equality\", \", the fifth global goal for sustainable development prescribed by the United Nations. \", \"These Africans are among the world's 100 most influential people, according to Time magazine\", \"Ojeifo said that she was in \\\"disbelief\\\" when she first received the email alerting her that she was a recipient of the award. \", \"\\\"It was so unexpected and it came as a surprise because I was not expecting it. It's like an added validation to the work She Writes Woman does,\\\" she said. \", \"\\\"During one of the meetings with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation I asked them how I was selected because I was just so blown away. I was told that it was because I had used my personal experience to build hope for people and to drive change,\\\" she added. \", \"Through the 2020 Changemaker Award, Ojeifo is hoping to gather a network that will help amplify the work She Writes Woman does even more. \", \"\\\"The Changemaker award means I am part of this network that is dedicated to amplifying my cause and giving me visibility,\\\" she said.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/18/africa/kenyan-comic-sensation-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"This chip-eating Kenyan comic is keeping Africans entertained on social media \", \"description\": \"Kenyan teenager, Elsa Majimbo is making viral monolgues on social media \", \"date\": \"2020-08-18T11:06:18Z\", \"author\": \"Aisha Salaudeen\", \"text\": [\" (CNN)\", \"Elsa Majimbo is taking over social media by providing comic relief on Instagram and Twitter amid the \", \"Covid-19 pandemic\", \". \", \"The Kenyan comic, whose relatable monologues often go viral, films from her home in Nairobi, the country's capital city. \", \"Majimbo first went viral after posting a video in March when initial restrictions such as intermittent lockdowns, border controls, and closure of schools and restaurants were\", \" imposed by the Kenyan government\", \" to curb the spread of Covid-19.\", \"In the video, the 19-year-old talked about being in isolation at the time and wanting to be left alone.\", \"var id = '//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js'.replace(/\\\\s+/g, '');!!document.getElementById(id) || (function makeEmbedScript(d, id) {var js,fjs;js = d.createElement('script');js.id = id;js.charset = 'utf-8';js.setAttribute('async', '');js.src = '//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js';fjs = d.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];window.WM.UserConsent.addScriptElement(js, [\\\"vendor\\\",\\\"measure-ads\\\"], fjs);}(document, id));\", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" View this post on Instagram\", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \"'Sending love,sending hugs,sending kisses'. Kama Hautumi Mpesa don't waste my time\", \" \", \"A post shared by \", \" Elsa Mpho Majimbo\", \" (@majimb.o) on \", \"Mar 30, 2020 at 10:20am PDT\", \"\\n\", \"\\\"Ever since corona started, we've all been in isolation, and I like, miss no one,\\\" she said, laughing and eating potato-based crunchy chips\", \" in the video\", \". \", \"Read More\", \"\\\"Why am I missing you? There is no reason for me to miss you... do I pay your rent? Do I provide food for you? Why are you missing me?\\\" she added, still laughing. \", \"The quirky humor in the video earned Majimbo many reshares and more than 250,000 views from users across the continent, including South Africa, Kenya and Nigeria. \", \"She told CNN she did not expect the video to get as much attention as it did, but many people related to it. \", \"Gentlemen, start your wheelbarrows! Meet the Nigerian kids ingeniously remaking famous videos with household objects\", \"\\\"It was the time we had just gotten to lockdown, and everyone was telling me they missed me, and I literally like being away from people, so I thought to myself, 'Let me make a video about that,'\\\" she said. \", \"\\\"I did not expect all the attention, but it happened, and I am glad it did.\\\"\", \"Since going viral, Majimbo has made more videos combining dry humor and criticism around the subject matters she decides to film about. \", \"Many of the videos have more than 250,000 views on Instagram and an average of 50,000 views on Twitter.  \", \"Some of the videos have also been featured on American owned cable channel, \", \"Comedy Central\", \". \", \"Eating crunchy chips \", \"Majimbo often incorporates eating crunchy chips, which has become one of her signature moves, to emphasize her points in her monologues.\", \"\\\"In the first video that trended, I ate chips. A lot of people seemed to like it. There were a lot of comments asking me to do it again. So, I was like, OK whatever, and I did it again,\\\" she told CNN. \", \"The comic sensation additionally wears tiny dark sunglasses as a prop in her videos. Just like crunching on chips, the '90s shades are for emphasizing on points made in her skits, she said. \", \"var id = '//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js'.replace(/\\\\s+/g, '');!!document.getElementById(id) || (function makeEmbedScript(d, id) {var js,fjs;js = d.createElement('script');js.id = id;js.charset = 'utf-8';js.setAttribute('async', '');js.src = '//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js';fjs = d.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];window.WM.UserConsent.addScriptElement(js, [\\\"vendor\\\",\\\"measure-ads\\\"], fjs);}(document, id));\", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" View this post on Instagram\", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \"If I pay for the app I own the abs\", \" \", \"A post shared by \", \" Elsa Mpho Majimbo\", \" (@majimb.o) on \", \"Jun 11, 2020 at 10:10am PDT\", \"\\n\", \"\\\"How do I manage to be this hot? The key to being hot is Photoshop,\\\" she said in \", \"one of her videos\", \" titled \\\"If I pay for the app, I own the abs.\\\"\", \"In the video, Majimbo joked about using Photoshop to look good in pictures, \\\"Why get a six-pack in five months when you can get them in five minutes?\\\" she added, putting on the sunglasses to make her point. \", \"Her videos have received support from \", \"celebrities \", \"like actor Lupita Nyongo and current Miss Universe, Zozibini Tunzi. \", \"Majimbo, who records all her monologues using her iPhone 6, said she does not write her lines down before filming, instead she simply \\\"goes with the flow.\\\"\", \"\\\"The thing I like the most about my videos is that they come to me so easily and so naturally. I could just be sitting and feel like making a video about something, and I do it. Anything that comes to my mind, I record,\\\" she said. \", \"\\\"If I don't have any lines to record. I don't even bother, I just skip it and say no video today,\\\" she added. \", \"'I've been able to find myself in a way I hadn't before'\", \"Since becoming an internet sensation, Majimbo said she partnered with brands such as Canadian cosmetics manufacturer, MAC cosmetics, to create content aimed at promoting their products in fun ways. \", \"The teenager, who is currently a journalism student at Strathmore University in Nairobi, is thinking about a completely different career.\", \"According to her, she is taking the time to explore different and newer options, particularly in entertainment, \\\"I think the career I wanted before is not what I want now. A lot of things have changed, I've been able to find myself in a way I hadn't before.\\\" \", \"She added that she is looking into acting roles and having her own comedy show. \", \"This Nigerian comic is getting a lot of love on TikTok with the 'Don't Leave Me' challenge\", \"But regardless of the career part Majimbo takes, she is already influencing social media users in Africa. \", \"She has been given a South African name \\\"Mpho\\\" by her fans in the country. The name means \\\"gift\\\" in Tswana language spoken in Southern Africa, Botswana, Namibia and Zimbabwe. \", \"Majimbo says she will continue to make relatable and funny monologues but will not be limited to them.\", \"\\\"I don't like setting expectations for my future plans because I don't want to be limited. I am open to exploring and becoming many things in the future.\\\"\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/07/africa/africa-engineering-prize-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"A 26-year-old is first woman to win Royal Academy of Engineering's Africa Prize for innovation\", \"description\": \"A 26-year-old has become the first woman to win the prestigious Royal Academy of Engineering's Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation.\\n\\n\", \"date\": \"2020-09-07T13:54:59Z\", \"author\": \"Aisha Salaudeen\", \"text\": [\" (CNN)\", \"A 26-year-old from Ivory Coast has won the 2020 Royal Academy of Engineering's Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation.\", \"Charlette N'Guessan is the \", \"first woman to win the award\", \", which could revolutionize cyber security and help curb identity fraud on the continent. \", \"N'Guessan and her team won the \\u00a325,000 award (about $33,000) for BACE API, a digital verification system that uses Artificial Intelligence and facial recognition to verify the identities of Africans remotely and in real time.\", \"BACE API works by matching the live photo of a user to the image on their documents such as passports or ID card, N'Guessan said. \", \"For websites and online applications that have BACE API integrated in them, users will be verified via their webcam to establish their  identity. \", \"Read More\", \"\\\"For the person trying to submit their application, we ask them to switch on their camera to make sure the person behind the camera is real, and not a robot. \", \"\\\"We are able to capture the face of the person live and match their image with the one on the existing document the person submitted,\\\" she explained. \", \"BACE API verifies users identities in real time using their phone camera or webcam\", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"BACE API verifies users identities in real time using their phone camera or webcam\\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"BACE API verifies users identities in real time using their phone camera or webcam\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200904115946-restricted-03-africa-engineering-prize-intl-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"BACE API can be integrated into already existing applications and systems for identity verification and is targeted at mostly financial institutions on the continent, N'Guessan told CNN. \", \"N'Guessan and her team won the Africa Prize for Innovation in a virtual award ceremony on September 3 where the Africa Prize judges and a live audience voted in their favor, the Royal Academy of Engineering said in\", \" a statement\", \". \", \"\\\"We are very proud to have Charlette N'Guessan and her team win this award,\\\" said Rebecca Enonchong, an entrepreneur from Cameroon entrepreneur and Africa Prize judge in the statement. \", \"\\\"It is essential to have technologies like facial recognition based on African communities, and we are confident their innovative technology will have far reaching benefits for the continent.\\\"\", \"BACE API matches a user's live photo with the image on their official documents to verify their identity. \", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"BACE API matches a user&#39;s live photo with the image on their official documents to verify their identity. \\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"BACE API matches a user&#39;s live photo with the image on their official documents to verify their identity. \\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200904115800-restricted-02-africa-engineering-prize-intl-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"Curbing identity fraud\", \"N'Guessan, who is the CEO and co-founder of Ghana-based software company, \", \"BACE Group\", \", told CNN that the idea came about while she was studying at the \", \"Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology\", \" (MEST) in Accra, Ghana's capital city. \", \"While there, she worked with a team of four and it was during one of their research projects in 2018 they decided to create BACE API, and later a software company. \", \"\\\"We ... talked to tech entrepreneurs. That's when we noticed that there is a huge problem with cyber security with online services and businesses,\\\" she said.\", \"N'Guessan said their research found that many financial institutions in the west African country deal with identity fraud, estimating that they spend up to $400 million dollars yearly to identify their customers. \", \"\\\"We decided to make our contribution as software engineers and data scientists by building a solution that can be useful for this market,\\\" N'Guessan added. \", \"Before the winner was announced on September 3, N'Guessan and other entrepreneurs shortlisted for the Africa Prize received eight months of training from experts across the world and her team was paired with an AI specialist who helped with improvements to their system. \", \" An African woman in tech\", \"N'Guessan's interest in technology started at a young age. Growing up in Ivory Coast, west Africa, she was encouraged to focus on science and technology subjects by her father, a mathematics professor.  \", \"\\\"He inspired my choice for studying STEM. I was actually really good in science-related courses. After high school, I went on to study software engineering at university,\\\" she said. \", \"Now running her own technology company, she told CNN that winning the Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation has helped to boost her confidence as a CEO leading a technical team of men.\", \"The Academy was founded in 1976 and has been running the award to reward engineering innovation in Africa since 2014. \", \"Globally, the technology industry is growing, but women led startups are in short supply with\", \" only 22%\", \" founded by at least one woman, according to a report in Disrupt Africa.\", \"This 9-year-old has built more than 30 mobile games\", \"Data specific to Africa is hard to come by but some studies suggest that \", \"only 9% of startups\", \" on the continent have women founders. \", \"N'Guessan says she hopes that her achievement will motivate more women to consider careers in tech. \", \"\\\"I will be happy if people are inspired by my story, being the first woman to win the Africa Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation and by my work as a woman in tech,\\\" she said. \"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/16/africa/blasphemy-nigeria-boy-sentenced-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"Outrage as Nigeria sentences 13-year-old boy to 10 years in prison for blasphemy\", \"description\": \"Child rights agency UNICEF has condemned the sentencing of a 13-year-old boy to 10 years in prison for blasphemy in northern Nigeria. \", \"date\": \"2020-09-16T14:09:33Z\", \"author\": \"Stephanie Busari and Eoin McSweeney\", \"text\": [\" (CNN)\", \"Child rights agency UNICEF has condemned the sentencing of a 13-year-old boy to 10 years in prison for blasphemy in northern Nigeria. \", \"Omar Farouq was convicted in a Sharia court in Kano State in northwest Nigeria after he was accused of using foul language toward Allah in an argument with a friend. \", \"He was sentenced on August 10 by the same court that recently sentenced a studio assistant Yahaya Sharif-Aminu to death for blaspheming Prophet Mohammed, according to lawyers. \", \"Farouq's punishment is in violation of the African Charter of the Rights and Welfare of a Child and the Nigerian constitution, said his counsel Kola Alapinni, who told CNN they filed an appeal on his behalf on September 7. \", \"Farouq was tried as an adult because he has attained puberty and has full responsibility under Islamic law. \", \"Read More\", \"Alapinni told CNN he or other lawyers working on the case have not been granted access to Farouq by authorities in Kano State. \", \"He said he found out about Farouq's case by chance when working on the case of Sharif-Aminu, who was sentenced to death for blasphemy at the Kano Upper Sharia Court. \", \"\\\"We found out they were convicted on the same day, by the same judge, in the same court, for blasphemy and we found out no one was talking about Omar, so we had to move quickly to file an appeal for him,\\\" he said. \", \"\\\"Blasphemy is not recognized by Nigerian law. It is inconsistent with the constitution of Nigeria.\\\"\", \" \", \" .m-infographic--1600276717888 { background: url(//cdn.cnn.com/cnn/.e/interactive/html5-video-media/2020/09/16/20201609_kano_state_map_375px.jpg) no-repeat 0 0 transparent; margin-bottom: 30px; padding-top: 111.4513981358189%; width: 100%; -moz-background-size: cover; -o-background-size: cover; -webkit-background-size: cover; background-size: cover; } @media (min-width: 640px) { .m-infographic--1600276717888{ background-image: url(//cdn.cnn.com/cnn/.e/interactive/html5-video-media/2020/09/16/20201609_kano_state_map_780px.jpg); padding-top: 84.2948717948718%; } } @media (min-width: 1120px) { .m-infographic--1600276717888{ background-image: url(//cdn.cnn.com/cnn/.e/interactive/html5-video-media/2020/09/16/20201609_kano_state_map_780px.jpg); padding-top: 84.2948717948718%; } } \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \"The lawyer said Farouq's mother had fled to a neighboring town after mobs descended on their home following his arrest. \", \"\\\"Everyone here is scared to speak and living under fear of reprisal attacks,\\\" he said. \", \"UNICEF Wednesday issued a statement \\\"expressing deep concern\\\" about the sentencing. \", \"\\\"The sentencing of this child -- 13-year-old Omar Farouq -- to 10 years in prison with menial labour is wrong,\\\" said Peter Hawkins, UNICEF representative in Nigeria. \\\"It also negates all core underlying principles of child rights and child justice that Nigeria -- and by implication, Kano State -- has signed on to.\\\" \", \"Kano State, like most predominantly Muslim states in Nigeria, practices Sharia law alongside secular law. \", \"Islam Fast Facts\", \"CNN contacted a spokesman for the Kano State governor for comment but had not heard back before publication. \", \"UNICEF has called on the Nigerian government and the Kano State government to urgently review the case and reverse the sentence, the organization said in a statement. \", \"\\\"This case further underlines the urgent need to accelerate the enactment of the Kano State Child Protection Bill so as to ensure that all children under 18, including Omar Farouq are protected -- and that all children in Kano are treated in accordance with child rights standards,\\\" Hawkins said.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/18/africa/disney-partners-with-nollywood/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"Disney partners with Nollywood to bring American movies to English-speaking West Africa\", \"description\": \"FilmOne Entertainment is now the sole distributor of Disney titles in English speaking West Africa\", \"date\": \"2020-09-18T12:02:13Z\", \"author\": \"Aisha Salaudeen\", \"text\": [\"Lagos, Nigeria (CNN)\", \"Disney, is joining forces with a Nigerian production and distribution company to market some of the American entertainment conglomerate's new releases such as \\\"Mulan\\\" in English-speaking West Africa.\", \"The deal makes FilmOne Entertainment the sole distributors of Disney-owned films in Nigeria, Ghana, and Liberia. \", \"\\\"It is a major career highlight, that we're able to get the world's biggest movie studio as a partner,\\\" Moses Babatope, a director at FilmOne, told CNN. \", \"Bollywood and Nollywood collide in a tale of a big fat Indian-Nigerian wedding\", \"FilmOne Entertainment has been at the forefront of growing Nigeria's cinema culture and has built cinemas across the country, including IMAX screens.\", \"The firm has also distributed and produced \", \"Nigerian box office hits \", \"such as \\\"The Wedding Party,\\\" and \\\"New Money.'\\\"\", \"Read More\", \"\\\"What the deal means is that we are exclusive marketers and distributors of Disney titles in the English-speaking West African countries that have studio licensed cinemas. We will distribute the films to all those cinemas in the territory,\\\" he explained. \", \"The agreement, which commenced this month, covers titles from all Disney studio divisions including Pixar, Marvel Studios, Walt Disney Pictures, and Blue Sky pictures. \", \"\\\"With their in-depth knowledge of the region and expertise in bringing theatrical releases to fans, we are thrilled to welcome FilmOne as our distribution partner for this territory,\\\" Disney Africa's country manager, Christine Service said in a statement. \", \"Bigger opportunities\", \"Film analysts in the country say this deal may convince investors and film producers to look further into the African movie industry. \", \"\\\"This deal is huge because it means that Disney is paying attention. Their presence can open doors for movie collaborations,\\\" said Shola Thompson, a Nigeria-based film consultant.\", \"Thompson added that distributing Disney movies is a pathway to getting the best content to cinemas, which can improve the cinema-going culture in the region as well as increase their potential earnings.\", \"As a result of restrictions following the Covid-19 pandemic, many cinemas in West Africa are not operating at full capacity. But FilmOne Entertainment says it is working on improving the cinema experience as a way of encouraging people to show up when all restrictions have been lifted.\", \"Netflix partners with Nigerian filmmaker in new major deal \", \"\\\"We will let people know that they enjoy films better when they watch with other people. To say that the experience out of home is very different,\\\" Babatope said. \", \"\\\"We will communicate that cinemas are safe in our communications to audiences. We will document what the cinemas are doing regarding incorporating safety procedures,\\\" he added. \", \"Disney's deal is not the first time a multinational entertainment company is partnering with film companies in West Africa.\", \"In 2019, FilmOne Entertainment signed a deal with Chinese media giant Huahua to co-produce the first \", \"major China-Nigeria film. \", \"In the same year, French Media giant,\", \" Canal+ acquired leading Nollywood film studio, ROK film studios\", \" to create more hours of Nigerian content for its French-speaking audience.\", \"Independence key to collaboration\", \"Thompson who is also a film analyst says the growing influence of entertainment companies like Disney on the continent may create room for greater Hollywood influence in Africa, without a corresponding influence of African film content in Hollywood.\", \"\\\"We need to be a bit careful to make sure we don't lose creative control of our stories. With more multinationals looking into Africa for partnerships, we don't want to find ourselves stuck with them dictating what we start to produce,\\\" he said. \", \"\\\"At the same time, we can still be glad that they are paying attention as that means growth for our film industry,\\\" he added. \", \"As FilmOne Entertainment prepares to start distributing Disney content, Babatope says the partnership is an opportunity that can lead to future collaborations involving largely African content. \", \"\\\"It's true that a lot of the content we will be distributing are from other parts of the world but if we are able to demonstrate that we are accountable and transparent, then there will be room to attract future investments involving content from this region.\\\"\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/23/africa/china-ethiopia-test-kits-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"China's BGI wins 1.5 million coronavirus test kit order from Ethiopia\", \"description\": \"Ethiopia has agreed to purchase 1.5 million coronavirus testing kits that will be manufactured at a factory in the African country that has been newly built by China's BGI Group, China's state media agency Xinhua said late on Tuesday.\", \"date\": \"2020-09-23T11:22:20Z\", \"author\": \"Story by Reuters\", \"text\": [\"Beijing \", \"Ethiopia has agreed to purchase 1.5 million coronavirus testing kits that will be manufactured at a factory in the African country that has been newly built by China's BGI Group, China's state media agency Xinhua said late on Tuesday.\", \"The BGI factory, the first coronavirus test production facility in Ethiopia that opened earlier this month, is designed to be able to make 6-8 million tests in a year and can expand the annual capacity to up to 10 million in accordance with local demand, Xinhua reported.\", \"BGI, which makes genome sequencing and medical devices, is hoping to use its footprint in Ethiopia in expanding its supplies to other African countries, Xinhua quoted a BGI official as saying in a separate report on Wednesday.\", \"BGI did not immediately respond to a request for comment.\", \"BGI Group's unit BGI Genomics had said it supplied over 35 million coronavirus testing kits overseas and built 58 labs in 18 countries as of June 30.\", \"Read More\", \"The Ethiopia factory could be later converted to make test kits for HIV, malaria and tuberculosis once the Covid-19 pandemic ends, Xinhua said.\", \"Ethiopia, one of the countries that has the most new daily infections on average in Africa, has reported 69,709 infections and 1,108 coronavirus-related deaths since the pandemic began.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/29/health/who-rapid-test-kits-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"WHO announces Covid-19 rapid tests for low and middle income countries\", \"description\": \"The World Health Organization has announced an agreement to make rapid Covid-19 tests available to lower and middle-income countries across the world.\", \"date\": \"2020-09-29T14:08:02Z\", \"author\": \"Amanda Watts \", \"text\": [\" (CNN)\", \"The World Health Organization has announced an agreement to make rapid Covid-19 tests available to lower and middle-income countries across the world.\", \"Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO director-general said, \\\"a substantial proportion of these rapid tests - 120 million - will be made available to low and middle-income countries. These tests provide reliable results in approximately 15 to 30 minutes, rather than hours or days, at a lower price, with less sophisticated equipment.\\\" \", \" \", \"Tedros said during a Monday news conference that these \\\"vital\\\" tests will help expand testing in remote areas, \\\"that do not have lab facilities or enough trained health workers to carry out PCR tests.\\\" \", \" \", \"Read More\", \"He added: \\\"High-quality rapid tests show us where the virus is hiding, which is key to quickly tracing and isolating contacts and breaking the chains of transmission. The tests are a critical tool for governments as they look to reopen economies and ultimately save both lives and livelihoods.\\\"\", \"Coronavirus has killed 1 million people worldwide. Experts fear the toll may double before a vaccine is ready\", \"The first orders are expected already to be placed this week and it will be rolled out in up to 20 countries in Africa starting in October. \", \"Peter Sands, executive director of the Global Fund said the tests are hugely valuable as a complement to PCR tests but warned that they are not \\\"a silver bullet.\\\" \", \" \", \"\\\"Although they're a bit less accurate - they're much faster, cheaper, and don't require a lab,\\\" he explained. \\\"Being able to deploy quality antigen RDTs, rapid diagnostic tests, will be a significant step forward in enabling countries to contain and combat Covid-19,\\\" Sands added. \", \"The PCR test is the most widespread and most accurate diagnostic test for determining whether someone is currently infected with coronavirus.  However, the tests requires specialized supplies, expensive instruments, and the expertise of trained lab technicians. which has led to shortages and a testing gap globally. \", \"Read related: \", \"https://edition.cnn.com/2020/04/28/us/coronavirus-testing-pcr-antigen-antibody/index.html\", \"This $5 rapid test is a potential game-changer in Covid testing\", \" \", \"Sands said these tests will help low and middle-income countries to \\\"close the dramatic gap in testing between rich and poor countries.\\\" \", \" \", \"\\\"Right now, high-income countries are conducting 292 tests per day per 100,000 people. For upper-middle-income countries, that number is 77. For lower-middle-income countries, 61, and from low-income countries, 14,\\\" Sands said, though he did not expand on where that data originates. \", \" \", \"Dr. John Nkengasong, director of the Africa CDC, welcomed the development as it would allow \\\"healthcare workers to quickly isolate cases and treat them while tracing their contacts to cut the transmission chain.\\\"\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/29/africa/togo-female-prime-minister-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"Togo names first female Prime Minister\", \"description\": \"President's former chief-of-staff Victoire Tomegah Dogbe, 60, has become the first female prime minister of Togo, a tiny West African nation of about eight million people.\", \"date\": \"2020-09-29T18:09:26Z\", \"author\": \"Orji Sunday\", \"text\": [\" (CNN)\", \"Togo's President Faure Gnassingbe has appointed the country's first female prime minister.\", \"Victoire Tomegah Dogbe, 60, became the first female prime minister of the tiny West African nation of about eight million people.\", \" \", \"Dogbe, whose appointment was confirmed by President Faure Gnassingbe on Monday, replaces Komi Selom Klassou, who resigned as prime minister on Friday, a position he held since 2015.\", \" \", \"Read More\", \"Dogbe is well known and respected in Togo, having served in several positions under Gnassingbe's government in the past decade, including working as his chief-of-staff, director of the cabinet of the President of the Republic and more recently as Minister for youth and grassroots development, according to local media reports.\", \"Ethiopia appoints its first female president \", \" \", \"Prior to joining politics, she worked with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) according to information from the agency. \", \" \", \"Her appointment comes after an expected cabinet reshuffle, which was delayed by the country's fight against coronavirus pandemic, following the controversial re-election of Gnassingbe, \", \"who has ruled Togo since 2005\", \". \", \"He took power from his father who, before his death,  ruled Togo for 38 years, dating back to a 1967 coup. \", \"Despite a \", \"series of protests between 2017 -- 2019\", \" calling for an end to a single family rule in Togo, Gnassingbe forced a constitutional reform in 2019 that allowed him to run for an election which he won easily in February 2020. His current tenure runs till 2025.  \", \"Faure must go: How one Togolese woman is risking her life to end the 50-year Gnassingb\\u00e9 dynasty\", \"The 56-year-old leader has seen growing opposition, following slowed economic growth, accusations of electoral fraud, \", \"corruption and human rights violations.\", \" \", \"Dogbe's has vast experience in governance and administration which is well positioned to help the country achieve a long-expected economic boom which has eluded the country since independence in 1960.\", \" \", \"Dogbe has been deeply involved in the country's fight against youth unemployment and poverty, introducing reforms that have been praised as a local success in her country, according to \", \"Togo-First, an online publication\", \" in the country. \", \" \", \"As the parliament awaits Dogbe's policy plan, observers are keen to see what economic difference her reforms can make in a country where half its population live below the poverty line, according to a \", \"2014 report by the International Monetary Fund\", \". \"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/30/africa/zimbabwe-elephant-disease-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"Zimbabwe suspects bacterial disease behind elephant deaths\", \"description\": \"Zimbabwe suspects a bacterial disease called hemorrhagic septicemia is behind the recent deaths of more than 30 elephants but is doing further tests to make sure, the parks authority said.\", \"date\": \"2020-09-30T14:48:29Z\", \"author\": \"Story by Reuters\", \"text\": [\"Zimbabwe suspects a bacterial disease called hemorrhagic septicemia is behind the recent deaths of more than 30 elephants but is doing further tests to make sure, the parks authority said.\", \"The elephant deaths, which began in late August, come soon after hundreds of elephants died in neighboring Botswana in mysterious circumstances.\", \"Officials in Botswana were initially at a loss to explain the elephant deaths there but have since blamed toxins produced by another type of bacterium.\", \"Toxins in water blamed for deaths of hundreds of elephants in Botswana \", \"Experts say Botswana and Zimbabwe could be home to roughly half of the continent's 400,000 elephants, often targeted by poachers.\", \"Elephants in Botswana and parts of Zimbabwe are at historically high levels, but elsewhere on the continent -- especially in forested areas -- many populations are severely depleted, said Chris Thouless, head of research at Save the Elephants.\", \"Read More\", \"\\\"Higher populations equal greater risk from infectious diseases,\\\" Thouless told Reuters, adding that climate change could put pressure on elephant populations as water supplies diminish and temperatures rise, potentially increasing the probability of pathogen outbreaks.\", \"Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority Director-General Fulton Mangwanya told a parliamentary committee on Monday that so far 34 dead elephants had been counted.\", \"\\\"It is unlikely that this disease alone will have any serious overall impact on the survival of the elephant population,\\\" he said. \\\"The northwest regions of Zimbabwe have an over-abundance of elephants and this outbreak of disease is probably a manifestation of that ... particularly in the hot, dry season elephants are stressed by competition for water and food resources.\\\"\", \"Postmortems on some of the dead elephants showed inflamed livers and other organs, Mangwanya said. The elephants were found lying on their stomachs, suggesting a sudden death.\", \"Vernon Booth, a Zimbabwe-based wildlife management consultant, told Reuters it was difficult to put a number on Zimbabwe's current elephant population. He estimated it could be close to 90,000, up from 82,000 in 2014 when the last national survey was conducted, assuming that roughly 2,000-3,000 have died each year from all causes.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/01/world/covid-girls-child-marriage-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"Half a million more girls are at risk of child marriage in 2020 because of Covid-19, charity warns\", \"description\": \"The pandemic has put 500,000 more girls at risk of being forced into child marriage this year, reversing 25 years of progress that saw child marriage rates decline, according to a new report by the charity Save the Children.\", \"date\": \"2020-10-01T12:59:25Z\", \"author\": \"Tara John\", \"text\": [\"London (CNN)\", \"The pandemic has put 500,000 more girls at risk of being forced into child marriage this year, reversing \", \"25 years of progress\", \" that saw child marriage rates decline, according to a new report by the charity Save the Children.\", \"Before the global outbreak, 12 million girls married each year, now the charity warns that up to 2.5 million more girls could be at risk of \", \"child marriage\", \" over the next five years.  \", \"How saying 'I do' can help millions of girls to say 'I don't'\", \"With up to 117 million children estimated to fall into poverty in 2020, many will face pressure to work and help provide for their families.\", \"\\\"The pandemic means more families are being pushed into poverty, forcing many girls to work to support their families, to go without food, to become the main caregivers for sick family members, and to drop out of school -- with far less of a chance than boys of ever returning,\\\" Inger Ashing, CEO of Save the Children International, \", \"said in a press release\", \".\", \"The pandemic led to school closures and \\\"experience during the Ebola outbreak suggests many girls will never return\\\" to class due \\\"to increasing pressure to work, risk of child marriage, bans on pregnant girls attending school, and lost contact with education,\\\" the charity wrote.\", \"Read More\", \"A girl gets married every 2 seconds somewhere in the world\", \"This year, 191,200 girls in South Asia will be disproportionately affected by the risk of increased child marriage, the report says. It is followed by West and Central Africa, where 90,000 girls are at risk of child marriage, Latin America and the Caribbean (73,400), and Europe and Central Asia (37,200).  \", \"Girls affected by humanitarian crises, such as wars, floods and earthquakes, face the greatest risk of child marriage, the report notes. Before the pandemic, data showed child marriage was increasing among refugee populations. In Lebanon, child marriage among Syrian refugee girls rose by 7% between 2017 and 2018.\", \"\\\"Every year, around 12 million girls are married, 2 million before their 15th birthday,\\\" Ashing said. \\\"Half a million more girls are now at risk of this gender-based violence this year alone -- and these only are the ones we know about. We believe this is the tip of the iceberg.\\\"\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/30/politics/esper-africa-trip/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"US Defense Secretary visits Africa for first time seeking to push back on Russia and China\", \"description\": \"US Secretary of Defense Mark Esper made his first visit to Africa Wednesday, a trip aimed in part at pushing back on Russian and Chinese influence in the region.\", \"date\": \"2020-09-30T16:14:06Z\", \"author\": \"Ryan Browne\", \"text\": [\"Malta (CNN)\", \"US Secretary of Defense \", \"Mark Esper \", \"made his first visit to Africa Wednesday, a trip aimed in part at pushing back on Russian and Chinese influence in the region.\", \"Esper arrived in Tunisia to meet with top officials, including the country's president, Kais Saied, and to lay a wreath and give a speech at a World War II cemetery to honor US service members who fell during the North African campaign.\", \"The trip was not announced until after Esper departed the country.\", \"Tunisia which has been touted as the sole democratic success story to come out of the 2011 \\\"Arab Spring,\\\" was designated \\\"a major-non NATO ally of the United States\\\" in 2015 and has partnered with the US on counterterrorism efforts aimed at ISIS-linked groups.\", \"As Trump refuses to commit to a peaceful transition, Pentagon stresses it will play no role in the election\", \"During a meeting at the Tunisian Defense Ministry, Esper and his counterpart signed a \\\"ten-year Roadmap of Defense Cooperation.\\\"\", \"Read More\", \"\\\"The United States will continue to deepen our alliances and partnerships across the continent, including with Tunisia, where your democratic government and sovereignty have made much of our work in the region possible,\\\" Esper said during his speech at the North Africa American cemetery and memorial in Carthage.\", \"\\\"We look forward to expanding this relationship to help Tunisia protect its maritime ports and land borders, deter terrorism, and keep the corrosive efforts of autocratic regimes out of your country,\\\" he added.\", \"The US has worked to help Tunisia secure its border with Libya which has been beset by civil war and recently deployed 40 American military advisers to the country, part of a the Army's Security Force Assistance Brigade, in order to aid Tunisia's fight against terrorist groups which have carried out high profile attacks in the country since 2011.\", \"The US is also Tunisia's largest supplier of weapons, providing nearly 50% of all arms imports from 2015 to 2019 according to the Center for International Policy and in February the Trump Administration approved the sale of four AT-6C Wolverine light attack aircraft to Tunisia, an arms package estimated to cost $325.8 million.\", \"While in North Africa, Esper is seeking to push back on Russian and Chinese activity in the region, according to defense officials.\", \"\\\"Today, our strategic competitors China and Russia continue to intimidate and coerce their neighbors while expanding their authoritarian influence worldwide, including on this continent,\\\" Esper said.\", \"The US has accused China of seeking to expand its influence in the region via predatory loans and the US military has accused Moscow of deploying Russian mercenaries and fighter jets to bolster Libyan Gen. Khalifa Haftar, the commander of the self-styled Libyan National Army, one of the belligerents in that country's civil war.\", \"China is doubling down on its territorial claims and that's causing conflict across Asia\", \"\\\"Together we continue to counter the malign, coercive, and predatory behavior of Beijing and Moscow, meant to undermine African institutions, erode national sovereignty, create instability, and exploit resources throughout the region,\\\" Esper said.\", \"Esper also visited the island republic of Malta Tuesday, becoming the first US defense secretary to visit there since President Richard Nixon's Secretary of Defense Mel Laird visited in 1970, just six years after the country became independent of the UK.\", \"While in Malta, Esper on Wednesday met with the country's Prime Minister Robert Abela and President George Vella.\", \"While Malta's military is small, totaling some 2,000 personnel, it sits in a strategic location off the coast of North Africa and possesses a significant port and was until the 1970s was the site of a major UK Royal Navy installation.\", \"A senior defense official told CNN that Esper planned to discuss maritime security with Maltese officials, a major issue given the country's proximity to shipping and smuggling lanes connecting Europe to North Africa. \"]}\n][\n{\"url\": \"https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-movies-colin-trevorrow-b4fb2ecbc00375b8667ce6630287add8\", \"source\": \"Associated Press\", \"title\": \"'Jurassic World' shoot suspended after COVID-19 positives\", \"description\": \"Filming on the new \\u201cJurassic World\\u201d movie at Pinewood Studios in the U.K. has been suspended for two weeks because of COVID-19 cases on set. Director Colin Trevorrow tweeted Wednesday that there... \", \"date\": \"2020-10-07T19:09:32Z\", \"author\": \"Lindsey Bahr\", \"text\": [\"Filming on the new \\u201cJurassic World\\u201d movie at Pinewood Studios in the U.K. has been suspended for two weeks because of COVID-19 cases on set. Director Colin Trevorrow tweeted Wednesday that there were \\u201ca few\\u201d positive tests for the virus. \", \"He added that the individuals tested negative shortly after, but that they would be pausing for two weeks regardless to adhere to safety protocols. \", \"A spokesperson for Universal Pictures said they were informed of the positive tests last night and that all tested negative this morning. \", \"\\u201cThe safety and well-being of our entire cast and crew is paramount,\\u201d the spokesperson added. \\u201cThose who initially tested positive are currently self-isolating, as are those who they have come into contact with.\\u201d\", \"On Tuesday, Universal said that the release of \\u201cJurassic World: Dominion\\u201d was being delayed a year to June 2022. \", \"The franchise starring Chris Pratt was one of the first major Hollywood productions to restart after pandemic-related shutdowns. The New York Times in August wrote about \", \" and a few crewmember cases in Britain and in Malta over the summer. \", \"It\\u2019s the second significant shoot to be affected by COVID-19. Last month the U.K. shoot on \\u201c \", \",\\u201d a Warner Bros. film, also halted production because of a positive case. \"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-international-news-public-health-europe-italy-77a4fdd5926da76bb94105bb4995b0c7\", \"source\": \"Associated Press\", \"title\": \"Italy imposes mask mandate outside and in as virus rebounds\", \"description\": \"ROME (AP) \\u2014 Italy imposed a nationwide outdoor mask mandate Wednesday with fines of up to 1,000 euros ($1,163) for violators, as the European country where COVID-19 first hit hard scrambles to... \", \"date\": \"2020-10-07T15:47:41Z\", \"author\": \"Nicole Winfield\", \"text\": [\"ROME (AP) \\u2014 Italy imposed a nationwide outdoor mask mandate Wednesday with fines of up to 1,000 euros ($1,163) for violators, as the European country where COVID-19 first hit hard scrambles to keep rebounding infections from spiraling out of control.\", \"The government passed the decree even though Italy\\u2019s overall per capita infection rate is among the lowest in Europe. But Premier Giuseppe Conte warned that a steady, nine-week rise in infections nationwide demanded new preventive measures to stave off economically-devastating closures and shutdowns.\", \"\\u201cWe have to be more rigorous because we want to avoid at all cost more restrictive measures for production and social activities,\\u201d Conte said.\", \"The decree was passed on the same day that Italy added 3,678 new infections and 31 deaths to its official coronavirus toll, the highest increase in new cases since the peak of the outbreak in April. Both hard-hit Lombardy and southern Campania added more than 500 cases each. \", \"Italy has over 36,000 confirmed COVID-19 deaths, the second-highest number in Europe after Britain.\", \"Even though the World Health Organization doesn\\u2019t specifically recommend masks outdoors for the general population, the trend has taken off in Italy, particularly as new clusters have been identified in southern regions that largely escaped the first wave of infection.\", \"The new mask mandate was contained in a government decree extending the state of emergency until Jan. 31. It requires residents to have masks on them at all times outdoors, and wear them unless they can guarantee that they can remain completely isolated from anyone other than family. That effectively makes them obligatory outdoors in all urban and semi-urban settings, with exemptions for eating in restaurants and bars.\", \"In addition, masks must now be worn indoors everywhere except private homes, but even at home, Conte urged Italians to keep their distances with relatives, given most new infections are occurring within families. \", \"\\u201cThe state can\\u2019t ask citizens to wear masks in their own homes,\\u201d Conte said. \\u201cBut we have a strong recommendation for all citizens: Even in our families we have to be careful.\\u201d\", \"Exceptions include for outdoor sporting activities, children under 6 and for people with health conditions that preclude wearing masks. \", \"Fines ranging from 400 to 1,000 euros ($463 to $1,163) are foreseen for violations, Italian news agency ANSA said. \", \"Italy thus is joining Spain, Turkey, North Macedonia, India and a handful of other Asian countries in imposing a nationwide, outdoor mask mandate. Spain has had such a requirement in place since mid-May and Turkey since last month. \", \"Elsewhere in Europe, such outdoor mandates are in effect in hot spot cities such as Paris, Brussels and Pristina, Kosovo. In many Asian countries, social pressure to wear masks outdoors has made binding government decrees unnecessary. The Australian state of Victoria has had one in place for weeks.\", \"Italy has one of the lowest infection rates in Europe, at 46.5 cases per 100,000 residents over the last two weeks. By contrast, the Czech Republic counts 327 per 100,000 while Spain has 302, France 248 and Belgium 233 per 100,000.\", \"While Paris and Brussels have closured bars to cope with the rising infections and Britain has capped pub hours, Conte has said that Italy wouldn\\u2019t impose any curfews or close bars. \", \"The Vatican, which followed Italy\\u2019s strict lockdown in spring and summer, also imposed an outdoor mask mandate this week in the tiny city state in the center of Rome. Pope Francis, however, didn\\u2019t wear a mask during his indoor general audience Wednesday, even as he greeted well-wishers and shook their hands.\", \"Italy became the epicenter of the European outbreak after the first domestic case was identified Feb. 21 in northern Lombardy. The country largely tamed the virus with a strict, nationwide 10-week lockdown, but infections have crept up since August vacations.\", \"There have been various hypotheses for why Italy\\u2019s rebound has been slower than in neighboring countries like Spain or France, where daily new cases often top 10,000. Chief among them is the fact that Italians, seriously scared by the devastation of the initial outbreak in the north, have generally abided by mask mandates and social distancing norms. \", \"Also, Italy\\u2019s national health care system has continued to aggressively trace new infection, as well as test passengers on arrival from at-risk countries \\u2014 and even from its own island of Sardinia after the jet-set destination became a hotspot this summer.\", \"That said, Italy\\u2019s testing capacity has its limitations. It can only process around 120,000 tests a day, more than double what it processed during the peak of the outbreak. But some experts say Italy needs to more than double that number as the virus has now spread across the country.\", \"__\", \"Follow AP\\u2019s pandemic coverage at \", \" and \"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-travel-pandemics-hawaii-archive-1e552052192dbac3cbd8dc97329c811c\", \"source\": \"Associated Press\", \"title\": \"Hawaii pushes forward with tourism despite safety concerns\", \"description\": \"HONOLULU (AP) \\u2014 Despite increasing coronavirus cases across the U.S., Hawaii officials hope to reboot tourism next week by loosening months of economically crippling pandemic restrictions,... \", \"date\": \"2020-10-07T17:10:29Z\", \"author\": \"Caleb Jones\", \"text\": [\"HONOLULU (AP) \\u2014 Despite increasing coronavirus cases across the U.S., Hawaii officials hope to reboot tourism next week by loosening months of economically crippling pandemic restrictions, including a mandatory 14-day quarantine for all arriving travelers.\", \"The plan, which was postponed after the virus surged in the summer, will allow Hawaii-bound travelers who provide negative virus test results within 72 hours of arrival to sidestep two weeks of quarantine.\", \"But the Oct. 15 launch of the pre-travel testing program is causing concern for some who say gaps in the plan could further endanger a community still reeling from summer infection rates that spiked to 10% after local restrictions eased.\", \"State Sen. Glenn Wakai, chair of the Committee on Economic Development, Tourism and Technology, said one problem is that the tests are not mandatory for all. Travelers can still choose to not get tested and instead quarantine for two weeks upon arrival, which means those with a negative test could get infected on the plane. \", \"\\u201cThey\\u2019re going to come here with this false sense of belief that, \\u2018Hey, I got tested, Hawaii, I\\u2019m clean. Here\\u2019s my paperwork. Let me enjoy my Hawaiian vacation,\\u2019 not knowing that the person in seat B on a five-hour flight gave them the coronavirus,\\u201d Wakai said. \", \"Hawaii has lived under quarantine laws for months, but hundreds \\u2014 at times thousands \\u2014 of people have arrived daily since the pandemic started. Some have flouted safety measures, leading to arrests and fines for the scofflaws. \", \"Before the pandemic, the state received about 30,000 visitors a day. \", \"If the islands face another coronavirus surge because of a hasty return to tourism, another lockdown could spell economic disaster, Wakai said. \", \"He said the state has mismanaged the pandemic from the beginning. Hawaii\\u2019s state epidemiologist and its director of health both left their positions in September after concerns were raised about their handling of the virus and the state\\u2019s contact tracing efforts.\", \"Wakai also worries that reopening tourism before children are safely back in school could challenge parents who return to work in the tourism industry. \", \"But others view the pre-travel testing plan as the best way to add a layer of protection while kickstarting the economy. Hawaii has had one the nation\\u2019s highest unemployment rates since the start of the pandemic, which ground to a halt nearly all vacation-related activity. \", \"Hawaii Lt. Gov. Josh Green, who has spearheaded the testing program, acknowledged the risks but said the plan will give the islands a much-needed chance for economic recovery. \", \"\\u201cIt\\u2019s important that people know we welcome them as long as they\\u2019ve gotten their test,\\u201d Green said, adding that wearing a mask in public is still Hawaii law.\", \"Green, an emergency room doctor who recently recovered from COVID-19, said calls for testing at Hawaii\\u2019s airports don\\u2019t take into account capacity or cost. Even if the state could test all visitors, people wouldn\\u2019t get their results right away, he added.\", \"\\u201cIf we were to test everybody that came, we would have to have 8,000 tests\\u201d per day, Green said, estimating the number of visitors he thinks will travel to Hawaii at the program\\u2019s start. The state currently has about 4,000 tests available each day for residents and visitors. \", \"As part of the plan, Hawaii is partnering with several U.S. mainland pharmacies and airlines for testing. Travelers will load their information onto a state website and mobile app that officials will use to track incoming passengers. \", \"Green said travelers must get the correct type of coronavirus screening \\u2014 a nucleic acid amplification test \\u2014 and suggests people work with designated companies. \", \"He has also proposed implementing a surveillance testing program that would screen a percentage of arriving passengers who are in high-risk groups. \", \"Dr. Anthony Fauci, who spoke with Green in a livestream video call Wednesday, said no matter what, some COVID positive vacationers will get into the state. \", \"\\u201cThe reality is, no matter what you do, there are going to be infected people who slip through the cracks. It\\u2019s inevitable,\\u201d Fauci said of Hawaii. \\u201cI can understand the anxiety of people on the islands saying, you know, if you just do a test 72 hours earlier and that\\u2019s all you do, then that\\u2019s not going to be enough.\\u201d\", \"Fauci said that adding some kind of secondary screening would help.\", \"\\u201cYou\\u2019re not going to get everybody, but statistically, you\\u2019re going to dramatically diminish the likelihood that an infected person enters,\\u201d he said. \", \"Travelers will also face a list of restrictions upon arrival in Hawaii \\u2014 especially on Oahu which has seen the bulk of reported cases.\", \"Still, some county officials say the plan is not ready. They want additional layers of protection for their individual islands.\", \"On Tuesday, Big Island Mayor Harry Kim announced that his county would opt out of the testing program and continue to require all visitors to quarantine for two weeks upon arrival. Gov. David Ige on Monday denied a request from the island of Kauai that would have established a post-arrival testing program for visitors to that island. Both island mayors said they want another layer of testing for people arriving in Hawaii.\", \"\\u201cA single pre-arrival testing program alone does not provide the needed level of protection for our Kauai community,\\u201d said Kauai Mayor Derek Kawakami in a statement. He said the island secured 15,000 rapid tests and will develop a plan to mitigate the virus\\u2019 spread. \", \"The blow to tourism has taken a toll on Hawaii residents who depend on the sector to survive. Scores of businesses have closed for good. Hotels have shuttered or operate under limited capacity. Bars remain closed and restaurants struggle with take-out only or a cap on the number of guests they can serve. The October measure could bring back paychecks for many workers. \", \"\\u201cIn a perfect world, we wouldn\\u2019t reopen until we had a vaccine,\\u201d said John De Fries, president and CEO of the Hawaii Tourism Authority. However, waiting that long, he said, \\u201cwould take us out.\\u201d \", \"Miriam Thorpe, a California school teacher, recently flew to Hawaii from San Francisco with her husband to visit family. She was nervous about the flight but said she looked forward to seeing her grandchildren for the first time in nearly a year.\", \"\\u201cNot so sure about how safe it is on the plane or in the airports,\\u201d Thorpe said before leaving.\", \"The Thorpes said they were tested for COVID-19 before they left, but would not get their results for several days after arriving in Hawaii.\", \"Under the new rules, travelers like the Thorpes who do not get their test results in time for their trips will have to quarantine until their negative results are in. Those who test positive after arriving in Hawaii will have to isolate alongside their close contacts. They must be medically cleared of the disease before they can travel home. \", \"\\u201cOnce I get to Hawaii, I\\u2019ll feel much better,\\u201d Thorpe said before boarding her flight to paradise. \", \"___\", \"Video journalist Haven Daly in San Francisco contributed to this report. \"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://apnews.com/article/north-america-hollywood-los-angeles-aedf960caf08a91476abc15d0c12ff99\", \"source\": \"Associated Press\", \"title\": \"Women outwit Hollywood bias with help from industry insiders\", \"description\": \"LOS ANGELES (AP) \\u2014 Kaitlyn Yang knows it\\u2019s rare for women to work in visual effects but wanted to find out just how much company she has.  Devising an informal survey earlier this year, she... \", \"date\": \"2020-10-07T17:52:54Z\", \"author\": \"Lynn Elber\", \"text\": [\"LOS ANGELES (AP) \\u2014 Kaitlyn Yang knows it\\u2019s rare for women to work in visual effects but wanted to find out just how much company she has. \", \"Devising an informal survey earlier this year, she painstakingly searched 24,000 LinkedIn entries for female visual effects supervisors in North America. Her tally: 30.\", \"\\u201cSo you do the math,\\u201d she said of the tiny percentage that represents. It\\u2019s not far afield of in-depth research showing women are underrepresented in behind-the-camera positions, including writing, directing and producing, despite recent progress.\", \"A study of the 250 top-grossing films in 2019 by San Diego State University\\u2019s Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film found that women comprise 6% of visual effects supervisors, 5% of cinematographers and 19% of writers. A center report on last season\\u2019s TV shows found similar patterns.\", \"Yang, whose perseverance led to the creation of her own firm, Alpha Studios, is among those succeeding in Hollywood. That\\u2019s true as well of Layne Eskridge, a former Netflix and Apple TV executive who just launched POV Entertainment; writer Gladys Rodriguez, whose credits include \\u201cSons of Anarchy\\u201d and \\u201cVida\\u201d; and Sandra Valde-Hansen, cinematographer for more than a dozen independent films.\", \"The four share a key credit: Each had an industry internship through the Television Academy Foundation, the charitable arm of the academy that administers the prime-time Emmy Awards. \", \"For Valde-Hansen, the internship provided the experience of working alongside veteran cinematographer Alan Caso, who\\u2019d been part of the acclaimed series \\u201cSix Feet Under.\\u201d\", \"Getting to learn from the man \\u201cwho created the look of that show, that very cinematic look, I thought, \\u2019Oh, this is better than getting into college,\\u201d she said. \\u201cThe internship just opened up so many doors for me.\\u201d\", \"The program offers 50 paid, eight-week summer internships on Los Angeles TV productions to college students nationwide.\", \"\\u201cWe couldn\\u2019t be prouder to have helped launch the careers of these exceptional women. They are a testament to the foundation\\u2019s crucial work,\\u201d said Madeline Di Nonno, chair of the foundation\\u2019s board of directors.\", \"As the onetime interns have progressed in their fields, they\\u2019ve gained hard-won insights about Hollywood and the obstacles to women and people of color. Yang, who uses a wheelchair because of spinal muscular atrophy, faces other challenges. In recent interviews, the women discussed their experiences and how the industry can evolve.\", \"THE CLUB STILL EXISTS\", \"Bias can be subtle, or not. \", \"Rodriguez recalled a stretch in which she worked as a writer\\u2019s assistant on shows with primarily white male writing staffs.\", \"Men in jobs comparable to hers were \\u201cinvited to play Ping-Pong, but they wouldn\\u2019t invite me, or they would invite them to after-work drinks and I wouldn\\u2019t get invited,\\u201d she said. \\u201cI was definitely not part of the boys club, so that excluded me from certain opportunities,\\u201d such as developing story ideas. \", \"Eskridge has found that older writers can be uncomfortable with an executive who is younger and Black. That appeared to be the case with a sitcom creator she ushered into her office for a first meeting.\", \"\\u201cMaybe he thought I was an assistant, but when I closed the door and sat down he realized I was Layne,\\u201d she said. \\u201cHe was so flustered. And I think we sat there for about two minutes while he tried to gather himself. And then he eventually said he needed to call his agent and that he wasn\\u2019t going to take the meeting.\\u201d\", \"Yang, who became more public-facing after starting her company, found she wasn\\u2019t what some expected.\", \"One man \\u201cwas very surprised that I attended USC film school, in a way that was almost questioning if my resume was made up,\\u201d she said. \\u201dI was like, \\u2018You want to see my student loans?\\u2019\\u201d\", \"(Women are well-represented at the USC School of Cinematic Arts: This fall, they\\u2019re 56% of students, the school said.)\", \"GETTING A BOOST\", \"Valde-Hansen said she owes a debt of gratitude to Florida-based cinematographer Tony Foresta, who took her on as his assistant when nobody else would.\", \"\\u201cI remember walking into the (equipment) rental houses and they would literally come up to me and say, \\u2019Oh, I\\u2019ve worked with another woman camera assistant before...\\u2032 like I was an alien,\\u201d she said. \\u201cIt was unnerving at times. I was so thankful to have this one person who saw me, unlike anyone else.\\u201d\", \"After Rodriguez completed her internship, she worked on CBS\\u2019 \\u201cCold Case,\\u201d created and produced by Meredith Stiehm.\", \"\\u201cIt\\u2019s not that she gave me a leg up, more that she saw me and she didn\\u2019t dismiss me,\\u201d Rodriguez said. It was on the show that she met Veena Sud, a \\u201cwonderful writer who became a sort of mentor to me.\\u201d\", \"\\u201cShe was the first person that took me aside and said, \\u2018I\\u2019ll read your stuff if you\\u2019re writing,\\u2019\\u201d Rodriguez recalled. \\u201cI think Meredith empowered her, and she was giving back to me by empowering me.\\u201d\", \"TRUE SYSTEMIC CHANGE \", \"A female colleague told Valde-Hansen recently that a director wanted to hire her for a project, but the producer thought the budget was out of her league \\u2014 although there was a relatively small gap between it and other projects she\\u2019d worked on.\", \"\\u201cThis has happened to me. Why? Why is that story happening, when a white man makes a movie for $500,000, it does really well, and then suddenly he\\u2019s handed an $80 million Marvel movie,\\u201d Valde-Hansen said. \\u201cThat has to change.\\u201d\", \"Rodriguez says that when studios complain that they can\\u2019t find diversity among writers, she has lists at the ready.\", \"\\u201cIt starts at the top, with execs realizing they have to do the work to look for writers of color, hire writers of color and give people chances,\\u201d she said. \\u201cJust like they would take a chance on a white director or a white writer.\\u201d\", \"Eskridge recalls a few times when she was the \\u201chighest-ranking person of color in the building, and I\\u2019m not a president or part of the C-suite. That shows you that\\u2019s a problem.\\u201d\", \"Yang wants the industry to think diversity for every aspect of production.\", \"\\u201cThe more down the credits you move, it\\u2019s still the same old, same old. And I don\\u2019t want to be the first one of the few,\\u201d she said.\", \"___\", \"Lynn Elber can be reached at lelber@ap.org or on Twitter at http://twitter.com/lynnelber.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-archive-49f5db73e102cd5d5422ab33cade929b\", \"source\": \"Associated Press\", \"title\": \"Audit likely gave congressional staff glimpse of Trump taxes\", \"description\": \"WASHINGTON (AP) \\u2014 It\\u2019s one of the most obscure functions of Congress, little known or understood even by most lawmakers. But it may have once put staffers in possession of one of the most enduring... \", \"date\": \"2020-10-07T04:07:18Z\", \"author\": \"Andrew Taylor\", \"text\": [\"WASHINGTON (AP) \\u2014 It\\u2019s one of the most obscure functions of Congress, little known or understood even by most lawmakers. But it may have once put staffers in possession of one of the most enduring mysteries of the Donald Trump era: his tax data, which The New York Times revealed to the world.\", \"The Times report last month included a \", \", including that he paid only $750 in federal income taxes in 2016 and 2017 and that he carries $421 million in debt. Trump has long refused to release his tax returns, blaming an IRS audit. \", \"That\\u2019s where Congress comes in. The audit of Trump\\u2019s taxes, the Times reported, has been held up for more than four years by staffers for the Joint Committee on Taxation, which has 30 days to review individual refunds and tax credits over $2 million. When JCT staffers disagree with the IRS on a decision, the review is typically kept open until the matter is resolved. \", \"The upshot is that information on Trump\\u2019s taxes, which Democrats are now suing to see, has almost certainly passed through the JCT\\u2019s hands, putting it tantalizingly close to lawmakers.\", \"Key members of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee defended the JCT after the Times report and were emphatic that the panel does not have copies of tax forms pertaining to Trump. \", \"\\u201cThey are not sitting at JCT,\\u201d said House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal, D-Mass. \\u201cI see no evidence that they\\u2019re sitting on those forms.\\u201d \", \"But lawmakers did not say whether the JCT has reviewed any tax refund involving the president. Neal and top House Republican tax expert Kevin Brady of Texas said the panel typically completes its reviews in a month or two, at most.\", \"\\u201cThe vast majority of JCT refund reviews are processed quickly and very rarely does JCT express concerns with the IRS audit findings,\\u201d said Brady, who has previously chaired the panel. \\u201cContrary to the Times\\u2019 reporting, I think the longest time JCT has ever had a case pending is one year. I think we should focus on the facts as much as possible.\\u201d\", \"The topic went unmentioned in a House oversight hearing Wednesday featuring IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig, who reminded lawmakers that \\u201cevery taxpayer in this country is assured of confidentiality and privacy with respect to their tax matters.\\u201d\", \"Lawmakers on Joint Tax are provided summary information on the categories of cases handled and how long it takes to process them, but the information is not made public. Even acknowledging that Trump\\u2019s taxes were before the panel is verboten. \", \"\\u201cThat gets too close to talking about potential tax return information, which is protected under the internal revenue code,\\u201d Joint Tax chief of staff Thomas Barthold said in declining to comment about the Times\\u2019 Trump story.\", \"Representatives for the Trump Organization did not respond to messages seeking comment and confirmation that the Joint Tax Committee had reviewed Trump\\u2019s taxes.\", \"How the process works: When an individual refund or credit over $2 million is approved, the IRS is statutorily required to notify Congress. A designated team at the IRS prepares a report for the JCT on each individual case that contains taxpayer information, spreadsheets and technical data and analysis. Trump should have been sent a letter disclosing that his case was sent to the JCT for review.\", \"Even when the JCT was sifting through Trump\\u2019s tax information, it should have remained beyond the grasp of the five Democrats and five Republicans on the committee. The reviews are performed by the panel\\u2019s tax experts and attorneys, typically working in dedicated space in an IRS facility. Lawmakers don\\u2019t participate.\", \"\\u201cIt is held quite tightly in the hands of just a few lawyers in the staff who are dedicated to doing this work. And they know not to communicate any of it to outsiders,\\u201d said George Yin, an emeritus University of Virginia law professor who was JCT chief of staff from 2003 to 2005.\", \"Former JCT staffers would not comment on whether they remembered the dispute with Trump, citing confidentiality rules. Unauthorized release of tax return information can mean a felony conviction and a prison sentence of up to five years.\", \"Kenneth Kies, a tax attorney who served as chief of staff on the committee from 1994 to 1998, said the committee typically handled a \\u201ccouple hundred\\u201d cases year. And usually the JCT \\u2014 which includes former IRS staffers \\u2014 ratifies the IRS\\u2019s decision.\", \"\\u201cA lot of them were fairly straightforward. Those were no drama,\\u201d Kies said. \\u201cOnly occasionally we would get one where there was an interpretation of the law we didn\\u2019t agree with.\\u201d \", \"While the Joint Committee rarely makes headlines, it plays a crucial role in policymaking, delivering cost estimates that can be make-or-break for proposed tax legislation. It was instrumental during the creation of both the Obama administration health care law and the GOP tax overhaul in 2017.\", \"The office is overseen by chief of staff Barthold, a Harvard Ph.D. economist who has worked on the panel for more than 30 years. As the JCT\\u2019s top staffer since 2009, he is among the very few who might know whether Trump\\u2019s audit was reviewed. But he is legally barred from disclosing most information related to the committee\\u2019s audit work. \", \"Left unresolved is a full accounting of Trump\\u2019s finances, which Democrats predict will illustrate numerous conflicts of interest between his businesses and his presidency. They point to Trump\\u2019s reported $421 million in debt, \", \".\", \"Neal, the lead force behind a Democratic lawsuit to expose Trump\\u2019s taxes, said the Times\\u2019 reporting is proof that the documents should be given to Congress. The existence of the audit also strengthens their legal case, he said, since the Democratic investigation is focused on that very issue.\", \"\\u201cThat\\u2019s what this case has been about \\u2014 have the IRS tell us how auditing is done,\\u201d Neal said. \\u201cThat\\u2019s always been our case.\\u201d\", \"___\", \"Associated Press writer Brian Slodysko contributed to this report.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-john-bel-edwards-storms-evacuations-hurricane-delta-4e18bc3890566c8c206e379358242670\", \"source\": \"Associated Press\", \"title\": \"Busy 2020 hurricane season has Louisiana bracing a 6th time\", \"description\": \"MORGAN CITY, La. (AP) \\u2014 For the sixth time in the Atlantic hurricane season, people in Louisiana are once more fleeing the state's barrier islands and sailing boats to safe harbor while emergency... \", \"date\": \"2020-10-07T19:04:31Z\", \"author\": \"Stacey Plaisance\", \"text\": [\"MORGAN CITY, La. (AP) \\u2014 For the sixth time in the Atlantic hurricane season, people in Louisiana are once more fleeing the state\\u2019s barrier islands and sailing boats to safe harbor while emergency officials ramp up command centers and consider ordering evacuations.\", \"The storm being watched Wednesday was \", \", the 25th named storm of the Atlantic\\u2019s \", \". Forecasts placed most of Louisiana within Delta\\u2019s path, with the latest National Hurricane Center estimating landfall in the state on Friday. \", \"The center\\u2019s forecasters warned of winds that could gust well above 100 mph (160 kph) and up to 11 feet (3.4 meters) of ocean water potentially getting pushed onshore when the storm\\u2019s center hits land.\", \"\\u201cThis season has been relentless,\\u201d Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards said, dusting off what has become his common refrain in 2020 - \\u201cPrepare for the worst. Pray for the best.\\u201d\", \"So far, Louisiana has seen both major strikes and near misses. The southwest area of the state around Lake Charles, which forecasts show is on Delta\\u2019s current trajectory, is still recovering from \", \" which made landfall on Aug. 27. \", \"Nearly six weeks later, some 5,600 people remain in New Orleans hotels because their homes are too damaged to occupy. Trees, roofs and other debris left in Laura\\u2019s wake still sit by roadsides in the Lake Charles area waiting for pickup even as forecasters warned that Delta could be a larger than average storm.\", \"New Orleans spent a few days last month bracing for \", \" before it skirted off to the east, making landfall in Alabama on Sept. 16.\", \"Delta is predicted to strengthen back into a Category 3 storm after \", \" on Wednesday. The National Hurricane Center forecast anticipated that landfall in Louisiana would hit a sparsely populated area between Cameron and Vermilion Bay.\", \"Plywood, batteries and rope already were flying off the shelves at the Tiger Island hardware store in Morgan City, Louisiana, which would be close to the center of the storm\\u2019s path. \", \"\\u201cThe other ones didn\\u2019t bother me, but this one seems like we\\u2019re the target,\\u201d customer Terry Guarisco said as a store employee helped him load his truck with the plywood he planned to use to board up his home for the first time of the hurricane season.\", \"In Sulphur, just across the Calcasieu River from Lake Charles, Ben Reynolds was deciding whether to leave or not because of Delta. He had to use a generator for power for a week after Hurricane Laura.\", \"\\u201cIt\\u2019s depressing,\\u201d Reynolds said. \\u201cIt\\u2019s scary as hell.\\u201d\", \"By sundown Wednesday, Acy Cooper planned to have his three shrimp boats locked down and tucked into a southern Louisiana bayou for the third time this season.\", \"\\u201cWe\\u2019re not making any money,\\u201d Cooper said. \\u201cEvery time one comes we end up losing a week or two.\\u201d\", \"Lynn Nguyen, who works at the TLC Seafood Market in Abbeville, said each storm threat forces fisherman to spend days pulling hundreds of crab traps from the water or risk losing them. \", \"\\u201cIt\\u2019s been a rough year. The minute you get your traps out and get fishing, its time to pull them out again because something is brewing out there,\\u201d Nguyen said.\", \"Elsewhere in Abbeville, Wednesday brought another round of boarding up and planning, Vermilion Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Lynn Guillory said.\", \"\\u201cI think that the stress is not just the stress of the storm this year, it\\u2019s everything \\u2013 one thing after another. Somebody just told me, \\u2018You know, we\\u2019ve really had enough,\\u2019\\u201d Guillory said,\", \"On Grand Isle, the Starfish restaurant plans to stay open until it runs out of food Wednesday. Restaurant employee Nicole Fantiny then intends to join the rush of people leaving the barrier island, where the COVID-19 pandemic already devastated the tourism industry.\", \"\\u201cThe epidemic, the coronavirus, put a lot of people out of work. Now, having to leave once a month for these storms \\u2014 it\\u2019s been taking a lot,\\u201d said Fantiny, who tried to quit smoking two weeks ago but gave in and bought a pack of cigarettes Tuesday as Delta rapidly strengthened.\", \"While New Orleans has been mostly spared by the weather and found itself outside Delta\\u2019s cone Wednesday, constant vigilance and months as a COVID-19 hot spot have strained the vulnerable city, which has a long hurricane memory due to the scars from 2005\\u2032s Hurricane Katrina.\", \"The shift in Delta\\u2019s forecast track likely meant no need for a major evacuation, but the city\\u2019s emergency officials were on alert.\", \"\\u201cWe\\u2019ve had five near misses. We need to watch this one very, very closely,\\u201d New Orleans Emergency Director Collin Arnold said.\", \"Along with getting hit by Hurricane Laura and escaping Hurricane Sally, Louisiana saw heavy flooding on June 7 from Tropical Storm Cristobal. Tropical Storm Beta prompted tropical storm warnings in mid-September as it slowly crawled up the northeast Texas coast. \", \"Tropical Storm Marco looked like it might deliver the first half of a hurricane double-blow with Laura, but nearly dissipated before hitting the state near the mouth of the Mississippi River on Aug. 24. \", \"\\u201cI don\\u2019t really remember all the names,\\u201d Keith Dunn said as he loaded up his crab traps as a storm threatened for a fourth time this season in Theriot, a tiny bayou town just a few feet above sea level south of Houma.\", \"And there are nearly eight weeks of hurricane season left to go, although forecasters at the National Weather Service office in New Orleans noted in a \", \" of this week\\u2019s forecast that outside of Delta, the skies above the Gulf of Mexico look calm.\", \"\\u201cNot seeing any signs of any additional tropical weather in the extended which is OK with us because we are SO DONE with Hurricane Season 2020,\\u201d they wrote.\", \"___\", \"Santana reported from New Orleans. Gerald Herbert in Theriot, Louisiana; Kevin McGill in New Orleans; Melinda Deslatte in Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Leah Willingham in Jackson, Mississippi; and Jeffrey Collins in Columbia, South Carolina, contributed to this report.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-new-york-archive-f557d51b5e960d15cde3c2bf3ac303e1\", \"source\": \"Associated Press\", \"title\": \"AP PHOTOS: Faces meet fashion in New Yorkers' mask choices\", \"description\": \"NEW YORK (AP) \\u2014 New Yorkers have increasingly embraced the wearing of masks to slow the spread of coronavirus since the pandemic began earlier this year. With no end in sight, many have moved... \", \"date\": \"2020-10-07T18:28:29Z\", \"author\": \"Mark Lennihan\", \"text\": []},\n{\"url\": \"https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-pandemics-colombia-health-martin-vizcarra-931ab5fbe3d0bcefad19968695ea3a2a\", \"source\": \"Associated Press\", \"title\": \" Peru bet on cheap COVID antibody tests; it didn't go well\", \"description\": \"BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) \\u2014 In the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, the harried health officials of Peru faced a quandary. They knew molecular tests for COVID-19 were the best option to detect... \", \"date\": \"2020-10-07T18:24:24Z\", \"author\": \"Christine Armario\", \"text\": [\"BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) \\u2014 In the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, the harried health officials of Peru faced a quandary. They knew molecular tests for COVID-19 were the best option to detect the virus \\u2013 yet they didn\\u2019t have the labs, the supplies, or the technicians to make them work. \", \"But there was a cheaper alternative -- antibody tests, mostly from China, that were flooding the market at a fraction of the price and could deliver a positive or negative result within minutes of a simple fingerstick.\", \"In March, President Martin Vizcarra took the airwaves to announce he\\u2019d signed off on a massive purchase of 1.6 million tests \\u2013 almost all of them for antibodies. \", \"Now, interviews with experts, public purchase orders, import records, government resolutions, patients, and COVID-19 health reports show that the country\\u2019s bet on rapid antibody tests went dangerously off course. \", \"Unlike almost every other nation, Peru is relying heavily on rapid antibody blood tests to diagnose active cases \\u2013 a purpose for which they are not designed. The tests cannot detect early COVID-19 infections, making it hard to quickly identify and isolate the sick. Epidemiologists interviewed by The Associated Press say their misuse is producing a sizable number of false positives and negatives, helping fuel one of the world\\u2019s worst COVID-19 outbreaks. \", \"What\\u2019s more, a number of the antibody tests purchased for use in Peru have since been rejected by the United States after independent analysis found they did not meet standards for accurately detecting COVID-19.\", \"Today the South American nation has the highest per capita COVID-19 mortality rate of any country across the globe, according to John Hopkins University \\u2013 and physicians there believe the country\\u2019s faulty testing approach is one reason why.\", \"\\u201cThis was a multi-systemic failure,\\u201d said Dr. V\\u00edctor Zamora, Peru\\u2019s former minister of health. \\u201cWe should have stopped the rapid tests by now.\\u201d\", \"___\", \"As COVID-19 cases popped up across the globe, low- and middle-income nations found themselves in a dilemma.\", \"The World Health Organization was calling on authorities to ramp up testing to prevent the virus from spreading out of control. One particular test \\u2013 a polymerase chain reaction exam \\u2013 was deemed the best option. Using a specimen collected from deep in the nose, the test is developed on specialized machines that can detect the genetic material of the virus within days of infection.\", \"If COVID-19 cases are caught early, the sick can be isolated, their contacts traced, and the chain of contagion severed.\", \"Within weeks of the initial outbreak in China, genome sequences for the virus were made available and specialists in Asia and Europe got to work creating their own tests. But in parts of the world like Africa and Latin America, there was no such option. They would have to wait for the tests to become available \\u2013 and when they did, the incredible demand meant most weren\\u2019t able to secure the number they required. \", \"\\u201cThe collapse of global cooperation and a failure of international solidarity have shoved Africa out of the diagnostics market,\\u201d Dr. John Nkengasong, director of the Africa CDC, wrote in Nature magazine in April as the hunt was underway. \", \"Nations that got an early jump start in preparing or had a relatively robust health care system already in place fared best. Two weeks after Colombia identified its first case, the country had 22 private and public laboratories signed up to do PCR testing. Peru, by contrast, relied on just one laboratory capable of 200 tests a day.\", \"For years, Peru has invested a smaller part of its GDP on public health than others in the region. As COVID-19 approached, glaring deficiencies in Peru became evident. There were just 100 ICU beds available for COVID-19 patients, said Dr. V\\u00edctor Zamora, who was appointed to lead Peru\\u2019s Ministry of Health in March. Corruption scandals had left numerous hospital construction projects on pause. Peru also faced a significant shortage of doctors, forcing the state to embark on a massive hiring campaign.\", \"Even now, months later, Peru\\u2019s needs are vastly under met. To date, the country has less than 2,000 ICU beds, compared to over 6,000 in the state of Florida, which has 10 million fewer inhabitants, according to official data.\", \"High levels of poverty and people who depend on daily wages from informal work complicated the government\\u2019s efforts to impose a strict quarantine, further challenging Peru\\u2019s ability to respond effectively to the virus.\", \"When Zamora arrived, he said the government had already decided molecular tests weren\\u2019t a viable option. The nation didn\\u2019t have the infrastructure needed to run the tests but also acted too slowly in trying to obtain what little was available on the market.\", \"\\u201cPeru didn\\u2019t buy in time,\\u201d he said. \\u201cEveryone in Latin America bought before us \\u2013 even Cuba.\\u201d\", \"Antibody tests \\u2013 which detect proteins created by the immune system in response to a virus \\u2013 had numerous drawbacks. They had not been widely tested and their accuracy was in question. If taken too early, most people with the virus test negative. That could lead those infected to think they do not have COVID-19. False positives can be equally perilous, leading people to incorrectly believe they are immune.\", \"Antibody tests didn\\u2019t require high-skill training or even a lab; municipal workers with no medical education could be taught how to administer then.\", \"\\u201cFor the time we were in, it was the right decision,\\u201d Zamora said. \\u201cWe didn\\u2019t know what we know about the virus today.\\u201d\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://apnews.com/article/army-media-social-media-sexual-assault-texas-c7277011ba4b7300bf7a9708b0ca82b2\", \"source\": \"Associated Press\", \"title\": \"'The military's #MeToo moment:' Fort Hood victims speak out \", \"description\": \"AUSTIN, Texas (AP) \\u2014 Maria Valentine says she was just months into her training at Fort Hood, a U.S. Army base in Texas, in 2006 when a sergeant with a history of alleged harassment toward other... \", \"date\": \"2020-10-07T19:12:30Z\", \"author\": \"Acacia Coronado\", \"text\": [\"AUSTIN, Texas (AP) \\u2014 Maria Valentine says she was just months into her training at Fort Hood, a U.S. Army base in Texas, in 2006 when a sergeant with a history of alleged harassment toward other soldiers wrote her up after she complained that she didn\\u2019t want him touching her during body mass measurements.\", \"She said authorities promised the disciplinary report would be wiped from her record if she didn\\u2019t make a formal complaint. Valentine\\u2019s decision not to file one would haunt her years later when she learned another woman had accused the same sergeant of rape.\", \"Valentine is one of five women \\u2014 two active duty soldiers, two veterans and one civilian \\u2014 who spoke to The Associated Press about experiencing harassment, assault or rape by soldiers at Fort Hood, the other four since 2014.\", \"Current and former soldiers have taken to social media with their own accounts of sexual assault and harassment at the base following the \", \" this year of Spc. Vanessa Guillen, whose family members say was sexually harassed by the officer who eventually killed her.\", \"\\u201cI wasn\\u2019t surprised,\\u201d Valentine said after learning about \", \". \\u201cThat was the environment. I live with the regret that I did not go through with the complaint.\\u201d\", \"Maj. Gabriela Thompson, a Fort Hood spokeswoman, told the AP she had no information about Valentine\\u2019s allegation.\", \"Members of Congress launched an \", \" of Fort Hood in September after \", \" was found dead on Aug. 25 hanging from a tree in Temple, Texas, months after reporting sexual harassment. \", \"Guillen and Fernandes are among 28 soldiers at the base to have died this year, \", \", according to Army data. Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy says that based on Fort Hood\\u2019s average of 129 violent crimes between 2015 and 2019, it has one of the \", \" among Army installations.\", \"The Associated Press typically doesn\\u2019t publish the names of sex abuse victims, but two women who said they were sexually assaulted by soldiers at Fort Hood decided to speak on the record to describe what they say is a disturbing culture at the base. Many victims have become connected by sharing their experiences using the hashtag #IAMVANESSAGUILLEN.\", \"Among them is Deborah Urquidez, who told the AP she was raped by the same sergeant, Staff Sgt. Roberto Jimenez, Valentine said harassed her more than a decade earlier. \", \"Urquidez said her relationship with Jimenez in 2014 began consensually, but that later he raped her while a friend desperately tried to break into the room to stop him. Then came months of stalking, threatening messages and a lengthy battle in military court in which he was found not guilty, according to court documents obtained by the AP. Urquidez was given a temporary military protective order against the sergeant for an \\u201calleged sexual assault.\\u201d \", \"The Department of Veterans Affairs considers her permanently disabled after she reported the rape and the trauma, which included multiple suicide attempts, according to documents obtained by the AP.\", \"\\u201cThere was never justice for me,\\u201d Urquidez said. \\u201cIn any other world, what more evidence do you need?\\u201d\", \"Jimenez later filed for a protective order against Urquidez. A Fort Hood spokesperson said the Army\\u2019s Criminal Investigation Command investigated and the accused was acquitted of all charges following a military court martial in 2017. He remains on active duty at Fort Bliss. Officials from Fort Bliss did not comment or provide a comment from him.\", \"Kaitlyn Buxton, a civilian, said her partner, Brandon Espindola, then stationed at Fort Hood beat her numerous times and raped her in 2018 at their off-base apartment in Killeen. On one occasion at the barracks, he pinned her down and repeatedly punched her in the face while she screamed for help, Buxton said.\", \"A Fort Hood officer went with his wife to their apartment during one altercation after Buxton called for help. Buxton said members of Espindola\\u2019s chain of command saw her body bruised on more than one occasion.\", \"The Killeen Police Department eventually granted Buxton a protective order and charged Espindola with assault with bodily injury and assault by strangulation, but records show he bonded out and the case was closed. \", \"Buxton said military police have taken no action on a separate case she filed in 2018, which was briefly closed and then reopened this past August. Espindola has since been discharged from the Army on unrelated matters.\", \"\\u201cThe whole process has been a constant victimization,\\u201d Buxton said. \\u201cNo matter what I do, my voice is not being heard.\\u201d\", \"Sean Timmons, Espindola\\u2019s attorney, said his client \\u201cmaintains his innocence to all allegations and charges and believes they are fabricated.\\u201d The Killeen Police Department did not respond to a request for comment. A Fort Hood spokesperson said they had no information on this allegation.\", \"According to a federal complaint, the soldier who killed Guillen, Aaron Robinson, died by suicide in July when confronted by police. Natalie Khawam, who represents the Guillen family, told the AP that Guillen shared with family members that a soldier of superior rank walked in and watched her when she was showering. Khawam said Guillen was too scared to file a report.\", \"McCarthy said though it is believed Guillen faced other kinds of harassment at Fort Hood, officials have found no report or evidence that she was sexually harassed. Since then, an \", \" of command climate has been ordered at the Texas base, in addition to the ongoing investigation into the command response to Guillen\\u2019s disappearance and death.\", \"In a press conference the morning after Fernandes\\u2019 body was found, Lupe Guillen, the younger sister of Vanessa Guillen, said Fernandes was an example of why her sister did not report the harassment she experienced.\", \"\\u201cHow many more must die at Fort Hood for them to be held accountable?\\u201d Lupe Guillen said. \\u201cHow many more have to be sexually harassed?\\u201d\", \"Rep. Jackie Speier, a California Democrat who is among the members of Congress investigating Fort Hood, coauthored the \", \" It aims to expand measures aimed at preventing sexual assault and harassment involving U.S. military personnel, including codifying sexual harassment as a crime in military law and removing decisions on whether to prosecute sexual assault and harassment out of the chain of command. \", \"\\u201cThe voices of those survivors have never been louder or more clear,\\u201d Speier said. \\u201cThis is the military\\u2019s \\u2019#MeToo moment.\\u201d\", \"___\", \"Acacia Coronado is a corps member for the Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. \", \" is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-milwaukee-wisconsin-archive-61856a69ec6e9e6f032bb121b6d58a5d\", \"source\": \"Associated Press\", \"title\": \"Wisconsin activates field hospital as COVID keeps surging\", \"description\": \"MADISON, Wis. (AP) \\u2014 Wisconsin health officials announced Wednesday that a field hospital will open next week at the state fairgrounds near Milwaukee as a surge in COVID-19 cases threatens to... \", \"date\": \"2020-10-07T17:44:53Z\", \"author\": \"Todd Richmond\", \"text\": [\"MADISON, Wis. (AP) \\u2014 Wisconsin health officials announced Wednesday that a field hospital will open next week at the state fairgrounds near Milwaukee as a surge in COVID-19 cases threatens to overwhelm hospitals.\", \"Wisconsin has become a hot spot for the disease over the last month, ranking third nationwide this week in new cases per capita over the last two weeks. Health experts have attributed the spike to the reopening of colleges and K-12 schools as well as general fatigue over wearing masks and socially distancing. \", \"State Department of Health Services Secretary Andrea Palm told reporters during a video conference that the facility will open on Oct. 14.\", \"\\u201cWe hoped this day wouldn\\u2019t come, but unfortunately, Wisconsin is in a much different, more dire place today and our healthcare systems are beginning to become overwhelmed by the surge of COVID-19 cases,\\u201d Democratic Gov. Tony Evers said in a statement. \\u201cThis alternative care facility will take some of the pressure off our healthcare facilities while expanding the continuum of care for folks who have COVID-19.\\u201d\", \"The move also came as a state judge was considering a lawsuit seeking to strike down Evers\\u2019 \", \" that masks be worn in enclosed public spaces. The governor on Tuesday issued new restrictions on the size of indoor public gatherings through Nov. 6.\", \"Only 16% of the state\\u2019s 11,452 hospital beds were available as of Tuesday afternoon, according to the DHS. The number of hospitalized COVID-19 patients had grown to 853, it\\u2019s highest during the pandemic according to the \", \", with 216 in intensive care. \", \"Results of COVID-19 tests on an additional 262 in-patients in Wisconsin were pending. The southeastern region of the state had 250 COVID-19 patients, the most of any of the state\\u2019s seven hospital regions.\", \"Nationwide, about 30,000 coronavirus patients are hospitalized, the COVID Tracking Project reported.\", \"The DHS reported 2,319 new confirmed cases on Wednesday and 16 more deaths. The state has now seen 138,698 cases and 1,415 deaths since the pandemic began. \", \"Virus spread is particularly rampant in northeastern Wisconsin. The Green Bay Packers announced this week that no home fans would be admitted to home games until the situation improved, and head coach Matt LaFleur asked area residents to wear masks and practice social distancing.\", \"The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers built a 530-bed field hospital on the state fairgrounds in West Allis just outside Milwaukee in April at the request of Evers\\u2019 administration. Local leaders had warned about the possibility of area hospitals being overwhelmed, but hospitalizations never reached the point where the hospital was needed until now. \", \"The hospital will accept patients from across Wisconsin but is designed to provide low-level care, and it will accept only patients who have already been hospitalized elsewhere for at least 24 to 48 hours, according to the state Department of Administration. Patients who qualify will be transported to the facility by ambulance. The facility will not accept walk-ins. Palm said the facility will be ready to accept 50 patients on its first day.\", \"\\u201cThe goal of this facility is to transition COVID-19 patients who are less ill out of hospitals and reserve hospital beds for patients who are more ill and in need of hospital-level care,\\u201d Evers\\u2019 office said.\", \"The hospital will be staffed by volunteers, state workers and National Guard members, DOA officials said. Patients will not be allowed to have visitors.\", \"Several other states moved to set up field hospitals in the early stages of the pandemic \\u2014 \", \" \\u2014 only to find that they \", \", and many were shut down.\", \"___\", \"This story has been updated to correct that Wisconsin ranked third nationwide in new cases per capita over the last two weeks, not new daily cases.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-donald-trump-financial-markets-airlines-asia-8e329d7439e781ac37732bb8168022d2\", \"source\": \"Associated Press\", \"title\": \"Stocks rise as Trump tweets on stimulus keep market spinning\", \"description\": \"Stocks closed broadly higher on Wall Street Wednesday after President Donald Trump appeared to backtrack on his decision to halt talks on another rescue effort for the economy.  The S&P 500... \", \"date\": \"2020-10-07T13:40:59Z\", \"author\": \"Stan Choe, Damian J. Troise\", \"text\": [\"Stocks closed broadly higher on Wall Street Wednesday after President Donald Trump \", \" on his decision to halt talks on another rescue effort for the economy. \", \"The S&P 500 climbed 1.7% after Trump sent a series of tweets late Tuesday saying he\\u2019s open to sending out $1,200 payments to Americans, as well as limited programs to prop up the airline industry and small businesses. \", \"The tweets came just hours after Trump sent the market into a sudden tailspin with his \", \" that his representatives should halt talks with Democrats on a broad stimulus effort for the economy until after the election, saying House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had been negotiating in bad faith. The stakes are high, as economists, investors and the chair of the Federal Reserve all say the economy needs another dose of support following the expiration of weekly jobless benefits and other stimulus Congress approved earlier this year. \", \"\\u201cWhat we\\u2019ve seen over the last 24 hours is just confirmation that the market is really addicted to stimulus from the government,\\u201d said Sal Bruno, chief investment officer at IndexIQ. \\u201cWhen it thinks it\\u2019s not getting it, it sells off, and when it looks like there\\u2019s a possibility for that it rises, as we\\u2019ve seen today.\\u201d\", \"The S&P 500 index rose 58.49 points to 3,419.44, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 530.70 points, or 1.9%, to 28,303.46. \", \"The Nasdaq composite climbed 210 points, or 1.9%, to 11,364.60, despite a call by Democratic lawmakers for Congress to rein in the Big Tech companies that dominate it and other indexes. The \", \", which follows a 15-month investigation by a House Judiciary Committee panel, could make it harder for Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google\\u2019s parent company to acquire others and impose new rules to safeguard competition.\", \"Amazon rose 3.1%, and Apple climbed 1.7%. Google\\u2019s parent company added 0.6%, and Facebook slipped 0.2%.\", \"Still, much of the market\\u2019s attention remains fixed on the prospects for more stimulus for the economy from Washington. Wednesday\\u2019s gains helped the S&P 500 recoup all of its loss from the day before, when Trump\\u2019s tweets suddenly sent it from a 0.7% gain to a 1.4% loss.\", \"Just a few hours before Trump made his announcement on Tuesday to halt negotiations, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell had \", \" to come through with more aid. He said that too little support \\u201cwould lead to a weak recovery, creating unnecessary hardship.\\u201d \", \"Some analysts characterized Trump\\u2019s move as likely a negotiating ploy. \", \"\\u201cI do not believe hopes of a stimulus deal are now gone forever,\\u201d said Jeffrey Halley of trading and research firm Oanda. \\u201cOne of Mr. Trump\\u2019s favorite negotiating tactics, judging by past actions, is to walk away from the negotiating table abruptly. The intention being to frighten the other side into concessions.\\u201d \", \"In the longer term, many investors say a big stimulus package may still be possible regardless of what Trump says. A Democratic sweep of the upcoming elections would likely clear the way for a big government program after the transfer of power, and Wall Street has begun to see a blue wave as more likely than before. \", \"Airlines jumped to some of the day\\u2019s bigger gains after Trump \", \", asking Congress to \\u201cIMMEDIATELY\\u201d approve $25 billion for them. Last week, Pelosi had told airline executives to halt the furloughs of tens of thousands of workers with the promise that aid for them was imminent, though a proposal by House Democrats to give the airline industry $28.8 billion failed to advance.\", \"United Airlines Holdings and American Airlines Group climbed 4.3%. Delta Air Lines pulled 3.5% higher.\", \"The S&P 500 rose broadly, with technology stocks making the biggest gains. Other areas that would benefit most from a strengthening economy were also climbing, including retailers and travel-related companies.\", \"\\u201cThe market\\u2019s just been relentlessly led by long-duration growth stocks,\\u201d said Barry Bannister, head of institutional equity strategy at Stifel. \\u201cThe big question is are we going to see some signs of a shift to economic growth beneficiaries.\\u201d\", \"Smaller stocks also rose more than the rest of the market, an indication of rising optimism about the economy\\u2019s prospects. The Russell 2000 index of small-cap stocks climbed 33.75 points, or 2.1%, to 1,611.04.\", \"The 360-degree spin for Wall Street in less than 24 hours is just the latest bump in its shaky run since early last month. After plunging nearly 34% early this year on worries about the \", \" and the recession it would cause, the S&P 500 rallied back to record heights thanks to tremendous aid from the Federal Reserve and Congress, along with signs of strengthening in the economy. \", \"It\\u2019s been struggling since setting an all-time high in early September on a range of worries. Besides the clouded prospects for more stimulus from a bitterly divided Congress when parts of the economy have begun to slow, investors are also worried about whether the continuing pandemic will lead governments to put more restrictions on businesses. Tensions between the United States and China are still simmering, and stocks still look too expensive in the eyes of some critics despite their recent pullback.\", \"The yield on the 10-year Treasury rose to 0.78% from 0.76% late Tuesday. European and Asian markets ended mixed. \", \"___\", \"AP Business Writer Elaine Kurtenbach contributed. \"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-college-football-college-football-picks-jeremy-pruitt-football-383ddc1c5a091e31a81b586a4b055ac0\", \"source\": \"Associated Press\", \"title\": \"College Football Picks: Tennessee, Miami take big swings\", \"description\": \"Enough talking about whether Texas is back.  Time to talk about whether Tennessee and Miami are back!  Like the Longhorns, the Volunteers and Hurricanes are programs with national... \", \"date\": \"2020-10-07T20:00:40Z\", \"author\": \"Ralph D. Russo\", \"text\": [\"Enough talking about whether Texas is back. \", \"Time to talk about whether Tennessee and Miami are back! \", \"Like the Longhorns, the Volunteers and Hurricanes are programs with national championship pedigrees that have been lost in the college football wilderness for about two decades, searching for past glory and relevance.\", \"Both are showing early season signs of being dark horse contenders in their conferences and face foes Saturday who are where they aspire to be.\", \"The 14th-ranked Volunteers are at No. 3 Georgia and No. 7 Miami visits No. 1 Clemson.\", \"The Vols faithful are as hopeful as they have been in years. Tennessee has won eight straight games, the longest active streak in the Southeastern Conference. That streak includes zero victories against ranked teams, but this is a program that is on its fourth coach since it last had a double-digit win season (2007).\", \"Jeremy Pruitt\\u2019s progress has been good enough to earn 15 victories and a contract extension two games into his third season. The Volunteers look like a very different team under Pruitt than they ever did for his predecessor. Butch Jones was 13-14 in his first 27 games with the Volunteers and headed toward the first of two consecutive nine-win seasons. Pruitt is now 15-12. \", \"Yearly games against Alabama and Georgia have been stark reminders of how far the Volunteers have to go to get back to the national championship contention days of the late 1990s. The Bulldogs have won the last three meetings 122-26.\", \"\\u201cWe\\u2019ve continued to improve over the last three years,\\u201d Pruitt said. \\u201cWe\\u2019re nowhere near where we want to be.\\u201d\", \"Miami\\u2019s last national championship was in 2001. Since then, it has won just one Atlantic Coast Conference division title, back in 2017. That surprising run to playoff contention and No. 2 in the country was marred by a three-game slide to end the season that included a 38-3 loss to Clemson in the ACC championship game.\", \"Unlike Tennessee, Miami is not forced to confront the realization of its aspirations every season. Before that conference title game, Miami last played Clemson in 2015 and lost 58-0. The worst loss in program history ended the coach Al Golden era in Coral Gables, Florida.\", \"Clemson since then has won two national titles and lost in the title game two other times.\", \"\\u201cThis is not a big game at Clemson,\\u201d Miami coach Manny Diaz said. \\u201cThis is just what they do. We\\u2019ve got to get our program where it\\u2019s the same way.\\u201d\", \"The picks:\", \"SATURDAY\", \"No. 7 Miami (plus 14) at No. 1 Clemson\", \"\\u2019Canes are 9-5 against No. 1 ranked teams in last 40 years, with the last victory coming in 2000 vs. Florida State and last loss coming to Clemson three years ago ... CLEMSON 38-21. \", \"No. 2 Alabama (minus 23) at Mississippi\", \"Ole Miss coach Lane Kiffin gets first crack at old boss Nick Saban since he was an offensive coordinator for the Tide. Saban improved to 20-0 against his former assistants last week ... ALABAMA 52-32.\", \"No. 14 Tennessee (plus 12 1/2) at No. 3 Georgia\", \"Vols\\u2019 last victory against a top-five team came in 2005 against No. 4 LSU ... GEORGIA 31-14.\", \"No. 4 Florida (minus 6 1/2) at No. 21 Texas A&M\", \"Aggies are 3-8 against ranked teams in two-plus seasons under coach Jimbo Fisher, including 1-8 vs. top-10 opponents ... FLORIDA 30-27.\", \"No. Florida State (plus 20 1/2) at No. 5 Notre Dame\", \"Irish last played Sept. 19 because of a COVID-19 outbreak ... NOTRE DAME 35-17.\", \"No. 19 Virginia Tech (plus 5) at No. 8 North Carolina\", \"Hokies have won the last four meetings, including a six overtime thriller last year ... NORTH CAROLINA 31-24.\", \"Arkansas (plus 14) at No. 13 Auburn\", \"Nothing has perked up Auburn\\u2019s offense quite like the Razorbacks in recent years; Tigers have won the last four meetings and averaged by 48.3 points ... AUBURN 35-17. \", \"UTSA (plus 34 1/2) at No. 15 BYU\", \"Cougars QB Zach Wilson has thrown 11 incomplete passes and accounted for 11 touchdowns ... BYU 42-14. \", \"No. 17 LSU (minus 14 1/2) at Missouri\", \"Game was scheduled to be played at LSU but Hurricane Delta forced a move to Columbia ... LSU 31-14.\", \"No. 22 Texas (plus 2 1/2) vs. Oklahoma\", \"Last time both the Longhorns and Sooners lost the week before the Red River Shootout was 2014 ... TEXAS 35-34. \", \"Coastal Carolina (plus 7) at No. 23 Louisiana-Lafayette\", \"Get to know Chanticleers QB Grayson McCall, who is fourth in the nation in yards per pass (11.6) with nine TD passes and only one INT ... LOUISIANA-LAFAYETTE 31-23.\", \"Texas Tech (plus 12 1/2) at No. 24 Iowa State\", \"Cyclones have won four straight against the Red Raiders ... IOWA STATE 34-24.\", \"TWITTER REQUESTS\", \"THURSDAY\", \"Tulane (plus 6 1/2) at Houston \\u2014 @jefe172\", \"Cougars finally get to open the season (fingers crossed) after COVID-19 issues forced three opponents to call off games ... HOUSTON 27-24.\", \"SATURDAY\", \"Kansas State (plus 9) at TCU \\u2014 @DCAbloob\", \"Status of Wildcats QB Skylar Thompson (throwing arm) is uncertain; freshman back-up Will Howard relieved in a win against Texas Tech last week ... TCU 28-21. \", \"Mississippi State (plus 1 1/2) at Kentucky \\u2014 @DarrylKerr\", \"Bulldogs\\u2019 Air Raid vs. Wildcats\\u2019 ground and pound ... KENTUCKY 27-23.\", \"___\", \"Record\", \"Last week: 13-6 straight; 7-12 against the spread.\", \"Season: 40-15 straight; 27-27 against the spread.\", \"___\", \"Follow Ralph D. Russo at https://twitter.com/ralphDrussoAP and listen at http://www.westwoodonepodcasts.com/pods/ap-top-25-college-football-podcast/\", \"___\", \"More AP college football: https://apnews.com/Collegefootball and https://twitter.com/AP_Top25\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-pandemics-bucharest-romania-archive-2998096f7aa9161099d8e0e42c018177\", \"source\": \"Associated Press\", \"title\": \"Romanian hospitality workers protest as new lockdown starts\", \"description\": \"BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) \\u2014 Hundreds of Romanian hospitality workers protested Wednesday evening in the capital, Bucharest, accusing the government of failing to protect their industry from the... \", \"date\": \"2020-10-07T20:38:52Z\", \"author\": \"Andreea Alexandru\", \"text\": [\"BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) \\u2014 Hundreds of Romanian hospitality workers protested Wednesday evening in the capital, Bucharest, accusing the government of failing to protect their industry from the pandemic\\u2019s economic fallout, even as a new lockdown kicked in. \", \"The peaceful protest outside the Romanian government building came as the country reported a record daily 2,985 coronavirus infections nationwide.\", \"It also coincided with Bucharest authorities\\u2019 decision earlier in the day to once again shut down all the capital\\u2019s indoor restaurants, theaters, movie cinemas, gambling and dance venues. These establishments reopened early last month after being forced to stay shut for nearly half a year. \", \"Protesters carried signs and banners reading: \\u201cToday\\u2019s menu: unemployment\\u201d and \\u201c400,000 affected while not infected\\u201d -- in reference to the pre-pandemic number of Romania\\u2019s hospitality sector jobs. \", \"Cezar Andrei, who has been running a fish restaurant in Bucharest for the past 20 years, said he won\\u2019t be able to stay afloat for much longer if he is not allowed to work.\", \"\\u201cWe are aware of the risks posed by the virus, but this is not the way to solve the problem,\\u201d Andrei said. \", \"\\u201cWe can probably last for another month or so, but not much longer,\\u201d he added, arguing that the recent surge in COVID-19 cases in Romania has not been traced back to the hospitality sector. \", \"The national association of restaurant owners and hoteliers, which backed the protest, said more than 40% of jobs in the hospitality sector have been lost due to lockdown measures since the pandemic hit the country in February, while turnover fell 70%. Hospitality accounted for about a tenth of all private sector jobs in Romania last year, and contributed 5% of GDP. \", \"Moaghin Marius Ciprian, the owner of the popular Grivita Pub n Grill in downtown Bucharest, stressed that restaurants were not to blame for the increase in infections.\", \"\\u201cWe were closed for six months, the restaurants didn\\u2019t work and yet the number of cases still rose,\\u201d Cipriani said. \\u201cI am not an expert, but I am not stupid either \\u2026 we are not responsible,\\u201d for the accelerated spread of the virus. \", \"On Wednesday, the total number of confirmed infections in Romania \\u2014 a country of some 19 million -- stood at over 142,000, including 5,200 deaths. Almost two-thirds of the confirmed cases were reported since the end of July.\", \"___\", \"Follow AP pandemic coverage at http://apnews.com/VirusOutbreak and https://apnews.com/UnderstandingtheOutbreak\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-florida-us-news-layoffs-california-033389009958e5c939aa1445a5d9a41f\", \"source\": \"Associated Press\", \"title\": \"8,800 part-time workers in Florida part of Disney layoffs\", \"description\": \"ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) \\u2014 About 8,800 part-time union workers at Walt Disney World in Florida will be part of the 28,000 layoffs in Disney's parks division in California and Florida, union officials... \", \"date\": \"2020-10-07T20:34:04Z\", \"author\": \"Mike Schneider\", \"text\": [\"ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) \\u2014 About 8,800 part-time union workers at Walt Disney World in Florida will be part of the 28,000 layoffs in Disney\\u2019s parks division in California and Florida, union officials said Wednesday.\", \"The addition of the union workers to nearly 6,500 nonunion layoffs already announced brings the Disney-related job losses in Florida to more than 15,000 workers.\", \"Disney officials announced last week that it was laying off 28,000 workers because of the coronavirus pandemic. Two-thirds of the planned layoffs involved part-time workers and they ranged from salaried employees to hourly workers.\", \"Disney\\u2019s parks closed last spring as the pandemic began spreading in the U.S. The \", \" this summer, but the California parks have yet to reopen as the company awaits guidance from the state of California.\", \"In a letter to employees, Josh D\\u2019Amaro, chairman of Disney Parks, Experience and Product, said California\\u2019s \\u201cunwillingness to lift restrictions that would allow Disneyland to reopen\\u201d exacerbated \", \" for the company.\", \"Disney has soared to success with the breadth of its media and entertainment offerings, but is now trying to recover after the coronavirus pandemic pummeled many of its businesses. It was hit by several months of its parks and stores being closed, cruise ships idled, movie releases postponed and a halt in film and video production.\", \"The layoffs of the part-time union workers were announced by the Service Trades Council Union, a coalition of six unions that represents 43,000 workers at Disney World.\", \"\\u201cThese are unprecedented times,\\u201d the Service Trades Council Union said in a statement. \\u201cIt is unfortunate anytime a worker is laid off and the mass layoffs that Disney is facing are extremely difficult for 1,000s of Cast Members.\\u201d\", \"No fulltime workers, also called cast members, will be laid off under the deal the unions negotiated with Disney. Over the next two years, workers who have been laid off will get priority when Disney starts hiring again, and they will retain their seniority and pay rate.\", \"According to the deal with the unions, full-time workers whose positions aren\\u2019t needed by the company can transfer to another position. But if they don\\u2019t agree to the transfers, they can be laid off. Those workers who are laid off will receive two months pay.\", \"___\", \"Follow Mike Schneider on Twitter at https://twitter.com/MikeSchneiderAP.\", \"___\", \"Follow AP coverage of the pandemic at https://apnews.com/VirusOutbreak and https://apnews.com/UnderstandingtheOutbreak.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://apnews.com/article/jamaica-johnny-mathis-johnny-nash-archive-bob-marley-0f9f260a1c75a6901ceaab05b52be458\", \"source\": \"Associated Press\", \"title\": \"Johnny Nash, singer of \\u2018I Can See Clearly Now,\\u2019 dies at 80\", \"description\": \"Johnny Nash, a singer-songwriter, actor and producer who rose from pop crooner to early reggae star to the creator and performer of the million-selling anthem \\u201cI Can See Clearly Now,\\u201d died... \", \"date\": \"2020-10-07T00:22:09Z\", \"author\": \"Hillel Italie\", \"text\": [\"Johnny Nash, a singer-songwriter, actor and producer who rose from pop crooner to early reggae star to the creator and performer of the million-selling anthem \\u201cI Can See Clearly Now,\\u201d died Tuesday, his son said. \", \"Nash, who had been in declining health, died of natural causes at home in Houston, the city of his birth, his son, Johnny Nash Jr., told The Associated Press. He was 80. \", \"Nash was in his early 30s when \\u201cI Can See Clearly Now\\u201d topped the charts in 1972 and he had lived several show business lives. In the mid-1950s, he was a teenager covering \\u201cDarn That Dream\\u201d and other standards, his light tenor likened to the voice of Johnny Mathis. A decade later, he was co-running a record company, had become a rare American-born singer of reggae and helped launch the career of his friend Bob Marley. \", \"Nash praised \\u201cthe vibes of this little island\\u201d when speaking of Jamaica, and he was among the first artists to bring reggae to U.S. audiences. He peaked commercially in the late 1960s and early 1970s, when he had hits with \\u201cHold Me Tight,\\u201d \\u201cYou Got Soul,\\u201d an early version of Marley\\u2019s \\u201cStir It Up\\u201d and \\u201cI Can See Clearly Now,\\u201d still his signature song.\", \"Reportedly written by Nash while recovering from cataract surgery, \\u201cI Can See Clearly Now\\u201d was a story of overcoming hard times that itself raised the spirits of countless listeners, with its swelling pop-reggae groove, promise of a \\u201cbright, bright sunshiny day\\u201d and Nash\\u2019s gospel-styled exclamation midway, \\u201cLook straight ahead, nothing but blue skies!\\u201d, a backing chorus lifting the words into the heavens. \", \"The rock critic Robert Christgau would call the song, which Nash also produced, \\u201c2 minutes and 48 seconds of undiluted inspiration.\\u201d\", \"Although overlooked by Grammys judges, \\u201cI Can See Clearly Now\\u201d was covered by artists ranging from Ray Charles and Donny Osmond to Soul Asylum and Jimmy Cliff, whose version was featured in the 1993 movie \\u201cCool Runnings.\\u201d It also turned up everywhere from \\u201cThelma and Louise\\u201d to a Windex commercial, and in recent years was often referred to on websites about cataract procedures.\", \"\\u201cI feel that music is universal. Music is for the ears and not the age,\\u201d Nash told Cameron Crowe, then writing for Zoo World Magazine, in 1973. \\u201cThere are some people who say that they hate music. I\\u2019ve run into a few, but I\\u2019m not sure I believe them.\\u201d\", \"The fame of \\u201cI Can See Clearly Now\\u201d outlasted Nash\\u2019s own. He rarely made the charts in the years following, even as he released such albums as \\u201cTears On My Pillow\\u201d and \\u201cCelebrate Life,\\u201d and by the 1990s had essentially left the business. His last album, \\u201cHere Again,\\u201d came out in 1986, although in recent years he was reportedly digitizing his old work, some of which was lost in a 2008 fire at Universal Studios in Los Angeles.\", \"Nash was married three times, and had two children. He had loved riding horses since childhood and as an adult lived with his family on a ranch in Houston, where for years he also managed rodeo shows at the Johnny Nash Indoor Arena.\", \"In addition to his son, he is survived by daughter Monica and wife Carli Nash. \", \"John Lester Nash Jr., whose father was a chauffeur, grew up singing in church and by age 13 had his own show on Houston television. Within a few years, he had a national following through his appearances on \\u201cThe Arthur Godfrey Show,\\u201d his hit cover of Doris Day\\u2019s \\u201cA Very Special Love\\u201d and a collaboration with peers Paul Anka and George Hamilton IV on the wholesome \\u201cThe Teen Commandments (of Love).\\u201d He also had roles in the films \\u201cTake a Giant Step,\\u201d in which he starred as a high school student rebelling against how the Civil War is taught, and \\u201cKey Witness,\\u201d a crime drama starring Dennis Hopper and Jeffrey Hunter.\", \"His career faded during the first half of the 1960s, but he found a new sound, and renewed success, in the mid-60s after having a rhythm and blues hit with \\u201cLet\\u2019s Move and Groove Together\\u201d and meeting Marley and fellow Wailers Peter Tosh and Bunny Livingston during a visit to Jamaica. Over the next few years their careers would be closely aligned. \", \"Nash convinced his manager and business partner Danny Sims, with whom he formed JAD Records, to sign up Marley and the Wailers, who recorded \\u201cReggae On Broadway\\u201d and dozens of other songs for JAD. Nash brought Marley to London in the early 1970s when Nash was the bigger star internationally and with Marley gave an impromptu concert at a local boys school. Nash\\u2019s covers of \\u201cStir It Up\\u201d and \\u201cGuava Jelly\\u201d helped expose Marley\\u2019s writing to a general audience. The two also collaborated on the ballad \\u201cYou Poured Sugar On Me,\\u201d which appeared on the \\u201cI Can See Clearly Now\\u201d album.\", \"After the 1980s, Nash became a mystery to fans and former colleagues as he stopped recording and performing and rarely spoke to the press or anyone in the music industry. In 1973, he told Crowe that he anticipated years of hard work: \\u201cWhat I want to do is be a part of this business and to express myself and get some kind of acceptance by making people happy.\\u201d\", \"A quarter century later, he explained to The Gleaner during a visit to Jamaica that it was \\u201cdifficult to develop major music projects\\u201d without touring and promoting and that he preferred to be with his family. \", \"\\u201cI think I\\u2019ve achieved gratification in terms of the people I\\u2019ve had the chance to meet. I never won the Grammy, but I don\\u2019t put my faith in things of that nature,\\u201d he added. \\u201cA lifetime body of work I can be proud of is more important to me. And the special folksy blend to the music I make, that\\u2019s what it is all about.\\u201d\", \"___\", \"AP Entertainment Writer Andrew Dalton contributed to this story from Los Angeles. Italie reported from New York.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://apnews.com/article/michael-jackson-eddie-van-halen-archive-ad6e71e78b0b5d7e87a72eef1ceaaf26\", \"source\": \"Associated Press\", \"title\": \"Guitar rock legend Eddie Van Halen dies of cancer at 65\", \"description\": \"NEW YORK (AP) \\u2014 Eddie Van Halen, the guitar virtuoso whose blinding speed, control and innovation propelled his band Van Halen into one of hard rock\\u2019s biggest groups and became elevated to the... \", \"date\": \"2020-10-06T19:58:41Z\", \"author\": \"Mark Kennedy\", \"text\": [\"NEW YORK (AP) \\u2014 Eddie Van Halen, the guitar virtuoso whose blinding speed, control and innovation propelled his band Van Halen into one of hard rock\\u2019s biggest groups and became elevated to the status of rock god, has died. He was 65.\", \"A person close to Van Halen\\u2019s family confirmed the rocker died Tuesday due to cancer. The person was not authorized to publicly release details in advance of an official announcement.\", \"\\u201cHe was the best father I could ask for,\\u201d Van Halen\\u2019s son Wolfgang \", \". \\u201cEvery moment I\\u2019ve shared with him on and off stage was a gift.\\u201d\", \"With his distinct solos, Eddie Van Halen fueled the ultimate California party band and helped knock disco off the charts starting in the late 1970s with his band\\u2019s self-titled debut album and then with the blockbuster record \\u201c1984,\\u201d which contains the classics \\u201cJump,\\u201d \\u201cPanama\\u201d and \\u201cHot for Teacher.\\u201d\", \"Van Halen is among the top 20 best-selling artists of all time, and the band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2007. Rolling Stone magazine put Eddie Van Halen at No. 8 in its list of the 100 greatest guitarists.\", \"Eddie Van Halen was something of a musical contradiction. He was an autodidact who could play almost any instrument, but he couldn\\u2019t read music. He was a classically trained pianist who also created some of the most distinctive guitar riffs in rock history. He was a Dutch immigrant who was considered one of the greatest American guitarists of his generation.\", \"Honors came from the music world, from Lenny Kravitz to Kenny Chesney. \\u201cYou changed our world. You were the Mozart of rock guitar. Travel safe, rockstar,\\u201d Motley Crue\\u2019s Nikki Sixx said on Twitter. Added Lenny Kravitz: \\u201cHeaven will be electric tonight.\\u201d\", \"The members of Van Halen \\u2014 the two Van Halen brothers, Eddie and Alex; vocalist David Lee Roth; and bassist Michael Anthony \\u2014 formed in 1974 in Pasadena, California. They were members of rival high school bands and then attended Pasadena City College together. They combined to form the band Mammoth, but then changed to Van Halen after discovering there was another band called Mammoth.\", \"Their 1978 release \\u201cVan Halen\\u201d opened with a blistering \\u201cRunnin\\u2019 With the Devil\\u201d and then Eddie Van Halen showed off his astonishing skills in the next song, \\u201cEruption,\\u201d a furious 1:42 minute guitar solo that swoops and soars like a deranged bird. The album also contained a cover of the Kinks\\u2019 \\u201cYou Really Got Me\\u201d and \\u201cAin\\u2019t Talkin\\u2019 \\u2019Bout Love.\\u201d \", \"Van Halen released albums on a yearly timetable \\u2014 \\u201cVan Halen II\\u201d (1979), \\u201cWomen and Children First\\u201d (1980), \\u201cFair Warning\\u201d (1981) and \\u201cDiver Down\\u201d (1982) \\u2014 until the monumental \\u201c1984,\\u201d which hit No. 2 on the Billboard 200 album charts (only behind Michael Jackson\\u2019s \\u201cThriller\\u201d). Rolling Stone ranked \\u201c1984\\u201d No. 81 on its list of the 100 Greatest Albums of the 1980s.\", \"\\u201cEddie put the smile back in rock guitar, at a time when it was all getting a bit brooding. He also scared the hell out of a million guitarists around the world, because he was so damn good. And original,\\u201d Joe Satriani, a fellow virtuoso, told Billboard in 2015.\", \"Van Halen also played guitar on one of the biggest singles of the 1980s: Jackson\\u2019s \\u201cBeat It.\\u201d His solo lasted all of 20 seconds and took only a half an hour to record. \", \"Van Halen received no compensation or credit for the work, even though he rearranged the section he played on. \\u201cIt was 20 minutes of my life. I didn\\u2019t want anything for doing that,\\u201d he told Billboard in 2015. \\u201cI literally thought to myself, \\u2018Who is possibly going to know if I play on this kid\\u2019s record?\\u2019\\u201d Rolling Stone ranked \\u201cBeat It\\u201d No. 344 on its list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. Jackson\\u2019s melding of hard rock and R&B preceded the meeting of Run-DMC and Aerosmith by four years. \", \"But strains between Roth and the band erupted after their 1984 world tour and Roth left. The group then recruited Sammy Hagar as lead singer \\u2014some critics called the new formulation \\u201cVan Hagar\\u201d \\u2014 and the band went on to score its first No. 1 album with \\u201c5150,\\u201d More studio albums followed, including \\u201cOU812,\\u201d \\u201cFor Unlawful Carnal Knowledge\\u201d and \\u201cBalance.\\u201d Hit singles included \\u201cWhy Can\\u2019t This Be Love\\u201d and \\u201cWhen It\\u2019s Love.\\u201d\", \"Hagar was ousted in 1996 and former Extreme singer Gary Cherone stepped in for the album \\u201cVan Halen III,\\u201d a stumble that didn\\u2019t lead to another album and the quick departure of Cherone. Roth would eventually return in 2007 and team up with the Van Halen brothers and Wolfgang Van Halen on bass for a tour, the album \\u201cA Different Kind of Truth\\u201d and the 2015 album \\u201cTokyo Dome Live in Concert.\\u201d\", \"Van Halen\\u2019s music has appeared in films as varied as \\u201cSuperbad,\\u201d \\u201cMinions\\u201d and \\u201cSing\\u201d as well as TV shows like \\u201cGlee\\u201d and \\u201cIt\\u2019s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.\\u201d Video games such as \\u201cGran Turismo 4\\u201d and \\u201cGuitar Hero\\u201d have used his riffs. Their song \\u201cJamie\\u2019s Cryin\\u201d was sampled by rapper Tone Loc in his hit \\u201cWild Thing.\\u201d\", \"For much of his career, Eddie Van Halen wrote and experimented with sounds while drunk or high or both. He revealed that he would stay in his hotel room drinking vodka and snorting cocaine while playing into a tape recorder. (Hagar\\u2019s 2011 autobiography \\u201cRed: My Uncensored Life in Rock\\u201d portrays Eddie as a violent, booze-addled vampire, living inside a garbage-strewn house.)\", \"\\u201cI didn\\u2019t drink to party,\\u201d Van Halen told Billboard. \\u201cAlcohol and cocaine were private things to me. I would use them for work. The blow keeps you awake and the alcohol lowers your inhibitions. I\\u2019m sure there were musical things I would not have attempted were I not in that mental state.\\u201d\", \"Eddie Van Halen was born in Amsterdam and his family immigrated to California in 1962 when he was 7. His father was a big band clarinetist who rarely found work after coming to the U.S., and their mother was a maid who had dreams of her sons being classical pianists. The Van Halens shared a house with three other families. Eddie and Alex had only each other, a tight relationship that flowed through their music.\", \"\\u201cWe showed up here with the equivalent of $50 and a piano,\\u201d Eddie Van Halen told The Associated Press in 2015. \\u201cWe came halfway around the world without money, without a set job, no place to live and couldn\\u2019t even speak the language.\\u201d\", \"He said his earliest memories of music were banging pots and pans together, marching to John Philip Sousa marches. At one point, Eddie got a drum set, which his older brother coveted.\", \"\\u201cI never wanted to play guitar,\\u201d he confessed at a talk at the Smithsonian\\u2019s National Museum of American History in 2015. But his brother was good at the drums, so Eddie gave into his brother\\u2019s wishes: \\u201cI said, \\u2018Go ahead, take my drums. I\\u2019ll play your damn guitar.\\u2019\\u201d\", \"He was a relentless experimenter who would solder different parts from different guitar-makers, including Gibson and Fender. He created his own graphic design for his guitars by adding tape to the instruments and then spray-painting them. He said his influences were Eric Clapton, and Jimi Hendrix.\", \"Van Halen, sober since 2008, lost one-third of his tongue to a cancer that eventually drifted into his esophagus. In 1999, he had a hip replacement. He was married twice, to actress Valerie Bertinelli from 1981 to 2007 and then to stuntwoman-turned-publicist Janie Liszewski, whom he wed in 2009. \", \"\\u201cI\\u2019m so grateful Wolfie and I were able to hold you in your last moments,\\u201d Bertinelli wrote on Instagram, showing an image of their baby son. \\u201cI will see you in our next life.\\u201d\", \"__\", \"AP Music Editor Mesfin Fekadu contributed to this report.\", \"___ \", \"Mark Kennedy is at \"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://apnews.com/article/police-thomas-lane-trials-minneapolis-crime-1e0d9bcb6e751c31c8de0794434c5730\", \"source\": \"Associated Press\", \"title\": \"Ex-officer charged in George Floyd's death freed on $1M bond\", \"description\": \"MINNEAPOLIS (AP) \\u2014 The former Minneapolis police officer charged with murder in the death of George Floyd posted bail on Wednesday and was released from prison. According to court documents,... \", \"date\": \"2020-10-07T17:44:06Z\", \"author\": \"Amy Forliti\", \"text\": [\"MINNEAPOLIS (AP) \\u2014 The former Minneapolis police officer charged with murder in the death of George Floyd posted bail on Wednesday and was released from prison.\", \"According to court documents, \", \" posted a $1 million bond and was released from the state\\u2019s facility in Oak Park Heights, where he had been detained. Hennepin County jail records show he was released shortly before 11:30 a.m.\", \"Floyd, a Black man in handcuffs, died May 25 after Chauvin, who is white, pressed his knee against Floyd\\u2019s neck for several minutes as Floyd said he couldn\\u2019t breathe. Floyd\\u2019s death was captured in widely seen bystander video that set off protests around the world. Chauvin and three other officers were fired. Chauvin is charged with second-degree murder, third-degree murder and manslaughter; Thomas Lane, J. Kueng and Tou Thao are charged with aiding and abetting both second-degree murder and manslaughter.\", \"It was not immediately clear where Chauvin got the money to pay his bond. In Minnesota, someone who posts bond must pay 10%, in this case $100,000, to the bond company and have collateral, such as a house, to back the full amount. A message left with the company that posted the bond, Allegheny Casualty Company, was not immediately returned. \", \"The Minnesota Police and Peace Officers Association, which has a legal defense fund, did not provide any money for bail, a spokeswoman said. A message left with the union representing Minneapolis police officers was not returned. \", \"The website GiveSendGo.com, which says it is a free Christian crowdfunding site, has a Derek Chauvin Bail Fund that says it was created by his family. According to the site, as of midday Wednesday that fund raised $4,198 of its $125,000 goal, with donations from more than 35 people. A posting on the site dated Sept. 12 said it took time to set up a fundraising effort due to the high-profile nature of the case. \", \"Chauvin had the option of posting bail for $1.25 million without conditions or $1 million with conditions. Under the conditions of his release, he must attend all court appearances, cannot have any direct or indirect contact \\u2014 including social media contact \\u2014 with any members of Floyd\\u2019s family, cannot work in law enforcement or security, and must not possess any firearms ammunition. \", \"Chauvin\\u2019s attorney had no comment Wednesday.\", \"Chauvin\\u2019s wife, Kellie Chauvin, filed for divorce shortly after Floyd\\u2019s death. The records in that case have since been sealed and Kellie Chauvin\\u2019s divorce attorney didn\\u2019t immediately reply to a message seeking comment. \", \"In July, the Chauvins were charged with multiple felony counts of tax evasion for allegedly failing to report income from various jobs, including more than $95,000 from Derek Chauvin\\u2019s off-duty security work. The criminal complaints in that case allege that from 2014 through 2019, the Chauvins underreported their joint income by $464,433 and owe the state $37,868 in unpaid taxes, interest and fees.\", \"The tax evasion case also listed other assets, including the couple\\u2019s second home in Florida and a $100,000 BMW. \", \"The Chauvin home in the St. Paul suburb of Oakdale was sold on Aug. 28 for $279,000, which was $26,000 less than the price it was listed at a month after Floyd\\u2019s death, according to online real estate records. It was not clear where Chauvin was staying after his release, but one of the conditions of his bail was that he not leave Minnesota without permission.\", \"The other three officers charged in Floyd\\u2019s death had previously posted bond amounts of $750,000 and have been free pending trial. Currently, all four men are scheduled to \", \", but the judge is weighing a request to have them tried separately. \"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://apnews.com/article/plays-sundance-film-festival-harriet-tubman-spike-lee-film-festivals-c843e4b8aa5c4bc98b433b3fc5cba412\", \"source\": \"Associated Press\", \"title\": \"Radha Blank of 'The Forty-Year-Old Version' isn't late\", \"description\": \"If Radha Blank had a tagline for her film, \\u201cThe Forty-Year-Old Version,\\u201d it would be: \\u201cYou don't age out of your passion.\\u201d Blank wrote, directed and stars in her debut film, a heavily... \", \"date\": \"2020-10-07T16:08:11Z\", \"author\": \"Jake Coyle\", \"text\": [\"If Radha Blank had a tagline for her film, \\u201cThe Forty-Year-Old Version,\\u201d it would be: \\u201cYou don\\u2019t age out of your passion.\\u201d\", \"Blank wrote, directed and stars in her debut film, a heavily autobiographical tale, shot in black-and-white and on 35mm, about a middle-aged playwright in Harlem struggling to fulfill her career\\u2019s earlier promise. Faced with unappealing options, like a Harriet Tubman musical put on by white producers, she turns to an old passion, hip-hop, and begins performing as RadhaMUSprime.\", \"The film \\u2014 laceratingly funny, relentlessly frank, wholly original \\u2014 made its lauded premiere at the Sundance Film Festival where Blank won a directing prize and Netflix acquired it. It begins streaming Friday. \", \"Blank, who has written for the Spike Lee series \\u201cShe\\u2019s Gotta Have It\\u201d (on which she was also a producer) and \\u201cEmpire,\\u201d first began the project as a web series that would have culminated in a mix tape. The death of her mother derailed the series, and Blank realized \\u201cThe 40-Year-Old Version\\u201d needed a bigger canvas. Lena Waithe (\\u201cMaster of None,\\u201d \\u201cQueen & Slim\\u201d) came aboard as a producer.\", \"In an interview back when \\u201cThe Forty-Year-Old Version\\u201d was landing at Sundance, Blank \\u2014 a proud New Yorker who, like her character, struggled to get her plays mounted before rapping under a pseudonym \\u2014 talked about her delayed but inevitable arrival.\", \"AP: What compelled you to start writing this?\", \"BLANK: I was fired from a film job. This is like before I was writing for TV. I got a job. Someone had seen a play of mine and they hired me to adapt a book. And I got fired off the job. And I was kind of devastated and felt a little powerless and just decided, you know what? (Expletive) it. I\\u2019m going to make a web series so that I\\u2019m in charge. No one can fire me. About two weeks before we were going to shoot the first two episodes, my mom passed away and it pretty much devastated my life. Like we were like Dorothy and Sophia domestically, as a viewer of \\u201cThe Golden Girls.\\u201d We shared the same birthday and she\\u2019s the person who nurtured all these storytelling seeds in me. I was probably going to quit anything creative because my biggest champion and friend was now gone. I was going to go back to school and become a social worker. I\\u2019m glad I didn\\u2019t. I probably saved more children by not becoming a social worker.\", \"AP: Is your protagonist you?\", \"BLANK: It\\u2019s me but a heightened version. She is who I wish I could be all the time. She tells it like it is. What we have in common is how we use rejection to fuel an idea. My character, the idea of her becoming a rapper is a joke until she starts rhyming. And for me, when I first decided I wanted to shoot this in black and white. Everyone was like, why would you do that? It\\u2019s a matter of trusting your impulses.\", \"AP: How does it feel to be making your filmmaking debut at this stage in your life?\", \"BLANK: \\u201cAuteurs\\u201d are reserved for older filmmakers. And groundbreaking, fresh films seems to be associated with young filmmakers. I\\u2019m somewhere in the middle. I\\u2019ve been telling and crafting stories for over 20 years. When it came time to make the film, I knew exactly what it is I wanted to say. For people who know me and know my work, it was just a matter of time before I got here. It\\u2019s kind of this idea that we never stop learning about who you are. You can have revelations about yourself and what you should be doing at any age.\", \"AP: And that includes rapping for you. But you bring a different perspective to hip-hop.\", \"BLANK: It\\u2019s all of the bravado of hip-hop but it\\u2019s from a person whose body is changing. There\\u2019s some hot flashes in there. AARP is sending me (expletive) in the mail. I know a lot of people who feel that way, I just don\\u2019t see it reflected in mainstream culture. Especially with hip-hop. I love this culture. I am the same age as hip-hop culture. Some of the culture is over-sexualized and over-saturated and so loud. That\\u2019s part of why I wanted to film it in black and white. Black and white cools it down.\", \"AP: How would you describe your film\\u2019s connection with Judd Apatow\\u2019s \\u201cThe 40-Year-Old Virgin\\u201d?\", \"BLANK: Honestly, I\\u2019m just like appropriating his (expletive). People appropriate Black culture all the time. I\\u2019m like, \\u201cHey, Judd. I\\u2019m comin\\u2019 for you!\\u201d I think he will have a great sense of humor about it, but I\\u2019m totally appropriating his (expletive). I love it when I say \\u201cForty-Year-Old Version\\u201d and they go, \\u201cThat move came out 15 years ago.\\u201d And I go, \\u201cNope! V-E-R-S-I-O-N.\\u201d But also trying to stay in the spirit of Judd Apatow, Black protagonists are quirky and awkward and can\\u2019t figure things out and are having identity crises at 40. I would hope one day my films can be in the canon of his storytelling. I lived in L.A. for about three years and even though I look like I might have blended into the cool arts scene, I always felt like Larry David. There are people who look like me who have those odd moments where there are clashes of culture right in front of them.\", \"___\", \"Follow AP Film Writer Jake Coyle on Twitter at: \"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-nfl-aaron-rodgers-green-bay-football-d7c9063da78bcccdb55201614b501238\", \"source\": \"Associated Press\", \"title\": \"Pandemic limiting what NFL players can do on their off weeks\", \"description\": \"GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) \\u2014 Aaron Rodgers and his Green Bay Packers teammates won\\u2019t get a chance to celebrate their fast start by leaving town during their week off. The Packers (4-0) and Detroit... \", \"date\": \"2020-10-07T20:02:03Z\", \"author\": \"Steve Megargee\", \"text\": [\"GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) \\u2014 Aaron Rodgers and his Green Bay Packers teammates won\\u2019t get a chance to celebrate their fast start by leaving town during their week off.\", \"The Packers (4-0) and Detroit Lions (1-3) don\\u2019t play this week and therefore are the first NFL teams to get a taste of how different off weeks will be amid a pandemic. Players and coaches aren\\u2019t allowed to leave the city where the team is located during the off week, as they must provide daily specimens for COVID-19 testing. \", \"\\u201cTotally sucks,\\u201d the 36-year-old Rodgers said after the Packers\\u2019 \", \" \\u201cThat\\u2019s all I can say about that. Obviously it is what it is, the situation. But especially as a older player, I look forward to the bye weeks immensely. I look forward to kind of a reset, recharging the batteries.\\u201d\", \"Indeed, players often have used these off weeks to visit their hometowns, take their families on a quick trip or return to their alma maters to watch college football games from the sidelines. They won\\u2019t get those chances this year.\", \"\\u201cWe have new protocols in place that are meant to keep everybody safe and healthy,\\u201d Lions coach Matt Patricia said. \\u201cAnd that\\u2019s important right now. We\\u2019re still in that world and still in the middle of COVID-19.\\u201d\", \"Both teams understand what\\u2019s at stake, particularly in light of recent events.\", \"\\n\", \" have had 20 positive cases since Sept. 29, which caused their scheduled Oct. 4 game with the Pittsburgh Steelers to get pushed back to Oct. 25. New England canceled its practices Wednesday and Thursday amid reports that a third Patriots player has tested positive. \", \"NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell \", \" Monday that any violations of COVID-19 protocols that force schedule changes could result in punishment including forfeiting games, fines or loss of draft picks.\", \"The NFL \", \" Friday that the league\\u2019s agreement with the NFL Players Association in August means players who miss tests can be punished with a $50,000 fine. A second missed test can result in a one-game suspension.\", \"\\u201cThere definitely had to be a lot of sacrifices made this year for this season to happen, but I think everyone can say that they\\u2019re definitely willing to make those sacrifices,\\u201d Lions center Frank Ragnow said.\", \"The Packers\\u2019 off week comes at a time when the high COVID-19 rates around Green Bay caused the team to announce Tuesday that \", \"Packers coach Matt LaFleur closed his postgame Zoom session Monday by reminding players and other Green Bay-area residents to wear a mask and practice social distancing.\", \"\\u201cUnfortunately COVID is running rampant in our community, and our guys got to continue to make smart decisions because you can see how it can impact a football team,\\u201d LaFleur said. \\u201cYou\\u2019ve got to look no further than Tennessee.\\u201d\", \"The protocols are impacting some players more than others.\", \"For instance, Packers running back Jamaal Williams said his routine this week wouldn\\u2019t be much different from normal.\", \"\\u201cShoot, (it\\u2019s) the same thing I do every time when I leave practice: Go home, chill, watch anime, play my video game,\\u201d Williams said. \\u201cIt\\u2019s nothing different for me. I like being at home, chilling by myself. My daughter is coming now so now she get to see me. Now we really get to have fun together. It\\u2019s really nothing new to me. I like my peace and quiet.\\u201d\", \"Packers running back Aaron Jones said he normally would have visited his family in his hometown of El Paso, Texas, this week. Lions defensive end Trey Flowers said he would have gone to Alabama to spend time with his children.\", \"While the protocols have changed those plans, it has created opportunities for those players who already have their family members with them. Lions safety Duron Harmon said he\\u2019ll try to make the most of a chance to celebrate his wife\\u2019s birthday Thursday\", \"\\u201cHappy wife, happy life,\\u201d Harmon said. \\u201cI\\u2019ll try to make her as happy as I can.\\u201d\", \"Ragnow said he\\u2019d try to find someplace nearby where he could fish but acknowledged he\\u2019d spend much of the Lions\\u2019 off week \\u201cquarantining and hanging out.\\u201d Green Bay tight end Robert Tonyan said he\\u2019d probably \\u201cjust lay in the ice tub a lot\\u201d to make sure he\\u2019s at full strength for the Packers\\u2019 Oct. 25 game at Tampa Bay.\", \"They\\u2019re all just looking for different ways to pass the time without the opportunity to go anywhere.\", \"\\u201cWe\\u2019ll be here,\\u201d Rodgers said. \\u201cWe\\u2019ll make the most of it. But it sucks.\\u201d\", \"___\", \"AP Sports Writers Larry Lage and Noah Trister and AP Pro Football Writer Teresa M. Walker contributed to this report.\", \"___\", \"More AP NFL: https://apnews.com/NFL and https://twitter.com/AP_NFL\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://apnews.com/article/politics-syria-islamic-state-group-1efbea5b67c6e15f67882d488293730e\", \"source\": \"Associated Press\", \"title\": \"US charges British IS members in deaths of American hostages\", \"description\": \"WASHINGTON (AP) \\u2014 Two Islamic State militants from Britain were brought to the United States on Wednesday to face charges in a gruesome campaign of torture, beheadings and other acts of violence... \", \"date\": \"2020-10-07T12:20:09Z\", \"author\": \"Eric Tucker\", \"text\": [\"WASHINGTON (AP) \\u2014 Two Islamic State militants from Britain were brought to the United States on Wednesday to \", \" in a gruesome campaign of torture, beheadings and other acts of violence against four Americans and others captured and held hostage in Syria, the Justice Department said.\", \"El Shafee Elsheikh and Alexanda Kotey are two of four men who were called \\u201cthe Beatles\\u201d by the hostages because of the captors\\u2019 British accents. The two men were expected to make their first appearance Wednesday afternoon in federal court in Alexandria, Virginia, where a federal grand jury issued an \", \" that accuses them of being \\u201cleading participants in a brutal hostage-taking scheme\\u201d that resulted in the deaths of Western hostages, including \", \".\", \"The charges are a milestone in a yearslong effort by U.S. authorities to bring to justice members of the group known for beheadings and barbaric treatment of aid workers, journalists and other hostages in Syria. Startling for their unflinching depictions of cruelty and violence, recordings of the murders were released online in the form of propaganda for a group that at its peak controlled vast swaths of Syria and Iraq.\", \"The case underscores the Justice Department\\u2019s commitment to prosecuting in American civilian court militants captured overseas, said Assistant Attorney General John Demers, who vowed that other extremists \\u201cwill be pursued to the ends of the earth.\\u201d The defendants\\u2019 arrival in the U.S. sets the stage for arguably the most sensational terrorism trial since the 2014 criminal case against the suspected ringleader of a deadly attack on a U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya.\", \"\\u201cIf you have American blood in your veins or American blood on your hands, you will face American justice,\\u201d said Demers, the department\\u2019s top national security official.\", \"The men are charged in connection with the deaths of four American hostages \\u2014 Foley, journalist Steven Sotloff and aid workers Peter Kassig and Kayla Mueller \\u2014 as well as British and Japanese nationals who were also held captive. \", \"The pair face charges of hostage-taking resulting in death and other terrorism-related counts. Because of a recent concession by the Justice Department, prosecutors will not be seeking the death penalty. \", \"The indictment describes Kotey and Elsheikh, both of whom prosecutors say radicalized in London and left for Syria in 2012, as \\u201cleading participants in a brutal hostage-taking scheme\\u201d that targeted American and European citizens and that involved murders, mock executions, shocks with electric tasers, physical restraints and other brutal acts.\", \"Prosecutors say the men worked closely with a chief spokesman for IS who reported to the group\\u2019s leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who was killed in a U.S. military operation last year. They were joined in the \\u201cBeatles\\u201d by Mohamed Emwazi, who was killed in a 2015 drone strike and was also known as \\u201cJihadi John\\u201d after appearing and speaking in the videos of multiple executions, including Foley\\u2019s. A fourth member, Aine Lesley Davis, is serving a prison sentence in Turkey. \", \"The indictment accuses Kotey and Elsheikh of participating in Foley\\u2019s 2012 kidnapping and of supervising detention facilities for hostages, \\u201cin addition to engaging in a long pattern of physical and psychological violence.\\u201d \", \"It also alleges that they coordinated ransom negotiations over email with hostage families. In interviews while in detention, the two men admitted they helped collect email addresses from Mueller that could be used to send out ransom demands. Mueller was killed in 2015 after 18 months in IS captivity. The indictment says Mueller\\u2019s family received an email demanding a cash payment of 5 million euros for Mueller\\u2019s release.\", \"In July 2014, according to the indictment, Elsheikh described to a family member his participation in an IS attack on the Syrian Army. He sent the family member photos of decapitated heads and said in a voice message, \\u201cThere\\u2019s many heads, this is just a couple that I took a photo of.\\u201d \", \"The indictment describes the execution of a Syrian prisoner in 2014 that the two forced their Western hostages to watch. Kotey instructed the hostages to kneel while watching the execution and holding signs pleading for their release. Emwazi shot the prisoner in the back of the head while Elsheikh videotaped the execution. Elsheikh told one of the hostages, \\u201cyou\\u2019re next,\\u201d prosecutors say.\", \"The 24-page indictment accuses Kotey and Elsheikh of conspiring to murder the hostages and of helping cause their deaths by detaining them. It does not spell out any specific roles for them in the executions. But G. Zachary Terwilliger, the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, whose office will prosecute the case, said under U.S. law Elsheikh and Kotey can \\u201cbe held liable for the foreseeable acts of their co-conspirators.\\u201d\", \"Relatives of the four slain Americans praised the Justice Department for transferring the men to the U.S. for trial, calling it \\u201cthe first step in the pursuit of justice for the alleged horrific human rights crimes against these four young Americans.\\u201d\", \"\\u201cWe are hopeful that the U.S. government will finally be able to send the important message that if you harm Americans, you will never escape justice. And when you are caught, you will face the full power of American law,\\u201d their statement said.\", \"Elsheikh and Kotey have been held since October 2019 in American military custody after being captured in Syria one year earlier by the U.S.-based Syrian Democratic Forces while trying to escape Syria for Turkey. The Justice Department has long wanted to put them on trial, but those efforts were complicated by wrangling over whether Britain, which does not have the death penalty, would share evidence that could be used in a death penalty prosecution.\", \"Attorney General William Barr broke the diplomatic standoff this year when he promised the men would not face the death penalty. That prompted British authorities to share evidence that U.S. prosecutors deemed crucial for obtaining convictions.\", \"___\", \"Barakat reported from Alexandria, Virginia.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://apnews.com/article/david-alan-grier-john-malkovich-plays-lucas-hedges-elizabeth-ashley-7d5b1a85c6e91bd7533297539c21228f\", \"source\": \"Associated Press\", \"title\": \"Online fall Broadway play revivals attract starry casts\", \"description\": \"NEW YORK (AP) \\u2014 Broadway theaters may be dark, but there will be plenty of new online productions of some of classic plays this fall with some starry self-isolating actors, including Matthew... \", \"date\": \"2020-10-07T20:12:48Z\", \"author\": \"Mark Kennedy\", \"text\": [\"NEW YORK (AP) \\u2014 Broadway theaters may be dark, but there will be plenty of new online productions of some of classic plays this fall with some starry self-isolating actors, including Matthew Broderick, Morgan Freeman, Patti LuPone, Laura Linney and David Alan Grier.\", \"Producer Jeffrey Richards on Wednesday unveiled a weekly play run of livestreamed works to benefit The Actors Fund. They will stream on \", \" and ticket buyers can access the events through TodayTix starting at $5. The series will last seven weeks.\", \"The push begins Oct. 14 with Gore Vidal\\u2019s \\u201cThe Best Man\\u201d starring Matthew Broderick, Morgan Freeman, John Malkovich, Zachary Quinto, Phylicia Rashad, Vanessa Williams, Reed Birney, Stacy Keach and Elizabeth Ashley.\", \"On Oct. 20, a production of Kenneth Lonergan\\u2019s \\u201cThis Is Our Youth\\u201d will star Lucas Hedges, Paul Mescal and Grace Van Patten. David Mamet\\u2019s \\u201dRace\\u201d is up on Oct. 29, starring David Alan Grier and Ed O\\u2019Neill. \", \"Mamet\\u2019s \\u201cBoston Marriage\\u201d is slated for Nov. 12 with Patti LuPone and Rebecca Pidgeon. A revival of Anton Chekhov\\u2019s \\u201cUncle Vanya\\u201d an adapted by Neil LaBute follows on Nov. 19 with Alan Cumming, Samira Wiley, Constance Wu and Ellen Burstyn. \", \"On Dec. 3, the original Broadway cast of Donald Margulies\\u2019 \\u201cTime Stands Still\\u201d reunites with Eric Bogosian, Brian d\\u2019Arcy James, Laura Linney and Alicia Silverstone. The last effort is Robert O\\u2019Hara\\u2019s \\u201cBarbecue\\u201d on Dec. 10 with Carrie Coon, Colman Domingo, S. Epatha Merkerson, Laurie Metcalf, David Morse and Kristine Nielsen.\", \"___\", \"Mark Kennedy is at \"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://apnews.com/article/film-reviews-adam-sandler-halloween-movies-june-squibb-2ad074e1d7e94db011b4c4454f7b1ac4\", \"source\": \"Associated Press\", \"title\": \"Review: Adam Sandler's 'Hubie Halloween' is ... good?\", \"description\": \"The distance for Adam Sandler from last year's frantic, high-wire act \\u201cUncut Gems\\u201d to his new Netflix comedy, \\u201cHubie Halloween,\\\" is great, but maybe not as vast as it sounds.  Both feature... \", \"date\": \"2020-10-07T20:27:49Z\", \"author\": \"Jake Coyle\", \"text\": [\"The distance for Adam Sandler from last year\\u2019s \", \" to his new Netflix comedy, \", \" is great, but maybe not as vast as it sounds. \", \"Both feature Sandler playing someone who romanticizes something out of proportion (a high-priced gem in \\u201cUncut Gems,\\u201d Halloween in \\u201cHubie Halloween\\u201d), an appearance by a former NBA star (Kevin Garnett in \\u201cUncut Gems,\\u201d Shaquille O\\u2019Neal in \\u201cHubie Halloween\\u201d) and June Squibb wearing a T-shirt that says \\u201cBoner Doner.\\u201d\", \"OK, that last one isn\\u2019t in \\u201cUncut Gems\\u201d but you wouldn\\u2019t exactly put it past the Safdie brothers, either. Yes, Sandler\\u2019s bouncing between movie realms has seemingly grown even more schizophrenic in recent years as his factory of Netflix releases chugs along with occasional departures like \\u201cThe Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)\\u201d and \\u201cUncut Gems.\\u201d But here\\u2019s the thing: \\u201cHubie Halloween\\u201d is good.\", \"Yeah, I\\u2019m kind of surprised by that, too. The latest Billy Madison production might not seem especially distinguishable from the rest of Sandler\\u2019s recent Netflix output. In many ways it\\u2019s not. It\\u2019s got most of his regular chums (Kevin James, Tim Meadows, Rob Schneider) and it\\u2019s directed by Steven Brill, who helmed Sandler\\u2019s \\u201cSandy Wexler,\\u201d \\u201cThe Do-Over,\\u201d \\u201cMr. Deeds\\u201d and \\u201cLittle Nicky.\\u201d These are movies made with only a little more thought than another pick-up basketball game: \\u201cLet\\u2019s run it back!\\u201d\", \"And yet it feels like it\\u2019s been a while since it was this much fun to watch Sandler et al goofing around. Sandler, already inextricably linked to Thanksgiving, has now left a mark on Halloween. Maybe it\\u2019s because his movies can seem like (highly paid) extended vacations with friends, but holidays seem to work for him.\", \"The destination this time is Salem, Massachusetts, where Hubie Dubois (Sandler), is a thermos-carrying stunted man-child who\\u2019s been the butt of jokes since high school, taunted for his unhipness and his good-hearted sincerity. He\\u2019s an immediately familiar protagonist for Sandler \\u2014 a cousin to Canteen Boy and a brother to Bobby Boucher of \\u201cThe Water Boy.\\u201d Hubie, a Halloween devotee who\\u2019s nevertheless easily spooked by the season\\u2019s decorations, has anointed himself the holiday\\u2019s official \\u201cmonitor\\u201d in Salem. \", \"Living with his mom (Squibb, outfitted in a running gag of T-shirts), Hubie bikes around town with his monitor sash slung across his chest and a thermos full of soup always in hand. He\\u2019s regularly mocked by just about everyone in the town, young and old, but his old high-school torch (Julie Bowen, comically out of his league) is one of the few who recognize and value Hubie\\u2019s sweetness. When a genuine mystery develops and people start going missing, Hubie is the first to recognize the danger. Having made police reports a hobby, the local cops (Kenan Thompson, James) have long learned to ignore his concerns. \", \"It\\u2019s all just an excuse for Sandler to do a funny voice and a bunch of pratfalls, but the voice is pretty funny and so are the pratfalls. Even the production design is a cut above what you\\u2019re expect. But most of all, the ensemble of townspeople lend plenty of support. Is there anyone, really, who doesn\\u2019t want to watch a movie with Steve Buscemi as a werewolf, Michael Chiklis as a cranky priest, Ray Liotta for some reason and Maya Rudolph dressed up as the Bride of Frankenstein playing the dissatisfied wife of Tim Meadows? \", \"The jokes aren\\u2019t often Sandler\\u2019s best material but \\u201cHubie Halloween\\u201d is as sweet and easily digestible as a Milky Way. After this, \\u201cUncut Gems\\u201d and his best and most tender stand-up special (\\u201c100% Fresh,\\u201d a title that references his normally low critic scores), the Sandler-verse is weirdly in a kind of perfect harmony. Maybe, too, we\\u2019re more in need of some good, stupid fun right now, and \\u201cHubie Halloween\\u201d is smart enough to do stupid just right. Steve Buscemi as a werewolf, at least, is an antidote to something.\", \"\\u201cHubie Halloween,\\u201d a Netflix release, is rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America for crude and suggestive content, language and brief teen partying. Running time: 104 minutes. Three stars out of four.\", \"___\", \"Follow AP Film Writer Jake Coyle on Twitter at: http://twitter.com/jakecoyleAP\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://apnews.com/article/nfl-football-los-angeles-rams-kyle-allen-dwayne-haskins-17486c674f69b88eab2b8e14bc37ca4d\", \"source\": \"Associated Press\", \"title\": \"Washington benches QB Haskins, switches to Allen vs. Rams\", \"description\": \"Dwayne Haskins didn't show enough progress in Ron Rivera's eyes, so he's going from starting quarterback to out of uniform. Rivera benched Haskins for Washington's next game Sunday against... \", \"date\": \"2020-10-07T14:04:56Z\", \"author\": \"Stephen Whyno\", \"text\": [\"Dwayne Haskins didn\\u2019t show enough progress in Ron Rivera\\u2019s eyes, so he\\u2019s going from starting quarterback to out of uniform.\", \"Rivera benched Haskins for Washington\\u2019s next game Sunday against the Los Angeles Rams and turned to Kyle Allen as the new starter. The team is 1-3 and at what the coach believes is a crucial moment of the season in a wide-open NFC East within reach, so he pulled the plug on Haskins despite no pressure to win now.\", \"\\u201cI think our best chance to win is putting the ball in somebody else\\u2019s hands,\\u201d Rivera said Wednesday. \\u201cI think the best chance to have things done in our offense is in somebody else\\u2019s hands. That\\u2019s what I\\u2019m doing.\\u201d\", \"Alex Smith will back up Allen with Haskins inactive after not having enough time to learn a new system in his second year in the NFL. Smith will be active for the first time since breaking his right tibia and fibula Nov. 18, 2018.\", \"Rivera ended the Haskins experiment after a third consecutive loss in just his 11th pro start. Washington\\u2019s first-year coach defended the 2019 first-round pick for having \\u201can NFL arm\\u201d but lamented Haskins not getting enough snaps in offseason workouts, training camp and practice to make him ready for this.\", \"\\u201cWe gave him every opportunity,\\u201d Rivera said. \\u201cWe gave him a chance to start four games and truly evaluate. But with the division where it is right now, I\\u2019d be stupid to not give it a shot and see what happens in the next four games. But I wanted to put it in the hands of someone that knows the situation a little better, backed up by a guy that\\u2019s been there.\\u201d\", \"Rivera passed on the opportunity to bring in former Carolina Panthers QB Cam Newton, whom he\\u2019d coached for nine seasons dating to his rookie year, preferring to give Haskins an opportunity to keep his starting job. Washington acquired Allen from Carolina instead, and Smith was cleared for full contact \", \" since the broken leg and subsequent medical troubles he had to overcome.\", \"Haskins was made the Week 1 starter, and Rivera saw some of Newton\\u2019s qualities in the 2019 first-round pick out of Ohio State. Leading a comeback against Philadelphia after no preseason work in new offensive coordinator Scott Turner\\u2019s system was a good start.\", \"It was downhill from there. Haskins completed 72 of 115 passing attempts, threw three touchdowns and three interceptions and was sacked 10 times during Washington\\u2019s three game skid.\", \"Overall, Haskins has thrown for 939 yards and has completed 61% of his passes, with four touchdowns and three interceptions.\", \"\\u201cWe\\u2019ve been trying to do things to play toward his strengths,\\u201d Turner said. \\u201cWe just feel like at this point he\\u2019s got a little ways to go. There\\u2019s been some mistakes that showed up that were kind of repeat-type mistakes.\\u201d\", \"As a rookie, Haskins had 1,365 yards passing, seven TDs and seven interceptions and completed 58.6% of his throws. Washington went 2-5 in his starts last year.\", \"Agent David Mulugheta tweeted Sunday pointing out Haskins\\u2019 limited opportunity as a starter, the new system, lack of weapons and young offensive line contributing to the current situation. \", \"Rivera was looking for growth from Haskins and didn\\u2019t see enough in Sunday\\u2019s 31-17 loss to Baltimore. A key play came on fourth-and-goal from the 13-yard line, with Haskins managing only a 5-yard pass to the 8, turning the ball over on downs.\", \"\\u201cThe one thing a lot of people don\\u2019t see is the frustration on the sidelines of the other players, as well,\\u201d Rivera said. \\u201cI see that. I feel that. The guys want to win. Right now, where his development is, I think our best shot to win now is with guys that have been in the system.\\u201d\", \"That\\u2019s Allen, who is familiar with Turner from their time together in Carolina. The 24-year-old took over for Rivera\\u2019s Panthers last season when Newton was injured and feels ready to jump in with Washington. \", \"Allen only has slightly more experience than Haskins: 13 pro starts and 15 appearances in which he has thrown for 19 TDs and 16 INTs. But the familiarity is his benefit, along with watching the first four games from the sideline.\", \"\\u201cI just need to go out there and be myself,\\u201d Allen said. \\u201cI don\\u2019t think there\\u2019s anything extra that needs to be done or anything over the top. I think we just need to go out there and execute and do our thing. We\\u2019re a good enough team.\\u201d\", \"After \", \", Smith is now one injury to Allen away from completing a remarkable comeback. Rivera is confident putting the 36-year-old into a game because doctors have said it\\u2019s safe. \", \"\\u201cWe feel good about Alex\\u2019s progression physically,\\u201d said Turner, who confirmed Smith has not been hit in practice despite his unique circumstances. \\u201cThis is the next step with him.\\u201d\", \"___\", \"AP Sports Writer Howard Fendrich contributed.\", \"___\", \"More AP NFL: https://apnews.com/NFL and https://twitter.com/AP_NFL\"]}\n][\n{\"url\": \"https://news.yahoo.com/how-to-watch-the-vice-presidential-debate-live-on-yahoo-140949164.html?soc_src=hl-viewer&soc_trk=tw\", \"source\": \"Yahoo News\", \"title\": \"How to watch the vice presidential debate live on Yahoo\", \"description\": \"Vice President Mike Pence and Sen. Kamala Harris will face off in their first and only debate at 9 p.m. ET on Wednesday.\", \"date\": \"2020-10-07T14:09:49.000Z\", \"author\": \"Julia Munslow\", \"text\": [\"Vice President Mike Pence and Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris will face off in their first and only debate at 9 p.m. ET on Wednesday, Oct. 7 at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City.\\u00a0\", \"Yahoo News will provide \", \" during the debates from our own team of journalists and our network of premium news partners.\\u00a0\", \"To watch Wednesday\\u2019s showdown and the future presidential debates, you can tune in on \", \", the\", \" or the \", \".\", \"The debates will also stream on several Yahoo social media channels, including \", \", \", \", \", \", \", \" and \", \".\\u00a0\", \"Below is information on remaining debates for the 2020 election. Both begin at 9 p.m. ET and will last for about 90 minutes.\\u00a0\\u00a0\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://news.yahoo.com/india-media-frenzy-over-sushant-170043766.html\", \"source\": \"Yahoo News\", \"title\": \"Is India\\u2019s Media Frenzy Over Sushant Singh Rajput\\u2019s Death a Bollywood Circus or a Political Distraction?\", \"description\": \"Indian media, fueled by aggressive television anchors, has worked itself into an unprecedented feeding frenzy since the death of popular 34-year-old actor...\", \"date\": \"2020-10-07T17:00:43.000Z\", \"author\": \"Naman Ramachandran\", \"text\": [\"Indian media, fueled by aggressive television anchors, has worked itself into an unprecedented feeding frenzy since the death of popular 34-year-old actor \", \" at his Mumbai home June 14. The question now is whether this is \", \" on self-destruct or a further example of media manipulation in service of a conservative political agenda.\", \"The Mumbai police initially ruled the death a suicide. But media and the public found it difficult to accept that a successful actor with hits like \\u201cM.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story\\u201d and \\u201cKedarnath\\u201d under his belt would take his life. Within days of Rajput\\u2019s death, rumors involving the highest echelons of Bollywood circulated on social media and WhatsApp, suggesting that the self-made outsider from a small town was depressed as a result of being shunned in the elite, nepotistic circles of the film industry.\", \"By the end of July, when the police ruled out foul play, the narrative changed. The star\\u2019s father, K.K. Singh, accused Rajput\\u2019s former girlfriend, the actor Rhea Chakraborty, and her family of abetting suicide and financial misappropriation. India\\u2019s Enforcement Directorate for financial crimes began an investigation. The following month, the Supreme Court transferred the investigation of Rajput\\u2019s death to the Central Bureau of Investigation and rumors that Rajput was murdered began to circulate.\", \"By the end of August, the narrative changed yet again, and a third national investigative body, the Narcotics Control Bureau, got into the act. In early September, Chakraborty was arrested on suspicion of supplying marijuana to Rajput.\", \"Haranguing television anchors appointed themselves judge and jury, with daily trials on primetime television. Matters went into overdrive when WhatsApp messages with Chakraborty led the NCB to haul in actors Deepika Padukone (\\u201cxXx: Return of Xander Cage\\u201d), Sara Ali Khan, Rakul Preet Singh and Shraddha Kapoor for drug-related questioning. Prominent filmmaker Karan Johar was forced to issue a statement denying claims that drugs were consumed at a party at his home in 2019.\", \"So far, so Bollywood. But the political angles are rarely far from the surface. Why have only women been called by the NCB? Why is free-spirited Bollywood \\u2014 which has often led the social agenda on issues including gender identity, arranged marriages and religious integration \\u2014 under attack?\", \"Liberal filmmaker Hansal Mehta, known for Muslim rights biopic \\u201cShahid\\u201d and seminal gay rights film \\u201cAligarh,\\u201d is a trenchant presence on Twitter. \\u201cThese are entertainment channels masquerading as news channels,\\u201d Mehta tells \", \". \\u201cWhat they are doing is, in the absence of entertainment at the multiplexes, providing us daily entertainment featuring Bollywood stars on news channels.\\u201d\", \"Mehta cites several burning issues in India, like contentious farm legislation, unemployment, plunging GDP and toxic pandemic numbers (6.3 million infected and counting), that have taken a backseat to the daily drip feeds that Indian news channels claim are leaked to them by the investigative agencies. A producer who wished to remain anonymous for fear of being targeted in an increasingly authoritarian political atmosphere, tells \", \": \\u201cThe fascists have found Bollywood as a tool for policing thought. The media is completely manipulated, including social media.\\u201d\", \"Civil society has been under attack from the Modi government, which seems to accept no other authority or version of the truth. Human rights activists languish in jail. Amnesty International recently closed down its India operations after years of frustration. \\u201cWe are in an undeclared state of emergency,\\u201d the producer says.\", \"Chandraprakash Dwivedi is a respected chronicler of Indian history and culture via his film and television output, including \\u201cChanakya,\\u201d \\u201cPinjar,\\u201d \\u201cUpanishad Ganga\\u201d and the upcoming historical epic film \\u201cPrithviraj,\\u201d starring top Bollywood actor Akshay Kumar. Dwivedi describes the\", \" current scenario in India as a \\u201cmedia circus\\u201d but disagrees that it is in the service of diverting attention from other issues. \\u201cAll the [TV] channels cannot work on the agenda of any government,\\u201d he tells \", \". \\u201cSo this projection that it is to divert attention from success or failure of the government, I do not buy this argument.\\u201d\", \"The general audience appears to be consuming the ongoing drama with relish. \\u201cSuddenly you are getting a peek into their homes, their lives,\\u201d says Mehta, referring to Bollywood stars on daily primetime display.\", \"On Oct. 2, Johar tweeted a letter to Prime Minister Modi, with leading filmmakers Rajkumar Hirani, Aanand L. Rai, Rohit Shetty, Sajid Nadiadwala, Ekta Kapoor and Dinesh Vijan tagged, launching the Change Within initiative to celebrate the 75th anniversary of India\\u2019s independence.\", \"The following day, Kumar released a video saying that the industry has a drug problem but that not all Bollywood stars should be tarred with the same brush.\", \"On Oct. 7, Chakraborty was released on bail by the Bombay High Court that found no merit in the NCB\\u2019s charge of \\u201cfinancing and harbouring illegal drug trafficking.\\u201d The court also rejected the prosecution\\u2019s argument that \\u201ccelebrities and role models should be treated harshly so that it sets an example for the young generation,\\u201d saying that the law of the land is the same for everyone.\", \"Mehta is saddened by the general perception of Bollywood caused by the media maelstrom.\", \"\\u201cWe are still providing livelihoods through this tough time,\\u201d he says. \\u201cWe are providing content to the ecosystem that is still running \\u2014 the OTTs, and the audiences are getting films and shows to watch. Rather than appreciating that, there is this campaign to vilify and make us look like drug addicts.\\u201d\", \"Sign up for \", \". For the latest news, follow us on \", \", \", \", and \", \".\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://news.yahoo.com/bollywood-actress-granted-bail-judge-163624833.html\", \"source\": \"Yahoo News\", \"title\": \"Bollywood actress granted bail as judge says no evidence she supplied drugs to stars\", \"description\": \"Bollywood actress Rhea Chakraborty has been granted bail nearly a month after she was arrested for allegedly supplying drugs to her late boyfriend, the actor...\", \"date\": \"2020-10-07T16:36:24.000Z\", \"author\": \"Joe Wallen\", \"text\": [\"Bollywood actress Rhea Chakraborty has been granted bail nearly a month after she was arrested for allegedly supplying drugs to her late boyfriend, the actor Sushant Singh Rajput.\", \"On Wednesday, a court in the city of Mumbai ordered the actress to be released on bail, saying there was yet no evidence Ms Chakraborty had supplied Mr Rajput with drugs or been involved in any trade in narcotics. There was no trial date set.\\u00a0\", \"Mr Rajput committed suicide in June, after which\\u00a0after which television networks\\u00a0leaked what they claimed were WhatsApp messages from Ms Chakraborty discussing drugs.\", \"The actress was then taken into custody by India's Central Bureau of Investigation for questioning.\", \"Activists slammed Ms Chakraborty's arrest and said she was the victim of a witch-hunt in the\\u00a0patriarchal country.\\u00a0\", \"Santish Maneshinde, the lawyer representing the actress, said he was delighted the \\\"hounding\\\" of Ms Chakraborty would now end.\", \"\\u201cThe arrest and custody of Rhea was totally unwarranted and beyond the reach of law,\\u201d said Mr Maneshinde.\", \"However, the saga has now spiralled into a probe into \", \" after Ms Chakraborty was allegedly pressured into naming 25 leading industry figures involved in the sale and consumption of narcotics.\", \"The police have since brought in other superstars for questioning, including Deepika Padukone and Sara Ali Khan, although details of the probe have not been made public. They all deny the allegations.\\u00a0\", \"On Saturday, another Bollywood star, Akshay Kumar, posted a four-minute video to his Twitter account in which he admitted there was \", \" within the\\u00a0film industry.\", \"Mr Kumar said that while the issue needed to be resolved, the Indian public should understand that not all Bollywood stars are narcotics users.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://news.yahoo.com/drop-visitors-hawaii-leads-hundreds-200041078.html\", \"source\": \"Yahoo News\", \"title\": \"Drop in visitors from Hawaii leads to hundreds of layoffs at two Las Vegas hotels\", \"description\": \"The cuts come at a time when Nevada recorded a 13.2%\\u00a0unemployment rate\\u00a0\\u2013 the highest in the nation \\u2013\\u00a0in the month of August.\", \"date\": \"2020-10-07T20:00:41.000Z\", \"author\": \"Ed Komenda, Reno Gazette Journal\", \"text\": [\"LAS VEGAS\\u00a0\\u2013 A decline in travel between\\u00a0Hawaii and Southern Nevada has led\\u00a0U.S. casino company\\u00a0Boyd Gaming to\\u00a0cut\\u00a0almost 300\\u00a0workers at two\\u00a0downtown hotels.\", \"In letters to Nevada unemployment officials, Boyd revealed 284 employees at the California Hotel and Casino\\u00a0and Main Street Station will lose their jobs on Nov. 13.\", \"\\\"As we are all aware, the pandemic continues with no predictable date for its end,\\\" a\\u00a0\", \".\\u00a0\\u201cThe economy continues to struggle and extended travel-related restrictions are preventing many customers from visiting our properties.\\u201d\", \"The layoffs \\u2013 116 at Main Street and 168\\u00a0at California \\u2013\\u00a0impact every manner of casino worker, including bartenders, chefs, cocktail servers and card dealers.\", \"\\\"The reductions are the direct result of continued declines in tourism to Las Vegas, particularly from the Hawaiian market,\\\" Boyd spokesman David Strow said in an email.\\u00a0\", \"Historically, Boyd's downtown properties have been dependent on tourists\\u00a0from Hawaii. \", \" have led to a\\u00a0steep drop\\u00a0in visitors to\\u00a0destinations like Las Vegas.\", \" by \", \" on Scribd\", \"The cuts come at a time when Nevada \", \"\\u00a0\\u2013 the highest in the nation \\u2013\\u00a0in the month of August, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. In Las Vegas, the jobless rate \", \".\\u00a0\", \"In July, Boyd Gaming\\u00a0\", \"\\u00a0in 10 states as visitation levels remained\\u00a0far below pre-pandemic levels. The layoffs impacted at least 25% of Boyd's\\u00a024,300 employees \\u2013 a total of\\u00a06,075.\\u00a0\", \"Boyd is best known for the Fremont Hotel, California Hotel and Casino,\\u00a0Gold Coast, Sam\\u2019s Town, Suncoast and The Orleans resorts in Las Vegas.\\u00a0\", \"The publicly traded Las Vegas company had about 10,000 employees in Southern Nevada and another 14,300 nationally, according to its last annual report.\", \"It has properties in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, Ohio and Pennsylvania. All company casinos have reopened, except three in Las Vegas.\", \"The Nevada closures in mid-March followed an order by Gov. Steve Sisolak aimed at reducing the spread of COVID-19.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://news.yahoo.com/bollywood-actress-center-media-frenzy-142258391.html\", \"source\": \"Yahoo News\", \"title\": \"Bollywood actress at the center of media frenzy granted bail\", \"description\": \"A Bollywood actress who was arrested by India&#39;s narcotics agency, setting off a media frenzy that has gripped the nation, walked out of jail on Wednesday...\", \"date\": \"2020-10-07T14:22:58.000Z\", \"author\": \"SHEIKH SAALIQ\", \"text\": [\"NEW DELHI (AP) \\u2014 A Bollywood actress who was arrested by India's narcotics agency, setting off a media frenzy that has gripped the nation, walked out of jail on Wednesday after being granted bail.\", \"Rhea Chakraborty was released from Bycula District Prison in Mumbai a month after being arrested for allegedly buying drugs for her boyfriend, popular movie actor Sushant Singh Rajput, who was found dead in a suspected suicide in June.\", \"India\\u2019s freewheeling TV news channels speculated that Chakraborty drove him to take his life and was part of a drug-dealing mafia in Bollywood, India's Mumbai-based film industry.\", \"The court in Mumbai on Wednesday said the actress was not part of any drug syndicate and had no criminal record. It said Chakraborty could not have financed or supported illegal drug trafficking as alleged by the narcotics agency.\", \"The 28-year-old actress' lawyer, Satish Maneshinde, said her arrest was \\u201ctotally unwarranted and beyond the reach of law.\\u201d\", \"Chakraborty\\u2019s brother, who was arrested in the same case and has also denied the charges, however, remains in custody.\", \"Rajput\\u2019s suspected suicide in June initially triggered a debate over mental health. But his family disputed Indian media reports that he suffered from mental illness and lodged a police complaint accusing Chakraborty of abetment of suicide. She has denied the allegation.\", \"Many Indian television news channels then declared Chakraborty guilty of Rajput\\u2019s death and claimed she had overdosed him on drugs. The TV channels have since spent months obsessing over the case, at the expense of other issues such as India\\u2019s stalling economy, the government\\u2019s virus response and growing hostilities with China over a border dispute.\", \"Earlier this week, a panel of doctors examining Rajput\\u2019s autopsy reports at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, a leading public hospital in New Delhi, submitted a report to the Central Bureau of Investigation that ruled out murder as a cause of the actor's death.\", \"Rajput, 34, was found dead in his Mumbai apartment on June 14. Police listed the cause of death as asphyxia by hanging and said he appeared to have taken his own life. The case is still being investigated.\", \"Rajput, an engineering student who grew up in Bihar, India\\u2019s poorest state, was the quintessential outsider who managed to open the doors of Bollywood and craft a brief but successful acting career.\", \"After Chakraborty\\u2019s arrest in September, the federal narcotics agency also questioned other actresses in a parallel investigation into claims of widespread drug use and trafficking in Bollywood.\", \"No date has been set for Chakraborty's trial.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://news.yahoo.com/trump-authorizes-declassification-documents-related-093730369.html\", \"source\": \"Yahoo News\", \"title\": \"Trump authorizes declassification of documents related to Russia probe\", \"description\": \"Declassified documents reveal former CIA Director John Brennan briefed Obama on Hillary Clinton&#39;s plan to tie Trump to Russia; reaction from former...\", \"date\": \"2020-10-07T09:37:30.000Z\", \"author\": \"FOX News Videos\", \"text\": [\"Declassified documents reveal former CIA Director John Brennan briefed Obama on Hillary Clinton's plan to tie Trump to Russia; reaction from former California GOP party chair Tom Del Beccaro.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://news.yahoo.com/hurricane-delta-grew-tropical-storm-231700211.html\", \"source\": \"Yahoo News\", \"title\": \"Hurricane Delta grew from a tropical storm to a Category 4 hurricane in 1 day. Here's how cyclones are now intensifying so quickly.\", \"description\": \"Hurricane Delta has whipped winds faster and faster in a process of rapid intensification. As oceans warm, experts expect more powerful cyclones.\", \"date\": \"2020-10-06T23:17:00.000Z\", \"author\": \"Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Aylin Woodward\", \"text\": [\"In the span of a single day, \", \" swelled from a tropical storm to a major hurricane. It's churning toward Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, where it's expected to make landfall late Tuesday or early Wednesday. Then forecasts suggest it could move back over water and make a second landfall in Louisiana later this week.\", \"By Tuesday morning, Delta had whipped itself into a 130-mph frenzy, making it an \\\"extremely dangerous\\\" Category 4 hurricane, according to the National Hurricane Center. But 24 hours prior, its winds were just 45 mph.\", \"That swift change is called \", \" \\u2014 the term refers to a process in which a tropical cyclone's maximum sustained winds increase by 35 mph in just 24 hours. Hurricane \", \" did the same thing in August, when it jumped from a Category 1 to a Category 4 in one day.\", \"Delta has not stopped intensifying since it emerged. As of Tuesday evening, the storm's winds were wailing at 145 mph.\", \"\\\"No other Atlantic hurricane has ever strengthened this much this quickly immediately after it formed,\\\" meteorologist Eric Holthaus \", \" on Twitter. \\\"We are in a climate emergency.\\\"\", \"Climate change makes hurricanes more frequent and devastating, on average, than they would otherwise be.\", \"That's because storms feed on warm water, and higher water temperatures lead to sea-level rise, which in turn increases the risk of flooding during high tides and storm surges. Warmer air also holds more atmospheric water vapor, which enables tropical storms to strengthen and unleash more precipitation.\", \"\\\"Our confidence continues to grow that storms have become stronger, and it is linked to climate change, and they will continue to get stronger as the world continues to warm,\\\" James Kossin, an atmospheric scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, told the \", \" in August.\", \" are vast, low-pressure tropical cyclones with wind speeds over 74 mph. They form over warm water near the equator, when sea surface temperature is at least 80 degrees, according to \", \".\", \"That's because when warm moisture rises from the ocean, it releases energy and forms thunderstorms. As more thunderstorms appear, the winds spiral upward and outward, creating a vortex. Clouds then form in the upper atmosphere as the warm air condenses, and an area of low pressure forms over the ocean's surface. Then hurricanes just need low wind shear \\u2014 a lack of prevailing wind \\u2014 to form their cyclonic shape.\", \"Cyclones start out as tropical depressions, with sustained wind speeds below 39 mph. Once winds pass that threshold, the cyclone becomes a tropical storm. Then above 74 mph, the storm is considered a Category 1 hurricane on the \", \"\\u00a0scale.\\u00a0\", \"The Atlantic\\u00a0\", \" generally runs from June through November, with storm activity peaking around September 10. On average, the Atlantic sees six hurricanes during a season, with three of them developing into major hurricanes (Category 3 or above).\", \"So far, 2020 has seen nine Atlantic hurricanes, three that became major.\", \"In total, the Atlantic Ocean has produced 25 named storms in just six months. That's just three fewer than in 2005, which had the greatest number of named storms in history. But 2020 is ahead of the 2005 season by more than a month, so is likely to break the record.\", \"As ocean temperatures increase, we're seeing\\u00a0\", \" because water temperatures influence the wind speed of storms above. A 1-degree-Fahrenheit rise in ocean temperature can increase a storm's wind speed by 15 to 20 miles per hour, \", \".\", \"That also enables storms to intensify and\\u00a0\", \"\\u00a0in less time.\", \"\\\"Rapid intensification events are more likely because of climate change,\\\" Kossin told the Post.\", \"In a recent\\u00a0\", \", Kossin's team found that each new decade over the last 40 years has brought an 8% increase in the chance that a storm turns into a major hurricane.\", \"\\\"Almost all of the damage and mortality caused by hurricanes is done by major hurricanes,\\\" Kossin told\\u00a0\", \". \\\"Increasing the likelihood of having a major hurricane will certainly increase this risk.\\\"\", \"Generally, a strong storm also brings a storm surge: an abnormal rise of water above the predicted tide level. If a storm's winds are blowing toward the shore and the tide is high, storm surges can cause water levels to rise as rapidly as\\u00a0\", \" along a coast. Higher sea levels lead to more destructive storm surges.\", \"Even if we were to cut emissions dramatically starting today, some sea-level rise is already inevitable, since the planet's oceans absorb 93% of the extra heat that greenhouse gases trap, and water (like most things) expands when heated.\", \"Over the past 70 years or so, the speed at which hurricanes and tropical storms travel has dropped about 10%, \", \". Over land in the North Atlantic and Western North Pacific specifically, storms are\\u00a0\", \".\", \"That gives a storm more time to pummel an area with powerful winds and rain.\", \"To make matters worse,\\u00a0\", \", so a 10% slowdown in a storm's pace could double the amount of rainfall and flooding that an area experiences. The peak\\u00a0\", \" over the past 60 years.\", \"Hurricane Harvey in 2017 was a prime example of this: After it made landfall, Harvey weakened to a tropical storm,\\u00a0 then stalled for days over Houston, \", \". The storm flooded much of the city, killed more than 100 people, and caused $125 billion in damages.\", \"Climate scientist Michael Mann\\u00a0\", \" that Hurricane Harvey \\\"was almost certainly more intense than it would have been in the absence of human-caused warming.\\\"\", \"Hurricane Dorian did something similar last year when it hung over the Bahamas, \", \" with 185-mph winds and up to 30 inches of rain. Although the country's government only counted 74 dead, a NOAA \", \" estimated that more than 200 people died in the storm.\", \"Read the original article on \"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://news.yahoo.com/republicans-ditch-trump-save-senate-083753026.html\", \"source\": \"Yahoo News\", \"title\": \"Republicans: Ditch Trump, Save the Senate\", \"description\": \"Increasingly convinced that President Donald Trump\\u2019s election chances are grim, top Republican donors, lobbyists, and operatives are directing their...\", \"date\": \"2020-10-07T08:37:53.000Z\", \"author\": \"Sam Stein, Lachlan Markay\", \"text\": [\"Increasingly convinced that President Donald Trump\\u2019s election chances are grim, top Republican donors, lobbyists, and operatives are directing their attention to the Senate in hopes of keeping a majority in the chamber and, with it, a check on a future President Joe Biden.\", \"Top GOP money men said that efforts to shift resources to Republicans running for the Senate have been happening for weeks, as Trump\\u2019s chances have not improved\\u2014indeed, worsened\\u2014and as the party\\u2019s candidates have been dramatically outraised.\", \"\\u201cThere is no discussion among donors about giving money to the president,\\u201d said one prominent GOP donor. \\u201cThe discussion among donors, bundlers and check writers is about the Senate seats.\\u201d\", \"But among seasoned GOP operatives, the imperative to prioritize down-ballot races has only increased in recent days amid Trump\\u2019s shaky debate performance and his infection with COVID-19. The argument is one of political triage: the party must use the specter of uniform Democratic control of Washington to save more viable Republicans, not just in the Senate\\u2014where the party very well could retain control\\u2014but also the House, where continued minority status seems almost assured.\", \"Tom Davis, the former head of the National Republican Congressional Committee, said he had sent Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN), the current NRCC chair, a memo laying out the case for selling voters the benefits of a divided government, with the implication that they would support congressional Republicans if they viewed them as a bulwark against Biden.\", \"\\u201cThis is the time you have to make tough decisions,\\u201d Davis said, of the party allocating its resources. \\u201cYou have to let voters know there is a price if you sweep Democrats into office.\\u201d\", \"\\u201cThere are a lot of people who voted Republican for years till Trump,\\u201d he added. \\u201cThey haven\\u2019t changed their philosophies. So, they\\u2019re still getable. You have to make the argument that, \\u2018Look, you can displace Trump, but you still need a Republican Senate to hold Biden in check.\\u2019\\u201d\", \"Republican veterans say there is a template for trying to focus the party\\u2019s attention and resources on down-ballot races while allowing the presidential candidate to drift. The GOP was able to do so successfully in 1996, with the party holding both chambers of Congress even as Bill Clinton coasted to re-election. Should Biden win this go around, Republicans can only afford to lose three Senate seats, as they\\u2019re likely to gain one in Alabama.\", \"The circumstances are far different 24 years later for other reasons as well. All of the sources interviewed for this piece acknowledged that the strategy carried risk, mainly because it is assumed that the party\\u2019s prospects writ large are tied to Trump\\u2019s core supporters coming out in droves.\", \"And yet, signs that some in the GOP are thinking of subtle ways to cut bait are starting to appear. Several operatives pointed to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell\\u2019s increased warnings about Democrats expanding the Supreme Court, pushing for Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia to be granted statehood, and axing the legislative filibuster\\u2014all propositions whose likelihoods are predicated on Biden winning.\", \"\\u201cHe\\u2019s already moving into those talking points. And that is by design \\u201d said one top GOP operative.\", \"There are also signs that some of Trump\\u2019s biggest financial supporters of yore are now devoting more resources to holding onto the Senate than they are to re-electing the president.\", \"Steve Wynn, the disgraced casino mogul who ran fundraising for the Republican National Committee early in Trump\\u2019s tenure, took a brief hiatus from high-dollar political giving after dozens of people relayed allegations of sexual assault and misconduct against him (Wynn denies the allegations, but resigned from his eponymous company, Wynn Resorts, in early 2018). Those allegations were \", \" by the \", \" just days after Wynn cut a $500,000 check to America First Action.\", \"After his fall from grace, Wynn\\u2019s political giving mostly dropped off. But it resumed in a big way this year. In 2020 alone, he\\u2019s given $4 million to the Senate Leadership Fund and $1.5 million to American Crossroads, making him the latter\\u2019s single largest donor as it tries to beat back a challenge to Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC). Wynn has also donated to McConnell\\u2019s campaign and PAC this year, and made six figure contributions to the National Republican Senatorial Committee and one of its joint fundraising accounts.\", \"He has also contributed to the Trump campaign this year, but the sums are significantly smaller\\u2014under half a million dollars to Trump Victory, a joint fundraising committee benefitting the RNC and the Trump campaign, and under $400,000 to the RNC. He\\u2019s given nothing to pro-Trump super PACs since that donation in early 2018.\", \"Among the GOP\\u2019s donor base in business and finance, the incentive structure is increasingly geared towards hanging onto levers of power that could check a Democratic administration\\u2014even if it means cutting bait when it comes to the White House. One top Republican lobbyist, for instance, said that corporate clients have become increasingly invested in trying to retain GOP control of the Senate for fear of the tax legislation that could originate from a Nancy Pelosi-run House and find its way to Biden\\u2019s desk.\", \"\\u201cDivided government is good for most donors and most of corporate America,\\u201d the lobbyist stressed.\", \"And a major GOP donor based in the Midwest said that donors were increasingly focused on the Senate contests\\u2014at the expense of the presidential\\u2014because they have come to view Trump\\u2019s campaign as an irrational entity in which to invest. Mere minutes after that donor talked up the virtues of propping up Senate institutionalists, Trump tweeted that he was unilaterally ending negotiations over a COVID-related stimulus deal. The donor promptly called back.\", \"\\u201cWhat\\u2019s happening in the stock market proves my point,\\u201d he said, a sense of exasperation evident in his voice. \\u201cEverything was up and now it\\u2019s down 300 points cuz a guy sent a tweet. I don\\u2019t care if it\\u2019s the head of Goldman Sachs or a food bank. They\\u2019re gonna say, this is crazy.\\u201d\", \"The Trump campaign did not respond to a request for comment. But the president has been in this predicament before. Following the release of the \", \" tapes at this very same juncture during the 2016 presidential campaign, there was a growing chorus of Republicans calling for the party to consolidate ranks around congressional candidates for the inevitability of a Hillary Clinton presidency. Trump went on to win.\", \"This time around, Trump\\u2019s base of financial support is arguably more considerable. Putting aside the more than $400 million raised by his re-election campaign through August, he also now enjoys the backing of two high-dollar super PACs, America First Action and Preserve America PAC.\", \"But the president also trailed Biden by nearly $60 million in cash on hand at the end of August, the most recent reporting period. His campaign has taken down ads in various states as an effort to consolidate and prioritize resources. And there is scant desire among the formal GOP party operatives to come to the aid of a candidate who has spent his time in the political spotlight mocking, degrading, and attacking them.\", \"\\u201cWhy should the party put more effort into winning the race than the president himself?\\u201d asked Rory Cooper, a longtime Republican operative and unapologetic Never Trumper. \\u201cPresident Trump is by all evidence doing more harm than good to his re-election chances. Three out of four voters don't approve of his response to COVID, meaning this includes his own supporters, and yet he triples down on what they don't like. He hasn't led a credible poll since February. Republicans need to work to hold the Senate and sell a check on a Biden agenda.\\u201d\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://news.yahoo.com/long-lines-reported-gas-stations-172341914.html\", \"source\": \"Yahoo News\", \"title\": \"Long Lines Reported at Gas Stations in Mexico Ahead of Hurricane Delta Landfall\", \"description\": \"Mexico braced for the impact of Hurricane Delta on October 6, right on the heels of Tropical Storm Gamma, which left at least six people dead amid heavy rain...\", \"date\": \"2020-10-06T17:23:41.000Z\", \"author\": \"Storyful\", \"text\": [\"Mexico braced for the impact of Hurricane Delta on October 6, right on the heels of Tropical Storm Gamma, which left at least \", \" amid heavy rain over the weekend.\", \"Delta was approaching the Yucat\\u00e1n Peninsula as a Category 4 storm, the National Hurricane Center (\", \") said.\", \"The \", \" expected an \\u201cextremely dangerous\\u201d storm surge starting on the evening of October 6. The storm \", \" over the course of 24 hours and was forecast to hit southeastern Mexico later in the week with \\u201cdirect aim\\u201d at Canc\\u00fan.\", \"This footage shared from Cozumel shows long lines at gas stations in anticipation of a shortage after the storm hits. Storefronts in the area were \", \" and tourists reported having to \", \"Similar scenes were reported in \", \".\", \"A hurricane warning was issued for Cozumel and Tulum. Credit: Israel Herrera via Storyful\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://news.yahoo.com/proposed-sri-lankan-charter-change-052242103.html\", \"source\": \"Yahoo News\", \"title\": \"Proposed Sri Lankan charter change raises rights concerns\", \"description\": \"A proposed amendment to Sri Lanka\\u2019s Constitution that would consolidate power in the president\\u2019s hands has raised concerns about the independence of the...\", \"date\": \"2020-10-07T05:22:42.000Z\", \"author\": \"KRISHAN FRANCIS\", \"text\": [\"COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) \\u2014 A proposed amendment to Sri Lanka\\u2019s Constitution that would consolidate power in the president\\u2019s hands has raised concerns about the independence of the country\\u2019s institutions and the impact on ethnic minorities who fear their rights could be undermined by a nationalistic Sinhala Buddhist parliamentary majority.\", \"If passed, the amendment will bring Parliament under the control of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who will have the power to dissolve the legislature, appoint top judges, have full immunity against any prosecution and make decisions critical for minorities, without checks.\", \"The constitution now allows presidential decisions to be questioned in court, gives the prime minister the power to appoint Cabinet ministers, grants independent commissions power to appoint officials to key institutions and bars dual citizens from holding political office.\", \"Rajapaksa renounced his dual U.S citizenship when he ran for president last year. The proposal allowing dual citizens to hold political office would further strengthen the Rajapaksa family's grip on political power by enabling another sibling who is a dual U.S. citizen to be appointed to Parliament.\", \"Rajapaksa\\u2019s older brother, former President Mahinda Rajapaksa, is now prime minister. Another older brother and three nephews are also lawmakers \\u2014 three of them ministers.\", \"Rajapaksa was elected last November promising to be the guardian of the majority Buddhist-Sinhalese. His mandate was endorsed in August elections in which his party gained control of nearly two-thirds of the country\\u2019s 225-member Parliament.\", \"His government is most likely to obtain the needed two-thirds support to pass the proposed amendment. However, several petitions have been filed in the Supreme Court seeking an order that the amendment also be subject to a public referendum.\", \"The constitution says certain provisions must be approved by a referendum.\", \"\\u201cThe government is heading toward dictatorial governance by weakening checks and balances in the system,\\u201d said lawyer and independent political columnist Subramanium Jothilingam.\", \"The amendment would allow Rajapaksa to head any number of ministries, appoint and fire ministers and select the police chief and members of the elections, public service, bribery and human rights commissions at his discretion.\", \"Jehan Perera from the independent National Peace Council think tank said public institutions may become politicized and serve the interests of the majority Buddhist-Sinhalese community if they come under the authority of one person.\", \"Rajapaksa\\u2019s election slogan of \\u201cone country, one law\\u201d is widely seen as a policy of centralized governance that rejects power sharing with the provinces, a long-standing demand of minority Tamils. Rajapaksa has rejected a Tamil demand for autonomy.\", \"Sri Lanka\\u2019s Tamil community, concentrated mostly in the north and east, consider themselves a distinct nation, entitled to rule a traditional homeland. Tamil rebels fought a nearly three-decade separatist war accusing Sinhalese-controlled governments of systemic marginalization.\", \"Government forces crushed the rebels in 2009, ending a war that claimed at least 100,000 lives.\", \"Earlier this year, Rajapaksa withdrew Sri Lanka from a U.N. Human Rights Council resolution in which it had agreed to investigate allegations of wartime abuses by both government forces and Tamil rebels.\", \"M.A. Sumanthiran, an ethnic Tamil lawmaker, said the weakening of Parliament would result in minority communities losing their voices.\", \"\\u201cThere will be power changing hands from the legislature to the executive. In the legislature all sections of the polity have a say, however small they may be,\\u201d he said. \\u201cEven if presidents win election with votes from minority groups, past experience has shown that they will only look after the interests of the majority community, from whom they received most of their votes.\\u201d\", \"Many minority Tamils and Muslims say they are worried about the government\\u2019s proposed actions.\", \"On Sept. 29, the government announced it will ban cattle slaughter, a decision analysts say was politically motivated to please the majority Sinhala Buddhist constituency. Buddhists as well as minority Hindus avoid beef for religious and cultural reasons.\", \"Many believe the decision was a direct affront to the Muslim community, which owns most of the slaughterhouses and beef stalls.\", \"Fazal Samsudeen, an Islamic preacher, said he fears government interference in religious laws, such as Islamic courts and banking, in the name of establishing a unified national law.\", \"Many majority Sinhalese find minority religious laws disconcerting because they help preserve the groups' separate identities, and support their incorporation into a common national law, Perera said.\", \"Jothilingam warned that a rise in nationalism could lead to conflicts with other countries, such as the United States and India, which have long called for power sharing with Tamil-majority provinces.\", \"\\u201cThe government is becoming a prisoner of ultra-nationalists. When you try to satisfy them, they will keeping increasing their demands and someday the government won\\u2019t be able to fulfill them without making enemies of powerful countries,\\u201d he said.\", \"\\u201cA small country can\\u2019t survive if it is isolated by the world community.\\u201d\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://news.yahoo.com/delta-went-tropical-storm-cat-205357955.html\", \"source\": \"Yahoo News\", \"title\": \"Delta went from tropical storm to Cat 4 hurricane in 24 hours. How did that happen?\", \"description\": \"Meteorologists are comparing it to Wilma, the most intense Atlantic hurricane on record. Here\\u2019s what you need to know.\", \"date\": \"2020-10-06T20:53:57.000Z\", \"author\": \"Mary Perez\", \"text\": [\"Hurricane Delta strengthened from a tropical storm to a Category 4 hurricane with 140 mph in 30 hours, making it the \", \" tropical storm in Atlantic basin history since Hurricane Wilma.\", \"The process is called rapid intensification, and Delta could get stronger yet.\", \"NOAA defines rapid intensification as an increase in the maximum sustained winds of a tropical cyclone by at least 34.5 mph in a 24-hour period. Hurricane Delta increased by 63 mph in 24 hours, according to the National Hurricane Center, going from a Category 1 on Monday to a Category 3 on Tuesday morning, with wind speeds of 115 mph. By 4 p.m. Tuesday, the wind speed was 145 mph.\", \"\\u201cOnce Hurricane Delta moves into the Gulf of Mexico, we will see rapid intensification. A brief period of Category 5 may not be out of the question,\\u201d said longtime Gulf Coast meteorologist Rocco Calaci said in his\", \".\", \"The Weather Channel\\u2019s Jim Cantore and others \", \" in 2005. He tweeted Tuesday, \\u201cThis is Wilma type rapid intensification!!\\u201d\", \"In one day, Oct. 19, 2005, \", \" strengthened from a Category 2 to the most intense Category 5 hurricane on record, according to the NHC.\", \"Cantore also said Monday that Gulfport has been in the cone of probability for hurricanes six times this year.\", \"\\u201cYesterday, the models expected Delta to become a hurricane by Wednesday and only reach Category 2 status,\\u201d said Calaci. \\u201cWell, that was definitely wrong! Delta became a hurricane last night and is already a strong Category 2 hurricane and will definitely hit category 4 by tomorrow afternoon.\\u201d\", \"On Tuesday, he said anxiety is building along the Gulf Coast as Hurricane Delta moves into the Gulf of Mexico \\u2014 \\u201cand it\\u2019s going to be a monster.\\u201d\", \"Powerful thunderstorms \", \" of the hurricane and southern quadrant as it moved through the Caribbean Sea on Tuesday.\", \"Environmental conditions are prime for intensification, with low vertical wind shear, deep warm waters and sufficient mid-level moisture that are expected to support additional rapid intensification through today, the NHC report said.\", \"It\\u2019s the earliest landing for a 25th named storm of the season and the first landfall of a storm named from the Greek alphabet.\", \"Oct 4 \\u2014 The cyclone formed over the Central Caribbean at 3 p.m. Sunday. Six hours later it was classified as Tropical Depression #26.\", \"Oct. 5 \\u2014 By 7 a.m. the depression strengthened into Tropical Storm Delta. It becomes a hurricane Monday night.\", \"Oct. 6 \\u2014 Delta had wind speeds of 63 mph at 5 a.m. that increased to 115 mph by the 10 a.m. report from the National Hurricane Center. Delta became a Category 4 storm, according to a 10:20 a.m. update from the National Weather service in New Orleans, with wind speeds of 130 mph. The speed had intensified to 140 mph by the 2 p.m. report.\", \"Forecast \\u2014 It\\u2019s first target is forecast to be the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico.\", \"\\u201cSome reduction in intensity is likely when Delta moves over land, but the environmental conditions over the southern Gulf of Mexico are expected to support re-strengthening, and the NHC intensity forecast shows a second peak in 48-72 hours,\\u201d the report said.\", \"Delta is forecast to make a second landfall Friday or Saturday along the northern Gulf Coast. Wind speeds are expected to weaken when Delta meets increasing southwesterly shear and cooler shelf waters near the coastline, but it is still expected to be a dangerous hurricane when it makes landfall.\", \"Accoridng to the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale:\", \"South Mississippi Coast saw Hurricane Laura go to the west into Louisiana, and Hurricane Sally last month make landfall near the Alabama-Florida border.\", \"Hurricane Laura made landfall in Louisiana on Aug. 29 \\u2014 15 years to the day after Hurricane Katrina \\u2014 and was the last storm to see rapid intensification.\", \"Laura went from a Category 1 with winds of 75 mph to a category 4 with winds of 140 mph \", \".\", \"In 2018 Hurricane Michael jumped from Category 2 to Category 5 in one day before hitting the Florida Panhandle.\", \"The major difference between Hurricane Delta and Hurricane Sally that dumped more than two feet of rain on parts of Florida is Delta is speed. Delta is moving much faster, with the latest report showing Delta has increased forward speed to 16 mph, while Sally was barely moving at 2 mph before it made landfall.\", \"Forecasters say a faster moving storm will bring less rain and less damage when it makes landfall compared to Sally.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://news.yahoo.com/russian-goes-trial-charges-carrying-141339719.html\", \"source\": \"Yahoo News\", \"title\": \"Russian goes on trial on charges of carrying out Kremlin-ordered killing in Berlin\", \"description\": \"The trial of a Russian man accused of carrying out a Kremlin-ordered assassination on German soil opened in Berlin on Wednesday. The case is expected to...\", \"date\": \"2020-10-07T14:13:39.000Z\", \"author\": \"Justin Huggler\", \"text\": [\"The trial of a Russian man accused of carrying out a Kremlin-ordered assassination on German soil opened in Berlin on Wednesday.\", \"The case is expected to further damage relations between Germany and Russia, which are already strained by the attempted poisoning of opposition leader Alexei Navalny.\", \"The defendant, a 55-year-old Russian, is accused of \", \" on orders from Moscow last year.\", \"Khangoshvili, a 40-year-old ethnic Chechen from Georgia, fought against Russia\\u00a0in the Chechnya war and had links to Georgian intelligence.\\u00a0\", \"The accused\\u2019s true identity is disputed and the judge said he would address him as \\u201cHerr Defendant\\u201d throughout the trial.\", \"According to the indictment read out in court, he was given orders \\u201cto liquidate the victim\\u201d by \\u201cRussian state agencies\\u201d.\\u00a0\", \"He entered Germany on a false passport in the name of Vadim Sokolov but prosecutors allege he is really Vadim Krasikov, a Russian hitman previously wanted for the murder of a businessman in Moscow.\", \"He is accused of approaching the unsuspecting Khangoshvili from behind on a bicycle in Berlin\\u2019s Kleiner Tiergarten park.\", \"Prosecutors allege he shot Khangoshvili in the upper body with a Glock handgun fitted with a silencer, then shot him twice in the head after he fell to the ground. He escaped on the bicycle but was later captured.\", \"No pleas are entered in the German legal system and the defendant did not make any statement.\", \"The case is being held under intense security in a secure courtroom, and the defendant is being held in a secret location over concerns about possible interference.\", \"The killing was already being spoken of as \\u201c\", \"\\u201d in Germany before the poisoning of Mr Navalny with Novichok, the same nerve agent used in the failed assassination attempt against Sergei Skripal in Salisbury.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://news.yahoo.com/celebs-respond-trump-telling-people-123117363.html\", \"source\": \"Yahoo News\", \"title\": \"Celebs respond to Trump telling people 'Don't be afraid of Covid': 'This is reckless to a shocking degree, even for you'\", \"description\": \"President Trump created a firestorm Monday when he tweeted, &quot;Don&#39;t be afraid of Covid,&quot; as he was leaving Walter Reed National Military Medical...\", \"date\": \"2020-10-06T12:31:17.000Z\", \"author\": \"Yahoo Entertainment\", \"text\": [\"President Trump created a firestorm Monday when he tweeted, \\\"Don't be afraid of Covid,\\\" as he was leaving Walter Reed National Military Medical Center to return to the White House.\", \"[MUSIC PLAYING]\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://news.yahoo.com/high-stakes-russian-hitman-trial-013259825.html\", \"source\": \"Yahoo News\", \"title\": \"High-stakes 'Russian hitman' trial opens in Berlin\", \"description\": \"A German court on Wednesday put a Russian man on trial over the assassination of a former Chechen commander in a Berlin park, allegedly on Moscow&#39;s...\", \"date\": \"2020-10-07T13:07:19.000Z\", \"author\": \"Isabelle LE PAGE\", \"text\": [\"A German court on Wednesday put a Russian man on trial over the assassination of a former Chechen commander in a Berlin park, allegedly on Moscow's orders, a case that risks worsening acrimonious ties between Germany and Russia.\", \"The 55-year-old named by prosecutors as Vadim Krasikov, alias Vadim Sokolov, stands accused of gunning down 40-year-old Georgian national Tornike Kavtarashvili in the Kleiner Tiergarten park on August 23 last year.\", \"The defendant has so far stayed mum over the case, but German prosecutors have alleged that Russia ordered the killing.\", \"In court on Wednesday, he told the court through his lawyer Robert Unger that he should be identified only as Vadim Sokolov, who is \\\"Russian, single and a construction engineer\\\". He denied being known as Krasikov, saying \\\"I know of no one by this name\\\".\", \"Prosecutors said the alleged killer was carrying out a \\\"state mission, whether for pay or because he shared the motives of his clients for killing a political opponent...as retaliation for his participation\\\" in a conflict with Russia.\", \"The brazen murder in the heart of the German capital appeared to be a tipping point for Chancellor Angela Merkel, who said in May that the killing \\\"disrupts a cooperation of trust\\\" between Berlin and Moscow.\", \"The German leader has always stressed the importance of keeping dialogue open with Russian President Vladimir Putin, but she has sharpened her tone in recent months.\\u00a0\", \"The trial comes with Europe already outraged over the poisoning in August of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, who is receiving treatment in Berlin.\", \"Germany has said that tests it carried out showed the 44-year-old was poisoned with a Novichok-type deadly nerve agent -- a finding corroborated by France, Sweden and the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW).\", \"Russia denies all allegations over the Berlin murder and Navalny's poisoning.\\u00a0\", \"But Merkel's government said Wednesday sanctions from the European Union over the Novichok attack may be \\\"unavoidable\\\".\", \" - Posed as a tourist - \", \"Given the high stakes, Wednesday's trial will be closely scrutinised for details pointing to \", \"Investigative website Bellingcat, which had named the suspect as Vadim Krasikov, said he grew up in Kazakhstan when it was part of the Soviet Union before moving to the Russian region of Siberia.\", \"He received training from Russia's FSB intelligence service and was part of its elite squad, the website said.\", \"Days before the August 2019 killing, he had posed as a tourist, visiting sights in Paris including the Eiffel Tower before travelling to Warsaw, according to a report in Der Spiegel weekly.\", \"He also toured the Polish capital before vanishing on August 22, without checking out from his hotel, the report said.\", \"A day later, riding a bicycle in Berlin's Kleiner Tiergarten park, the suspect approached the victim from behind, firing a Glock 26 pistol equipped with a silencer at the side of Kavtarashvili's torso, German prosecutors said.\", \"After the victim fell to the ground, the accused fired another two shots at his head that killed the Georgian on the spot.\", \"He was seen throwing a bag into the nearby Spree river from where police divers later recovered the Glock handgun, a wig and a bicycle, according to the prosecutors.\", \"The suspect was arrested after the killing, which took place just minutes away from the chancellery and the German parliament.\", \"Investigators later found his mobile phone and a return flight ticket for Moscow on August 25 in his hotel room in Warsaw, Spiegel reported.\", \" - 'Very cruel' - \", \"Putin had described the victim as a \\\"fighter, very cruel and bloody\\\" who had joined separatists against Russian forces in the Caucasus and also been involved in bombing attacks on the Moscow metro.\", \"Moscow also said it had been seeking his extradition.\", \"Named as Zelimkhan Khangoshvili by German media, the victim had survived two assassination attempts in Georgia.\", \"Following that, he sought asylum in Germany and had spent the past years in the country.\", \"Both the killing and Navalny's poisoning have been likened to the poisoning of former Russian agent Sergei Skripal in Britain in 2018, also widely blamed on Russian intelligence.\", \"If convicted, the suspect faces life in jail.\", \"ilp-hmn/dlc/fec/jj\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://news.yahoo.com/trump-coronavirus-morning-joe-host-182614665.html\", \"source\": \"Yahoo News\", \"title\": \"Trump coronavirus: Morning Joe host says president could be guilty of \\u2018manslaughter\\u2019 if he infects Secret Service and White House staff\", \"description\": \"\\u2018At some point isn\\u2019t this manslaughter?\\u2019 Ms Brzezinski said\", \"date\": \"2020-10-06T18:26:14.000Z\", \"author\": \"Danielle Zoellner\", \"text\": [\"MSNBC\\u2019s Morning Joe host Mika Brzezinski has questioned if President Donald Trump would face \\u201cmanslaughter\\u201d charges for potentially infecting the Secret Service and members of the White House with Covid-19.\", \"The question was posed on Tuesday as Ms Brzezinksi and guests on Morning Joe discussed the president\\u2019s dramatic journey back to the White House after he was discharged from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Monday.\", \"\\u201cMaybe the president is immune from everything, because he said, \\u2018Am I immune now?'\\u201d she said. \\u201cIs he legally immune? What if the Secret Service men and women who got exposed to the deadly coronavirus, what if someone gets sick and dies? I don\\u2019t want this to happen, I wish for his health but he\\u2019s pushing all of this against the advice of the professionals in his government, against the advice of scientists.\\u201d\", \"Mr Trump, who tested positive for Covid-19 on Thursday, walked up the steps of the White House to a balcony where he then took off his mask. The president\\u2019s doctors would not reveal if he was still infected with the novel virus, making it unclear if he could still spread it to others.\", \"The Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends for people to quarantine themselves away from others for 14 days after testing positive for the virus.\", \"Following the photo-op, Mr Trump reportedly entered the White House without wearing a mask and then conferred with a group of people, heightening criticism that the president was still not taking the virus seriously.\", \"\\u201cAt some point isn\\u2019t this manslaughter?\\u201d Ms Brzezinski said. \\u201cIf you purposely put people in a position that you send a deadly virus their way, what is that?\\u201d\", \"The president has faced backlash for multiple moments where he potentially infected others with the novel virus.\", \"White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, who tested positive on Monday, reportedly got off Marine One on Thursday when the president was heading to Bedminster, New Jersey, for a fundraiser. She got off the plane because senior aide Hope Hicks tested positive for the virus, but the president, who also met with Ms Hicks, still went to the fundraiser.\", \"He tested positive on Thursday evening after the fundraiser.\\u00a0\", \"The president also took a ride around Walter Reed on Sunday while hospitalised from Covid-19 to wave at supporters outside the medical centre. He was pictured inside an enclosed vehicle with Secret Service agents. Everyone was wearing a mask.\", \"Whether others in the White House have been exposed to the coronavirus is not yet known.\", \"Thus far, First Lady Melania Trump, Trump \\u201cbody man\\u201d Nick Luna, Former senior advisor Kellyanne Conway, Trump campaign manager Bill Stepien, Kayleigh McEnany, RNC chairwoman Ronna McDaniel, Senator Mike Lee, and Senator Thom Tillis, among others, have all tested positive in the last week.\", \"Read more\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://news.yahoo.com/should-the-supreme-court-have-term-limits-133552695.html\", \"source\": \"Yahoo News\", \"title\": \"Should the Supreme Court have term limits?\", \"description\": \"Would limiting Supreme Court justices to 18 year terms help prevent the brutal political battles that arise when a seat becomes available?\", \"date\": \"2020-09-29T13:35:52.000Z\", \"author\": \"Mike Bebernes\", \"text\": [\"The death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has spurred a partisan fight over her replacement and sparked a larger discussion about the structure of the court itself and whether major changes should be made to protect the legitimacy of the judiciary branch.\", \"Some Democrats have floated the idea of \\u201cpacking the court\\u201d (adding additional seats to offset the influence of conservative judges) if they take control of the Senate in 2021. The unexpected vacancy has also brought renewed attention to a long-simmering debate over whether Supreme Court justices should have term limits rather than lifelong appointments.\", \"Progressive Democrats are reportedly planning to introduce a bill in the House of Representatives \", \"and stagger the schedule of appointments so every president would get two nominations in a four-year term. Completely eliminating lifetime appointments would likely require a Constitutional amendment. This proposal, and others like it, get around that by allowing long-serving justices to hold a \\u201csenior\\u201d status in which they officially remain on the court but have limited duties.\", \"Supporters of term limits believe it would decrease the intensity of the Supreme Court confirmation process, which has become a brutal political slugfest in recent years. In turn, justices would be less likely to allow partisanship to color their rulings once they\\u2019re on the court, they say. A more regular schedule of appointments would also prevent what some consider antidemocratic tactics, like Republicans\\u2019 refusal to consider Barack Obama\\u2019s nominee in 2016, that in some views have undermined the public\\u2019s trust in the nation\\u2019s highest court.\\u00a0\", \"The Supreme Court is far too important, some argue, for its membership to be determined by whichever party happens to hold the White House and Senate when a sitting justice dies, especially since increasing life expectancy means that will happen less often. This randomness means some presidents have disproportionate influence over the court\\u2019s makeup, which can skew the balance of power in the country long after they\\u2019ve left office. No other democracy in the world gives lifetime appointments to members of its highest court. Others fear the court is on the brink of a legitimacy crisis. If \", \"is confirmed, a majority of the Supreme Court will have been appointed by presidents who lost the popular vote.\", \"Opponents of term limits say regular vacancies would worsen, not reduce, partisan bickering about the court. A new seat coming available every two years would mean Congress would always have an upcoming confirmation battle on the horizon. The Founding Fathers intended lifetime appointments to free Supreme Court justices of the day-to-day influence of politics, and critics say term limits would spoil that.\\u00a0\\u00a0\", \"There are also practical questions about how the limits might be implemented, since any plan would have to consider what to do with current justices, who were all named to lifetime seats. Depending on the proposal, it could be decades before a plan for term limits has any real influence on the makeup of the court.\", \"The Senate Judiciary Committee is scheduled to begin hearings on Barrett\\u2019s nomination in mid-October. It\\u2019s unclear at this time whether a confirmation vote will be held before or after the presidential election on Nov. 3. In the short term, the odds of any bill imposing term limits passing would almost certainly depend on Democrats taking back the Senate next year.\", \"\\u201cImplementing term limits for the Supreme Court would be a step toward repairing and normalizing a process that raises the stakes of vacancies beyond what our politics, or the human beings who serve on the Court, can comfortably bear. It would be one important way we could deescalate the stakes of American politics, and protect the system from total breakdown.\\u201d \\u2014 Ezra Klein, \", \"\\u201cIt\\u2019s time to end the unseemly position that the anachronism of life tenure for Supreme Court justices has put the country in. It\\u2019s a good thing that modern medicine is extending the lives of everyone, including Supreme Court justices. But the time has come to remove the incentives that make justices serve until they drop dead or are gaga.\\u201d \\u2014 John Fund, \", \"\\u201cStaggered term limits would ensure that electoral winners shaped the Supreme Court, not the Grim Reaper.\\u201d \\u2014 Elie Mystal, \", \"\\u201cOver time, more justices would have impact, preventing the idiosyncratic preferences of one or two individuals from determining U.S. jurisprudence for decades. This plan would also eliminate the incentive for presidents to pick young and relatively inexperienced judges merely because they are likely to live longer.\\u201d \\u2014 Editorial, \", \"\\u201cThis approach would end what has become a poisonous process of picking a Supreme Court justice. It would depoliticize the court and judicial selection, and thus promote the rule of law.\\u201d \\u2014 Steven G. Calabresi, \", \"\\u201cMore than any other branch of government, the courts \\u2014 and the Supreme Court in particular \\u2014 gain their power from the public trust. Yet today, lifetime tenure for justices, and the strange and morbid circumstances that result, threaten to undermine that trust.\\u201d \\u2014 David Litt, \", \"\\u201cTerm limits and regularly recurring vacancies might tone down the epic Supreme Court confirmation battles that have occurred roughly twice every eight years. But they might instead make knock-down, drag-outs a recurring part of the political landscape. An election preceding the end of a swing justice\\u2019s 18-year term could thrust the court into election year battles more intense than we\\u2019ve already seen.\\u201d \\u2014 Russell Wheeler, \", \"\\u201cThere are also transition problems. Since term limits wouldn\\u2019t apply to sitting justices, for decades we would have term-limited justices serving alongside life-tenured ones. \\u2026 Fixes could be put in place to prevent all this, but at some point the complications become more trouble than they\\u2019re worth.\\u201d \\u2014 Ilya Shapiro, \", \"\\u201c[Term limits] undermine the primary function of the judiciary, especially the Supreme Court: preventing political majorities from trampling on others\\u2019 constitutional rights. \\u2026 Judges without life tenure are less likely to act independently of the political branches or of public opinion, and thus cannot serve the purpose of holding the tyranny of the majority in check.\\u201d \\u2014 Suzanna Sherry, \", \"\\u201cIf Congress can impose an 18 year term, they can also impose one that is 3 years or 6 years, and use that power to get rid of Supreme Court justices whose decisions they dislike. When the opposing party comes to power, they can make the terms still shorter, and thereby get rid of justices they dislike.\\u201d \\u2014 Ilya Somin, \", \"\\u201cWait, why is it that once the court could go 6\\u20133 in favor of strict-constructionist originalist \\u2018conservative\\u2019 judges that we see this concern over lowering the temperature over fights for the Court?... I guess the legitimacy of the court is never at risk when it\\u2019s ruling in your favor.\\u201d \\u2014 Jim Geraghty, \"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://news.yahoo.com/russian-trial-accused-state-ordered-211717454.html\", \"source\": \"Yahoo News\", \"title\": \"Russian on trial accused of state-ordered Berlin execution\", \"description\": \"A Russian accused of killing a Georgian man in broad daylight in downtown Berlin on Moscow&#39;s orders went on trial for murder Wednesday, in a case that...\", \"date\": \"2020-10-06T21:17:17.000Z\", \"author\": \"DAVID RISING\", \"text\": [\"BERLIN (AP) \\u2014 A Russian accused of killing a Georgian man in broad daylight in downtown Berlin on Moscow's orders went on trial for murder Wednesday, in a case that has contributed to growing frictions between Germany and Russia.\", \"Prosecutor Ronald Georg said the defendant Vadim Krasikov, using the alias Vadim Solokov, traveled to the German capital last August on the orders of the Russian government to kill a Georgian citizen of Chechen ethnicity who fought Russian troops in Chechnya.\", \"\\u201cState agencies of the central government of the Russian Federation gave the defendant the contract to liquidate the Georgian citizen with Chechen roots,\\u201d Georg told the court, reading the indictment.\", \"\\u201cThe defendant took the contract, either for an unknown sum of money or because he shared the motive of those who gave the contract to liquidate the (victim) as a political enemy in revenge for his role in the second Chechen war and participation in other armed conflict against the Russian Federation.\\u201d\", \"No pleas are entered in the German trial system, and the defendant made only a short statement as the trial began under tight security and coronavirus precautions, saying that he had been misidentified.\", \"\\u201cI am Vadim Adreyevich Sokolov, not Vadim Nikolayevich Krasikov,\\\" he said through his attorney Robert Unger. \\u201cSuch a person is not known to me.\\\"\", \"After the Aug. 23, 2019 killing, Germany expelled two Russian diplomats last December over the case, prompting Russia to oust two German diplomats in retaliation.\", \"If the allegations against the 55-year-old suspect are proved in court, the case has the potential to exacerbate tensions between Moscow and Berlin, which have also been fueled by allegations of Russian involvement in the 2015 hacking of the German parliament and the theft of documents from Chancellor Angela Merkel's own office, as well as the poisoning of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny.\", \"Navalny fell ill on a flight in Russia on Aug 20, landing in a Siberian hospital. Two days later, he was transferred on Merkel's personal invitation to Berlin\\u2019s Charite hospital, where doctors concluded he had been poisoned by a Soviet-era nerve agent.\", \"Moscow has dismissed accusations of involvement in the Navalny case and denied ties in the parliamentary hacking, even though Merkel herself said there was \\u201chard evidence\\u201d of the latter.\", \"Russian President Vladimir Putin\\u2019s spokesman Dmitry Peskov called the allegations of Russian involvement in the Berlin killing \\u201cabsolutely groundless.\\u201d\", \"After Merkel confronted Putin about the killing at a meeting in Paris in December, the Russian leader called the victim, Zelimkhan \\u201cTornike\\u201d Khangoshvili, a \\u201cbandit\\u201d and a \\u201cmurderer,\\\" accusing him of killing scores of people during fighting in the Caucasus.\", \"The growing acrimony between the two countries comes at a delicate time, as Germany and Russia work towards the completion of a joint pipeline project to bring Russian gas directly to Germany under the Baltic, and work to try and salvage a nuclear deal with Iran that has been unraveling since President Donald Trump pulled the United States out of it unilaterally in 2018.\", \"Khangoshvili was a Georgian citizen of Chechen ethnicity who fought Russian troops in Chechnya. He had also volunteered to fight for a Georgian unit against the Russians in South Ossetia in 2008, but peace was negotiated before he took part. He had previously survived multiple assassination attempts and continued to receive threats after fleeing in 2016 to Germany, where he had been granted asylum.\", \"Prosecutors allege the killer approached Khangoshvili from behind on a bicycle in the small Kleiner Tiergarten park, shooting him twice in the torso with a silencer-fitted handgun. After Khangoshvili fell to the ground, the suspect fired two fatal shots into his head.\", \"Witnesses saw the suspect disposing of the bike, weapon and a wig in the Spree River as he fled the scene and alerted police, who quickly identified and arrested him.\", \"In their indictment, prosecutors allege there is ample evidence indicating official Russian involvement in the crime.\", \"German investigators used facial recognition to match the suspect to a photograph Russia had sent partner agencies in 2014 as it sought help finding Vadim Krasikov in connection with a killing in Moscow. That request was canceled on July 7, 2015, and a person with the identity of Vadim Sokolov first appears on Sept. 3, 2015, with a Russian passport.\", \"On July 18, 2019, Vadim S. obtained a new passport from an official office in the Russian city of Bryansk, which he used to apply for a French visa at the general consulate in Moscow, prosecutors said.\", \"Russian authorities confirmed the suspect\\u2019s passport, found on him at the time of his arrest, was valid, prosecutors said.\", \"He was granted the visa and flew on Aug. 17, 2019, from Moscow to Paris. In his visa application, prosecutors said the suspect claimed to work for a St. Petersburg firm known as Zao Rust.\", \"Investigators found that Zao Rust had only one employee in 2018 and on April 10, 2019, was listed as being in \\u201creorganization.\\u201d The company\\u2019s fax number was one used by two firms that are operated by the Russian Defense Ministry, prosecutors said.\", \"He left Paris on Aug. 20 and flew to Warsaw where he had a hotel booked until Aug. 25. Upon arrival, he extended his room to Aug. 26, but left at 8 a.m. on Aug. 22 and never returned, prosecutors said.\", \"It is not clear, they said, what he did between his departure from the hotel and the killing in Berlin at 11:55 a.m. on Aug. 23.\", \"The trial is scheduled through Jan. 27.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://news.yahoo.com/justice-department-just-announced-significant-183052805.html\", \"source\": \"Yahoo News\", \"title\": \"The Justice Department just announced a significant policy change that would allow prosecutors to take steps that could affect the outcome of the election\", \"description\": \"The DOJ&#39;s decision could place it on a collision course with the FBI and US intelligence community ahead of the November election.\", \"date\": \"2020-10-07T18:30:52.000Z\", \"author\": \"Sonam Sheth\", \"text\": [\"The Department of Justice (DOJ) made a significant change to a longstanding policy against election interference that would allow prosecutors to take steps that may alter the outcome of the election, \", \".\", \"The non-interference policy has been in place for at least the last four decades, according to the report, and it prohibits prosecutors from taking overt steps to address election-related offenses in the run-up to an election to avoid changing the outcome of the race.\", \"But an official in the DOJ's Public Integrity Section sent an email Friday saying that if a US attorney's office suspects postal workers or military employees engaged in election fraud, federal prosecutors can publicly take steps to investigate the matter before polls close, even if they affect the outcome, according to ProPublica.\", \"The exception to the policy applies to cases where \\\"the integrity of any component of the federal government is implicated by election offenses within the scope of the policy including but not limited to misconduct by federal officials or employees administering an aspect of the voting process through the United States Postal Service, the Department of Defense or any other federal department or agency.\\\"\", \"President Donald Trump has repeatedly and falsely suggested that sending mail-in ballots through the US Postal Service will lead to widespread voter fraud and delegitimize the result of the election. His administration took steps to \", \" while Trump amplified those claims. The president has also falsely suggested that ballots cast by military servicemembers are being illegally tossed out or manipulated.\", \"Wednesday's report comes one day after ProPublica published a separate piece highlighting that the DOJ may have violated its own non-interference policy when it \", \" in September saying it was investigating \\\"potential issues with mail-in ballots\\\" in Pennsylvania's Luzerne county.\", \"Initially, the department announced a \\\"small number of military ballots were discarded\\\" and that investigators had \\\"recovered nine ballots at this time.\\\" It added that \\\"all nine ballots were cast for presidential candidate Donald Trump.\\\"\", \"A second, revised statement said that \\\"of the nine ballots that were discarded and then recovered, 7 were cast for presidential candidate Donald Trump. Two of the discarded ballots had been resealed inside their appropriate envelopes by Luzerne elections staff prior to recovery by the FBI and the contents of those 2 ballots are unknown.\\\"\", \"Attorney General William Barr \", \" told Trump about the investigation, which the president and his allies seized on as evidence that proved his allegations about election fraud. As it turned out, the county and Pennsylvania secretary of state both confirmed that the ballots were discarded by mistake by a temporary contract worker who may have mistook them for mail ballot applications.\", \"Wednesday's report could also put the DOJ on a collision course with the FBI and US intelligence community, whose leaders \", \" this week reassuring voters of the integrity of the electoral process and countering many of Trump's claims about election rigging.\", \"\\\"Next month, we will exercise one of our most cherished rights and a foundation of our democracy \\u2013 the right to vote in a free and fair election,\\\" FBI director Christopher Wray said in the video. \\\"Some Americans will go to the polls on November 3rd to cast their votes, while others will be voting by mail; in fact, some have already begun to return their ballots.\\\"\", \"Chris Krebs, the director of the Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency, added: \\\"I'm here to tell you that my confidence in the security of your vote has never been higher. That's because of an all-of-nation, unprecedented election security effort over the last several years.\\\"\", \"Read the original article on \"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://news.yahoo.com/live-vp-debate-pence-kamala-harris-fact-check-stream-200006197.html\", \"source\": \"Yahoo News\", \"title\": \"Live: Watch and fact-check the vice presidential debate\", \"description\": \"Yahoo News will provide live fact checking and analysis during Wednesday night\\u2019s vice presidential debate, highlighting false and misleading claims made by...\", \"date\": \"2020-10-07T20:00:14.000Z\", \"author\": \"Dylan Stableford\", \"text\": [\"\\u2014\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://news.yahoo.com/facebook-trump-cant-recruit-army-213045310.html\", \"source\": \"Yahoo News\", \"title\": \"Facebook: Trump can't recruit 'army' of poll watchers under new voter intimidation rules\", \"description\": \"In a blog post Wednesday, Facebook  said it will no longer allow content that encourages poll watching that uses &quot;militarized&quot; language or intends ...\", \"date\": \"2020-10-07T21:30:45.000Z\", \"author\": \"Taylor Hatmaker\", \"text\": [\"In a blog post Wednesday, \", \" said it will no longer allow content that encourages poll watching that uses \\\"militarized\\\" language or intends to \\\"intimidate, exert control, or display power over election officials or voters.\\\" Facebook credited the update to its platform rules to civil rights experts who it worked with to create the policy.\", \"Facebook Vice President of Content Policy Monika Bickert elaborated on the new rules in a call with reporters, noting that wording would prohibit posts that use words like \\\"army\\\" or \\\"battle\\\" \\u2014 a choice that appears to take direct aim at the Trump campaign's effort to \", \" to watch the polls on election day. Last month, Donald Trump Jr. called for supporters to \\\"enlist now\\\" in an \\\"army for Trump election security operation\\\" in a video that was posted on Facebook and other social platforms.\", \"\\\"Under the new policy if that video were to be posted again, we would indeed remove it,\\\" Bickert said.\", \"The company says that while posts calling for \\\"coordinated interference\\\" or showing up armed at polling places are already targeted for removal, the expanded policy will more fully address voter intimidation concerns. Facebook will apply the expanded policy going forward but it won't affect content already on the platform, including the Trump Jr. post.\", \"Poll watching to ensure fair elections is a regular part of the process, but weaponizing those observers to seek evidence for unfounded claims about \\\"fraudulent ballots\\\" and a \\\"rigged\\\" election is something new \\u2014 and something \", \". Poll watching laws \", \" and some states limit how many poll watchers can be present and how they must identify themselves.\", \"Trump has repeatedly failed to commit to accepting the results of the election in the event that he loses, an unprecedented threat to the peaceful transfer of power in the U.S. and one social media companies are \", \".\", \"Facebook is also making some changes to its rules around political advertising. The company will no longer allow political ads immediately following the election in an effort to avoid chaos and false claims.\", \"\\\"... While ads are an important way to express voice, we plan to temporarily stop running all social issue, electoral, or political ads in the U.S. after the polls close on November 3, to reduce opportunities for confusion or abuse,\\\" Facebook Vice President of Integrity Guy Rosen wrote in a blog post. Rosen added that Facebook will let advertisers know when those ads are allowed again.\", \"Facebook also provided a glimpse of what its apps will look like on what might shape up to be an unusual election night. The company will place a notification at the top of the Instagram and Facebook apps with the status of the election in an effort to broadly fact-check false claims.\", \"Images via Facebook\", \"Those messages will remind users that \\\"Votes are still being counted\\\" before switching over to a message that \\\"A winner has been projected\\\" after a reliable consensus emerges about the race. Because the results of the election may not be apparent on election night this year, it's possible that users will see these messages beyond November 3. If a candidate declares a premature victory, Facebook will add one of these labels to that content.\", \"Facebook also noted that is is now using a viral content review system, a measure designed to prevent the many instances in which misinformation or otherwise harmful content racks up thousands of views before eventually being removed. Facebook says the tool, which it says it has relied on \\\"throughout election season,\\\" provides a safety net that helps the company detect content that breaks its rules so it can take action to limit its spread.\", \"In the final month before the election, Facebook is notably showing less hesitation toward policing misinformation and other harmful political content on its platform. The company \", \" that it would no longer allow the pro-Trump conspiracy theory known as QAnon to flourish there, as it has over the last four years. Facebook also \", \" in which President Trump, fresh out of a multi-day hospital stay, claimed that COVID-19 is \\\"far less lethal\\\" than the flu.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://news.yahoo.com/facebook-remove-posts-militarized-calls-214130712.html\", \"source\": \"Yahoo News\", \"title\": \"Facebook will remove posts with 'militarized' calls for poll watchers\", \"description\": \"Facebook also said in a blog post that it would respond to candidates or parties making premature claims of victory, before races were called by major media ...\", \"date\": \"2020-10-07T21:41:30.000Z\", \"author\": \"Reuters\", \"text\": [\"(Reuters) - Facebook Inc said on Wednesday it would remove calls for people to engage in poll watching that use \\u201cmilitarized language\\u201d or suggest the goal is to intimidate voters or election officials, as part of the social media company\\u2019s latest restrictions around the U.S. election.\", \"Facebook also said in a blog post that it would respond to candidates or parties making premature claims of victory, before races were called by major media outlets, by adding labels and notifications about the state of the race.\", \"It also said it would temporarily stop running political ads in the United States after polls close on Nov. 3.\", \"(Reporting by Katie Paul, writing by Greg Mitchell, editing by Peter Henderson)\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://news.yahoo.com/world-fell-madly-love-dilwale-100000518.html\", \"source\": \"Yahoo News\", \"title\": \"How the World Fell Madly in Love With \\u2018Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge\\u2019\", \"description\": \"An oral history of the film that rewrote the modern Hindi rom-com.\", \"date\": \"2020-10-07T10:00:00.000Z\", \"author\": \"Neha Prakash\", \"text\": [\"It\\u2019s a tale as old as, well, \", \" On October 20, 1995, \", \" premiered in theaters and...never left. Directed and written by then-24-year-old first-time filmmaker Aditya Chopra\\u2014under his father Yash Chopra\\u2019s mega-successful production banner Yash Raj Films\\u2014the Bollywood rom-com went on to become the longest-running Hindi film of all time. (In the midst of an historic 1,274-week run at Mumbai\\u2019s Maratha Mandir theater, it was forced to temporarily close in March due to COVID-19.)\", \"The flick, about \", \" (NRIs) Raj and Simran and their star-crossed love that began and ended on a train, captured lightning in a bottle: It catapulted stars Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol to meteoric levels of fame, cemented the careers of music composers Jatin-Lalit and designer Manish Malhotra, and became a launching pad for future Bollywood mainstays like Karan Johar, who cut his teeth on \", \" as one of the film\\u2019s assistant directors and supporting cast members. What started as a passion project for Chopra and a group of up-and-comers with a fresh perspective on what it meant to fall in love, went on to become a revered classic, a box-office heavyweight, the winner of a record-breaking (at the time) 10 Filmfare Awards\\u2014India\\u2019s Academy Award equivalent\\u2014and the film that changed the face of an industry.\", \"And it all started when a boy met a girl.\\u2026\", \"(lead actress, Simran Singh): We saw the whole film, together, at the premiere. We all dressed up in our Bombay finery, and it was fabulous. It was an amazing feeling to know you made this. And all of us loved the film universally. That is something that\\u2019s quite rare, actually.\", \"(film critic and author of the 2002 book \", \"): It was a blockbuster out of the gate. This was not about word of mouth. I remember so clearly at the premiere at New Excelsior [in Mumbai]\\u2014it\\u2019s a 1,000-seat hall. And it was just euphoric. And the critical reception was exactly the same. It was just one of those movies that sweep you away.\", \"(art director): This wasn\\u2019t any part of our Indian genre, in terms of visuals. It was one of the earliest road [trip] films.\", \"(costume designer): There was a lot of glamour. That\\u2019s a tough one to \", \" because you are [also] trying to make the characters a bit real, which was a new thing, which Aditya Chopra started.\", \"Traditionally, the West had been portrayed as a sort of decadent hotbed of sin in Hindi movies. In films like \", \" or \", \" it was the person from India who showed the Indian in the West what Indian values were. And here was this film that completely turned this on its head, because here\\u2019s a guy [Raj] who is buying beer in the first few minutes of the film. Here\\u2019s a guy who\\u2019s obviously flirtatious. Here\\u2019s a guy who\\u2019s born and bred in the U.K., and yet he turns out to be more Hindustani than the guy who was raised in Punjab. That was a very new idea at that time.\", \" (lead actor, Raj Malhotra): This film came at a time when the audiences were getting more receptive to a story like \", \" and a pairing like mine and Kajol\\u2019s. A lot of external factors worked for the film: the novelty of a modern rom-com, for example, and liberalization.\", \" It\\u2019s such a seductive fantasy. It appealed to people in the West because all the NRIs felt like \\u201cJust because we live here doesn\\u2019t mean we lost our Indian-ness. It doesn\\u2019t mean we\\u2019re not desi anymore; it doesn\\u2019t mean that our roots have been severed.\\u201d And, of course, it works for the people who are still living in India because it reconfirms this is the original land of value and beauty and song and dance and all the rest of it.\", \"(supporting actor, Dharamvir Malhotra): The script was very, very fresh. [In Hindi films before], it was a typical \", \" concept: The parents aren\\u2019t happy with who you are; the world wanted [the couple] to be united, and the so-called \\u201cforces against you\\u201d were the parents. But here, the boy was a very idealistic person. [The boy] respected the girl \", \" her parents, especially her father. [Aditya] very intelligently represented NRIs and Londoners and the typical Punjabi [person].\", \"I loved the script, from beginning to end. There was no part that I heard that I did not feel completely there, and present, and completely part of the film....There is one song where I wasn\\u2019t sure about how it would be taken on screen: \\u201cZara Sa Jhoom Loon Main.\\u201d I didn\\u2019t think I looked drunk at all, and I was like, \\u201cThis is not gonna work. I don\\u2019t believe this myself.\\u201d Because I\\u2019m a complete teetotaler. I don\\u2019t know what it\\u2019s like to get drunk. But fortunately for me, [that scene] turned out okay. It\\u2019s not as bad as I thought it was.\", \"There were several improv moments. They enhanced the script, for sure. There was this scene with Amrish Puri [who played Simran\\u2019s father, Chaudhry Baldev Singh] where he was feeding the pigeons. And we had this really funny scene where we are both awkwardly going \", \" to the pigeons. It is a call for pigeons I had heard in Delhi, so I added it. Even the flower that sprays water on Kajol\\u2019s face, we hadn\\u2019t told her what would happen.\", \"That\\u2019s one thing that is fantastic about Shah Rukh: He is a very affectionate, easy person [to act with]. When we sort of clap hands and do gibberish words with each other, I invented those words on the set. And when Raj is saying, \\u201cI just failed,\\u201d and I introduce him to our \\u201cancestors\\u201d in paintings on the wall, that was similar to my own family....My own uncle had failed in 7th/8th grade. So I asked Mr. Chopra, \\u201cCan I use their real names in the movie?\\u201d\", \"It was a set of friends just having fun...with the material. Adi had a much clearer vision [of] where he was going with it and what he wanted to say in it. So the voices belong to us, but the words and feelings are all his, to be honest.\", \" I think when Adi wrote the film, he meant it to show that families are the way they are everywhere. That\\u2019s what the film was about: embracing what the world has ahead of you, but don\\u2019t forget your roots.\", \"The name of the film is given by my wife [actress Kirron Kher]. There was a lot of debate: \\u201cWhat should be the title of the film?\\u201d There is a very famous song called \\u201cLe Jayenge Le Jayenge\\u201d from an old Hindi film [1974\\u2019s \", \"]. So my wife said, \\u201cAt the end of [this] movie, the boy finally says, \\u2018I will take away the bride.\\u2019 Why don\\u2019t we call it \", \"?\\u201d Everybody loved it. [She] gets a separate [credit] in the [film]. It says, \\u201cTitle given by Kirron Kher.\\u201d\", \" My first impression of Simran was that she was nothing like me. I didn\\u2019t agree with all this being too dutiful. I was like, \\u201cCan\\u2019t she think for herself?\\u201d [\", \"] I played her dutifully, but I made fun of her on set.\", \" Her energy was palpable.\\u2026Nobody could\\u2019ve played Simran better than Kajol.\", \" I thought, \", \". So maybe 90 percent of her wasn\\u2019t [me], but that 10 percent was.\", \"Raj was unlike anything I had done. Before \", \" there was \", \" \", \", \", \"films in which I had portrayed negative characters.\", \"I thought Raj was a cool hero. I thought that he had a lot of unexpected depth to him. You get the feeling he\\u2019s this really carefree guy who doesn\\u2019t really have much to him; he\\u2019s just into how his hair looks and how he kicks the football. But somewhere toward the end of the film, you start believing in him as a character.\", \" It really spoke to a country in a great sort of cultural churning. In the \\u201990s, we got satellite television, the economy had opened up, and there was all this stuff coming in from the West: the programming, the clothes, the brands. There was an actual dilemma about what constitutes \\u201can Indian.\\u201d \", \" constitutes an Indian? And Shah Rukh Khan as Raj was the answer.\", \"I was told by many people that I looked unconventional\\u2026very different from what the perception of a leading man was. I did feel maybe not being handsome enough\\u2014or as they called it then \\u201cchocolaty\\u201d\\u2014would make me unsuitable for romantic roles. Also, I am very shy and awkward with ladies, and I didn\\u2019t know how I would say all the loving, romantic bits. I was excited to work with [Adi], but I had no idea how to go about it and also if I would be able to do it well. I always felt Adi\\u2019s love for me made him cast me. \", \" In [Adi\\u2019s] mind, he was Raj. [Adi] wanted Shah Rukh to be the way \", \" wanted to be in life: principled but naughty.\", \" This was the film that established SRK as a guy who can romance in a way that we had never seen before. Because he\\u2019s not \\u201cmacho\\u201d in the traditional sense. Here\\u2019s a guy who\\u2019s in the kitchen with the women. Here\\u2019s a guy who keeps Karva Chauth with his girlfriend. He\\u2019s telling the aunt which sari to buy. And none of this means that he\\u2019s any less manly. It\\u2019s just that he\\u2019s secure enough to be all of those things and to be in places that are traditionally female. You can\\u2019t imagine that very macho action hero of the \\u201980s doing that.\", \" I found the character endearing and sweet in the right way. The over-the-topness was my contribution.\", \"Shah Rukh played Raj really convincingly. With every film he works on, he\\u2019s there 300 percent of the time. He memorized everybody\\u2019s [lines], and then [\", \"] during rehearsals he\\u2019d be saying my dialogues as well as his dialogues.\", \" What worked for Raj and Simran on screen was basically the pure friendship that Kajol and I shared off screen. It was all so organic that there were moments in front of the camera that we didn\\u2019t feel like we were acting at all. We didn\\u2019t really plan scenes. We just let them flow, and if we didn\\u2019t like something, we could just blurt it out to each other without any formality.\", \" We would just crack jokes. Everybody on set was so mischievous. It\\u2019s just great fun to work with people that you actually enjoy the company of. When you work on film, there\\u2019s a lot of time that you\\u2019re just waiting for everybody to get set up for one shot after the other. That actually makes people friends and makes people be completely comfortable with each other. We can sit and wait for the sun to rise, literally, [together].\", \" I have to admit, for someone who doesn\\u2019t like mushy, romantic films, the scenes with Kajol and I did make me feel all fuzzy and warm. There, I said it!\", \"(music composer): We had a grand session [audition] with Yash Chopra, Aditya...We didn\\u2019t know what film was being planned. We just wanted to work with Yash Chopra. We were singing our new songs\\u2014I still remember I had sung two songs. One was \\u201cMehndi Laga Ke Rakhna.\\u201d And I sang the tune for \\u201cMere Khwabon Mein Jo Aaye.\\u201d I didn\\u2019t have the words, so I just sang the tune.\", \"Nothing happened for about a month. But then we got a call from Aditya Chopra: \\u201cI\\u2019m planning a film. How busy are you guys?\", \"And he asked, \\u201cThat \\u2018Mehndi\\u2019 song, do you still have that song?\\u201d\", \" Once we heard the script, we made up our mind that we have a jackpot on our hands. We both worked very hard. For all the [scenes], we made at least 20 songs. And out of 20, we ourselves rejected five or six songs. And then we [presented them] to Aditya Chopra. \\u201cChal Pyar Karegi\\u201d we had done [for] \", \" as well. It was in [the 1998 film] \", \" We sat for days and days and days and days, trying to crack each of the songs. It was a once-in-a-lifetime kind of an opportunity. Anand Bakshi was on board, and Lataji [Lata Mangeshkar] was going to sing all the songs, which was very rare during those days. \", \" My daughter recently downloaded the entire album. She was like, \\u201cOh my God, Mum, you had great music.\\u201d It\\u2019s the kind of music that is timeless. I loved \\u201cNa Jaane Mere Dil Ko Kya Ho Gaya.\\u201d That\\u2019s one of my favorite songs.\", \" There was one song I was very sure about: \\u201cZara Sa Jhoom Loon Main.\\u201d They were thinking it was too fast and energetic to have a drunk girl singing those lines. But Anand Bakshi said, \\u201cWhen you\\u2019re young and you drink, you get all the more energy.\\u201d\", \" One of my most favorite songs on the film is \\u201cNa Jaane Mere Dil Ko Kya Ho Gaya.\\u201d I was singing out the intro at [Adi\\u2019s] place. When I sang those lines, he said, \\u201cYou know how I\\u2019m going to [shoot it]? I\\u2019m going to fade in and fade out, they\\u2019re going to be on the bus, and Shah Rukh will come, and then he\\u2019ll fade out, and then Kajol will come, and then again Shah Rukh will come, and then again he\\u2019ll fade out.\\u201d I had never heard such kind of detail. Adi was completely\\u2014there\\u2019s no other word\\u2014brilliant. He was like a third partner in music, he contributed so much. He was very instinctive about what he wanted in his songs.\", \"The piano piece in \\u201cRuk Ja O Dil Deewane,\\u201d so many people tried to play it, but Aditya Chopra played that. And \\u201cGhar Aaja Pardesi\\u201d\\u2014it also became one of the film\\u2019s biggest hits, and Pamji [Pamela Chopra, Aditya\\u2019s mother] sang in that song.\", \" I don\\u2019t change the radio channel when a \", \" song comes on. I can never get sick of them. They bring back memories of a film that shaped my path forward in an unforgettable way.\", \"In the \\u201990s, all the tailors were making dresses with frills, all these fitted dresses. That was the norm. But [in Yash Chopra films], it was all about the luxury, the lifestyle, the richness. There\\u2019s one kind of richness that is all about embroidery, but Yash Chopra films were different. The richness was about the setup: the beautiful home, the girl in a pure chiffon sari with pearls. It was an elite chicness. An upmarket understanding. I was trying to remove all the frills and make it more monochromatic and make it more Western looking. My first thing was color. Old-world colors\\u2014bring them all back in. A lot of old rose; a lot of powder blue. There\\u2019s a lot of peachy coral.\", \": It\\u2019s a very simple, beautiful aesthetic. It\\u2019s classic\\u2014maybe not the beret on my head. [\", \"]\", \": Simran is a girl who is real. She\\u2019s very identifiable. There\\u2019s something that makes her look stand out when she\\u2019s in a crowd. That was key. They didn\\u2019t want a sensuous or a very sexy Simran. I did a very real Simran\\u2014with a dash of glamour.\", \"And Kajol, being Kajol, she didn\\u2019t care too much about the drape [of the sari]. She was never the actress who would be like completely pinned and completely stitched and all of that. And Kajol would never want to do too much makeup. She\\u2019d be like, \\u201cI\\u2019m just running to the set. I\\u2019m happy with my look.\\u201d\", \"I can still imagine wearing the shaded chiffon sari, or I can still imagine myself wearing a plain, simple salwar kameez with a shaded dupatta.\", \": [The thinking was] there can be a beauty in a white kurta and a white salwar. The quality and the class also can come from the way it\\u2019s tailored.\", \"When we were shooting for \\u201cNa Jaane Mere Dil Ko Kya Ho Gaya,\\u201d there was a shot where we\\u2019re going round and round in the rain. We had to get these fire engines to pour the rain for us. It was Switzerland, and that cold was unimaginable. And by the end of it, it was so cold that if I did not walk or run back to the hotel, we would have just frozen on the spot.\", \"I don\\u2019t think anybody ever thought about my comfort when I was wearing a chiffon sari in the middle of the snow and the ice. The red [mini] dress in the snow was even worse, trust me. [\", \"]\", \" \", \" We didn\\u2019t even know there would be that much snow. In those days, the heroes were in mufflers and coats, and the heroines wore these itsy-bitsy saris. I think I was that culprit who started that. It was about looking glamorous.\", \" There was a certain charm and playfulness that came along with the hat [which was taken from the film\\u2019s production head], the guitar, the leather jacket, the sunglasses. They all added to the character and helped shape how I eventually portrayed him. Today, if you see those three things next to each other, without any picture of Raj, your mind will immediately take you to \", \".\", \" That was completely from Aditya Chopra\\u2019s eye; he wanted that jacket.\", \" The jacket, I loved it and still have it. It was a Harley-Davidson jacket. [But] the motorcycle was rented and we had to return it.\", \" [For Simran\\u2019s house] we were keen it should be warm in its color palette and also have a very strong Indian element. We used a lot of plaids. There are lots of artifacts that [the family] would have picked up from their visits to India. I hadn\\u2019t actually ever been [to London] to see the houses. [At the time] I believed if you\\u2019re in a foreign land, you believe it\\u2019s going to be a big, big space. But, in fact, a family like that would have lived in a rather cramped space. Now when I look back and see [the big house set], I find that bothersome.\", \" The first song, \\u201cMere Khwabon Mein,\\u201d we were shooting in a studio in Mumbai. There was this whole thing that she\\u2019s dancing in the rain and she wears a towel and all of that.\", \" It was a really big towel, let me put it that way.\", \" With the white skirt, Adi saw it and he says, \\u201cI think it\\u2019s looking too long.\\u201d I said, \\u201cSo should we cut it?\\u201d And suddenly the skirt, which was so much [\", \"], became so much [\", \"]. I said, \\u201cNow what do we do?\\u201d And Kajol said, \\u201cWell, I\\u2019m okay if you guys are okay.\\u201d Kajol was very \\u201cWhatever you guys decide\\u201d kind of thing. But I told Aditya, \\u201cWill it look too much that she\\u2019s wearing this sexy white skirt in the rain?\\u201d He said, \\u201cYou know what? She\\u2019s with her mother [played by Farida Jalal] in this song. It won\\u2019t look like that.\\u201d\", \"We just wanted to make it look kind of, like, innocent-sexy.\", \"[Pamela Chopra] told me how they dried their clothes over there [in London] for that scene: put out in the backyard with a simple stand, a kind of clothes hanger. And she actually drew that out for me to show me what it would look like.\", \"It was great fun, actually. \", \" was choreographed, from the window opening to the song. The only part that I could not do, I think, was feeling shy. So that took at least 45 minutes for Adi to explain to me: \\u201cThis is what you are supposed to do when you are feeling shy. How would you feel shy?\\u201d I don\\u2019t have a single shy bone in my body. Eventually he gave up on me, and he was just like, \\u201cJust do this: Look straight at one point, and then eventually just slowly lower your eyes down.\\u201d And that\\u2019s exactly what I did.\", \" The song that I first recorded was Lataji\\u2019s solo song, \\u201cMere Khwabon Mein Jo Aaye\\u201d\\u2014the same tune I had hummed out to Adi in the meeting session that we had. Having Lataji on this album gave it that edge that the music needed.\", \" She\\u2019s an icon. There\\u2019s no words to express what she is.\", \"We had the most fun during \\u201cMehndi Laga Ke Rakhna\\u201d because we were all together.\", \"I remember how difficult it was to do \\u201cMehndi Laga Ke Rakhna.\\u201d I am not very good with dances like that, but it doesn\\u2019t show so much on screen.\", \" When the film is in the U.K., we had to have a different kind of texture to the melody and the treatment. But \\u201cMehndi Laga Ke Rakhna\\u201d was totally Indian. Like a festive mood, and the instruments, the tutti and the arrangement of the violin\\u2014we had this arrangement by which we can differentiate the two countries. The song was very authentic in style.\", \"The song lyrics originally were: \\u201cMehndi laga ke chalna / Payal bacha ke chalna / Mehndi laga ke chalna / Payal baja ke chalna\", \"Par aashiq se appna / Daman bacha kay chalna / Mehndi laga ke chalna / Payal bacha ke chalna\\u201d\", \"And then, of course, [our lyricist] Anand Bakshi took it to another level: \\u201cO mehndi laga rakhna / Doli saja ke rakhna / Mehndi laga rakhna / Doli saja ke rakhna\", \"Lene tujhe o gori / Aayenge tere sajna / Mehndi laga rakhna /Doli saja ke rakhna\\u201d\", \"He wrote 25 verse [options] for those two verses. That wonderful kind of effort, I never experienced again.\", \"The courtyard became an important aspect of that house [set]. It was meant to be a typical [compound] in Punjab, where joined families would stay. What decided the warm color palette for those scenes was actually the brick floor. And because it was a house for the wedding\\u2014where a lot of golds and jewel tones were used\\u2014it formed a perfect backdrop for it.\", \" We went shopping and saw this satiny fabric, like a lime-green color going into pistachio. And Adi said, \\u201cThis green is \", \" bright\", \"\\u201d But I said, \\u201cIt will look really nice. Let\\u2019s use it.\\u201d\", \" We didn\\u2019t think so much about what the impact [of the color] eventually would be. We all agreed that the [green] color was going to look very nice on screen. Nobody thought about whether it would be trendsetting or anything like that. We just wanted it to look good and shoot comfortably in it\\u2014at least, my thought was that we should be comfortable in it.\", \"That green got very, very famous for \", \" We shot for about three days in Apta railway station [in Mumbai]. It was so hot at that time, and with this ghagra\\u2014it was this incredibly heavy outfit that I was wearing.\", \" I remember with any heavy outfit, she would tease me. \\u201cYou wear it first.\\u201d\", \"For this outfit, I was very keen we shouldn\\u2019t do [a traditional] red; we should do gold. [Finally, we chose] one where there\\u2019s gold kota work. They all said, \\u201cThat\\u2019s really nice. It\\u2019ll look heavy, but it won\\u2019t look like too much because it\\u2019s a daytime sequence.\\u201d\", \"All I was to do was to hold Kajol\\u2019s hand, so that was simple. And she does run awesomely in a lehenga.\\u2026\", \" The train wasn\\u2019t going as fast as it looks. [\", \"] It wasn\\u2019t the running so much, just the crying. Your eyes are swollen and red by the end of the day because you\\u2019re crying for three days straight.\", \"I was more keen on the fight that happens before that because I felt it will add some non-mushy stuff to this film. I was way happier holding the gun than holding Simran\\u2019s hand. [\", \"]\", \"When the action part was happening, I was singing out these pieces I had in mind, in sync with the actions happening: Shah Rukh is being beaten by this gang, and his father\\u2019s getting hurt. And when I played out that [song] to Adi, he completely rejected it. He said, \\u201cPlay \\u2018Mehndi Laga Ke Rakhna\\u2019 here.\\u201d I completely disagreed.\", \"He said, \\u201cIf you play this in a different manner, just try to change the phrase a little bit but keep that melody. You\\u2019ll see, people will clap in the audience.\\u201d\", \"So I took a lot of the chorus section and I asked the dholis to play the rhythm. And instead of making it melodic, I made an aggressive kind of singing. Then, for that emotional piece where Kajol is running, I said, \\u201cOkay, why don\\u2019t I play the melody from \", \"\\u2014one part we have not used throughout the film: Lataji humming.\\u201d\", \"Adi, Jatin, and I were roaming around the theater on the first day of the film opening. When this part came on, I was very alert to see how the audience would react. And just as Adi had said, people were clapping as soon as this part came on.\", \" There could have been no other ending, but I did not think it would be as iconic as it eventually turned out to be.\", \" When you watch the film, it\\u2019s so appealing because by the time you are hearing this piece again, you remember every bit of it from [earlier]. The moment the saxophone plays in that part, you get a goosebump.\", \"[The premiere] was the who\\u2019s who of the film industry, of the city, of the politicians. [They] were there watching the film because it was Mr. Chopra\\u2019s son\\u2019s first film. The film finished and there was pin-drop silence. And Mr. Chopra looked at me like, \\u201cOh my God, something has gone wrong\", \"\\u201d It [seemed to be] a never-ending silence, and then after a minute, there was a never-ending standing ovation. That was the magic of the film.\", \"I think \", \" is a film which showed, in the \", \"90s, that youngsters had a mind of their own. It spoke about a time of the changing youth. And it also spoke about the changing time of the parents.\", \" I have met millions and millions of young boys and girls who say, \\u201cWe want our parents to be like Raj\\u2019s father.\\u2026\\u201d\", \" Every generation goes through a point of rebellion and then eventually realizes that rebellion is really not the way to go. You need to figure things out. You need to work through them rather than rebelling against something. It\\u2019s not only Indian. Everybody feels like \\u201cI don\\u2019t want to hurt my family. I don\\u2019t want to lose what I have in my family, and I don\\u2019t want to hurt anybody. I just want everybody to love who I love.\\u201d It made sense, then and now. I think that\\u2019s why it\\u2019s eternal.\", \"The film bridged two ideologies. We had the generation before who believed in conventional relationships, and the film honored that. At the same time, it made a statement about how the youth think and their need for space. I think of the film poster: Here is a man with a woman on his shoulders. At the same time, she\\u2019s dressed traditionally.\", \" The film had tradition; it had family values; it celebrated culture. And yet there was so much of youth and modernness to it. The visual was so fresh. Every young Indian living abroad and Indian living in India identified with it.\", \"It\\u2019s an extraordinary love story. And the combination of East and West, and with the music, photography\\u2026There\\u2019s so much of repeat [value in this film]. I myself have seen it at least 20 times in theaters with my family.\", \" A film is never about only one person. It\\u2019s about everybody put together. Everybody put their little bits of energy and love into it. It\\u2019s a memory more than a film, really. It\\u2019s like watching my very own personal photo album.\", \"I think \", \" helped me cement my place and brought me fame in a way that I didn\\u2019t think it would. We were all living in the moment, trying to make the best film we could. There are so many reasons attributed to its success, but I don\\u2019t think any one specific thing can explain the phenomenon it has become. 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Ltd\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://news.yahoo.com/congress-remains-vulnerable-covid-despite-213002980.html\", \"source\": \"Yahoo News\", \"title\": \"Congress remains vulnerable to Covid despite White House outbreak\", \"description\": \"While those working around Trump are tested for coronavirus daily, the Capitol has no such protocols.\", \"date\": \"2020-10-07T21:30:02.000Z\", \"author\": \"Julie Tsirkin and Haley Talbot\", \"text\": [\"WASHINGTON \\u2014 The White House \", \", which has \", \" in President Donald Trump\\u2019s circle, sheds new light on the lack of contact tracing and safety protocols in place for the House and Senate.\", \"And while those working around President Donald Trump are tested daily, the Capitol has no such protocols.\", \"Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell ignored multiple questions from reporters this week when asked if widespread testing should be offered in the Capitol. 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It was in other encounters, including at the White House.\\u201d\", \"Since the offer of rapid testing machines was initially made by the White House in May, Pelosi and McConnell have remained in agreement on one thing: no widespread testing on Capitol Hill, despite pressure from leaders on both sides of the aisle to do so.\", \"\\u201cWith just so many bodies coming in and out of here, I don\\u2019t understand why the speaker would continue to not have testing,\\u201d House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy, who supported the White House\\u2019s offer since July, told reporters on Friday.\", \"After the \", \" and \", \" who had recently been there announcing they had tested positive, high-ranking lawmakers endorsed endorsed widespread testing for the 535 members of Congress and Capitol staff.\", \"Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said in the hours after Trump\\u2019s diagnosis \\u201cThis episode demonstrates that the Senate needs a testing and contact tracing program for senators, staff, and all who work in the Capitol complex.\\u201d\", \"McConnell and Schumer agreed to recess the Senate until Oct. 19 following the outbreak, with the exception of committee hearings \\u2014 meaning confirmation hearings for Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court will go on as planned beginning Oct. 12. It is not clear whether Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., will require proof of negative tests for those attending in person.\", \"Despite all of this, there remains no indication that the Capitol will have any kind of precautionary measures to prevent more cases within its walls. And even now, senators are being urged against precautionary testing unless there are symptoms present.\", \"There is no temperature check system, no mandatory testing, and no proof of a negative Covid test required upon entry to the Capitol building. That means hundreds of lawmakers, their staff, Capitol workers, and reporters enter the complex each day without any assurances that it is safe. And every weekend, most lawmakers travel all over the country back to their home states.\", \"There are also no apparent contact tracing measures in place. NBC News has learned that individual offices each have their own protocols on reporting positive cases and exposures. The Office of the Attending Physician has not responded to numerous requests for comment.\", \"On Wednesday, Schumer and Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, the top Democrat on the Rules Committee, introduced a resolution that would mandate things like rapid testing for all who work in the Capitol complex, mask wearing in all Senate buildings, and proof of negative Covid tests ahead of committee hearings.\", \"Since February, 123 front-line workers including Capitol Police and Architect of the Capitol employees have tested positive for Covid or are presumed positive, according to House Administration Committee GOP spokeswoman Ashley Phelps. These numbers are not routinely disclosed to the public unless specifically requested, highlighting a lack of transparency, not just within the White House but up Pennsylvania Avenue as well.\", \"After Republican Sens. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, Thom Tillis of North Carolina, and Mike Lee of Utah, tested positive, NBC News requested data on contact tracing within each office.\", \"\\u201cThe only other on-staff positive was the chief of staff, who was diagnosed in mid-September,\\u201d a spokesperson for Johnson wrote. \\u201cOur office has been working primarily remotely, so few people have been in contact with the Senator.\\u201d\", \"A spokesperson for Tillis wrote that everyone in the Washington office who came in contact with the senator is getting tested and every test so far has been negative. 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His \\u201cJust Vibin\\u2019\\u201d hoodie stems from the idea of \\u201cjust flowing with life.\\u201d Did\\u2019s black hoodie is an homage to the Black Lives Matter movement \\u00a0and the garment\\u2019s glittery accents are meant to represent the shining in the world. The lotus flower design is symbolic of Did blooming into adulthood.\", \"The exclusive items are being sold through TikTok\\u2019s storefront and on Puma\\u2019s \", \" site. There is a commitment of $10,000 in proceeds from sales to the Equal Justice Initiative.\", \"Puma North America\\u2019s president and chief executive officer Bob Philion emphasized last month how a spike in \", \" sales had helped the company gain traction during the pandemic. That online growth has also led to more oppressive at retail, he said. Part of the company\\u2019s e-commerce strategy has involved online-only special offers with the TikTok collaboration being the latest example.\", \"Sign up for \", \". For the latest news, follow us on \", \", \", \", and \", \".\"]}\n][\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/29/africa/blasphemy-trial-nigeria/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"The WhatsApp voice note that led to a death sentence\", \"description\": \"A heated conversation in a WhatsApp group has led to a death penalty sentence and a family torn apart in northern Nigeria over allegations of insulting Prophet Mohammed. \", \"date\": \"2020-09-29T09:51:49Z\", \"author\": \"Eoin McSweeney and Stephanie Busari\", \"text\": [\" (CNN)\", \"An intense argument recorded and posted in a WhatsApp group has led to a death penalty sentence and a family torn apart over allegations of insulting Prophet Mohammed, according to lawyers for the defendant. \", \"Music studio assistant Yahaya Sharif-Aminu was sentenced to death by hanging on August 10 after being convicted of blasphemy by an Islamic court in northern Nigeria. \", \"The judgment document states that Sharif-Aminu, 22, was convicted for making \\\"a blasphemous statement against Prophet Mohammed in a WhatsApp Group,\\\" which is contrary to the Kano State Sharia Penal Code and is an offence which carries the death sentence. \", \"The recording was shared widely, causing mass outrage in the highly conservative, majority Muslim, state, according to various reports. \", \"\\\"Whoever insults, defames or utters words or acts which are capable of bringing into disrespect ... such a person has committed a serious crime which is punishable by death,\\\" according to a translation of court documents provided to CNN by his lawyers. \", \"Read More\", \"Sharif-Aminu, described by his friend Kabiru Ibrahim, as \\\"kind, religious and dutiful,\\\" admitted charges of blasphemy during his trial, but said he had made a mistake. \", \"No legal representation\", \"Under Sharia law, a voluntary confession is binding, according to court papers. \", \"Sharif-Aminu's lawyers, who became involved in the case only after his conviction, say he was not allowed legal representation before or during his trial -- in contravention of Nigerian citizens' constitutional right to legal representation. \", \"Outrage as Nigeria sentences 13-year-old boy to 10 years in prison for blasphemy\", \"According to the lawyers, the Sharia court adjourned his case four times because no lawyer came forth from the Legal Aid Council to represent him, likely because of the sensitivity of the case. The Sharia court is, however, statute-bound to provide legal representation.\", \"Advocates from the \", \"Foundation for Religious Freedom\", \" (FRF), a not-for-profit aimed at protecting religious freedom in Nigeria, which is representing Sharif-Aminu, told CNN he has also not been permitted access to legal advice to prepare an appeal against his conviction. \", \"The FRF says it has lodged an appeal on his behalf in Kano's high court, a common-law court with constitutional powers. \", \"\\\"The state laws he is accused of breaking are in gross conflict with the Nigerian constitution,\\\" said his counsel, Kola Alapinni. \", \"No Muslim will condone it. People hold Prophet Mohammed higher than their parents. \", \"Islamic cleric, Bashir Aliyu Umar\", \"Kano's State Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje told clerics in Kano that he would sign Sharif-Aminu's death warrant as soon as the singer had exhausted the appeals process, local media reports say. \", \"\\\"I assure you that immediately the Supreme Court affirms the judgment, I will sign it without any hesitation,\\\" Ganduje said, according to \", \"Nigeria's Daily Post newspaper\", \". CNN contacted a spokesman for Governor Ganduje several times for comment but did not receive a response. \", \"Islamic scholar and cleric Bashir Aliyu Umar, who is not connected to the case, but said he had read the transcript of the court proceedings, told CNN, \\\"No Muslim will condone it. People hold Prophet Mohammed higher than their parents, and when things like this happen, it will lead to a breakdown of peace because of mob action and attacks against the accused.\\\" \", \"When news of Sharif-Aminu's alleged crime broke earlier this year, protesters marched to his family home and destroyed it, prompting his father to flee to a neighboring town, his lawyers told CNN. Sharif-Aminu went into hiding, according to Amnesty and his lawyers, but in March he was arrested by the Hisbah Corps, the religious police force that enforces Sharia law in Kano state. \", \"'A travesty of justice'\", \"Human rights organization Amnesty International has described Sharif-Aminu's trial as a \\\"travesty of justice,\\\" and called on Kano state authorities to quash his conviction and death sentence. \", \"\\\"There are serious concerns about the fairness of his trial and the framing of the charges against him based on his Whatsapp messages,\\\" said Amnesty's Nigeria director Osai Ojigho. \\\"Furthermore, the imposition of the death penalty following an unfair trial violates the right to life,\\\" she added. \", \"The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has also condemned Sharif-Aminu's death sentence. 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I looked fine physically, but it started to affect me mentally. I could go a day without being able to construct sentences, and I was a research analyst at the time which meant I had to write daily reports but I couldn't,\\\" she said. \", \"After expressing her suicidal thoughts to a friend, she was encouraged to see a psychiatrist at a psychiatric hospital in Lagos, one of Nigeria's largest cities. \", \"She was diagnosed with Bipolar and post traumatic stress disorder with mild psychosis. \\\"I poured out my heart, got some tests done and eventually got a diagnosis.\\\"\", \"Creating awareness \", \"Two months after Ojeifo's diagnosis, she said she decided to turn her difficult experiences around. She started to create awareness on the far-reaching impacts of mental health in Nigeria. \", \"In April 2016, she created\", \" She Writes Woman\", \", a non-profit organization focused on providing mental health support for those who may need it in the west African nation. \", \"There is minimal mental health awareness and there are not enough mental health professionals in Nigeria. \", \"In a country of more than \", \"200 million\", \" people, there are only 250 practicing psychiatrists, according to the\", \" Association of Psychiatrists of Nigeria. \", \"Ojeifo told CNN that She Writes Woman started as a blog but she realized she could do more with it, \\\"At first, I was just using it as an outlet to share my experiences and that of other women,\\\" she explained. \", \"Eventually, it morphed into a support community for people with mental health conditions. \", \"The 28-year-old got trained as a mental health coach so that she could start a helpline to talk to people experiencing overwhelming mental health symptoms.\", \"\\\"From sharing stories on the blog and social media, She Writes Woman blew up into a helpline which was run by me for a while, and then to a support group for people in vulnerable conditions,\\\" she said. \", \"24-hour mental health helpline\", \"She Writes Woman provides a\", \" 24-hour mental health helpline\", \" for anyone within Nigeria.\", \"The helpline serves as a first point of contact for people in distress or those who just want to talk about their mental health and symptoms. \", \"\\\"People call the helpline to get what we call a first-aid treatment. On the call you don't get immediate professional counseling, what happens is you get a first response communication where someone listens to you and what you have to say,\\\" Ojeifo explained.\", \"She added that after the first responders, callers can be referred to mental health professionals for therapy or a diagnosis if needed, \\\"depending on what the issue is we que people in to either a therapist or a psychiatrist.\\\"\", \"Data on mental health in Nigeria is hard to find, but according to a 2016 report in the Annals of Nigerian Medicine journal, an estimated\", \" 20-30% \", \"of the country's population is suffering from mental disorders.\", \"And in 2017, a World Health Organization report found that Nigerians have the highest incidences of depression in Africa, with \", \"more than 7 million people \", \"in the country suffering from depression.\", \"Despite the numbers, there is an absence of \", \"effective mental health legislation\", \" setting standards for psychiatric treatment or encouraging mental health awareness in the country. \", \"In February, following deliberations by legislators to pass a proposed mental health bill, Ojeifo became the first person to testify before the Nigerian parliament on the rights of persons with mental health conditions in the country.\", \"var id = '//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js'.replace(/\\\\s+/g, '');!!document.getElementById(id) || (function makeEmbedScript(d, id) {var js,fjs;js = d.createElement('script');js.id = id;js.charset = 'utf-8';js.setAttribute('async', '');js.src = '//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js';fjs = d.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];window.WM.UserConsent.addScriptElement(js, [\\\"vendor\\\",\\\"measure-ads\\\"], fjs);}(document, id));\", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" View this post on Instagram\", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \"We are so proud of our founder @hauwa_ojeifo for the great milestone achieved today. . She graciously spoke before the Senate at the public hearing of the #mentalhealth bill earlier today on behalf of all persons living with mental health conditions. . If you were there, you'd have been so proud. Word on the street is that this is the first time a person with a mental health condition is speaking before the Senate. . Go Hauwa!!\\ud83d\\udc83\\ud83c\\udffd . Want to know more about the mental health bill? Check out our stories to make your suggestions.\", \" \", \"A post shared by \", \" SWW | Mental Health in Nigeria\", \" (@shewriteswoman) on \", \"Feb 17, 2020 at 10:46am PST\", \"\\n\", \"The bill has yet to be implemented. \", \"To close the mental health gap in Nigeria, Ojeifo's organization also offers a support group for women and girls called \", \"Safe Place\", \" in six Nigerian states. \", \"\\\"Safe Space provides a community of shared experiences for women and girls. It provides a space for women to connect and share their experiences on whatever topic, to be there for one another and understand that they are not alone in their journeys,\\\" she explained, estimating that there have been over 50 meetings of the support group since the inception of the organization.\", \"In the beginning, Ojeifo, a former investment banker,  self-funded the organization. \", \"But now, with donations and grants from organizations such as One Young World, Airtel Nigeria and Disability Rights Advocacy Fund, it is able to expand and carry out more activities in Nigeria's mental health space.\", \"In 2018, the activist received a\", \" Queen's Young Leaders Award\", \" in in recognition of her work with the 24-hour mental health helpline and Safe Space support group. \", \"Changemaker Award Winner \", \"On Tuesday, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation named Ojeifo as its\", \" Changemaker Award winner for 2020\", \" for her work with She Writes Woman. \", \"The Changemaker Award is one of the Goalkeepers Global Goals Awards pushed yearly by the foundation. It celebrates individuals who have inspired change from a position of leadership or using their personal experience. \", \"In a statement released Tuesday, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation said it recognized the activist for her work in promoting\", \" Gender Equality\", \", the fifth global goal for sustainable development prescribed by the United Nations. \", \"These Africans are among the world's 100 most influential people, according to Time magazine\", \"Ojeifo said that she was in \\\"disbelief\\\" when she first received the email alerting her that she was a recipient of the award. \", \"\\\"It was so unexpected and it came as a surprise because I was not expecting it. It's like an added validation to the work She Writes Woman does,\\\" she said. \", \"\\\"During one of the meetings with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation I asked them how I was selected because I was just so blown away. I was told that it was because I had used my personal experience to build hope for people and to drive change,\\\" she added. \", \"Through the 2020 Changemaker Award, Ojeifo is hoping to gather a network that will help amplify the work She Writes Woman does even more. \", \"\\\"The Changemaker award means I am part of this network that is dedicated to amplifying my cause and giving me visibility,\\\" she said.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/26/africa/gambia-migration-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"He almost died migrating to Europe. Now he is warning other Gambians about it\", \"description\": \"Mustapha Sallah and Youth Against Irregular Migration are raising awareness in The Gambia about the dangers of migrating to Europe through irregular means.\", \"date\": \"2020-08-26T14:16:23Z\", \"author\": \"Aisha Salaudeen\", \"text\": [\" (CNN)\", \"Mustapha Sallah was in trouble.\", \"He had hoped to be in Europe by now, pursuing his dreams of studying computer science and making a better life for himself.\", \"Instead, he was sitting in a Libyan detention center, having been detained in Tripoli by the Libyan Coast Guard.\", \"\\\"We were kept in rooms with little ventilation and no toilets. We would sit for days without taking baths. It was like hell,\\\" Sallah told CNN.\", \"He added that officers at the detention center often assaulted them by \\\"beating us for the slightest things like refusing to sleep.\\\"\", \"Read More\", \"It was January 2017, and the 25-year-old Gambian had taken a gamble, risking his life in search of a better one in Europe. But no one had warned him of the dangers ahead.\", \"If and when he got out of the detention center, he vowed to help others make a more informed decision.\", \"Migrating to Europe\", \"Sallah grew up in Serekunda, southwest of The Gambia's capital city, Banjul. He said he worked hard in school to earn a scholarship so that his mother could retire from her job selling vegetables in the market.\", \"In 2016, he thought he'd have that chance when he earned a scholarship to study computer science in Taiwan. \\\"But there was no Taiwan embassy in Gambia, so I had to go to the closest one in Abuja, Nigeria,\\\" he explained.\", \"After borrowing money from his sister to travel to Nigeria, he said he spent three months there before his visa application was denied. Three years earlier, then-president of The Gambia, Yahya Jammeh, had cut diplomatic ties with Taiwan for what he called \\\"national strategic interest.\\\"\", \"At least 58 people killed as boat carrying migrants sinks off Mauritania coast\", \"\\\"I didn't know what to do: stay in Nigeria, or go to any other African country. At the end of the day, I got the mind of migrating (to Europe) because I know several people who took the journey and made it there,\\\" Sallah explained.\", \"With a population of \", \"2.3 million people\", \", The Gambia is among the smallest countries in Africa. But despite its small size, migration is a fairly common practice and plays a key role in the country's economy.\", \"According to the International Organization for Migration (IOM), overseas remittances for an average of 90,000 Gambians who live abroad make up \", \"more than 20% of the country's GDP\", \". \", \"48% of Gambians\", \" live in poverty, and many people find themselves looking outside the country for opportunities to improve their lives. \", \"But some people leave the country without proper documentation or without crossing an official border point. Between 2014 and 2018, the IOM estimates \", \"more than 35,000 \", \"Gambians reached Europe through \\\"irregular means.\\\"\", \"\\\"There's a tradition of mobility in Gambia. It's a long history of people using migration as a means of life, and of getting their income. Many of the returnees we have worked with claim they took the journey for economic reasons,\\\" Etienne Micallef, the IOM's program manager in The Gambia told CNN.\", \"\\\"They have the perception that if they migrate with the final destination as Europe, they will get a much better income to sustain themselves and their families back home,\\\" he added. \", \"How the Kenyan consulate in Lebanon became feared by the women it was meant to help\", \"But it comes at a high risk. Globally, at least \", \"33,687 migrant deaths and disappearances\", \" were recorded between January 2014 and October 2019, according to IOM -- with nearly half occurring on the route between Northern Africa and Italy. \", \"Sallah, who said he wanted an education that would allow him to find a job to support his family, reiterated that no one warned him how incredibly dangerous the journey would be.\", \"After his visa to study in Taiwan was rejected, he said he got on a bus heading north to Agadez, a city in Niger. \\\"I didn't even know the area -- I just kept asking people around what the best or possible way to reach Niger was.\\\"\", \"From there, he managed to travel to Libya. \\\"You have to pay smugglers who drive pickup trucks to put you at the back of their trucks to get to Libya and then to Europe. I spent a month with my cousin in Libya before heading in another pickup truck for Tripoli,\\\" he told CNN.\", \"His journey to Tripoli was treacherous, he said, telling CNN he was detained and extorted multiple times by armed bandits. \", \"Sallah said he was close to death from starvation and even witnessed a gun battle between armed bandits and smugglers: \\\"The man that was smuggling us told us that if we want to stay in Tripoli, we must get used to gunshots,\\\" he said. \", \"But it all came to an abrupt halt in January 2017, when he was arrested by the Libyan Coast Guard in Tripoli.\", \" Detention Center\", \"Libya is a primary transit point along the central Mediterranean route. People who get stuck there are often detained by the Libyan Coast Guard, responsible for patrolling coastal waters to prevent smuggling and trafficking.  \", \"Sallah said he was kept in a detention center in Tripoli with migrants from different West African countries for nearly four months under poor conditions.\", \"Migrants describe being tortured and raped on perilous journey to Libya\", \"There are\", \" 11 detention centers\", \" for migrants run by the U.N.-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) in Libya. Some \", \"2,362\", \" detainees are held at these facilities on any given day, according to the Global Detention Project. \", \"Human Rights Watch\", \" (HRW) and \", \"Amnesty International\", \" have criticized the conditions at these detention centers; both groups signed onto a statement released in April that urged EU member states and institutions to review their policy on migrants and cooperation with Libya. \", \"The policy, the statement says, has allowed for the \", \"\\\"arbitrary detention and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment\\\"\", \" of migrants and refugees.\", \"While in detention, Sallah met a fellow Gambian who suggested they set up the non-profit organization \", \"Youth Against Irregular Migration\", \" (YAIM) to warn others back home about the risks of irregular migration.\", \"\\\"I went around the detention center gathering details of all the Gambians I could find,\\\" estimating he registered 171 people to join the organization. \\\"We agreed that if we made it out of there, we would start an association to make people aware of how problematic the journey to Europe is,\\\" he said.\", \"Youth Against Irregular Migration\", \"In April 2017, as part of its mandate to return and reintegrate migrants stranded or detained in their transit countries, IOM facilitated the return of Sallah and many others within the detention center back to The Gambia. \", \"That same year, IOM received funding from the EU worth\", \" 3.9 million euros\", \" (about $4.6 million) over the course of three years, to expand its operations in The Gambia.\", \"Since then, according to Micallef, IOM has repatriated more than 5,000 people to the West African nation.\", \"He added that when returnees arrive at the airport or land border, they are met by IOM staff who arrange for temporary shelter, counseling, and medical support for those who need it.\", \"Weeks after returning to The Gambia, Sallah said he met with some members of YAIM who signed up in the detention center. \", \"\\\"We met almost every week after arriving in Gambia,\\\" he explained. \\\"It was difficult for us financially at the start but many of us had the support of our families.\\\"\", \"YAIM members speak to community members about the dangers of irregular migration.\", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"YAIM members speak to community members about the dangers of irregular migration.\\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"YAIM members speak to community members about the dangers of irregular migration.\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200819175004-03-gambia-migration-intl-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"He added that even though many of them struggled to make a living at the start and had to pick up menial jobs around town to survive, being around other members gave them a renewed sense of hope.\", \"Being safe at home, he said, was a better option than the dangerous journey to Europe.\", \"\\\"We bonded by sharing our stories with each other as a way to work through the trauma,\\\" Sallah said. \\\"We made sure to be there for each other.\\\"\", \"Community awareness\", \"Through YAIM, the returnees began campaigns around irregular migration in The Gambia, warning others about the perils of journeying to Europe. \", \"Tombong Kuyateh, a returnee and YAIM member, told CNN that the association visits schools to share experiences with students who may be thinking about migrating.\", \"\\\"We share our personal stories with them. We show them examples of victims who were injured or affected during the journey to prevent them from experiencing the same,\\\" he said.\", \"The 27-year-old added that a lot of people listen to them because they have first-hand experience of what it's like to attempt that trip.\", \"Members of YAIM take to the streets of Banjul, The Gambia, during one of their public campaigns.\", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"Members of YAIM take to the streets of Banjul, The Gambia, during one of their public campaigns.\\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"Members of YAIM take to the streets of Banjul, The Gambia, during one of their public campaigns.\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200819175001-04-gambia-migration-intl-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"By crowdfunding and partnering with local and international groups for support, YAIM is also able to visit small communities across the country for campaigns against irregular migration, Kuyateh said.\", \"Miko Alazas, the IOM communications officer based in The Gambia, told CNN that the organization sometimes partners with returnee associations like YAIM to get people access to the right information, in order to make better migration-related choices.\", \"\\\"We work a lot with returnees because many of them are passionate about sharing their experiences in terms of exploitation and abuse -- so they are at the forefront of a lot of campaigns to raise awareness on irregular migration,\\\" he said.\", \"Now 29, Sallah travels around his home country, visiting radio stations and communities to talk about his harrowing experience. He believes in the power of storytelling to educate others about migration.\", \"\\\"I always tell them about the difficulties,\\\" he said. \\\"Some people lost their lives on the journey. I was part of those who ended up in detention. Every time you are on that journey, you are close to death.\\\"\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/18/africa/kenyan-comic-sensation-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"This chip-eating Kenyan comic is keeping Africans entertained on social media \", \"description\": \"Kenyan teenager, Elsa Majimbo is making viral monolgues on social media \", \"date\": \"2020-08-18T11:06:18Z\", \"author\": \"Aisha Salaudeen\", \"text\": [\" (CNN)\", \"Elsa Majimbo is taking over social media by providing comic relief on Instagram and Twitter amid the \", \"Covid-19 pandemic\", \". \", \"The Kenyan comic, whose relatable monologues often go viral, films from her home in Nairobi, the country's capital city. \", \"Majimbo first went viral after posting a video in March when initial restrictions such as intermittent lockdowns, border controls, and closure of schools and restaurants were\", \" imposed by the Kenyan government\", \" to curb the spread of Covid-19.\", \"In the video, the 19-year-old talked about being in isolation at the time and wanting to be left alone.\", \"var id = '//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js'.replace(/\\\\s+/g, '');!!document.getElementById(id) || (function makeEmbedScript(d, id) {var js,fjs;js = d.createElement('script');js.id = id;js.charset = 'utf-8';js.setAttribute('async', '');js.src = '//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js';fjs = d.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];window.WM.UserConsent.addScriptElement(js, [\\\"vendor\\\",\\\"measure-ads\\\"], fjs);}(document, id));\", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" View this post on Instagram\", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \"'Sending love,sending hugs,sending kisses'. Kama Hautumi Mpesa don't waste my time\", \" \", \"A post shared by \", \" Elsa Mpho Majimbo\", \" (@majimb.o) on \", \"Mar 30, 2020 at 10:20am PDT\", \"\\n\", \"\\\"Ever since corona started, we've all been in isolation, and I like, miss no one,\\\" she said, laughing and eating potato-based crunchy chips\", \" in the video\", \". \", \"Read More\", \"\\\"Why am I missing you? There is no reason for me to miss you... do I pay your rent? Do I provide food for you? Why are you missing me?\\\" she added, still laughing. \", \"The quirky humor in the video earned Majimbo many reshares and more than 250,000 views from users across the continent, including South Africa, Kenya and Nigeria. \", \"She told CNN she did not expect the video to get as much attention as it did, but many people related to it. \", \"Gentlemen, start your wheelbarrows! Meet the Nigerian kids ingeniously remaking famous videos with household objects\", \"\\\"It was the time we had just gotten to lockdown, and everyone was telling me they missed me, and I literally like being away from people, so I thought to myself, 'Let me make a video about that,'\\\" she said. \", \"\\\"I did not expect all the attention, but it happened, and I am glad it did.\\\"\", \"Since going viral, Majimbo has made more videos combining dry humor and criticism around the subject matters she decides to film about. \", \"Many of the videos have more than 250,000 views on Instagram and an average of 50,000 views on Twitter.  \", \"Some of the videos have also been featured on American owned cable channel, \", \"Comedy Central\", \". \", \"Eating crunchy chips \", \"Majimbo often incorporates eating crunchy chips, which has become one of her signature moves, to emphasize her points in her monologues.\", \"\\\"In the first video that trended, I ate chips. A lot of people seemed to like it. There were a lot of comments asking me to do it again. So, I was like, OK whatever, and I did it again,\\\" she told CNN. \", \"The comic sensation additionally wears tiny dark sunglasses as a prop in her videos. Just like crunching on chips, the '90s shades are for emphasizing on points made in her skits, she said. \", \"var id = '//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js'.replace(/\\\\s+/g, '');!!document.getElementById(id) || (function makeEmbedScript(d, id) {var js,fjs;js = d.createElement('script');js.id = id;js.charset = 'utf-8';js.setAttribute('async', '');js.src = '//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js';fjs = d.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];window.WM.UserConsent.addScriptElement(js, [\\\"vendor\\\",\\\"measure-ads\\\"], fjs);}(document, id));\", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" View this post on Instagram\", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \"If I pay for the app I own the abs\", \" \", \"A post shared by \", \" Elsa Mpho Majimbo\", \" (@majimb.o) on \", \"Jun 11, 2020 at 10:10am PDT\", \"\\n\", \"\\\"How do I manage to be this hot? The key to being hot is Photoshop,\\\" she said in \", \"one of her videos\", \" titled \\\"If I pay for the app, I own the abs.\\\"\", \"In the video, Majimbo joked about using Photoshop to look good in pictures, \\\"Why get a six-pack in five months when you can get them in five minutes?\\\" she added, putting on the sunglasses to make her point. \", \"Her videos have received support from \", \"celebrities \", \"like actor Lupita Nyongo and current Miss Universe, Zozibini Tunzi. \", \"Majimbo, who records all her monologues using her iPhone 6, said she does not write her lines down before filming, instead she simply \\\"goes with the flow.\\\"\", \"\\\"The thing I like the most about my videos is that they come to me so easily and so naturally. I could just be sitting and feel like making a video about something, and I do it. Anything that comes to my mind, I record,\\\" she said. \", \"\\\"If I don't have any lines to record. I don't even bother, I just skip it and say no video today,\\\" she added. \", \"'I've been able to find myself in a way I hadn't before'\", \"Since becoming an internet sensation, Majimbo said she partnered with brands such as Canadian cosmetics manufacturer, MAC cosmetics, to create content aimed at promoting their products in fun ways. \", \"The teenager, who is currently a journalism student at Strathmore University in Nairobi, is thinking about a completely different career.\", \"According to her, she is taking the time to explore different and newer options, particularly in entertainment, \\\"I think the career I wanted before is not what I want now. A lot of things have changed, I've been able to find myself in a way I hadn't before.\\\" \", \"She added that she is looking into acting roles and having her own comedy show. \", \"This Nigerian comic is getting a lot of love on TikTok with the 'Don't Leave Me' challenge\", \"But regardless of the career part Majimbo takes, she is already influencing social media users in Africa. \", \"She has been given a South African name \\\"Mpho\\\" by her fans in the country. The name means \\\"gift\\\" in Tswana language spoken in Southern Africa, Botswana, Namibia and Zimbabwe. \", \"Majimbo says she will continue to make relatable and funny monologues but will not be limited to them.\", \"\\\"I don't like setting expectations for my future plans because I don't want to be limited. I am open to exploring and becoming many things in the future.\\\"\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/07/africa/africa-engineering-prize-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"A 26-year-old is first woman to win Royal Academy of Engineering's Africa Prize for innovation\", \"description\": \"A 26-year-old has become the first woman to win the prestigious Royal Academy of Engineering's Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation.\\n\\n\", \"date\": \"2020-09-07T13:54:59Z\", \"author\": \"Aisha Salaudeen\", \"text\": [\" (CNN)\", \"A 26-year-old from Ivory Coast has won the 2020 Royal Academy of Engineering's Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation.\", \"Charlette N'Guessan is the \", \"first woman to win the award\", \", which could revolutionize cyber security and help curb identity fraud on the continent. \", \"N'Guessan and her team won the \\u00a325,000 award (about $33,000) for BACE API, a digital verification system that uses Artificial Intelligence and facial recognition to verify the identities of Africans remotely and in real time.\", \"BACE API works by matching the live photo of a user to the image on their documents such as passports or ID card, N'Guessan said. \", \"For websites and online applications that have BACE API integrated in them, users will be verified via their webcam to establish their  identity. \", \"Read More\", \"\\\"For the person trying to submit their application, we ask them to switch on their camera to make sure the person behind the camera is real, and not a robot. \", \"\\\"We are able to capture the face of the person live and match their image with the one on the existing document the person submitted,\\\" she explained. \", \"BACE API verifies users identities in real time using their phone camera or webcam\", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"BACE API verifies users identities in real time using their phone camera or webcam\\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"BACE API verifies users identities in real time using their phone camera or webcam\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200904115946-restricted-03-africa-engineering-prize-intl-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"BACE API can be integrated into already existing applications and systems for identity verification and is targeted at mostly financial institutions on the continent, N'Guessan told CNN. \", \"N'Guessan and her team won the Africa Prize for Innovation in a virtual award ceremony on September 3 where the Africa Prize judges and a live audience voted in their favor, the Royal Academy of Engineering said in\", \" a statement\", \". \", \"\\\"We are very proud to have Charlette N'Guessan and her team win this award,\\\" said Rebecca Enonchong, an entrepreneur from Cameroon entrepreneur and Africa Prize judge in the statement. \", \"\\\"It is essential to have technologies like facial recognition based on African communities, and we are confident their innovative technology will have far reaching benefits for the continent.\\\"\", \"BACE API matches a user's live photo with the image on their official documents to verify their identity. \", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"BACE API matches a user&#39;s live photo with the image on their official documents to verify their identity. \\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"BACE API matches a user&#39;s live photo with the image on their official documents to verify their identity. \\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200904115800-restricted-02-africa-engineering-prize-intl-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"Curbing identity fraud\", \"N'Guessan, who is the CEO and co-founder of Ghana-based software company, \", \"BACE Group\", \", told CNN that the idea came about while she was studying at the \", \"Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology\", \" (MEST) in Accra, Ghana's capital city. \", \"While there, she worked with a team of four and it was during one of their research projects in 2018 they decided to create BACE API, and later a software company. \", \"\\\"We ... talked to tech entrepreneurs. That's when we noticed that there is a huge problem with cyber security with online services and businesses,\\\" she said.\", \"N'Guessan said their research found that many financial institutions in the west African country deal with identity fraud, estimating that they spend up to $400 million dollars yearly to identify their customers. \", \"\\\"We decided to make our contribution as software engineers and data scientists by building a solution that can be useful for this market,\\\" N'Guessan added. \", \"Before the winner was announced on September 3, N'Guessan and other entrepreneurs shortlisted for the Africa Prize received eight months of training from experts across the world and her team was paired with an AI specialist who helped with improvements to their system. \", \" An African woman in tech\", \"N'Guessan's interest in technology started at a young age. Growing up in Ivory Coast, west Africa, she was encouraged to focus on science and technology subjects by her father, a mathematics professor.  \", \"\\\"He inspired my choice for studying STEM. I was actually really good in science-related courses. After high school, I went on to study software engineering at university,\\\" she said. \", \"Now running her own technology company, she told CNN that winning the Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation has helped to boost her confidence as a CEO leading a technical team of men.\", \"The Academy was founded in 1976 and has been running the award to reward engineering innovation in Africa since 2014. \", \"Globally, the technology industry is growing, but women led startups are in short supply with\", \" only 22%\", \" founded by at least one woman, according to a report in Disrupt Africa.\", \"This 9-year-old has built more than 30 mobile games\", \"Data specific to Africa is hard to come by but some studies suggest that \", \"only 9% of startups\", \" on the continent have women founders. \", \"N'Guessan says she hopes that her achievement will motivate more women to consider careers in tech. \", \"\\\"I will be happy if people are inspired by my story, being the first woman to win the Africa Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation and by my work as a woman in tech,\\\" she said. \"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/23/africa/asequals-nigeria-rape-sexual-violence-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"She's on the frontline of a rape epidemic. The pandemic has made her work more dangerous\", \"description\": null, \"date\": \"2020-06-23T09:00:49Z\", \"author\": \"Bukola Adebayo\", \"text\": [\"CNN is committed to covering gender inequality wherever it occurs in the world. This story is part of As Equals, an ongoing series.\", \" \", \"Lagos, Nigeria --\", \" At the start of each day, Dr. Anita Kemi DaSilva-Ibru and her team put on gloves, facemasks and other personal protective equipment to see their patients.\", \"They're not treating people for Covid-19, but they are on the frontline of the pandemic, working at the Women at Risk International Foundation (WARIF), a rape crisis center in Lagos, Nigeria.\", \"Wearing protective gear is the new reality for crisis center workers, like DaSilva-Ibru.\", \"\\\"We change these kits each time we see a survivor as we are mindful of the risk of transmission of the virus between the survivor and us and the cross-contamination between a survivor and the next,\\\" she told CNN.\", \"US-trained gynecologist DaSilva-Ibru has spent most of her career treating hundreds of sexual violence victims but it was the growing scale of the crisis in Nigeria that prompted her to set up WARIF in 2016.\", \"Read More\", \"The clinic in Yaba, a suburb of Lagos, provides medical treatment, legal assistance therapy and space for rape victims and survivors of sexual abuse to get back on their feet.\", \"One in four Nigerian girls \", \"has been the victim of sexual violence, according to UN estimates but DaSilva-Ibru says the numbers are higher as many cases go unreported due to the stigma attached.\", \"In recent weeks, two high profile cases of gender-based violence have brought Nigerian women out onto the streets demanding change.\", \"Uwaila Vera Omozuwa, a 22-year-old microbiology student, was \", \"found half-naked in a pool of blood\", \" in a local church where she had gone to study after the Covid-19 lockdown left universities across the country shut. \", \"\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote {\\n position: relative;\\n color: #262626;\\n margin: 25px auto;\\n padding: 10px 0 14px 0;\\n width: 100%;\\n max-width: 660px;\\n border-left: 0;\\n text-align: center;\\n}\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote:before, .cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote:after {\\n position: absolute;\\n content: '';\\n width: 50px;\\n height: 2px;\\n left: 50%;\\n transform: translateX(-50%);\\n -webkit-transform: translateX(-50%);\\n background-color: #262626;\\n}\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote:before {\\n top: 0;\\n}\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote:after {\\n bottom: -2px;\\n}\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote {\\n position: relative;\\n margin: 0;\\n text-align: center;\\n font-size: 35px;\\n font-weight: 700;\\n word-spacing: -1px;\\n line-height: 1.15;\\n padding: 24px 10px 22px 10px;\\n margin-bottom: 24px;\\n}\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote-cite {\\n margin: 0;\\n text-align: center;\\n font-size: 12px;\\n font-weight: 200;\\n color: #262626;\\n line-height: 1.15;\\n padding: 0 10px;\\n display: inline-block;\\n}\\n@media only screen and (min-width: 768px)  {\\n .cnnix-golf__pullquote {\\n  margin: 50px auto;\\n }\\n .cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote {\\n  font-size: 35px;\\n }\\n} \\n\", \"\\n \", \"\\n \", \"\\\"Rape is an epidemic in this country.\\\"\", \"\\n \", \" Dr. Anita Kemi DaSilva-Ibru, Women at Risk International Foundation\", \"\\n \", \"Her family said her attackers raped her and the student died while being treated at the hospital. A few days later, another student, Barakat Bello, was allegedly raped and killed during a robbery at her home,\", \" according to human rights group Amnesty International.\", \"\\\"Rape is an epidemic in this country,\\\" DaSilva-Ibru told CNN.\", \"She says her work with survivors of sexual violence has become more critical during the outbreak, with restrictions to curb the virus from spreading fueling a surge in calls. \", \"It's a story echoed in other parts of the region, as authorities grapple with a growing number of Covid-19 cases and the impact restrictions are having on women.\", \"Related: A transport ban in Uganda means women are trapped at home with their abusers\", \"DaSilva-Ibru said she initially closed the center after authorities locked down the city in March, she had to reconsider the decision as the organization became inundated with SOS messages from sexual violence victims and their guardians.\", \"Staff operating the 24-hour helpline at the center also reported a 64% increase in calls during this period, according to DaSilva-Ibru. \", \"\\\"Our phones were ringing. Women were calling and desperately asking how we can help them, these were women in fear of their lives, as many have now been forced into quarantine with their abusers, in an already volatile environment,\\\" DaSilva-Ibru told CNN.\", \"For the center to re-open, DaSilva-Ibru said she had to source PPE, face masks and other protective gear personally and when that was not enough, the center launched an online appeal for funds from donors to buy the equipment at no cost to survivors, she said. \", \"\\\"We carry out forensic examinations on survivors and our frontline health workers who triage and examine patients are in close proximity to the survivors. As much as we need to carry out our duties, we also need to ensure our workers are adequately protected,\\\" DaSilva-Ibru told CNN.\", \"The challenges Ibru faces to keep the center open, doesn't compare to what sexual violence victims have experienced as a result of this pandemic, she said.\", \"DaSilva-Ibru recalls a woman who told staff at the center that her male friend had raped her in her home during the lockdown.\", \"Dr. Anita Kemi DaSilva-Ibru. \", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"Dr. Anita Kemi DaSilva-Ibru. \\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"Dr. Anita Kemi DaSilva-Ibru. \\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200618151608-02-dr-kemi-dasilva-ibru-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"\\\"The first day we re-opened, we attended to women who had walked many miles in spite of the mandatory lockdown to get to the center. These are women who had been terrorized in their homes,\\\" she added.\", \"\\\"She (a survivor) had repeatedly been calling (the center) to find out how she could get help. She feared she might have contracted HIV and wanted to be tested,\\\" Ibru said. \", \"Speaking to CNN, the woman, who didn't want to use her name to protect her identity, said a co-worker raped her after he came to her apartment unannounced in April. \", \"The young banker said she had previously rebuffed his attempts to visit, but on that Sunday afternoon in April, he showed up at her doorstep.\", \"\\\"He's a friend, not a stranger, so I opened the door for him. I was still asking him what was so urgent that made him leave his home. He said he wanted to check up on me and I told him he could have done that over the phone,\\\" she told CNN.\", \"But a few minutes into his visit, the conversation became uncomfortable between them.\", \"\\\"He kept coming towards me, and when I told him to stop, he put his hand over my mouth and pinned me on the floor,\\\" she said.\", \"She says he apologized after raping her and hurriedly left her house.\", \"The survivor told CNN she did not make a police complaint because she was worried about the stigma and strain that the rape might have on her parents.  \", \"A friend she confided in told her to reach out to the \", \"Lagos Domestic and Sexual Violence Response Team\", \" who put survivors in touch with treatment centers for help.\", \"After several calls to the centers on their website, she was referred to \", \"WARIF\", \".\", \"When she went to the clinic, she says staff ran some tests and placed her on Post Exposure Prophylaxis, a HIV prevention treatment for possible exposure.\", \"\\\"Sometimes I get really angry, and sometimes I feel numb,\\\" she said, reflecting on the assault.\", \"She says she was sick every night for 28 days because of the drugs.\", \"\\\"...even though the doctor prepared me for the side effect, it has not been easy,\\\" she told CNN. \", \"Gender-based violence is a problem in many countries, but the coronavirus pandemic has worsened the situation.\", \"The \", \"UN says\", \" the raft of measures deployed by governments to fight the pandemic have led to economic hardship, stress, and fear -- conditions that lead to violence against women and girls. \", \"Equality Now Regional Coordinator in Africa Judy Gitau told CNN that the wave of unemployment and school closures has put victims in a precarious situation.\", \"She recalls a similar situation in Sierra Leone \", \"during the 2014 Ebola outbreak\", \" when\", \" teenage pregnancies spiked\", \" in the country\", \"The government enforced strict stay-at-home orders that closed businesses and schools across the West African nation to curb the spread of the virus, she said.\", \"The restrictions made schoolgirls vulnerable to abuse as some were assaulted in their homes by relatives, and at the same time, a majority of girls from low-income families were coerced to exchange sex for money for food, Gitau said. \", \"\\\"Many of them wound up pregnant but the evidence became available when people were plugging back to life as they knew it as a normal society,\\\" she said.\", \"Gitau says authorities must know that perpetrators often take advantage of the strict measures to abuse victims without arousing much suspicion.\", \"As state resources are being re-focused to tackle the spread of coronavirus, law enforcement agencies should also respond quickly to reports of abuse and create shelters for victims in need of immediate rescue, she said.\", \"But placing women in shelters, especially in countries battling an outbreak, comes with the additional burden of proof, according to DaSilva-Ibru who said shelters in Lagos city are asking survivors to take coronavirus tests before they can be admitted to prevent infection in their facilities.\", \"\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote {\\n position: relative;\\n color: #262626;\\n margin: 25px auto;\\n padding: 10px 0 14px 0;\\n width: 100%;\\n max-width: 660px;\\n border-left: 0;\\n text-align: center;\\n}\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote:before, .cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote:after {\\n position: absolute;\\n content: '';\\n width: 50px;\\n height: 2px;\\n left: 50%;\\n transform: translateX(-50%);\\n -webkit-transform: translateX(-50%);\\n background-color: #262626;\\n}\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote:before {\\n top: 0;\\n}\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote:after {\\n bottom: -2px;\\n}\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote {\\n position: relative;\\n margin: 0;\\n text-align: center;\\n font-size: 35px;\\n font-weight: 700;\\n word-spacing: -1px;\\n line-height: 1.15;\\n padding: 24px 10px 22px 10px;\\n margin-bottom: 24px;\\n}\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote-cite {\\n margin: 0;\\n text-align: center;\\n font-size: 12px;\\n font-weight: 200;\\n color: #262626;\\n line-height: 1.15;\\n padding: 0 10px;\\n display: inline-block;\\n}\\n@media only screen and (min-width: 768px)  {\\n .cnnix-golf__pullquote {\\n  margin: 50px auto;\\n }\\n .cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote {\\n  font-size: 35px;\\n }\\n} \\n\", \"\\n \", \"\\n \", \"\\\"Violence against women and girls is one of the most pervasive forms of a human rights violation and should be recognized by all countries.\\\"\", \"\\n \", \" Dr. Anita Kemi DaSilva-Ibru, Women at Risk International Foundation\", \"\\n \", \"Authorities in Lagos designated gender-based violence services essential in May as it eased lockdown into curfews to allow service providers to get to work more smoothly, DaSilva-Ibru said. \", \"The police force says it has now deployed more officers to its stations across the country to respond to the \\\"increasing challenges of sexual assaults and domestic/gender-based violence linked with the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic.\\\" And last week, governors across the country resolved to declare \", \"a state of emergency on rape\", \", according to the Nigerian Governor's Forum (NGF).\", \"Related: Nigerian women are taking to the streets in protests against rape and sexual violence\", \"It's the first time federal and state authorities are coming out with a united voice to condemn gender violence, DaSilva-Ibru said and it validates the outcry of women in the country and the scale of the problem in Nigeria, she added.\", \"\\\"Violence against women and girls is one of the most pervasive forms of a human rights violation and should be recognized by all countries,\\\" DaSilva-Ibru said.\", \"\\\"In Nigeria, it has become a national crisis that needs urgent attention. I am pleased that this has been recognized.\\\"\", \"\\n  window.cnnAsEqualsConfig = window.cnnAsEqualsConfig || {};\\n  window.cnnAsEqualsConfig.theme = 'black';\\n\", \"\\n\", \"Click here for more stories from the As Equals series.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/24/africa/kenya-maasai-warriors-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"Kenya's Maasai gather for once-in-a-decade ceremony to turn warriors into elders\", \"description\": \"Thousands of Maasai men clad in red and purple shawls and with their heads coated in red ocher gathered this week for a ceremony that transforms them from Moran (warriors) to Mzee (elders).\", \"date\": \"2020-09-24T14:41:25Z\", \"author\": \"Story by Reuters \", \"text\": [\"Maparasha Hills, Kenya\", \"Thousands of Maasai men clad in red and purple shawls and with their heads coated in red ocher gathered this week for a ceremony that transforms them from Moran (warriors) to Mzee (elders).\", \"Around 15,000 men from all over Kenya and neighboring Tanzania congregated in Maparasha Hills in Kajiado County, 128 kilometers from Nairobi, to feast on an estimated 3,000 bulls and 30,000 goats and sheep.\", \"The ceremony occurs once every decade at the site, which is surrounded by hills and dotted with acacia trees.\", \"On Wednesday, the men roasted the meat on beds of coal from acacia trees, holding staffs and swords.\", \"\\\"I used to be a Moran, But after this ceremony, I now graduate to be a Mzee (elder),\\\" Stephen Seriamu Sarbabi, a 34-year-old livestock trader, told Reuters.\", \"Read More\", \"\\\"I will now be having a lot of responsibilities in the community. I will be chairing some different meetings, I will be consulted,\\\" he added.\", \"The arrival of coronavirus in March forced a postponement of the ceremony, which was meant to have been held earlier in the year.\", \"\\\"My role here in this ceremony, is to come and bless my boys to graduate, to another stage of being wazees (elders), and to give them their privileges,\\\" Moses Lepunyo ole Purkei, a farmer, community health volunteer and elder, told Reuters.\", \"During the ceremony, the men were accompanied by their wives, who also wore colorful shawls and beads around their necks and sang songs praising and encouraging the incoming group of elders.\", \"There are about 1.2 million Maasai living in Kenya, according to the government statistics office.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/12/us/ray-hushpuppi-alleged-money-laundering-trnd/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"He flaunted private jets and luxury cars on Instagram. Feds used his posts to link him to alleged cyber crimes \", \"description\": \"A federal affidavit alleged his extravagant lifestyle was financed through hacking schemes that stole millions of dollars from major companies in the United States and Europe. \", \"date\": \"2020-07-12T04:04:56Z\", \"author\": \"Faith Karimi\", \"text\": [\" (CNN)\", \"Ramon Abbas flaunted \", \"a lavish lifestyle of private jets, designer clothes\", \" and luxury cars. \", \"To his \", \"2.5 million Instagram followers,\", \" he went by Ray Hushpuppi, a man who boarded helicopters from his Dubai waterfront apartment and walked around with shopping bags from Gucci, Versace and Fendi.  \", \"On social media, where he posted a video of himself tossing wads of cash like confetti, he told his followers he was a real estate developer. But a federal affidavit alleged his extravagant lifestyle was financed through hacking schemes that\", \" stole millions of dollars \", \"from major companies in the United States and Europe. \", \"His flamboyant posts left a digital trail of evidence that investigators used to link him to the crimes, the affidavit shows. \", \"Last month, United Arab Emirates investigators swooped into his Dubai apartment, arrested him and handed him over to FBI agents, who flew him to Chicago on July 2, federal officials said. \", \"Read More\", \"In the coming weeks, he'll be transferred to Los Angeles -- where the affidavit was filed -- to face accusations of conspiring to launder hundreds of millions of dollars through cyber crime schemes.  \", \"Ramon Abbas allegedly  conspired to launder millions of dollars.\", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"Ramon Abbas allegedly  conspired to launder millions of dollars.\\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"Ramon Abbas allegedly  conspired to launder millions of dollars.\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200703180555-01-nigerian-man-charged-money-laundering-conspiracy-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"$41 million and 13 luxury cars seized  \", \"The Nigerian national lived at the exclusive Palazzo Versace in Dubai, and led a global network that used computer intrusions, business email compromise schemes and money laundering to steal hundreds of millions of dollars from companies, federal prosecutors allege. \", \"He worked with multiple co-conspirators and was arrested along with 11 others. Investigators seized nearly $41 million, 13 luxury cars worth $6.8 million, and phone and computer evidence, \", \"Dubai Police\", \" said in a statement. They uncovered email addresses of nearly 2 million possible victims on phones, computers and hard drives, Dubai authorities said. \", \"\\\"This case targets a key player in a large, transnational conspiracy who was living an opulent lifestyle in another country while allegedly providing safe havens for stolen money around the world,\\\" US Attorney Nick Hanna said in a statement. \", \"Abbas' attorney, Gal Pissetzky, declined to get into details on how his client earns his money. But what he does for a living is going to be \\\"one of the main points of contention here,\\\" he told CNN\", \".\", \"Pissetzky called his client's arrest a kidnapping, saying Dubai handed him to the United States with \\\"no legal proceedings whatsoever.\\\" Abbas has not been formally indicted, and the government has 30 days to indict him, his attorney said Thursday.  \", \"His birthday post helped track him down\", \"Abbas made no secret of his opulent lifestyle and remarkable wealth. On Snapchat, he called himself the \\\"Billionaire Gucci Master.\\\" \", \"\\\"Started out my day having sushi down at Nobu in Monte Carlo, Monaco, then decided to book a helicopter to have ... facials at the Christian Dior spa in Paris then ended my day having champagne in Gucci,\\\" he \", \"posted on Instagram\", \". \", \"Photos of him displaying multiple models of Bentley, Ferrari, Mercedes and Rolls Royce cars included the hashtag #AllMine. Others show him rubbing elbows with international sports stars and other celebrities. \", \"In the affidavit, federal officials detailed how his social media accounts provided a treasure trove of information to confirm his identity. His Instagram, for example, had an email and phone number saved for account security purposes. Federal officials got that information and linked that email and phone number to financial transactions and transfers with people the FBI believed were his co-conspirators. \", \"\\\"The email account ... also contained emails with attachments relating to wire transfers in large dollar values,\\\" the affidavit said.\", \"His Apple and Snapchat records also provided information that helped investigators confirm his identity, address and communications with other suspects. Even his Instagram birthday celebration photos provided key information. \", \"One \", \"post displayed a birthday cake\", \" topped with a Fendi logo and a miniature image of him surrounded by tiny shopping bags. Investigators used that post to verify his date of birth on a previous US visa application. \", \"Ramon Abbas told his 2.5 million Instagram followers that he's in real estate.\", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"Ramon Abbas told his 2.5 million Instagram followers that he&#39;s in real estate.\\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"Ramon Abbas told his 2.5 million Instagram followers that he&#39;s in real estate.\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200703180655-03-nigerian-man-charged-money-laundering-conspiracy-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"Companies targeted spanned two continents \", \"His alleged cyber crimes involved jaw-dropping amounts of money.\", \"Federal documents detailed how a paralegal at a New York law firm wired nearly $923,000 meant for a client's real estate refinancing to a bank account controlled by Abbas and his co-conspirators. The paralegal had received fraudulent wire instructions after sending an email to what appeared to be a bank email address but was later identified as a \\\"spoofed\\\" email address, the affidavit said.    \", \"Abbas sent a co-conspirator an image of the wire transfer confirmation for the transaction, according to the affidavit.\", \" \", \"He\", \" \", \"and an unnamed person also conspired to launder $14.7 million from a foreign financial institution last year, according to a criminal complaint.\", \"During that alleged cyber crime, Abbas sent a co-conspirator the account information for a Romanian bank account, which he said could be used for \\\"large amounts.\\\" In other alleged schemes, he also provided Dubai bank accounts that can be used to deposit money from victims in the United States, the affidavit said. \", \"He's also accused of conspiring to try to steal $124 million from an unnamed English Premier League soccer club. But it's unclear whether the attempt was successful.\", \"FBI recorded $1.7 billion in losses from such scams\", \"Business email compromise schemes are sophisticated scams that involve a hacker redirecting business email account communications to try and intercept wire transfers. \", \"\\\"BEC schemes are one of the most difficult cyber crimes we encounter as they typically involve a coordinated group of con artists scattered around the world who have experience with computer hacking and exploiting the international financial system,\\\"  Hanna said. \", \"Last year alone, the FBI recorded $1.7 billion in losses by companies and individuals victimized through business email compromise scams, according to Paul Delacourt of the FBI field office in Los Angeles. \", \"If convicted of money laundering, Abbas faces up to 20 years in prison. His bond hearing is set for Monday. \", \"His transfer to Los Angeles has been complicated by logistics linked to coronavirus, his attorney said. \", \"CNN's Laurie Ure and Steve Almasy contributed to this report.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/20/africa/nigeria-fashion-tiffany-amber-coronavirus-ppe-spc-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"Nigerian fashion label Tiffany Amber swaps couture for PPE\", \"description\": \"Company founder Folake Akindele Coker pivoted her fashion label into PPE production after she realized that a prolonged lockdown in Nigeria would impact consumer sales.\", \"date\": \"2020-07-21T01:21:46Z\", \"author\": \"Daniel Renjifo\", \"text\": [\" (CNN)\", \"These days, things look a little different when Folake Akindele Coker gets to her office. \\\"I arrive at 9am, all geared (up) for this invisible enemy,\\\" she says. The 45-year-old designer and founder of Nigerian fashion label Tiffany Amber now starts each day with a 10-minute safety talk for her production team, \\\"who at first did not seem to understand the gravity and the potential of being infected by the (Covid-19) virus.\\\"\", \"Coker founded \", \"Tiffany Amber\", \" in 1998, and it's now considered one of Nigeria's most influential fashion and lifestyle brands.\", \"In early March, the number of colorful prints and couture runway garments that normally littered the factory floor dissipated, and the company's sewing machines began stitching hospital scrubs, gowns, stretcher sheets and non-medical face masks. Less than a month after the pandemic reached Africa, Tiffany Amber's entire factory refocused to produce personal protective equipment (PPE), something Coker notes took immense pressure to turn around. \", \"The colorful garments of the Tiffany Amber fashion line, seen here during Arise Fashion week in 2019, have since been replaced in production by PPE to help during the pandemic.\", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"The colorful garments of the Tiffany Amber fashion line, seen here during Arise Fashion week in 2019, have since been replaced in production by PPE to help during the pandemic.\\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"Tiffany Amber Nigeria fashion runway\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200715102210-tiffany-amber-fashion-nigeria-restricted-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"To make the shift, Coker says the company first had to secure more than 15 tons of raw materials including approximately 90,000 yards of fabric, 300,000 yards of elastic, and almost a million yards of thread. All of this happened, she says, right before borders closed in Nigeria and prices spiked due to the unforeseen demand for materials.\", \"See more stories from Marketplace Africa\", \"Read More\", \"As of mid-July, the World Health Organization shows Nigeria as having\", \" more than 30,000\", \" total confirmed cases of coronavirus, the second-most on the continent behind South Africa.\", \"As Covid-19 cases rose and consumer spending fell, Coker saw an opportunity for her business to stay open -- and to help out. \\\"Our expertise in garment production helped facilitate this shift to bridge the gap in the supply of medical apparel,\\\" she tells CNN.\", \"A Tiffany Amber employee sorts ready-to-ship gowns for healthcare workers.\", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"A Tiffany Amber employee sorts ready-to-ship gowns for healthcare workers.\\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"A Tiffany Amber employee sorts ready-to-ship gowns for healthcare workers.\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200626121436-tiffany-amber-ppe-production-gowns-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"The push for PPE\", \"This pivot has been a trend in the private sector worldwide, as companies around the globe have \", \"switched gears to supply the growing demand for PPE\", \".\", \"According to the World Bank, Covid-19 has pushed sub-Saharan Africa into its \", \"first recession in 25 years\", \", greatly impacting the continent's biggest revenue drivers such as energy, agriculture and manufacturing. \", \"Read more: Across Africa, the pandemic reveals both inequality and innovation\", \"Globally, the \", \"luxury market is also expected to shrink \", \"as much as 35% this year, as consumer spending sharply declines mainly due to job loss, according to consulting firm Bain and Co.\", \"Tiffany Amber employees wearing masks, and making masks.\", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"Tiffany Amber employees wearing masks, and making masks.\\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"Tiffany Amber employees wearing masks, and making masks.\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200626120613-tiffany-amber-production-ppe-employees-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"Efforts to make and source \", \"PPE in Nigeria\", \" have primarily relied on private corporations\", \" \", \"working hand in hand with suppliers. In an attempt to stay solvent, Coker says Tiffany Amber is working with partners in the financial sector to fund and distribute the PPE products.\", \"By early June, she notes, the fashion label had made approximately 500,000 cloth masks, 20,000 sets of sheets and pillowcases, 10,000 scrubs, 15,000 patient gowns and close to 5,000 surgical gowns.\", \"Alcohol ban has South African distilleries pivoting to a new product\", \"In Tiffany Amber's case, shifting to PPE production has had an unlikely silver lining: job creation. Since March, Coker says her company has actually managed to grow from 100 employees to a staff of 300.\", \"At the time of writing, Coker does not anticipate returning to regular Tiffany Amber fashion production in the near future. But even as her company responds to the current reality, she keeps planning for when that day will come. \\\"One mind is thinking about tomorrow morning and the other mind is processing the next two years,\\\" says Coker. \\\"Subconsciously, I find myself drifting away, putting together the next Tiffany Amber collection.\\\"\", \"CNN's Lamide Akintobi contributed to this report\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/16/africa/amnesty-mozambique-video-killing-investigation-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"Amnesty International calls for investigation into video showing execution of woman in Mozambique\", \"description\": \"Amnesty International has called for an immediate investigation into the apparent extrajudicial killing of a woman in Mozambique that was shared widely in a horrifying video on social media earlier this week. \", \"date\": \"2020-09-16T17:31:35Z\", \"author\": \"David McKenzie, Brent Swails and Vasco Cotovio\", \"text\": [\" (CNN)\", \"Amnesty International has called for an immediate investigation into the apparent extrajudicial killing of a woman in Mozambique that was shared widely in a horrifying video on social media earlier this week. \", \"In the nearly two-minute-long video, men wearing military uniforms are seen chasing down a naked woman, surrounding and verbally harassing her along a rural road. One of the men repeatedly beats her with a stick before another man shoots her at close range. \", \" \", \"She is then repeatedly shot by the men while lying on the road before one of the men shouts \\\"Stop, stop, enough, it's done.\\\" \", \" \", \"Read More\", \"The video ends as the men turn and walk away, with one of them announcing, \\\"They've killed the al-Shabaab,\\\" the local name given to the growing insurgency in the far north of the country. \", \"It has no known links to the Somali terrorist group of the same name. The uniformed man looks directly into camera and raises his two fingers before the recording stops. \", \" \", \"\\\"The horrendous video is yet another gruesome example of the gross human rights violations taking place in Cabo Delgado by the Mozambican forces,\\\" said Deprose Muchena, Amnesty International's Director for East and Southern Africa.\", \"A young boy was killed by a police stray bullet during a coronavirus curfew. Now his parents want answers\", \" \", \"In its own analysis of the video, the human rights group says that the men were wearing the uniform of the Mozambican military. Amnesty says four different gunmen shot the woman a total of 36 times with AK-47s and PKM-style machine guns. Its investigation concluded that the incident took place near Awasse in the country's northernmost province Cabo Delgado. \", \" \", \"\\\"The incident is consistent with our recent findings of appalling human rights violations and crimes under international law happening in the area,\\\" said Muchena. \", \" \", \"CNN could not independently the authenticity of the video, the date and location it was filmed, nor the identity of the gunmen. \", \" \", \"Mozambique's Minister of Interior Amade Miquidade denied the accusations of atrocities, though did not address the video specifically, on national television Tuesday, saying that insurgents frequently wear army uniforms. \", \" \", \"\\\"When they want to produce their propaganda against the security and defense forces, against the Mozambican state, they remove those signs/characters that identify them and make videos to promote an image of atrocity practiced by those who defend the people,\\\" he said. \", \"Ammonium nitrate that exploded in Beirut bought for mining, Mozambican firm says \", \" \", \"Cabo Delgado is home to a $60 billion natural gas development that is heavily guarded by Mozambican military and private security. \", \" \", \"Loosely aligned with ISIS, the insurgents have undertaken increasingly sophisticated attacks in recent months, overrunning large parts of Mocimba de Praia, a strategic port north of the regional capital Pemba in August. Unlike in previous attacks, government forces have struggled to fully retake the territory. \", \" \", \"The insurgents have been accused by the government and human rights groups of their own violent abuses -- including beheadings, looting, and indiscriminate killing of civilians. \", \" \", \"And the interior minister highlighted those alleged abuses on Tuesday. \", \" \", \"\\\"Once more, our country continues to be the object of aggression by the terrorists, namely in the province of Cabo Delgado, where they've enforced cruel, inhuman, atrocious acts against our population,\\\" said Miquidade.\", \" \", \"Security analysts and human rights workers say that insurgents operating in the area do sometimes wear Mozambican military uniforms. But the uniformed men in the video showing the woman's killing speak Portuguese, generally more common to Mozambicans from the South. \", \"CNN's David McKenzie and Brent Swails reported from Johannesburg and Vasco Cotovio reported from London.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/16/africa/blasphemy-nigeria-boy-sentenced-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"Outrage as Nigeria sentences 13-year-old boy to 10 years in prison for blasphemy\", \"description\": \"Child rights agency UNICEF has condemned the sentencing of a 13-year-old boy to 10 years in prison for blasphemy in northern Nigeria. \", \"date\": \"2020-09-16T14:09:33Z\", \"author\": \"Stephanie Busari and Eoin McSweeney\", \"text\": [\" (CNN)\", \"Child rights agency UNICEF has condemned the sentencing of a 13-year-old boy to 10 years in prison for blasphemy in northern Nigeria. \", \"Omar Farouq was convicted in a Sharia court in Kano State in northwest Nigeria after he was accused of using foul language toward Allah in an argument with a friend. \", \"He was sentenced on August 10 by the same court that recently sentenced a studio assistant Yahaya Sharif-Aminu to death for blaspheming Prophet Mohammed, according to lawyers. \", \"Farouq's punishment is in violation of the African Charter of the Rights and Welfare of a Child and the Nigerian constitution, said his counsel Kola Alapinni, who told CNN they filed an appeal on his behalf on September 7. \", \"Farouq was tried as an adult because he has attained puberty and has full responsibility under Islamic law. \", \"Read More\", \"Alapinni told CNN he or other lawyers working on the case have not been granted access to Farouq by authorities in Kano State. \", \"He said he found out about Farouq's case by chance when working on the case of Sharif-Aminu, who was sentenced to death for blasphemy at the Kano Upper Sharia Court. \", \"\\\"We found out they were convicted on the same day, by the same judge, in the same court, for blasphemy and we found out no one was talking about Omar, so we had to move quickly to file an appeal for him,\\\" he said. \", \"\\\"Blasphemy is not recognized by Nigerian law. It is inconsistent with the constitution of Nigeria.\\\"\", \" \", \" .m-infographic--1600276717888 { background: url(//cdn.cnn.com/cnn/.e/interactive/html5-video-media/2020/09/16/20201609_kano_state_map_375px.jpg) no-repeat 0 0 transparent; margin-bottom: 30px; padding-top: 111.4513981358189%; width: 100%; -moz-background-size: cover; -o-background-size: cover; -webkit-background-size: cover; background-size: cover; } @media (min-width: 640px) { .m-infographic--1600276717888{ background-image: url(//cdn.cnn.com/cnn/.e/interactive/html5-video-media/2020/09/16/20201609_kano_state_map_780px.jpg); padding-top: 84.2948717948718%; } } @media (min-width: 1120px) { .m-infographic--1600276717888{ background-image: url(//cdn.cnn.com/cnn/.e/interactive/html5-video-media/2020/09/16/20201609_kano_state_map_780px.jpg); padding-top: 84.2948717948718%; } } \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \"The lawyer said Farouq's mother had fled to a neighboring town after mobs descended on their home following his arrest. \", \"\\\"Everyone here is scared to speak and living under fear of reprisal attacks,\\\" he said. \", \"UNICEF Wednesday issued a statement \\\"expressing deep concern\\\" about the sentencing. \", \"\\\"The sentencing of this child -- 13-year-old Omar Farouq -- to 10 years in prison with menial labour is wrong,\\\" said Peter Hawkins, UNICEF representative in Nigeria. \\\"It also negates all core underlying principles of child rights and child justice that Nigeria -- and by implication, Kano State -- has signed on to.\\\" \", \"Kano State, like most predominantly Muslim states in Nigeria, practices Sharia law alongside secular law. \", \"Islam Fast Facts\", \"CNN contacted a spokesman for the Kano State governor for comment but had not heard back before publication. \", \"UNICEF has called on the Nigerian government and the Kano State government to urgently review the case and reverse the sentence, the organization said in a statement. \", \"\\\"This case further underlines the urgent need to accelerate the enactment of the Kano State Child Protection Bill so as to ensure that all children under 18, including Omar Farouq are protected -- and that all children in Kano are treated in accordance with child rights standards,\\\" Hawkins said.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/18/africa/disney-partners-with-nollywood/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"Disney partners with Nollywood to bring American movies to English-speaking West Africa\", \"description\": \"FilmOne Entertainment is now the sole distributor of Disney titles in English speaking West Africa\", \"date\": \"2020-09-18T12:02:13Z\", \"author\": \"Aisha Salaudeen\", \"text\": [\"Lagos, Nigeria (CNN)\", \"Disney, is joining forces with a Nigerian production and distribution company to market some of the American entertainment conglomerate's new releases such as \\\"Mulan\\\" in English-speaking West Africa.\", \"The deal makes FilmOne Entertainment the sole distributors of Disney-owned films in Nigeria, Ghana, and Liberia. \", \"\\\"It is a major career highlight, that we're able to get the world's biggest movie studio as a partner,\\\" Moses Babatope, a director at FilmOne, told CNN. \", \"Bollywood and Nollywood collide in a tale of a big fat Indian-Nigerian wedding\", \"FilmOne Entertainment has been at the forefront of growing Nigeria's cinema culture and has built cinemas across the country, including IMAX screens.\", \"The firm has also distributed and produced \", \"Nigerian box office hits \", \"such as \\\"The Wedding Party,\\\" and \\\"New Money.'\\\"\", \"Read More\", \"\\\"What the deal means is that we are exclusive marketers and distributors of Disney titles in the English-speaking West African countries that have studio licensed cinemas. We will distribute the films to all those cinemas in the territory,\\\" he explained. \", \"The agreement, which commenced this month, covers titles from all Disney studio divisions including Pixar, Marvel Studios, Walt Disney Pictures, and Blue Sky pictures. \", \"\\\"With their in-depth knowledge of the region and expertise in bringing theatrical releases to fans, we are thrilled to welcome FilmOne as our distribution partner for this territory,\\\" Disney Africa's country manager, Christine Service said in a statement. \", \"Bigger opportunities\", \"Film analysts in the country say this deal may convince investors and film producers to look further into the African movie industry. \", \"\\\"This deal is huge because it means that Disney is paying attention. Their presence can open doors for movie collaborations,\\\" said Shola Thompson, a Nigeria-based film consultant.\", \"Thompson added that distributing Disney movies is a pathway to getting the best content to cinemas, which can improve the cinema-going culture in the region as well as increase their potential earnings.\", \"As a result of restrictions following the Covid-19 pandemic, many cinemas in West Africa are not operating at full capacity. But FilmOne Entertainment says it is working on improving the cinema experience as a way of encouraging people to show up when all restrictions have been lifted.\", \"Netflix partners with Nigerian filmmaker in new major deal \", \"\\\"We will let people know that they enjoy films better when they watch with other people. To say that the experience out of home is very different,\\\" Babatope said. \", \"\\\"We will communicate that cinemas are safe in our communications to audiences. We will document what the cinemas are doing regarding incorporating safety procedures,\\\" he added. \", \"Disney's deal is not the first time a multinational entertainment company is partnering with film companies in West Africa.\", \"In 2019, FilmOne Entertainment signed a deal with Chinese media giant Huahua to co-produce the first \", \"major China-Nigeria film. \", \"In the same year, French Media giant,\", \" Canal+ acquired leading Nollywood film studio, ROK film studios\", \" to create more hours of Nigerian content for its French-speaking audience.\", \"Independence key to collaboration\", \"Thompson who is also a film analyst says the growing influence of entertainment companies like Disney on the continent may create room for greater Hollywood influence in Africa, without a corresponding influence of African film content in Hollywood.\", \"\\\"We need to be a bit careful to make sure we don't lose creative control of our stories. With more multinationals looking into Africa for partnerships, we don't want to find ourselves stuck with them dictating what we start to produce,\\\" he said. \", \"\\\"At the same time, we can still be glad that they are paying attention as that means growth for our film industry,\\\" he added. \", \"As FilmOne Entertainment prepares to start distributing Disney content, Babatope says the partnership is an opportunity that can lead to future collaborations involving largely African content. \", \"\\\"It's true that a lot of the content we will be distributing are from other parts of the world but if we are able to demonstrate that we are accountable and transparent, then there will be room to attract future investments involving content from this region.\\\"\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/23/africa/china-ethiopia-test-kits-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"China's BGI wins 1.5 million coronavirus test kit order from Ethiopia\", \"description\": \"Ethiopia has agreed to purchase 1.5 million coronavirus testing kits that will be manufactured at a factory in the African country that has been newly built by China's BGI Group, China's state media agency Xinhua said late on Tuesday.\", \"date\": \"2020-09-23T11:22:20Z\", \"author\": \"Story by Reuters\", \"text\": [\"Beijing \", \"Ethiopia has agreed to purchase 1.5 million coronavirus testing kits that will be manufactured at a factory in the African country that has been newly built by China's BGI Group, China's state media agency Xinhua said late on Tuesday.\", \"The BGI factory, the first coronavirus test production facility in Ethiopia that opened earlier this month, is designed to be able to make 6-8 million tests in a year and can expand the annual capacity to up to 10 million in accordance with local demand, Xinhua reported.\", \"BGI, which makes genome sequencing and medical devices, is hoping to use its footprint in Ethiopia in expanding its supplies to other African countries, Xinhua quoted a BGI official as saying in a separate report on Wednesday.\", \"BGI did not immediately respond to a request for comment.\", \"BGI Group's unit BGI Genomics had said it supplied over 35 million coronavirus testing kits overseas and built 58 labs in 18 countries as of June 30.\", \"Read More\", \"The Ethiopia factory could be later converted to make test kits for HIV, malaria and tuberculosis once the Covid-19 pandemic ends, Xinhua said.\", \"Ethiopia, one of the countries that has the most new daily infections on average in Africa, has reported 69,709 infections and 1,108 coronavirus-related deaths since the pandemic began.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/29/health/who-rapid-test-kits-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"WHO announces Covid-19 rapid tests for low and middle income countries\", \"description\": \"The World Health Organization has announced an agreement to make rapid Covid-19 tests available to lower and middle-income countries across the world.\", \"date\": \"2020-09-29T14:08:02Z\", \"author\": \"Amanda Watts \", \"text\": [\" (CNN)\", \"The World Health Organization has announced an agreement to make rapid Covid-19 tests available to lower and middle-income countries across the world.\", \"Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO director-general said, \\\"a substantial proportion of these rapid tests - 120 million - will be made available to low and middle-income countries. These tests provide reliable results in approximately 15 to 30 minutes, rather than hours or days, at a lower price, with less sophisticated equipment.\\\" \", \" \", \"Tedros said during a Monday news conference that these \\\"vital\\\" tests will help expand testing in remote areas, \\\"that do not have lab facilities or enough trained health workers to carry out PCR tests.\\\" \", \" \", \"Read More\", \"He added: \\\"High-quality rapid tests show us where the virus is hiding, which is key to quickly tracing and isolating contacts and breaking the chains of transmission. The tests are a critical tool for governments as they look to reopen economies and ultimately save both lives and livelihoods.\\\"\", \"Coronavirus has killed 1 million people worldwide. Experts fear the toll may double before a vaccine is ready\", \"The first orders are expected already to be placed this week and it will be rolled out in up to 20 countries in Africa starting in October. \", \"Peter Sands, executive director of the Global Fund said the tests are hugely valuable as a complement to PCR tests but warned that they are not \\\"a silver bullet.\\\" \", \" \", \"\\\"Although they're a bit less accurate - they're much faster, cheaper, and don't require a lab,\\\" he explained. \\\"Being able to deploy quality antigen RDTs, rapid diagnostic tests, will be a significant step forward in enabling countries to contain and combat Covid-19,\\\" Sands added. \", \"The PCR test is the most widespread and most accurate diagnostic test for determining whether someone is currently infected with coronavirus.  However, the tests requires specialized supplies, expensive instruments, and the expertise of trained lab technicians. which has led to shortages and a testing gap globally. \", \"Read related: \", \"https://edition.cnn.com/2020/04/28/us/coronavirus-testing-pcr-antigen-antibody/index.html\", \"This $5 rapid test is a potential game-changer in Covid testing\", \" \", \"Sands said these tests will help low and middle-income countries to \\\"close the dramatic gap in testing between rich and poor countries.\\\" \", \" \", \"\\\"Right now, high-income countries are conducting 292 tests per day per 100,000 people. For upper-middle-income countries, that number is 77. For lower-middle-income countries, 61, and from low-income countries, 14,\\\" Sands said, though he did not expand on where that data originates. \", \" \", \"Dr. John Nkengasong, director of the Africa CDC, welcomed the development as it would allow \\\"healthcare workers to quickly isolate cases and treat them while tracing their contacts to cut the transmission chain.\\\"\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/29/africa/togo-female-prime-minister-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"Togo names first female Prime Minister\", \"description\": \"President's former chief-of-staff Victoire Tomegah Dogbe, 60, has become the first female prime minister of Togo, a tiny West African nation of about eight million people.\", \"date\": \"2020-09-29T18:09:26Z\", \"author\": \"Orji Sunday\", \"text\": [\" (CNN)\", \"Togo's President Faure Gnassingbe has appointed the country's first female prime minister.\", \"Victoire Tomegah Dogbe, 60, became the first female prime minister of the tiny West African nation of about eight million people.\", \" \", \"Dogbe, whose appointment was confirmed by President Faure Gnassingbe on Monday, replaces Komi Selom Klassou, who resigned as prime minister on Friday, a position he held since 2015.\", \" \", \"Read More\", \"Dogbe is well known and respected in Togo, having served in several positions under Gnassingbe's government in the past decade, including working as his chief-of-staff, director of the cabinet of the President of the Republic and more recently as Minister for youth and grassroots development, according to local media reports.\", \"Ethiopia appoints its first female president \", \" \", \"Prior to joining politics, she worked with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) according to information from the agency. \", \" \", \"Her appointment comes after an expected cabinet reshuffle, which was delayed by the country's fight against coronavirus pandemic, following the controversial re-election of Gnassingbe, \", \"who has ruled Togo since 2005\", \". \", \"He took power from his father who, before his death,  ruled Togo for 38 years, dating back to a 1967 coup. \", \"Despite a \", \"series of protests between 2017 -- 2019\", \" calling for an end to a single family rule in Togo, Gnassingbe forced a constitutional reform in 2019 that allowed him to run for an election which he won easily in February 2020. His current tenure runs till 2025.  \", \"Faure must go: How one Togolese woman is risking her life to end the 50-year Gnassingb\\u00e9 dynasty\", \"The 56-year-old leader has seen growing opposition, following slowed economic growth, accusations of electoral fraud, \", \"corruption and human rights violations.\", \" \", \"Dogbe's has vast experience in governance and administration which is well positioned to help the country achieve a long-expected economic boom which has eluded the country since independence in 1960.\", \" \", \"Dogbe has been deeply involved in the country's fight against youth unemployment and poverty, introducing reforms that have been praised as a local success in her country, according to \", \"Togo-First, an online publication\", \" in the country. \", \" \", \"As the parliament awaits Dogbe's policy plan, observers are keen to see what economic difference her reforms can make in a country where half its population live below the poverty line, according to a \", \"2014 report by the International Monetary Fund\", \". \"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/30/africa/zimbabwe-elephant-disease-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"Zimbabwe suspects bacterial disease behind elephant deaths\", \"description\": \"Zimbabwe suspects a bacterial disease called hemorrhagic septicemia is behind the recent deaths of more than 30 elephants but is doing further tests to make sure, the parks authority said.\", \"date\": \"2020-09-30T14:48:29Z\", \"author\": \"Story by Reuters\", \"text\": [\"Zimbabwe suspects a bacterial disease called hemorrhagic septicemia is behind the recent deaths of more than 30 elephants but is doing further tests to make sure, the parks authority said.\", \"The elephant deaths, which began in late August, come soon after hundreds of elephants died in neighboring Botswana in mysterious circumstances.\", \"Officials in Botswana were initially at a loss to explain the elephant deaths there but have since blamed toxins produced by another type of bacterium.\", \"Toxins in water blamed for deaths of hundreds of elephants in Botswana \", \"Experts say Botswana and Zimbabwe could be home to roughly half of the continent's 400,000 elephants, often targeted by poachers.\", \"Elephants in Botswana and parts of Zimbabwe are at historically high levels, but elsewhere on the continent -- especially in forested areas -- many populations are severely depleted, said Chris Thouless, head of research at Save the Elephants.\", \"Read More\", \"\\\"Higher populations equal greater risk from infectious diseases,\\\" Thouless told Reuters, adding that climate change could put pressure on elephant populations as water supplies diminish and temperatures rise, potentially increasing the probability of pathogen outbreaks.\", \"Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority Director-General Fulton Mangwanya told a parliamentary committee on Monday that so far 34 dead elephants had been counted.\", \"\\\"It is unlikely that this disease alone will have any serious overall impact on the survival of the elephant population,\\\" he said. \\\"The northwest regions of Zimbabwe have an over-abundance of elephants and this outbreak of disease is probably a manifestation of that ... particularly in the hot, dry season elephants are stressed by competition for water and food resources.\\\"\", \"Postmortems on some of the dead elephants showed inflamed livers and other organs, Mangwanya said. The elephants were found lying on their stomachs, suggesting a sudden death.\", \"Vernon Booth, a Zimbabwe-based wildlife management consultant, told Reuters it was difficult to put a number on Zimbabwe's current elephant population. He estimated it could be close to 90,000, up from 82,000 in 2014 when the last national survey was conducted, assuming that roughly 2,000-3,000 have died each year from all causes.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/01/world/covid-girls-child-marriage-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"Half a million more girls are at risk of child marriage in 2020 because of Covid-19, charity warns\", \"description\": \"The pandemic has put 500,000 more girls at risk of being forced into child marriage this year, reversing 25 years of progress that saw child marriage rates decline, according to a new report by the charity Save the Children.\", \"date\": \"2020-10-01T12:59:25Z\", \"author\": \"Tara John\", \"text\": [\"London (CNN)\", \"The pandemic has put 500,000 more girls at risk of being forced into child marriage this year, reversing \", \"25 years of progress\", \" that saw child marriage rates decline, according to a new report by the charity Save the Children.\", \"Before the global outbreak, 12 million girls married each year, now the charity warns that up to 2.5 million more girls could be at risk of \", \"child marriage\", \" over the next five years.  \", \"How saying 'I do' can help millions of girls to say 'I don't'\", \"With up to 117 million children estimated to fall into poverty in 2020, many will face pressure to work and help provide for their families.\", \"\\\"The pandemic means more families are being pushed into poverty, forcing many girls to work to support their families, to go without food, to become the main caregivers for sick family members, and to drop out of school -- with far less of a chance than boys of ever returning,\\\" Inger Ashing, CEO of Save the Children International, \", \"said in a press release\", \".\", \"The pandemic led to school closures and \\\"experience during the Ebola outbreak suggests many girls will never return\\\" to class due \\\"to increasing pressure to work, risk of child marriage, bans on pregnant girls attending school, and lost contact with education,\\\" the charity wrote.\", \"Read More\", \"A girl gets married every 2 seconds somewhere in the world\", \"This year, 191,200 girls in South Asia will be disproportionately affected by the risk of increased child marriage, the report says. It is followed by West and Central Africa, where 90,000 girls are at risk of child marriage, Latin America and the Caribbean (73,400), and Europe and Central Asia (37,200).  \", \"Girls affected by humanitarian crises, such as wars, floods and earthquakes, face the greatest risk of child marriage, the report notes. Before the pandemic, data showed child marriage was increasing among refugee populations. In Lebanon, child marriage among Syrian refugee girls rose by 7% between 2017 and 2018.\", \"\\\"Every year, around 12 million girls are married, 2 million before their 15th birthday,\\\" Ashing said. \\\"Half a million more girls are now at risk of this gender-based violence this year alone -- and these only are the ones we know about. We believe this is the tip of the iceberg.\\\"\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/30/politics/esper-africa-trip/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"US Defense Secretary visits Africa for first time seeking to push back on Russia and China\", \"description\": \"US Secretary of Defense Mark Esper made his first visit to Africa Wednesday, a trip aimed in part at pushing back on Russian and Chinese influence in the region.\", \"date\": \"2020-09-30T16:14:06Z\", \"author\": \"Ryan Browne\", \"text\": [\"Malta (CNN)\", \"US Secretary of Defense \", \"Mark Esper \", \"made his first visit to Africa Wednesday, a trip aimed in part at pushing back on Russian and Chinese influence in the region.\", \"Esper arrived in Tunisia to meet with top officials, including the country's president, Kais Saied, and to lay a wreath and give a speech at a World War II cemetery to honor US service members who fell during the North African campaign.\", \"The trip was not announced until after Esper departed the country.\", \"Tunisia which has been touted as the sole democratic success story to come out of the 2011 \\\"Arab Spring,\\\" was designated \\\"a major-non NATO ally of the United States\\\" in 2015 and has partnered with the US on counterterrorism efforts aimed at ISIS-linked groups.\", \"As Trump refuses to commit to a peaceful transition, Pentagon stresses it will play no role in the election\", \"During a meeting at the Tunisian Defense Ministry, Esper and his counterpart signed a \\\"ten-year Roadmap of Defense Cooperation.\\\"\", \"Read More\", \"\\\"The United States will continue to deepen our alliances and partnerships across the continent, including with Tunisia, where your democratic government and sovereignty have made much of our work in the region possible,\\\" Esper said during his speech at the North Africa American cemetery and memorial in Carthage.\", \"\\\"We look forward to expanding this relationship to help Tunisia protect its maritime ports and land borders, deter terrorism, and keep the corrosive efforts of autocratic regimes out of your country,\\\" he added.\", \"The US has worked to help Tunisia secure its border with Libya which has been beset by civil war and recently deployed 40 American military advisers to the country, part of a the Army's Security Force Assistance Brigade, in order to aid Tunisia's fight against terrorist groups which have carried out high profile attacks in the country since 2011.\", \"The US is also Tunisia's largest supplier of weapons, providing nearly 50% of all arms imports from 2015 to 2019 according to the Center for International Policy and in February the Trump Administration approved the sale of four AT-6C Wolverine light attack aircraft to Tunisia, an arms package estimated to cost $325.8 million.\", \"While in North Africa, Esper is seeking to push back on Russian and Chinese activity in the region, according to defense officials.\", \"\\\"Today, our strategic competitors China and Russia continue to intimidate and coerce their neighbors while expanding their authoritarian influence worldwide, including on this continent,\\\" Esper said.\", \"The US has accused China of seeking to expand its influence in the region via predatory loans and the US military has accused Moscow of deploying Russian mercenaries and fighter jets to bolster Libyan Gen. 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The Sharia court is, however, statute-bound to provide legal representation.\", \"Advocates from the \", \"Foundation for Religious Freedom\", \" (FRF), a not-for-profit aimed at protecting religious freedom in Nigeria, which is representing Sharif-Aminu, told CNN he has also not been permitted access to legal advice to prepare an appeal against his conviction. \", \"The FRF says it has lodged an appeal on his behalf in Kano's high court, a common-law court with constitutional powers. \", \"\\\"The state laws he is accused of breaking are in gross conflict with the Nigerian constitution,\\\" said his counsel, Kola Alapinni. \", \"No Muslim will condone it. People hold Prophet Mohammed higher than their parents. \", \"Islamic cleric, Bashir Aliyu Umar\", \"Kano's State Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje told clerics in Kano that he would sign Sharif-Aminu's death warrant as soon as the singer had exhausted the appeals process, local media reports say. \", \"\\\"I assure you that immediately the Supreme Court affirms the judgment, I will sign it without any hesitation,\\\" Ganduje said, according to \", \"Nigeria's Daily Post newspaper\", \". CNN contacted a spokesman for Governor Ganduje several times for comment but did not receive a response. \", \"Islamic scholar and cleric Bashir Aliyu Umar, who is not connected to the case, but said he had read the transcript of the court proceedings, told CNN, \\\"No Muslim will condone it. People hold Prophet Mohammed higher than their parents, and when things like this happen, it will lead to a breakdown of peace because of mob action and attacks against the accused.\\\" \", \"When news of Sharif-Aminu's alleged crime broke earlier this year, protesters marched to his family home and destroyed it, prompting his father to flee to a neighboring town, his lawyers told CNN. Sharif-Aminu went into hiding, according to Amnesty and his lawyers, but in March he was arrested by the Hisbah Corps, the religious police force that enforces Sharia law in Kano state. \", \"'A travesty of justice'\", \"Human rights organization Amnesty International has described Sharif-Aminu's trial as a \\\"travesty of justice,\\\" and called on Kano state authorities to quash his conviction and death sentence. \", \"\\\"There are serious concerns about the fairness of his trial and the framing of the charges against him based on his Whatsapp messages,\\\" said Amnesty's Nigeria director Osai Ojigho. \\\"Furthermore, the imposition of the death penalty following an unfair trial violates the right to life,\\\" she added. \", \"The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has also condemned Sharif-Aminu's death sentence. 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The sentences were not carried out. \", \"In 2000, a Muslim man in the northern state of Zamfara had his hand amputated for stealing a cow. A year later, another man had his hand cut off after he was convicted of stealing bicycles, according to the same USCIRF research paper. \", \"A constitutional violation? \", \"In the eyes of many Nigerians, the adoption of Sharia law is a violation of the \", \"country's constitution\", \", because Article 10 guarantees religious freedom when it states that \\\"the Government of the Federation or of a State shall not adopt any religion as State Religion.\\\" \", \"\\\"This issue of blasphemy is incompatible with the Nigerian constitution,\\\" Leo Igwe, chair of the board of trustees for the Humanist Association of Nigeria, told CNN. \", \"\\\"We hope this case will help Nigeria confront the biggest constitutional challenge since independence. What should take precedence, Sharia law, or the Nigerian constitution?\\\" \", \"Governors of the northern states, where Sharia law is practiced, argue that it applies only to Muslims, and not to citizens of other faiths. The FRF says it is working on six other constitutional cases which will challenge what it sees as government interference in Nigerian citizens' right to religious freedom. \", \"US national shot dead in Pakistan courtroom during blasphemy trial\", \"One of these, on behalf of the Atheist Society of Nigeria (ASN), is against the state government of Akwa Ibom, in the country's southeast, for its involvement in the construction of an 8,500-seat worship center at its High Court. \", \"The ASN says millions of dollars in state funding have been spent on the center, which it says amounts to government interference in freedom of religion. \", \"\\\"The government has no business legislating on religions. 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It shows how they are recruited and trafficked overseas for commercial gain.\", \"Directed by award-winning Nigerian filmmaker, Kenneth Gyang, the film features Nollywood actors including Sharon Ooja, Omoni Oboli and Blossom Chukwujekwu. \", \"Mo Abudu, executive producer of \\\"Oloture,\\\" told CNN that the crime drama was inspired by the numerous cases of trafficking around the world and in Nigeria. \", \"Actors pose as sex workers on the set of Netflix original film, \\\"Oloture.\\\"\", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"Actors pose as sex workers on the set of Netflix original film, &quot;Oloture.&quot;\\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"Actors pose as sex workers on the set of Netflix original film, &quot;Oloture.&quot;\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/201007071906-restricted-04-human-trafficking-film-nigeria-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"\\\"There have been many reports around the world highlighting human trafficking and modern slavery. It has been in our faces. I dug and dug and did a bit more research, and when I came across the numbers and saw how much was made annually from human trafficking, I was totally shocked,\\\" she said. \", \"Human trafficking is a \", \"$150 billion global industry.\", \" And two-thirds of this figure is generated from sexual exploitation, according to a 2014 report by the International Labor Organization. \", \"Abudu -- who is also CEO of EbonyLife Films, which produced \\\"Oloture\\\" -- added that the film mirrored some real-life reports by journalists who had gone undercover to expose sex trafficking patterns in the country.\", \"One of them, she said, was a \", \"2014 report \", \"by journalist Tobore Ovuorie, in the Nigerian newspaper, Premium Times. \", \"\\\"Upon research, we found that many journalists had gone undercover to report on human trafficking. But the Premium Times article did spark our interest as some of it plays out in the film,\\\" Abudu said. \", \"Easy prey for traffickers\", \"Ovuorie, whose report was credited in \\\"Oloture,\\\" told CNN that women often get trafficked as a result of their need to make money abroad. \", \"Ovuorie said she met many women in the course of her reporting who wanted to get to Europe in hopes of better job opportunities that would earn them more money.\", \"UK joins forces with Nigeria to fight human trafficking\", \"\\\"People were motivated by greed, you know, the need to get rich. I spoke with the women I was supposed to be trafficked with, and many of them wanted better lives motivated by money. There was one girl who had never earned more than 50,000 naira (about $130) as salary since she graduated from university,\\\" she told CNN.\", \"Most of the women were fleeing harsh economic conditions and poverty, making them easy prey for traffickers, Ovuorie said.\", \"During Ovuorie's investigation, she said she \", \"posed as a sex worker\", \" on the streets of Lagos, looking to travel to Europe.\", \"Lead actor, Sharon Ooja, and Omowunmi Dada (right) pose on set of \\\"Oloture.\\\"\", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"Lead actor, Sharon Ooja, and Omowunmi Dada (right) pose on set of &quot;Oloture.&quot;\\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"Lead actor, Sharon Ooja, and Omowunmi Dada (right) pose on set of &quot;Oloture.&quot;\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/201007072041-restricted-05-human-trafficking-film-nigeria-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"Her plan worked. She was eventually linked with a trafficker who promised to get her to Italy. In partnership with ZAM Chronicles and Premium Times, she documented her experience. \", \"After a series of \\\"humiliating trainings\\\" and physical abuse, she said she was told she and other girls would receive a \", \"fake passport\", \" in preparation to be smuggled outside the country through the border in Benin in West Africa.\", \"She escaped at the border. \", \"Physical and sexual abuse \", \"Many women who are trafficked in Nigeria face sexual, physical and mental abuse, according to \", \"a 2019 report \", \"by Human Rights Watch. \", \"The rights group interviewed many women who said they were trafficked within and across national borders under life-threatening conditions as they were starved, raped and extorted. \", \"On some occasions, according to the report, they were forced into prostitution where they were made to have abortions and \", \"coerced to have sex \", \"with customers when they were sick, menstruating or pregnant. \", \"\\\"Oloture\\\" portrays some of these harsh realities as the lead character (played by Ooja) suffers sexual violence and physical abuse, including being whipped by one of her traffickers. \", \"It was important to depict the reality of sex trafficking so viewers can understand the experiences of women who are forced into the trade, Gyang, the director, told CNN.\", \"Director Kenneth Gyang works behind the scenes of film, \\\"Oloture.\\\"\", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"Director Kenneth Gyang works behind the scenes of film, &quot;Oloture.&quot;\\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"Director Kenneth Gyang works behind the scenes of film, &quot;Oloture.&quot;\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/201007071340-restricted-01-human-trafficking-film-nigeria-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"\\\"I wanted people to know that this is the reality of these ladies. People always want closure but life is not about a Hollywood ending; you can't always get a happy ending,\\\" he said.\", \"While directing the film, Gyang visited places with sex workers to get a better idea of how they live and work, he said.\", \"\\\"I actually went to places where we have sex workers in Lagos with one of the producers of the film. We wanted to really capture their lives so that we would be able to show it realistically in the movie. We talked to them, and some of the rooms we used in the movie were actually used previously by sex workers,\\\" he explained. \", \"'The most impactful movie we have ever done'\", \"The film was shot in 21 days towards the end of 2018, he said. Post-production was covered in 2019, and it was released Friday on Netflix.\", \"In just days, it has become the top watched movie in Nigeria and is among the \", \"top 10 watched movies in the world on Netflix. \", \"\\\"It's huge for me as a filmmaker that people have access to the film from all over the world. I want many people as possible to see it and have conversations about sex trafficking,\\\" Gyang said. \", \"The film is doing well in countries like Switzerland, Brazil, and South Africa because it is authentic and \\\"deals with the truth,\\\" Abudu said.\", \"\\\"EbonyLife has done seven movies. But this is the most impactful one we have ever done. And the most important,\\\" Abudu said. \", \"A smuggler's chilling warning\", \"The \", \"National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons\", \" (NAPTIP), the law enforcement agency in charge of combating human trafficking in Nigeria, wants the film to be made available to people in rural communities who don't have access to Netflix.\", \"\\\"I haven't seen the movie, but if it is trying to portray the ills and dangers of trafficking, then it's fine since that is going to raise awareness,\\\" Julie Okah-Donli, the director-general of the agency said. \", \"And while she is happy that \\\"Oloture\\\" is shining the light on human trafficking, she told CNN that women mostly targeted by traffickers may not get to watch it.\", \"\\\"The people watching it on Netflix all know what trafficking is. It needs to go to those girls in rural communities where traffickers go to bring them from. Those are the girls that the awareness should go to,\\\" Okah-Donli said. \", \"With more people partnering with NAPTIP and raising awareness of the dangers of trafficking, sex trafficking will be minimized in Nigeria, she said. \"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/23/africa/asequals-nigeria-rape-sexual-violence-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"She's on the frontline of a rape epidemic. The pandemic has made her work more dangerous\", \"description\": null, \"date\": \"2020-06-23T09:00:49Z\", \"author\": \"Bukola Adebayo\", \"text\": [\"CNN is committed to covering gender inequality wherever it occurs in the world. This story is part of As Equals, an ongoing series.\", \" \", \"Lagos, Nigeria --\", \" At the start of each day, Dr. Anita Kemi DaSilva-Ibru and her team put on gloves, facemasks and other personal protective equipment to see their patients.\", \"They're not treating people for Covid-19, but they are on the frontline of the pandemic, working at the Women at Risk International Foundation (WARIF), a rape crisis center in Lagos, Nigeria.\", \"Wearing protective gear is the new reality for crisis center workers, like DaSilva-Ibru.\", \"\\\"We change these kits each time we see a survivor as we are mindful of the risk of transmission of the virus between the survivor and us and the cross-contamination between a survivor and the next,\\\" she told CNN.\", \"US-trained gynecologist DaSilva-Ibru has spent most of her career treating hundreds of sexual violence victims but it was the growing scale of the crisis in Nigeria that prompted her to set up WARIF in 2016.\", \"Read More\", \"The clinic in Yaba, a suburb of Lagos, provides medical treatment, legal assistance therapy and space for rape victims and survivors of sexual abuse to get back on their feet.\", \"One in four Nigerian girls \", \"has been the victim of sexual violence, according to UN estimates but DaSilva-Ibru says the numbers are higher as many cases go unreported due to the stigma attached.\", \"In recent weeks, two high profile cases of gender-based violence have brought Nigerian women out onto the streets demanding change.\", \"Uwaila Vera Omozuwa, a 22-year-old microbiology student, was \", \"found half-naked in a pool of blood\", \" in a local church where she had gone to study after the Covid-19 lockdown left universities across the country shut. \", \"\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote {\\n position: relative;\\n color: #262626;\\n margin: 25px auto;\\n padding: 10px 0 14px 0;\\n width: 100%;\\n max-width: 660px;\\n border-left: 0;\\n text-align: center;\\n}\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote:before, .cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote:after {\\n position: absolute;\\n content: '';\\n width: 50px;\\n height: 2px;\\n left: 50%;\\n transform: translateX(-50%);\\n -webkit-transform: translateX(-50%);\\n background-color: #262626;\\n}\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote:before {\\n top: 0;\\n}\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote:after {\\n bottom: -2px;\\n}\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote {\\n position: relative;\\n margin: 0;\\n text-align: center;\\n font-size: 35px;\\n font-weight: 700;\\n word-spacing: -1px;\\n line-height: 1.15;\\n padding: 24px 10px 22px 10px;\\n margin-bottom: 24px;\\n}\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote-cite {\\n margin: 0;\\n text-align: center;\\n font-size: 12px;\\n font-weight: 200;\\n color: #262626;\\n line-height: 1.15;\\n padding: 0 10px;\\n display: inline-block;\\n}\\n@media only screen and (min-width: 768px)  {\\n .cnnix-golf__pullquote {\\n  margin: 50px auto;\\n }\\n .cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote {\\n  font-size: 35px;\\n }\\n} \\n\", \"\\n \", \"\\n \", \"\\\"Rape is an epidemic in this country.\\\"\", \"\\n \", \" Dr. Anita Kemi DaSilva-Ibru, Women at Risk International Foundation\", \"\\n \", \"Her family said her attackers raped her and the student died while being treated at the hospital. A few days later, another student, Barakat Bello, was allegedly raped and killed during a robbery at her home,\", \" according to human rights group Amnesty International.\", \"\\\"Rape is an epidemic in this country,\\\" DaSilva-Ibru told CNN.\", \"She says her work with survivors of sexual violence has become more critical during the outbreak, with restrictions to curb the virus from spreading fueling a surge in calls. \", \"It's a story echoed in other parts of the region, as authorities grapple with a growing number of Covid-19 cases and the impact restrictions are having on women.\", \"Related: A transport ban in Uganda means women are trapped at home with their abusers\", \"DaSilva-Ibru said she initially closed the center after authorities locked down the city in March, she had to reconsider the decision as the organization became inundated with SOS messages from sexual violence victims and their guardians.\", \"Staff operating the 24-hour helpline at the center also reported a 64% increase in calls during this period, according to DaSilva-Ibru. \", \"\\\"Our phones were ringing. Women were calling and desperately asking how we can help them, these were women in fear of their lives, as many have now been forced into quarantine with their abusers, in an already volatile environment,\\\" DaSilva-Ibru told CNN.\", \"For the center to re-open, DaSilva-Ibru said she had to source PPE, face masks and other protective gear personally and when that was not enough, the center launched an online appeal for funds from donors to buy the equipment at no cost to survivors, she said. \", \"\\\"We carry out forensic examinations on survivors and our frontline health workers who triage and examine patients are in close proximity to the survivors. As much as we need to carry out our duties, we also need to ensure our workers are adequately protected,\\\" DaSilva-Ibru told CNN.\", \"The challenges Ibru faces to keep the center open, doesn't compare to what sexual violence victims have experienced as a result of this pandemic, she said.\", \"DaSilva-Ibru recalls a woman who told staff at the center that her male friend had raped her in her home during the lockdown.\", \"Dr. Anita Kemi DaSilva-Ibru. \", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"Dr. Anita Kemi DaSilva-Ibru. \\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"Dr. Anita Kemi DaSilva-Ibru. \\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200618151608-02-dr-kemi-dasilva-ibru-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"\\\"The first day we re-opened, we attended to women who had walked many miles in spite of the mandatory lockdown to get to the center. These are women who had been terrorized in their homes,\\\" she added.\", \"\\\"She (a survivor) had repeatedly been calling (the center) to find out how she could get help. She feared she might have contracted HIV and wanted to be tested,\\\" Ibru said. \", \"Speaking to CNN, the woman, who didn't want to use her name to protect her identity, said a co-worker raped her after he came to her apartment unannounced in April. \", \"The young banker said she had previously rebuffed his attempts to visit, but on that Sunday afternoon in April, he showed up at her doorstep.\", \"\\\"He's a friend, not a stranger, so I opened the door for him. I was still asking him what was so urgent that made him leave his home. He said he wanted to check up on me and I told him he could have done that over the phone,\\\" she told CNN.\", \"But a few minutes into his visit, the conversation became uncomfortable between them.\", \"\\\"He kept coming towards me, and when I told him to stop, he put his hand over my mouth and pinned me on the floor,\\\" she said.\", \"She says he apologized after raping her and hurriedly left her house.\", \"The survivor told CNN she did not make a police complaint because she was worried about the stigma and strain that the rape might have on her parents.  \", \"A friend she confided in told her to reach out to the \", \"Lagos Domestic and Sexual Violence Response Team\", \" who put survivors in touch with treatment centers for help.\", \"After several calls to the centers on their website, she was referred to \", \"WARIF\", \".\", \"When she went to the clinic, she says staff ran some tests and placed her on Post Exposure Prophylaxis, a HIV prevention treatment for possible exposure.\", \"\\\"Sometimes I get really angry, and sometimes I feel numb,\\\" she said, reflecting on the assault.\", \"She says she was sick every night for 28 days because of the drugs.\", \"\\\"...even though the doctor prepared me for the side effect, it has not been easy,\\\" she told CNN. \", \"Gender-based violence is a problem in many countries, but the coronavirus pandemic has worsened the situation.\", \"The \", \"UN says\", \" the raft of measures deployed by governments to fight the pandemic have led to economic hardship, stress, and fear -- conditions that lead to violence against women and girls. \", \"Equality Now Regional Coordinator in Africa Judy Gitau told CNN that the wave of unemployment and school closures has put victims in a precarious situation.\", \"She recalls a similar situation in Sierra Leone \", \"during the 2014 Ebola outbreak\", \" when\", \" teenage pregnancies spiked\", \" in the country\", \"The government enforced strict stay-at-home orders that closed businesses and schools across the West African nation to curb the spread of the virus, she said.\", \"The restrictions made schoolgirls vulnerable to abuse as some were assaulted in their homes by relatives, and at the same time, a majority of girls from low-income families were coerced to exchange sex for money for food, Gitau said. \", \"\\\"Many of them wound up pregnant but the evidence became available when people were plugging back to life as they knew it as a normal society,\\\" she said.\", \"Gitau says authorities must know that perpetrators often take advantage of the strict measures to abuse victims without arousing much suspicion.\", \"As state resources are being re-focused to tackle the spread of coronavirus, law enforcement agencies should also respond quickly to reports of abuse and create shelters for victims in need of immediate rescue, she said.\", \"But placing women in shelters, especially in countries battling an outbreak, comes with the additional burden of proof, according to DaSilva-Ibru who said shelters in Lagos city are asking survivors to take coronavirus tests before they can be admitted to prevent infection in their facilities.\", \"\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote {\\n position: relative;\\n color: #262626;\\n margin: 25px auto;\\n padding: 10px 0 14px 0;\\n width: 100%;\\n max-width: 660px;\\n border-left: 0;\\n text-align: center;\\n}\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote:before, .cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote:after {\\n position: absolute;\\n content: '';\\n width: 50px;\\n height: 2px;\\n left: 50%;\\n transform: translateX(-50%);\\n -webkit-transform: translateX(-50%);\\n background-color: #262626;\\n}\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote:before {\\n top: 0;\\n}\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote:after {\\n bottom: -2px;\\n}\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote {\\n position: relative;\\n margin: 0;\\n text-align: center;\\n font-size: 35px;\\n font-weight: 700;\\n word-spacing: -1px;\\n line-height: 1.15;\\n padding: 24px 10px 22px 10px;\\n margin-bottom: 24px;\\n}\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote-cite {\\n margin: 0;\\n text-align: center;\\n font-size: 12px;\\n font-weight: 200;\\n color: #262626;\\n line-height: 1.15;\\n padding: 0 10px;\\n display: inline-block;\\n}\\n@media only screen and (min-width: 768px)  {\\n .cnnix-golf__pullquote {\\n  margin: 50px auto;\\n }\\n .cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote {\\n  font-size: 35px;\\n }\\n} \\n\", \"\\n \", \"\\n \", \"\\\"Violence against women and girls is one of the most pervasive forms of a human rights violation and should be recognized by all countries.\\\"\", \"\\n \", \" Dr. Anita Kemi DaSilva-Ibru, Women at Risk International Foundation\", \"\\n \", \"Authorities in Lagos designated gender-based violence services essential in May as it eased lockdown into curfews to allow service providers to get to work more smoothly, DaSilva-Ibru said. \", \"The police force says it has now deployed more officers to its stations across the country to respond to the \\\"increasing challenges of sexual assaults and domestic/gender-based violence linked with the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic.\\\" And last week, governors across the country resolved to declare \", \"a state of emergency on rape\", \", according to the Nigerian Governor's Forum (NGF).\", \"Related: Nigerian women are taking to the streets in protests against rape and sexual violence\", \"It's the first time federal and state authorities are coming out with a united voice to condemn gender violence, DaSilva-Ibru said and it validates the outcry of women in the country and the scale of the problem in Nigeria, she added.\", \"\\\"Violence against women and girls is one of the most pervasive forms of a human rights violation and should be recognized by all countries,\\\" DaSilva-Ibru said.\", \"\\\"In Nigeria, it has become a national crisis that needs urgent attention. I am pleased that this has been recognized.\\\"\", \"\\n  window.cnnAsEqualsConfig = window.cnnAsEqualsConfig || {};\\n  window.cnnAsEqualsConfig.theme = 'black';\\n\", \"\\n\", \"Click here for more stories from the As Equals series.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/20/africa/nigeria-fashion-tiffany-amber-coronavirus-ppe-spc-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"Nigerian fashion label Tiffany Amber swaps couture for PPE\", \"description\": \"Company founder Folake Akindele Coker pivoted her fashion label into PPE production after she realized that a prolonged lockdown in Nigeria would impact consumer sales.\", \"date\": \"2020-07-21T01:21:46Z\", \"author\": \"Daniel Renjifo\", \"text\": [\" (CNN)\", \"These days, things look a little different when Folake Akindele Coker gets to her office. \\\"I arrive at 9am, all geared (up) for this invisible enemy,\\\" she says. The 45-year-old designer and founder of Nigerian fashion label Tiffany Amber now starts each day with a 10-minute safety talk for her production team, \\\"who at first did not seem to understand the gravity and the potential of being infected by the (Covid-19) virus.\\\"\", \"Coker founded \", \"Tiffany Amber\", \" in 1998, and it's now considered one of Nigeria's most influential fashion and lifestyle brands.\", \"In early March, the number of colorful prints and couture runway garments that normally littered the factory floor dissipated, and the company's sewing machines began stitching hospital scrubs, gowns, stretcher sheets and non-medical face masks. Less than a month after the pandemic reached Africa, Tiffany Amber's entire factory refocused to produce personal protective equipment (PPE), something Coker notes took immense pressure to turn around. \", \"The colorful garments of the Tiffany Amber fashion line, seen here during Arise Fashion week in 2019, have since been replaced in production by PPE to help during the pandemic.\", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"The colorful garments of the Tiffany Amber fashion line, seen here during Arise Fashion week in 2019, have since been replaced in production by PPE to help during the pandemic.\\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"Tiffany Amber Nigeria fashion runway\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200715102210-tiffany-amber-fashion-nigeria-restricted-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"To make the shift, Coker says the company first had to secure more than 15 tons of raw materials including approximately 90,000 yards of fabric, 300,000 yards of elastic, and almost a million yards of thread. All of this happened, she says, right before borders closed in Nigeria and prices spiked due to the unforeseen demand for materials.\", \"See more stories from Marketplace Africa\", \"Read More\", \"As of mid-July, the World Health Organization shows Nigeria as having\", \" more than 30,000\", \" total confirmed cases of coronavirus, the second-most on the continent behind South Africa.\", \"As Covid-19 cases rose and consumer spending fell, Coker saw an opportunity for her business to stay open -- and to help out. \\\"Our expertise in garment production helped facilitate this shift to bridge the gap in the supply of medical apparel,\\\" she tells CNN.\", \"A Tiffany Amber employee sorts ready-to-ship gowns for healthcare workers.\", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"A Tiffany Amber employee sorts ready-to-ship gowns for healthcare workers.\\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"A Tiffany Amber employee sorts ready-to-ship gowns for healthcare workers.\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200626121436-tiffany-amber-ppe-production-gowns-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"The push for PPE\", \"This pivot has been a trend in the private sector worldwide, as companies around the globe have \", \"switched gears to supply the growing demand for PPE\", \".\", \"According to the World Bank, Covid-19 has pushed sub-Saharan Africa into its \", \"first recession in 25 years\", \", greatly impacting the continent's biggest revenue drivers such as energy, agriculture and manufacturing. \", \"Read more: Across Africa, the pandemic reveals both inequality and innovation\", \"Globally, the \", \"luxury market is also expected to shrink \", \"as much as 35% this year, as consumer spending sharply declines mainly due to job loss, according to consulting firm Bain and Co.\", \"Tiffany Amber employees wearing masks, and making masks.\", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"Tiffany Amber employees wearing masks, and making masks.\\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"Tiffany Amber employees wearing masks, and making masks.\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200626120613-tiffany-amber-production-ppe-employees-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"Efforts to make and source \", \"PPE in Nigeria\", \" have primarily relied on private corporations\", \" \", \"working hand in hand with suppliers. In an attempt to stay solvent, Coker says Tiffany Amber is working with partners in the financial sector to fund and distribute the PPE products.\", \"By early June, she notes, the fashion label had made approximately 500,000 cloth masks, 20,000 sets of sheets and pillowcases, 10,000 scrubs, 15,000 patient gowns and close to 5,000 surgical gowns.\", \"Alcohol ban has South African distilleries pivoting to a new product\", \"In Tiffany Amber's case, shifting to PPE production has had an unlikely silver lining: job creation. Since March, Coker says her company has actually managed to grow from 100 employees to a staff of 300.\", \"At the time of writing, Coker does not anticipate returning to regular Tiffany Amber fashion production in the near future. But even as her company responds to the current reality, she keeps planning for when that day will come. \\\"One mind is thinking about tomorrow morning and the other mind is processing the next two years,\\\" says Coker. \\\"Subconsciously, I find myself drifting away, putting together the next Tiffany Amber collection.\\\"\", \"CNN's Lamide Akintobi contributed to this report\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/26/africa/gambia-migration-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"He almost died migrating to Europe. Now he is warning other Gambians about it\", \"description\": \"Mustapha Sallah and Youth Against Irregular Migration are raising awareness in The Gambia about the dangers of migrating to Europe through irregular means.\", \"date\": \"2020-08-26T14:16:23Z\", \"author\": \"Aisha Salaudeen\", \"text\": [\" (CNN)\", \"Mustapha Sallah was in trouble.\", \"He had hoped to be in Europe by now, pursuing his dreams of studying computer science and making a better life for himself.\", \"Instead, he was sitting in a Libyan detention center, having been detained in Tripoli by the Libyan Coast Guard.\", \"\\\"We were kept in rooms with little ventilation and no toilets. We would sit for days without taking baths. It was like hell,\\\" Sallah told CNN.\", \"He added that officers at the detention center often assaulted them by \\\"beating us for the slightest things like refusing to sleep.\\\"\", \"Read More\", \"It was January 2017, and the 25-year-old Gambian had taken a gamble, risking his life in search of a better one in Europe. But no one had warned him of the dangers ahead.\", \"If and when he got out of the detention center, he vowed to help others make a more informed decision.\", \"Migrating to Europe\", \"Sallah grew up in Serekunda, southwest of The Gambia's capital city, Banjul. He said he worked hard in school to earn a scholarship so that his mother could retire from her job selling vegetables in the market.\", \"In 2016, he thought he'd have that chance when he earned a scholarship to study computer science in Taiwan. \\\"But there was no Taiwan embassy in Gambia, so I had to go to the closest one in Abuja, Nigeria,\\\" he explained.\", \"After borrowing money from his sister to travel to Nigeria, he said he spent three months there before his visa application was denied. Three years earlier, then-president of The Gambia, Yahya Jammeh, had cut diplomatic ties with Taiwan for what he called \\\"national strategic interest.\\\"\", \"At least 58 people killed as boat carrying migrants sinks off Mauritania coast\", \"\\\"I didn't know what to do: stay in Nigeria, or go to any other African country. At the end of the day, I got the mind of migrating (to Europe) because I know several people who took the journey and made it there,\\\" Sallah explained.\", \"With a population of \", \"2.3 million people\", \", The Gambia is among the smallest countries in Africa. But despite its small size, migration is a fairly common practice and plays a key role in the country's economy.\", \"According to the International Organization for Migration (IOM), overseas remittances for an average of 90,000 Gambians who live abroad make up \", \"more than 20% of the country's GDP\", \". \", \"48% of Gambians\", \" live in poverty, and many people find themselves looking outside the country for opportunities to improve their lives. \", \"But some people leave the country without proper documentation or without crossing an official border point. Between 2014 and 2018, the IOM estimates \", \"more than 35,000 \", \"Gambians reached Europe through \\\"irregular means.\\\"\", \"\\\"There's a tradition of mobility in Gambia. It's a long history of people using migration as a means of life, and of getting their income. Many of the returnees we have worked with claim they took the journey for economic reasons,\\\" Etienne Micallef, the IOM's program manager in The Gambia told CNN.\", \"\\\"They have the perception that if they migrate with the final destination as Europe, they will get a much better income to sustain themselves and their families back home,\\\" he added. \", \"How the Kenyan consulate in Lebanon became feared by the women it was meant to help\", \"But it comes at a high risk. Globally, at least \", \"33,687 migrant deaths and disappearances\", \" were recorded between January 2014 and October 2019, according to IOM -- with nearly half occurring on the route between Northern Africa and Italy. \", \"Sallah, who said he wanted an education that would allow him to find a job to support his family, reiterated that no one warned him how incredibly dangerous the journey would be.\", \"After his visa to study in Taiwan was rejected, he said he got on a bus heading north to Agadez, a city in Niger. \\\"I didn't even know the area -- I just kept asking people around what the best or possible way to reach Niger was.\\\"\", \"From there, he managed to travel to Libya. \\\"You have to pay smugglers who drive pickup trucks to put you at the back of their trucks to get to Libya and then to Europe. I spent a month with my cousin in Libya before heading in another pickup truck for Tripoli,\\\" he told CNN.\", \"His journey to Tripoli was treacherous, he said, telling CNN he was detained and extorted multiple times by armed bandits. \", \"Sallah said he was close to death from starvation and even witnessed a gun battle between armed bandits and smugglers: \\\"The man that was smuggling us told us that if we want to stay in Tripoli, we must get used to gunshots,\\\" he said. \", \"But it all came to an abrupt halt in January 2017, when he was arrested by the Libyan Coast Guard in Tripoli.\", \" Detention Center\", \"Libya is a primary transit point along the central Mediterranean route. People who get stuck there are often detained by the Libyan Coast Guard, responsible for patrolling coastal waters to prevent smuggling and trafficking.  \", \"Sallah said he was kept in a detention center in Tripoli with migrants from different West African countries for nearly four months under poor conditions.\", \"Migrants describe being tortured and raped on perilous journey to Libya\", \"There are\", \" 11 detention centers\", \" for migrants run by the U.N.-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) in Libya. Some \", \"2,362\", \" detainees are held at these facilities on any given day, according to the Global Detention Project. \", \"Human Rights Watch\", \" (HRW) and \", \"Amnesty International\", \" have criticized the conditions at these detention centers; both groups signed onto a statement released in April that urged EU member states and institutions to review their policy on migrants and cooperation with Libya. \", \"The policy, the statement says, has allowed for the \", \"\\\"arbitrary detention and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment\\\"\", \" of migrants and refugees.\", \"While in detention, Sallah met a fellow Gambian who suggested they set up the non-profit organization \", \"Youth Against Irregular Migration\", \" (YAIM) to warn others back home about the risks of irregular migration.\", \"\\\"I went around the detention center gathering details of all the Gambians I could find,\\\" estimating he registered 171 people to join the organization. \\\"We agreed that if we made it out of there, we would start an association to make people aware of how problematic the journey to Europe is,\\\" he said.\", \"Youth Against Irregular Migration\", \"In April 2017, as part of its mandate to return and reintegrate migrants stranded or detained in their transit countries, IOM facilitated the return of Sallah and many others within the detention center back to The Gambia. \", \"That same year, IOM received funding from the EU worth\", \" 3.9 million euros\", \" (about $4.6 million) over the course of three years, to expand its operations in The Gambia.\", \"Since then, according to Micallef, IOM has repatriated more than 5,000 people to the West African nation.\", \"He added that when returnees arrive at the airport or land border, they are met by IOM staff who arrange for temporary shelter, counseling, and medical support for those who need it.\", \"Weeks after returning to The Gambia, Sallah said he met with some members of YAIM who signed up in the detention center. \", \"\\\"We met almost every week after arriving in Gambia,\\\" he explained. \\\"It was difficult for us financially at the start but many of us had the support of our families.\\\"\", \"YAIM members speak to community members about the dangers of irregular migration.\", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"YAIM members speak to community members about the dangers of irregular migration.\\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"YAIM members speak to community members about the dangers of irregular migration.\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200819175004-03-gambia-migration-intl-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"He added that even though many of them struggled to make a living at the start and had to pick up menial jobs around town to survive, being around other members gave them a renewed sense of hope.\", \"Being safe at home, he said, was a better option than the dangerous journey to Europe.\", \"\\\"We bonded by sharing our stories with each other as a way to work through the trauma,\\\" Sallah said. \\\"We made sure to be there for each other.\\\"\", \"Community awareness\", \"Through YAIM, the returnees began campaigns around irregular migration in The Gambia, warning others about the perils of journeying to Europe. \", \"Tombong Kuyateh, a returnee and YAIM member, told CNN that the association visits schools to share experiences with students who may be thinking about migrating.\", \"\\\"We share our personal stories with them. We show them examples of victims who were injured or affected during the journey to prevent them from experiencing the same,\\\" he said.\", \"The 27-year-old added that a lot of people listen to them because they have first-hand experience of what it's like to attempt that trip.\", \"Members of YAIM take to the streets of Banjul, The Gambia, during one of their public campaigns.\", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"Members of YAIM take to the streets of Banjul, The Gambia, during one of their public campaigns.\\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"Members of YAIM take to the streets of Banjul, The Gambia, during one of their public campaigns.\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200819175001-04-gambia-migration-intl-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"By crowdfunding and partnering with local and international groups for support, YAIM is also able to visit small communities across the country for campaigns against irregular migration, Kuyateh said.\", \"Miko Alazas, the IOM communications officer based in The Gambia, told CNN that the organization sometimes partners with returnee associations like YAIM to get people access to the right information, in order to make better migration-related choices.\", \"\\\"We work a lot with returnees because many of them are passionate about sharing their experiences in terms of exploitation and abuse -- so they are at the forefront of a lot of campaigns to raise awareness on irregular migration,\\\" he said.\", \"Now 29, Sallah travels around his home country, visiting radio stations and communities to talk about his harrowing experience. He believes in the power of storytelling to educate others about migration.\", \"\\\"I always tell them about the difficulties,\\\" he said. \\\"Some people lost their lives on the journey. I was part of those who ended up in detention. 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I looked fine physically, but it started to affect me mentally. I could go a day without being able to construct sentences, and I was a research analyst at the time which meant I had to write daily reports but I couldn't,\\\" she said. \", \"After expressing her suicidal thoughts to a friend, she was encouraged to see a psychiatrist at a psychiatric hospital in Lagos, one of Nigeria's largest cities. \", \"She was diagnosed with Bipolar and post traumatic stress disorder with mild psychosis. \\\"I poured out my heart, got some tests done and eventually got a diagnosis.\\\"\", \"Creating awareness \", \"Two months after Ojeifo's diagnosis, she said she decided to turn her difficult experiences around. She started to create awareness on the far-reaching impacts of mental health in Nigeria. \", \"In April 2016, she created\", \" She Writes Woman\", \", a non-profit organization focused on providing mental health support for those who may need it in the west African nation. \", \"There is minimal mental health awareness and there are not enough mental health professionals in Nigeria. \", \"In a country of more than \", \"200 million\", \" people, there are only 250 practicing psychiatrists, according to the\", \" Association of Psychiatrists of Nigeria. \", \"Ojeifo told CNN that She Writes Woman started as a blog but she realized she could do more with it, \\\"At first, I was just using it as an outlet to share my experiences and that of other women,\\\" she explained. \", \"Eventually, it morphed into a support community for people with mental health conditions. \", \"The 28-year-old got trained as a mental health coach so that she could start a helpline to talk to people experiencing overwhelming mental health symptoms.\", \"\\\"From sharing stories on the blog and social media, She Writes Woman blew up into a helpline which was run by me for a while, and then to a support group for people in vulnerable conditions,\\\" she said. \", \"24-hour mental health helpline\", \"She Writes Woman provides a\", \" 24-hour mental health helpline\", \" for anyone within Nigeria.\", \"The helpline serves as a first point of contact for people in distress or those who just want to talk about their mental health and symptoms. \", \"\\\"People call the helpline to get what we call a first-aid treatment. On the call you don't get immediate professional counseling, what happens is you get a first response communication where someone listens to you and what you have to say,\\\" Ojeifo explained.\", \"She added that after the first responders, callers can be referred to mental health professionals for therapy or a diagnosis if needed, \\\"depending on what the issue is we que people in to either a therapist or a psychiatrist.\\\"\", \"Data on mental health in Nigeria is hard to find, but according to a 2016 report in the Annals of Nigerian Medicine journal, an estimated\", \" 20-30% \", \"of the country's population is suffering from mental disorders.\", \"And in 2017, a World Health Organization report found that Nigerians have the highest incidences of depression in Africa, with \", \"more than 7 million people \", \"in the country suffering from depression.\", \"Despite the numbers, there is an absence of \", \"effective mental health legislation\", \" setting standards for psychiatric treatment or encouraging mental health awareness in the country. \", \"In February, following deliberations by legislators to pass a proposed mental health bill, Ojeifo became the first person to testify before the Nigerian parliament on the rights of persons with mental health conditions in the country.\", \"var id = '//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js'.replace(/\\\\s+/g, '');!!document.getElementById(id) || (function makeEmbedScript(d, id) {var js,fjs;js = d.createElement('script');js.id = id;js.charset = 'utf-8';js.setAttribute('async', '');js.src = '//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js';fjs = d.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];window.WM.UserConsent.addScriptElement(js, [\\\"vendor\\\",\\\"measure-ads\\\"], fjs);}(document, id));\", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" View this post on Instagram\", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \"We are so proud of our founder @hauwa_ojeifo for the great milestone achieved today. . She graciously spoke before the Senate at the public hearing of the #mentalhealth bill earlier today on behalf of all persons living with mental health conditions. . If you were there, you'd have been so proud. Word on the street is that this is the first time a person with a mental health condition is speaking before the Senate. . Go Hauwa!!\\ud83d\\udc83\\ud83c\\udffd . Want to know more about the mental health bill? Check out our stories to make your suggestions.\", \" \", \"A post shared by \", \" SWW | Mental Health in Nigeria\", \" (@shewriteswoman) on \", \"Feb 17, 2020 at 10:46am PST\", \"\\n\", \"The bill has yet to be implemented. \", \"To close the mental health gap in Nigeria, Ojeifo's organization also offers a support group for women and girls called \", \"Safe Place\", \" in six Nigerian states. \", \"\\\"Safe Space provides a community of shared experiences for women and girls. It provides a space for women to connect and share their experiences on whatever topic, to be there for one another and understand that they are not alone in their journeys,\\\" she explained, estimating that there have been over 50 meetings of the support group since the inception of the organization.\", \"In the beginning, Ojeifo, a former investment banker,  self-funded the organization. \", \"But now, with donations and grants from organizations such as One Young World, Airtel Nigeria and Disability Rights Advocacy Fund, it is able to expand and carry out more activities in Nigeria's mental health space.\", \"In 2018, the activist received a\", \" Queen's Young Leaders Award\", \" in in recognition of her work with the 24-hour mental health helpline and Safe Space support group. \", \"Changemaker Award Winner \", \"On Tuesday, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation named Ojeifo as its\", \" Changemaker Award winner for 2020\", \" for her work with She Writes Woman. \", \"The Changemaker Award is one of the Goalkeepers Global Goals Awards pushed yearly by the foundation. It celebrates individuals who have inspired change from a position of leadership or using their personal experience. \", \"In a statement released Tuesday, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation said it recognized the activist for her work in promoting\", \" Gender Equality\", \", the fifth global goal for sustainable development prescribed by the United Nations. \", \"These Africans are among the world's 100 most influential people, according to Time magazine\", \"Ojeifo said that she was in \\\"disbelief\\\" when she first received the email alerting her that she was a recipient of the award. \", \"\\\"It was so unexpected and it came as a surprise because I was not expecting it. It's like an added validation to the work She Writes Woman does,\\\" she said. \", \"\\\"During one of the meetings with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation I asked them how I was selected because I was just so blown away. I was told that it was because I had used my personal experience to build hope for people and to drive change,\\\" she added. \", \"Through the 2020 Changemaker Award, Ojeifo is hoping to gather a network that will help amplify the work She Writes Woman does even more. \", \"\\\"The Changemaker award means I am part of this network that is dedicated to amplifying my cause and giving me visibility,\\\" she said.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/18/africa/kenyan-comic-sensation-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"This chip-eating Kenyan comic is keeping Africans entertained on social media \", \"description\": \"Kenyan teenager, Elsa Majimbo is making viral monolgues on social media \", \"date\": \"2020-08-18T11:06:18Z\", \"author\": \"Aisha Salaudeen\", \"text\": [\" (CNN)\", \"Elsa Majimbo is taking over social media by providing comic relief on Instagram and Twitter amid the \", \"Covid-19 pandemic\", \". \", \"The Kenyan comic, whose relatable monologues often go viral, films from her home in Nairobi, the country's capital city. \", \"Majimbo first went viral after posting a video in March when initial restrictions such as intermittent lockdowns, border controls, and closure of schools and restaurants were\", \" imposed by the Kenyan government\", \" to curb the spread of Covid-19.\", \"In the video, the 19-year-old talked about being in isolation at the time and wanting to be left alone.\", \"var id = '//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js'.replace(/\\\\s+/g, '');!!document.getElementById(id) || (function makeEmbedScript(d, id) {var js,fjs;js = d.createElement('script');js.id = id;js.charset = 'utf-8';js.setAttribute('async', '');js.src = '//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js';fjs = d.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];window.WM.UserConsent.addScriptElement(js, [\\\"vendor\\\",\\\"measure-ads\\\"], fjs);}(document, id));\", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" View this post on Instagram\", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \"'Sending love,sending hugs,sending kisses'. Kama Hautumi Mpesa don't waste my time\", \" \", \"A post shared by \", \" Elsa Mpho Majimbo\", \" (@majimb.o) on \", \"Mar 30, 2020 at 10:20am PDT\", \"\\n\", \"\\\"Ever since corona started, we've all been in isolation, and I like, miss no one,\\\" she said, laughing and eating potato-based crunchy chips\", \" in the video\", \". \", \"Read More\", \"\\\"Why am I missing you? There is no reason for me to miss you... do I pay your rent? Do I provide food for you? Why are you missing me?\\\" she added, still laughing. \", \"The quirky humor in the video earned Majimbo many reshares and more than 250,000 views from users across the continent, including South Africa, Kenya and Nigeria. \", \"She told CNN she did not expect the video to get as much attention as it did, but many people related to it. \", \"Gentlemen, start your wheelbarrows! Meet the Nigerian kids ingeniously remaking famous videos with household objects\", \"\\\"It was the time we had just gotten to lockdown, and everyone was telling me they missed me, and I literally like being away from people, so I thought to myself, 'Let me make a video about that,'\\\" she said. \", \"\\\"I did not expect all the attention, but it happened, and I am glad it did.\\\"\", \"Since going viral, Majimbo has made more videos combining dry humor and criticism around the subject matters she decides to film about. \", \"Many of the videos have more than 250,000 views on Instagram and an average of 50,000 views on Twitter.  \", \"Some of the videos have also been featured on American owned cable channel, \", \"Comedy Central\", \". \", \"Eating crunchy chips \", \"Majimbo often incorporates eating crunchy chips, which has become one of her signature moves, to emphasize her points in her monologues.\", \"\\\"In the first video that trended, I ate chips. A lot of people seemed to like it. There were a lot of comments asking me to do it again. So, I was like, OK whatever, and I did it again,\\\" she told CNN. \", \"The comic sensation additionally wears tiny dark sunglasses as a prop in her videos. Just like crunching on chips, the '90s shades are for emphasizing on points made in her skits, she said. \", \"var id = '//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js'.replace(/\\\\s+/g, '');!!document.getElementById(id) || (function makeEmbedScript(d, id) {var js,fjs;js = d.createElement('script');js.id = id;js.charset = 'utf-8';js.setAttribute('async', '');js.src = '//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js';fjs = d.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];window.WM.UserConsent.addScriptElement(js, [\\\"vendor\\\",\\\"measure-ads\\\"], fjs);}(document, id));\", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" View this post on Instagram\", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \"If I pay for the app I own the abs\", \" \", \"A post shared by \", \" Elsa Mpho Majimbo\", \" (@majimb.o) on \", \"Jun 11, 2020 at 10:10am PDT\", \"\\n\", \"\\\"How do I manage to be this hot? The key to being hot is Photoshop,\\\" she said in \", \"one of her videos\", \" titled \\\"If I pay for the app, I own the abs.\\\"\", \"In the video, Majimbo joked about using Photoshop to look good in pictures, \\\"Why get a six-pack in five months when you can get them in five minutes?\\\" she added, putting on the sunglasses to make her point. \", \"Her videos have received support from \", \"celebrities \", \"like actor Lupita Nyongo and current Miss Universe, Zozibini Tunzi. \", \"Majimbo, who records all her monologues using her iPhone 6, said she does not write her lines down before filming, instead she simply \\\"goes with the flow.\\\"\", \"\\\"The thing I like the most about my videos is that they come to me so easily and so naturally. I could just be sitting and feel like making a video about something, and I do it. Anything that comes to my mind, I record,\\\" she said. \", \"\\\"If I don't have any lines to record. I don't even bother, I just skip it and say no video today,\\\" she added. \", \"'I've been able to find myself in a way I hadn't before'\", \"Since becoming an internet sensation, Majimbo said she partnered with brands such as Canadian cosmetics manufacturer, MAC cosmetics, to create content aimed at promoting their products in fun ways. \", \"The teenager, who is currently a journalism student at Strathmore University in Nairobi, is thinking about a completely different career.\", \"According to her, she is taking the time to explore different and newer options, particularly in entertainment, \\\"I think the career I wanted before is not what I want now. A lot of things have changed, I've been able to find myself in a way I hadn't before.\\\" \", \"She added that she is looking into acting roles and having her own comedy show. \", \"This Nigerian comic is getting a lot of love on TikTok with the 'Don't Leave Me' challenge\", \"But regardless of the career part Majimbo takes, she is already influencing social media users in Africa. \", \"She has been given a South African name \\\"Mpho\\\" by her fans in the country. The name means \\\"gift\\\" in Tswana language spoken in Southern Africa, Botswana, Namibia and Zimbabwe. \", \"Majimbo says she will continue to make relatable and funny monologues but will not be limited to them.\", \"\\\"I don't like setting expectations for my future plans because I don't want to be limited. I am open to exploring and becoming many things in the future.\\\"\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/16/africa/amnesty-mozambique-video-killing-investigation-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"Amnesty International calls for investigation into video showing execution of woman in Mozambique\", \"description\": \"Amnesty International has called for an immediate investigation into the apparent extrajudicial killing of a woman in Mozambique that was shared widely in a horrifying video on social media earlier this week. \", \"date\": \"2020-09-16T17:31:35Z\", \"author\": \"David McKenzie, Brent Swails and Vasco Cotovio\", \"text\": [\" (CNN)\", \"Amnesty International has called for an immediate investigation into the apparent extrajudicial killing of a woman in Mozambique that was shared widely in a horrifying video on social media earlier this week. \", \"In the nearly two-minute-long video, men wearing military uniforms are seen chasing down a naked woman, surrounding and verbally harassing her along a rural road. One of the men repeatedly beats her with a stick before another man shoots her at close range. \", \" \", \"She is then repeatedly shot by the men while lying on the road before one of the men shouts \\\"Stop, stop, enough, it's done.\\\" \", \" \", \"Read More\", \"The video ends as the men turn and walk away, with one of them announcing, \\\"They've killed the al-Shabaab,\\\" the local name given to the growing insurgency in the far north of the country. \", \"It has no known links to the Somali terrorist group of the same name. The uniformed man looks directly into camera and raises his two fingers before the recording stops. \", \" \", \"\\\"The horrendous video is yet another gruesome example of the gross human rights violations taking place in Cabo Delgado by the Mozambican forces,\\\" said Deprose Muchena, Amnesty International's Director for East and Southern Africa.\", \"A young boy was killed by a police stray bullet during a coronavirus curfew. Now his parents want answers\", \" \", \"In its own analysis of the video, the human rights group says that the men were wearing the uniform of the Mozambican military. Amnesty says four different gunmen shot the woman a total of 36 times with AK-47s and PKM-style machine guns. Its investigation concluded that the incident took place near Awasse in the country's northernmost province Cabo Delgado. \", \" \", \"\\\"The incident is consistent with our recent findings of appalling human rights violations and crimes under international law happening in the area,\\\" said Muchena. \", \" \", \"CNN could not independently the authenticity of the video, the date and location it was filmed, nor the identity of the gunmen. \", \" \", \"Mozambique's Minister of Interior Amade Miquidade denied the accusations of atrocities, though did not address the video specifically, on national television Tuesday, saying that insurgents frequently wear army uniforms. \", \" \", \"\\\"When they want to produce their propaganda against the security and defense forces, against the Mozambican state, they remove those signs/characters that identify them and make videos to promote an image of atrocity practiced by those who defend the people,\\\" he said. \", \"Ammonium nitrate that exploded in Beirut bought for mining, Mozambican firm says \", \" \", \"Cabo Delgado is home to a $60 billion natural gas development that is heavily guarded by Mozambican military and private security. \", \" \", \"Loosely aligned with ISIS, the insurgents have undertaken increasingly sophisticated attacks in recent months, overrunning large parts of Mocimba de Praia, a strategic port north of the regional capital Pemba in August. Unlike in previous attacks, government forces have struggled to fully retake the territory. \", \" \", \"The insurgents have been accused by the government and human rights groups of their own violent abuses -- including beheadings, looting, and indiscriminate killing of civilians. \", \" \", \"And the interior minister highlighted those alleged abuses on Tuesday. \", \" \", \"\\\"Once more, our country continues to be the object of aggression by the terrorists, namely in the province of Cabo Delgado, where they've enforced cruel, inhuman, atrocious acts against our population,\\\" said Miquidade.\", \" \", \"Security analysts and human rights workers say that insurgents operating in the area do sometimes wear Mozambican military uniforms. But the uniformed men in the video showing the woman's killing speak Portuguese, generally more common to Mozambicans from the South. \", \"CNN's David McKenzie and Brent Swails reported from Johannesburg and Vasco Cotovio reported from London.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/07/africa/africa-engineering-prize-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"A 26-year-old is first woman to win Royal Academy of Engineering's Africa Prize for innovation\", \"description\": \"A 26-year-old has become the first woman to win the prestigious Royal Academy of Engineering's Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation.\\n\\n\", \"date\": \"2020-09-07T13:54:59Z\", \"author\": \"Aisha Salaudeen\", \"text\": [\" (CNN)\", \"A 26-year-old from Ivory Coast has won the 2020 Royal Academy of Engineering's Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation.\", \"Charlette N'Guessan is the \", \"first woman to win the award\", \", which could revolutionize cyber security and help curb identity fraud on the continent. \", \"N'Guessan and her team won the \\u00a325,000 award (about $33,000) for BACE API, a digital verification system that uses Artificial Intelligence and facial recognition to verify the identities of Africans remotely and in real time.\", \"BACE API works by matching the live photo of a user to the image on their documents such as passports or ID card, N'Guessan said. \", \"For websites and online applications that have BACE API integrated in them, users will be verified via their webcam to establish their  identity. \", \"Read More\", \"\\\"For the person trying to submit their application, we ask them to switch on their camera to make sure the person behind the camera is real, and not a robot. \", \"\\\"We are able to capture the face of the person live and match their image with the one on the existing document the person submitted,\\\" she explained. \", \"BACE API verifies users identities in real time using their phone camera or webcam\", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"BACE API verifies users identities in real time using their phone camera or webcam\\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"BACE API verifies users identities in real time using their phone camera or webcam\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200904115946-restricted-03-africa-engineering-prize-intl-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"BACE API can be integrated into already existing applications and systems for identity verification and is targeted at mostly financial institutions on the continent, N'Guessan told CNN. \", \"N'Guessan and her team won the Africa Prize for Innovation in a virtual award ceremony on September 3 where the Africa Prize judges and a live audience voted in their favor, the Royal Academy of Engineering said in\", \" a statement\", \". \", \"\\\"We are very proud to have Charlette N'Guessan and her team win this award,\\\" said Rebecca Enonchong, an entrepreneur from Cameroon entrepreneur and Africa Prize judge in the statement. \", \"\\\"It is essential to have technologies like facial recognition based on African communities, and we are confident their innovative technology will have far reaching benefits for the continent.\\\"\", \"BACE API matches a user's live photo with the image on their official documents to verify their identity. \", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"BACE API matches a user&#39;s live photo with the image on their official documents to verify their identity. \\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"BACE API matches a user&#39;s live photo with the image on their official documents to verify their identity. \\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200904115800-restricted-02-africa-engineering-prize-intl-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"Curbing identity fraud\", \"N'Guessan, who is the CEO and co-founder of Ghana-based software company, \", \"BACE Group\", \", told CNN that the idea came about while she was studying at the \", \"Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology\", \" (MEST) in Accra, Ghana's capital city. \", \"While there, she worked with a team of four and it was during one of their research projects in 2018 they decided to create BACE API, and later a software company. \", \"\\\"We ... talked to tech entrepreneurs. That's when we noticed that there is a huge problem with cyber security with online services and businesses,\\\" she said.\", \"N'Guessan said their research found that many financial institutions in the west African country deal with identity fraud, estimating that they spend up to $400 million dollars yearly to identify their customers. \", \"\\\"We decided to make our contribution as software engineers and data scientists by building a solution that can be useful for this market,\\\" N'Guessan added. \", \"Before the winner was announced on September 3, N'Guessan and other entrepreneurs shortlisted for the Africa Prize received eight months of training from experts across the world and her team was paired with an AI specialist who helped with improvements to their system. \", \" An African woman in tech\", \"N'Guessan's interest in technology started at a young age. Growing up in Ivory Coast, west Africa, she was encouraged to focus on science and technology subjects by her father, a mathematics professor.  \", \"\\\"He inspired my choice for studying STEM. I was actually really good in science-related courses. After high school, I went on to study software engineering at university,\\\" she said. \", \"Now running her own technology company, she told CNN that winning the Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation has helped to boost her confidence as a CEO leading a technical team of men.\", \"The Academy was founded in 1976 and has been running the award to reward engineering innovation in Africa since 2014. \", \"Globally, the technology industry is growing, but women led startups are in short supply with\", \" only 22%\", \" founded by at least one woman, according to a report in Disrupt Africa.\", \"This 9-year-old has built more than 30 mobile games\", \"Data specific to Africa is hard to come by but some studies suggest that \", \"only 9% of startups\", \" on the continent have women founders. \", \"N'Guessan says she hopes that her achievement will motivate more women to consider careers in tech. \", \"\\\"I will be happy if people are inspired by my story, being the first woman to win the Africa Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation and by my work as a woman in tech,\\\" she said. \"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/16/africa/blasphemy-nigeria-boy-sentenced-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"Outrage as Nigeria sentences 13-year-old boy to 10 years in prison for blasphemy\", \"description\": \"Child rights agency UNICEF has condemned the sentencing of a 13-year-old boy to 10 years in prison for blasphemy in northern Nigeria. \", \"date\": \"2020-09-16T14:09:33Z\", \"author\": \"Stephanie Busari and Eoin McSweeney\", \"text\": [\" (CNN)\", \"Child rights agency UNICEF has condemned the sentencing of a 13-year-old boy to 10 years in prison for blasphemy in northern Nigeria. \", \"Omar Farouq was convicted in a Sharia court in Kano State in northwest Nigeria after he was accused of using foul language toward Allah in an argument with a friend. \", \"He was sentenced on August 10 by the same court that recently sentenced a studio assistant Yahaya Sharif-Aminu to death for blaspheming Prophet Mohammed, according to lawyers. \", \"Farouq's punishment is in violation of the African Charter of the Rights and Welfare of a Child and the Nigerian constitution, said his counsel Kola Alapinni, who told CNN they filed an appeal on his behalf on September 7. \", \"Farouq was tried as an adult because he has attained puberty and has full responsibility under Islamic law. \", \"Read More\", \"Alapinni told CNN he or other lawyers working on the case have not been granted access to Farouq by authorities in Kano State. \", \"He said he found out about Farouq's case by chance when working on the case of Sharif-Aminu, who was sentenced to death for blasphemy at the Kano Upper Sharia Court. \", \"\\\"We found out they were convicted on the same day, by the same judge, in the same court, for blasphemy and we found out no one was talking about Omar, so we had to move quickly to file an appeal for him,\\\" he said. \", \"\\\"Blasphemy is not recognized by Nigerian law. It is inconsistent with the constitution of Nigeria.\\\"\", \" \", \" .m-infographic--1600276717888 { background: url(//cdn.cnn.com/cnn/.e/interactive/html5-video-media/2020/09/16/20201609_kano_state_map_375px.jpg) no-repeat 0 0 transparent; margin-bottom: 30px; padding-top: 111.4513981358189%; width: 100%; -moz-background-size: cover; -o-background-size: cover; -webkit-background-size: cover; background-size: cover; } @media (min-width: 640px) { .m-infographic--1600276717888{ background-image: url(//cdn.cnn.com/cnn/.e/interactive/html5-video-media/2020/09/16/20201609_kano_state_map_780px.jpg); padding-top: 84.2948717948718%; } } @media (min-width: 1120px) { .m-infographic--1600276717888{ background-image: url(//cdn.cnn.com/cnn/.e/interactive/html5-video-media/2020/09/16/20201609_kano_state_map_780px.jpg); padding-top: 84.2948717948718%; } } \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \"The lawyer said Farouq's mother had fled to a neighboring town after mobs descended on their home following his arrest. \", \"\\\"Everyone here is scared to speak and living under fear of reprisal attacks,\\\" he said. \", \"UNICEF Wednesday issued a statement \\\"expressing deep concern\\\" about the sentencing. \", \"\\\"The sentencing of this child -- 13-year-old Omar Farouq -- to 10 years in prison with menial labour is wrong,\\\" said Peter Hawkins, UNICEF representative in Nigeria. \\\"It also negates all core underlying principles of child rights and child justice that Nigeria -- and by implication, Kano State -- has signed on to.\\\" \", \"Kano State, like most predominantly Muslim states in Nigeria, practices Sharia law alongside secular law. \", \"Islam Fast Facts\", \"CNN contacted a spokesman for the Kano State governor for comment but had not heard back before publication. \", \"UNICEF has called on the Nigerian government and the Kano State government to urgently review the case and reverse the sentence, the organization said in a statement. \", \"\\\"This case further underlines the urgent need to accelerate the enactment of the Kano State Child Protection Bill so as to ensure that all children under 18, including Omar Farouq are protected -- and that all children in Kano are treated in accordance with child rights standards,\\\" Hawkins said.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/18/africa/disney-partners-with-nollywood/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"Disney partners with Nollywood to bring American movies to English-speaking West Africa\", \"description\": \"FilmOne Entertainment is now the sole distributor of Disney titles in English speaking West Africa\", \"date\": \"2020-09-18T12:02:13Z\", \"author\": \"Aisha Salaudeen\", \"text\": [\"Lagos, Nigeria (CNN)\", \"Disney, is joining forces with a Nigerian production and distribution company to market some of the American entertainment conglomerate's new releases such as \\\"Mulan\\\" in English-speaking West Africa.\", \"The deal makes FilmOne Entertainment the sole distributors of Disney-owned films in Nigeria, Ghana, and Liberia. \", \"\\\"It is a major career highlight, that we're able to get the world's biggest movie studio as a partner,\\\" Moses Babatope, a director at FilmOne, told CNN. \", \"Bollywood and Nollywood collide in a tale of a big fat Indian-Nigerian wedding\", \"FilmOne Entertainment has been at the forefront of growing Nigeria's cinema culture and has built cinemas across the country, including IMAX screens.\", \"The firm has also distributed and produced \", \"Nigerian box office hits \", \"such as \\\"The Wedding Party,\\\" and \\\"New Money.'\\\"\", \"Read More\", \"\\\"What the deal means is that we are exclusive marketers and distributors of Disney titles in the English-speaking West African countries that have studio licensed cinemas. We will distribute the films to all those cinemas in the territory,\\\" he explained. \", \"The agreement, which commenced this month, covers titles from all Disney studio divisions including Pixar, Marvel Studios, Walt Disney Pictures, and Blue Sky pictures. \", \"\\\"With their in-depth knowledge of the region and expertise in bringing theatrical releases to fans, we are thrilled to welcome FilmOne as our distribution partner for this territory,\\\" Disney Africa's country manager, Christine Service said in a statement. \", \"Bigger opportunities\", \"Film analysts in the country say this deal may convince investors and film producers to look further into the African movie industry. \", \"\\\"This deal is huge because it means that Disney is paying attention. Their presence can open doors for movie collaborations,\\\" said Shola Thompson, a Nigeria-based film consultant.\", \"Thompson added that distributing Disney movies is a pathway to getting the best content to cinemas, which can improve the cinema-going culture in the region as well as increase their potential earnings.\", \"As a result of restrictions following the Covid-19 pandemic, many cinemas in West Africa are not operating at full capacity. But FilmOne Entertainment says it is working on improving the cinema experience as a way of encouraging people to show up when all restrictions have been lifted.\", \"Netflix partners with Nigerian filmmaker in new major deal \", \"\\\"We will let people know that they enjoy films better when they watch with other people. To say that the experience out of home is very different,\\\" Babatope said. \", \"\\\"We will communicate that cinemas are safe in our communications to audiences. We will document what the cinemas are doing regarding incorporating safety procedures,\\\" he added. \", \"Disney's deal is not the first time a multinational entertainment company is partnering with film companies in West Africa.\", \"In 2019, FilmOne Entertainment signed a deal with Chinese media giant Huahua to co-produce the first \", \"major China-Nigeria film. \", \"In the same year, French Media giant,\", \" Canal+ acquired leading Nollywood film studio, ROK film studios\", \" to create more hours of Nigerian content for its French-speaking audience.\", \"Independence key to collaboration\", \"Thompson who is also a film analyst says the growing influence of entertainment companies like Disney on the continent may create room for greater Hollywood influence in Africa, without a corresponding influence of African film content in Hollywood.\", \"\\\"We need to be a bit careful to make sure we don't lose creative control of our stories. With more multinationals looking into Africa for partnerships, we don't want to find ourselves stuck with them dictating what we start to produce,\\\" he said. \", \"\\\"At the same time, we can still be glad that they are paying attention as that means growth for our film industry,\\\" he added. \", \"As FilmOne Entertainment prepares to start distributing Disney content, Babatope says the partnership is an opportunity that can lead to future collaborations involving largely African content. \", \"\\\"It's true that a lot of the content we will be distributing are from other parts of the world but if we are able to demonstrate that we are accountable and transparent, then there will be room to attract future investments involving content from this region.\\\"\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/23/africa/china-ethiopia-test-kits-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"China's BGI wins 1.5 million coronavirus test kit order from Ethiopia\", \"description\": \"Ethiopia has agreed to purchase 1.5 million coronavirus testing kits that will be manufactured at a factory in the African country that has been newly built by China's BGI Group, China's state media agency Xinhua said late on Tuesday.\", \"date\": \"2020-09-23T11:22:20Z\", \"author\": \"Story by Reuters\", \"text\": [\"Beijing \", \"Ethiopia has agreed to purchase 1.5 million coronavirus testing kits that will be manufactured at a factory in the African country that has been newly built by China's BGI Group, China's state media agency Xinhua said late on Tuesday.\", \"The BGI factory, the first coronavirus test production facility in Ethiopia that opened earlier this month, is designed to be able to make 6-8 million tests in a year and can expand the annual capacity to up to 10 million in accordance with local demand, Xinhua reported.\", \"BGI, which makes genome sequencing and medical devices, is hoping to use its footprint in Ethiopia in expanding its supplies to other African countries, Xinhua quoted a BGI official as saying in a separate report on Wednesday.\", \"BGI did not immediately respond to a request for comment.\", \"BGI Group's unit BGI Genomics had said it supplied over 35 million coronavirus testing kits overseas and built 58 labs in 18 countries as of June 30.\", \"Read More\", \"The Ethiopia factory could be later converted to make test kits for HIV, malaria and tuberculosis once the Covid-19 pandemic ends, Xinhua said.\", \"Ethiopia, one of the countries that has the most new daily infections on average in Africa, has reported 69,709 infections and 1,108 coronavirus-related deaths since the pandemic began.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/29/health/who-rapid-test-kits-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"WHO announces Covid-19 rapid tests for low and middle income countries\", \"description\": \"The World Health Organization has announced an agreement to make rapid Covid-19 tests available to lower and middle-income countries across the world.\", \"date\": \"2020-09-29T14:08:02Z\", \"author\": \"Amanda Watts \", \"text\": [\" (CNN)\", \"The World Health Organization has announced an agreement to make rapid Covid-19 tests available to lower and middle-income countries across the world.\", \"Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO director-general said, \\\"a substantial proportion of these rapid tests - 120 million - will be made available to low and middle-income countries. These tests provide reliable results in approximately 15 to 30 minutes, rather than hours or days, at a lower price, with less sophisticated equipment.\\\" \", \" \", \"Tedros said during a Monday news conference that these \\\"vital\\\" tests will help expand testing in remote areas, \\\"that do not have lab facilities or enough trained health workers to carry out PCR tests.\\\" \", \" \", \"Read More\", \"He added: \\\"High-quality rapid tests show us where the virus is hiding, which is key to quickly tracing and isolating contacts and breaking the chains of transmission. The tests are a critical tool for governments as they look to reopen economies and ultimately save both lives and livelihoods.\\\"\", \"Coronavirus has killed 1 million people worldwide. Experts fear the toll may double before a vaccine is ready\", \"The first orders are expected already to be placed this week and it will be rolled out in up to 20 countries in Africa starting in October. \", \"Peter Sands, executive director of the Global Fund said the tests are hugely valuable as a complement to PCR tests but warned that they are not \\\"a silver bullet.\\\" \", \" \", \"\\\"Although they're a bit less accurate - they're much faster, cheaper, and don't require a lab,\\\" he explained. \\\"Being able to deploy quality antigen RDTs, rapid diagnostic tests, will be a significant step forward in enabling countries to contain and combat Covid-19,\\\" Sands added. \", \"The PCR test is the most widespread and most accurate diagnostic test for determining whether someone is currently infected with coronavirus.  However, the tests requires specialized supplies, expensive instruments, and the expertise of trained lab technicians. which has led to shortages and a testing gap globally. \", \"Read related: \", \"https://edition.cnn.com/2020/04/28/us/coronavirus-testing-pcr-antigen-antibody/index.html\", \"This $5 rapid test is a potential game-changer in Covid testing\", \" \", \"Sands said these tests will help low and middle-income countries to \\\"close the dramatic gap in testing between rich and poor countries.\\\" \", \" \", \"\\\"Right now, high-income countries are conducting 292 tests per day per 100,000 people. For upper-middle-income countries, that number is 77. For lower-middle-income countries, 61, and from low-income countries, 14,\\\" Sands said, though he did not expand on where that data originates. \", \" \", \"Dr. John Nkengasong, director of the Africa CDC, welcomed the development as it would allow \\\"healthcare workers to quickly isolate cases and treat them while tracing their contacts to cut the transmission chain.\\\"\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/29/africa/togo-female-prime-minister-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"Togo names first female Prime Minister\", \"description\": \"President's former chief-of-staff Victoire Tomegah Dogbe, 60, has become the first female prime minister of Togo, a tiny West African nation of about eight million people.\", \"date\": \"2020-09-29T18:09:26Z\", \"author\": \"Orji Sunday\", \"text\": [\" (CNN)\", \"Togo's President Faure Gnassingbe has appointed the country's first female prime minister.\", \"Victoire Tomegah Dogbe, 60, became the first female prime minister of the tiny West African nation of about eight million people.\", \" \", \"Dogbe, whose appointment was confirmed by President Faure Gnassingbe on Monday, replaces Komi Selom Klassou, who resigned as prime minister on Friday, a position he held since 2015.\", \" \", \"Read More\", \"Dogbe is well known and respected in Togo, having served in several positions under Gnassingbe's government in the past decade, including working as his chief-of-staff, director of the cabinet of the President of the Republic and more recently as Minister for youth and grassroots development, according to local media reports.\", \"Ethiopia appoints its first female president \", \" \", \"Prior to joining politics, she worked with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) according to information from the agency. \", \" \", \"Her appointment comes after an expected cabinet reshuffle, which was delayed by the country's fight against coronavirus pandemic, following the controversial re-election of Gnassingbe, \", \"who has ruled Togo since 2005\", \". \", \"He took power from his father who, before his death,  ruled Togo for 38 years, dating back to a 1967 coup. \", \"Despite a \", \"series of protests between 2017 -- 2019\", \" calling for an end to a single family rule in Togo, Gnassingbe forced a constitutional reform in 2019 that allowed him to run for an election which he won easily in February 2020. His current tenure runs till 2025.  \", \"Faure must go: How one Togolese woman is risking her life to end the 50-year Gnassingb\\u00e9 dynasty\", \"The 56-year-old leader has seen growing opposition, following slowed economic growth, accusations of electoral fraud, \", \"corruption and human rights violations.\", \" \", \"Dogbe's has vast experience in governance and administration which is well positioned to help the country achieve a long-expected economic boom which has eluded the country since independence in 1960.\", \" \", \"Dogbe has been deeply involved in the country's fight against youth unemployment and poverty, introducing reforms that have been praised as a local success in her country, according to \", \"Togo-First, an online publication\", \" in the country. \", \" \", \"As the parliament awaits Dogbe's policy plan, observers are keen to see what economic difference her reforms can make in a country where half its population live below the poverty line, according to a \", \"2014 report by the International Monetary Fund\", \". \"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/30/africa/zimbabwe-elephant-disease-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"Zimbabwe suspects bacterial disease behind elephant deaths\", \"description\": \"Zimbabwe suspects a bacterial disease called hemorrhagic septicemia is behind the recent deaths of more than 30 elephants but is doing further tests to make sure, the parks authority said.\", \"date\": \"2020-09-30T14:48:29Z\", \"author\": \"Story by Reuters\", \"text\": [\"Zimbabwe suspects a bacterial disease called hemorrhagic septicemia is behind the recent deaths of more than 30 elephants but is doing further tests to make sure, the parks authority said.\", \"The elephant deaths, which began in late August, come soon after hundreds of elephants died in neighboring Botswana in mysterious circumstances.\", \"Officials in Botswana were initially at a loss to explain the elephant deaths there but have since blamed toxins produced by another type of bacterium.\", \"Toxins in water blamed for deaths of hundreds of elephants in Botswana \", \"Experts say Botswana and Zimbabwe could be home to roughly half of the continent's 400,000 elephants, often targeted by poachers.\", \"Elephants in Botswana and parts of Zimbabwe are at historically high levels, but elsewhere on the continent -- especially in forested areas -- many populations are severely depleted, said Chris Thouless, head of research at Save the Elephants.\", \"Read More\", \"\\\"Higher populations equal greater risk from infectious diseases,\\\" Thouless told Reuters, adding that climate change could put pressure on elephant populations as water supplies diminish and temperatures rise, potentially increasing the probability of pathogen outbreaks.\", \"Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority Director-General Fulton Mangwanya told a parliamentary committee on Monday that so far 34 dead elephants had been counted.\", \"\\\"It is unlikely that this disease alone will have any serious overall impact on the survival of the elephant population,\\\" he said. \\\"The northwest regions of Zimbabwe have an over-abundance of elephants and this outbreak of disease is probably a manifestation of that ... particularly in the hot, dry season elephants are stressed by competition for water and food resources.\\\"\", \"Postmortems on some of the dead elephants showed inflamed livers and other organs, Mangwanya said. The elephants were found lying on their stomachs, suggesting a sudden death.\", \"Vernon Booth, a Zimbabwe-based wildlife management consultant, told Reuters it was difficult to put a number on Zimbabwe's current elephant population. He estimated it could be close to 90,000, up from 82,000 in 2014 when the last national survey was conducted, assuming that roughly 2,000-3,000 have died each year from all causes.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/30/politics/esper-africa-trip/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"US Defense Secretary visits Africa for first time seeking to push back on Russia and China\", \"description\": \"US Secretary of Defense Mark Esper made his first visit to Africa Wednesday, a trip aimed in part at pushing back on Russian and Chinese influence in the region.\", \"date\": \"2020-09-30T16:14:06Z\", \"author\": \"Ryan Browne\", \"text\": [\"Malta (CNN)\", \"US Secretary of Defense \", \"Mark Esper \", \"made his first visit to Africa Wednesday, a trip aimed in part at pushing back on Russian and Chinese influence in the region.\", \"Esper arrived in Tunisia to meet with top officials, including the country's president, Kais Saied, and to lay a wreath and give a speech at a World War II cemetery to honor US service members who fell during the North African campaign.\", \"The trip was not announced until after Esper departed the country.\", \"Tunisia which has been touted as the sole democratic success story to come out of the 2011 \\\"Arab Spring,\\\" was designated \\\"a major-non NATO ally of the United States\\\" in 2015 and has partnered with the US on counterterrorism efforts aimed at ISIS-linked groups.\", \"As Trump refuses to commit to a peaceful transition, Pentagon stresses it will play no role in the election\", \"During a meeting at the Tunisian Defense Ministry, Esper and his counterpart signed a \\\"ten-year Roadmap of Defense Cooperation.\\\"\", \"Read More\", \"\\\"The United States will continue to deepen our alliances and partnerships across the continent, including with Tunisia, where your democratic government and sovereignty have made much of our work in the region possible,\\\" Esper said during his speech at the North Africa American cemetery and memorial in Carthage.\", \"\\\"We look forward to expanding this relationship to help Tunisia protect its maritime ports and land borders, deter terrorism, and keep the corrosive efforts of autocratic regimes out of your country,\\\" he added.\", \"The US has worked to help Tunisia secure its border with Libya which has been beset by civil war and recently deployed 40 American military advisers to the country, part of a the Army's Security Force Assistance Brigade, in order to aid Tunisia's fight against terrorist groups which have carried out high profile attacks in the country since 2011.\", \"The US is also Tunisia's largest supplier of weapons, providing nearly 50% of all arms imports from 2015 to 2019 according to the Center for International Policy and in February the Trump Administration approved the sale of four AT-6C Wolverine light attack aircraft to Tunisia, an arms package estimated to cost $325.8 million.\", \"While in North Africa, Esper is seeking to push back on Russian and Chinese activity in the region, according to defense officials.\", \"\\\"Today, our strategic competitors China and Russia continue to intimidate and coerce their neighbors while expanding their authoritarian influence worldwide, including on this continent,\\\" Esper said.\", \"The US has accused China of seeking to expand its influence in the region via predatory loans and the US military has accused Moscow of deploying Russian mercenaries and fighter jets to bolster Libyan Gen. Khalifa Haftar, the commander of the self-styled Libyan National Army, one of the belligerents in that country's civil war.\", \"China is doubling down on its territorial claims and that's causing conflict across Asia\", \"\\\"Together we continue to counter the malign, coercive, and predatory behavior of Beijing and Moscow, meant to undermine African institutions, erode national sovereignty, create instability, and exploit resources throughout the region,\\\" Esper said.\", \"Esper also visited the island republic of Malta Tuesday, becoming the first US defense secretary to visit there since President Richard Nixon's Secretary of Defense Mel Laird visited in 1970, just six years after the country became independent of the UK.\", \"While in Malta, Esper on Wednesday met with the country's Prime Minister Robert Abela and President George Vella.\", \"While Malta's military is small, totaling some 2,000 personnel, it sits in a strategic location off the coast of North Africa and possesses a significant port and was until the 1970s was the site of a major UK Royal Navy installation.\", \"A senior defense official told CNN that Esper planned to discuss maritime security with Maltese officials, a major issue given the country's proximity to shipping and smuggling lanes connecting Europe to North Africa. \"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/01/world/covid-girls-child-marriage-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"Half a million more girls are at risk of child marriage in 2020 because of Covid-19, charity warns\", \"description\": \"The pandemic has put 500,000 more girls at risk of being forced into child marriage this year, reversing 25 years of progress that saw child marriage rates decline, according to a new report by the charity Save the Children.\", \"date\": \"2020-10-01T12:59:25Z\", \"author\": \"Tara John\", \"text\": [\"London (CNN)\", \"The pandemic has put 500,000 more girls at risk of being forced into child marriage this year, reversing \", \"25 years of progress\", \" that saw child marriage rates decline, according to a new report by the charity Save the Children.\", \"Before the global outbreak, 12 million girls married each year, now the charity warns that up to 2.5 million more girls could be at risk of \", \"child marriage\", \" over the next five years.  \", \"How saying 'I do' can help millions of girls to say 'I don't'\", \"With up to 117 million children estimated to fall into poverty in 2020, many will face pressure to work and help provide for their families.\", \"\\\"The pandemic means more families are being pushed into poverty, forcing many girls to work to support their families, to go without food, to become the main caregivers for sick family members, and to drop out of school -- with far less of a chance than boys of ever returning,\\\" Inger Ashing, CEO of Save the Children International, \", \"said in a press release\", \".\", \"The pandemic led to school closures and \\\"experience during the Ebola outbreak suggests many girls will never return\\\" to class due \\\"to increasing pressure to work, risk of child marriage, bans on pregnant girls attending school, and lost contact with education,\\\" the charity wrote.\", \"Read More\", \"A girl gets married every 2 seconds somewhere in the world\", \"This year, 191,200 girls in South Asia will be disproportionately affected by the risk of increased child marriage, the report says. It is followed by West and Central Africa, where 90,000 girls are at risk of child marriage, Latin America and the Caribbean (73,400), and Europe and Central Asia (37,200).  \", \"Girls affected by humanitarian crises, such as wars, floods and earthquakes, face the greatest risk of child marriage, the report notes. Before the pandemic, data showed child marriage was increasing among refugee populations. In Lebanon, child marriage among Syrian refugee girls rose by 7% between 2017 and 2018.\", \"\\\"Every year, around 12 million girls are married, 2 million before their 15th birthday,\\\" Ashing said. \\\"Half a million more girls are now at risk of this gender-based violence this year alone -- and these only are the ones we know about. We believe this is the tip of the iceberg.\\\"\"]}\n]"
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    "content": "# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-\nimport json\nfrom news_scraper.items import NewsArticle\nfrom scrapy.spiders import CrawlSpider, Rule\nfrom scrapy.linkextractors import LinkExtractor\n\nclass YahooSpider(CrawlSpider):\n    name = 'yahoo'\n    allowed_domains = ['news.yahoo.com']\n    start_urls = ['http://news.yahoo.com/']\n    rules = [Rule(LinkExtractor(allow=r'\\/[a-zA-Z\\-]+-[0-9]+.html'), callback='parse_item', follow=True)]\n\n    def parse_item(self, response):\n        article = NewsArticle()\n        article['url'] = response.url\n        article['source'] = 'Yahoo News'\n\n        \n        jsonData = json.loads(response.xpath('//article[@role=\"article\"]/script[@type=\"application/ld+json\"]/text()').get())\n\n        article['title'] = jsonData['headline']\n        article['description'] = jsonData['description']\n        article['date'] = jsonData['datePublished']\n        article['author'] = jsonData['author']['name']\n        article['text'] = response.xpath('//div[@class=\"caas-body\"]/p/text()').getall()\n        return article\n"
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    "path": "02_05/news_scraper/scrapy.cfg",
    "content": "# Automatically created by: scrapy startproject\n#\n# For more information about the [deploy] section see:\n# https://scrapyd.readthedocs.io/en/latest/deploy.html\n\n[settings]\ndefault = news_scraper.settings\n\n[deploy]\n#url = http://localhost:6800/\nproject = news_scraper\n"
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    "path": "03_01_b/form/form/items.py",
    "content": "# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-\n\n# Define here the models for your scraped items\n#\n# See documentation in:\n# https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/items.html\n\nimport scrapy\n\n\nclass FormItem(scrapy.Item):\n    # define the fields for your item here like:\n    # name = scrapy.Field()\n    pass\n"
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    "path": "03_01_b/form/form/middlewares.py",
    "content": "# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-\n\n# Define here the models for your spider middleware\n#\n# See documentation in:\n# https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/spider-middleware.html\n\nfrom scrapy import signals\n\n\nclass FormSpiderMiddleware:\n    # Not all methods need to be defined. If a method is not defined,\n    # scrapy acts as if the spider middleware does not modify the\n    # passed objects.\n\n    @classmethod\n    def from_crawler(cls, crawler):\n        # This method is used by Scrapy to create your spiders.\n        s = cls()\n        crawler.signals.connect(s.spider_opened, signal=signals.spider_opened)\n        return s\n\n    def process_spider_input(self, response, spider):\n        # Called for each response that goes through the spider\n        # middleware and into the spider.\n\n        # Should return None or raise an exception.\n        return None\n\n    def process_spider_output(self, response, result, spider):\n        # Called with the results returned from the Spider, after\n        # it has processed the response.\n\n        # Must return an iterable of Request, dict or Item objects.\n        for i in result:\n            yield i\n\n    def process_spider_exception(self, response, exception, spider):\n        # Called when a spider or process_spider_input() method\n        # (from other spider middleware) raises an exception.\n\n        # Should return either None or an iterable of Request, dict\n        # or Item objects.\n        pass\n\n    def process_start_requests(self, start_requests, spider):\n        # Called with the start requests of the spider, and works\n        # similarly to the process_spider_output() method, except\n        # that it doesn’t have a response associated.\n\n        # Must return only requests (not items).\n        for r in start_requests:\n            yield r\n\n    def spider_opened(self, spider):\n        spider.logger.info('Spider opened: %s' % spider.name)\n\n\nclass FormDownloaderMiddleware:\n    # Not all methods need to be defined. If a method is not defined,\n    # scrapy acts as if the downloader middleware does not modify the\n    # passed objects.\n\n    @classmethod\n    def from_crawler(cls, crawler):\n        # This method is used by Scrapy to create your spiders.\n        s = cls()\n        crawler.signals.connect(s.spider_opened, signal=signals.spider_opened)\n        return s\n\n    def process_request(self, request, spider):\n        # Called for each request that goes through the downloader\n        # middleware.\n\n        # Must either:\n        # - return None: continue processing this request\n        # - or return a Response object\n        # - or return a Request object\n        # - or raise IgnoreRequest: process_exception() methods of\n        #   installed downloader middleware will be called\n        return None\n\n    def process_response(self, request, response, spider):\n        # Called with the response returned from the downloader.\n\n        # Must either;\n        # - return a Response object\n        # - return a Request object\n        # - or raise IgnoreRequest\n        return response\n\n    def process_exception(self, request, exception, spider):\n        # Called when a download handler or a process_request()\n        # (from other downloader middleware) raises an exception.\n\n        # Must either:\n        # - return None: continue processing this exception\n        # - return a Response object: stops process_exception() chain\n        # - return a Request object: stops process_exception() chain\n        pass\n\n    def spider_opened(self, spider):\n        spider.logger.info('Spider opened: %s' % spider.name)\n"
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    "path": "03_01_b/form/form/pipelines.py",
    "content": "# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-\n\n# Define your item pipelines here\n#\n# Don't forget to add your pipeline to the ITEM_PIPELINES setting\n# See: https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/item-pipeline.html\n\n\nclass FormPipeline:\n    def process_item(self, item, spider):\n        return item\n"
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  {
    "path": "03_01_b/form/form/settings.py",
    "content": "# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-\n\n# Scrapy settings for form project\n#\n# For simplicity, this file contains only settings considered important or\n# commonly used. You can find more settings consulting the documentation:\n#\n#     https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/settings.html\n#     https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/downloader-middleware.html\n#     https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/spider-middleware.html\n\nBOT_NAME = 'form'\n\nSPIDER_MODULES = ['form.spiders']\nNEWSPIDER_MODULE = 'form.spiders'\n\n\n# Crawl responsibly by identifying yourself (and your website) on the user-agent\n#USER_AGENT = 'form (+http://www.yourdomain.com)'\n\n# Obey robots.txt rules\nROBOTSTXT_OBEY = True\n\n# Configure maximum concurrent requests performed by Scrapy (default: 16)\n#CONCURRENT_REQUESTS = 32\n\n# Configure a delay for requests for the same website (default: 0)\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/settings.html#download-delay\n# See also autothrottle settings and docs\n#DOWNLOAD_DELAY = 3\n# The download delay setting will honor only one of:\n#CONCURRENT_REQUESTS_PER_DOMAIN = 16\n#CONCURRENT_REQUESTS_PER_IP = 16\n\n# Disable cookies (enabled by default)\n#COOKIES_ENABLED = False\n\n# Disable Telnet Console (enabled by default)\n#TELNETCONSOLE_ENABLED = False\n\n# Override the default request headers:\n#DEFAULT_REQUEST_HEADERS = {\n#   'Accept': 'text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8',\n#   'Accept-Language': 'en',\n#}\n\n# Enable or disable spider middlewares\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/spider-middleware.html\n#SPIDER_MIDDLEWARES = {\n#    'form.middlewares.FormSpiderMiddleware': 543,\n#}\n\n# Enable or disable downloader middlewares\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/downloader-middleware.html\n#DOWNLOADER_MIDDLEWARES = {\n#    'form.middlewares.FormDownloaderMiddleware': 543,\n#}\n\n# Enable or disable extensions\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/extensions.html\n#EXTENSIONS = {\n#    'scrapy.extensions.telnet.TelnetConsole': None,\n#}\n\n# Configure item pipelines\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/item-pipeline.html\n#ITEM_PIPELINES = {\n#    'form.pipelines.FormPipeline': 300,\n#}\n\n# Enable and configure the AutoThrottle extension (disabled by default)\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/autothrottle.html\n#AUTOTHROTTLE_ENABLED = True\n# The initial download delay\n#AUTOTHROTTLE_START_DELAY = 5\n# The maximum download delay to be set in case of high latencies\n#AUTOTHROTTLE_MAX_DELAY = 60\n# The average number of requests Scrapy should be sending in parallel to\n# each remote server\n#AUTOTHROTTLE_TARGET_CONCURRENCY = 1.0\n# Enable showing throttling stats for every response received:\n#AUTOTHROTTLE_DEBUG = False\n\n# Enable and configure HTTP caching (disabled by default)\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/downloader-middleware.html#httpcache-middleware-settings\n#HTTPCACHE_ENABLED = True\n#HTTPCACHE_EXPIRATION_SECS = 0\n#HTTPCACHE_DIR = 'httpcache'\n#HTTPCACHE_IGNORE_HTTP_CODES = []\n#HTTPCACHE_STORAGE = 'scrapy.extensions.httpcache.FilesystemCacheStorage'\n"
  },
  {
    "path": "03_01_b/form/form/spiders/__init__.py",
    "content": "# This package will contain the spiders of your Scrapy project\n#\n# Please refer to the documentation for information on how to create and manage\n# your spiders.\n"
  },
  {
    "path": "03_01_b/form/form/spiders/get_form.py",
    "content": "# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-\nimport scrapy\n\nclass GetFormSpider(scrapy.Spider):\n    name = 'get_form'\n    allowed_domains = ['pythonscraping.com']\n    start_urls = ['http://pythonscraping.com/']\n\n    def parse(self, response):\n        pass\n"
  },
  {
    "path": "03_01_b/form/scrapy.cfg",
    "content": "# Automatically created by: scrapy startproject\n#\n# For more information about the [deploy] section see:\n# https://scrapyd.readthedocs.io/en/latest/deploy.html\n\n[settings]\ndefault = form.settings\n\n[deploy]\n#url = http://localhost:6800/\nproject = form\n"
  },
  {
    "path": "03_01_e/form/form/__init__.py",
    "content": ""
  },
  {
    "path": "03_01_e/form/form/items.py",
    "content": "# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-\n\n# Define here the models for your scraped items\n#\n# See documentation in:\n# https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/items.html\n\nimport scrapy\n\n\nclass FormItem(scrapy.Item):\n    # define the fields for your item here like:\n    # name = scrapy.Field()\n    pass\n"
  },
  {
    "path": "03_01_e/form/form/middlewares.py",
    "content": "# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-\n\n# Define here the models for your spider middleware\n#\n# See documentation in:\n# https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/spider-middleware.html\n\nfrom scrapy import signals\n\n\nclass FormSpiderMiddleware:\n    # Not all methods need to be defined. If a method is not defined,\n    # scrapy acts as if the spider middleware does not modify the\n    # passed objects.\n\n    @classmethod\n    def from_crawler(cls, crawler):\n        # This method is used by Scrapy to create your spiders.\n        s = cls()\n        crawler.signals.connect(s.spider_opened, signal=signals.spider_opened)\n        return s\n\n    def process_spider_input(self, response, spider):\n        # Called for each response that goes through the spider\n        # middleware and into the spider.\n\n        # Should return None or raise an exception.\n        return None\n\n    def process_spider_output(self, response, result, spider):\n        # Called with the results returned from the Spider, after\n        # it has processed the response.\n\n        # Must return an iterable of Request, dict or Item objects.\n        for i in result:\n            yield i\n\n    def process_spider_exception(self, response, exception, spider):\n        # Called when a spider or process_spider_input() method\n        # (from other spider middleware) raises an exception.\n\n        # Should return either None or an iterable of Request, dict\n        # or Item objects.\n        pass\n\n    def process_start_requests(self, start_requests, spider):\n        # Called with the start requests of the spider, and works\n        # similarly to the process_spider_output() method, except\n        # that it doesn’t have a response associated.\n\n        # Must return only requests (not items).\n        for r in start_requests:\n            yield r\n\n    def spider_opened(self, spider):\n        spider.logger.info('Spider opened: %s' % spider.name)\n\n\nclass FormDownloaderMiddleware:\n    # Not all methods need to be defined. If a method is not defined,\n    # scrapy acts as if the downloader middleware does not modify the\n    # passed objects.\n\n    @classmethod\n    def from_crawler(cls, crawler):\n        # This method is used by Scrapy to create your spiders.\n        s = cls()\n        crawler.signals.connect(s.spider_opened, signal=signals.spider_opened)\n        return s\n\n    def process_request(self, request, spider):\n        # Called for each request that goes through the downloader\n        # middleware.\n\n        # Must either:\n        # - return None: continue processing this request\n        # - or return a Response object\n        # - or return a Request object\n        # - or raise IgnoreRequest: process_exception() methods of\n        #   installed downloader middleware will be called\n        return None\n\n    def process_response(self, request, response, spider):\n        # Called with the response returned from the downloader.\n\n        # Must either;\n        # - return a Response object\n        # - return a Request object\n        # - or raise IgnoreRequest\n        return response\n\n    def process_exception(self, request, exception, spider):\n        # Called when a download handler or a process_request()\n        # (from other downloader middleware) raises an exception.\n\n        # Must either:\n        # - return None: continue processing this exception\n        # - return a Response object: stops process_exception() chain\n        # - return a Request object: stops process_exception() chain\n        pass\n\n    def spider_opened(self, spider):\n        spider.logger.info('Spider opened: %s' % spider.name)\n"
  },
  {
    "path": "03_01_e/form/form/pipelines.py",
    "content": "# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-\n\n# Define your item pipelines here\n#\n# Don't forget to add your pipeline to the ITEM_PIPELINES setting\n# See: https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/item-pipeline.html\n\n\nclass FormPipeline:\n    def process_item(self, item, spider):\n        return item\n"
  },
  {
    "path": "03_01_e/form/form/settings.py",
    "content": "# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-\n\n# Scrapy settings for form project\n#\n# For simplicity, this file contains only settings considered important or\n# commonly used. You can find more settings consulting the documentation:\n#\n#     https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/settings.html\n#     https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/downloader-middleware.html\n#     https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/spider-middleware.html\n\nBOT_NAME = 'form'\n\nSPIDER_MODULES = ['form.spiders']\nNEWSPIDER_MODULE = 'form.spiders'\n\n\n# Crawl responsibly by identifying yourself (and your website) on the user-agent\n#USER_AGENT = 'form (+http://www.yourdomain.com)'\n\n# Obey robots.txt rules\nROBOTSTXT_OBEY = True\n\n# Configure maximum concurrent requests performed by Scrapy (default: 16)\n#CONCURRENT_REQUESTS = 32\n\n# Configure a delay for requests for the same website (default: 0)\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/settings.html#download-delay\n# See also autothrottle settings and docs\n#DOWNLOAD_DELAY = 3\n# The download delay setting will honor only one of:\n#CONCURRENT_REQUESTS_PER_DOMAIN = 16\n#CONCURRENT_REQUESTS_PER_IP = 16\n\n# Disable cookies (enabled by default)\n#COOKIES_ENABLED = False\n\n# Disable Telnet Console (enabled by default)\n#TELNETCONSOLE_ENABLED = False\n\n# Override the default request headers:\n#DEFAULT_REQUEST_HEADERS = {\n#   'Accept': 'text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8',\n#   'Accept-Language': 'en',\n#}\n\n# Enable or disable spider middlewares\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/spider-middleware.html\n#SPIDER_MIDDLEWARES = {\n#    'form.middlewares.FormSpiderMiddleware': 543,\n#}\n\n# Enable or disable downloader middlewares\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/downloader-middleware.html\n#DOWNLOADER_MIDDLEWARES = {\n#    'form.middlewares.FormDownloaderMiddleware': 543,\n#}\n\n# Enable or disable extensions\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/extensions.html\n#EXTENSIONS = {\n#    'scrapy.extensions.telnet.TelnetConsole': None,\n#}\n\n# Configure item pipelines\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/item-pipeline.html\n#ITEM_PIPELINES = {\n#    'form.pipelines.FormPipeline': 300,\n#}\n\n# Enable and configure the AutoThrottle extension (disabled by default)\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/autothrottle.html\n#AUTOTHROTTLE_ENABLED = True\n# The initial download delay\n#AUTOTHROTTLE_START_DELAY = 5\n# The maximum download delay to be set in case of high latencies\n#AUTOTHROTTLE_MAX_DELAY = 60\n# The average number of requests Scrapy should be sending in parallel to\n# each remote server\n#AUTOTHROTTLE_TARGET_CONCURRENCY = 1.0\n# Enable showing throttling stats for every response received:\n#AUTOTHROTTLE_DEBUG = False\n\n# Enable and configure HTTP caching (disabled by default)\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/downloader-middleware.html#httpcache-middleware-settings\n#HTTPCACHE_ENABLED = True\n#HTTPCACHE_EXPIRATION_SECS = 0\n#HTTPCACHE_DIR = 'httpcache'\n#HTTPCACHE_IGNORE_HTTP_CODES = []\n#HTTPCACHE_STORAGE = 'scrapy.extensions.httpcache.FilesystemCacheStorage'\n"
  },
  {
    "path": "03_01_e/form/form/spiders/__init__.py",
    "content": "# This package will contain the spiders of your Scrapy project\n#\n# Please refer to the documentation for information on how to create and manage\n# your spiders.\n"
  },
  {
    "path": "03_01_e/form/form/spiders/get_form.py",
    "content": "# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-\nimport scrapy\n\ndef generate_start_urls():\n    names = ['Alice', 'Bob', 'Charles']\n    quests = ['to seek the grail', 'to learn Python', 'to scrape the web']\n    return ['http://pythonscraping.com/linkedin/formAction.php?name={}&quest={}&color=blue'.format(name, quest.replace(' ', '%20')) for name in names for quest in quests]\n    return quests \n\n\nclass GetFormSpider(scrapy.Spider):\n    name = 'get_form'\n    allowed_domains = ['pythonscraping.com']\n    start_urls = generate_start_urls()\n\n    def parse(self, response):\n        return {'text': response.xpath('//div[@class=\"wrapper\"]/text()').get()}\n"
  },
  {
    "path": "03_01_e/form/form/spiders/post_form.py",
    "content": "# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-\nimport scrapy\nfrom scrapy.http import FormRequest\n\nclass GetFormSpider(scrapy.Spider):\n    name = 'post_form'\n    allowed_domains = ['pythonscraping.com']\n\n    def start_requests(self):\n        names = ['Alice', 'Bob', 'Charles']\n        quests = ['to seek the grail', 'to learn Python', 'to scrape the web']\n        return [FormRequest(\n            'http://pythonscraping.com/linkedin/formAction2.php',\n            formdata={'name': name, 'quest': quest, 'color': 'blue'},\n            callback=self.parse)  for name in names for quest in quests]\n\n    def parse(self, response):\n        return {'text': response.xpath('//div[@class=\"wrapper\"]/text()').get()}\n"
  },
  {
    "path": "03_01_e/form/scrapy.cfg",
    "content": "# Automatically created by: scrapy startproject\n#\n# For more information about the [deploy] section see:\n# https://scrapyd.readthedocs.io/en/latest/deploy.html\n\n[settings]\ndefault = form.settings\n\n[deploy]\n#url = http://localhost:6800/\nproject = form\n"
  },
  {
    "path": "03_03_b/news_scraper/news_scraper/__init__.py",
    "content": ""
  },
  {
    "path": "03_03_b/news_scraper/news_scraper/items.py",
    "content": "# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-\n\n# Define here the models for your scraped items\n#\n# See documentation in:\n# https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/items.html\n\nimport scrapy\n\n\nclass NewsArticle(scrapy.Item):\n    url = scrapy.Field()\n    source = scrapy.Field()\n    title = scrapy.Field()\n    description = scrapy.Field()\n    date = scrapy.Field()\n    author = scrapy.Field()\n    text = scrapy.Field()\n"
  },
  {
    "path": "03_03_b/news_scraper/news_scraper/middlewares.py",
    "content": "# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-\n\n# Define here the models for your spider middleware\n#\n# See documentation in:\n# https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/spider-middleware.html\n\nfrom scrapy import signals\n\n\nclass NewsScraperSpiderMiddleware:\n    # Not all methods need to be defined. If a method is not defined,\n    # scrapy acts as if the spider middleware does not modify the\n    # passed objects.\n\n    @classmethod\n    def from_crawler(cls, crawler):\n        # This method is used by Scrapy to create your spiders.\n        s = cls()\n        crawler.signals.connect(s.spider_opened, signal=signals.spider_opened)\n        return s\n\n    def process_spider_input(self, response, spider):\n        # Called for each response that goes through the spider\n        # middleware and into the spider.\n\n        # Should return None or raise an exception.\n        return None\n\n    def process_spider_output(self, response, result, spider):\n        # Called with the results returned from the Spider, after\n        # it has processed the response.\n\n        # Must return an iterable of Request, dict or Item objects.\n        for i in result:\n            yield i\n\n    def process_spider_exception(self, response, exception, spider):\n        # Called when a spider or process_spider_input() method\n        # (from other spider middleware) raises an exception.\n\n        # Should return either None or an iterable of Request, dict\n        # or Item objects.\n        pass\n\n    def process_start_requests(self, start_requests, spider):\n        # Called with the start requests of the spider, and works\n        # similarly to the process_spider_output() method, except\n        # that it doesn’t have a response associated.\n\n        # Must return only requests (not items).\n        for r in start_requests:\n            yield r\n\n    def spider_opened(self, spider):\n        spider.logger.info('Spider opened: %s' % spider.name)\n\n\nclass NewsScraperDownloaderMiddleware:\n    # Not all methods need to be defined. If a method is not defined,\n    # scrapy acts as if the downloader middleware does not modify the\n    # passed objects.\n\n    @classmethod\n    def from_crawler(cls, crawler):\n        # This method is used by Scrapy to create your spiders.\n        s = cls()\n        crawler.signals.connect(s.spider_opened, signal=signals.spider_opened)\n        return s\n\n    def process_request(self, request, spider):\n        # Called for each request that goes through the downloader\n        # middleware.\n\n        # Must either:\n        # - return None: continue processing this request\n        # - or return a Response object\n        # - or return a Request object\n        # - or raise IgnoreRequest: process_exception() methods of\n        #   installed downloader middleware will be called\n        return None\n\n    def process_response(self, request, response, spider):\n        # Called with the response returned from the downloader.\n\n        # Must either;\n        # - return a Response object\n        # - return a Request object\n        # - or raise IgnoreRequest\n        return response\n\n    def process_exception(self, request, exception, spider):\n        # Called when a download handler or a process_request()\n        # (from other downloader middleware) raises an exception.\n\n        # Must either:\n        # - return None: continue processing this exception\n        # - return a Response object: stops process_exception() chain\n        # - return a Request object: stops process_exception() chain\n        pass\n\n    def spider_opened(self, spider):\n        spider.logger.info('Spider opened: %s' % spider.name)\n"
  },
  {
    "path": "03_03_b/news_scraper/news_scraper/pipelines.py",
    "content": "# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-\nfrom datetime import datetime\n\nclass NewsScraperPipeline:\n    def process_item(self, item, spider):\n        item.date = datetime.strptime(item.date.split('T')[0], '%Y-%B-%D')\n        item.author = item.author.replace(', CNN', '')\n        item.text = [text.strip() for text in item.text]\n        return item\n"
  },
  {
    "path": "03_03_b/news_scraper/news_scraper/settings.py",
    "content": "# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-\n\n# Scrapy settings for news_scraper project\n#\n# For simplicity, this file contains only settings considered important or\n# commonly used. You can find more settings consulting the documentation:\n#\n#     https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/settings.html\n#     https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/downloader-middleware.html\n#     https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/spider-middleware.html\n\nBOT_NAME = 'news_scraper'\n\nSPIDER_MODULES = ['news_scraper.spiders']\nNEWSPIDER_MODULE = 'news_scraper.spiders'\n\nCLOSESPIDER_PAGECOUNT=10\n\nFEED_URI='news_articles.json'\nFEED_FORMAT='json'\n\n# Crawl responsibly by identifying yourself (and your website) on the user-agent\n#USER_AGENT = 'news_scraper (+http://www.yourdomain.com)'\n\n# Obey robots.txt rules\nROBOTSTXT_OBEY = False\n\n# Configure maximum concurrent requests performed by Scrapy (default: 16)\n#CONCURRENT_REQUESTS = 32\n\n# Configure a delay for requests for the same website (default: 0)\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/settings.html#download-delay\n# See also autothrottle settings and docs\n#DOWNLOAD_DELAY = 3\n# The download delay setting will honor only one of:\n#CONCURRENT_REQUESTS_PER_DOMAIN = 16\n#CONCURRENT_REQUESTS_PER_IP = 16\n\n# Disable cookies (enabled by default)\n#COOKIES_ENABLED = False\n\n# Disable Telnet Console (enabled by default)\n#TELNETCONSOLE_ENABLED = False\n\n# Override the default request headers:\n#DEFAULT_REQUEST_HEADERS = {\n#   'Accept': 'text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8',\n#   'Accept-Language': 'en',\n#}\n\n# Enable or disable spider middlewares\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/spider-middleware.html\n#SPIDER_MIDDLEWARES = {\n#    'news_scraper.middlewares.NewsScraperSpiderMiddleware': 543,\n#}\n\n# Enable or disable downloader middlewares\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/downloader-middleware.html\n#DOWNLOADER_MIDDLEWARES = {\n#    'news_scraper.middlewares.NewsScraperDownloaderMiddleware': 543,\n#}\n\n# Enable or disable extensions\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/extensions.html\n#EXTENSIONS = {\n#    'scrapy.extensions.telnet.TelnetConsole': None,\n#}\n\n# Configure item pipelines\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/item-pipeline.html\n#ITEM_PIPELINES = {\n#    'news_scraper.pipelines.NewsScraperPipeline': 300,\n#}\n\n# Enable and configure the AutoThrottle extension (disabled by default)\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/autothrottle.html\n#AUTOTHROTTLE_ENABLED = True\n# The initial download delay\n#AUTOTHROTTLE_START_DELAY = 5\n# The maximum download delay to be set in case of high latencies\n#AUTOTHROTTLE_MAX_DELAY = 60\n# The average number of requests Scrapy should be sending in parallel to\n# each remote server\n#AUTOTHROTTLE_TARGET_CONCURRENCY = 1.0\n# Enable showing throttling stats for every response received:\n#AUTOTHROTTLE_DEBUG = False\n\n# Enable and configure HTTP caching (disabled by default)\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/downloader-middleware.html#httpcache-middleware-settings\n#HTTPCACHE_ENABLED = True\n#HTTPCACHE_EXPIRATION_SECS = 0\n#HTTPCACHE_DIR = 'httpcache'\n#HTTPCACHE_IGNORE_HTTP_CODES = []\n#HTTPCACHE_STORAGE = 'scrapy.extensions.httpcache.FilesystemCacheStorage'\n"
  },
  {
    "path": "03_03_b/news_scraper/news_scraper/spiders/__init__.py",
    "content": "# This package will contain the spiders of your Scrapy project\n#\n# Please refer to the documentation for information on how to create and manage\n# your spiders.\n"
  },
  {
    "path": "03_03_b/news_scraper/news_scraper/spiders/associated_press.py",
    "content": "# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-\nfrom scrapy.spiders import CrawlSpider, Rule\nfrom scrapy.linkextractors import LinkExtractor\nfrom news_scraper.items import NewsArticle\nimport json \n\nclass AssociatedPressSpider(CrawlSpider):\n    name = 'associated_press'\n    allowed_domains = ['apnews.com']\n    start_urls = ['http://apnews.com/']\n    rules = [Rule(LinkExtractor(allow=r'\\/article\\/[a-zA-Z\\-]+\\-[a-zA-Z0-9]{32}'), callback='parse_item', follow=True)]\n\n    def parse_item(self, response):\n        article = NewsArticle()\n        # <script data-rh=\"true\">\n        article['url'] = response.url\n        article['source'] = 'Associated Press'\n\n        jsonData = json.loads(response.xpath('//script[@data-rh=\"true\"]/text()').get())\n        article['title'] = jsonData['headline']\n        article['description'] = jsonData['description']\n        article['date'] = jsonData['datePublished']\n        article['author'] = jsonData['author'][0]\n        article['text'] = response.xpath('//div[@class=\"Article\"]/p/text()').getall()\n        return article\n"
  },
  {
    "path": "03_03_b/news_scraper/news_scraper/spiders/cnn.py",
    "content": "# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-\nfrom scrapy.spiders import CrawlSpider, Rule\nfrom scrapy.linkextractors import LinkExtractor\nfrom news_scraper.items import NewsArticle\n\nclass CnnSpider(CrawlSpider):\n    name = 'cnn'\n    allowed_domains = ['cnn.com']\n    # Articles on the front page are dynamically loaded\n    start_urls = ['https://www.cnn.com/africa']\n    # /2020/08/28/weather/rapid-fire-disasters-in-coronavirus-pandemic-weir-wxc/index.html\n    rules = [Rule(LinkExtractor(allow=r'\\/2020\\/[0-9][0-9]\\/[0-9][0-9]\\/[a-zA-Z\\-]+\\/[a-zA-Z\\-]+\\/index.html'), callback='parse_item', follow=True)]\n    \n    def parse_item(self, response):\n        article = NewsArticle()\n        # <script data-rh=\"true\">\n        article['url'] = response.url\n        article['source'] = 'CNN'\n        article['title'] = response.xpath('//h1/text()').get()\n        article['description'] = response.xpath('//meta[@name=\"description\"]/@content').get()\n        article['date'] = response.xpath('//meta[@itemprop=\"datePublished\"]/@content').get()\n        article['author'] = response.xpath('//meta[@itemprop=\"author\"]/@content').get().replace(', CNN', '')\n        article['text'] = response.xpath('//section[@data-zone-label=\"bodyText\"]/div[@class=\"l-container\"]//*/text()').getall()\n        return article\n"
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    "path": "03_03_b/news_scraper/news_scraper/spiders/news_articles.json",
    "content": "[\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/29/africa/blasphemy-trial-nigeria/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"The WhatsApp voice note that led to a death sentence\", \"description\": \"A heated conversation in a WhatsApp group has led to a death penalty sentence and a family torn apart in northern Nigeria over allegations of insulting Prophet Mohammed. \", \"date\": \"2020-09-29T09:51:49Z\", \"author\": \"Eoin McSweeney and Stephanie Busari\", \"text\": [\" (CNN)\", \"An intense argument recorded and posted in a WhatsApp group has led to a death penalty sentence and a family torn apart over allegations of insulting Prophet Mohammed, according to lawyers for the defendant. \", \"Music studio assistant Yahaya Sharif-Aminu was sentenced to death by hanging on August 10 after being convicted of blasphemy by an Islamic court in northern Nigeria. \", \"The judgment document states that Sharif-Aminu, 22, was convicted for making \\\"a blasphemous statement against Prophet Mohammed in a WhatsApp Group,\\\" which is contrary to the Kano State Sharia Penal Code and is an offence which carries the death sentence. \", \"The recording was shared widely, causing mass outrage in the highly conservative, majority Muslim, state, according to various reports. \", \"\\\"Whoever insults, defames or utters words or acts which are capable of bringing into disrespect ... such a person has committed a serious crime which is punishable by death,\\\" according to a translation of court documents provided to CNN by his lawyers. \", \"Read More\", \"Sharif-Aminu, described by his friend Kabiru Ibrahim, as \\\"kind, religious and dutiful,\\\" admitted charges of blasphemy during his trial, but said he had made a mistake. \", \"No legal representation\", \"Under Sharia law, a voluntary confession is binding, according to court papers. \", \"Sharif-Aminu's lawyers, who became involved in the case only after his conviction, say he was not allowed legal representation before or during his trial -- in contravention of Nigerian citizens' constitutional right to legal representation. \", \"Outrage as Nigeria sentences 13-year-old boy to 10 years in prison for blasphemy\", \"According to the lawyers, the Sharia court adjourned his case four times because no lawyer came forth from the Legal Aid Council to represent him, likely because of the sensitivity of the case. The Sharia court is, however, statute-bound to provide legal representation.\", \"Advocates from the \", \"Foundation for Religious Freedom\", \" (FRF), a not-for-profit aimed at protecting religious freedom in Nigeria, which is representing Sharif-Aminu, told CNN he has also not been permitted access to legal advice to prepare an appeal against his conviction. \", \"The FRF says it has lodged an appeal on his behalf in Kano's high court, a common-law court with constitutional powers. \", \"\\\"The state laws he is accused of breaking are in gross conflict with the Nigerian constitution,\\\" said his counsel, Kola Alapinni. \", \"No Muslim will condone it. People hold Prophet Mohammed higher than their parents. \", \"Islamic cleric, Bashir Aliyu Umar\", \"Kano's State Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje told clerics in Kano that he would sign Sharif-Aminu's death warrant as soon as the singer had exhausted the appeals process, local media reports say. \", \"\\\"I assure you that immediately the Supreme Court affirms the judgment, I will sign it without any hesitation,\\\" Ganduje said, according to \", \"Nigeria's Daily Post newspaper\", \". CNN contacted a spokesman for Governor Ganduje several times for comment but did not receive a response. \", \"Islamic scholar and cleric Bashir Aliyu Umar, who is not connected to the case, but said he had read the transcript of the court proceedings, told CNN, \\\"No Muslim will condone it. People hold Prophet Mohammed higher than their parents, and when things like this happen, it will lead to a breakdown of peace because of mob action and attacks against the accused.\\\" \", \"When news of Sharif-Aminu's alleged crime broke earlier this year, protesters marched to his family home and destroyed it, prompting his father to flee to a neighboring town, his lawyers told CNN. Sharif-Aminu went into hiding, according to Amnesty and his lawyers, but in March he was arrested by the Hisbah Corps, the religious police force that enforces Sharia law in Kano state. \", \"'A travesty of justice'\", \"Human rights organization Amnesty International has described Sharif-Aminu's trial as a \\\"travesty of justice,\\\" and called on Kano state authorities to quash his conviction and death sentence. \", \"\\\"There are serious concerns about the fairness of his trial and the framing of the charges against him based on his Whatsapp messages,\\\" said Amnesty's Nigeria director Osai Ojigho. \\\"Furthermore, the imposition of the death penalty following an unfair trial violates the right to life,\\\" she added. \", \"The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has also condemned Sharif-Aminu's death sentence. It said Nigeria's blasphemy laws were inconsistent with universal human rights standards. \", \"\\\"It is unconscionable that Sharif-Aminu is facing a death sentence merely for expressing his beliefs artistically through music,\\\" said the organization's commissioner, Frederick A. Davie, in a statement. \", \"The organization released a \", \"follow-up statement\", \" saying it had adopted Aminu-Sharif as \\\"a religious prisoner of conscience.\\\"  \", \"Atheism frowned upon \", \"Nigeria is Africa's most populous nation and religion permeates every facet of life here, with prayers routinely said in schools and public offices. 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It shows how they are recruited and trafficked overseas for commercial gain.\", \"Directed by award-winning Nigerian filmmaker, Kenneth Gyang, the film features Nollywood actors including Sharon Ooja, Omoni Oboli and Blossom Chukwujekwu. \", \"Mo Abudu, executive producer of \\\"Oloture,\\\" told CNN that the crime drama was inspired by the numerous cases of trafficking around the world and in Nigeria. \", \"Actors pose as sex workers on the set of Netflix original film, \\\"Oloture.\\\"\", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"Actors pose as sex workers on the set of Netflix original film, &quot;Oloture.&quot;\\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"Actors pose as sex workers on the set of Netflix original film, &quot;Oloture.&quot;\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/201007071906-restricted-04-human-trafficking-film-nigeria-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"\\\"There have been many reports around the world highlighting human trafficking and modern slavery. It has been in our faces. I dug and dug and did a bit more research, and when I came across the numbers and saw how much was made annually from human trafficking, I was totally shocked,\\\" she said. \", \"Human trafficking is a \", \"$150 billion global industry.\", \" And two-thirds of this figure is generated from sexual exploitation, according to a 2014 report by the International Labor Organization. \", \"Abudu -- who is also CEO of EbonyLife Films, which produced \\\"Oloture\\\" -- added that the film mirrored some real-life reports by journalists who had gone undercover to expose sex trafficking patterns in the country.\", \"One of them, she said, was a \", \"2014 report \", \"by journalist Tobore Ovuorie, in the Nigerian newspaper, Premium Times. \", \"\\\"Upon research, we found that many journalists had gone undercover to report on human trafficking. But the Premium Times article did spark our interest as some of it plays out in the film,\\\" Abudu said. \", \"Easy prey for traffickers\", \"Ovuorie, whose report was credited in \\\"Oloture,\\\" told CNN that women often get trafficked as a result of their need to make money abroad. \", \"Ovuorie said she met many women in the course of her reporting who wanted to get to Europe in hopes of better job opportunities that would earn them more money.\", \"UK joins forces with Nigeria to fight human trafficking\", \"\\\"People were motivated by greed, you know, the need to get rich. I spoke with the women I was supposed to be trafficked with, and many of them wanted better lives motivated by money. There was one girl who had never earned more than 50,000 naira (about $130) as salary since she graduated from university,\\\" she told CNN.\", \"Most of the women were fleeing harsh economic conditions and poverty, making them easy prey for traffickers, Ovuorie said.\", \"During Ovuorie's investigation, she said she \", \"posed as a sex worker\", \" on the streets of Lagos, looking to travel to Europe.\", \"Lead actor, Sharon Ooja, and Omowunmi Dada (right) pose on set of \\\"Oloture.\\\"\", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"Lead actor, Sharon Ooja, and Omowunmi Dada (right) pose on set of &quot;Oloture.&quot;\\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"Lead actor, Sharon Ooja, and Omowunmi Dada (right) pose on set of &quot;Oloture.&quot;\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/201007072041-restricted-05-human-trafficking-film-nigeria-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"Her plan worked. 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In partnership with ZAM Chronicles and Premium Times, she documented her experience. \", \"After a series of \\\"humiliating trainings\\\" and physical abuse, she said she was told she and other girls would receive a \", \"fake passport\", \" in preparation to be smuggled outside the country through the border in Benin in West Africa.\", \"She escaped at the border. \", \"Physical and sexual abuse \", \"Many women who are trafficked in Nigeria face sexual, physical and mental abuse, according to \", \"a 2019 report \", \"by Human Rights Watch. \", \"The rights group interviewed many women who said they were trafficked within and across national borders under life-threatening conditions as they were starved, raped and extorted. \", \"On some occasions, according to the report, they were forced into prostitution where they were made to have abortions and \", \"coerced to have sex \", \"with customers when they were sick, menstruating or pregnant. \", \"\\\"Oloture\\\" portrays some of these harsh realities as the lead character (played by Ooja) suffers sexual violence and physical abuse, including being whipped by one of her traffickers. \", \"It was important to depict the reality of sex trafficking so viewers can understand the experiences of women who are forced into the trade, Gyang, the director, told CNN.\", \"Director Kenneth Gyang works behind the scenes of film, \\\"Oloture.\\\"\", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"Director Kenneth Gyang works behind the scenes of film, &quot;Oloture.&quot;\\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"Director Kenneth Gyang works behind the scenes of film, &quot;Oloture.&quot;\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/201007071340-restricted-01-human-trafficking-film-nigeria-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"\\\"I wanted people to know that this is the reality of these ladies. People always want closure but life is not about a Hollywood ending; you can't always get a happy ending,\\\" he said.\", \"While directing the film, Gyang visited places with sex workers to get a better idea of how they live and work, he said.\", \"\\\"I actually went to places where we have sex workers in Lagos with one of the producers of the film. We wanted to really capture their lives so that we would be able to show it realistically in the movie. We talked to them, and some of the rooms we used in the movie were actually used previously by sex workers,\\\" he explained. \", \"'The most impactful movie we have ever done'\", \"The film was shot in 21 days towards the end of 2018, he said. Post-production was covered in 2019, and it was released Friday on Netflix.\", \"In just days, it has become the top watched movie in Nigeria and is among the \", \"top 10 watched movies in the world on Netflix. \", \"\\\"It's huge for me as a filmmaker that people have access to the film from all over the world. I want many people as possible to see it and have conversations about sex trafficking,\\\" Gyang said. \", \"The film is doing well in countries like Switzerland, Brazil, and South Africa because it is authentic and \\\"deals with the truth,\\\" Abudu said.\", \"\\\"EbonyLife has done seven movies. But this is the most impactful one we have ever done. And the most important,\\\" Abudu said. \", \"A smuggler's chilling warning\", \"The \", \"National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons\", \" (NAPTIP), the law enforcement agency in charge of combating human trafficking in Nigeria, wants the film to be made available to people in rural communities who don't have access to Netflix.\", \"\\\"I haven't seen the movie, but if it is trying to portray the ills and dangers of trafficking, then it's fine since that is going to raise awareness,\\\" Julie Okah-Donli, the director-general of the agency said. \", \"And while she is happy that \\\"Oloture\\\" is shining the light on human trafficking, she told CNN that women mostly targeted by traffickers may not get to watch it.\", \"\\\"The people watching it on Netflix all know what trafficking is. It needs to go to those girls in rural communities where traffickers go to bring them from. 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This story is part of As Equals, an ongoing series.\", \" \", \"Lagos, Nigeria --\", \" At the start of each day, Dr. Anita Kemi DaSilva-Ibru and her team put on gloves, facemasks and other personal protective equipment to see their patients.\", \"They're not treating people for Covid-19, but they are on the frontline of the pandemic, working at the Women at Risk International Foundation (WARIF), a rape crisis center in Lagos, Nigeria.\", \"Wearing protective gear is the new reality for crisis center workers, like DaSilva-Ibru.\", \"\\\"We change these kits each time we see a survivor as we are mindful of the risk of transmission of the virus between the survivor and us and the cross-contamination between a survivor and the next,\\\" she told CNN.\", \"US-trained gynecologist DaSilva-Ibru has spent most of her career treating hundreds of sexual violence victims but it was the growing scale of the crisis in Nigeria that prompted her to set up WARIF in 2016.\", \"Read More\", \"The clinic in Yaba, a suburb of Lagos, provides medical treatment, legal assistance therapy and space for rape victims and survivors of sexual abuse to get back on their feet.\", \"One in four Nigerian girls \", \"has been the victim of sexual violence, according to UN estimates but DaSilva-Ibru says the numbers are higher as many cases go unreported due to the stigma attached.\", \"In recent weeks, two high profile cases of gender-based violence have brought Nigerian women out onto the streets demanding change.\", \"Uwaila Vera Omozuwa, a 22-year-old microbiology student, was \", \"found half-naked in a pool of blood\", \" in a local church where she had gone to study after the Covid-19 lockdown left universities across the country shut. \", \"\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote {\\n position: relative;\\n color: #262626;\\n margin: 25px auto;\\n padding: 10px 0 14px 0;\\n width: 100%;\\n max-width: 660px;\\n border-left: 0;\\n text-align: center;\\n}\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote:before, .cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote:after {\\n position: absolute;\\n content: '';\\n width: 50px;\\n height: 2px;\\n left: 50%;\\n transform: translateX(-50%);\\n -webkit-transform: translateX(-50%);\\n background-color: #262626;\\n}\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote:before {\\n top: 0;\\n}\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote:after {\\n bottom: -2px;\\n}\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote {\\n position: relative;\\n margin: 0;\\n text-align: center;\\n font-size: 35px;\\n font-weight: 700;\\n word-spacing: -1px;\\n line-height: 1.15;\\n padding: 24px 10px 22px 10px;\\n margin-bottom: 24px;\\n}\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote-cite {\\n margin: 0;\\n text-align: center;\\n font-size: 12px;\\n font-weight: 200;\\n color: #262626;\\n line-height: 1.15;\\n padding: 0 10px;\\n display: inline-block;\\n}\\n@media only screen and (min-width: 768px)  {\\n .cnnix-golf__pullquote {\\n  margin: 50px auto;\\n }\\n .cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote {\\n  font-size: 35px;\\n }\\n} \\n\", \"\\n \", \"\\n \", \"\\\"Rape is an epidemic in this country.\\\"\", \"\\n \", \" Dr. Anita Kemi DaSilva-Ibru, Women at Risk International Foundation\", \"\\n \", \"Her family said her attackers raped her and the student died while being treated at the hospital. A few days later, another student, Barakat Bello, was allegedly raped and killed during a robbery at her home,\", \" according to human rights group Amnesty International.\", \"\\\"Rape is an epidemic in this country,\\\" DaSilva-Ibru told CNN.\", \"She says her work with survivors of sexual violence has become more critical during the outbreak, with restrictions to curb the virus from spreading fueling a surge in calls. \", \"It's a story echoed in other parts of the region, as authorities grapple with a growing number of Covid-19 cases and the impact restrictions are having on women.\", \"Related: A transport ban in Uganda means women are trapped at home with their abusers\", \"DaSilva-Ibru said she initially closed the center after authorities locked down the city in March, she had to reconsider the decision as the organization became inundated with SOS messages from sexual violence victims and their guardians.\", \"Staff operating the 24-hour helpline at the center also reported a 64% increase in calls during this period, according to DaSilva-Ibru. \", \"\\\"Our phones were ringing. Women were calling and desperately asking how we can help them, these were women in fear of their lives, as many have now been forced into quarantine with their abusers, in an already volatile environment,\\\" DaSilva-Ibru told CNN.\", \"For the center to re-open, DaSilva-Ibru said she had to source PPE, face masks and other protective gear personally and when that was not enough, the center launched an online appeal for funds from donors to buy the equipment at no cost to survivors, she said. \", \"\\\"We carry out forensic examinations on survivors and our frontline health workers who triage and examine patients are in close proximity to the survivors. As much as we need to carry out our duties, we also need to ensure our workers are adequately protected,\\\" DaSilva-Ibru told CNN.\", \"The challenges Ibru faces to keep the center open, doesn't compare to what sexual violence victims have experienced as a result of this pandemic, she said.\", \"DaSilva-Ibru recalls a woman who told staff at the center that her male friend had raped her in her home during the lockdown.\", \"Dr. Anita Kemi DaSilva-Ibru. \", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"Dr. Anita Kemi DaSilva-Ibru. \\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"Dr. Anita Kemi DaSilva-Ibru. \\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200618151608-02-dr-kemi-dasilva-ibru-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"\\\"The first day we re-opened, we attended to women who had walked many miles in spite of the mandatory lockdown to get to the center. These are women who had been terrorized in their homes,\\\" she added.\", \"\\\"She (a survivor) had repeatedly been calling (the center) to find out how she could get help. She feared she might have contracted HIV and wanted to be tested,\\\" Ibru said. \", \"Speaking to CNN, the woman, who didn't want to use her name to protect her identity, said a co-worker raped her after he came to her apartment unannounced in April. \", \"The young banker said she had previously rebuffed his attempts to visit, but on that Sunday afternoon in April, he showed up at her doorstep.\", \"\\\"He's a friend, not a stranger, so I opened the door for him. I was still asking him what was so urgent that made him leave his home. He said he wanted to check up on me and I told him he could have done that over the phone,\\\" she told CNN.\", \"But a few minutes into his visit, the conversation became uncomfortable between them.\", \"\\\"He kept coming towards me, and when I told him to stop, he put his hand over my mouth and pinned me on the floor,\\\" she said.\", \"She says he apologized after raping her and hurriedly left her house.\", \"The survivor told CNN she did not make a police complaint because she was worried about the stigma and strain that the rape might have on her parents.  \", \"A friend she confided in told her to reach out to the \", \"Lagos Domestic and Sexual Violence Response Team\", \" who put survivors in touch with treatment centers for help.\", \"After several calls to the centers on their website, she was referred to \", \"WARIF\", \".\", \"When she went to the clinic, she says staff ran some tests and placed her on Post Exposure Prophylaxis, a HIV prevention treatment for possible exposure.\", \"\\\"Sometimes I get really angry, and sometimes I feel numb,\\\" she said, reflecting on the assault.\", \"She says she was sick every night for 28 days because of the drugs.\", \"\\\"...even though the doctor prepared me for the side effect, it has not been easy,\\\" she told CNN. \", \"Gender-based violence is a problem in many countries, but the coronavirus pandemic has worsened the situation.\", \"The \", \"UN says\", \" the raft of measures deployed by governments to fight the pandemic have led to economic hardship, stress, and fear -- conditions that lead to violence against women and girls. \", \"Equality Now Regional Coordinator in Africa Judy Gitau told CNN that the wave of unemployment and school closures has put victims in a precarious situation.\", \"She recalls a similar situation in Sierra Leone \", \"during the 2014 Ebola outbreak\", \" when\", \" teenage pregnancies spiked\", \" in the country\", \"The government enforced strict stay-at-home orders that closed businesses and schools across the West African nation to curb the spread of the virus, she said.\", \"The restrictions made schoolgirls vulnerable to abuse as some were assaulted in their homes by relatives, and at the same time, a majority of girls from low-income families were coerced to exchange sex for money for food, Gitau said. \", \"\\\"Many of them wound up pregnant but the evidence became available when people were plugging back to life as they knew it as a normal society,\\\" she said.\", \"Gitau says authorities must know that perpetrators often take advantage of the strict measures to abuse victims without arousing much suspicion.\", \"As state resources are being re-focused to tackle the spread of coronavirus, law enforcement agencies should also respond quickly to reports of abuse and create shelters for victims in need of immediate rescue, she said.\", \"But placing women in shelters, especially in countries battling an outbreak, comes with the additional burden of proof, according to DaSilva-Ibru who said shelters in Lagos city are asking survivors to take coronavirus tests before they can be admitted to prevent infection in their facilities.\", \"\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote {\\n position: relative;\\n color: #262626;\\n margin: 25px auto;\\n padding: 10px 0 14px 0;\\n width: 100%;\\n max-width: 660px;\\n border-left: 0;\\n text-align: center;\\n}\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote:before, .cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote:after {\\n position: absolute;\\n content: '';\\n width: 50px;\\n height: 2px;\\n left: 50%;\\n transform: translateX(-50%);\\n -webkit-transform: translateX(-50%);\\n background-color: #262626;\\n}\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote:before {\\n top: 0;\\n}\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote:after {\\n bottom: -2px;\\n}\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote {\\n position: relative;\\n margin: 0;\\n text-align: center;\\n font-size: 35px;\\n font-weight: 700;\\n word-spacing: -1px;\\n line-height: 1.15;\\n padding: 24px 10px 22px 10px;\\n margin-bottom: 24px;\\n}\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote-cite {\\n margin: 0;\\n text-align: center;\\n font-size: 12px;\\n font-weight: 200;\\n color: #262626;\\n line-height: 1.15;\\n padding: 0 10px;\\n display: inline-block;\\n}\\n@media only screen and (min-width: 768px)  {\\n .cnnix-golf__pullquote {\\n  margin: 50px auto;\\n }\\n .cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote {\\n  font-size: 35px;\\n }\\n} \\n\", \"\\n \", \"\\n \", \"\\\"Violence against women and girls is one of the most pervasive forms of a human rights violation and should be recognized by all countries.\\\"\", \"\\n \", \" Dr. Anita Kemi DaSilva-Ibru, Women at Risk International Foundation\", \"\\n \", \"Authorities in Lagos designated gender-based violence services essential in May as it eased lockdown into curfews to allow service providers to get to work more smoothly, DaSilva-Ibru said. \", \"The police force says it has now deployed more officers to its stations across the country to respond to the \\\"increasing challenges of sexual assaults and domestic/gender-based violence linked with the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic.\\\" And last week, governors across the country resolved to declare \", \"a state of emergency on rape\", \", according to the Nigerian Governor's Forum (NGF).\", \"Related: Nigerian women are taking to the streets in protests against rape and sexual violence\", \"It's the first time federal and state authorities are coming out with a united voice to condemn gender violence, DaSilva-Ibru said and it validates the outcry of women in the country and the scale of the problem in Nigeria, she added.\", \"\\\"Violence against women and girls is one of the most pervasive forms of a human rights violation and should be recognized by all countries,\\\" DaSilva-Ibru said.\", \"\\\"In Nigeria, it has become a national crisis that needs urgent attention. I am pleased that this has been recognized.\\\"\", \"\\n  window.cnnAsEqualsConfig = window.cnnAsEqualsConfig || {};\\n  window.cnnAsEqualsConfig.theme = 'black';\\n\", \"\\n\", \"Click here for more stories from the As Equals series.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/20/africa/nigeria-fashion-tiffany-amber-coronavirus-ppe-spc-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"Nigerian fashion label Tiffany Amber swaps couture for PPE\", \"description\": \"Company founder Folake Akindele Coker pivoted her fashion label into PPE production after she realized that a prolonged lockdown in Nigeria would impact consumer sales.\", \"date\": \"2020-07-21T01:21:46Z\", \"author\": \"Daniel Renjifo\", \"text\": [\" (CNN)\", \"These days, things look a little different when Folake Akindele Coker gets to her office. \\\"I arrive at 9am, all geared (up) for this invisible enemy,\\\" she says. The 45-year-old designer and founder of Nigerian fashion label Tiffany Amber now starts each day with a 10-minute safety talk for her production team, \\\"who at first did not seem to understand the gravity and the potential of being infected by the (Covid-19) virus.\\\"\", \"Coker founded \", \"Tiffany Amber\", \" in 1998, and it's now considered one of Nigeria's most influential fashion and lifestyle brands.\", \"In early March, the number of colorful prints and couture runway garments that normally littered the factory floor dissipated, and the company's sewing machines began stitching hospital scrubs, gowns, stretcher sheets and non-medical face masks. Less than a month after the pandemic reached Africa, Tiffany Amber's entire factory refocused to produce personal protective equipment (PPE), something Coker notes took immense pressure to turn around. \", \"The colorful garments of the Tiffany Amber fashion line, seen here during Arise Fashion week in 2019, have since been replaced in production by PPE to help during the pandemic.\", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"The colorful garments of the Tiffany Amber fashion line, seen here during Arise Fashion week in 2019, have since been replaced in production by PPE to help during the pandemic.\\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"Tiffany Amber Nigeria fashion runway\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200715102210-tiffany-amber-fashion-nigeria-restricted-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"To make the shift, Coker says the company first had to secure more than 15 tons of raw materials including approximately 90,000 yards of fabric, 300,000 yards of elastic, and almost a million yards of thread. All of this happened, she says, right before borders closed in Nigeria and prices spiked due to the unforeseen demand for materials.\", \"See more stories from Marketplace Africa\", \"Read More\", \"As of mid-July, the World Health Organization shows Nigeria as having\", \" more than 30,000\", \" total confirmed cases of coronavirus, the second-most on the continent behind South Africa.\", \"As Covid-19 cases rose and consumer spending fell, Coker saw an opportunity for her business to stay open -- and to help out. \\\"Our expertise in garment production helped facilitate this shift to bridge the gap in the supply of medical apparel,\\\" she tells CNN.\", \"A Tiffany Amber employee sorts ready-to-ship gowns for healthcare workers.\", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"A Tiffany Amber employee sorts ready-to-ship gowns for healthcare workers.\\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"A Tiffany Amber employee sorts ready-to-ship gowns for healthcare workers.\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200626121436-tiffany-amber-ppe-production-gowns-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"The push for PPE\", \"This pivot has been a trend in the private sector worldwide, as companies around the globe have \", \"switched gears to supply the growing demand for PPE\", \".\", \"According to the World Bank, Covid-19 has pushed sub-Saharan Africa into its \", \"first recession in 25 years\", \", greatly impacting the continent's biggest revenue drivers such as energy, agriculture and manufacturing. \", \"Read more: Across Africa, the pandemic reveals both inequality and innovation\", \"Globally, the \", \"luxury market is also expected to shrink \", \"as much as 35% this year, as consumer spending sharply declines mainly due to job loss, according to consulting firm Bain and Co.\", \"Tiffany Amber employees wearing masks, and making masks.\", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"Tiffany Amber employees wearing masks, and making masks.\\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"Tiffany Amber employees wearing masks, and making masks.\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200626120613-tiffany-amber-production-ppe-employees-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"Efforts to make and source \", \"PPE in Nigeria\", \" have primarily relied on private corporations\", \" \", \"working hand in hand with suppliers. In an attempt to stay solvent, Coker says Tiffany Amber is working with partners in the financial sector to fund and distribute the PPE products.\", \"By early June, she notes, the fashion label had made approximately 500,000 cloth masks, 20,000 sets of sheets and pillowcases, 10,000 scrubs, 15,000 patient gowns and close to 5,000 surgical gowns.\", \"Alcohol ban has South African distilleries pivoting to a new product\", \"In Tiffany Amber's case, shifting to PPE production has had an unlikely silver lining: job creation. Since March, Coker says her company has actually managed to grow from 100 employees to a staff of 300.\", \"At the time of writing, Coker does not anticipate returning to regular Tiffany Amber fashion production in the near future. But even as her company responds to the current reality, she keeps planning for when that day will come. \\\"One mind is thinking about tomorrow morning and the other mind is processing the next two years,\\\" says Coker. \\\"Subconsciously, I find myself drifting away, putting together the next Tiffany Amber collection.\\\"\", \"CNN's Lamide Akintobi contributed to this report\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/26/africa/gambia-migration-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"He almost died migrating to Europe. Now he is warning other Gambians about it\", \"description\": \"Mustapha Sallah and Youth Against Irregular Migration are raising awareness in The Gambia about the dangers of migrating to Europe through irregular means.\", \"date\": \"2020-08-26T14:16:23Z\", \"author\": \"Aisha Salaudeen\", \"text\": [\" (CNN)\", \"Mustapha Sallah was in trouble.\", \"He had hoped to be in Europe by now, pursuing his dreams of studying computer science and making a better life for himself.\", \"Instead, he was sitting in a Libyan detention center, having been detained in Tripoli by the Libyan Coast Guard.\", \"\\\"We were kept in rooms with little ventilation and no toilets. We would sit for days without taking baths. It was like hell,\\\" Sallah told CNN.\", \"He added that officers at the detention center often assaulted them by \\\"beating us for the slightest things like refusing to sleep.\\\"\", \"Read More\", \"It was January 2017, and the 25-year-old Gambian had taken a gamble, risking his life in search of a better one in Europe. But no one had warned him of the dangers ahead.\", \"If and when he got out of the detention center, he vowed to help others make a more informed decision.\", \"Migrating to Europe\", \"Sallah grew up in Serekunda, southwest of The Gambia's capital city, Banjul. He said he worked hard in school to earn a scholarship so that his mother could retire from her job selling vegetables in the market.\", \"In 2016, he thought he'd have that chance when he earned a scholarship to study computer science in Taiwan. \\\"But there was no Taiwan embassy in Gambia, so I had to go to the closest one in Abuja, Nigeria,\\\" he explained.\", \"After borrowing money from his sister to travel to Nigeria, he said he spent three months there before his visa application was denied. Three years earlier, then-president of The Gambia, Yahya Jammeh, had cut diplomatic ties with Taiwan for what he called \\\"national strategic interest.\\\"\", \"At least 58 people killed as boat carrying migrants sinks off Mauritania coast\", \"\\\"I didn't know what to do: stay in Nigeria, or go to any other African country. At the end of the day, I got the mind of migrating (to Europe) because I know several people who took the journey and made it there,\\\" Sallah explained.\", \"With a population of \", \"2.3 million people\", \", The Gambia is among the smallest countries in Africa. But despite its small size, migration is a fairly common practice and plays a key role in the country's economy.\", \"According to the International Organization for Migration (IOM), overseas remittances for an average of 90,000 Gambians who live abroad make up \", \"more than 20% of the country's GDP\", \". \", \"48% of Gambians\", \" live in poverty, and many people find themselves looking outside the country for opportunities to improve their lives. \", \"But some people leave the country without proper documentation or without crossing an official border point. Between 2014 and 2018, the IOM estimates \", \"more than 35,000 \", \"Gambians reached Europe through \\\"irregular means.\\\"\", \"\\\"There's a tradition of mobility in Gambia. It's a long history of people using migration as a means of life, and of getting their income. Many of the returnees we have worked with claim they took the journey for economic reasons,\\\" Etienne Micallef, the IOM's program manager in The Gambia told CNN.\", \"\\\"They have the perception that if they migrate with the final destination as Europe, they will get a much better income to sustain themselves and their families back home,\\\" he added. \", \"How the Kenyan consulate in Lebanon became feared by the women it was meant to help\", \"But it comes at a high risk. Globally, at least \", \"33,687 migrant deaths and disappearances\", \" were recorded between January 2014 and October 2019, according to IOM -- with nearly half occurring on the route between Northern Africa and Italy. \", \"Sallah, who said he wanted an education that would allow him to find a job to support his family, reiterated that no one warned him how incredibly dangerous the journey would be.\", \"After his visa to study in Taiwan was rejected, he said he got on a bus heading north to Agadez, a city in Niger. \\\"I didn't even know the area -- I just kept asking people around what the best or possible way to reach Niger was.\\\"\", \"From there, he managed to travel to Libya. \\\"You have to pay smugglers who drive pickup trucks to put you at the back of their trucks to get to Libya and then to Europe. I spent a month with my cousin in Libya before heading in another pickup truck for Tripoli,\\\" he told CNN.\", \"His journey to Tripoli was treacherous, he said, telling CNN he was detained and extorted multiple times by armed bandits. \", \"Sallah said he was close to death from starvation and even witnessed a gun battle between armed bandits and smugglers: \\\"The man that was smuggling us told us that if we want to stay in Tripoli, we must get used to gunshots,\\\" he said. \", \"But it all came to an abrupt halt in January 2017, when he was arrested by the Libyan Coast Guard in Tripoli.\", \" Detention Center\", \"Libya is a primary transit point along the central Mediterranean route. People who get stuck there are often detained by the Libyan Coast Guard, responsible for patrolling coastal waters to prevent smuggling and trafficking.  \", \"Sallah said he was kept in a detention center in Tripoli with migrants from different West African countries for nearly four months under poor conditions.\", \"Migrants describe being tortured and raped on perilous journey to Libya\", \"There are\", \" 11 detention centers\", \" for migrants run by the U.N.-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) in Libya. Some \", \"2,362\", \" detainees are held at these facilities on any given day, according to the Global Detention Project. \", \"Human Rights Watch\", \" (HRW) and \", \"Amnesty International\", \" have criticized the conditions at these detention centers; both groups signed onto a statement released in April that urged EU member states and institutions to review their policy on migrants and cooperation with Libya. \", \"The policy, the statement says, has allowed for the \", \"\\\"arbitrary detention and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment\\\"\", \" of migrants and refugees.\", \"While in detention, Sallah met a fellow Gambian who suggested they set up the non-profit organization \", \"Youth Against Irregular Migration\", \" (YAIM) to warn others back home about the risks of irregular migration.\", \"\\\"I went around the detention center gathering details of all the Gambians I could find,\\\" estimating he registered 171 people to join the organization. \\\"We agreed that if we made it out of there, we would start an association to make people aware of how problematic the journey to Europe is,\\\" he said.\", \"Youth Against Irregular Migration\", \"In April 2017, as part of its mandate to return and reintegrate migrants stranded or detained in their transit countries, IOM facilitated the return of Sallah and many others within the detention center back to The Gambia. \", \"That same year, IOM received funding from the EU worth\", \" 3.9 million euros\", \" (about $4.6 million) over the course of three years, to expand its operations in The Gambia.\", \"Since then, according to Micallef, IOM has repatriated more than 5,000 people to the West African nation.\", \"He added that when returnees arrive at the airport or land border, they are met by IOM staff who arrange for temporary shelter, counseling, and medical support for those who need it.\", \"Weeks after returning to The Gambia, Sallah said he met with some members of YAIM who signed up in the detention center. \", \"\\\"We met almost every week after arriving in Gambia,\\\" he explained. \\\"It was difficult for us financially at the start but many of us had the support of our families.\\\"\", \"YAIM members speak to community members about the dangers of irregular migration.\", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"YAIM members speak to community members about the dangers of irregular migration.\\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"YAIM members speak to community members about the dangers of irregular migration.\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200819175004-03-gambia-migration-intl-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"He added that even though many of them struggled to make a living at the start and had to pick up menial jobs around town to survive, being around other members gave them a renewed sense of hope.\", \"Being safe at home, he said, was a better option than the dangerous journey to Europe.\", \"\\\"We bonded by sharing our stories with each other as a way to work through the trauma,\\\" Sallah said. \\\"We made sure to be there for each other.\\\"\", \"Community awareness\", \"Through YAIM, the returnees began campaigns around irregular migration in The Gambia, warning others about the perils of journeying to Europe. \", \"Tombong Kuyateh, a returnee and YAIM member, told CNN that the association visits schools to share experiences with students who may be thinking about migrating.\", \"\\\"We share our personal stories with them. We show them examples of victims who were injured or affected during the journey to prevent them from experiencing the same,\\\" he said.\", \"The 27-year-old added that a lot of people listen to them because they have first-hand experience of what it's like to attempt that trip.\", \"Members of YAIM take to the streets of Banjul, The Gambia, during one of their public campaigns.\", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"Members of YAIM take to the streets of Banjul, The Gambia, during one of their public campaigns.\\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"Members of YAIM take to the streets of Banjul, The Gambia, during one of their public campaigns.\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200819175001-04-gambia-migration-intl-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"By crowdfunding and partnering with local and international groups for support, YAIM is also able to visit small communities across the country for campaigns against irregular migration, Kuyateh said.\", \"Miko Alazas, the IOM communications officer based in The Gambia, told CNN that the organization sometimes partners with returnee associations like YAIM to get people access to the right information, in order to make better migration-related choices.\", \"\\\"We work a lot with returnees because many of them are passionate about sharing their experiences in terms of exploitation and abuse -- so they are at the forefront of a lot of campaigns to raise awareness on irregular migration,\\\" he said.\", \"Now 29, Sallah travels around his home country, visiting radio stations and communities to talk about his harrowing experience. He believes in the power of storytelling to educate others about migration.\", \"\\\"I always tell them about the difficulties,\\\" he said. \\\"Some people lost their lives on the journey. I was part of those who ended up in detention. Every time you are on that journey, you are close to death.\\\"\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/12/us/ray-hushpuppi-alleged-money-laundering-trnd/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"He flaunted private jets and luxury cars on Instagram. Feds used his posts to link him to alleged cyber crimes \", \"description\": \"A federal affidavit alleged his extravagant lifestyle was financed through hacking schemes that stole millions of dollars from major companies in the United States and Europe. \", \"date\": \"2020-07-12T04:04:56Z\", \"author\": \"Faith Karimi\", \"text\": [\" (CNN)\", \"Ramon Abbas flaunted \", \"a lavish lifestyle of private jets, designer clothes\", \" and luxury cars. \", \"To his \", \"2.5 million Instagram followers,\", \" he went by Ray Hushpuppi, a man who boarded helicopters from his Dubai waterfront apartment and walked around with shopping bags from Gucci, Versace and Fendi.  \", \"On social media, where he posted a video of himself tossing wads of cash like confetti, he told his followers he was a real estate developer. 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But what he does for a living is going to be \\\"one of the main points of contention here,\\\" he told CNN\", \".\", \"Pissetzky called his client's arrest a kidnapping, saying Dubai handed him to the United States with \\\"no legal proceedings whatsoever.\\\" Abbas has not been formally indicted, and the government has 30 days to indict him, his attorney said Thursday.  \", \"His birthday post helped track him down\", \"Abbas made no secret of his opulent lifestyle and remarkable wealth. On Snapchat, he called himself the \\\"Billionaire Gucci Master.\\\" \", \"\\\"Started out my day having sushi down at Nobu in Monte Carlo, Monaco, then decided to book a helicopter to have ... facials at the Christian Dior spa in Paris then ended my day having champagne in Gucci,\\\" he \", \"posted on Instagram\", \". \", \"Photos of him displaying multiple models of Bentley, Ferrari, Mercedes and Rolls Royce cars included the hashtag #AllMine. 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Even his Instagram birthday celebration photos provided key information. \", \"One \", \"post displayed a birthday cake\", \" topped with a Fendi logo and a miniature image of him surrounded by tiny shopping bags. 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The paralegal had received fraudulent wire instructions after sending an email to what appeared to be a bank email address but was later identified as a \\\"spoofed\\\" email address, the affidavit said.    \", \"Abbas sent a co-conspirator an image of the wire transfer confirmation for the transaction, according to the affidavit.\", \" \", \"He\", \" \", \"and an unnamed person also conspired to launder $14.7 million from a foreign financial institution last year, according to a criminal complaint.\", \"During that alleged cyber crime, Abbas sent a co-conspirator the account information for a Romanian bank account, which he said could be used for \\\"large amounts.\\\" In other alleged schemes, he also provided Dubai bank accounts that can be used to deposit money from victims in the United States, the affidavit said. \", \"He's also accused of conspiring to try to steal $124 million from an unnamed English Premier League soccer club. But it's unclear whether the attempt was successful.\", \"FBI recorded $1.7 billion in losses from such scams\", \"Business email compromise schemes are sophisticated scams that involve a hacker redirecting business email account communications to try and intercept wire transfers. \", \"\\\"BEC schemes are one of the most difficult cyber crimes we encounter as they typically involve a coordinated group of con artists scattered around the world who have experience with computer hacking and exploiting the international financial system,\\\"  Hanna said. \", \"Last year alone, the FBI recorded $1.7 billion in losses by companies and individuals victimized through business email compromise scams, according to Paul Delacourt of the FBI field office in Los Angeles. \", \"If convicted of money laundering, Abbas faces up to 20 years in prison. 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I looked fine physically, but it started to affect me mentally. I could go a day without being able to construct sentences, and I was a research analyst at the time which meant I had to write daily reports but I couldn't,\\\" she said. \", \"After expressing her suicidal thoughts to a friend, she was encouraged to see a psychiatrist at a psychiatric hospital in Lagos, one of Nigeria's largest cities. \", \"She was diagnosed with Bipolar and post traumatic stress disorder with mild psychosis. \\\"I poured out my heart, got some tests done and eventually got a diagnosis.\\\"\", \"Creating awareness \", \"Two months after Ojeifo's diagnosis, she said she decided to turn her difficult experiences around. She started to create awareness on the far-reaching impacts of mental health in Nigeria. \", \"In April 2016, she created\", \" She Writes Woman\", \", a non-profit organization focused on providing mental health support for those who may need it in the west African nation. \", \"There is minimal mental health awareness and there are not enough mental health professionals in Nigeria. \", \"In a country of more than \", \"200 million\", \" people, there are only 250 practicing psychiatrists, according to the\", \" Association of Psychiatrists of Nigeria. \", \"Ojeifo told CNN that She Writes Woman started as a blog but she realized she could do more with it, \\\"At first, I was just using it as an outlet to share my experiences and that of other women,\\\" she explained. \", \"Eventually, it morphed into a support community for people with mental health conditions. \", \"The 28-year-old got trained as a mental health coach so that she could start a helpline to talk to people experiencing overwhelming mental health symptoms.\", \"\\\"From sharing stories on the blog and social media, She Writes Woman blew up into a helpline which was run by me for a while, and then to a support group for people in vulnerable conditions,\\\" she said. \", \"24-hour mental health helpline\", \"She Writes Woman provides a\", \" 24-hour mental health helpline\", \" for anyone within Nigeria.\", \"The helpline serves as a first point of contact for people in distress or those who just want to talk about their mental health and symptoms. \", \"\\\"People call the helpline to get what we call a first-aid treatment. On the call you don't get immediate professional counseling, what happens is you get a first response communication where someone listens to you and what you have to say,\\\" Ojeifo explained.\", \"She added that after the first responders, callers can be referred to mental health professionals for therapy or a diagnosis if needed, \\\"depending on what the issue is we que people in to either a therapist or a psychiatrist.\\\"\", \"Data on mental health in Nigeria is hard to find, but according to a 2016 report in the Annals of Nigerian Medicine journal, an estimated\", \" 20-30% \", \"of the country's population is suffering from mental disorders.\", \"And in 2017, a World Health Organization report found that Nigerians have the highest incidences of depression in Africa, with \", \"more than 7 million people \", \"in the country suffering from depression.\", \"Despite the numbers, there is an absence of \", \"effective mental health legislation\", \" setting standards for psychiatric treatment or encouraging mental health awareness in the country. \", \"In February, following deliberations by legislators to pass a proposed mental health bill, Ojeifo became the first person to testify before the Nigerian parliament on the rights of persons with mental health conditions in the country.\", \"var id = '//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js'.replace(/\\\\s+/g, '');!!document.getElementById(id) || (function makeEmbedScript(d, id) {var js,fjs;js = d.createElement('script');js.id = id;js.charset = 'utf-8';js.setAttribute('async', '');js.src = '//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js';fjs = d.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];window.WM.UserConsent.addScriptElement(js, [\\\"vendor\\\",\\\"measure-ads\\\"], fjs);}(document, id));\", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" View this post on Instagram\", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \"We are so proud of our founder @hauwa_ojeifo for the great milestone achieved today. . She graciously spoke before the Senate at the public hearing of the #mentalhealth bill earlier today on behalf of all persons living with mental health conditions. . If you were there, you'd have been so proud. Word on the street is that this is the first time a person with a mental health condition is speaking before the Senate. . Go Hauwa!!\\ud83d\\udc83\\ud83c\\udffd . Want to know more about the mental health bill? Check out our stories to make your suggestions.\", \" \", \"A post shared by \", \" SWW | Mental Health in Nigeria\", \" (@shewriteswoman) on \", \"Feb 17, 2020 at 10:46am PST\", \"\\n\", \"The bill has yet to be implemented. \", \"To close the mental health gap in Nigeria, Ojeifo's organization also offers a support group for women and girls called \", \"Safe Place\", \" in six Nigerian states. \", \"\\\"Safe Space provides a community of shared experiences for women and girls. It provides a space for women to connect and share their experiences on whatever topic, to be there for one another and understand that they are not alone in their journeys,\\\" she explained, estimating that there have been over 50 meetings of the support group since the inception of the organization.\", \"In the beginning, Ojeifo, a former investment banker,  self-funded the organization. \", \"But now, with donations and grants from organizations such as One Young World, Airtel Nigeria and Disability Rights Advocacy Fund, it is able to expand and carry out more activities in Nigeria's mental health space.\", \"In 2018, the activist received a\", \" Queen's Young Leaders Award\", \" in in recognition of her work with the 24-hour mental health helpline and Safe Space support group. \", \"Changemaker Award Winner \", \"On Tuesday, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation named Ojeifo as its\", \" Changemaker Award winner for 2020\", \" for her work with She Writes Woman. \", \"The Changemaker Award is one of the Goalkeepers Global Goals Awards pushed yearly by the foundation. It celebrates individuals who have inspired change from a position of leadership or using their personal experience. \", \"In a statement released Tuesday, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation said it recognized the activist for her work in promoting\", \" Gender Equality\", \", the fifth global goal for sustainable development prescribed by the United Nations. \", \"These Africans are among the world's 100 most influential people, according to Time magazine\", \"Ojeifo said that she was in \\\"disbelief\\\" when she first received the email alerting her that she was a recipient of the award. \", \"\\\"It was so unexpected and it came as a surprise because I was not expecting it. It's like an added validation to the work She Writes Woman does,\\\" she said. \", \"\\\"During one of the meetings with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation I asked them how I was selected because I was just so blown away. I was told that it was because I had used my personal experience to build hope for people and to drive change,\\\" she added. \", \"Through the 2020 Changemaker Award, Ojeifo is hoping to gather a network that will help amplify the work She Writes Woman does even more. \", \"\\\"The Changemaker award means I am part of this network that is dedicated to amplifying my cause and giving me visibility,\\\" she said.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/18/africa/kenyan-comic-sensation-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"This chip-eating Kenyan comic is keeping Africans entertained on social media \", \"description\": \"Kenyan teenager, Elsa Majimbo is making viral monolgues on social media \", \"date\": \"2020-08-18T11:06:18Z\", \"author\": \"Aisha Salaudeen\", \"text\": [\" (CNN)\", \"Elsa Majimbo is taking over social media by providing comic relief on Instagram and Twitter amid the \", \"Covid-19 pandemic\", \". \", \"The Kenyan comic, whose relatable monologues often go viral, films from her home in Nairobi, the country's capital city. \", \"Majimbo first went viral after posting a video in March when initial restrictions such as intermittent lockdowns, border controls, and closure of schools and restaurants were\", \" imposed by the Kenyan government\", \" to curb the spread of Covid-19.\", \"In the video, the 19-year-old talked about being in isolation at the time and wanting to be left alone.\", \"var id = '//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js'.replace(/\\\\s+/g, '');!!document.getElementById(id) || (function makeEmbedScript(d, id) {var js,fjs;js = d.createElement('script');js.id = id;js.charset = 'utf-8';js.setAttribute('async', '');js.src = '//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js';fjs = d.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];window.WM.UserConsent.addScriptElement(js, [\\\"vendor\\\",\\\"measure-ads\\\"], fjs);}(document, id));\", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" View this post on Instagram\", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \"'Sending love,sending hugs,sending kisses'. Kama Hautumi Mpesa don't waste my time\", \" \", \"A post shared by \", \" Elsa Mpho Majimbo\", \" (@majimb.o) on \", \"Mar 30, 2020 at 10:20am PDT\", \"\\n\", \"\\\"Ever since corona started, we've all been in isolation, and I like, miss no one,\\\" she said, laughing and eating potato-based crunchy chips\", \" in the video\", \". \", \"Read More\", \"\\\"Why am I missing you? There is no reason for me to miss you... do I pay your rent? Do I provide food for you? Why are you missing me?\\\" she added, still laughing. \", \"The quirky humor in the video earned Majimbo many reshares and more than 250,000 views from users across the continent, including South Africa, Kenya and Nigeria. \", \"She told CNN she did not expect the video to get as much attention as it did, but many people related to it. \", \"Gentlemen, start your wheelbarrows! Meet the Nigerian kids ingeniously remaking famous videos with household objects\", \"\\\"It was the time we had just gotten to lockdown, and everyone was telling me they missed me, and I literally like being away from people, so I thought to myself, 'Let me make a video about that,'\\\" she said. \", \"\\\"I did not expect all the attention, but it happened, and I am glad it did.\\\"\", \"Since going viral, Majimbo has made more videos combining dry humor and criticism around the subject matters she decides to film about. \", \"Many of the videos have more than 250,000 views on Instagram and an average of 50,000 views on Twitter.  \", \"Some of the videos have also been featured on American owned cable channel, \", \"Comedy Central\", \". \", \"Eating crunchy chips \", \"Majimbo often incorporates eating crunchy chips, which has become one of her signature moves, to emphasize her points in her monologues.\", \"\\\"In the first video that trended, I ate chips. A lot of people seemed to like it. There were a lot of comments asking me to do it again. So, I was like, OK whatever, and I did it again,\\\" she told CNN. \", \"The comic sensation additionally wears tiny dark sunglasses as a prop in her videos. Just like crunching on chips, the '90s shades are for emphasizing on points made in her skits, she said. \", \"var id = '//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js'.replace(/\\\\s+/g, '');!!document.getElementById(id) || (function makeEmbedScript(d, id) {var js,fjs;js = d.createElement('script');js.id = id;js.charset = 'utf-8';js.setAttribute('async', '');js.src = '//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js';fjs = d.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];window.WM.UserConsent.addScriptElement(js, [\\\"vendor\\\",\\\"measure-ads\\\"], fjs);}(document, id));\", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" View this post on Instagram\", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \"If I pay for the app I own the abs\", \" \", \"A post shared by \", \" Elsa Mpho Majimbo\", \" (@majimb.o) on \", \"Jun 11, 2020 at 10:10am PDT\", \"\\n\", \"\\\"How do I manage to be this hot? The key to being hot is Photoshop,\\\" she said in \", \"one of her videos\", \" titled \\\"If I pay for the app, I own the abs.\\\"\", \"In the video, Majimbo joked about using Photoshop to look good in pictures, \\\"Why get a six-pack in five months when you can get them in five minutes?\\\" she added, putting on the sunglasses to make her point. \", \"Her videos have received support from \", \"celebrities \", \"like actor Lupita Nyongo and current Miss Universe, Zozibini Tunzi. \", \"Majimbo, who records all her monologues using her iPhone 6, said she does not write her lines down before filming, instead she simply \\\"goes with the flow.\\\"\", \"\\\"The thing I like the most about my videos is that they come to me so easily and so naturally. I could just be sitting and feel like making a video about something, and I do it. Anything that comes to my mind, I record,\\\" she said. \", \"\\\"If I don't have any lines to record. I don't even bother, I just skip it and say no video today,\\\" she added. \", \"'I've been able to find myself in a way I hadn't before'\", \"Since becoming an internet sensation, Majimbo said she partnered with brands such as Canadian cosmetics manufacturer, MAC cosmetics, to create content aimed at promoting their products in fun ways. \", \"The teenager, who is currently a journalism student at Strathmore University in Nairobi, is thinking about a completely different career.\", \"According to her, she is taking the time to explore different and newer options, particularly in entertainment, \\\"I think the career I wanted before is not what I want now. A lot of things have changed, I've been able to find myself in a way I hadn't before.\\\" \", \"She added that she is looking into acting roles and having her own comedy show. \", \"This Nigerian comic is getting a lot of love on TikTok with the 'Don't Leave Me' challenge\", \"But regardless of the career part Majimbo takes, she is already influencing social media users in Africa. \", \"She has been given a South African name \\\"Mpho\\\" by her fans in the country. The name means \\\"gift\\\" in Tswana language spoken in Southern Africa, Botswana, Namibia and Zimbabwe. \", \"Majimbo says she will continue to make relatable and funny monologues but will not be limited to them.\", \"\\\"I don't like setting expectations for my future plans because I don't want to be limited. I am open to exploring and becoming many things in the future.\\\"\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/07/africa/africa-engineering-prize-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"A 26-year-old is first woman to win Royal Academy of Engineering's Africa Prize for innovation\", \"description\": \"A 26-year-old has become the first woman to win the prestigious Royal Academy of Engineering's Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation.\\n\\n\", \"date\": \"2020-09-07T13:54:59Z\", \"author\": \"Aisha Salaudeen\", \"text\": [\" (CNN)\", \"A 26-year-old from Ivory Coast has won the 2020 Royal Academy of Engineering's Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation.\", \"Charlette N'Guessan is the \", \"first woman to win the award\", \", which could revolutionize cyber security and help curb identity fraud on the continent. \", \"N'Guessan and her team won the \\u00a325,000 award (about $33,000) for BACE API, a digital verification system that uses Artificial Intelligence and facial recognition to verify the identities of Africans remotely and in real time.\", \"BACE API works by matching the live photo of a user to the image on their documents such as passports or ID card, N'Guessan said. \", \"For websites and online applications that have BACE API integrated in them, users will be verified via their webcam to establish their  identity. \", \"Read More\", \"\\\"For the person trying to submit their application, we ask them to switch on their camera to make sure the person behind the camera is real, and not a robot. \", \"\\\"We are able to capture the face of the person live and match their image with the one on the existing document the person submitted,\\\" she explained. \", \"BACE API verifies users identities in real time using their phone camera or webcam\", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"BACE API verifies users identities in real time using their phone camera or webcam\\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"BACE API verifies users identities in real time using their phone camera or webcam\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200904115946-restricted-03-africa-engineering-prize-intl-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"BACE API can be integrated into already existing applications and systems for identity verification and is targeted at mostly financial institutions on the continent, N'Guessan told CNN. \", \"N'Guessan and her team won the Africa Prize for Innovation in a virtual award ceremony on September 3 where the Africa Prize judges and a live audience voted in their favor, the Royal Academy of Engineering said in\", \" a statement\", \". \", \"\\\"We are very proud to have Charlette N'Guessan and her team win this award,\\\" said Rebecca Enonchong, an entrepreneur from Cameroon entrepreneur and Africa Prize judge in the statement. \", \"\\\"It is essential to have technologies like facial recognition based on African communities, and we are confident their innovative technology will have far reaching benefits for the continent.\\\"\", \"BACE API matches a user's live photo with the image on their official documents to verify their identity. \", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"BACE API matches a user&#39;s live photo with the image on their official documents to verify their identity. \\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"BACE API matches a user&#39;s live photo with the image on their official documents to verify their identity. \\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200904115800-restricted-02-africa-engineering-prize-intl-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"Curbing identity fraud\", \"N'Guessan, who is the CEO and co-founder of Ghana-based software company, \", \"BACE Group\", \", told CNN that the idea came about while she was studying at the \", \"Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology\", \" (MEST) in Accra, Ghana's capital city. \", \"While there, she worked with a team of four and it was during one of their research projects in 2018 they decided to create BACE API, and later a software company. \", \"\\\"We ... talked to tech entrepreneurs. That's when we noticed that there is a huge problem with cyber security with online services and businesses,\\\" she said.\", \"N'Guessan said their research found that many financial institutions in the west African country deal with identity fraud, estimating that they spend up to $400 million dollars yearly to identify their customers. \", \"\\\"We decided to make our contribution as software engineers and data scientists by building a solution that can be useful for this market,\\\" N'Guessan added. \", \"Before the winner was announced on September 3, N'Guessan and other entrepreneurs shortlisted for the Africa Prize received eight months of training from experts across the world and her team was paired with an AI specialist who helped with improvements to their system. \", \" An African woman in tech\", \"N'Guessan's interest in technology started at a young age. Growing up in Ivory Coast, west Africa, she was encouraged to focus on science and technology subjects by her father, a mathematics professor.  \", \"\\\"He inspired my choice for studying STEM. I was actually really good in science-related courses. After high school, I went on to study software engineering at university,\\\" she said. \", \"Now running her own technology company, she told CNN that winning the Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation has helped to boost her confidence as a CEO leading a technical team of men.\", \"The Academy was founded in 1976 and has been running the award to reward engineering innovation in Africa since 2014. \", \"Globally, the technology industry is growing, but women led startups are in short supply with\", \" only 22%\", \" founded by at least one woman, according to a report in Disrupt Africa.\", \"This 9-year-old has built more than 30 mobile games\", \"Data specific to Africa is hard to come by but some studies suggest that \", \"only 9% of startups\", \" on the continent have women founders. \", \"N'Guessan says she hopes that her achievement will motivate more women to consider careers in tech. \", \"\\\"I will be happy if people are inspired by my story, being the first woman to win the Africa Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation and by my work as a woman in tech,\\\" she said. \"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/16/africa/amnesty-mozambique-video-killing-investigation-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"Amnesty International calls for investigation into video showing execution of woman in Mozambique\", \"description\": \"Amnesty International has called for an immediate investigation into the apparent extrajudicial killing of a woman in Mozambique that was shared widely in a horrifying video on social media earlier this week. \", \"date\": \"2020-09-16T17:31:35Z\", \"author\": \"David McKenzie, Brent Swails and Vasco Cotovio\", \"text\": [\" (CNN)\", \"Amnesty International has called for an immediate investigation into the apparent extrajudicial killing of a woman in Mozambique that was shared widely in a horrifying video on social media earlier this week. \", \"In the nearly two-minute-long video, men wearing military uniforms are seen chasing down a naked woman, surrounding and verbally harassing her along a rural road. One of the men repeatedly beats her with a stick before another man shoots her at close range. \", \" \", \"She is then repeatedly shot by the men while lying on the road before one of the men shouts \\\"Stop, stop, enough, it's done.\\\" \", \" \", \"Read More\", \"The video ends as the men turn and walk away, with one of them announcing, \\\"They've killed the al-Shabaab,\\\" the local name given to the growing insurgency in the far north of the country. \", \"It has no known links to the Somali terrorist group of the same name. The uniformed man looks directly into camera and raises his two fingers before the recording stops. \", \" \", \"\\\"The horrendous video is yet another gruesome example of the gross human rights violations taking place in Cabo Delgado by the Mozambican forces,\\\" said Deprose Muchena, Amnesty International's Director for East and Southern Africa.\", \"A young boy was killed by a police stray bullet during a coronavirus curfew. Now his parents want answers\", \" \", \"In its own analysis of the video, the human rights group says that the men were wearing the uniform of the Mozambican military. Amnesty says four different gunmen shot the woman a total of 36 times with AK-47s and PKM-style machine guns. Its investigation concluded that the incident took place near Awasse in the country's northernmost province Cabo Delgado. \", \" \", \"\\\"The incident is consistent with our recent findings of appalling human rights violations and crimes under international law happening in the area,\\\" said Muchena. \", \" \", \"CNN could not independently the authenticity of the video, the date and location it was filmed, nor the identity of the gunmen. \", \" \", \"Mozambique's Minister of Interior Amade Miquidade denied the accusations of atrocities, though did not address the video specifically, on national television Tuesday, saying that insurgents frequently wear army uniforms. \", \" \", \"\\\"When they want to produce their propaganda against the security and defense forces, against the Mozambican state, they remove those signs/characters that identify them and make videos to promote an image of atrocity practiced by those who defend the people,\\\" he said. \", \"Ammonium nitrate that exploded in Beirut bought for mining, Mozambican firm says \", \" \", \"Cabo Delgado is home to a $60 billion natural gas development that is heavily guarded by Mozambican military and private security. \", \" \", \"Loosely aligned with ISIS, the insurgents have undertaken increasingly sophisticated attacks in recent months, overrunning large parts of Mocimba de Praia, a strategic port north of the regional capital Pemba in August. Unlike in previous attacks, government forces have struggled to fully retake the territory. \", \" \", \"The insurgents have been accused by the government and human rights groups of their own violent abuses -- including beheadings, looting, and indiscriminate killing of civilians. \", \" \", \"And the interior minister highlighted those alleged abuses on Tuesday. \", \" \", \"\\\"Once more, our country continues to be the object of aggression by the terrorists, namely in the province of Cabo Delgado, where they've enforced cruel, inhuman, atrocious acts against our population,\\\" said Miquidade.\", \" \", \"Security analysts and human rights workers say that insurgents operating in the area do sometimes wear Mozambican military uniforms. But the uniformed men in the video showing the woman's killing speak Portuguese, generally more common to Mozambicans from the South. \", \"CNN's David McKenzie and Brent Swails reported from Johannesburg and Vasco Cotovio reported from London.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/23/africa/china-ethiopia-test-kits-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"China's BGI wins 1.5 million coronavirus test kit order from Ethiopia\", \"description\": \"Ethiopia has agreed to purchase 1.5 million coronavirus testing kits that will be manufactured at a factory in the African country that has been newly built by China's BGI Group, China's state media agency Xinhua said late on Tuesday.\", \"date\": \"2020-09-23T11:22:20Z\", \"author\": \"Story by Reuters\", \"text\": [\"Beijing \", \"Ethiopia has agreed to purchase 1.5 million coronavirus testing kits that will be manufactured at a factory in the African country that has been newly built by China's BGI Group, China's state media agency Xinhua said late on Tuesday.\", \"The BGI factory, the first coronavirus test production facility in Ethiopia that opened earlier this month, is designed to be able to make 6-8 million tests in a year and can expand the annual capacity to up to 10 million in accordance with local demand, Xinhua reported.\", \"BGI, which makes genome sequencing and medical devices, is hoping to use its footprint in Ethiopia in expanding its supplies to other African countries, Xinhua quoted a BGI official as saying in a separate report on Wednesday.\", \"BGI did not immediately respond to a request for comment.\", \"BGI Group's unit BGI Genomics had said it supplied over 35 million coronavirus testing kits overseas and built 58 labs in 18 countries as of June 30.\", \"Read More\", \"The Ethiopia factory could be later converted to make test kits for HIV, malaria and tuberculosis once the Covid-19 pandemic ends, Xinhua said.\", \"Ethiopia, one of the countries that has the most new daily infections on average in Africa, has reported 69,709 infections and 1,108 coronavirus-related deaths since the pandemic began.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/29/africa/togo-female-prime-minister-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"Togo names first female Prime Minister\", \"description\": \"President's former chief-of-staff Victoire Tomegah Dogbe, 60, has become the first female prime minister of Togo, a tiny West African nation of about eight million people.\", \"date\": \"2020-09-29T18:09:26Z\", \"author\": \"Orji Sunday\", \"text\": [\" (CNN)\", \"Togo's President Faure Gnassingbe has appointed the country's first female prime minister.\", \"Victoire Tomegah Dogbe, 60, became the first female prime minister of the tiny West African nation of about eight million people.\", \" \", \"Dogbe, whose appointment was confirmed by President Faure Gnassingbe on Monday, replaces Komi Selom Klassou, who resigned as prime minister on Friday, a position he held since 2015.\", \" \", \"Read More\", \"Dogbe is well known and respected in Togo, having served in several positions under Gnassingbe's government in the past decade, including working as his chief-of-staff, director of the cabinet of the President of the Republic and more recently as Minister for youth and grassroots development, according to local media reports.\", \"Ethiopia appoints its first female president \", \" \", \"Prior to joining politics, she worked with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) according to information from the agency. \", \" \", \"Her appointment comes after an expected cabinet reshuffle, which was delayed by the country's fight against coronavirus pandemic, following the controversial re-election of Gnassingbe, \", \"who has ruled Togo since 2005\", \". \", \"He took power from his father who, before his death,  ruled Togo for 38 years, dating back to a 1967 coup. \", \"Despite a \", \"series of protests between 2017 -- 2019\", \" calling for an end to a single family rule in Togo, Gnassingbe forced a constitutional reform in 2019 that allowed him to run for an election which he won easily in February 2020. His current tenure runs till 2025.  \", \"Faure must go: How one Togolese woman is risking her life to end the 50-year Gnassingb\\u00e9 dynasty\", \"The 56-year-old leader has seen growing opposition, following slowed economic growth, accusations of electoral fraud, \", \"corruption and human rights violations.\", \" \", \"Dogbe's has vast experience in governance and administration which is well positioned to help the country achieve a long-expected economic boom which has eluded the country since independence in 1960.\", \" \", \"Dogbe has been deeply involved in the country's fight against youth unemployment and poverty, introducing reforms that have been praised as a local success in her country, according to \", \"Togo-First, an online publication\", \" in the country. \", \" \", \"As the parliament awaits Dogbe's policy plan, observers are keen to see what economic difference her reforms can make in a country where half its population live below the poverty line, according to a \", \"2014 report by the International Monetary Fund\", \". \"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/30/africa/zimbabwe-elephant-disease-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"Zimbabwe suspects bacterial disease behind elephant deaths\", \"description\": \"Zimbabwe suspects a bacterial disease called hemorrhagic septicemia is behind the recent deaths of more than 30 elephants but is doing further tests to make sure, the parks authority said.\", \"date\": \"2020-09-30T14:48:29Z\", \"author\": \"Story by Reuters\", \"text\": [\"Zimbabwe suspects a bacterial disease called hemorrhagic septicemia is behind the recent deaths of more than 30 elephants but is doing further tests to make sure, the parks authority said.\", \"The elephant deaths, which began in late August, come soon after hundreds of elephants died in neighboring Botswana in mysterious circumstances.\", \"Officials in Botswana were initially at a loss to explain the elephant deaths there but have since blamed toxins produced by another type of bacterium.\", \"Toxins in water blamed for deaths of hundreds of elephants in Botswana \", \"Experts say Botswana and Zimbabwe could be home to roughly half of the continent's 400,000 elephants, often targeted by poachers.\", \"Elephants in Botswana and parts of Zimbabwe are at historically high levels, but elsewhere on the continent -- especially in forested areas -- many populations are severely depleted, said Chris Thouless, head of research at Save the Elephants.\", \"Read More\", \"\\\"Higher populations equal greater risk from infectious diseases,\\\" Thouless told Reuters, adding that climate change could put pressure on elephant populations as water supplies diminish and temperatures rise, potentially increasing the probability of pathogen outbreaks.\", \"Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority Director-General Fulton Mangwanya told a parliamentary committee on Monday that so far 34 dead elephants had been counted.\", \"\\\"It is unlikely that this disease alone will have any serious overall impact on the survival of the elephant population,\\\" he said. \\\"The northwest regions of Zimbabwe have an over-abundance of elephants and this outbreak of disease is probably a manifestation of that ... particularly in the hot, dry season elephants are stressed by competition for water and food resources.\\\"\", \"Postmortems on some of the dead elephants showed inflamed livers and other organs, Mangwanya said. The elephants were found lying on their stomachs, suggesting a sudden death.\", \"Vernon Booth, a Zimbabwe-based wildlife management consultant, told Reuters it was difficult to put a number on Zimbabwe's current elephant population. He estimated it could be close to 90,000, up from 82,000 in 2014 when the last national survey was conducted, assuming that roughly 2,000-3,000 have died each year from all causes.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/01/world/covid-girls-child-marriage-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"Half a million more girls are at risk of child marriage in 2020 because of Covid-19, charity warns\", \"description\": \"The pandemic has put 500,000 more girls at risk of being forced into child marriage this year, reversing 25 years of progress that saw child marriage rates decline, according to a new report by the charity Save the Children.\", \"date\": \"2020-10-01T12:59:25Z\", \"author\": \"Tara John\", \"text\": [\"London (CNN)\", \"The pandemic has put 500,000 more girls at risk of being forced into child marriage this year, reversing \", \"25 years of progress\", \" that saw child marriage rates decline, according to a new report by the charity Save the Children.\", \"Before the global outbreak, 12 million girls married each year, now the charity warns that up to 2.5 million more girls could be at risk of \", \"child marriage\", \" over the next five years.  \", \"How saying 'I do' can help millions of girls to say 'I don't'\", \"With up to 117 million children estimated to fall into poverty in 2020, many will face pressure to work and help provide for their families.\", \"\\\"The pandemic means more families are being pushed into poverty, forcing many girls to work to support their families, to go without food, to become the main caregivers for sick family members, and to drop out of school -- with far less of a chance than boys of ever returning,\\\" Inger Ashing, CEO of Save the Children International, \", \"said in a press release\", \".\", \"The pandemic led to school closures and \\\"experience during the Ebola outbreak suggests many girls will never return\\\" to class due \\\"to increasing pressure to work, risk of child marriage, bans on pregnant girls attending school, and lost contact with education,\\\" the charity wrote.\", \"Read More\", \"A girl gets married every 2 seconds somewhere in the world\", \"This year, 191,200 girls in South Asia will be disproportionately affected by the risk of increased child marriage, the report says. It is followed by West and Central Africa, where 90,000 girls are at risk of child marriage, Latin America and the Caribbean (73,400), and Europe and Central Asia (37,200).  \", \"Girls affected by humanitarian crises, such as wars, floods and earthquakes, face the greatest risk of child marriage, the report notes. Before the pandemic, data showed child marriage was increasing among refugee populations. In Lebanon, child marriage among Syrian refugee girls rose by 7% between 2017 and 2018.\", \"\\\"Every year, around 12 million girls are married, 2 million before their 15th birthday,\\\" Ashing said. \\\"Half a million more girls are now at risk of this gender-based violence this year alone -- and these only are the ones we know about. We believe this is the tip of the iceberg.\\\"\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/16/africa/blasphemy-nigeria-boy-sentenced-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"Outrage as Nigeria sentences 13-year-old boy to 10 years in prison for blasphemy\", \"description\": \"Child rights agency UNICEF has condemned the sentencing of a 13-year-old boy to 10 years in prison for blasphemy in northern Nigeria. \", \"date\": \"2020-09-16T14:09:33Z\", \"author\": \"Stephanie Busari and Eoin McSweeney\", \"text\": [\" (CNN)\", \"Child rights agency UNICEF has condemned the sentencing of a 13-year-old boy to 10 years in prison for blasphemy in northern Nigeria. \", \"Omar Farouq was convicted in a Sharia court in Kano State in northwest Nigeria after he was accused of using foul language toward Allah in an argument with a friend. \", \"He was sentenced on August 10 by the same court that recently sentenced a studio assistant Yahaya Sharif-Aminu to death for blaspheming Prophet Mohammed, according to lawyers. \", \"Farouq's punishment is in violation of the African Charter of the Rights and Welfare of a Child and the Nigerian constitution, said his counsel Kola Alapinni, who told CNN they filed an appeal on his behalf on September 7. \", \"Farouq was tried as an adult because he has attained puberty and has full responsibility under Islamic law. \", \"Read More\", \"Alapinni told CNN he or other lawyers working on the case have not been granted access to Farouq by authorities in Kano State. \", \"He said he found out about Farouq's case by chance when working on the case of Sharif-Aminu, who was sentenced to death for blasphemy at the Kano Upper Sharia Court. \", \"\\\"We found out they were convicted on the same day, by the same judge, in the same court, for blasphemy and we found out no one was talking about Omar, so we had to move quickly to file an appeal for him,\\\" he said. \", \"\\\"Blasphemy is not recognized by Nigerian law. It is inconsistent with the constitution of Nigeria.\\\"\", \" \", \" .m-infographic--1600276717888 { background: url(//cdn.cnn.com/cnn/.e/interactive/html5-video-media/2020/09/16/20201609_kano_state_map_375px.jpg) no-repeat 0 0 transparent; margin-bottom: 30px; padding-top: 111.4513981358189%; width: 100%; -moz-background-size: cover; -o-background-size: cover; -webkit-background-size: cover; background-size: cover; } @media (min-width: 640px) { .m-infographic--1600276717888{ background-image: url(//cdn.cnn.com/cnn/.e/interactive/html5-video-media/2020/09/16/20201609_kano_state_map_780px.jpg); padding-top: 84.2948717948718%; } } @media (min-width: 1120px) { .m-infographic--1600276717888{ background-image: url(//cdn.cnn.com/cnn/.e/interactive/html5-video-media/2020/09/16/20201609_kano_state_map_780px.jpg); padding-top: 84.2948717948718%; } } \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \"The lawyer said Farouq's mother had fled to a neighboring town after mobs descended on their home following his arrest. \", \"\\\"Everyone here is scared to speak and living under fear of reprisal attacks,\\\" he said. \", \"UNICEF Wednesday issued a statement \\\"expressing deep concern\\\" about the sentencing. \", \"\\\"The sentencing of this child -- 13-year-old Omar Farouq -- to 10 years in prison with menial labour is wrong,\\\" said Peter Hawkins, UNICEF representative in Nigeria. \\\"It also negates all core underlying principles of child rights and child justice that Nigeria -- and by implication, Kano State -- has signed on to.\\\" \", \"Kano State, like most predominantly Muslim states in Nigeria, practices Sharia law alongside secular law. \", \"Islam Fast Facts\", \"CNN contacted a spokesman for the Kano State governor for comment but had not heard back before publication. \", \"UNICEF has called on the Nigerian government and the Kano State government to urgently review the case and reverse the sentence, the organization said in a statement. \", \"\\\"This case further underlines the urgent need to accelerate the enactment of the Kano State Child Protection Bill so as to ensure that all children under 18, including Omar Farouq are protected -- and that all children in Kano are treated in accordance with child rights standards,\\\" Hawkins said.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/18/africa/disney-partners-with-nollywood/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"Disney partners with Nollywood to bring American movies to English-speaking West Africa\", \"description\": \"FilmOne Entertainment is now the sole distributor of Disney titles in English speaking West Africa\", \"date\": \"2020-09-18T12:02:13Z\", \"author\": \"Aisha Salaudeen\", \"text\": [\"Lagos, Nigeria (CNN)\", \"Disney, is joining forces with a Nigerian production and distribution company to market some of the American entertainment conglomerate's new releases such as \\\"Mulan\\\" in English-speaking West Africa.\", \"The deal makes FilmOne Entertainment the sole distributors of Disney-owned films in Nigeria, Ghana, and Liberia. \", \"\\\"It is a major career highlight, that we're able to get the world's biggest movie studio as a partner,\\\" Moses Babatope, a director at FilmOne, told CNN. \", \"Bollywood and Nollywood collide in a tale of a big fat Indian-Nigerian wedding\", \"FilmOne Entertainment has been at the forefront of growing Nigeria's cinema culture and has built cinemas across the country, including IMAX screens.\", \"The firm has also distributed and produced \", \"Nigerian box office hits \", \"such as \\\"The Wedding Party,\\\" and \\\"New Money.'\\\"\", \"Read More\", \"\\\"What the deal means is that we are exclusive marketers and distributors of Disney titles in the English-speaking West African countries that have studio licensed cinemas. We will distribute the films to all those cinemas in the territory,\\\" he explained. \", \"The agreement, which commenced this month, covers titles from all Disney studio divisions including Pixar, Marvel Studios, Walt Disney Pictures, and Blue Sky pictures. \", \"\\\"With their in-depth knowledge of the region and expertise in bringing theatrical releases to fans, we are thrilled to welcome FilmOne as our distribution partner for this territory,\\\" Disney Africa's country manager, Christine Service said in a statement. \", \"Bigger opportunities\", \"Film analysts in the country say this deal may convince investors and film producers to look further into the African movie industry. \", \"\\\"This deal is huge because it means that Disney is paying attention. Their presence can open doors for movie collaborations,\\\" said Shola Thompson, a Nigeria-based film consultant.\", \"Thompson added that distributing Disney movies is a pathway to getting the best content to cinemas, which can improve the cinema-going culture in the region as well as increase their potential earnings.\", \"As a result of restrictions following the Covid-19 pandemic, many cinemas in West Africa are not operating at full capacity. But FilmOne Entertainment says it is working on improving the cinema experience as a way of encouraging people to show up when all restrictions have been lifted.\", \"Netflix partners with Nigerian filmmaker in new major deal \", \"\\\"We will let people know that they enjoy films better when they watch with other people. To say that the experience out of home is very different,\\\" Babatope said. \", \"\\\"We will communicate that cinemas are safe in our communications to audiences. We will document what the cinemas are doing regarding incorporating safety procedures,\\\" he added. \", \"Disney's deal is not the first time a multinational entertainment company is partnering with film companies in West Africa.\", \"In 2019, FilmOne Entertainment signed a deal with Chinese media giant Huahua to co-produce the first \", \"major China-Nigeria film. \", \"In the same year, French Media giant,\", \" Canal+ acquired leading Nollywood film studio, ROK film studios\", \" to create more hours of Nigerian content for its French-speaking audience.\", \"Independence key to collaboration\", \"Thompson who is also a film analyst says the growing influence of entertainment companies like Disney on the continent may create room for greater Hollywood influence in Africa, without a corresponding influence of African film content in Hollywood.\", \"\\\"We need to be a bit careful to make sure we don't lose creative control of our stories. With more multinationals looking into Africa for partnerships, we don't want to find ourselves stuck with them dictating what we start to produce,\\\" he said. \", \"\\\"At the same time, we can still be glad that they are paying attention as that means growth for our film industry,\\\" he added. \", \"As FilmOne Entertainment prepares to start distributing Disney content, Babatope says the partnership is an opportunity that can lead to future collaborations involving largely African content. \", \"\\\"It's true that a lot of the content we will be distributing are from other parts of the world but if we are able to demonstrate that we are accountable and transparent, then there will be room to attract future investments involving content from this region.\\\"\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/29/health/who-rapid-test-kits-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"WHO announces Covid-19 rapid tests for low and middle income countries\", \"description\": \"The World Health Organization has announced an agreement to make rapid Covid-19 tests available to lower and middle-income countries across the world.\", \"date\": \"2020-09-29T14:08:02Z\", \"author\": \"Amanda Watts \", \"text\": [\" (CNN)\", \"The World Health Organization has announced an agreement to make rapid Covid-19 tests available to lower and middle-income countries across the world.\", \"Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO director-general said, \\\"a substantial proportion of these rapid tests - 120 million - will be made available to low and middle-income countries. These tests provide reliable results in approximately 15 to 30 minutes, rather than hours or days, at a lower price, with less sophisticated equipment.\\\" \", \" \", \"Tedros said during a Monday news conference that these \\\"vital\\\" tests will help expand testing in remote areas, \\\"that do not have lab facilities or enough trained health workers to carry out PCR tests.\\\" \", \" \", \"Read More\", \"He added: \\\"High-quality rapid tests show us where the virus is hiding, which is key to quickly tracing and isolating contacts and breaking the chains of transmission. The tests are a critical tool for governments as they look to reopen economies and ultimately save both lives and livelihoods.\\\"\", \"Coronavirus has killed 1 million people worldwide. Experts fear the toll may double before a vaccine is ready\", \"The first orders are expected already to be placed this week and it will be rolled out in up to 20 countries in Africa starting in October. \", \"Peter Sands, executive director of the Global Fund said the tests are hugely valuable as a complement to PCR tests but warned that they are not \\\"a silver bullet.\\\" \", \" \", \"\\\"Although they're a bit less accurate - they're much faster, cheaper, and don't require a lab,\\\" he explained. \\\"Being able to deploy quality antigen RDTs, rapid diagnostic tests, will be a significant step forward in enabling countries to contain and combat Covid-19,\\\" Sands added. \", \"The PCR test is the most widespread and most accurate diagnostic test for determining whether someone is currently infected with coronavirus.  However, the tests requires specialized supplies, expensive instruments, and the expertise of trained lab technicians. which has led to shortages and a testing gap globally. \", \"Read related: \", \"https://edition.cnn.com/2020/04/28/us/coronavirus-testing-pcr-antigen-antibody/index.html\", \"This $5 rapid test is a potential game-changer in Covid testing\", \" \", \"Sands said these tests will help low and middle-income countries to \\\"close the dramatic gap in testing between rich and poor countries.\\\" \", \" \", \"\\\"Right now, high-income countries are conducting 292 tests per day per 100,000 people. For upper-middle-income countries, that number is 77. For lower-middle-income countries, 61, and from low-income countries, 14,\\\" Sands said, though he did not expand on where that data originates. \", \" \", \"Dr. John Nkengasong, director of the Africa CDC, welcomed the development as it would allow \\\"healthcare workers to quickly isolate cases and treat them while tracing their contacts to cut the transmission chain.\\\"\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/30/politics/esper-africa-trip/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"US Defense Secretary visits Africa for first time seeking to push back on Russia and China\", \"description\": \"US Secretary of Defense Mark Esper made his first visit to Africa Wednesday, a trip aimed in part at pushing back on Russian and Chinese influence in the region.\", \"date\": \"2020-09-30T16:14:06Z\", \"author\": \"Ryan Browne\", \"text\": [\"Malta (CNN)\", \"US Secretary of Defense \", \"Mark Esper \", \"made his first visit to Africa Wednesday, a trip aimed in part at pushing back on Russian and Chinese influence in the region.\", \"Esper arrived in Tunisia to meet with top officials, including the country's president, Kais Saied, and to lay a wreath and give a speech at a World War II cemetery to honor US service members who fell during the North African campaign.\", \"The trip was not announced until after Esper departed the country.\", \"Tunisia which has been touted as the sole democratic success story to come out of the 2011 \\\"Arab Spring,\\\" was designated \\\"a major-non NATO ally of the United States\\\" in 2015 and has partnered with the US on counterterrorism efforts aimed at ISIS-linked groups.\", \"As Trump refuses to commit to a peaceful transition, Pentagon stresses it will play no role in the election\", \"During a meeting at the Tunisian Defense Ministry, Esper and his counterpart signed a \\\"ten-year Roadmap of Defense Cooperation.\\\"\", \"Read More\", \"\\\"The United States will continue to deepen our alliances and partnerships across the continent, including with Tunisia, where your democratic government and sovereignty have made much of our work in the region possible,\\\" Esper said during his speech at the North Africa American cemetery and memorial in Carthage.\", \"\\\"We look forward to expanding this relationship to help Tunisia protect its maritime ports and land borders, deter terrorism, and keep the corrosive efforts of autocratic regimes out of your country,\\\" he added.\", \"The US has worked to help Tunisia secure its border with Libya which has been beset by civil war and recently deployed 40 American military advisers to the country, part of a the Army's Security Force Assistance Brigade, in order to aid Tunisia's fight against terrorist groups which have carried out high profile attacks in the country since 2011.\", \"The US is also Tunisia's largest supplier of weapons, providing nearly 50% of all arms imports from 2015 to 2019 according to the Center for International Policy and in February the Trump Administration approved the sale of four AT-6C Wolverine light attack aircraft to Tunisia, an arms package estimated to cost $325.8 million.\", \"While in North Africa, Esper is seeking to push back on Russian and Chinese activity in the region, according to defense officials.\", \"\\\"Today, our strategic competitors China and Russia continue to intimidate and coerce their neighbors while expanding their authoritarian influence worldwide, including on this continent,\\\" Esper said.\", \"The US has accused China of seeking to expand its influence in the region via predatory loans and the US military has accused Moscow of deploying Russian mercenaries and fighter jets to bolster Libyan Gen. Khalifa Haftar, the commander of the self-styled Libyan National Army, one of the belligerents in that country's civil war.\", \"China is doubling down on its territorial claims and that's causing conflict across Asia\", \"\\\"Together we continue to counter the malign, coercive, and predatory behavior of Beijing and Moscow, meant to undermine African institutions, erode national sovereignty, create instability, and exploit resources throughout the region,\\\" Esper said.\", \"Esper also visited the island republic of Malta Tuesday, becoming the first US defense secretary to visit there since President Richard Nixon's Secretary of Defense Mel Laird visited in 1970, just six years after the country became independent of the UK.\", \"While in Malta, Esper on Wednesday met with the country's Prime Minister Robert Abela and President George Vella.\", \"While Malta's military is small, totaling some 2,000 personnel, it sits in a strategic location off the coast of North Africa and possesses a significant port and was until the 1970s was the site of a major UK Royal Navy installation.\", \"A senior defense official told CNN that Esper planned to discuss maritime security with Maltese officials, a major issue given the country's proximity to shipping and smuggling lanes connecting Europe to North Africa. \"]}\n][\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/29/africa/blasphemy-trial-nigeria/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"The WhatsApp voice note that led to a death sentence\", \"description\": \"A heated conversation in a WhatsApp group has led to a death penalty sentence and a family torn apart in northern Nigeria over allegations of insulting Prophet Mohammed. \", \"date\": \"2020-09-29T09:51:49Z\", \"author\": \"Eoin McSweeney and Stephanie Busari\", \"text\": [\" (CNN)\", \"An intense argument recorded and posted in a WhatsApp group has led to a death penalty sentence and a family torn apart over allegations of insulting Prophet Mohammed, according to lawyers for the defendant. \", \"Music studio assistant Yahaya Sharif-Aminu was sentenced to death by hanging on August 10 after being convicted of blasphemy by an Islamic court in northern Nigeria. \", \"The judgment document states that Sharif-Aminu, 22, was convicted for making \\\"a blasphemous statement against Prophet Mohammed in a WhatsApp Group,\\\" which is contrary to the Kano State Sharia Penal Code and is an offence which carries the death sentence. \", \"The recording was shared widely, causing mass outrage in the highly conservative, majority Muslim, state, according to various reports. \", \"\\\"Whoever insults, defames or utters words or acts which are capable of bringing into disrespect ... such a person has committed a serious crime which is punishable by death,\\\" according to a translation of court documents provided to CNN by his lawyers. \", \"Read More\", \"Sharif-Aminu, described by his friend Kabiru Ibrahim, as \\\"kind, religious and dutiful,\\\" admitted charges of blasphemy during his trial, but said he had made a mistake. \", \"No legal representation\", \"Under Sharia law, a voluntary confession is binding, according to court papers. \", \"Sharif-Aminu's lawyers, who became involved in the case only after his conviction, say he was not allowed legal representation before or during his trial -- in contravention of Nigerian citizens' constitutional right to legal representation. \", \"Outrage as Nigeria sentences 13-year-old boy to 10 years in prison for blasphemy\", \"According to the lawyers, the Sharia court adjourned his case four times because no lawyer came forth from the Legal Aid Council to represent him, likely because of the sensitivity of the case. The Sharia court is, however, statute-bound to provide legal representation.\", \"Advocates from the \", \"Foundation for Religious Freedom\", \" (FRF), a not-for-profit aimed at protecting religious freedom in Nigeria, which is representing Sharif-Aminu, told CNN he has also not been permitted access to legal advice to prepare an appeal against his conviction. \", \"The FRF says it has lodged an appeal on his behalf in Kano's high court, a common-law court with constitutional powers. \", \"\\\"The state laws he is accused of breaking are in gross conflict with the Nigerian constitution,\\\" said his counsel, Kola Alapinni. \", \"No Muslim will condone it. People hold Prophet Mohammed higher than their parents. \", \"Islamic cleric, Bashir Aliyu Umar\", \"Kano's State Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje told clerics in Kano that he would sign Sharif-Aminu's death warrant as soon as the singer had exhausted the appeals process, local media reports say. \", \"\\\"I assure you that immediately the Supreme Court affirms the judgment, I will sign it without any hesitation,\\\" Ganduje said, according to \", \"Nigeria's Daily Post newspaper\", \". CNN contacted a spokesman for Governor Ganduje several times for comment but did not receive a response. \", \"Islamic scholar and cleric Bashir Aliyu Umar, who is not connected to the case, but said he had read the transcript of the court proceedings, told CNN, \\\"No Muslim will condone it. People hold Prophet Mohammed higher than their parents, and when things like this happen, it will lead to a breakdown of peace because of mob action and attacks against the accused.\\\" \", \"When news of Sharif-Aminu's alleged crime broke earlier this year, protesters marched to his family home and destroyed it, prompting his father to flee to a neighboring town, his lawyers told CNN. Sharif-Aminu went into hiding, according to Amnesty and his lawyers, but in March he was arrested by the Hisbah Corps, the religious police force that enforces Sharia law in Kano state. \", \"'A travesty of justice'\", \"Human rights organization Amnesty International has described Sharif-Aminu's trial as a \\\"travesty of justice,\\\" and called on Kano state authorities to quash his conviction and death sentence. \", \"\\\"There are serious concerns about the fairness of his trial and the framing of the charges against him based on his Whatsapp messages,\\\" said Amnesty's Nigeria director Osai Ojigho. \\\"Furthermore, the imposition of the death penalty following an unfair trial violates the right to life,\\\" she added. \", \"The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has also condemned Sharif-Aminu's death sentence. 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CNN&#39;s Jon Jensen has more.\\\",\\\"thumbnailURL\\\": \\\"https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/151201062200-saudi-poet-death-sentence-jenson-pkg-00015222-large-169.jpg\\\",\\\"image\\\": \\\"https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/151201062200-saudi-poet-death-sentence-jenson-pkg-00015222-large-169.jpg\\\",\\\"duration\\\": \\\"PT1M58S\\\",\\\"uploadDate\\\": \\\"2015-12-01T11:28:00Z\\\",\\\"contentUrl\\\": \\\"https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2015/12/01/saudi-poet-death-sentence-jenson-pkg.cnn\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2015/12/01/saudi-poet-death-sentence-jenson-pkg.cnn\\\",\\\"embedUrl\\\": \\\"https://fave.api.cnn.io/v1/fav/?video=world/2015/12/01/saudi-poet-death-sentence-jenson-pkg.cnn&customer=cnn&edition=domestic&env=prod\\\"}\", \"Poet sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia\", \" \", \"01:57\", \"In 2015 and 2016 nine men and one woman were sentenced to death by hanging for insulting the Prophet Mohammed in Kano state, according to a \", \"2019 research paper by the USCIRF\", \". The sentences were not carried out. \", \"In 2000, a Muslim man in the northern state of Zamfara had his hand amputated for stealing a cow. A year later, another man had his hand cut off after he was convicted of stealing bicycles, according to the same USCIRF research paper. \", \"A constitutional violation? \", \"In the eyes of many Nigerians, the adoption of Sharia law is a violation of the \", \"country's constitution\", \", because Article 10 guarantees religious freedom when it states that \\\"the Government of the Federation or of a State shall not adopt any religion as State Religion.\\\" \", \"\\\"This issue of blasphemy is incompatible with the Nigerian constitution,\\\" Leo Igwe, chair of the board of trustees for the Humanist Association of Nigeria, told CNN. \", \"\\\"We hope this case will help Nigeria confront the biggest constitutional challenge since independence. What should take precedence, Sharia law, or the Nigerian constitution?\\\" \", \"Governors of the northern states, where Sharia law is practiced, argue that it applies only to Muslims, and not to citizens of other faiths. The FRF says it is working on six other constitutional cases which will challenge what it sees as government interference in Nigerian citizens' right to religious freedom. \", \"US national shot dead in Pakistan courtroom during blasphemy trial\", \"One of these, on behalf of the Atheist Society of Nigeria (ASN), is against the state government of Akwa Ibom, in the country's southeast, for its involvement in the construction of an 8,500-seat worship center at its High Court. \", \"The ASN says millions of dollars in state funding have been spent on the center, which it says amounts to government interference in freedom of religion. \", \"\\\"The government has no business legislating on religions. End of story,\\\" Ebenezer Odubule, a founding member of the FRF told CNN. \", \"The FRF says it has had to put some of its other cases on hold, to focus on Sharif-Aminu's case. It is also hampered by a lack of funding to fight new cases. \"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/07/africa/human-trafficking-film-nigeria/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"New Nollywood film shines a light on human trafficking in Nigeria\", \"description\": \"\\\"Oloture,\\\" a Netflix original film, features an investigative journalist covering sex trafficking in Nigeria.\", \"date\": \"2020-10-07T13:35:16Z\", \"author\": \" By Aisha Salaudeen\", \"text\": [\"Lagos, Nigeria  (CNN)\", \"Dressed in a transparent and colorful blouse, a sex worker in Lagos, the commercial center of Nigeria jumps out the window of a room at a party to avoid having sex with a potential customer. \", \"She is seen, heels in her hand, running away from the party and eventually getting into a bus heading back to a brothel, where she lives with other sex workers.\", \"These scenes are from the Netflix original film, \\\"\", \"Oloture\", \",\\\" in which we later find out that the sex worker, also named Oloture, is a Nigerian journalist who is undercover to expose sex trafficking in the country.       \", \"var id = '//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js'.replace(/\\\\s+/g, '');!!document.getElementById(id) || (function makeEmbedScript(d, id) {var js,fjs;js = d.createElement('script');js.id = id;js.charset = 'utf-8';js.setAttribute('async', '');js.src = '//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js';fjs = d.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);}(document, id));\", \"Sometimes, stay and fight. Other times, run away and come back to fight another day. \", \"pic.twitter.com/I29c7QtbSa\", \"\\u2014 Netflix Naija (@NetflixNaija) \", \"October 4, 2020\", \"\\n\", \"\\n\", \"Every year, \", \"tens of thousands of people\", \" are trafficked from Nigeria, particularly Edo State in the nation's south, which has become one of Africa's largest departure points for irregular migration.\", \"The International Organization for Migration (IMO) estimates that \", \"91% victims trafficked from Nigeria are women\", \", and their traffickers have sexually exploited more than half of them. \", \"Read More\", \"Through \\\"Oloture,\\\" the difficult realities of these women, particularly those who are sexually exploited, come to light. It shows how they are recruited and trafficked overseas for commercial gain.\", \"Directed by award-winning Nigerian filmmaker, Kenneth Gyang, the film features Nollywood actors including Sharon Ooja, Omoni Oboli and Blossom Chukwujekwu. \", \"Mo Abudu, executive producer of \\\"Oloture,\\\" told CNN that the crime drama was inspired by the numerous cases of trafficking around the world and in Nigeria. \", \"Actors pose as sex workers on the set of Netflix original film, \\\"Oloture.\\\"\", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"Actors pose as sex workers on the set of Netflix original film, &quot;Oloture.&quot;\\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"Actors pose as sex workers on the set of Netflix original film, &quot;Oloture.&quot;\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/201007071906-restricted-04-human-trafficking-film-nigeria-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"\\\"There have been many reports around the world highlighting human trafficking and modern slavery. It has been in our faces. I dug and dug and did a bit more research, and when I came across the numbers and saw how much was made annually from human trafficking, I was totally shocked,\\\" she said. \", \"Human trafficking is a \", \"$150 billion global industry.\", \" And two-thirds of this figure is generated from sexual exploitation, according to a 2014 report by the International Labor Organization. \", \"Abudu -- who is also CEO of EbonyLife Films, which produced \\\"Oloture\\\" -- added that the film mirrored some real-life reports by journalists who had gone undercover to expose sex trafficking patterns in the country.\", \"One of them, she said, was a \", \"2014 report \", \"by journalist Tobore Ovuorie, in the Nigerian newspaper, Premium Times. \", \"\\\"Upon research, we found that many journalists had gone undercover to report on human trafficking. But the Premium Times article did spark our interest as some of it plays out in the film,\\\" Abudu said. \", \"Easy prey for traffickers\", \"Ovuorie, whose report was credited in \\\"Oloture,\\\" told CNN that women often get trafficked as a result of their need to make money abroad. \", \"Ovuorie said she met many women in the course of her reporting who wanted to get to Europe in hopes of better job opportunities that would earn them more money.\", \"UK joins forces with Nigeria to fight human trafficking\", \"\\\"People were motivated by greed, you know, the need to get rich. I spoke with the women I was supposed to be trafficked with, and many of them wanted better lives motivated by money. There was one girl who had never earned more than 50,000 naira (about $130) as salary since she graduated from university,\\\" she told CNN.\", \"Most of the women were fleeing harsh economic conditions and poverty, making them easy prey for traffickers, Ovuorie said.\", \"During Ovuorie's investigation, she said she \", \"posed as a sex worker\", \" on the streets of Lagos, looking to travel to Europe.\", \"Lead actor, Sharon Ooja, and Omowunmi Dada (right) pose on set of \\\"Oloture.\\\"\", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"Lead actor, Sharon Ooja, and Omowunmi Dada (right) pose on set of &quot;Oloture.&quot;\\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"Lead actor, Sharon Ooja, and Omowunmi Dada (right) pose on set of &quot;Oloture.&quot;\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/201007072041-restricted-05-human-trafficking-film-nigeria-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"Her plan worked. She was eventually linked with a trafficker who promised to get her to Italy. In partnership with ZAM Chronicles and Premium Times, she documented her experience. \", \"After a series of \\\"humiliating trainings\\\" and physical abuse, she said she was told she and other girls would receive a \", \"fake passport\", \" in preparation to be smuggled outside the country through the border in Benin in West Africa.\", \"She escaped at the border. \", \"Physical and sexual abuse \", \"Many women who are trafficked in Nigeria face sexual, physical and mental abuse, according to \", \"a 2019 report \", \"by Human Rights Watch. \", \"The rights group interviewed many women who said they were trafficked within and across national borders under life-threatening conditions as they were starved, raped and extorted. \", \"On some occasions, according to the report, they were forced into prostitution where they were made to have abortions and \", \"coerced to have sex \", \"with customers when they were sick, menstruating or pregnant. \", \"\\\"Oloture\\\" portrays some of these harsh realities as the lead character (played by Ooja) suffers sexual violence and physical abuse, including being whipped by one of her traffickers. \", \"It was important to depict the reality of sex trafficking so viewers can understand the experiences of women who are forced into the trade, Gyang, the director, told CNN.\", \"Director Kenneth Gyang works behind the scenes of film, \\\"Oloture.\\\"\", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"Director Kenneth Gyang works behind the scenes of film, &quot;Oloture.&quot;\\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"Director Kenneth Gyang works behind the scenes of film, &quot;Oloture.&quot;\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/201007071340-restricted-01-human-trafficking-film-nigeria-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"\\\"I wanted people to know that this is the reality of these ladies. People always want closure but life is not about a Hollywood ending; you can't always get a happy ending,\\\" he said.\", \"While directing the film, Gyang visited places with sex workers to get a better idea of how they live and work, he said.\", \"\\\"I actually went to places where we have sex workers in Lagos with one of the producers of the film. We wanted to really capture their lives so that we would be able to show it realistically in the movie. We talked to them, and some of the rooms we used in the movie were actually used previously by sex workers,\\\" he explained. \", \"'The most impactful movie we have ever done'\", \"The film was shot in 21 days towards the end of 2018, he said. Post-production was covered in 2019, and it was released Friday on Netflix.\", \"In just days, it has become the top watched movie in Nigeria and is among the \", \"top 10 watched movies in the world on Netflix. \", \"\\\"It's huge for me as a filmmaker that people have access to the film from all over the world. I want many people as possible to see it and have conversations about sex trafficking,\\\" Gyang said. \", \"The film is doing well in countries like Switzerland, Brazil, and South Africa because it is authentic and \\\"deals with the truth,\\\" Abudu said.\", \"\\\"EbonyLife has done seven movies. But this is the most impactful one we have ever done. And the most important,\\\" Abudu said. \", \"A smuggler's chilling warning\", \"The \", \"National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons\", \" (NAPTIP), the law enforcement agency in charge of combating human trafficking in Nigeria, wants the film to be made available to people in rural communities who don't have access to Netflix.\", \"\\\"I haven't seen the movie, but if it is trying to portray the ills and dangers of trafficking, then it's fine since that is going to raise awareness,\\\" Julie Okah-Donli, the director-general of the agency said. \", \"And while she is happy that \\\"Oloture\\\" is shining the light on human trafficking, she told CNN that women mostly targeted by traffickers may not get to watch it.\", \"\\\"The people watching it on Netflix all know what trafficking is. It needs to go to those girls in rural communities where traffickers go to bring them from. Those are the girls that the awareness should go to,\\\" Okah-Donli said. \", \"With more people partnering with NAPTIP and raising awareness of the dangers of trafficking, sex trafficking will be minimized in Nigeria, she said. \"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/23/africa/asequals-nigeria-rape-sexual-violence-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"She's on the frontline of a rape epidemic. The pandemic has made her work more dangerous\", \"description\": null, \"date\": \"2020-06-23T09:00:49Z\", \"author\": \"Bukola Adebayo\", \"text\": [\"CNN is committed to covering gender inequality wherever it occurs in the world. This story is part of As Equals, an ongoing series.\", \" \", \"Lagos, Nigeria --\", \" At the start of each day, Dr. Anita Kemi DaSilva-Ibru and her team put on gloves, facemasks and other personal protective equipment to see their patients.\", \"They're not treating people for Covid-19, but they are on the frontline of the pandemic, working at the Women at Risk International Foundation (WARIF), a rape crisis center in Lagos, Nigeria.\", \"Wearing protective gear is the new reality for crisis center workers, like DaSilva-Ibru.\", \"\\\"We change these kits each time we see a survivor as we are mindful of the risk of transmission of the virus between the survivor and us and the cross-contamination between a survivor and the next,\\\" she told CNN.\", \"US-trained gynecologist DaSilva-Ibru has spent most of her career treating hundreds of sexual violence victims but it was the growing scale of the crisis in Nigeria that prompted her to set up WARIF in 2016.\", \"Read More\", \"The clinic in Yaba, a suburb of Lagos, provides medical treatment, legal assistance therapy and space for rape victims and survivors of sexual abuse to get back on their feet.\", \"One in four Nigerian girls \", \"has been the victim of sexual violence, according to UN estimates but DaSilva-Ibru says the numbers are higher as many cases go unreported due to the stigma attached.\", \"In recent weeks, two high profile cases of gender-based violence have brought Nigerian women out onto the streets demanding change.\", \"Uwaila Vera Omozuwa, a 22-year-old microbiology student, was \", \"found half-naked in a pool of blood\", \" in a local church where she had gone to study after the Covid-19 lockdown left universities across the country shut. \", \"\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote {\\n position: relative;\\n color: #262626;\\n margin: 25px auto;\\n padding: 10px 0 14px 0;\\n width: 100%;\\n max-width: 660px;\\n border-left: 0;\\n text-align: center;\\n}\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote:before, .cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote:after {\\n position: absolute;\\n content: '';\\n width: 50px;\\n height: 2px;\\n left: 50%;\\n transform: translateX(-50%);\\n -webkit-transform: translateX(-50%);\\n background-color: #262626;\\n}\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote:before {\\n top: 0;\\n}\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote:after {\\n bottom: -2px;\\n}\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote {\\n position: relative;\\n margin: 0;\\n text-align: center;\\n font-size: 35px;\\n font-weight: 700;\\n word-spacing: -1px;\\n line-height: 1.15;\\n padding: 24px 10px 22px 10px;\\n margin-bottom: 24px;\\n}\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote-cite {\\n margin: 0;\\n text-align: center;\\n font-size: 12px;\\n font-weight: 200;\\n color: #262626;\\n line-height: 1.15;\\n padding: 0 10px;\\n display: inline-block;\\n}\\n@media only screen and (min-width: 768px)  {\\n .cnnix-golf__pullquote {\\n  margin: 50px auto;\\n }\\n .cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote {\\n  font-size: 35px;\\n }\\n} \\n\", \"\\n \", \"\\n \", \"\\\"Rape is an epidemic in this country.\\\"\", \"\\n \", \" Dr. Anita Kemi DaSilva-Ibru, Women at Risk International Foundation\", \"\\n \", \"Her family said her attackers raped her and the student died while being treated at the hospital. A few days later, another student, Barakat Bello, was allegedly raped and killed during a robbery at her home,\", \" according to human rights group Amnesty International.\", \"\\\"Rape is an epidemic in this country,\\\" DaSilva-Ibru told CNN.\", \"She says her work with survivors of sexual violence has become more critical during the outbreak, with restrictions to curb the virus from spreading fueling a surge in calls. \", \"It's a story echoed in other parts of the region, as authorities grapple with a growing number of Covid-19 cases and the impact restrictions are having on women.\", \"Related: A transport ban in Uganda means women are trapped at home with their abusers\", \"DaSilva-Ibru said she initially closed the center after authorities locked down the city in March, she had to reconsider the decision as the organization became inundated with SOS messages from sexual violence victims and their guardians.\", \"Staff operating the 24-hour helpline at the center also reported a 64% increase in calls during this period, according to DaSilva-Ibru. \", \"\\\"Our phones were ringing. Women were calling and desperately asking how we can help them, these were women in fear of their lives, as many have now been forced into quarantine with their abusers, in an already volatile environment,\\\" DaSilva-Ibru told CNN.\", \"For the center to re-open, DaSilva-Ibru said she had to source PPE, face masks and other protective gear personally and when that was not enough, the center launched an online appeal for funds from donors to buy the equipment at no cost to survivors, she said. \", \"\\\"We carry out forensic examinations on survivors and our frontline health workers who triage and examine patients are in close proximity to the survivors. As much as we need to carry out our duties, we also need to ensure our workers are adequately protected,\\\" DaSilva-Ibru told CNN.\", \"The challenges Ibru faces to keep the center open, doesn't compare to what sexual violence victims have experienced as a result of this pandemic, she said.\", \"DaSilva-Ibru recalls a woman who told staff at the center that her male friend had raped her in her home during the lockdown.\", \"Dr. Anita Kemi DaSilva-Ibru. \", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"Dr. Anita Kemi DaSilva-Ibru. \\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"Dr. Anita Kemi DaSilva-Ibru. \\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200618151608-02-dr-kemi-dasilva-ibru-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"\\\"The first day we re-opened, we attended to women who had walked many miles in spite of the mandatory lockdown to get to the center. These are women who had been terrorized in their homes,\\\" she added.\", \"\\\"She (a survivor) had repeatedly been calling (the center) to find out how she could get help. She feared she might have contracted HIV and wanted to be tested,\\\" Ibru said. \", \"Speaking to CNN, the woman, who didn't want to use her name to protect her identity, said a co-worker raped her after he came to her apartment unannounced in April. \", \"The young banker said she had previously rebuffed his attempts to visit, but on that Sunday afternoon in April, he showed up at her doorstep.\", \"\\\"He's a friend, not a stranger, so I opened the door for him. I was still asking him what was so urgent that made him leave his home. He said he wanted to check up on me and I told him he could have done that over the phone,\\\" she told CNN.\", \"But a few minutes into his visit, the conversation became uncomfortable between them.\", \"\\\"He kept coming towards me, and when I told him to stop, he put his hand over my mouth and pinned me on the floor,\\\" she said.\", \"She says he apologized after raping her and hurriedly left her house.\", \"The survivor told CNN she did not make a police complaint because she was worried about the stigma and strain that the rape might have on her parents.  \", \"A friend she confided in told her to reach out to the \", \"Lagos Domestic and Sexual Violence Response Team\", \" who put survivors in touch with treatment centers for help.\", \"After several calls to the centers on their website, she was referred to \", \"WARIF\", \".\", \"When she went to the clinic, she says staff ran some tests and placed her on Post Exposure Prophylaxis, a HIV prevention treatment for possible exposure.\", \"\\\"Sometimes I get really angry, and sometimes I feel numb,\\\" she said, reflecting on the assault.\", \"She says she was sick every night for 28 days because of the drugs.\", \"\\\"...even though the doctor prepared me for the side effect, it has not been easy,\\\" she told CNN. \", \"Gender-based violence is a problem in many countries, but the coronavirus pandemic has worsened the situation.\", \"The \", \"UN says\", \" the raft of measures deployed by governments to fight the pandemic have led to economic hardship, stress, and fear -- conditions that lead to violence against women and girls. \", \"Equality Now Regional Coordinator in Africa Judy Gitau told CNN that the wave of unemployment and school closures has put victims in a precarious situation.\", \"She recalls a similar situation in Sierra Leone \", \"during the 2014 Ebola outbreak\", \" when\", \" teenage pregnancies spiked\", \" in the country\", \"The government enforced strict stay-at-home orders that closed businesses and schools across the West African nation to curb the spread of the virus, she said.\", \"The restrictions made schoolgirls vulnerable to abuse as some were assaulted in their homes by relatives, and at the same time, a majority of girls from low-income families were coerced to exchange sex for money for food, Gitau said. \", \"\\\"Many of them wound up pregnant but the evidence became available when people were plugging back to life as they knew it as a normal society,\\\" she said.\", \"Gitau says authorities must know that perpetrators often take advantage of the strict measures to abuse victims without arousing much suspicion.\", \"As state resources are being re-focused to tackle the spread of coronavirus, law enforcement agencies should also respond quickly to reports of abuse and create shelters for victims in need of immediate rescue, she said.\", \"But placing women in shelters, especially in countries battling an outbreak, comes with the additional burden of proof, according to DaSilva-Ibru who said shelters in Lagos city are asking survivors to take coronavirus tests before they can be admitted to prevent infection in their facilities.\", \"\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote {\\n position: relative;\\n color: #262626;\\n margin: 25px auto;\\n padding: 10px 0 14px 0;\\n width: 100%;\\n max-width: 660px;\\n border-left: 0;\\n text-align: center;\\n}\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote:before, .cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote:after {\\n position: absolute;\\n content: '';\\n width: 50px;\\n height: 2px;\\n left: 50%;\\n transform: translateX(-50%);\\n -webkit-transform: translateX(-50%);\\n background-color: #262626;\\n}\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote:before {\\n top: 0;\\n}\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote:after {\\n bottom: -2px;\\n}\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote {\\n position: relative;\\n margin: 0;\\n text-align: center;\\n font-size: 35px;\\n font-weight: 700;\\n word-spacing: -1px;\\n line-height: 1.15;\\n padding: 24px 10px 22px 10px;\\n margin-bottom: 24px;\\n}\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote-cite {\\n margin: 0;\\n text-align: center;\\n font-size: 12px;\\n font-weight: 200;\\n color: #262626;\\n line-height: 1.15;\\n padding: 0 10px;\\n display: inline-block;\\n}\\n@media only screen and (min-width: 768px)  {\\n .cnnix-golf__pullquote {\\n  margin: 50px auto;\\n }\\n .cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote {\\n  font-size: 35px;\\n }\\n} \\n\", \"\\n \", \"\\n \", \"\\\"Violence against women and girls is one of the most pervasive forms of a human rights violation and should be recognized by all countries.\\\"\", \"\\n \", \" Dr. Anita Kemi DaSilva-Ibru, Women at Risk International Foundation\", \"\\n \", \"Authorities in Lagos designated gender-based violence services essential in May as it eased lockdown into curfews to allow service providers to get to work more smoothly, DaSilva-Ibru said. \", \"The police force says it has now deployed more officers to its stations across the country to respond to the \\\"increasing challenges of sexual assaults and domestic/gender-based violence linked with the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic.\\\" And last week, governors across the country resolved to declare \", \"a state of emergency on rape\", \", according to the Nigerian Governor's Forum (NGF).\", \"Related: Nigerian women are taking to the streets in protests against rape and sexual violence\", \"It's the first time federal and state authorities are coming out with a united voice to condemn gender violence, DaSilva-Ibru said and it validates the outcry of women in the country and the scale of the problem in Nigeria, she added.\", \"\\\"Violence against women and girls is one of the most pervasive forms of a human rights violation and should be recognized by all countries,\\\" DaSilva-Ibru said.\", \"\\\"In Nigeria, it has become a national crisis that needs urgent attention. I am pleased that this has been recognized.\\\"\", \"\\n  window.cnnAsEqualsConfig = window.cnnAsEqualsConfig || {};\\n  window.cnnAsEqualsConfig.theme = 'black';\\n\", \"\\n\", \"Click here for more stories from the As Equals series.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/24/africa/kenya-maasai-warriors-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"Kenya's Maasai gather for once-in-a-decade ceremony to turn warriors into elders\", \"description\": \"Thousands of Maasai men clad in red and purple shawls and with their heads coated in red ocher gathered this week for a ceremony that transforms them from Moran (warriors) to Mzee (elders).\", \"date\": \"2020-09-24T14:41:25Z\", \"author\": \"Story by Reuters \", \"text\": [\"Maparasha Hills, Kenya\", \"Thousands of Maasai men clad in red and purple shawls and with their heads coated in red ocher gathered this week for a ceremony that transforms them from Moran (warriors) to Mzee (elders).\", \"Around 15,000 men from all over Kenya and neighboring Tanzania congregated in Maparasha Hills in Kajiado County, 128 kilometers from Nairobi, to feast on an estimated 3,000 bulls and 30,000 goats and sheep.\", \"The ceremony occurs once every decade at the site, which is surrounded by hills and dotted with acacia trees.\", \"On Wednesday, the men roasted the meat on beds of coal from acacia trees, holding staffs and swords.\", \"\\\"I used to be a Moran, But after this ceremony, I now graduate to be a Mzee (elder),\\\" Stephen Seriamu Sarbabi, a 34-year-old livestock trader, told Reuters.\", \"Read More\", \"\\\"I will now be having a lot of responsibilities in the community. I will be chairing some different meetings, I will be consulted,\\\" he added.\", \"The arrival of coronavirus in March forced a postponement of the ceremony, which was meant to have been held earlier in the year.\", \"\\\"My role here in this ceremony, is to come and bless my boys to graduate, to another stage of being wazees (elders), and to give them their privileges,\\\" Moses Lepunyo ole Purkei, a farmer, community health volunteer and elder, told Reuters.\", \"During the ceremony, the men were accompanied by their wives, who also wore colorful shawls and beads around their necks and sang songs praising and encouraging the incoming group of elders.\", \"There are about 1.2 million Maasai living in Kenya, according to the government statistics office.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/20/africa/nigeria-fashion-tiffany-amber-coronavirus-ppe-spc-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"Nigerian fashion label Tiffany Amber swaps couture for PPE\", \"description\": \"Company founder Folake Akindele Coker pivoted her fashion label into PPE production after she realized that a prolonged lockdown in Nigeria would impact consumer sales.\", \"date\": \"2020-07-21T01:21:46Z\", \"author\": \"Daniel Renjifo\", \"text\": [\" (CNN)\", \"These days, things look a little different when Folake Akindele Coker gets to her office. \\\"I arrive at 9am, all geared (up) for this invisible enemy,\\\" she says. The 45-year-old designer and founder of Nigerian fashion label Tiffany Amber now starts each day with a 10-minute safety talk for her production team, \\\"who at first did not seem to understand the gravity and the potential of being infected by the (Covid-19) virus.\\\"\", \"Coker founded \", \"Tiffany Amber\", \" in 1998, and it's now considered one of Nigeria's most influential fashion and lifestyle brands.\", \"In early March, the number of colorful prints and couture runway garments that normally littered the factory floor dissipated, and the company's sewing machines began stitching hospital scrubs, gowns, stretcher sheets and non-medical face masks. Less than a month after the pandemic reached Africa, Tiffany Amber's entire factory refocused to produce personal protective equipment (PPE), something Coker notes took immense pressure to turn around. \", \"The colorful garments of the Tiffany Amber fashion line, seen here during Arise Fashion week in 2019, have since been replaced in production by PPE to help during the pandemic.\", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"The colorful garments of the Tiffany Amber fashion line, seen here during Arise Fashion week in 2019, have since been replaced in production by PPE to help during the pandemic.\\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"Tiffany Amber Nigeria fashion runway\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200715102210-tiffany-amber-fashion-nigeria-restricted-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"To make the shift, Coker says the company first had to secure more than 15 tons of raw materials including approximately 90,000 yards of fabric, 300,000 yards of elastic, and almost a million yards of thread. All of this happened, she says, right before borders closed in Nigeria and prices spiked due to the unforeseen demand for materials.\", \"See more stories from Marketplace Africa\", \"Read More\", \"As of mid-July, the World Health Organization shows Nigeria as having\", \" more than 30,000\", \" total confirmed cases of coronavirus, the second-most on the continent behind South Africa.\", \"As Covid-19 cases rose and consumer spending fell, Coker saw an opportunity for her business to stay open -- and to help out. \\\"Our expertise in garment production helped facilitate this shift to bridge the gap in the supply of medical apparel,\\\" she tells CNN.\", \"A Tiffany Amber employee sorts ready-to-ship gowns for healthcare workers.\", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"A Tiffany Amber employee sorts ready-to-ship gowns for healthcare workers.\\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"A Tiffany Amber employee sorts ready-to-ship gowns for healthcare workers.\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200626121436-tiffany-amber-ppe-production-gowns-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"The push for PPE\", \"This pivot has been a trend in the private sector worldwide, as companies around the globe have \", \"switched gears to supply the growing demand for PPE\", \".\", \"According to the World Bank, Covid-19 has pushed sub-Saharan Africa into its \", \"first recession in 25 years\", \", greatly impacting the continent's biggest revenue drivers such as energy, agriculture and manufacturing. \", \"Read more: Across Africa, the pandemic reveals both inequality and innovation\", \"Globally, the \", \"luxury market is also expected to shrink \", \"as much as 35% this year, as consumer spending sharply declines mainly due to job loss, according to consulting firm Bain and Co.\", \"Tiffany Amber employees wearing masks, and making masks.\", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"Tiffany Amber employees wearing masks, and making masks.\\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"Tiffany Amber employees wearing masks, and making masks.\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200626120613-tiffany-amber-production-ppe-employees-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"Efforts to make and source \", \"PPE in Nigeria\", \" have primarily relied on private corporations\", \" \", \"working hand in hand with suppliers. In an attempt to stay solvent, Coker says Tiffany Amber is working with partners in the financial sector to fund and distribute the PPE products.\", \"By early June, she notes, the fashion label had made approximately 500,000 cloth masks, 20,000 sets of sheets and pillowcases, 10,000 scrubs, 15,000 patient gowns and close to 5,000 surgical gowns.\", \"Alcohol ban has South African distilleries pivoting to a new product\", \"In Tiffany Amber's case, shifting to PPE production has had an unlikely silver lining: job creation. Since March, Coker says her company has actually managed to grow from 100 employees to a staff of 300.\", \"At the time of writing, Coker does not anticipate returning to regular Tiffany Amber fashion production in the near future. But even as her company responds to the current reality, she keeps planning for when that day will come. \\\"One mind is thinking about tomorrow morning and the other mind is processing the next two years,\\\" says Coker. \\\"Subconsciously, I find myself drifting away, putting together the next Tiffany Amber collection.\\\"\", \"CNN's Lamide Akintobi contributed to this report\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/16/africa/amnesty-mozambique-video-killing-investigation-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"Amnesty International calls for investigation into video showing execution of woman in Mozambique\", \"description\": \"Amnesty International has called for an immediate investigation into the apparent extrajudicial killing of a woman in Mozambique that was shared widely in a horrifying video on social media earlier this week. \", \"date\": \"2020-09-16T17:31:35Z\", \"author\": \"David McKenzie, Brent Swails and Vasco Cotovio\", \"text\": [\" (CNN)\", \"Amnesty International has called for an immediate investigation into the apparent extrajudicial killing of a woman in Mozambique that was shared widely in a horrifying video on social media earlier this week. \", \"In the nearly two-minute-long video, men wearing military uniforms are seen chasing down a naked woman, surrounding and verbally harassing her along a rural road. One of the men repeatedly beats her with a stick before another man shoots her at close range. \", \" \", \"She is then repeatedly shot by the men while lying on the road before one of the men shouts \\\"Stop, stop, enough, it's done.\\\" \", \" \", \"Read More\", \"The video ends as the men turn and walk away, with one of them announcing, \\\"They've killed the al-Shabaab,\\\" the local name given to the growing insurgency in the far north of the country. \", \"It has no known links to the Somali terrorist group of the same name. The uniformed man looks directly into camera and raises his two fingers before the recording stops. \", \" \", \"\\\"The horrendous video is yet another gruesome example of the gross human rights violations taking place in Cabo Delgado by the Mozambican forces,\\\" said Deprose Muchena, Amnesty International's Director for East and Southern Africa.\", \"A young boy was killed by a police stray bullet during a coronavirus curfew. Now his parents want answers\", \" \", \"In its own analysis of the video, the human rights group says that the men were wearing the uniform of the Mozambican military. Amnesty says four different gunmen shot the woman a total of 36 times with AK-47s and PKM-style machine guns. Its investigation concluded that the incident took place near Awasse in the country's northernmost province Cabo Delgado. \", \" \", \"\\\"The incident is consistent with our recent findings of appalling human rights violations and crimes under international law happening in the area,\\\" said Muchena. \", \" \", \"CNN could not independently the authenticity of the video, the date and location it was filmed, nor the identity of the gunmen. \", \" \", \"Mozambique's Minister of Interior Amade Miquidade denied the accusations of atrocities, though did not address the video specifically, on national television Tuesday, saying that insurgents frequently wear army uniforms. \", \" \", \"\\\"When they want to produce their propaganda against the security and defense forces, against the Mozambican state, they remove those signs/characters that identify them and make videos to promote an image of atrocity practiced by those who defend the people,\\\" he said. \", \"Ammonium nitrate that exploded in Beirut bought for mining, Mozambican firm says \", \" \", \"Cabo Delgado is home to a $60 billion natural gas development that is heavily guarded by Mozambican military and private security. \", \" \", \"Loosely aligned with ISIS, the insurgents have undertaken increasingly sophisticated attacks in recent months, overrunning large parts of Mocimba de Praia, a strategic port north of the regional capital Pemba in August. Unlike in previous attacks, government forces have struggled to fully retake the territory. \", \" \", \"The insurgents have been accused by the government and human rights groups of their own violent abuses -- including beheadings, looting, and indiscriminate killing of civilians. \", \" \", \"And the interior minister highlighted those alleged abuses on Tuesday. \", \" \", \"\\\"Once more, our country continues to be the object of aggression by the terrorists, namely in the province of Cabo Delgado, where they've enforced cruel, inhuman, atrocious acts against our population,\\\" said Miquidade.\", \" \", \"Security analysts and human rights workers say that insurgents operating in the area do sometimes wear Mozambican military uniforms. But the uniformed men in the video showing the woman's killing speak Portuguese, generally more common to Mozambicans from the South. \", \"CNN's David McKenzie and Brent Swails reported from Johannesburg and Vasco Cotovio reported from London.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/26/africa/gambia-migration-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"He almost died migrating to Europe. Now he is warning other Gambians about it\", \"description\": \"Mustapha Sallah and Youth Against Irregular Migration are raising awareness in The Gambia about the dangers of migrating to Europe through irregular means.\", \"date\": \"2020-08-26T14:16:23Z\", \"author\": \"Aisha Salaudeen\", \"text\": [\" (CNN)\", \"Mustapha Sallah was in trouble.\", \"He had hoped to be in Europe by now, pursuing his dreams of studying computer science and making a better life for himself.\", \"Instead, he was sitting in a Libyan detention center, having been detained in Tripoli by the Libyan Coast Guard.\", \"\\\"We were kept in rooms with little ventilation and no toilets. We would sit for days without taking baths. It was like hell,\\\" Sallah told CNN.\", \"He added that officers at the detention center often assaulted them by \\\"beating us for the slightest things like refusing to sleep.\\\"\", \"Read More\", \"It was January 2017, and the 25-year-old Gambian had taken a gamble, risking his life in search of a better one in Europe. But no one had warned him of the dangers ahead.\", \"If and when he got out of the detention center, he vowed to help others make a more informed decision.\", \"Migrating to Europe\", \"Sallah grew up in Serekunda, southwest of The Gambia's capital city, Banjul. He said he worked hard in school to earn a scholarship so that his mother could retire from her job selling vegetables in the market.\", \"In 2016, he thought he'd have that chance when he earned a scholarship to study computer science in Taiwan. \\\"But there was no Taiwan embassy in Gambia, so I had to go to the closest one in Abuja, Nigeria,\\\" he explained.\", \"After borrowing money from his sister to travel to Nigeria, he said he spent three months there before his visa application was denied. Three years earlier, then-president of The Gambia, Yahya Jammeh, had cut diplomatic ties with Taiwan for what he called \\\"national strategic interest.\\\"\", \"At least 58 people killed as boat carrying migrants sinks off Mauritania coast\", \"\\\"I didn't know what to do: stay in Nigeria, or go to any other African country. At the end of the day, I got the mind of migrating (to Europe) because I know several people who took the journey and made it there,\\\" Sallah explained.\", \"With a population of \", \"2.3 million people\", \", The Gambia is among the smallest countries in Africa. But despite its small size, migration is a fairly common practice and plays a key role in the country's economy.\", \"According to the International Organization for Migration (IOM), overseas remittances for an average of 90,000 Gambians who live abroad make up \", \"more than 20% of the country's GDP\", \". \", \"48% of Gambians\", \" live in poverty, and many people find themselves looking outside the country for opportunities to improve their lives. \", \"But some people leave the country without proper documentation or without crossing an official border point. Between 2014 and 2018, the IOM estimates \", \"more than 35,000 \", \"Gambians reached Europe through \\\"irregular means.\\\"\", \"\\\"There's a tradition of mobility in Gambia. It's a long history of people using migration as a means of life, and of getting their income. Many of the returnees we have worked with claim they took the journey for economic reasons,\\\" Etienne Micallef, the IOM's program manager in The Gambia told CNN.\", \"\\\"They have the perception that if they migrate with the final destination as Europe, they will get a much better income to sustain themselves and their families back home,\\\" he added. \", \"How the Kenyan consulate in Lebanon became feared by the women it was meant to help\", \"But it comes at a high risk. Globally, at least \", \"33,687 migrant deaths and disappearances\", \" were recorded between January 2014 and October 2019, according to IOM -- with nearly half occurring on the route between Northern Africa and Italy. \", \"Sallah, who said he wanted an education that would allow him to find a job to support his family, reiterated that no one warned him how incredibly dangerous the journey would be.\", \"After his visa to study in Taiwan was rejected, he said he got on a bus heading north to Agadez, a city in Niger. \\\"I didn't even know the area -- I just kept asking people around what the best or possible way to reach Niger was.\\\"\", \"From there, he managed to travel to Libya. \\\"You have to pay smugglers who drive pickup trucks to put you at the back of their trucks to get to Libya and then to Europe. I spent a month with my cousin in Libya before heading in another pickup truck for Tripoli,\\\" he told CNN.\", \"His journey to Tripoli was treacherous, he said, telling CNN he was detained and extorted multiple times by armed bandits. \", \"Sallah said he was close to death from starvation and even witnessed a gun battle between armed bandits and smugglers: \\\"The man that was smuggling us told us that if we want to stay in Tripoli, we must get used to gunshots,\\\" he said. \", \"But it all came to an abrupt halt in January 2017, when he was arrested by the Libyan Coast Guard in Tripoli.\", \" Detention Center\", \"Libya is a primary transit point along the central Mediterranean route. People who get stuck there are often detained by the Libyan Coast Guard, responsible for patrolling coastal waters to prevent smuggling and trafficking.  \", \"Sallah said he was kept in a detention center in Tripoli with migrants from different West African countries for nearly four months under poor conditions.\", \"Migrants describe being tortured and raped on perilous journey to Libya\", \"There are\", \" 11 detention centers\", \" for migrants run by the U.N.-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) in Libya. Some \", \"2,362\", \" detainees are held at these facilities on any given day, according to the Global Detention Project. \", \"Human Rights Watch\", \" (HRW) and \", \"Amnesty International\", \" have criticized the conditions at these detention centers; both groups signed onto a statement released in April that urged EU member states and institutions to review their policy on migrants and cooperation with Libya. \", \"The policy, the statement says, has allowed for the \", \"\\\"arbitrary detention and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment\\\"\", \" of migrants and refugees.\", \"While in detention, Sallah met a fellow Gambian who suggested they set up the non-profit organization \", \"Youth Against Irregular Migration\", \" (YAIM) to warn others back home about the risks of irregular migration.\", \"\\\"I went around the detention center gathering details of all the Gambians I could find,\\\" estimating he registered 171 people to join the organization. \\\"We agreed that if we made it out of there, we would start an association to make people aware of how problematic the journey to Europe is,\\\" he said.\", \"Youth Against Irregular Migration\", \"In April 2017, as part of its mandate to return and reintegrate migrants stranded or detained in their transit countries, IOM facilitated the return of Sallah and many others within the detention center back to The Gambia. \", \"That same year, IOM received funding from the EU worth\", \" 3.9 million euros\", \" (about $4.6 million) over the course of three years, to expand its operations in The Gambia.\", \"Since then, according to Micallef, IOM has repatriated more than 5,000 people to the West African nation.\", \"He added that when returnees arrive at the airport or land border, they are met by IOM staff who arrange for temporary shelter, counseling, and medical support for those who need it.\", \"Weeks after returning to The Gambia, Sallah said he met with some members of YAIM who signed up in the detention center. \", \"\\\"We met almost every week after arriving in Gambia,\\\" he explained. \\\"It was difficult for us financially at the start but many of us had the support of our families.\\\"\", \"YAIM members speak to community members about the dangers of irregular migration.\", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"YAIM members speak to community members about the dangers of irregular migration.\\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"YAIM members speak to community members about the dangers of irregular migration.\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200819175004-03-gambia-migration-intl-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"He added that even though many of them struggled to make a living at the start and had to pick up menial jobs around town to survive, being around other members gave them a renewed sense of hope.\", \"Being safe at home, he said, was a better option than the dangerous journey to Europe.\", \"\\\"We bonded by sharing our stories with each other as a way to work through the trauma,\\\" Sallah said. \\\"We made sure to be there for each other.\\\"\", \"Community awareness\", \"Through YAIM, the returnees began campaigns around irregular migration in The Gambia, warning others about the perils of journeying to Europe. \", \"Tombong Kuyateh, a returnee and YAIM member, told CNN that the association visits schools to share experiences with students who may be thinking about migrating.\", \"\\\"We share our personal stories with them. We show them examples of victims who were injured or affected during the journey to prevent them from experiencing the same,\\\" he said.\", \"The 27-year-old added that a lot of people listen to them because they have first-hand experience of what it's like to attempt that trip.\", \"Members of YAIM take to the streets of Banjul, The Gambia, during one of their public campaigns.\", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"Members of YAIM take to the streets of Banjul, The Gambia, during one of their public campaigns.\\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"Members of YAIM take to the streets of Banjul, The Gambia, during one of their public campaigns.\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200819175001-04-gambia-migration-intl-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"By crowdfunding and partnering with local and international groups for support, YAIM is also able to visit small communities across the country for campaigns against irregular migration, Kuyateh said.\", \"Miko Alazas, the IOM communications officer based in The Gambia, told CNN that the organization sometimes partners with returnee associations like YAIM to get people access to the right information, in order to make better migration-related choices.\", \"\\\"We work a lot with returnees because many of them are passionate about sharing their experiences in terms of exploitation and abuse -- so they are at the forefront of a lot of campaigns to raise awareness on irregular migration,\\\" he said.\", \"Now 29, Sallah travels around his home country, visiting radio stations and communities to talk about his harrowing experience. He believes in the power of storytelling to educate others about migration.\", \"\\\"I always tell them about the difficulties,\\\" he said. \\\"Some people lost their lives on the journey. I was part of those who ended up in detention. Every time you are on that journey, you are close to death.\\\"\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/12/us/ray-hushpuppi-alleged-money-laundering-trnd/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"He flaunted private jets and luxury cars on Instagram. Feds used his posts to link him to alleged cyber crimes \", \"description\": \"A federal affidavit alleged his extravagant lifestyle was financed through hacking schemes that stole millions of dollars from major companies in the United States and Europe. \", \"date\": \"2020-07-12T04:04:56Z\", \"author\": \"Faith Karimi\", \"text\": [\" (CNN)\", \"Ramon Abbas flaunted \", \"a lavish lifestyle of private jets, designer clothes\", \" and luxury cars. \", \"To his \", \"2.5 million Instagram followers,\", \" he went by Ray Hushpuppi, a man who boarded helicopters from his Dubai waterfront apartment and walked around with shopping bags from Gucci, Versace and Fendi.  \", \"On social media, where he posted a video of himself tossing wads of cash like confetti, he told his followers he was a real estate developer. But a federal affidavit alleged his extravagant lifestyle was financed through hacking schemes that\", \" stole millions of dollars \", \"from major companies in the United States and Europe. \", \"His flamboyant posts left a digital trail of evidence that investigators used to link him to the crimes, the affidavit shows. \", \"Last month, United Arab Emirates investigators swooped into his Dubai apartment, arrested him and handed him over to FBI agents, who flew him to Chicago on July 2, federal officials said. \", \"Read More\", \"In the coming weeks, he'll be transferred to Los Angeles -- where the affidavit was filed -- to face accusations of conspiring to launder hundreds of millions of dollars through cyber crime schemes.  \", \"Ramon Abbas allegedly  conspired to launder millions of dollars.\", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"Ramon Abbas allegedly  conspired to launder millions of dollars.\\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"Ramon Abbas allegedly  conspired to launder millions of dollars.\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200703180555-01-nigerian-man-charged-money-laundering-conspiracy-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"$41 million and 13 luxury cars seized  \", \"The Nigerian national lived at the exclusive Palazzo Versace in Dubai, and led a global network that used computer intrusions, business email compromise schemes and money laundering to steal hundreds of millions of dollars from companies, federal prosecutors allege. \", \"He worked with multiple co-conspirators and was arrested along with 11 others. Investigators seized nearly $41 million, 13 luxury cars worth $6.8 million, and phone and computer evidence, \", \"Dubai Police\", \" said in a statement. They uncovered email addresses of nearly 2 million possible victims on phones, computers and hard drives, Dubai authorities said. \", \"\\\"This case targets a key player in a large, transnational conspiracy who was living an opulent lifestyle in another country while allegedly providing safe havens for stolen money around the world,\\\" US Attorney Nick Hanna said in a statement. \", \"Abbas' attorney, Gal Pissetzky, declined to get into details on how his client earns his money. But what he does for a living is going to be \\\"one of the main points of contention here,\\\" he told CNN\", \".\", \"Pissetzky called his client's arrest a kidnapping, saying Dubai handed him to the United States with \\\"no legal proceedings whatsoever.\\\" Abbas has not been formally indicted, and the government has 30 days to indict him, his attorney said Thursday.  \", \"His birthday post helped track him down\", \"Abbas made no secret of his opulent lifestyle and remarkable wealth. On Snapchat, he called himself the \\\"Billionaire Gucci Master.\\\" \", \"\\\"Started out my day having sushi down at Nobu in Monte Carlo, Monaco, then decided to book a helicopter to have ... facials at the Christian Dior spa in Paris then ended my day having champagne in Gucci,\\\" he \", \"posted on Instagram\", \". \", \"Photos of him displaying multiple models of Bentley, Ferrari, Mercedes and Rolls Royce cars included the hashtag #AllMine. Others show him rubbing elbows with international sports stars and other celebrities. \", \"In the affidavit, federal officials detailed how his social media accounts provided a treasure trove of information to confirm his identity. His Instagram, for example, had an email and phone number saved for account security purposes. Federal officials got that information and linked that email and phone number to financial transactions and transfers with people the FBI believed were his co-conspirators. \", \"\\\"The email account ... also contained emails with attachments relating to wire transfers in large dollar values,\\\" the affidavit said.\", \"His Apple and Snapchat records also provided information that helped investigators confirm his identity, address and communications with other suspects. Even his Instagram birthday celebration photos provided key information. \", \"One \", \"post displayed a birthday cake\", \" topped with a Fendi logo and a miniature image of him surrounded by tiny shopping bags. Investigators used that post to verify his date of birth on a previous US visa application. \", \"Ramon Abbas told his 2.5 million Instagram followers that he's in real estate.\", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"Ramon Abbas told his 2.5 million Instagram followers that he&#39;s in real estate.\\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"Ramon Abbas told his 2.5 million Instagram followers that he&#39;s in real estate.\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200703180655-03-nigerian-man-charged-money-laundering-conspiracy-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"Companies targeted spanned two continents \", \"His alleged cyber crimes involved jaw-dropping amounts of money.\", \"Federal documents detailed how a paralegal at a New York law firm wired nearly $923,000 meant for a client's real estate refinancing to a bank account controlled by Abbas and his co-conspirators. The paralegal had received fraudulent wire instructions after sending an email to what appeared to be a bank email address but was later identified as a \\\"spoofed\\\" email address, the affidavit said.    \", \"Abbas sent a co-conspirator an image of the wire transfer confirmation for the transaction, according to the affidavit.\", \" \", \"He\", \" \", \"and an unnamed person also conspired to launder $14.7 million from a foreign financial institution last year, according to a criminal complaint.\", \"During that alleged cyber crime, Abbas sent a co-conspirator the account information for a Romanian bank account, which he said could be used for \\\"large amounts.\\\" In other alleged schemes, he also provided Dubai bank accounts that can be used to deposit money from victims in the United States, the affidavit said. \", \"He's also accused of conspiring to try to steal $124 million from an unnamed English Premier League soccer club. 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CNN&#39;s Stephanie Busari reports.\\\",\\\"thumbnailURL\\\": \\\"https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/181213143041-nigeria-suicide-prison-africa-large-169.jpg\\\",\\\"image\\\": \\\"https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/181213143041-nigeria-suicide-prison-africa-large-169.jpg\\\",\\\"duration\\\": \\\"PT3M\\\",\\\"uploadDate\\\": \\\"2018-12-31T13:03:29Z\\\",\\\"contentUrl\\\": \\\"https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2018/12/30/imprisoned-suicide-illegal-nigeria-busari-pkg.cnn\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2018/12/30/imprisoned-suicide-illegal-nigeria-busari-pkg.cnn\\\",\\\"embedUrl\\\": \\\"https://fave.api.cnn.io/v1/fav/?video=world/2018/12/30/imprisoned-suicide-illegal-nigeria-busari-pkg.cnn&customer=cnn&edition=domestic&env=prod\\\"}\", \"Locked up where suicide is still a crime\", \" \", \"02:59\", \"She added that she was sexually abused in 2014 and did not know how to express being raped by a trusted partner to the people around her. \", \"Read More\", \"Her experiences, she said, piled up till she eventually snapped and started nursing suicidal notions. \", \"\\\"Trying to explain what was going on in my head was difficult. I looked fine physically, but it started to affect me mentally. I could go a day without being able to construct sentences, and I was a research analyst at the time which meant I had to write daily reports but I couldn't,\\\" she said. \", \"After expressing her suicidal thoughts to a friend, she was encouraged to see a psychiatrist at a psychiatric hospital in Lagos, one of Nigeria's largest cities. \", \"She was diagnosed with Bipolar and post traumatic stress disorder with mild psychosis. \\\"I poured out my heart, got some tests done and eventually got a diagnosis.\\\"\", \"Creating awareness \", \"Two months after Ojeifo's diagnosis, she said she decided to turn her difficult experiences around. She started to create awareness on the far-reaching impacts of mental health in Nigeria. \", \"In April 2016, she created\", \" She Writes Woman\", \", a non-profit organization focused on providing mental health support for those who may need it in the west African nation. \", \"There is minimal mental health awareness and there are not enough mental health professionals in Nigeria. \", \"In a country of more than \", \"200 million\", \" people, there are only 250 practicing psychiatrists, according to the\", \" Association of Psychiatrists of Nigeria. \", \"Ojeifo told CNN that She Writes Woman started as a blog but she realized she could do more with it, \\\"At first, I was just using it as an outlet to share my experiences and that of other women,\\\" she explained. \", \"Eventually, it morphed into a support community for people with mental health conditions. \", \"The 28-year-old got trained as a mental health coach so that she could start a helpline to talk to people experiencing overwhelming mental health symptoms.\", \"\\\"From sharing stories on the blog and social media, She Writes Woman blew up into a helpline which was run by me for a while, and then to a support group for people in vulnerable conditions,\\\" she said. \", \"24-hour mental health helpline\", \"She Writes Woman provides a\", \" 24-hour mental health helpline\", \" for anyone within Nigeria.\", \"The helpline serves as a first point of contact for people in distress or those who just want to talk about their mental health and symptoms. \", \"\\\"People call the helpline to get what we call a first-aid treatment. On the call you don't get immediate professional counseling, what happens is you get a first response communication where someone listens to you and what you have to say,\\\" Ojeifo explained.\", \"She added that after the first responders, callers can be referred to mental health professionals for therapy or a diagnosis if needed, \\\"depending on what the issue is we que people in to either a therapist or a psychiatrist.\\\"\", \"Data on mental health in Nigeria is hard to find, but according to a 2016 report in the Annals of Nigerian Medicine journal, an estimated\", \" 20-30% \", \"of the country's population is suffering from mental disorders.\", \"And in 2017, a World Health Organization report found that Nigerians have the highest incidences of depression in Africa, with \", \"more than 7 million people \", \"in the country suffering from depression.\", \"Despite the numbers, there is an absence of \", \"effective mental health legislation\", \" setting standards for psychiatric treatment or encouraging mental health awareness in the country. \", \"In February, following deliberations by legislators to pass a proposed mental health bill, Ojeifo became the first person to testify before the Nigerian parliament on the rights of persons with mental health conditions in the country.\", \"var id = '//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js'.replace(/\\\\s+/g, '');!!document.getElementById(id) || (function makeEmbedScript(d, id) {var js,fjs;js = d.createElement('script');js.id = id;js.charset = 'utf-8';js.setAttribute('async', '');js.src = '//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js';fjs = d.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];window.WM.UserConsent.addScriptElement(js, [\\\"vendor\\\",\\\"measure-ads\\\"], fjs);}(document, id));\", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" View this post on Instagram\", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \"We are so proud of our founder @hauwa_ojeifo for the great milestone achieved today. . She graciously spoke before the Senate at the public hearing of the #mentalhealth bill earlier today on behalf of all persons living with mental health conditions. . If you were there, you'd have been so proud. Word on the street is that this is the first time a person with a mental health condition is speaking before the Senate. . Go Hauwa!!\\ud83d\\udc83\\ud83c\\udffd . Want to know more about the mental health bill? Check out our stories to make your suggestions.\", \" \", \"A post shared by \", \" SWW | Mental Health in Nigeria\", \" (@shewriteswoman) on \", \"Feb 17, 2020 at 10:46am PST\", \"\\n\", \"The bill has yet to be implemented. \", \"To close the mental health gap in Nigeria, Ojeifo's organization also offers a support group for women and girls called \", \"Safe Place\", \" in six Nigerian states. \", \"\\\"Safe Space provides a community of shared experiences for women and girls. It provides a space for women to connect and share their experiences on whatever topic, to be there for one another and understand that they are not alone in their journeys,\\\" she explained, estimating that there have been over 50 meetings of the support group since the inception of the organization.\", \"In the beginning, Ojeifo, a former investment banker,  self-funded the organization. \", \"But now, with donations and grants from organizations such as One Young World, Airtel Nigeria and Disability Rights Advocacy Fund, it is able to expand and carry out more activities in Nigeria's mental health space.\", \"In 2018, the activist received a\", \" Queen's Young Leaders Award\", \" in in recognition of her work with the 24-hour mental health helpline and Safe Space support group. \", \"Changemaker Award Winner \", \"On Tuesday, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation named Ojeifo as its\", \" Changemaker Award winner for 2020\", \" for her work with She Writes Woman. \", \"The Changemaker Award is one of the Goalkeepers Global Goals Awards pushed yearly by the foundation. It celebrates individuals who have inspired change from a position of leadership or using their personal experience. \", \"In a statement released Tuesday, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation said it recognized the activist for her work in promoting\", \" Gender Equality\", \", the fifth global goal for sustainable development prescribed by the United Nations. \", \"These Africans are among the world's 100 most influential people, according to Time magazine\", \"Ojeifo said that she was in \\\"disbelief\\\" when she first received the email alerting her that she was a recipient of the award. \", \"\\\"It was so unexpected and it came as a surprise because I was not expecting it. It's like an added validation to the work She Writes Woman does,\\\" she said. \", \"\\\"During one of the meetings with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation I asked them how I was selected because I was just so blown away. I was told that it was because I had used my personal experience to build hope for people and to drive change,\\\" she added. \", \"Through the 2020 Changemaker Award, Ojeifo is hoping to gather a network that will help amplify the work She Writes Woman does even more. \", \"\\\"The Changemaker award means I am part of this network that is dedicated to amplifying my cause and giving me visibility,\\\" she said.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/18/africa/kenyan-comic-sensation-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"This chip-eating Kenyan comic is keeping Africans entertained on social media \", \"description\": \"Kenyan teenager, Elsa Majimbo is making viral monolgues on social media \", \"date\": \"2020-08-18T11:06:18Z\", \"author\": \"Aisha Salaudeen\", \"text\": [\" (CNN)\", \"Elsa Majimbo is taking over social media by providing comic relief on Instagram and Twitter amid the \", \"Covid-19 pandemic\", \". \", \"The Kenyan comic, whose relatable monologues often go viral, films from her home in Nairobi, the country's capital city. \", \"Majimbo first went viral after posting a video in March when initial restrictions such as intermittent lockdowns, border controls, and closure of schools and restaurants were\", \" imposed by the Kenyan government\", \" to curb the spread of Covid-19.\", \"In the video, the 19-year-old talked about being in isolation at the time and wanting to be left alone.\", \"var id = '//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js'.replace(/\\\\s+/g, '');!!document.getElementById(id) || (function makeEmbedScript(d, id) {var js,fjs;js = d.createElement('script');js.id = id;js.charset = 'utf-8';js.setAttribute('async', '');js.src = '//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js';fjs = d.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];window.WM.UserConsent.addScriptElement(js, [\\\"vendor\\\",\\\"measure-ads\\\"], fjs);}(document, id));\", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" View this post on Instagram\", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \"'Sending love,sending hugs,sending kisses'. Kama Hautumi Mpesa don't waste my time\", \" \", \"A post shared by \", \" Elsa Mpho Majimbo\", \" (@majimb.o) on \", \"Mar 30, 2020 at 10:20am PDT\", \"\\n\", \"\\\"Ever since corona started, we've all been in isolation, and I like, miss no one,\\\" she said, laughing and eating potato-based crunchy chips\", \" in the video\", \". \", \"Read More\", \"\\\"Why am I missing you? There is no reason for me to miss you... do I pay your rent? Do I provide food for you? Why are you missing me?\\\" she added, still laughing. \", \"The quirky humor in the video earned Majimbo many reshares and more than 250,000 views from users across the continent, including South Africa, Kenya and Nigeria. \", \"She told CNN she did not expect the video to get as much attention as it did, but many people related to it. \", \"Gentlemen, start your wheelbarrows! Meet the Nigerian kids ingeniously remaking famous videos with household objects\", \"\\\"It was the time we had just gotten to lockdown, and everyone was telling me they missed me, and I literally like being away from people, so I thought to myself, 'Let me make a video about that,'\\\" she said. \", \"\\\"I did not expect all the attention, but it happened, and I am glad it did.\\\"\", \"Since going viral, Majimbo has made more videos combining dry humor and criticism around the subject matters she decides to film about. \", \"Many of the videos have more than 250,000 views on Instagram and an average of 50,000 views on Twitter.  \", \"Some of the videos have also been featured on American owned cable channel, \", \"Comedy Central\", \". \", \"Eating crunchy chips \", \"Majimbo often incorporates eating crunchy chips, which has become one of her signature moves, to emphasize her points in her monologues.\", \"\\\"In the first video that trended, I ate chips. A lot of people seemed to like it. There were a lot of comments asking me to do it again. So, I was like, OK whatever, and I did it again,\\\" she told CNN. \", \"The comic sensation additionally wears tiny dark sunglasses as a prop in her videos. Just like crunching on chips, the '90s shades are for emphasizing on points made in her skits, she said. \", \"var id = '//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js'.replace(/\\\\s+/g, '');!!document.getElementById(id) || (function makeEmbedScript(d, id) {var js,fjs;js = d.createElement('script');js.id = id;js.charset = 'utf-8';js.setAttribute('async', '');js.src = '//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js';fjs = d.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];window.WM.UserConsent.addScriptElement(js, [\\\"vendor\\\",\\\"measure-ads\\\"], fjs);}(document, id));\", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" View this post on Instagram\", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \"If I pay for the app I own the abs\", \" \", \"A post shared by \", \" Elsa Mpho Majimbo\", \" (@majimb.o) on \", \"Jun 11, 2020 at 10:10am PDT\", \"\\n\", \"\\\"How do I manage to be this hot? The key to being hot is Photoshop,\\\" she said in \", \"one of her videos\", \" titled \\\"If I pay for the app, I own the abs.\\\"\", \"In the video, Majimbo joked about using Photoshop to look good in pictures, \\\"Why get a six-pack in five months when you can get them in five minutes?\\\" she added, putting on the sunglasses to make her point. \", \"Her videos have received support from \", \"celebrities \", \"like actor Lupita Nyongo and current Miss Universe, Zozibini Tunzi. \", \"Majimbo, who records all her monologues using her iPhone 6, said she does not write her lines down before filming, instead she simply \\\"goes with the flow.\\\"\", \"\\\"The thing I like the most about my videos is that they come to me so easily and so naturally. I could just be sitting and feel like making a video about something, and I do it. Anything that comes to my mind, I record,\\\" she said. \", \"\\\"If I don't have any lines to record. I don't even bother, I just skip it and say no video today,\\\" she added. \", \"'I've been able to find myself in a way I hadn't before'\", \"Since becoming an internet sensation, Majimbo said she partnered with brands such as Canadian cosmetics manufacturer, MAC cosmetics, to create content aimed at promoting their products in fun ways. \", \"The teenager, who is currently a journalism student at Strathmore University in Nairobi, is thinking about a completely different career.\", \"According to her, she is taking the time to explore different and newer options, particularly in entertainment, \\\"I think the career I wanted before is not what I want now. A lot of things have changed, I've been able to find myself in a way I hadn't before.\\\" \", \"She added that she is looking into acting roles and having her own comedy show. \", \"This Nigerian comic is getting a lot of love on TikTok with the 'Don't Leave Me' challenge\", \"But regardless of the career part Majimbo takes, she is already influencing social media users in Africa. \", \"She has been given a South African name \\\"Mpho\\\" by her fans in the country. The name means \\\"gift\\\" in Tswana language spoken in Southern Africa, Botswana, Namibia and Zimbabwe. \", \"Majimbo says she will continue to make relatable and funny monologues but will not be limited to them.\", \"\\\"I don't like setting expectations for my future plans because I don't want to be limited. I am open to exploring and becoming many things in the future.\\\"\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/07/africa/africa-engineering-prize-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"A 26-year-old is first woman to win Royal Academy of Engineering's Africa Prize for innovation\", \"description\": \"A 26-year-old has become the first woman to win the prestigious Royal Academy of Engineering's Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation.\\n\\n\", \"date\": \"2020-09-07T13:54:59Z\", \"author\": \"Aisha Salaudeen\", \"text\": [\" (CNN)\", \"A 26-year-old from Ivory Coast has won the 2020 Royal Academy of Engineering's Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation.\", \"Charlette N'Guessan is the \", \"first woman to win the award\", \", which could revolutionize cyber security and help curb identity fraud on the continent. \", \"N'Guessan and her team won the \\u00a325,000 award (about $33,000) for BACE API, a digital verification system that uses Artificial Intelligence and facial recognition to verify the identities of Africans remotely and in real time.\", \"BACE API works by matching the live photo of a user to the image on their documents such as passports or ID card, N'Guessan said. \", \"For websites and online applications that have BACE API integrated in them, users will be verified via their webcam to establish their  identity. \", \"Read More\", \"\\\"For the person trying to submit their application, we ask them to switch on their camera to make sure the person behind the camera is real, and not a robot. \", \"\\\"We are able to capture the face of the person live and match their image with the one on the existing document the person submitted,\\\" she explained. \", \"BACE API verifies users identities in real time using their phone camera or webcam\", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"BACE API verifies users identities in real time using their phone camera or webcam\\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"BACE API verifies users identities in real time using their phone camera or webcam\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200904115946-restricted-03-africa-engineering-prize-intl-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"BACE API can be integrated into already existing applications and systems for identity verification and is targeted at mostly financial institutions on the continent, N'Guessan told CNN. \", \"N'Guessan and her team won the Africa Prize for Innovation in a virtual award ceremony on September 3 where the Africa Prize judges and a live audience voted in their favor, the Royal Academy of Engineering said in\", \" a statement\", \". \", \"\\\"We are very proud to have Charlette N'Guessan and her team win this award,\\\" said Rebecca Enonchong, an entrepreneur from Cameroon entrepreneur and Africa Prize judge in the statement. \", \"\\\"It is essential to have technologies like facial recognition based on African communities, and we are confident their innovative technology will have far reaching benefits for the continent.\\\"\", \"BACE API matches a user's live photo with the image on their official documents to verify their identity. \", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"BACE API matches a user&#39;s live photo with the image on their official documents to verify their identity. \\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"BACE API matches a user&#39;s live photo with the image on their official documents to verify their identity. \\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200904115800-restricted-02-africa-engineering-prize-intl-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"Curbing identity fraud\", \"N'Guessan, who is the CEO and co-founder of Ghana-based software company, \", \"BACE Group\", \", told CNN that the idea came about while she was studying at the \", \"Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology\", \" (MEST) in Accra, Ghana's capital city. \", \"While there, she worked with a team of four and it was during one of their research projects in 2018 they decided to create BACE API, and later a software company. \", \"\\\"We ... talked to tech entrepreneurs. That's when we noticed that there is a huge problem with cyber security with online services and businesses,\\\" she said.\", \"N'Guessan said their research found that many financial institutions in the west African country deal with identity fraud, estimating that they spend up to $400 million dollars yearly to identify their customers. \", \"\\\"We decided to make our contribution as software engineers and data scientists by building a solution that can be useful for this market,\\\" N'Guessan added. \", \"Before the winner was announced on September 3, N'Guessan and other entrepreneurs shortlisted for the Africa Prize received eight months of training from experts across the world and her team was paired with an AI specialist who helped with improvements to their system. \", \" An African woman in tech\", \"N'Guessan's interest in technology started at a young age. Growing up in Ivory Coast, west Africa, she was encouraged to focus on science and technology subjects by her father, a mathematics professor.  \", \"\\\"He inspired my choice for studying STEM. I was actually really good in science-related courses. After high school, I went on to study software engineering at university,\\\" she said. \", \"Now running her own technology company, she told CNN that winning the Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation has helped to boost her confidence as a CEO leading a technical team of men.\", \"The Academy was founded in 1976 and has been running the award to reward engineering innovation in Africa since 2014. \", \"Globally, the technology industry is growing, but women led startups are in short supply with\", \" only 22%\", \" founded by at least one woman, according to a report in Disrupt Africa.\", \"This 9-year-old has built more than 30 mobile games\", \"Data specific to Africa is hard to come by but some studies suggest that \", \"only 9% of startups\", \" on the continent have women founders. \", \"N'Guessan says she hopes that her achievement will motivate more women to consider careers in tech. \", \"\\\"I will be happy if people are inspired by my story, being the first woman to win the Africa Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation and by my work as a woman in tech,\\\" she said. \"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/16/africa/blasphemy-nigeria-boy-sentenced-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"Outrage as Nigeria sentences 13-year-old boy to 10 years in prison for blasphemy\", \"description\": \"Child rights agency UNICEF has condemned the sentencing of a 13-year-old boy to 10 years in prison for blasphemy in northern Nigeria. \", \"date\": \"2020-09-16T14:09:33Z\", \"author\": \"Stephanie Busari and Eoin McSweeney\", \"text\": [\" (CNN)\", \"Child rights agency UNICEF has condemned the sentencing of a 13-year-old boy to 10 years in prison for blasphemy in northern Nigeria. \", \"Omar Farouq was convicted in a Sharia court in Kano State in northwest Nigeria after he was accused of using foul language toward Allah in an argument with a friend. \", \"He was sentenced on August 10 by the same court that recently sentenced a studio assistant Yahaya Sharif-Aminu to death for blaspheming Prophet Mohammed, according to lawyers. \", \"Farouq's punishment is in violation of the African Charter of the Rights and Welfare of a Child and the Nigerian constitution, said his counsel Kola Alapinni, who told CNN they filed an appeal on his behalf on September 7. \", \"Farouq was tried as an adult because he has attained puberty and has full responsibility under Islamic law. \", \"Read More\", \"Alapinni told CNN he or other lawyers working on the case have not been granted access to Farouq by authorities in Kano State. \", \"He said he found out about Farouq's case by chance when working on the case of Sharif-Aminu, who was sentenced to death for blasphemy at the Kano Upper Sharia Court. \", \"\\\"We found out they were convicted on the same day, by the same judge, in the same court, for blasphemy and we found out no one was talking about Omar, so we had to move quickly to file an appeal for him,\\\" he said. \", \"\\\"Blasphemy is not recognized by Nigerian law. It is inconsistent with the constitution of Nigeria.\\\"\", \" \", \" .m-infographic--1600276717888 { background: url(//cdn.cnn.com/cnn/.e/interactive/html5-video-media/2020/09/16/20201609_kano_state_map_375px.jpg) no-repeat 0 0 transparent; margin-bottom: 30px; padding-top: 111.4513981358189%; width: 100%; -moz-background-size: cover; -o-background-size: cover; -webkit-background-size: cover; background-size: cover; } @media (min-width: 640px) { .m-infographic--1600276717888{ background-image: url(//cdn.cnn.com/cnn/.e/interactive/html5-video-media/2020/09/16/20201609_kano_state_map_780px.jpg); padding-top: 84.2948717948718%; } } @media (min-width: 1120px) { .m-infographic--1600276717888{ background-image: url(//cdn.cnn.com/cnn/.e/interactive/html5-video-media/2020/09/16/20201609_kano_state_map_780px.jpg); padding-top: 84.2948717948718%; } } \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \"The lawyer said Farouq's mother had fled to a neighboring town after mobs descended on their home following his arrest. \", \"\\\"Everyone here is scared to speak and living under fear of reprisal attacks,\\\" he said. \", \"UNICEF Wednesday issued a statement \\\"expressing deep concern\\\" about the sentencing. \", \"\\\"The sentencing of this child -- 13-year-old Omar Farouq -- to 10 years in prison with menial labour is wrong,\\\" said Peter Hawkins, UNICEF representative in Nigeria. \\\"It also negates all core underlying principles of child rights and child justice that Nigeria -- and by implication, Kano State -- has signed on to.\\\" \", \"Kano State, like most predominantly Muslim states in Nigeria, practices Sharia law alongside secular law. \", \"Islam Fast Facts\", \"CNN contacted a spokesman for the Kano State governor for comment but had not heard back before publication. \", \"UNICEF has called on the Nigerian government and the Kano State government to urgently review the case and reverse the sentence, the organization said in a statement. \", \"\\\"This case further underlines the urgent need to accelerate the enactment of the Kano State Child Protection Bill so as to ensure that all children under 18, including Omar Farouq are protected -- and that all children in Kano are treated in accordance with child rights standards,\\\" Hawkins said.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/18/africa/disney-partners-with-nollywood/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"Disney partners with Nollywood to bring American movies to English-speaking West Africa\", \"description\": \"FilmOne Entertainment is now the sole distributor of Disney titles in English speaking West Africa\", \"date\": \"2020-09-18T12:02:13Z\", \"author\": \"Aisha Salaudeen\", \"text\": [\"Lagos, Nigeria (CNN)\", \"Disney, is joining forces with a Nigerian production and distribution company to market some of the American entertainment conglomerate's new releases such as \\\"Mulan\\\" in English-speaking West Africa.\", \"The deal makes FilmOne Entertainment the sole distributors of Disney-owned films in Nigeria, Ghana, and Liberia. \", \"\\\"It is a major career highlight, that we're able to get the world's biggest movie studio as a partner,\\\" Moses Babatope, a director at FilmOne, told CNN. \", \"Bollywood and Nollywood collide in a tale of a big fat Indian-Nigerian wedding\", \"FilmOne Entertainment has been at the forefront of growing Nigeria's cinema culture and has built cinemas across the country, including IMAX screens.\", \"The firm has also distributed and produced \", \"Nigerian box office hits \", \"such as \\\"The Wedding Party,\\\" and \\\"New Money.'\\\"\", \"Read More\", \"\\\"What the deal means is that we are exclusive marketers and distributors of Disney titles in the English-speaking West African countries that have studio licensed cinemas. We will distribute the films to all those cinemas in the territory,\\\" he explained. \", \"The agreement, which commenced this month, covers titles from all Disney studio divisions including Pixar, Marvel Studios, Walt Disney Pictures, and Blue Sky pictures. \", \"\\\"With their in-depth knowledge of the region and expertise in bringing theatrical releases to fans, we are thrilled to welcome FilmOne as our distribution partner for this territory,\\\" Disney Africa's country manager, Christine Service said in a statement. \", \"Bigger opportunities\", \"Film analysts in the country say this deal may convince investors and film producers to look further into the African movie industry. \", \"\\\"This deal is huge because it means that Disney is paying attention. Their presence can open doors for movie collaborations,\\\" said Shola Thompson, a Nigeria-based film consultant.\", \"Thompson added that distributing Disney movies is a pathway to getting the best content to cinemas, which can improve the cinema-going culture in the region as well as increase their potential earnings.\", \"As a result of restrictions following the Covid-19 pandemic, many cinemas in West Africa are not operating at full capacity. But FilmOne Entertainment says it is working on improving the cinema experience as a way of encouraging people to show up when all restrictions have been lifted.\", \"Netflix partners with Nigerian filmmaker in new major deal \", \"\\\"We will let people know that they enjoy films better when they watch with other people. To say that the experience out of home is very different,\\\" Babatope said. \", \"\\\"We will communicate that cinemas are safe in our communications to audiences. We will document what the cinemas are doing regarding incorporating safety procedures,\\\" he added. \", \"Disney's deal is not the first time a multinational entertainment company is partnering with film companies in West Africa.\", \"In 2019, FilmOne Entertainment signed a deal with Chinese media giant Huahua to co-produce the first \", \"major China-Nigeria film. \", \"In the same year, French Media giant,\", \" Canal+ acquired leading Nollywood film studio, ROK film studios\", \" to create more hours of Nigerian content for its French-speaking audience.\", \"Independence key to collaboration\", \"Thompson who is also a film analyst says the growing influence of entertainment companies like Disney on the continent may create room for greater Hollywood influence in Africa, without a corresponding influence of African film content in Hollywood.\", \"\\\"We need to be a bit careful to make sure we don't lose creative control of our stories. With more multinationals looking into Africa for partnerships, we don't want to find ourselves stuck with them dictating what we start to produce,\\\" he said. \", \"\\\"At the same time, we can still be glad that they are paying attention as that means growth for our film industry,\\\" he added. \", \"As FilmOne Entertainment prepares to start distributing Disney content, Babatope says the partnership is an opportunity that can lead to future collaborations involving largely African content. \", \"\\\"It's true that a lot of the content we will be distributing are from other parts of the world but if we are able to demonstrate that we are accountable and transparent, then there will be room to attract future investments involving content from this region.\\\"\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/23/africa/china-ethiopia-test-kits-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"China's BGI wins 1.5 million coronavirus test kit order from Ethiopia\", \"description\": \"Ethiopia has agreed to purchase 1.5 million coronavirus testing kits that will be manufactured at a factory in the African country that has been newly built by China's BGI Group, China's state media agency Xinhua said late on Tuesday.\", \"date\": \"2020-09-23T11:22:20Z\", \"author\": \"Story by Reuters\", \"text\": [\"Beijing \", \"Ethiopia has agreed to purchase 1.5 million coronavirus testing kits that will be manufactured at a factory in the African country that has been newly built by China's BGI Group, China's state media agency Xinhua said late on Tuesday.\", \"The BGI factory, the first coronavirus test production facility in Ethiopia that opened earlier this month, is designed to be able to make 6-8 million tests in a year and can expand the annual capacity to up to 10 million in accordance with local demand, Xinhua reported.\", \"BGI, which makes genome sequencing and medical devices, is hoping to use its footprint in Ethiopia in expanding its supplies to other African countries, Xinhua quoted a BGI official as saying in a separate report on Wednesday.\", \"BGI did not immediately respond to a request for comment.\", \"BGI Group's unit BGI Genomics had said it supplied over 35 million coronavirus testing kits overseas and built 58 labs in 18 countries as of June 30.\", \"Read More\", \"The Ethiopia factory could be later converted to make test kits for HIV, malaria and tuberculosis once the Covid-19 pandemic ends, Xinhua said.\", \"Ethiopia, one of the countries that has the most new daily infections on average in Africa, has reported 69,709 infections and 1,108 coronavirus-related deaths since the pandemic began.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/29/health/who-rapid-test-kits-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"WHO announces Covid-19 rapid tests for low and middle income countries\", \"description\": \"The World Health Organization has announced an agreement to make rapid Covid-19 tests available to lower and middle-income countries across the world.\", \"date\": \"2020-09-29T14:08:02Z\", \"author\": \"Amanda Watts \", \"text\": [\" (CNN)\", \"The World Health Organization has announced an agreement to make rapid Covid-19 tests available to lower and middle-income countries across the world.\", \"Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO director-general said, \\\"a substantial proportion of these rapid tests - 120 million - will be made available to low and middle-income countries. These tests provide reliable results in approximately 15 to 30 minutes, rather than hours or days, at a lower price, with less sophisticated equipment.\\\" \", \" \", \"Tedros said during a Monday news conference that these \\\"vital\\\" tests will help expand testing in remote areas, \\\"that do not have lab facilities or enough trained health workers to carry out PCR tests.\\\" \", \" \", \"Read More\", \"He added: \\\"High-quality rapid tests show us where the virus is hiding, which is key to quickly tracing and isolating contacts and breaking the chains of transmission. The tests are a critical tool for governments as they look to reopen economies and ultimately save both lives and livelihoods.\\\"\", \"Coronavirus has killed 1 million people worldwide. Experts fear the toll may double before a vaccine is ready\", \"The first orders are expected already to be placed this week and it will be rolled out in up to 20 countries in Africa starting in October. \", \"Peter Sands, executive director of the Global Fund said the tests are hugely valuable as a complement to PCR tests but warned that they are not \\\"a silver bullet.\\\" \", \" \", \"\\\"Although they're a bit less accurate - they're much faster, cheaper, and don't require a lab,\\\" he explained. \\\"Being able to deploy quality antigen RDTs, rapid diagnostic tests, will be a significant step forward in enabling countries to contain and combat Covid-19,\\\" Sands added. \", \"The PCR test is the most widespread and most accurate diagnostic test for determining whether someone is currently infected with coronavirus.  However, the tests requires specialized supplies, expensive instruments, and the expertise of trained lab technicians. which has led to shortages and a testing gap globally. \", \"Read related: \", \"https://edition.cnn.com/2020/04/28/us/coronavirus-testing-pcr-antigen-antibody/index.html\", \"This $5 rapid test is a potential game-changer in Covid testing\", \" \", \"Sands said these tests will help low and middle-income countries to \\\"close the dramatic gap in testing between rich and poor countries.\\\" \", \" \", \"\\\"Right now, high-income countries are conducting 292 tests per day per 100,000 people. For upper-middle-income countries, that number is 77. For lower-middle-income countries, 61, and from low-income countries, 14,\\\" Sands said, though he did not expand on where that data originates. \", \" \", \"Dr. John Nkengasong, director of the Africa CDC, welcomed the development as it would allow \\\"healthcare workers to quickly isolate cases and treat them while tracing their contacts to cut the transmission chain.\\\"\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/29/africa/togo-female-prime-minister-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"Togo names first female Prime Minister\", \"description\": \"President's former chief-of-staff Victoire Tomegah Dogbe, 60, has become the first female prime minister of Togo, a tiny West African nation of about eight million people.\", \"date\": \"2020-09-29T18:09:26Z\", \"author\": \"Orji Sunday\", \"text\": [\" (CNN)\", \"Togo's President Faure Gnassingbe has appointed the country's first female prime minister.\", \"Victoire Tomegah Dogbe, 60, became the first female prime minister of the tiny West African nation of about eight million people.\", \" \", \"Dogbe, whose appointment was confirmed by President Faure Gnassingbe on Monday, replaces Komi Selom Klassou, who resigned as prime minister on Friday, a position he held since 2015.\", \" \", \"Read More\", \"Dogbe is well known and respected in Togo, having served in several positions under Gnassingbe's government in the past decade, including working as his chief-of-staff, director of the cabinet of the President of the Republic and more recently as Minister for youth and grassroots development, according to local media reports.\", \"Ethiopia appoints its first female president \", \" \", \"Prior to joining politics, she worked with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) according to information from the agency. \", \" \", \"Her appointment comes after an expected cabinet reshuffle, which was delayed by the country's fight against coronavirus pandemic, following the controversial re-election of Gnassingbe, \", \"who has ruled Togo since 2005\", \". \", \"He took power from his father who, before his death,  ruled Togo for 38 years, dating back to a 1967 coup. \", \"Despite a \", \"series of protests between 2017 -- 2019\", \" calling for an end to a single family rule in Togo, Gnassingbe forced a constitutional reform in 2019 that allowed him to run for an election which he won easily in February 2020. His current tenure runs till 2025.  \", \"Faure must go: How one Togolese woman is risking her life to end the 50-year Gnassingb\\u00e9 dynasty\", \"The 56-year-old leader has seen growing opposition, following slowed economic growth, accusations of electoral fraud, \", \"corruption and human rights violations.\", \" \", \"Dogbe's has vast experience in governance and administration which is well positioned to help the country achieve a long-expected economic boom which has eluded the country since independence in 1960.\", \" \", \"Dogbe has been deeply involved in the country's fight against youth unemployment and poverty, introducing reforms that have been praised as a local success in her country, according to \", \"Togo-First, an online publication\", \" in the country. \", \" \", \"As the parliament awaits Dogbe's policy plan, observers are keen to see what economic difference her reforms can make in a country where half its population live below the poverty line, according to a \", \"2014 report by the International Monetary Fund\", \". \"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/30/africa/zimbabwe-elephant-disease-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"Zimbabwe suspects bacterial disease behind elephant deaths\", \"description\": \"Zimbabwe suspects a bacterial disease called hemorrhagic septicemia is behind the recent deaths of more than 30 elephants but is doing further tests to make sure, the parks authority said.\", \"date\": \"2020-09-30T14:48:29Z\", \"author\": \"Story by Reuters\", \"text\": [\"Zimbabwe suspects a bacterial disease called hemorrhagic septicemia is behind the recent deaths of more than 30 elephants but is doing further tests to make sure, the parks authority said.\", \"The elephant deaths, which began in late August, come soon after hundreds of elephants died in neighboring Botswana in mysterious circumstances.\", \"Officials in Botswana were initially at a loss to explain the elephant deaths there but have since blamed toxins produced by another type of bacterium.\", \"Toxins in water blamed for deaths of hundreds of elephants in Botswana \", \"Experts say Botswana and Zimbabwe could be home to roughly half of the continent's 400,000 elephants, often targeted by poachers.\", \"Elephants in Botswana and parts of Zimbabwe are at historically high levels, but elsewhere on the continent -- especially in forested areas -- many populations are severely depleted, said Chris Thouless, head of research at Save the Elephants.\", \"Read More\", \"\\\"Higher populations equal greater risk from infectious diseases,\\\" Thouless told Reuters, adding that climate change could put pressure on elephant populations as water supplies diminish and temperatures rise, potentially increasing the probability of pathogen outbreaks.\", \"Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority Director-General Fulton Mangwanya told a parliamentary committee on Monday that so far 34 dead elephants had been counted.\", \"\\\"It is unlikely that this disease alone will have any serious overall impact on the survival of the elephant population,\\\" he said. \\\"The northwest regions of Zimbabwe have an over-abundance of elephants and this outbreak of disease is probably a manifestation of that ... particularly in the hot, dry season elephants are stressed by competition for water and food resources.\\\"\", \"Postmortems on some of the dead elephants showed inflamed livers and other organs, Mangwanya said. The elephants were found lying on their stomachs, suggesting a sudden death.\", \"Vernon Booth, a Zimbabwe-based wildlife management consultant, told Reuters it was difficult to put a number on Zimbabwe's current elephant population. He estimated it could be close to 90,000, up from 82,000 in 2014 when the last national survey was conducted, assuming that roughly 2,000-3,000 have died each year from all causes.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/01/world/covid-girls-child-marriage-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"Half a million more girls are at risk of child marriage in 2020 because of Covid-19, charity warns\", \"description\": \"The pandemic has put 500,000 more girls at risk of being forced into child marriage this year, reversing 25 years of progress that saw child marriage rates decline, according to a new report by the charity Save the Children.\", \"date\": \"2020-10-01T12:59:25Z\", \"author\": \"Tara John\", \"text\": [\"London (CNN)\", \"The pandemic has put 500,000 more girls at risk of being forced into child marriage this year, reversing \", \"25 years of progress\", \" that saw child marriage rates decline, according to a new report by the charity Save the Children.\", \"Before the global outbreak, 12 million girls married each year, now the charity warns that up to 2.5 million more girls could be at risk of \", \"child marriage\", \" over the next five years.  \", \"How saying 'I do' can help millions of girls to say 'I don't'\", \"With up to 117 million children estimated to fall into poverty in 2020, many will face pressure to work and help provide for their families.\", \"\\\"The pandemic means more families are being pushed into poverty, forcing many girls to work to support their families, to go without food, to become the main caregivers for sick family members, and to drop out of school -- with far less of a chance than boys of ever returning,\\\" Inger Ashing, CEO of Save the Children International, \", \"said in a press release\", \".\", \"The pandemic led to school closures and \\\"experience during the Ebola outbreak suggests many girls will never return\\\" to class due \\\"to increasing pressure to work, risk of child marriage, bans on pregnant girls attending school, and lost contact with education,\\\" the charity wrote.\", \"Read More\", \"A girl gets married every 2 seconds somewhere in the world\", \"This year, 191,200 girls in South Asia will be disproportionately affected by the risk of increased child marriage, the report says. It is followed by West and Central Africa, where 90,000 girls are at risk of child marriage, Latin America and the Caribbean (73,400), and Europe and Central Asia (37,200).  \", \"Girls affected by humanitarian crises, such as wars, floods and earthquakes, face the greatest risk of child marriage, the report notes. Before the pandemic, data showed child marriage was increasing among refugee populations. In Lebanon, child marriage among Syrian refugee girls rose by 7% between 2017 and 2018.\", \"\\\"Every year, around 12 million girls are married, 2 million before their 15th birthday,\\\" Ashing said. \\\"Half a million more girls are now at risk of this gender-based violence this year alone -- and these only are the ones we know about. We believe this is the tip of the iceberg.\\\"\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/30/politics/esper-africa-trip/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"US Defense Secretary visits Africa for first time seeking to push back on Russia and China\", \"description\": \"US Secretary of Defense Mark Esper made his first visit to Africa Wednesday, a trip aimed in part at pushing back on Russian and Chinese influence in the region.\", \"date\": \"2020-09-30T16:14:06Z\", \"author\": \"Ryan Browne\", \"text\": [\"Malta (CNN)\", \"US Secretary of Defense \", \"Mark Esper \", \"made his first visit to Africa Wednesday, a trip aimed in part at pushing back on Russian and Chinese influence in the region.\", \"Esper arrived in Tunisia to meet with top officials, including the country's president, Kais Saied, and to lay a wreath and give a speech at a World War II cemetery to honor US service members who fell during the North African campaign.\", \"The trip was not announced until after Esper departed the country.\", \"Tunisia which has been touted as the sole democratic success story to come out of the 2011 \\\"Arab Spring,\\\" was designated \\\"a major-non NATO ally of the United States\\\" in 2015 and has partnered with the US on counterterrorism efforts aimed at ISIS-linked groups.\", \"As Trump refuses to commit to a peaceful transition, Pentagon stresses it will play no role in the election\", \"During a meeting at the Tunisian Defense Ministry, Esper and his counterpart signed a \\\"ten-year Roadmap of Defense Cooperation.\\\"\", \"Read More\", \"\\\"The United States will continue to deepen our alliances and partnerships across the continent, including with Tunisia, where your democratic government and sovereignty have made much of our work in the region possible,\\\" Esper said during his speech at the North Africa American cemetery and memorial in Carthage.\", \"\\\"We look forward to expanding this relationship to help Tunisia protect its maritime ports and land borders, deter terrorism, and keep the corrosive efforts of autocratic regimes out of your country,\\\" he added.\", \"The US has worked to help Tunisia secure its border with Libya which has been beset by civil war and recently deployed 40 American military advisers to the country, part of a the Army's Security Force Assistance Brigade, in order to aid Tunisia's fight against terrorist groups which have carried out high profile attacks in the country since 2011.\", \"The US is also Tunisia's largest supplier of weapons, providing nearly 50% of all arms imports from 2015 to 2019 according to the Center for International Policy and in February the Trump Administration approved the sale of four AT-6C Wolverine light attack aircraft to Tunisia, an arms package estimated to cost $325.8 million.\", \"While in North Africa, Esper is seeking to push back on Russian and Chinese activity in the region, according to defense officials.\", \"\\\"Today, our strategic competitors China and Russia continue to intimidate and coerce their neighbors while expanding their authoritarian influence worldwide, including on this continent,\\\" Esper said.\", \"The US has accused China of seeking to expand its influence in the region via predatory loans and the US military has accused Moscow of deploying Russian mercenaries and fighter jets to bolster Libyan Gen. Khalifa Haftar, the commander of the self-styled Libyan National Army, one of the belligerents in that country's civil war.\", \"China is doubling down on its territorial claims and that's causing conflict across Asia\", \"\\\"Together we continue to counter the malign, coercive, and predatory behavior of Beijing and Moscow, meant to undermine African institutions, erode national sovereignty, create instability, and exploit resources throughout the region,\\\" Esper said.\", \"Esper also visited the island republic of Malta Tuesday, becoming the first US defense secretary to visit there since President Richard Nixon's Secretary of Defense Mel Laird visited in 1970, just six years after the country became independent of the UK.\", \"While in Malta, Esper on Wednesday met with the country's Prime Minister Robert Abela and President George Vella.\", \"While Malta's military is small, totaling some 2,000 personnel, it sits in a strategic location off the coast of North Africa and possesses a significant port and was until the 1970s was the site of a major UK Royal Navy installation.\", \"A senior defense official told CNN that Esper planned to discuss maritime security with Maltese officials, a major issue given the country's proximity to shipping and smuggling lanes connecting Europe to North Africa. \"]}\n][\n{\"url\": \"https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-movies-colin-trevorrow-b4fb2ecbc00375b8667ce6630287add8\", \"source\": \"Associated Press\", \"title\": \"'Jurassic World' shoot suspended after COVID-19 positives\", \"description\": \"Filming on the new \\u201cJurassic World\\u201d movie at Pinewood Studios in the U.K. has been suspended for two weeks because of COVID-19 cases on set. Director Colin Trevorrow tweeted Wednesday that there... \", \"date\": \"2020-10-07T19:09:32Z\", \"author\": \"Lindsey Bahr\", \"text\": [\"Filming on the new \\u201cJurassic World\\u201d movie at Pinewood Studios in the U.K. has been suspended for two weeks because of COVID-19 cases on set. Director Colin Trevorrow tweeted Wednesday that there were \\u201ca few\\u201d positive tests for the virus. \", \"He added that the individuals tested negative shortly after, but that they would be pausing for two weeks regardless to adhere to safety protocols. \", \"A spokesperson for Universal Pictures said they were informed of the positive tests last night and that all tested negative this morning. \", \"\\u201cThe safety and well-being of our entire cast and crew is paramount,\\u201d the spokesperson added. \\u201cThose who initially tested positive are currently self-isolating, as are those who they have come into contact with.\\u201d\", \"On Tuesday, Universal said that the release of \\u201cJurassic World: Dominion\\u201d was being delayed a year to June 2022. \", \"The franchise starring Chris Pratt was one of the first major Hollywood productions to restart after pandemic-related shutdowns. The New York Times in August wrote about \", \" and a few crewmember cases in Britain and in Malta over the summer. \", \"It\\u2019s the second significant shoot to be affected by COVID-19. Last month the U.K. shoot on \\u201c \", \",\\u201d a Warner Bros. film, also halted production because of a positive case. \"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-international-news-public-health-europe-italy-77a4fdd5926da76bb94105bb4995b0c7\", \"source\": \"Associated Press\", \"title\": \"Italy imposes mask mandate outside and in as virus rebounds\", \"description\": \"ROME (AP) \\u2014 Italy imposed a nationwide outdoor mask mandate Wednesday with fines of up to 1,000 euros ($1,163) for violators, as the European country where COVID-19 first hit hard scrambles to... \", \"date\": \"2020-10-07T15:47:41Z\", \"author\": \"Nicole Winfield\", \"text\": [\"ROME (AP) \\u2014 Italy imposed a nationwide outdoor mask mandate Wednesday with fines of up to 1,000 euros ($1,163) for violators, as the European country where COVID-19 first hit hard scrambles to keep rebounding infections from spiraling out of control.\", \"The government passed the decree even though Italy\\u2019s overall per capita infection rate is among the lowest in Europe. But Premier Giuseppe Conte warned that a steady, nine-week rise in infections nationwide demanded new preventive measures to stave off economically-devastating closures and shutdowns.\", \"\\u201cWe have to be more rigorous because we want to avoid at all cost more restrictive measures for production and social activities,\\u201d Conte said.\", \"The decree was passed on the same day that Italy added 3,678 new infections and 31 deaths to its official coronavirus toll, the highest increase in new cases since the peak of the outbreak in April. Both hard-hit Lombardy and southern Campania added more than 500 cases each. \", \"Italy has over 36,000 confirmed COVID-19 deaths, the second-highest number in Europe after Britain.\", \"Even though the World Health Organization doesn\\u2019t specifically recommend masks outdoors for the general population, the trend has taken off in Italy, particularly as new clusters have been identified in southern regions that largely escaped the first wave of infection.\", \"The new mask mandate was contained in a government decree extending the state of emergency until Jan. 31. It requires residents to have masks on them at all times outdoors, and wear them unless they can guarantee that they can remain completely isolated from anyone other than family. That effectively makes them obligatory outdoors in all urban and semi-urban settings, with exemptions for eating in restaurants and bars.\", \"In addition, masks must now be worn indoors everywhere except private homes, but even at home, Conte urged Italians to keep their distances with relatives, given most new infections are occurring within families. \", \"\\u201cThe state can\\u2019t ask citizens to wear masks in their own homes,\\u201d Conte said. \\u201cBut we have a strong recommendation for all citizens: Even in our families we have to be careful.\\u201d\", \"Exceptions include for outdoor sporting activities, children under 6 and for people with health conditions that preclude wearing masks. \", \"Fines ranging from 400 to 1,000 euros ($463 to $1,163) are foreseen for violations, Italian news agency ANSA said. \", \"Italy thus is joining Spain, Turkey, North Macedonia, India and a handful of other Asian countries in imposing a nationwide, outdoor mask mandate. Spain has had such a requirement in place since mid-May and Turkey since last month. \", \"Elsewhere in Europe, such outdoor mandates are in effect in hot spot cities such as Paris, Brussels and Pristina, Kosovo. In many Asian countries, social pressure to wear masks outdoors has made binding government decrees unnecessary. The Australian state of Victoria has had one in place for weeks.\", \"Italy has one of the lowest infection rates in Europe, at 46.5 cases per 100,000 residents over the last two weeks. By contrast, the Czech Republic counts 327 per 100,000 while Spain has 302, France 248 and Belgium 233 per 100,000.\", \"While Paris and Brussels have closured bars to cope with the rising infections and Britain has capped pub hours, Conte has said that Italy wouldn\\u2019t impose any curfews or close bars. \", \"The Vatican, which followed Italy\\u2019s strict lockdown in spring and summer, also imposed an outdoor mask mandate this week in the tiny city state in the center of Rome. Pope Francis, however, didn\\u2019t wear a mask during his indoor general audience Wednesday, even as he greeted well-wishers and shook their hands.\", \"Italy became the epicenter of the European outbreak after the first domestic case was identified Feb. 21 in northern Lombardy. The country largely tamed the virus with a strict, nationwide 10-week lockdown, but infections have crept up since August vacations.\", \"There have been various hypotheses for why Italy\\u2019s rebound has been slower than in neighboring countries like Spain or France, where daily new cases often top 10,000. Chief among them is the fact that Italians, seriously scared by the devastation of the initial outbreak in the north, have generally abided by mask mandates and social distancing norms. \", \"Also, Italy\\u2019s national health care system has continued to aggressively trace new infection, as well as test passengers on arrival from at-risk countries \\u2014 and even from its own island of Sardinia after the jet-set destination became a hotspot this summer.\", \"That said, Italy\\u2019s testing capacity has its limitations. It can only process around 120,000 tests a day, more than double what it processed during the peak of the outbreak. But some experts say Italy needs to more than double that number as the virus has now spread across the country.\", \"__\", \"Follow AP\\u2019s pandemic coverage at \", \" and \"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-travel-pandemics-hawaii-archive-1e552052192dbac3cbd8dc97329c811c\", \"source\": \"Associated Press\", \"title\": \"Hawaii pushes forward with tourism despite safety concerns\", \"description\": \"HONOLULU (AP) \\u2014 Despite increasing coronavirus cases across the U.S., Hawaii officials hope to reboot tourism next week by loosening months of economically crippling pandemic restrictions,... \", \"date\": \"2020-10-07T17:10:29Z\", \"author\": \"Caleb Jones\", \"text\": [\"HONOLULU (AP) \\u2014 Despite increasing coronavirus cases across the U.S., Hawaii officials hope to reboot tourism next week by loosening months of economically crippling pandemic restrictions, including a mandatory 14-day quarantine for all arriving travelers.\", \"The plan, which was postponed after the virus surged in the summer, will allow Hawaii-bound travelers who provide negative virus test results within 72 hours of arrival to sidestep two weeks of quarantine.\", \"But the Oct. 15 launch of the pre-travel testing program is causing concern for some who say gaps in the plan could further endanger a community still reeling from summer infection rates that spiked to 10% after local restrictions eased.\", \"State Sen. Glenn Wakai, chair of the Committee on Economic Development, Tourism and Technology, said one problem is that the tests are not mandatory for all. Travelers can still choose to not get tested and instead quarantine for two weeks upon arrival, which means those with a negative test could get infected on the plane. \", \"\\u201cThey\\u2019re going to come here with this false sense of belief that, \\u2018Hey, I got tested, Hawaii, I\\u2019m clean. Here\\u2019s my paperwork. Let me enjoy my Hawaiian vacation,\\u2019 not knowing that the person in seat B on a five-hour flight gave them the coronavirus,\\u201d Wakai said. \", \"Hawaii has lived under quarantine laws for months, but hundreds \\u2014 at times thousands \\u2014 of people have arrived daily since the pandemic started. Some have flouted safety measures, leading to arrests and fines for the scofflaws. \", \"Before the pandemic, the state received about 30,000 visitors a day. \", \"If the islands face another coronavirus surge because of a hasty return to tourism, another lockdown could spell economic disaster, Wakai said. \", \"He said the state has mismanaged the pandemic from the beginning. Hawaii\\u2019s state epidemiologist and its director of health both left their positions in September after concerns were raised about their handling of the virus and the state\\u2019s contact tracing efforts.\", \"Wakai also worries that reopening tourism before children are safely back in school could challenge parents who return to work in the tourism industry. \", \"But others view the pre-travel testing plan as the best way to add a layer of protection while kickstarting the economy. Hawaii has had one the nation\\u2019s highest unemployment rates since the start of the pandemic, which ground to a halt nearly all vacation-related activity. \", \"Hawaii Lt. Gov. Josh Green, who has spearheaded the testing program, acknowledged the risks but said the plan will give the islands a much-needed chance for economic recovery. \", \"\\u201cIt\\u2019s important that people know we welcome them as long as they\\u2019ve gotten their test,\\u201d Green said, adding that wearing a mask in public is still Hawaii law.\", \"Green, an emergency room doctor who recently recovered from COVID-19, said calls for testing at Hawaii\\u2019s airports don\\u2019t take into account capacity or cost. Even if the state could test all visitors, people wouldn\\u2019t get their results right away, he added.\", \"\\u201cIf we were to test everybody that came, we would have to have 8,000 tests\\u201d per day, Green said, estimating the number of visitors he thinks will travel to Hawaii at the program\\u2019s start. The state currently has about 4,000 tests available each day for residents and visitors. \", \"As part of the plan, Hawaii is partnering with several U.S. mainland pharmacies and airlines for testing. Travelers will load their information onto a state website and mobile app that officials will use to track incoming passengers. \", \"Green said travelers must get the correct type of coronavirus screening \\u2014 a nucleic acid amplification test \\u2014 and suggests people work with designated companies. \", \"He has also proposed implementing a surveillance testing program that would screen a percentage of arriving passengers who are in high-risk groups. \", \"Dr. Anthony Fauci, who spoke with Green in a livestream video call Wednesday, said no matter what, some COVID positive vacationers will get into the state. \", \"\\u201cThe reality is, no matter what you do, there are going to be infected people who slip through the cracks. It\\u2019s inevitable,\\u201d Fauci said of Hawaii. \\u201cI can understand the anxiety of people on the islands saying, you know, if you just do a test 72 hours earlier and that\\u2019s all you do, then that\\u2019s not going to be enough.\\u201d\", \"Fauci said that adding some kind of secondary screening would help.\", \"\\u201cYou\\u2019re not going to get everybody, but statistically, you\\u2019re going to dramatically diminish the likelihood that an infected person enters,\\u201d he said. \", \"Travelers will also face a list of restrictions upon arrival in Hawaii \\u2014 especially on Oahu which has seen the bulk of reported cases.\", \"Still, some county officials say the plan is not ready. They want additional layers of protection for their individual islands.\", \"On Tuesday, Big Island Mayor Harry Kim announced that his county would opt out of the testing program and continue to require all visitors to quarantine for two weeks upon arrival. Gov. David Ige on Monday denied a request from the island of Kauai that would have established a post-arrival testing program for visitors to that island. Both island mayors said they want another layer of testing for people arriving in Hawaii.\", \"\\u201cA single pre-arrival testing program alone does not provide the needed level of protection for our Kauai community,\\u201d said Kauai Mayor Derek Kawakami in a statement. He said the island secured 15,000 rapid tests and will develop a plan to mitigate the virus\\u2019 spread. \", \"The blow to tourism has taken a toll on Hawaii residents who depend on the sector to survive. Scores of businesses have closed for good. Hotels have shuttered or operate under limited capacity. Bars remain closed and restaurants struggle with take-out only or a cap on the number of guests they can serve. The October measure could bring back paychecks for many workers. \", \"\\u201cIn a perfect world, we wouldn\\u2019t reopen until we had a vaccine,\\u201d said John De Fries, president and CEO of the Hawaii Tourism Authority. However, waiting that long, he said, \\u201cwould take us out.\\u201d \", \"Miriam Thorpe, a California school teacher, recently flew to Hawaii from San Francisco with her husband to visit family. She was nervous about the flight but said she looked forward to seeing her grandchildren for the first time in nearly a year.\", \"\\u201cNot so sure about how safe it is on the plane or in the airports,\\u201d Thorpe said before leaving.\", \"The Thorpes said they were tested for COVID-19 before they left, but would not get their results for several days after arriving in Hawaii.\", \"Under the new rules, travelers like the Thorpes who do not get their test results in time for their trips will have to quarantine until their negative results are in. Those who test positive after arriving in Hawaii will have to isolate alongside their close contacts. They must be medically cleared of the disease before they can travel home. \", \"\\u201cOnce I get to Hawaii, I\\u2019ll feel much better,\\u201d Thorpe said before boarding her flight to paradise. \", \"___\", \"Video journalist Haven Daly in San Francisco contributed to this report. \"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://apnews.com/article/north-america-hollywood-los-angeles-aedf960caf08a91476abc15d0c12ff99\", \"source\": \"Associated Press\", \"title\": \"Women outwit Hollywood bias with help from industry insiders\", \"description\": \"LOS ANGELES (AP) \\u2014 Kaitlyn Yang knows it\\u2019s rare for women to work in visual effects but wanted to find out just how much company she has.  Devising an informal survey earlier this year, she... \", \"date\": \"2020-10-07T17:52:54Z\", \"author\": \"Lynn Elber\", \"text\": [\"LOS ANGELES (AP) \\u2014 Kaitlyn Yang knows it\\u2019s rare for women to work in visual effects but wanted to find out just how much company she has. \", \"Devising an informal survey earlier this year, she painstakingly searched 24,000 LinkedIn entries for female visual effects supervisors in North America. Her tally: 30.\", \"\\u201cSo you do the math,\\u201d she said of the tiny percentage that represents. It\\u2019s not far afield of in-depth research showing women are underrepresented in behind-the-camera positions, including writing, directing and producing, despite recent progress.\", \"A study of the 250 top-grossing films in 2019 by San Diego State University\\u2019s Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film found that women comprise 6% of visual effects supervisors, 5% of cinematographers and 19% of writers. A center report on last season\\u2019s TV shows found similar patterns.\", \"Yang, whose perseverance led to the creation of her own firm, Alpha Studios, is among those succeeding in Hollywood. That\\u2019s true as well of Layne Eskridge, a former Netflix and Apple TV executive who just launched POV Entertainment; writer Gladys Rodriguez, whose credits include \\u201cSons of Anarchy\\u201d and \\u201cVida\\u201d; and Sandra Valde-Hansen, cinematographer for more than a dozen independent films.\", \"The four share a key credit: Each had an industry internship through the Television Academy Foundation, the charitable arm of the academy that administers the prime-time Emmy Awards. \", \"For Valde-Hansen, the internship provided the experience of working alongside veteran cinematographer Alan Caso, who\\u2019d been part of the acclaimed series \\u201cSix Feet Under.\\u201d\", \"Getting to learn from the man \\u201cwho created the look of that show, that very cinematic look, I thought, \\u2019Oh, this is better than getting into college,\\u201d she said. \\u201cThe internship just opened up so many doors for me.\\u201d\", \"The program offers 50 paid, eight-week summer internships on Los Angeles TV productions to college students nationwide.\", \"\\u201cWe couldn\\u2019t be prouder to have helped launch the careers of these exceptional women. They are a testament to the foundation\\u2019s crucial work,\\u201d said Madeline Di Nonno, chair of the foundation\\u2019s board of directors.\", \"As the onetime interns have progressed in their fields, they\\u2019ve gained hard-won insights about Hollywood and the obstacles to women and people of color. Yang, who uses a wheelchair because of spinal muscular atrophy, faces other challenges. In recent interviews, the women discussed their experiences and how the industry can evolve.\", \"THE CLUB STILL EXISTS\", \"Bias can be subtle, or not. \", \"Rodriguez recalled a stretch in which she worked as a writer\\u2019s assistant on shows with primarily white male writing staffs.\", \"Men in jobs comparable to hers were \\u201cinvited to play Ping-Pong, but they wouldn\\u2019t invite me, or they would invite them to after-work drinks and I wouldn\\u2019t get invited,\\u201d she said. \\u201cI was definitely not part of the boys club, so that excluded me from certain opportunities,\\u201d such as developing story ideas. \", \"Eskridge has found that older writers can be uncomfortable with an executive who is younger and Black. That appeared to be the case with a sitcom creator she ushered into her office for a first meeting.\", \"\\u201cMaybe he thought I was an assistant, but when I closed the door and sat down he realized I was Layne,\\u201d she said. \\u201cHe was so flustered. And I think we sat there for about two minutes while he tried to gather himself. And then he eventually said he needed to call his agent and that he wasn\\u2019t going to take the meeting.\\u201d\", \"Yang, who became more public-facing after starting her company, found she wasn\\u2019t what some expected.\", \"One man \\u201cwas very surprised that I attended USC film school, in a way that was almost questioning if my resume was made up,\\u201d she said. \\u201dI was like, \\u2018You want to see my student loans?\\u2019\\u201d\", \"(Women are well-represented at the USC School of Cinematic Arts: This fall, they\\u2019re 56% of students, the school said.)\", \"GETTING A BOOST\", \"Valde-Hansen said she owes a debt of gratitude to Florida-based cinematographer Tony Foresta, who took her on as his assistant when nobody else would.\", \"\\u201cI remember walking into the (equipment) rental houses and they would literally come up to me and say, \\u2019Oh, I\\u2019ve worked with another woman camera assistant before...\\u2032 like I was an alien,\\u201d she said. \\u201cIt was unnerving at times. I was so thankful to have this one person who saw me, unlike anyone else.\\u201d\", \"After Rodriguez completed her internship, she worked on CBS\\u2019 \\u201cCold Case,\\u201d created and produced by Meredith Stiehm.\", \"\\u201cIt\\u2019s not that she gave me a leg up, more that she saw me and she didn\\u2019t dismiss me,\\u201d Rodriguez said. It was on the show that she met Veena Sud, a \\u201cwonderful writer who became a sort of mentor to me.\\u201d\", \"\\u201cShe was the first person that took me aside and said, \\u2018I\\u2019ll read your stuff if you\\u2019re writing,\\u2019\\u201d Rodriguez recalled. \\u201cI think Meredith empowered her, and she was giving back to me by empowering me.\\u201d\", \"TRUE SYSTEMIC CHANGE \", \"A female colleague told Valde-Hansen recently that a director wanted to hire her for a project, but the producer thought the budget was out of her league \\u2014 although there was a relatively small gap between it and other projects she\\u2019d worked on.\", \"\\u201cThis has happened to me. Why? Why is that story happening, when a white man makes a movie for $500,000, it does really well, and then suddenly he\\u2019s handed an $80 million Marvel movie,\\u201d Valde-Hansen said. \\u201cThat has to change.\\u201d\", \"Rodriguez says that when studios complain that they can\\u2019t find diversity among writers, she has lists at the ready.\", \"\\u201cIt starts at the top, with execs realizing they have to do the work to look for writers of color, hire writers of color and give people chances,\\u201d she said. \\u201cJust like they would take a chance on a white director or a white writer.\\u201d\", \"Eskridge recalls a few times when she was the \\u201chighest-ranking person of color in the building, and I\\u2019m not a president or part of the C-suite. That shows you that\\u2019s a problem.\\u201d\", \"Yang wants the industry to think diversity for every aspect of production.\", \"\\u201cThe more down the credits you move, it\\u2019s still the same old, same old. And I don\\u2019t want to be the first one of the few,\\u201d she said.\", \"___\", \"Lynn Elber can be reached at lelber@ap.org or on Twitter at http://twitter.com/lynnelber.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-archive-49f5db73e102cd5d5422ab33cade929b\", \"source\": \"Associated Press\", \"title\": \"Audit likely gave congressional staff glimpse of Trump taxes\", \"description\": \"WASHINGTON (AP) \\u2014 It\\u2019s one of the most obscure functions of Congress, little known or understood even by most lawmakers. But it may have once put staffers in possession of one of the most enduring... \", \"date\": \"2020-10-07T04:07:18Z\", \"author\": \"Andrew Taylor\", \"text\": [\"WASHINGTON (AP) \\u2014 It\\u2019s one of the most obscure functions of Congress, little known or understood even by most lawmakers. But it may have once put staffers in possession of one of the most enduring mysteries of the Donald Trump era: his tax data, which The New York Times revealed to the world.\", \"The Times report last month included a \", \", including that he paid only $750 in federal income taxes in 2016 and 2017 and that he carries $421 million in debt. Trump has long refused to release his tax returns, blaming an IRS audit. \", \"That\\u2019s where Congress comes in. The audit of Trump\\u2019s taxes, the Times reported, has been held up for more than four years by staffers for the Joint Committee on Taxation, which has 30 days to review individual refunds and tax credits over $2 million. When JCT staffers disagree with the IRS on a decision, the review is typically kept open until the matter is resolved. \", \"The upshot is that information on Trump\\u2019s taxes, which Democrats are now suing to see, has almost certainly passed through the JCT\\u2019s hands, putting it tantalizingly close to lawmakers.\", \"Key members of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee defended the JCT after the Times report and were emphatic that the panel does not have copies of tax forms pertaining to Trump. \", \"\\u201cThey are not sitting at JCT,\\u201d said House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal, D-Mass. \\u201cI see no evidence that they\\u2019re sitting on those forms.\\u201d \", \"But lawmakers did not say whether the JCT has reviewed any tax refund involving the president. Neal and top House Republican tax expert Kevin Brady of Texas said the panel typically completes its reviews in a month or two, at most.\", \"\\u201cThe vast majority of JCT refund reviews are processed quickly and very rarely does JCT express concerns with the IRS audit findings,\\u201d said Brady, who has previously chaired the panel. \\u201cContrary to the Times\\u2019 reporting, I think the longest time JCT has ever had a case pending is one year. I think we should focus on the facts as much as possible.\\u201d\", \"The topic went unmentioned in a House oversight hearing Wednesday featuring IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig, who reminded lawmakers that \\u201cevery taxpayer in this country is assured of confidentiality and privacy with respect to their tax matters.\\u201d\", \"Lawmakers on Joint Tax are provided summary information on the categories of cases handled and how long it takes to process them, but the information is not made public. Even acknowledging that Trump\\u2019s taxes were before the panel is verboten. \", \"\\u201cThat gets too close to talking about potential tax return information, which is protected under the internal revenue code,\\u201d Joint Tax chief of staff Thomas Barthold said in declining to comment about the Times\\u2019 Trump story.\", \"Representatives for the Trump Organization did not respond to messages seeking comment and confirmation that the Joint Tax Committee had reviewed Trump\\u2019s taxes.\", \"How the process works: When an individual refund or credit over $2 million is approved, the IRS is statutorily required to notify Congress. A designated team at the IRS prepares a report for the JCT on each individual case that contains taxpayer information, spreadsheets and technical data and analysis. Trump should have been sent a letter disclosing that his case was sent to the JCT for review.\", \"Even when the JCT was sifting through Trump\\u2019s tax information, it should have remained beyond the grasp of the five Democrats and five Republicans on the committee. The reviews are performed by the panel\\u2019s tax experts and attorneys, typically working in dedicated space in an IRS facility. Lawmakers don\\u2019t participate.\", \"\\u201cIt is held quite tightly in the hands of just a few lawyers in the staff who are dedicated to doing this work. And they know not to communicate any of it to outsiders,\\u201d said George Yin, an emeritus University of Virginia law professor who was JCT chief of staff from 2003 to 2005.\", \"Former JCT staffers would not comment on whether they remembered the dispute with Trump, citing confidentiality rules. Unauthorized release of tax return information can mean a felony conviction and a prison sentence of up to five years.\", \"Kenneth Kies, a tax attorney who served as chief of staff on the committee from 1994 to 1998, said the committee typically handled a \\u201ccouple hundred\\u201d cases year. And usually the JCT \\u2014 which includes former IRS staffers \\u2014 ratifies the IRS\\u2019s decision.\", \"\\u201cA lot of them were fairly straightforward. Those were no drama,\\u201d Kies said. \\u201cOnly occasionally we would get one where there was an interpretation of the law we didn\\u2019t agree with.\\u201d \", \"While the Joint Committee rarely makes headlines, it plays a crucial role in policymaking, delivering cost estimates that can be make-or-break for proposed tax legislation. It was instrumental during the creation of both the Obama administration health care law and the GOP tax overhaul in 2017.\", \"The office is overseen by chief of staff Barthold, a Harvard Ph.D. economist who has worked on the panel for more than 30 years. As the JCT\\u2019s top staffer since 2009, he is among the very few who might know whether Trump\\u2019s audit was reviewed. But he is legally barred from disclosing most information related to the committee\\u2019s audit work. \", \"Left unresolved is a full accounting of Trump\\u2019s finances, which Democrats predict will illustrate numerous conflicts of interest between his businesses and his presidency. They point to Trump\\u2019s reported $421 million in debt, \", \".\", \"Neal, the lead force behind a Democratic lawsuit to expose Trump\\u2019s taxes, said the Times\\u2019 reporting is proof that the documents should be given to Congress. The existence of the audit also strengthens their legal case, he said, since the Democratic investigation is focused on that very issue.\", \"\\u201cThat\\u2019s what this case has been about \\u2014 have the IRS tell us how auditing is done,\\u201d Neal said. \\u201cThat\\u2019s always been our case.\\u201d\", \"___\", \"Associated Press writer Brian Slodysko contributed to this report.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-john-bel-edwards-storms-evacuations-hurricane-delta-4e18bc3890566c8c206e379358242670\", \"source\": \"Associated Press\", \"title\": \"Busy 2020 hurricane season has Louisiana bracing a 6th time\", \"description\": \"MORGAN CITY, La. (AP) \\u2014 For the sixth time in the Atlantic hurricane season, people in Louisiana are once more fleeing the state's barrier islands and sailing boats to safe harbor while emergency... \", \"date\": \"2020-10-07T19:04:31Z\", \"author\": \"Stacey Plaisance\", \"text\": [\"MORGAN CITY, La. (AP) \\u2014 For the sixth time in the Atlantic hurricane season, people in Louisiana are once more fleeing the state\\u2019s barrier islands and sailing boats to safe harbor while emergency officials ramp up command centers and consider ordering evacuations.\", \"The storm being watched Wednesday was \", \", the 25th named storm of the Atlantic\\u2019s \", \". Forecasts placed most of Louisiana within Delta\\u2019s path, with the latest National Hurricane Center estimating landfall in the state on Friday. \", \"The center\\u2019s forecasters warned of winds that could gust well above 100 mph (160 kph) and up to 11 feet (3.4 meters) of ocean water potentially getting pushed onshore when the storm\\u2019s center hits land.\", \"\\u201cThis season has been relentless,\\u201d Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards said, dusting off what has become his common refrain in 2020 - \\u201cPrepare for the worst. Pray for the best.\\u201d\", \"So far, Louisiana has seen both major strikes and near misses. The southwest area of the state around Lake Charles, which forecasts show is on Delta\\u2019s current trajectory, is still recovering from \", \" which made landfall on Aug. 27. \", \"Nearly six weeks later, some 5,600 people remain in New Orleans hotels because their homes are too damaged to occupy. Trees, roofs and other debris left in Laura\\u2019s wake still sit by roadsides in the Lake Charles area waiting for pickup even as forecasters warned that Delta could be a larger than average storm.\", \"New Orleans spent a few days last month bracing for \", \" before it skirted off to the east, making landfall in Alabama on Sept. 16.\", \"Delta is predicted to strengthen back into a Category 3 storm after \", \" on Wednesday. The National Hurricane Center forecast anticipated that landfall in Louisiana would hit a sparsely populated area between Cameron and Vermilion Bay.\", \"Plywood, batteries and rope already were flying off the shelves at the Tiger Island hardware store in Morgan City, Louisiana, which would be close to the center of the storm\\u2019s path. \", \"\\u201cThe other ones didn\\u2019t bother me, but this one seems like we\\u2019re the target,\\u201d customer Terry Guarisco said as a store employee helped him load his truck with the plywood he planned to use to board up his home for the first time of the hurricane season.\", \"In Sulphur, just across the Calcasieu River from Lake Charles, Ben Reynolds was deciding whether to leave or not because of Delta. He had to use a generator for power for a week after Hurricane Laura.\", \"\\u201cIt\\u2019s depressing,\\u201d Reynolds said. \\u201cIt\\u2019s scary as hell.\\u201d\", \"By sundown Wednesday, Acy Cooper planned to have his three shrimp boats locked down and tucked into a southern Louisiana bayou for the third time this season.\", \"\\u201cWe\\u2019re not making any money,\\u201d Cooper said. \\u201cEvery time one comes we end up losing a week or two.\\u201d\", \"Lynn Nguyen, who works at the TLC Seafood Market in Abbeville, said each storm threat forces fisherman to spend days pulling hundreds of crab traps from the water or risk losing them. \", \"\\u201cIt\\u2019s been a rough year. The minute you get your traps out and get fishing, its time to pull them out again because something is brewing out there,\\u201d Nguyen said.\", \"Elsewhere in Abbeville, Wednesday brought another round of boarding up and planning, Vermilion Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Lynn Guillory said.\", \"\\u201cI think that the stress is not just the stress of the storm this year, it\\u2019s everything \\u2013 one thing after another. Somebody just told me, \\u2018You know, we\\u2019ve really had enough,\\u2019\\u201d Guillory said,\", \"On Grand Isle, the Starfish restaurant plans to stay open until it runs out of food Wednesday. Restaurant employee Nicole Fantiny then intends to join the rush of people leaving the barrier island, where the COVID-19 pandemic already devastated the tourism industry.\", \"\\u201cThe epidemic, the coronavirus, put a lot of people out of work. Now, having to leave once a month for these storms \\u2014 it\\u2019s been taking a lot,\\u201d said Fantiny, who tried to quit smoking two weeks ago but gave in and bought a pack of cigarettes Tuesday as Delta rapidly strengthened.\", \"While New Orleans has been mostly spared by the weather and found itself outside Delta\\u2019s cone Wednesday, constant vigilance and months as a COVID-19 hot spot have strained the vulnerable city, which has a long hurricane memory due to the scars from 2005\\u2032s Hurricane Katrina.\", \"The shift in Delta\\u2019s forecast track likely meant no need for a major evacuation, but the city\\u2019s emergency officials were on alert.\", \"\\u201cWe\\u2019ve had five near misses. We need to watch this one very, very closely,\\u201d New Orleans Emergency Director Collin Arnold said.\", \"Along with getting hit by Hurricane Laura and escaping Hurricane Sally, Louisiana saw heavy flooding on June 7 from Tropical Storm Cristobal. Tropical Storm Beta prompted tropical storm warnings in mid-September as it slowly crawled up the northeast Texas coast. \", \"Tropical Storm Marco looked like it might deliver the first half of a hurricane double-blow with Laura, but nearly dissipated before hitting the state near the mouth of the Mississippi River on Aug. 24. \", \"\\u201cI don\\u2019t really remember all the names,\\u201d Keith Dunn said as he loaded up his crab traps as a storm threatened for a fourth time this season in Theriot, a tiny bayou town just a few feet above sea level south of Houma.\", \"And there are nearly eight weeks of hurricane season left to go, although forecasters at the National Weather Service office in New Orleans noted in a \", \" of this week\\u2019s forecast that outside of Delta, the skies above the Gulf of Mexico look calm.\", \"\\u201cNot seeing any signs of any additional tropical weather in the extended which is OK with us because we are SO DONE with Hurricane Season 2020,\\u201d they wrote.\", \"___\", \"Santana reported from New Orleans. Gerald Herbert in Theriot, Louisiana; Kevin McGill in New Orleans; Melinda Deslatte in Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Leah Willingham in Jackson, Mississippi; and Jeffrey Collins in Columbia, South Carolina, contributed to this report.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-new-york-archive-f557d51b5e960d15cde3c2bf3ac303e1\", \"source\": \"Associated Press\", \"title\": \"AP PHOTOS: Faces meet fashion in New Yorkers' mask choices\", \"description\": \"NEW YORK (AP) \\u2014 New Yorkers have increasingly embraced the wearing of masks to slow the spread of coronavirus since the pandemic began earlier this year. With no end in sight, many have moved... \", \"date\": \"2020-10-07T18:28:29Z\", \"author\": \"Mark Lennihan\", \"text\": []},\n{\"url\": \"https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-pandemics-colombia-health-martin-vizcarra-931ab5fbe3d0bcefad19968695ea3a2a\", \"source\": \"Associated Press\", \"title\": \" Peru bet on cheap COVID antibody tests; it didn't go well\", \"description\": \"BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) \\u2014 In the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, the harried health officials of Peru faced a quandary. They knew molecular tests for COVID-19 were the best option to detect... \", \"date\": \"2020-10-07T18:24:24Z\", \"author\": \"Christine Armario\", \"text\": [\"BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) \\u2014 In the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, the harried health officials of Peru faced a quandary. They knew molecular tests for COVID-19 were the best option to detect the virus \\u2013 yet they didn\\u2019t have the labs, the supplies, or the technicians to make them work. \", \"But there was a cheaper alternative -- antibody tests, mostly from China, that were flooding the market at a fraction of the price and could deliver a positive or negative result within minutes of a simple fingerstick.\", \"In March, President Martin Vizcarra took the airwaves to announce he\\u2019d signed off on a massive purchase of 1.6 million tests \\u2013 almost all of them for antibodies. \", \"Now, interviews with experts, public purchase orders, import records, government resolutions, patients, and COVID-19 health reports show that the country\\u2019s bet on rapid antibody tests went dangerously off course. \", \"Unlike almost every other nation, Peru is relying heavily on rapid antibody blood tests to diagnose active cases \\u2013 a purpose for which they are not designed. The tests cannot detect early COVID-19 infections, making it hard to quickly identify and isolate the sick. Epidemiologists interviewed by The Associated Press say their misuse is producing a sizable number of false positives and negatives, helping fuel one of the world\\u2019s worst COVID-19 outbreaks. \", \"What\\u2019s more, a number of the antibody tests purchased for use in Peru have since been rejected by the United States after independent analysis found they did not meet standards for accurately detecting COVID-19.\", \"Today the South American nation has the highest per capita COVID-19 mortality rate of any country across the globe, according to John Hopkins University \\u2013 and physicians there believe the country\\u2019s faulty testing approach is one reason why.\", \"\\u201cThis was a multi-systemic failure,\\u201d said Dr. V\\u00edctor Zamora, Peru\\u2019s former minister of health. \\u201cWe should have stopped the rapid tests by now.\\u201d\", \"___\", \"As COVID-19 cases popped up across the globe, low- and middle-income nations found themselves in a dilemma.\", \"The World Health Organization was calling on authorities to ramp up testing to prevent the virus from spreading out of control. One particular test \\u2013 a polymerase chain reaction exam \\u2013 was deemed the best option. Using a specimen collected from deep in the nose, the test is developed on specialized machines that can detect the genetic material of the virus within days of infection.\", \"If COVID-19 cases are caught early, the sick can be isolated, their contacts traced, and the chain of contagion severed.\", \"Within weeks of the initial outbreak in China, genome sequences for the virus were made available and specialists in Asia and Europe got to work creating their own tests. But in parts of the world like Africa and Latin America, there was no such option. They would have to wait for the tests to become available \\u2013 and when they did, the incredible demand meant most weren\\u2019t able to secure the number they required. \", \"\\u201cThe collapse of global cooperation and a failure of international solidarity have shoved Africa out of the diagnostics market,\\u201d Dr. John Nkengasong, director of the Africa CDC, wrote in Nature magazine in April as the hunt was underway. \", \"Nations that got an early jump start in preparing or had a relatively robust health care system already in place fared best. Two weeks after Colombia identified its first case, the country had 22 private and public laboratories signed up to do PCR testing. Peru, by contrast, relied on just one laboratory capable of 200 tests a day.\", \"For years, Peru has invested a smaller part of its GDP on public health than others in the region. As COVID-19 approached, glaring deficiencies in Peru became evident. There were just 100 ICU beds available for COVID-19 patients, said Dr. V\\u00edctor Zamora, who was appointed to lead Peru\\u2019s Ministry of Health in March. Corruption scandals had left numerous hospital construction projects on pause. Peru also faced a significant shortage of doctors, forcing the state to embark on a massive hiring campaign.\", \"Even now, months later, Peru\\u2019s needs are vastly under met. To date, the country has less than 2,000 ICU beds, compared to over 6,000 in the state of Florida, which has 10 million fewer inhabitants, according to official data.\", \"High levels of poverty and people who depend on daily wages from informal work complicated the government\\u2019s efforts to impose a strict quarantine, further challenging Peru\\u2019s ability to respond effectively to the virus.\", \"When Zamora arrived, he said the government had already decided molecular tests weren\\u2019t a viable option. The nation didn\\u2019t have the infrastructure needed to run the tests but also acted too slowly in trying to obtain what little was available on the market.\", \"\\u201cPeru didn\\u2019t buy in time,\\u201d he said. \\u201cEveryone in Latin America bought before us \\u2013 even Cuba.\\u201d\", \"Antibody tests \\u2013 which detect proteins created by the immune system in response to a virus \\u2013 had numerous drawbacks. They had not been widely tested and their accuracy was in question. If taken too early, most people with the virus test negative. That could lead those infected to think they do not have COVID-19. False positives can be equally perilous, leading people to incorrectly believe they are immune.\", \"Antibody tests didn\\u2019t require high-skill training or even a lab; municipal workers with no medical education could be taught how to administer then.\", \"\\u201cFor the time we were in, it was the right decision,\\u201d Zamora said. \\u201cWe didn\\u2019t know what we know about the virus today.\\u201d\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://apnews.com/article/army-media-social-media-sexual-assault-texas-c7277011ba4b7300bf7a9708b0ca82b2\", \"source\": \"Associated Press\", \"title\": \"'The military's #MeToo moment:' Fort Hood victims speak out \", \"description\": \"AUSTIN, Texas (AP) \\u2014 Maria Valentine says she was just months into her training at Fort Hood, a U.S. Army base in Texas, in 2006 when a sergeant with a history of alleged harassment toward other... \", \"date\": \"2020-10-07T19:12:30Z\", \"author\": \"Acacia Coronado\", \"text\": [\"AUSTIN, Texas (AP) \\u2014 Maria Valentine says she was just months into her training at Fort Hood, a U.S. Army base in Texas, in 2006 when a sergeant with a history of alleged harassment toward other soldiers wrote her up after she complained that she didn\\u2019t want him touching her during body mass measurements.\", \"She said authorities promised the disciplinary report would be wiped from her record if she didn\\u2019t make a formal complaint. Valentine\\u2019s decision not to file one would haunt her years later when she learned another woman had accused the same sergeant of rape.\", \"Valentine is one of five women \\u2014 two active duty soldiers, two veterans and one civilian \\u2014 who spoke to The Associated Press about experiencing harassment, assault or rape by soldiers at Fort Hood, the other four since 2014.\", \"Current and former soldiers have taken to social media with their own accounts of sexual assault and harassment at the base following the \", \" this year of Spc. Vanessa Guillen, whose family members say was sexually harassed by the officer who eventually killed her.\", \"\\u201cI wasn\\u2019t surprised,\\u201d Valentine said after learning about \", \". \\u201cThat was the environment. I live with the regret that I did not go through with the complaint.\\u201d\", \"Maj. Gabriela Thompson, a Fort Hood spokeswoman, told the AP she had no information about Valentine\\u2019s allegation.\", \"Members of Congress launched an \", \" of Fort Hood in September after \", \" was found dead on Aug. 25 hanging from a tree in Temple, Texas, months after reporting sexual harassment. \", \"Guillen and Fernandes are among 28 soldiers at the base to have died this year, \", \", according to Army data. Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy says that based on Fort Hood\\u2019s average of 129 violent crimes between 2015 and 2019, it has one of the \", \" among Army installations.\", \"The Associated Press typically doesn\\u2019t publish the names of sex abuse victims, but two women who said they were sexually assaulted by soldiers at Fort Hood decided to speak on the record to describe what they say is a disturbing culture at the base. Many victims have become connected by sharing their experiences using the hashtag #IAMVANESSAGUILLEN.\", \"Among them is Deborah Urquidez, who told the AP she was raped by the same sergeant, Staff Sgt. Roberto Jimenez, Valentine said harassed her more than a decade earlier. \", \"Urquidez said her relationship with Jimenez in 2014 began consensually, but that later he raped her while a friend desperately tried to break into the room to stop him. Then came months of stalking, threatening messages and a lengthy battle in military court in which he was found not guilty, according to court documents obtained by the AP. Urquidez was given a temporary military protective order against the sergeant for an \\u201calleged sexual assault.\\u201d \", \"The Department of Veterans Affairs considers her permanently disabled after she reported the rape and the trauma, which included multiple suicide attempts, according to documents obtained by the AP.\", \"\\u201cThere was never justice for me,\\u201d Urquidez said. \\u201cIn any other world, what more evidence do you need?\\u201d\", \"Jimenez later filed for a protective order against Urquidez. A Fort Hood spokesperson said the Army\\u2019s Criminal Investigation Command investigated and the accused was acquitted of all charges following a military court martial in 2017. He remains on active duty at Fort Bliss. Officials from Fort Bliss did not comment or provide a comment from him.\", \"Kaitlyn Buxton, a civilian, said her partner, Brandon Espindola, then stationed at Fort Hood beat her numerous times and raped her in 2018 at their off-base apartment in Killeen. On one occasion at the barracks, he pinned her down and repeatedly punched her in the face while she screamed for help, Buxton said.\", \"A Fort Hood officer went with his wife to their apartment during one altercation after Buxton called for help. Buxton said members of Espindola\\u2019s chain of command saw her body bruised on more than one occasion.\", \"The Killeen Police Department eventually granted Buxton a protective order and charged Espindola with assault with bodily injury and assault by strangulation, but records show he bonded out and the case was closed. \", \"Buxton said military police have taken no action on a separate case she filed in 2018, which was briefly closed and then reopened this past August. Espindola has since been discharged from the Army on unrelated matters.\", \"\\u201cThe whole process has been a constant victimization,\\u201d Buxton said. \\u201cNo matter what I do, my voice is not being heard.\\u201d\", \"Sean Timmons, Espindola\\u2019s attorney, said his client \\u201cmaintains his innocence to all allegations and charges and believes they are fabricated.\\u201d The Killeen Police Department did not respond to a request for comment. A Fort Hood spokesperson said they had no information on this allegation.\", \"According to a federal complaint, the soldier who killed Guillen, Aaron Robinson, died by suicide in July when confronted by police. Natalie Khawam, who represents the Guillen family, told the AP that Guillen shared with family members that a soldier of superior rank walked in and watched her when she was showering. Khawam said Guillen was too scared to file a report.\", \"McCarthy said though it is believed Guillen faced other kinds of harassment at Fort Hood, officials have found no report or evidence that she was sexually harassed. Since then, an \", \" of command climate has been ordered at the Texas base, in addition to the ongoing investigation into the command response to Guillen\\u2019s disappearance and death.\", \"In a press conference the morning after Fernandes\\u2019 body was found, Lupe Guillen, the younger sister of Vanessa Guillen, said Fernandes was an example of why her sister did not report the harassment she experienced.\", \"\\u201cHow many more must die at Fort Hood for them to be held accountable?\\u201d Lupe Guillen said. \\u201cHow many more have to be sexually harassed?\\u201d\", \"Rep. Jackie Speier, a California Democrat who is among the members of Congress investigating Fort Hood, coauthored the \", \" It aims to expand measures aimed at preventing sexual assault and harassment involving U.S. military personnel, including codifying sexual harassment as a crime in military law and removing decisions on whether to prosecute sexual assault and harassment out of the chain of command. \", \"\\u201cThe voices of those survivors have never been louder or more clear,\\u201d Speier said. \\u201cThis is the military\\u2019s \\u2019#MeToo moment.\\u201d\", \"___\", \"Acacia Coronado is a corps member for the Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. \", \" is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-milwaukee-wisconsin-archive-61856a69ec6e9e6f032bb121b6d58a5d\", \"source\": \"Associated Press\", \"title\": \"Wisconsin activates field hospital as COVID keeps surging\", \"description\": \"MADISON, Wis. (AP) \\u2014 Wisconsin health officials announced Wednesday that a field hospital will open next week at the state fairgrounds near Milwaukee as a surge in COVID-19 cases threatens to... \", \"date\": \"2020-10-07T17:44:53Z\", \"author\": \"Todd Richmond\", \"text\": [\"MADISON, Wis. (AP) \\u2014 Wisconsin health officials announced Wednesday that a field hospital will open next week at the state fairgrounds near Milwaukee as a surge in COVID-19 cases threatens to overwhelm hospitals.\", \"Wisconsin has become a hot spot for the disease over the last month, ranking third nationwide this week in new cases per capita over the last two weeks. Health experts have attributed the spike to the reopening of colleges and K-12 schools as well as general fatigue over wearing masks and socially distancing. \", \"State Department of Health Services Secretary Andrea Palm told reporters during a video conference that the facility will open on Oct. 14.\", \"\\u201cWe hoped this day wouldn\\u2019t come, but unfortunately, Wisconsin is in a much different, more dire place today and our healthcare systems are beginning to become overwhelmed by the surge of COVID-19 cases,\\u201d Democratic Gov. Tony Evers said in a statement. \\u201cThis alternative care facility will take some of the pressure off our healthcare facilities while expanding the continuum of care for folks who have COVID-19.\\u201d\", \"The move also came as a state judge was considering a lawsuit seeking to strike down Evers\\u2019 \", \" that masks be worn in enclosed public spaces. The governor on Tuesday issued new restrictions on the size of indoor public gatherings through Nov. 6.\", \"Only 16% of the state\\u2019s 11,452 hospital beds were available as of Tuesday afternoon, according to the DHS. The number of hospitalized COVID-19 patients had grown to 853, it\\u2019s highest during the pandemic according to the \", \", with 216 in intensive care. \", \"Results of COVID-19 tests on an additional 262 in-patients in Wisconsin were pending. The southeastern region of the state had 250 COVID-19 patients, the most of any of the state\\u2019s seven hospital regions.\", \"Nationwide, about 30,000 coronavirus patients are hospitalized, the COVID Tracking Project reported.\", \"The DHS reported 2,319 new confirmed cases on Wednesday and 16 more deaths. The state has now seen 138,698 cases and 1,415 deaths since the pandemic began. \", \"Virus spread is particularly rampant in northeastern Wisconsin. The Green Bay Packers announced this week that no home fans would be admitted to home games until the situation improved, and head coach Matt LaFleur asked area residents to wear masks and practice social distancing.\", \"The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers built a 530-bed field hospital on the state fairgrounds in West Allis just outside Milwaukee in April at the request of Evers\\u2019 administration. Local leaders had warned about the possibility of area hospitals being overwhelmed, but hospitalizations never reached the point where the hospital was needed until now. \", \"The hospital will accept patients from across Wisconsin but is designed to provide low-level care, and it will accept only patients who have already been hospitalized elsewhere for at least 24 to 48 hours, according to the state Department of Administration. Patients who qualify will be transported to the facility by ambulance. The facility will not accept walk-ins. Palm said the facility will be ready to accept 50 patients on its first day.\", \"\\u201cThe goal of this facility is to transition COVID-19 patients who are less ill out of hospitals and reserve hospital beds for patients who are more ill and in need of hospital-level care,\\u201d Evers\\u2019 office said.\", \"The hospital will be staffed by volunteers, state workers and National Guard members, DOA officials said. Patients will not be allowed to have visitors.\", \"Several other states moved to set up field hospitals in the early stages of the pandemic \\u2014 \", \" \\u2014 only to find that they \", \", and many were shut down.\", \"___\", \"This story has been updated to correct that Wisconsin ranked third nationwide in new cases per capita over the last two weeks, not new daily cases.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-donald-trump-financial-markets-airlines-asia-8e329d7439e781ac37732bb8168022d2\", \"source\": \"Associated Press\", \"title\": \"Stocks rise as Trump tweets on stimulus keep market spinning\", \"description\": \"Stocks closed broadly higher on Wall Street Wednesday after President Donald Trump appeared to backtrack on his decision to halt talks on another rescue effort for the economy.  The S&P 500... \", \"date\": \"2020-10-07T13:40:59Z\", \"author\": \"Stan Choe, Damian J. Troise\", \"text\": [\"Stocks closed broadly higher on Wall Street Wednesday after President Donald Trump \", \" on his decision to halt talks on another rescue effort for the economy. \", \"The S&P 500 climbed 1.7% after Trump sent a series of tweets late Tuesday saying he\\u2019s open to sending out $1,200 payments to Americans, as well as limited programs to prop up the airline industry and small businesses. \", \"The tweets came just hours after Trump sent the market into a sudden tailspin with his \", \" that his representatives should halt talks with Democrats on a broad stimulus effort for the economy until after the election, saying House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had been negotiating in bad faith. The stakes are high, as economists, investors and the chair of the Federal Reserve all say the economy needs another dose of support following the expiration of weekly jobless benefits and other stimulus Congress approved earlier this year. \", \"\\u201cWhat we\\u2019ve seen over the last 24 hours is just confirmation that the market is really addicted to stimulus from the government,\\u201d said Sal Bruno, chief investment officer at IndexIQ. \\u201cWhen it thinks it\\u2019s not getting it, it sells off, and when it looks like there\\u2019s a possibility for that it rises, as we\\u2019ve seen today.\\u201d\", \"The S&P 500 index rose 58.49 points to 3,419.44, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 530.70 points, or 1.9%, to 28,303.46. \", \"The Nasdaq composite climbed 210 points, or 1.9%, to 11,364.60, despite a call by Democratic lawmakers for Congress to rein in the Big Tech companies that dominate it and other indexes. The \", \", which follows a 15-month investigation by a House Judiciary Committee panel, could make it harder for Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google\\u2019s parent company to acquire others and impose new rules to safeguard competition.\", \"Amazon rose 3.1%, and Apple climbed 1.7%. Google\\u2019s parent company added 0.6%, and Facebook slipped 0.2%.\", \"Still, much of the market\\u2019s attention remains fixed on the prospects for more stimulus for the economy from Washington. Wednesday\\u2019s gains helped the S&P 500 recoup all of its loss from the day before, when Trump\\u2019s tweets suddenly sent it from a 0.7% gain to a 1.4% loss.\", \"Just a few hours before Trump made his announcement on Tuesday to halt negotiations, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell had \", \" to come through with more aid. He said that too little support \\u201cwould lead to a weak recovery, creating unnecessary hardship.\\u201d \", \"Some analysts characterized Trump\\u2019s move as likely a negotiating ploy. \", \"\\u201cI do not believe hopes of a stimulus deal are now gone forever,\\u201d said Jeffrey Halley of trading and research firm Oanda. \\u201cOne of Mr. Trump\\u2019s favorite negotiating tactics, judging by past actions, is to walk away from the negotiating table abruptly. The intention being to frighten the other side into concessions.\\u201d \", \"In the longer term, many investors say a big stimulus package may still be possible regardless of what Trump says. A Democratic sweep of the upcoming elections would likely clear the way for a big government program after the transfer of power, and Wall Street has begun to see a blue wave as more likely than before. \", \"Airlines jumped to some of the day\\u2019s bigger gains after Trump \", \", asking Congress to \\u201cIMMEDIATELY\\u201d approve $25 billion for them. Last week, Pelosi had told airline executives to halt the furloughs of tens of thousands of workers with the promise that aid for them was imminent, though a proposal by House Democrats to give the airline industry $28.8 billion failed to advance.\", \"United Airlines Holdings and American Airlines Group climbed 4.3%. Delta Air Lines pulled 3.5% higher.\", \"The S&P 500 rose broadly, with technology stocks making the biggest gains. Other areas that would benefit most from a strengthening economy were also climbing, including retailers and travel-related companies.\", \"\\u201cThe market\\u2019s just been relentlessly led by long-duration growth stocks,\\u201d said Barry Bannister, head of institutional equity strategy at Stifel. \\u201cThe big question is are we going to see some signs of a shift to economic growth beneficiaries.\\u201d\", \"Smaller stocks also rose more than the rest of the market, an indication of rising optimism about the economy\\u2019s prospects. The Russell 2000 index of small-cap stocks climbed 33.75 points, or 2.1%, to 1,611.04.\", \"The 360-degree spin for Wall Street in less than 24 hours is just the latest bump in its shaky run since early last month. After plunging nearly 34% early this year on worries about the \", \" and the recession it would cause, the S&P 500 rallied back to record heights thanks to tremendous aid from the Federal Reserve and Congress, along with signs of strengthening in the economy. \", \"It\\u2019s been struggling since setting an all-time high in early September on a range of worries. Besides the clouded prospects for more stimulus from a bitterly divided Congress when parts of the economy have begun to slow, investors are also worried about whether the continuing pandemic will lead governments to put more restrictions on businesses. Tensions between the United States and China are still simmering, and stocks still look too expensive in the eyes of some critics despite their recent pullback.\", \"The yield on the 10-year Treasury rose to 0.78% from 0.76% late Tuesday. European and Asian markets ended mixed. \", \"___\", \"AP Business Writer Elaine Kurtenbach contributed. \"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-college-football-college-football-picks-jeremy-pruitt-football-383ddc1c5a091e31a81b586a4b055ac0\", \"source\": \"Associated Press\", \"title\": \"College Football Picks: Tennessee, Miami take big swings\", \"description\": \"Enough talking about whether Texas is back.  Time to talk about whether Tennessee and Miami are back!  Like the Longhorns, the Volunteers and Hurricanes are programs with national... \", \"date\": \"2020-10-07T20:00:40Z\", \"author\": \"Ralph D. Russo\", \"text\": [\"Enough talking about whether Texas is back. \", \"Time to talk about whether Tennessee and Miami are back! \", \"Like the Longhorns, the Volunteers and Hurricanes are programs with national championship pedigrees that have been lost in the college football wilderness for about two decades, searching for past glory and relevance.\", \"Both are showing early season signs of being dark horse contenders in their conferences and face foes Saturday who are where they aspire to be.\", \"The 14th-ranked Volunteers are at No. 3 Georgia and No. 7 Miami visits No. 1 Clemson.\", \"The Vols faithful are as hopeful as they have been in years. Tennessee has won eight straight games, the longest active streak in the Southeastern Conference. That streak includes zero victories against ranked teams, but this is a program that is on its fourth coach since it last had a double-digit win season (2007).\", \"Jeremy Pruitt\\u2019s progress has been good enough to earn 15 victories and a contract extension two games into his third season. The Volunteers look like a very different team under Pruitt than they ever did for his predecessor. Butch Jones was 13-14 in his first 27 games with the Volunteers and headed toward the first of two consecutive nine-win seasons. Pruitt is now 15-12. \", \"Yearly games against Alabama and Georgia have been stark reminders of how far the Volunteers have to go to get back to the national championship contention days of the late 1990s. The Bulldogs have won the last three meetings 122-26.\", \"\\u201cWe\\u2019ve continued to improve over the last three years,\\u201d Pruitt said. \\u201cWe\\u2019re nowhere near where we want to be.\\u201d\", \"Miami\\u2019s last national championship was in 2001. Since then, it has won just one Atlantic Coast Conference division title, back in 2017. That surprising run to playoff contention and No. 2 in the country was marred by a three-game slide to end the season that included a 38-3 loss to Clemson in the ACC championship game.\", \"Unlike Tennessee, Miami is not forced to confront the realization of its aspirations every season. Before that conference title game, Miami last played Clemson in 2015 and lost 58-0. The worst loss in program history ended the coach Al Golden era in Coral Gables, Florida.\", \"Clemson since then has won two national titles and lost in the title game two other times.\", \"\\u201cThis is not a big game at Clemson,\\u201d Miami coach Manny Diaz said. \\u201cThis is just what they do. We\\u2019ve got to get our program where it\\u2019s the same way.\\u201d\", \"The picks:\", \"SATURDAY\", \"No. 7 Miami (plus 14) at No. 1 Clemson\", \"\\u2019Canes are 9-5 against No. 1 ranked teams in last 40 years, with the last victory coming in 2000 vs. Florida State and last loss coming to Clemson three years ago ... CLEMSON 38-21. \", \"No. 2 Alabama (minus 23) at Mississippi\", \"Ole Miss coach Lane Kiffin gets first crack at old boss Nick Saban since he was an offensive coordinator for the Tide. Saban improved to 20-0 against his former assistants last week ... ALABAMA 52-32.\", \"No. 14 Tennessee (plus 12 1/2) at No. 3 Georgia\", \"Vols\\u2019 last victory against a top-five team came in 2005 against No. 4 LSU ... GEORGIA 31-14.\", \"No. 4 Florida (minus 6 1/2) at No. 21 Texas A&M\", \"Aggies are 3-8 against ranked teams in two-plus seasons under coach Jimbo Fisher, including 1-8 vs. top-10 opponents ... FLORIDA 30-27.\", \"No. Florida State (plus 20 1/2) at No. 5 Notre Dame\", \"Irish last played Sept. 19 because of a COVID-19 outbreak ... NOTRE DAME 35-17.\", \"No. 19 Virginia Tech (plus 5) at No. 8 North Carolina\", \"Hokies have won the last four meetings, including a six overtime thriller last year ... NORTH CAROLINA 31-24.\", \"Arkansas (plus 14) at No. 13 Auburn\", \"Nothing has perked up Auburn\\u2019s offense quite like the Razorbacks in recent years; Tigers have won the last four meetings and averaged by 48.3 points ... AUBURN 35-17. \", \"UTSA (plus 34 1/2) at No. 15 BYU\", \"Cougars QB Zach Wilson has thrown 11 incomplete passes and accounted for 11 touchdowns ... BYU 42-14. \", \"No. 17 LSU (minus 14 1/2) at Missouri\", \"Game was scheduled to be played at LSU but Hurricane Delta forced a move to Columbia ... LSU 31-14.\", \"No. 22 Texas (plus 2 1/2) vs. Oklahoma\", \"Last time both the Longhorns and Sooners lost the week before the Red River Shootout was 2014 ... TEXAS 35-34. \", \"Coastal Carolina (plus 7) at No. 23 Louisiana-Lafayette\", \"Get to know Chanticleers QB Grayson McCall, who is fourth in the nation in yards per pass (11.6) with nine TD passes and only one INT ... LOUISIANA-LAFAYETTE 31-23.\", \"Texas Tech (plus 12 1/2) at No. 24 Iowa State\", \"Cyclones have won four straight against the Red Raiders ... IOWA STATE 34-24.\", \"TWITTER REQUESTS\", \"THURSDAY\", \"Tulane (plus 6 1/2) at Houston \\u2014 @jefe172\", \"Cougars finally get to open the season (fingers crossed) after COVID-19 issues forced three opponents to call off games ... HOUSTON 27-24.\", \"SATURDAY\", \"Kansas State (plus 9) at TCU \\u2014 @DCAbloob\", \"Status of Wildcats QB Skylar Thompson (throwing arm) is uncertain; freshman back-up Will Howard relieved in a win against Texas Tech last week ... TCU 28-21. \", \"Mississippi State (plus 1 1/2) at Kentucky \\u2014 @DarrylKerr\", \"Bulldogs\\u2019 Air Raid vs. Wildcats\\u2019 ground and pound ... KENTUCKY 27-23.\", \"___\", \"Record\", \"Last week: 13-6 straight; 7-12 against the spread.\", \"Season: 40-15 straight; 27-27 against the spread.\", \"___\", \"Follow Ralph D. Russo at https://twitter.com/ralphDrussoAP and listen at http://www.westwoodonepodcasts.com/pods/ap-top-25-college-football-podcast/\", \"___\", \"More AP college football: https://apnews.com/Collegefootball and https://twitter.com/AP_Top25\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-pandemics-bucharest-romania-archive-2998096f7aa9161099d8e0e42c018177\", \"source\": \"Associated Press\", \"title\": \"Romanian hospitality workers protest as new lockdown starts\", \"description\": \"BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) \\u2014 Hundreds of Romanian hospitality workers protested Wednesday evening in the capital, Bucharest, accusing the government of failing to protect their industry from the... \", \"date\": \"2020-10-07T20:38:52Z\", \"author\": \"Andreea Alexandru\", \"text\": [\"BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) \\u2014 Hundreds of Romanian hospitality workers protested Wednesday evening in the capital, Bucharest, accusing the government of failing to protect their industry from the pandemic\\u2019s economic fallout, even as a new lockdown kicked in. \", \"The peaceful protest outside the Romanian government building came as the country reported a record daily 2,985 coronavirus infections nationwide.\", \"It also coincided with Bucharest authorities\\u2019 decision earlier in the day to once again shut down all the capital\\u2019s indoor restaurants, theaters, movie cinemas, gambling and dance venues. These establishments reopened early last month after being forced to stay shut for nearly half a year. \", \"Protesters carried signs and banners reading: \\u201cToday\\u2019s menu: unemployment\\u201d and \\u201c400,000 affected while not infected\\u201d -- in reference to the pre-pandemic number of Romania\\u2019s hospitality sector jobs. \", \"Cezar Andrei, who has been running a fish restaurant in Bucharest for the past 20 years, said he won\\u2019t be able to stay afloat for much longer if he is not allowed to work.\", \"\\u201cWe are aware of the risks posed by the virus, but this is not the way to solve the problem,\\u201d Andrei said. \", \"\\u201cWe can probably last for another month or so, but not much longer,\\u201d he added, arguing that the recent surge in COVID-19 cases in Romania has not been traced back to the hospitality sector. \", \"The national association of restaurant owners and hoteliers, which backed the protest, said more than 40% of jobs in the hospitality sector have been lost due to lockdown measures since the pandemic hit the country in February, while turnover fell 70%. Hospitality accounted for about a tenth of all private sector jobs in Romania last year, and contributed 5% of GDP. \", \"Moaghin Marius Ciprian, the owner of the popular Grivita Pub n Grill in downtown Bucharest, stressed that restaurants were not to blame for the increase in infections.\", \"\\u201cWe were closed for six months, the restaurants didn\\u2019t work and yet the number of cases still rose,\\u201d Cipriani said. \\u201cI am not an expert, but I am not stupid either \\u2026 we are not responsible,\\u201d for the accelerated spread of the virus. \", \"On Wednesday, the total number of confirmed infections in Romania \\u2014 a country of some 19 million -- stood at over 142,000, including 5,200 deaths. Almost two-thirds of the confirmed cases were reported since the end of July.\", \"___\", \"Follow AP pandemic coverage at http://apnews.com/VirusOutbreak and https://apnews.com/UnderstandingtheOutbreak\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-florida-us-news-layoffs-california-033389009958e5c939aa1445a5d9a41f\", \"source\": \"Associated Press\", \"title\": \"8,800 part-time workers in Florida part of Disney layoffs\", \"description\": \"ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) \\u2014 About 8,800 part-time union workers at Walt Disney World in Florida will be part of the 28,000 layoffs in Disney's parks division in California and Florida, union officials... \", \"date\": \"2020-10-07T20:34:04Z\", \"author\": \"Mike Schneider\", \"text\": [\"ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) \\u2014 About 8,800 part-time union workers at Walt Disney World in Florida will be part of the 28,000 layoffs in Disney\\u2019s parks division in California and Florida, union officials said Wednesday.\", \"The addition of the union workers to nearly 6,500 nonunion layoffs already announced brings the Disney-related job losses in Florida to more than 15,000 workers.\", \"Disney officials announced last week that it was laying off 28,000 workers because of the coronavirus pandemic. Two-thirds of the planned layoffs involved part-time workers and they ranged from salaried employees to hourly workers.\", \"Disney\\u2019s parks closed last spring as the pandemic began spreading in the U.S. The \", \" this summer, but the California parks have yet to reopen as the company awaits guidance from the state of California.\", \"In a letter to employees, Josh D\\u2019Amaro, chairman of Disney Parks, Experience and Product, said California\\u2019s \\u201cunwillingness to lift restrictions that would allow Disneyland to reopen\\u201d exacerbated \", \" for the company.\", \"Disney has soared to success with the breadth of its media and entertainment offerings, but is now trying to recover after the coronavirus pandemic pummeled many of its businesses. It was hit by several months of its parks and stores being closed, cruise ships idled, movie releases postponed and a halt in film and video production.\", \"The layoffs of the part-time union workers were announced by the Service Trades Council Union, a coalition of six unions that represents 43,000 workers at Disney World.\", \"\\u201cThese are unprecedented times,\\u201d the Service Trades Council Union said in a statement. \\u201cIt is unfortunate anytime a worker is laid off and the mass layoffs that Disney is facing are extremely difficult for 1,000s of Cast Members.\\u201d\", \"No fulltime workers, also called cast members, will be laid off under the deal the unions negotiated with Disney. Over the next two years, workers who have been laid off will get priority when Disney starts hiring again, and they will retain their seniority and pay rate.\", \"According to the deal with the unions, full-time workers whose positions aren\\u2019t needed by the company can transfer to another position. But if they don\\u2019t agree to the transfers, they can be laid off. Those workers who are laid off will receive two months pay.\", \"___\", \"Follow Mike Schneider on Twitter at https://twitter.com/MikeSchneiderAP.\", \"___\", \"Follow AP coverage of the pandemic at https://apnews.com/VirusOutbreak and https://apnews.com/UnderstandingtheOutbreak.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://apnews.com/article/jamaica-johnny-mathis-johnny-nash-archive-bob-marley-0f9f260a1c75a6901ceaab05b52be458\", \"source\": \"Associated Press\", \"title\": \"Johnny Nash, singer of \\u2018I Can See Clearly Now,\\u2019 dies at 80\", \"description\": \"Johnny Nash, a singer-songwriter, actor and producer who rose from pop crooner to early reggae star to the creator and performer of the million-selling anthem \\u201cI Can See Clearly Now,\\u201d died... \", \"date\": \"2020-10-07T00:22:09Z\", \"author\": \"Hillel Italie\", \"text\": [\"Johnny Nash, a singer-songwriter, actor and producer who rose from pop crooner to early reggae star to the creator and performer of the million-selling anthem \\u201cI Can See Clearly Now,\\u201d died Tuesday, his son said. \", \"Nash, who had been in declining health, died of natural causes at home in Houston, the city of his birth, his son, Johnny Nash Jr., told The Associated Press. He was 80. \", \"Nash was in his early 30s when \\u201cI Can See Clearly Now\\u201d topped the charts in 1972 and he had lived several show business lives. In the mid-1950s, he was a teenager covering \\u201cDarn That Dream\\u201d and other standards, his light tenor likened to the voice of Johnny Mathis. A decade later, he was co-running a record company, had become a rare American-born singer of reggae and helped launch the career of his friend Bob Marley. \", \"Nash praised \\u201cthe vibes of this little island\\u201d when speaking of Jamaica, and he was among the first artists to bring reggae to U.S. audiences. He peaked commercially in the late 1960s and early 1970s, when he had hits with \\u201cHold Me Tight,\\u201d \\u201cYou Got Soul,\\u201d an early version of Marley\\u2019s \\u201cStir It Up\\u201d and \\u201cI Can See Clearly Now,\\u201d still his signature song.\", \"Reportedly written by Nash while recovering from cataract surgery, \\u201cI Can See Clearly Now\\u201d was a story of overcoming hard times that itself raised the spirits of countless listeners, with its swelling pop-reggae groove, promise of a \\u201cbright, bright sunshiny day\\u201d and Nash\\u2019s gospel-styled exclamation midway, \\u201cLook straight ahead, nothing but blue skies!\\u201d, a backing chorus lifting the words into the heavens. \", \"The rock critic Robert Christgau would call the song, which Nash also produced, \\u201c2 minutes and 48 seconds of undiluted inspiration.\\u201d\", \"Although overlooked by Grammys judges, \\u201cI Can See Clearly Now\\u201d was covered by artists ranging from Ray Charles and Donny Osmond to Soul Asylum and Jimmy Cliff, whose version was featured in the 1993 movie \\u201cCool Runnings.\\u201d It also turned up everywhere from \\u201cThelma and Louise\\u201d to a Windex commercial, and in recent years was often referred to on websites about cataract procedures.\", \"\\u201cI feel that music is universal. Music is for the ears and not the age,\\u201d Nash told Cameron Crowe, then writing for Zoo World Magazine, in 1973. \\u201cThere are some people who say that they hate music. I\\u2019ve run into a few, but I\\u2019m not sure I believe them.\\u201d\", \"The fame of \\u201cI Can See Clearly Now\\u201d outlasted Nash\\u2019s own. He rarely made the charts in the years following, even as he released such albums as \\u201cTears On My Pillow\\u201d and \\u201cCelebrate Life,\\u201d and by the 1990s had essentially left the business. His last album, \\u201cHere Again,\\u201d came out in 1986, although in recent years he was reportedly digitizing his old work, some of which was lost in a 2008 fire at Universal Studios in Los Angeles.\", \"Nash was married three times, and had two children. He had loved riding horses since childhood and as an adult lived with his family on a ranch in Houston, where for years he also managed rodeo shows at the Johnny Nash Indoor Arena.\", \"In addition to his son, he is survived by daughter Monica and wife Carli Nash. \", \"John Lester Nash Jr., whose father was a chauffeur, grew up singing in church and by age 13 had his own show on Houston television. Within a few years, he had a national following through his appearances on \\u201cThe Arthur Godfrey Show,\\u201d his hit cover of Doris Day\\u2019s \\u201cA Very Special Love\\u201d and a collaboration with peers Paul Anka and George Hamilton IV on the wholesome \\u201cThe Teen Commandments (of Love).\\u201d He also had roles in the films \\u201cTake a Giant Step,\\u201d in which he starred as a high school student rebelling against how the Civil War is taught, and \\u201cKey Witness,\\u201d a crime drama starring Dennis Hopper and Jeffrey Hunter.\", \"His career faded during the first half of the 1960s, but he found a new sound, and renewed success, in the mid-60s after having a rhythm and blues hit with \\u201cLet\\u2019s Move and Groove Together\\u201d and meeting Marley and fellow Wailers Peter Tosh and Bunny Livingston during a visit to Jamaica. Over the next few years their careers would be closely aligned. \", \"Nash convinced his manager and business partner Danny Sims, with whom he formed JAD Records, to sign up Marley and the Wailers, who recorded \\u201cReggae On Broadway\\u201d and dozens of other songs for JAD. Nash brought Marley to London in the early 1970s when Nash was the bigger star internationally and with Marley gave an impromptu concert at a local boys school. Nash\\u2019s covers of \\u201cStir It Up\\u201d and \\u201cGuava Jelly\\u201d helped expose Marley\\u2019s writing to a general audience. The two also collaborated on the ballad \\u201cYou Poured Sugar On Me,\\u201d which appeared on the \\u201cI Can See Clearly Now\\u201d album.\", \"After the 1980s, Nash became a mystery to fans and former colleagues as he stopped recording and performing and rarely spoke to the press or anyone in the music industry. In 1973, he told Crowe that he anticipated years of hard work: \\u201cWhat I want to do is be a part of this business and to express myself and get some kind of acceptance by making people happy.\\u201d\", \"A quarter century later, he explained to The Gleaner during a visit to Jamaica that it was \\u201cdifficult to develop major music projects\\u201d without touring and promoting and that he preferred to be with his family. \", \"\\u201cI think I\\u2019ve achieved gratification in terms of the people I\\u2019ve had the chance to meet. I never won the Grammy, but I don\\u2019t put my faith in things of that nature,\\u201d he added. \\u201cA lifetime body of work I can be proud of is more important to me. And the special folksy blend to the music I make, that\\u2019s what it is all about.\\u201d\", \"___\", \"AP Entertainment Writer Andrew Dalton contributed to this story from Los Angeles. Italie reported from New York.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://apnews.com/article/michael-jackson-eddie-van-halen-archive-ad6e71e78b0b5d7e87a72eef1ceaaf26\", \"source\": \"Associated Press\", \"title\": \"Guitar rock legend Eddie Van Halen dies of cancer at 65\", \"description\": \"NEW YORK (AP) \\u2014 Eddie Van Halen, the guitar virtuoso whose blinding speed, control and innovation propelled his band Van Halen into one of hard rock\\u2019s biggest groups and became elevated to the... \", \"date\": \"2020-10-06T19:58:41Z\", \"author\": \"Mark Kennedy\", \"text\": [\"NEW YORK (AP) \\u2014 Eddie Van Halen, the guitar virtuoso whose blinding speed, control and innovation propelled his band Van Halen into one of hard rock\\u2019s biggest groups and became elevated to the status of rock god, has died. He was 65.\", \"A person close to Van Halen\\u2019s family confirmed the rocker died Tuesday due to cancer. The person was not authorized to publicly release details in advance of an official announcement.\", \"\\u201cHe was the best father I could ask for,\\u201d Van Halen\\u2019s son Wolfgang \", \". \\u201cEvery moment I\\u2019ve shared with him on and off stage was a gift.\\u201d\", \"With his distinct solos, Eddie Van Halen fueled the ultimate California party band and helped knock disco off the charts starting in the late 1970s with his band\\u2019s self-titled debut album and then with the blockbuster record \\u201c1984,\\u201d which contains the classics \\u201cJump,\\u201d \\u201cPanama\\u201d and \\u201cHot for Teacher.\\u201d\", \"Van Halen is among the top 20 best-selling artists of all time, and the band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2007. Rolling Stone magazine put Eddie Van Halen at No. 8 in its list of the 100 greatest guitarists.\", \"Eddie Van Halen was something of a musical contradiction. He was an autodidact who could play almost any instrument, but he couldn\\u2019t read music. He was a classically trained pianist who also created some of the most distinctive guitar riffs in rock history. He was a Dutch immigrant who was considered one of the greatest American guitarists of his generation.\", \"Honors came from the music world, from Lenny Kravitz to Kenny Chesney. \\u201cYou changed our world. You were the Mozart of rock guitar. Travel safe, rockstar,\\u201d Motley Crue\\u2019s Nikki Sixx said on Twitter. Added Lenny Kravitz: \\u201cHeaven will be electric tonight.\\u201d\", \"The members of Van Halen \\u2014 the two Van Halen brothers, Eddie and Alex; vocalist David Lee Roth; and bassist Michael Anthony \\u2014 formed in 1974 in Pasadena, California. They were members of rival high school bands and then attended Pasadena City College together. They combined to form the band Mammoth, but then changed to Van Halen after discovering there was another band called Mammoth.\", \"Their 1978 release \\u201cVan Halen\\u201d opened with a blistering \\u201cRunnin\\u2019 With the Devil\\u201d and then Eddie Van Halen showed off his astonishing skills in the next song, \\u201cEruption,\\u201d a furious 1:42 minute guitar solo that swoops and soars like a deranged bird. The album also contained a cover of the Kinks\\u2019 \\u201cYou Really Got Me\\u201d and \\u201cAin\\u2019t Talkin\\u2019 \\u2019Bout Love.\\u201d \", \"Van Halen released albums on a yearly timetable \\u2014 \\u201cVan Halen II\\u201d (1979), \\u201cWomen and Children First\\u201d (1980), \\u201cFair Warning\\u201d (1981) and \\u201cDiver Down\\u201d (1982) \\u2014 until the monumental \\u201c1984,\\u201d which hit No. 2 on the Billboard 200 album charts (only behind Michael Jackson\\u2019s \\u201cThriller\\u201d). Rolling Stone ranked \\u201c1984\\u201d No. 81 on its list of the 100 Greatest Albums of the 1980s.\", \"\\u201cEddie put the smile back in rock guitar, at a time when it was all getting a bit brooding. He also scared the hell out of a million guitarists around the world, because he was so damn good. And original,\\u201d Joe Satriani, a fellow virtuoso, told Billboard in 2015.\", \"Van Halen also played guitar on one of the biggest singles of the 1980s: Jackson\\u2019s \\u201cBeat It.\\u201d His solo lasted all of 20 seconds and took only a half an hour to record. \", \"Van Halen received no compensation or credit for the work, even though he rearranged the section he played on. \\u201cIt was 20 minutes of my life. I didn\\u2019t want anything for doing that,\\u201d he told Billboard in 2015. \\u201cI literally thought to myself, \\u2018Who is possibly going to know if I play on this kid\\u2019s record?\\u2019\\u201d Rolling Stone ranked \\u201cBeat It\\u201d No. 344 on its list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. Jackson\\u2019s melding of hard rock and R&B preceded the meeting of Run-DMC and Aerosmith by four years. \", \"But strains between Roth and the band erupted after their 1984 world tour and Roth left. The group then recruited Sammy Hagar as lead singer \\u2014some critics called the new formulation \\u201cVan Hagar\\u201d \\u2014 and the band went on to score its first No. 1 album with \\u201c5150,\\u201d More studio albums followed, including \\u201cOU812,\\u201d \\u201cFor Unlawful Carnal Knowledge\\u201d and \\u201cBalance.\\u201d Hit singles included \\u201cWhy Can\\u2019t This Be Love\\u201d and \\u201cWhen It\\u2019s Love.\\u201d\", \"Hagar was ousted in 1996 and former Extreme singer Gary Cherone stepped in for the album \\u201cVan Halen III,\\u201d a stumble that didn\\u2019t lead to another album and the quick departure of Cherone. Roth would eventually return in 2007 and team up with the Van Halen brothers and Wolfgang Van Halen on bass for a tour, the album \\u201cA Different Kind of Truth\\u201d and the 2015 album \\u201cTokyo Dome Live in Concert.\\u201d\", \"Van Halen\\u2019s music has appeared in films as varied as \\u201cSuperbad,\\u201d \\u201cMinions\\u201d and \\u201cSing\\u201d as well as TV shows like \\u201cGlee\\u201d and \\u201cIt\\u2019s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.\\u201d Video games such as \\u201cGran Turismo 4\\u201d and \\u201cGuitar Hero\\u201d have used his riffs. Their song \\u201cJamie\\u2019s Cryin\\u201d was sampled by rapper Tone Loc in his hit \\u201cWild Thing.\\u201d\", \"For much of his career, Eddie Van Halen wrote and experimented with sounds while drunk or high or both. He revealed that he would stay in his hotel room drinking vodka and snorting cocaine while playing into a tape recorder. (Hagar\\u2019s 2011 autobiography \\u201cRed: My Uncensored Life in Rock\\u201d portrays Eddie as a violent, booze-addled vampire, living inside a garbage-strewn house.)\", \"\\u201cI didn\\u2019t drink to party,\\u201d Van Halen told Billboard. \\u201cAlcohol and cocaine were private things to me. I would use them for work. The blow keeps you awake and the alcohol lowers your inhibitions. I\\u2019m sure there were musical things I would not have attempted were I not in that mental state.\\u201d\", \"Eddie Van Halen was born in Amsterdam and his family immigrated to California in 1962 when he was 7. His father was a big band clarinetist who rarely found work after coming to the U.S., and their mother was a maid who had dreams of her sons being classical pianists. The Van Halens shared a house with three other families. Eddie and Alex had only each other, a tight relationship that flowed through their music.\", \"\\u201cWe showed up here with the equivalent of $50 and a piano,\\u201d Eddie Van Halen told The Associated Press in 2015. \\u201cWe came halfway around the world without money, without a set job, no place to live and couldn\\u2019t even speak the language.\\u201d\", \"He said his earliest memories of music were banging pots and pans together, marching to John Philip Sousa marches. At one point, Eddie got a drum set, which his older brother coveted.\", \"\\u201cI never wanted to play guitar,\\u201d he confessed at a talk at the Smithsonian\\u2019s National Museum of American History in 2015. But his brother was good at the drums, so Eddie gave into his brother\\u2019s wishes: \\u201cI said, \\u2018Go ahead, take my drums. I\\u2019ll play your damn guitar.\\u2019\\u201d\", \"He was a relentless experimenter who would solder different parts from different guitar-makers, including Gibson and Fender. He created his own graphic design for his guitars by adding tape to the instruments and then spray-painting them. He said his influences were Eric Clapton, and Jimi Hendrix.\", \"Van Halen, sober since 2008, lost one-third of his tongue to a cancer that eventually drifted into his esophagus. In 1999, he had a hip replacement. He was married twice, to actress Valerie Bertinelli from 1981 to 2007 and then to stuntwoman-turned-publicist Janie Liszewski, whom he wed in 2009. \", \"\\u201cI\\u2019m so grateful Wolfie and I were able to hold you in your last moments,\\u201d Bertinelli wrote on Instagram, showing an image of their baby son. \\u201cI will see you in our next life.\\u201d\", \"__\", \"AP Music Editor Mesfin Fekadu contributed to this report.\", \"___ \", \"Mark Kennedy is at \"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://apnews.com/article/police-thomas-lane-trials-minneapolis-crime-1e0d9bcb6e751c31c8de0794434c5730\", \"source\": \"Associated Press\", \"title\": \"Ex-officer charged in George Floyd's death freed on $1M bond\", \"description\": \"MINNEAPOLIS (AP) \\u2014 The former Minneapolis police officer charged with murder in the death of George Floyd posted bail on Wednesday and was released from prison. According to court documents,... \", \"date\": \"2020-10-07T17:44:06Z\", \"author\": \"Amy Forliti\", \"text\": [\"MINNEAPOLIS (AP) \\u2014 The former Minneapolis police officer charged with murder in the death of George Floyd posted bail on Wednesday and was released from prison.\", \"According to court documents, \", \" posted a $1 million bond and was released from the state\\u2019s facility in Oak Park Heights, where he had been detained. Hennepin County jail records show he was released shortly before 11:30 a.m.\", \"Floyd, a Black man in handcuffs, died May 25 after Chauvin, who is white, pressed his knee against Floyd\\u2019s neck for several minutes as Floyd said he couldn\\u2019t breathe. Floyd\\u2019s death was captured in widely seen bystander video that set off protests around the world. Chauvin and three other officers were fired. Chauvin is charged with second-degree murder, third-degree murder and manslaughter; Thomas Lane, J. Kueng and Tou Thao are charged with aiding and abetting both second-degree murder and manslaughter.\", \"It was not immediately clear where Chauvin got the money to pay his bond. In Minnesota, someone who posts bond must pay 10%, in this case $100,000, to the bond company and have collateral, such as a house, to back the full amount. A message left with the company that posted the bond, Allegheny Casualty Company, was not immediately returned. \", \"The Minnesota Police and Peace Officers Association, which has a legal defense fund, did not provide any money for bail, a spokeswoman said. A message left with the union representing Minneapolis police officers was not returned. \", \"The website GiveSendGo.com, which says it is a free Christian crowdfunding site, has a Derek Chauvin Bail Fund that says it was created by his family. According to the site, as of midday Wednesday that fund raised $4,198 of its $125,000 goal, with donations from more than 35 people. A posting on the site dated Sept. 12 said it took time to set up a fundraising effort due to the high-profile nature of the case. \", \"Chauvin had the option of posting bail for $1.25 million without conditions or $1 million with conditions. Under the conditions of his release, he must attend all court appearances, cannot have any direct or indirect contact \\u2014 including social media contact \\u2014 with any members of Floyd\\u2019s family, cannot work in law enforcement or security, and must not possess any firearms ammunition. \", \"Chauvin\\u2019s attorney had no comment Wednesday.\", \"Chauvin\\u2019s wife, Kellie Chauvin, filed for divorce shortly after Floyd\\u2019s death. The records in that case have since been sealed and Kellie Chauvin\\u2019s divorce attorney didn\\u2019t immediately reply to a message seeking comment. \", \"In July, the Chauvins were charged with multiple felony counts of tax evasion for allegedly failing to report income from various jobs, including more than $95,000 from Derek Chauvin\\u2019s off-duty security work. The criminal complaints in that case allege that from 2014 through 2019, the Chauvins underreported their joint income by $464,433 and owe the state $37,868 in unpaid taxes, interest and fees.\", \"The tax evasion case also listed other assets, including the couple\\u2019s second home in Florida and a $100,000 BMW. \", \"The Chauvin home in the St. Paul suburb of Oakdale was sold on Aug. 28 for $279,000, which was $26,000 less than the price it was listed at a month after Floyd\\u2019s death, according to online real estate records. It was not clear where Chauvin was staying after his release, but one of the conditions of his bail was that he not leave Minnesota without permission.\", \"The other three officers charged in Floyd\\u2019s death had previously posted bond amounts of $750,000 and have been free pending trial. Currently, all four men are scheduled to \", \", but the judge is weighing a request to have them tried separately. \"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://apnews.com/article/plays-sundance-film-festival-harriet-tubman-spike-lee-film-festivals-c843e4b8aa5c4bc98b433b3fc5cba412\", \"source\": \"Associated Press\", \"title\": \"Radha Blank of 'The Forty-Year-Old Version' isn't late\", \"description\": \"If Radha Blank had a tagline for her film, \\u201cThe Forty-Year-Old Version,\\u201d it would be: \\u201cYou don't age out of your passion.\\u201d Blank wrote, directed and stars in her debut film, a heavily... \", \"date\": \"2020-10-07T16:08:11Z\", \"author\": \"Jake Coyle\", \"text\": [\"If Radha Blank had a tagline for her film, \\u201cThe Forty-Year-Old Version,\\u201d it would be: \\u201cYou don\\u2019t age out of your passion.\\u201d\", \"Blank wrote, directed and stars in her debut film, a heavily autobiographical tale, shot in black-and-white and on 35mm, about a middle-aged playwright in Harlem struggling to fulfill her career\\u2019s earlier promise. Faced with unappealing options, like a Harriet Tubman musical put on by white producers, she turns to an old passion, hip-hop, and begins performing as RadhaMUSprime.\", \"The film \\u2014 laceratingly funny, relentlessly frank, wholly original \\u2014 made its lauded premiere at the Sundance Film Festival where Blank won a directing prize and Netflix acquired it. It begins streaming Friday. \", \"Blank, who has written for the Spike Lee series \\u201cShe\\u2019s Gotta Have It\\u201d (on which she was also a producer) and \\u201cEmpire,\\u201d first began the project as a web series that would have culminated in a mix tape. The death of her mother derailed the series, and Blank realized \\u201cThe 40-Year-Old Version\\u201d needed a bigger canvas. Lena Waithe (\\u201cMaster of None,\\u201d \\u201cQueen & Slim\\u201d) came aboard as a producer.\", \"In an interview back when \\u201cThe Forty-Year-Old Version\\u201d was landing at Sundance, Blank \\u2014 a proud New Yorker who, like her character, struggled to get her plays mounted before rapping under a pseudonym \\u2014 talked about her delayed but inevitable arrival.\", \"AP: What compelled you to start writing this?\", \"BLANK: I was fired from a film job. This is like before I was writing for TV. I got a job. Someone had seen a play of mine and they hired me to adapt a book. And I got fired off the job. And I was kind of devastated and felt a little powerless and just decided, you know what? (Expletive) it. I\\u2019m going to make a web series so that I\\u2019m in charge. No one can fire me. About two weeks before we were going to shoot the first two episodes, my mom passed away and it pretty much devastated my life. Like we were like Dorothy and Sophia domestically, as a viewer of \\u201cThe Golden Girls.\\u201d We shared the same birthday and she\\u2019s the person who nurtured all these storytelling seeds in me. I was probably going to quit anything creative because my biggest champion and friend was now gone. I was going to go back to school and become a social worker. I\\u2019m glad I didn\\u2019t. I probably saved more children by not becoming a social worker.\", \"AP: Is your protagonist you?\", \"BLANK: It\\u2019s me but a heightened version. She is who I wish I could be all the time. She tells it like it is. What we have in common is how we use rejection to fuel an idea. My character, the idea of her becoming a rapper is a joke until she starts rhyming. And for me, when I first decided I wanted to shoot this in black and white. Everyone was like, why would you do that? It\\u2019s a matter of trusting your impulses.\", \"AP: How does it feel to be making your filmmaking debut at this stage in your life?\", \"BLANK: \\u201cAuteurs\\u201d are reserved for older filmmakers. And groundbreaking, fresh films seems to be associated with young filmmakers. I\\u2019m somewhere in the middle. I\\u2019ve been telling and crafting stories for over 20 years. When it came time to make the film, I knew exactly what it is I wanted to say. For people who know me and know my work, it was just a matter of time before I got here. It\\u2019s kind of this idea that we never stop learning about who you are. You can have revelations about yourself and what you should be doing at any age.\", \"AP: And that includes rapping for you. But you bring a different perspective to hip-hop.\", \"BLANK: It\\u2019s all of the bravado of hip-hop but it\\u2019s from a person whose body is changing. There\\u2019s some hot flashes in there. AARP is sending me (expletive) in the mail. I know a lot of people who feel that way, I just don\\u2019t see it reflected in mainstream culture. Especially with hip-hop. I love this culture. I am the same age as hip-hop culture. Some of the culture is over-sexualized and over-saturated and so loud. That\\u2019s part of why I wanted to film it in black and white. Black and white cools it down.\", \"AP: How would you describe your film\\u2019s connection with Judd Apatow\\u2019s \\u201cThe 40-Year-Old Virgin\\u201d?\", \"BLANK: Honestly, I\\u2019m just like appropriating his (expletive). People appropriate Black culture all the time. I\\u2019m like, \\u201cHey, Judd. I\\u2019m comin\\u2019 for you!\\u201d I think he will have a great sense of humor about it, but I\\u2019m totally appropriating his (expletive). I love it when I say \\u201cForty-Year-Old Version\\u201d and they go, \\u201cThat move came out 15 years ago.\\u201d And I go, \\u201cNope! V-E-R-S-I-O-N.\\u201d But also trying to stay in the spirit of Judd Apatow, Black protagonists are quirky and awkward and can\\u2019t figure things out and are having identity crises at 40. I would hope one day my films can be in the canon of his storytelling. I lived in L.A. for about three years and even though I look like I might have blended into the cool arts scene, I always felt like Larry David. There are people who look like me who have those odd moments where there are clashes of culture right in front of them.\", \"___\", \"Follow AP Film Writer Jake Coyle on Twitter at: \"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-nfl-aaron-rodgers-green-bay-football-d7c9063da78bcccdb55201614b501238\", \"source\": \"Associated Press\", \"title\": \"Pandemic limiting what NFL players can do on their off weeks\", \"description\": \"GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) \\u2014 Aaron Rodgers and his Green Bay Packers teammates won\\u2019t get a chance to celebrate their fast start by leaving town during their week off. The Packers (4-0) and Detroit... \", \"date\": \"2020-10-07T20:02:03Z\", \"author\": \"Steve Megargee\", \"text\": [\"GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) \\u2014 Aaron Rodgers and his Green Bay Packers teammates won\\u2019t get a chance to celebrate their fast start by leaving town during their week off.\", \"The Packers (4-0) and Detroit Lions (1-3) don\\u2019t play this week and therefore are the first NFL teams to get a taste of how different off weeks will be amid a pandemic. Players and coaches aren\\u2019t allowed to leave the city where the team is located during the off week, as they must provide daily specimens for COVID-19 testing. \", \"\\u201cTotally sucks,\\u201d the 36-year-old Rodgers said after the Packers\\u2019 \", \" \\u201cThat\\u2019s all I can say about that. Obviously it is what it is, the situation. But especially as a older player, I look forward to the bye weeks immensely. I look forward to kind of a reset, recharging the batteries.\\u201d\", \"Indeed, players often have used these off weeks to visit their hometowns, take their families on a quick trip or return to their alma maters to watch college football games from the sidelines. They won\\u2019t get those chances this year.\", \"\\u201cWe have new protocols in place that are meant to keep everybody safe and healthy,\\u201d Lions coach Matt Patricia said. \\u201cAnd that\\u2019s important right now. We\\u2019re still in that world and still in the middle of COVID-19.\\u201d\", \"Both teams understand what\\u2019s at stake, particularly in light of recent events.\", \"\\n\", \" have had 20 positive cases since Sept. 29, which caused their scheduled Oct. 4 game with the Pittsburgh Steelers to get pushed back to Oct. 25. New England canceled its practices Wednesday and Thursday amid reports that a third Patriots player has tested positive. \", \"NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell \", \" Monday that any violations of COVID-19 protocols that force schedule changes could result in punishment including forfeiting games, fines or loss of draft picks.\", \"The NFL \", \" Friday that the league\\u2019s agreement with the NFL Players Association in August means players who miss tests can be punished with a $50,000 fine. A second missed test can result in a one-game suspension.\", \"\\u201cThere definitely had to be a lot of sacrifices made this year for this season to happen, but I think everyone can say that they\\u2019re definitely willing to make those sacrifices,\\u201d Lions center Frank Ragnow said.\", \"The Packers\\u2019 off week comes at a time when the high COVID-19 rates around Green Bay caused the team to announce Tuesday that \", \"Packers coach Matt LaFleur closed his postgame Zoom session Monday by reminding players and other Green Bay-area residents to wear a mask and practice social distancing.\", \"\\u201cUnfortunately COVID is running rampant in our community, and our guys got to continue to make smart decisions because you can see how it can impact a football team,\\u201d LaFleur said. \\u201cYou\\u2019ve got to look no further than Tennessee.\\u201d\", \"The protocols are impacting some players more than others.\", \"For instance, Packers running back Jamaal Williams said his routine this week wouldn\\u2019t be much different from normal.\", \"\\u201cShoot, (it\\u2019s) the same thing I do every time when I leave practice: Go home, chill, watch anime, play my video game,\\u201d Williams said. \\u201cIt\\u2019s nothing different for me. I like being at home, chilling by myself. My daughter is coming now so now she get to see me. Now we really get to have fun together. It\\u2019s really nothing new to me. I like my peace and quiet.\\u201d\", \"Packers running back Aaron Jones said he normally would have visited his family in his hometown of El Paso, Texas, this week. Lions defensive end Trey Flowers said he would have gone to Alabama to spend time with his children.\", \"While the protocols have changed those plans, it has created opportunities for those players who already have their family members with them. Lions safety Duron Harmon said he\\u2019ll try to make the most of a chance to celebrate his wife\\u2019s birthday Thursday\", \"\\u201cHappy wife, happy life,\\u201d Harmon said. \\u201cI\\u2019ll try to make her as happy as I can.\\u201d\", \"Ragnow said he\\u2019d try to find someplace nearby where he could fish but acknowledged he\\u2019d spend much of the Lions\\u2019 off week \\u201cquarantining and hanging out.\\u201d Green Bay tight end Robert Tonyan said he\\u2019d probably \\u201cjust lay in the ice tub a lot\\u201d to make sure he\\u2019s at full strength for the Packers\\u2019 Oct. 25 game at Tampa Bay.\", \"They\\u2019re all just looking for different ways to pass the time without the opportunity to go anywhere.\", \"\\u201cWe\\u2019ll be here,\\u201d Rodgers said. \\u201cWe\\u2019ll make the most of it. But it sucks.\\u201d\", \"___\", \"AP Sports Writers Larry Lage and Noah Trister and AP Pro Football Writer Teresa M. Walker contributed to this report.\", \"___\", \"More AP NFL: https://apnews.com/NFL and https://twitter.com/AP_NFL\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://apnews.com/article/politics-syria-islamic-state-group-1efbea5b67c6e15f67882d488293730e\", \"source\": \"Associated Press\", \"title\": \"US charges British IS members in deaths of American hostages\", \"description\": \"WASHINGTON (AP) \\u2014 Two Islamic State militants from Britain were brought to the United States on Wednesday to face charges in a gruesome campaign of torture, beheadings and other acts of violence... \", \"date\": \"2020-10-07T12:20:09Z\", \"author\": \"Eric Tucker\", \"text\": [\"WASHINGTON (AP) \\u2014 Two Islamic State militants from Britain were brought to the United States on Wednesday to \", \" in a gruesome campaign of torture, beheadings and other acts of violence against four Americans and others captured and held hostage in Syria, the Justice Department said.\", \"El Shafee Elsheikh and Alexanda Kotey are two of four men who were called \\u201cthe Beatles\\u201d by the hostages because of the captors\\u2019 British accents. The two men were expected to make their first appearance Wednesday afternoon in federal court in Alexandria, Virginia, where a federal grand jury issued an \", \" that accuses them of being \\u201cleading participants in a brutal hostage-taking scheme\\u201d that resulted in the deaths of Western hostages, including \", \".\", \"The charges are a milestone in a yearslong effort by U.S. authorities to bring to justice members of the group known for beheadings and barbaric treatment of aid workers, journalists and other hostages in Syria. Startling for their unflinching depictions of cruelty and violence, recordings of the murders were released online in the form of propaganda for a group that at its peak controlled vast swaths of Syria and Iraq.\", \"The case underscores the Justice Department\\u2019s commitment to prosecuting in American civilian court militants captured overseas, said Assistant Attorney General John Demers, who vowed that other extremists \\u201cwill be pursued to the ends of the earth.\\u201d The defendants\\u2019 arrival in the U.S. sets the stage for arguably the most sensational terrorism trial since the 2014 criminal case against the suspected ringleader of a deadly attack on a U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya.\", \"\\u201cIf you have American blood in your veins or American blood on your hands, you will face American justice,\\u201d said Demers, the department\\u2019s top national security official.\", \"The men are charged in connection with the deaths of four American hostages \\u2014 Foley, journalist Steven Sotloff and aid workers Peter Kassig and Kayla Mueller \\u2014 as well as British and Japanese nationals who were also held captive. \", \"The pair face charges of hostage-taking resulting in death and other terrorism-related counts. Because of a recent concession by the Justice Department, prosecutors will not be seeking the death penalty. \", \"The indictment describes Kotey and Elsheikh, both of whom prosecutors say radicalized in London and left for Syria in 2012, as \\u201cleading participants in a brutal hostage-taking scheme\\u201d that targeted American and European citizens and that involved murders, mock executions, shocks with electric tasers, physical restraints and other brutal acts.\", \"Prosecutors say the men worked closely with a chief spokesman for IS who reported to the group\\u2019s leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who was killed in a U.S. military operation last year. They were joined in the \\u201cBeatles\\u201d by Mohamed Emwazi, who was killed in a 2015 drone strike and was also known as \\u201cJihadi John\\u201d after appearing and speaking in the videos of multiple executions, including Foley\\u2019s. A fourth member, Aine Lesley Davis, is serving a prison sentence in Turkey. \", \"The indictment accuses Kotey and Elsheikh of participating in Foley\\u2019s 2012 kidnapping and of supervising detention facilities for hostages, \\u201cin addition to engaging in a long pattern of physical and psychological violence.\\u201d \", \"It also alleges that they coordinated ransom negotiations over email with hostage families. In interviews while in detention, the two men admitted they helped collect email addresses from Mueller that could be used to send out ransom demands. Mueller was killed in 2015 after 18 months in IS captivity. The indictment says Mueller\\u2019s family received an email demanding a cash payment of 5 million euros for Mueller\\u2019s release.\", \"In July 2014, according to the indictment, Elsheikh described to a family member his participation in an IS attack on the Syrian Army. He sent the family member photos of decapitated heads and said in a voice message, \\u201cThere\\u2019s many heads, this is just a couple that I took a photo of.\\u201d \", \"The indictment describes the execution of a Syrian prisoner in 2014 that the two forced their Western hostages to watch. Kotey instructed the hostages to kneel while watching the execution and holding signs pleading for their release. Emwazi shot the prisoner in the back of the head while Elsheikh videotaped the execution. Elsheikh told one of the hostages, \\u201cyou\\u2019re next,\\u201d prosecutors say.\", \"The 24-page indictment accuses Kotey and Elsheikh of conspiring to murder the hostages and of helping cause their deaths by detaining them. It does not spell out any specific roles for them in the executions. But G. Zachary Terwilliger, the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, whose office will prosecute the case, said under U.S. law Elsheikh and Kotey can \\u201cbe held liable for the foreseeable acts of their co-conspirators.\\u201d\", \"Relatives of the four slain Americans praised the Justice Department for transferring the men to the U.S. for trial, calling it \\u201cthe first step in the pursuit of justice for the alleged horrific human rights crimes against these four young Americans.\\u201d\", \"\\u201cWe are hopeful that the U.S. government will finally be able to send the important message that if you harm Americans, you will never escape justice. And when you are caught, you will face the full power of American law,\\u201d their statement said.\", \"Elsheikh and Kotey have been held since October 2019 in American military custody after being captured in Syria one year earlier by the U.S.-based Syrian Democratic Forces while trying to escape Syria for Turkey. The Justice Department has long wanted to put them on trial, but those efforts were complicated by wrangling over whether Britain, which does not have the death penalty, would share evidence that could be used in a death penalty prosecution.\", \"Attorney General William Barr broke the diplomatic standoff this year when he promised the men would not face the death penalty. That prompted British authorities to share evidence that U.S. prosecutors deemed crucial for obtaining convictions.\", \"___\", \"Barakat reported from Alexandria, Virginia.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://apnews.com/article/david-alan-grier-john-malkovich-plays-lucas-hedges-elizabeth-ashley-7d5b1a85c6e91bd7533297539c21228f\", \"source\": \"Associated Press\", \"title\": \"Online fall Broadway play revivals attract starry casts\", \"description\": \"NEW YORK (AP) \\u2014 Broadway theaters may be dark, but there will be plenty of new online productions of some of classic plays this fall with some starry self-isolating actors, including Matthew... \", \"date\": \"2020-10-07T20:12:48Z\", \"author\": \"Mark Kennedy\", \"text\": [\"NEW YORK (AP) \\u2014 Broadway theaters may be dark, but there will be plenty of new online productions of some of classic plays this fall with some starry self-isolating actors, including Matthew Broderick, Morgan Freeman, Patti LuPone, Laura Linney and David Alan Grier.\", \"Producer Jeffrey Richards on Wednesday unveiled a weekly play run of livestreamed works to benefit The Actors Fund. They will stream on \", \" and ticket buyers can access the events through TodayTix starting at $5. The series will last seven weeks.\", \"The push begins Oct. 14 with Gore Vidal\\u2019s \\u201cThe Best Man\\u201d starring Matthew Broderick, Morgan Freeman, John Malkovich, Zachary Quinto, Phylicia Rashad, Vanessa Williams, Reed Birney, Stacy Keach and Elizabeth Ashley.\", \"On Oct. 20, a production of Kenneth Lonergan\\u2019s \\u201cThis Is Our Youth\\u201d will star Lucas Hedges, Paul Mescal and Grace Van Patten. David Mamet\\u2019s \\u201dRace\\u201d is up on Oct. 29, starring David Alan Grier and Ed O\\u2019Neill. \", \"Mamet\\u2019s \\u201cBoston Marriage\\u201d is slated for Nov. 12 with Patti LuPone and Rebecca Pidgeon. A revival of Anton Chekhov\\u2019s \\u201cUncle Vanya\\u201d an adapted by Neil LaBute follows on Nov. 19 with Alan Cumming, Samira Wiley, Constance Wu and Ellen Burstyn. \", \"On Dec. 3, the original Broadway cast of Donald Margulies\\u2019 \\u201cTime Stands Still\\u201d reunites with Eric Bogosian, Brian d\\u2019Arcy James, Laura Linney and Alicia Silverstone. The last effort is Robert O\\u2019Hara\\u2019s \\u201cBarbecue\\u201d on Dec. 10 with Carrie Coon, Colman Domingo, S. Epatha Merkerson, Laurie Metcalf, David Morse and Kristine Nielsen.\", \"___\", \"Mark Kennedy is at \"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://apnews.com/article/film-reviews-adam-sandler-halloween-movies-june-squibb-2ad074e1d7e94db011b4c4454f7b1ac4\", \"source\": \"Associated Press\", \"title\": \"Review: Adam Sandler's 'Hubie Halloween' is ... good?\", \"description\": \"The distance for Adam Sandler from last year's frantic, high-wire act \\u201cUncut Gems\\u201d to his new Netflix comedy, \\u201cHubie Halloween,\\\" is great, but maybe not as vast as it sounds.  Both feature... \", \"date\": \"2020-10-07T20:27:49Z\", \"author\": \"Jake Coyle\", \"text\": [\"The distance for Adam Sandler from last year\\u2019s \", \" to his new Netflix comedy, \", \" is great, but maybe not as vast as it sounds. \", \"Both feature Sandler playing someone who romanticizes something out of proportion (a high-priced gem in \\u201cUncut Gems,\\u201d Halloween in \\u201cHubie Halloween\\u201d), an appearance by a former NBA star (Kevin Garnett in \\u201cUncut Gems,\\u201d Shaquille O\\u2019Neal in \\u201cHubie Halloween\\u201d) and June Squibb wearing a T-shirt that says \\u201cBoner Doner.\\u201d\", \"OK, that last one isn\\u2019t in \\u201cUncut Gems\\u201d but you wouldn\\u2019t exactly put it past the Safdie brothers, either. Yes, Sandler\\u2019s bouncing between movie realms has seemingly grown even more schizophrenic in recent years as his factory of Netflix releases chugs along with occasional departures like \\u201cThe Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)\\u201d and \\u201cUncut Gems.\\u201d But here\\u2019s the thing: \\u201cHubie Halloween\\u201d is good.\", \"Yeah, I\\u2019m kind of surprised by that, too. The latest Billy Madison production might not seem especially distinguishable from the rest of Sandler\\u2019s recent Netflix output. In many ways it\\u2019s not. It\\u2019s got most of his regular chums (Kevin James, Tim Meadows, Rob Schneider) and it\\u2019s directed by Steven Brill, who helmed Sandler\\u2019s \\u201cSandy Wexler,\\u201d \\u201cThe Do-Over,\\u201d \\u201cMr. Deeds\\u201d and \\u201cLittle Nicky.\\u201d These are movies made with only a little more thought than another pick-up basketball game: \\u201cLet\\u2019s run it back!\\u201d\", \"And yet it feels like it\\u2019s been a while since it was this much fun to watch Sandler et al goofing around. Sandler, already inextricably linked to Thanksgiving, has now left a mark on Halloween. Maybe it\\u2019s because his movies can seem like (highly paid) extended vacations with friends, but holidays seem to work for him.\", \"The destination this time is Salem, Massachusetts, where Hubie Dubois (Sandler), is a thermos-carrying stunted man-child who\\u2019s been the butt of jokes since high school, taunted for his unhipness and his good-hearted sincerity. He\\u2019s an immediately familiar protagonist for Sandler \\u2014 a cousin to Canteen Boy and a brother to Bobby Boucher of \\u201cThe Water Boy.\\u201d Hubie, a Halloween devotee who\\u2019s nevertheless easily spooked by the season\\u2019s decorations, has anointed himself the holiday\\u2019s official \\u201cmonitor\\u201d in Salem. \", \"Living with his mom (Squibb, outfitted in a running gag of T-shirts), Hubie bikes around town with his monitor sash slung across his chest and a thermos full of soup always in hand. He\\u2019s regularly mocked by just about everyone in the town, young and old, but his old high-school torch (Julie Bowen, comically out of his league) is one of the few who recognize and value Hubie\\u2019s sweetness. When a genuine mystery develops and people start going missing, Hubie is the first to recognize the danger. Having made police reports a hobby, the local cops (Kenan Thompson, James) have long learned to ignore his concerns. \", \"It\\u2019s all just an excuse for Sandler to do a funny voice and a bunch of pratfalls, but the voice is pretty funny and so are the pratfalls. Even the production design is a cut above what you\\u2019re expect. But most of all, the ensemble of townspeople lend plenty of support. Is there anyone, really, who doesn\\u2019t want to watch a movie with Steve Buscemi as a werewolf, Michael Chiklis as a cranky priest, Ray Liotta for some reason and Maya Rudolph dressed up as the Bride of Frankenstein playing the dissatisfied wife of Tim Meadows? \", \"The jokes aren\\u2019t often Sandler\\u2019s best material but \\u201cHubie Halloween\\u201d is as sweet and easily digestible as a Milky Way. After this, \\u201cUncut Gems\\u201d and his best and most tender stand-up special (\\u201c100% Fresh,\\u201d a title that references his normally low critic scores), the Sandler-verse is weirdly in a kind of perfect harmony. Maybe, too, we\\u2019re more in need of some good, stupid fun right now, and \\u201cHubie Halloween\\u201d is smart enough to do stupid just right. Steve Buscemi as a werewolf, at least, is an antidote to something.\", \"\\u201cHubie Halloween,\\u201d a Netflix release, is rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America for crude and suggestive content, language and brief teen partying. Running time: 104 minutes. Three stars out of four.\", \"___\", \"Follow AP Film Writer Jake Coyle on Twitter at: http://twitter.com/jakecoyleAP\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://apnews.com/article/nfl-football-los-angeles-rams-kyle-allen-dwayne-haskins-17486c674f69b88eab2b8e14bc37ca4d\", \"source\": \"Associated Press\", \"title\": \"Washington benches QB Haskins, switches to Allen vs. Rams\", \"description\": \"Dwayne Haskins didn't show enough progress in Ron Rivera's eyes, so he's going from starting quarterback to out of uniform. Rivera benched Haskins for Washington's next game Sunday against... \", \"date\": \"2020-10-07T14:04:56Z\", \"author\": \"Stephen Whyno\", \"text\": [\"Dwayne Haskins didn\\u2019t show enough progress in Ron Rivera\\u2019s eyes, so he\\u2019s going from starting quarterback to out of uniform.\", \"Rivera benched Haskins for Washington\\u2019s next game Sunday against the Los Angeles Rams and turned to Kyle Allen as the new starter. The team is 1-3 and at what the coach believes is a crucial moment of the season in a wide-open NFC East within reach, so he pulled the plug on Haskins despite no pressure to win now.\", \"\\u201cI think our best chance to win is putting the ball in somebody else\\u2019s hands,\\u201d Rivera said Wednesday. \\u201cI think the best chance to have things done in our offense is in somebody else\\u2019s hands. That\\u2019s what I\\u2019m doing.\\u201d\", \"Alex Smith will back up Allen with Haskins inactive after not having enough time to learn a new system in his second year in the NFL. Smith will be active for the first time since breaking his right tibia and fibula Nov. 18, 2018.\", \"Rivera ended the Haskins experiment after a third consecutive loss in just his 11th pro start. Washington\\u2019s first-year coach defended the 2019 first-round pick for having \\u201can NFL arm\\u201d but lamented Haskins not getting enough snaps in offseason workouts, training camp and practice to make him ready for this.\", \"\\u201cWe gave him every opportunity,\\u201d Rivera said. \\u201cWe gave him a chance to start four games and truly evaluate. But with the division where it is right now, I\\u2019d be stupid to not give it a shot and see what happens in the next four games. But I wanted to put it in the hands of someone that knows the situation a little better, backed up by a guy that\\u2019s been there.\\u201d\", \"Rivera passed on the opportunity to bring in former Carolina Panthers QB Cam Newton, whom he\\u2019d coached for nine seasons dating to his rookie year, preferring to give Haskins an opportunity to keep his starting job. Washington acquired Allen from Carolina instead, and Smith was cleared for full contact \", \" since the broken leg and subsequent medical troubles he had to overcome.\", \"Haskins was made the Week 1 starter, and Rivera saw some of Newton\\u2019s qualities in the 2019 first-round pick out of Ohio State. Leading a comeback against Philadelphia after no preseason work in new offensive coordinator Scott Turner\\u2019s system was a good start.\", \"It was downhill from there. Haskins completed 72 of 115 passing attempts, threw three touchdowns and three interceptions and was sacked 10 times during Washington\\u2019s three game skid.\", \"Overall, Haskins has thrown for 939 yards and has completed 61% of his passes, with four touchdowns and three interceptions.\", \"\\u201cWe\\u2019ve been trying to do things to play toward his strengths,\\u201d Turner said. \\u201cWe just feel like at this point he\\u2019s got a little ways to go. There\\u2019s been some mistakes that showed up that were kind of repeat-type mistakes.\\u201d\", \"As a rookie, Haskins had 1,365 yards passing, seven TDs and seven interceptions and completed 58.6% of his throws. Washington went 2-5 in his starts last year.\", \"Agent David Mulugheta tweeted Sunday pointing out Haskins\\u2019 limited opportunity as a starter, the new system, lack of weapons and young offensive line contributing to the current situation. \", \"Rivera was looking for growth from Haskins and didn\\u2019t see enough in Sunday\\u2019s 31-17 loss to Baltimore. A key play came on fourth-and-goal from the 13-yard line, with Haskins managing only a 5-yard pass to the 8, turning the ball over on downs.\", \"\\u201cThe one thing a lot of people don\\u2019t see is the frustration on the sidelines of the other players, as well,\\u201d Rivera said. \\u201cI see that. I feel that. The guys want to win. Right now, where his development is, I think our best shot to win now is with guys that have been in the system.\\u201d\", \"That\\u2019s Allen, who is familiar with Turner from their time together in Carolina. The 24-year-old took over for Rivera\\u2019s Panthers last season when Newton was injured and feels ready to jump in with Washington. \", \"Allen only has slightly more experience than Haskins: 13 pro starts and 15 appearances in which he has thrown for 19 TDs and 16 INTs. But the familiarity is his benefit, along with watching the first four games from the sideline.\", \"\\u201cI just need to go out there and be myself,\\u201d Allen said. \\u201cI don\\u2019t think there\\u2019s anything extra that needs to be done or anything over the top. I think we just need to go out there and execute and do our thing. We\\u2019re a good enough team.\\u201d\", \"After \", \", Smith is now one injury to Allen away from completing a remarkable comeback. Rivera is confident putting the 36-year-old into a game because doctors have said it\\u2019s safe. \", \"\\u201cWe feel good about Alex\\u2019s progression physically,\\u201d said Turner, who confirmed Smith has not been hit in practice despite his unique circumstances. \\u201cThis is the next step with him.\\u201d\", \"___\", \"AP Sports Writer Howard Fendrich contributed.\", \"___\", \"More AP NFL: https://apnews.com/NFL and https://twitter.com/AP_NFL\"]}\n][\n{\"url\": \"https://news.yahoo.com/how-to-watch-the-vice-presidential-debate-live-on-yahoo-140949164.html?soc_src=hl-viewer&soc_trk=tw\", \"source\": \"Yahoo News\", \"title\": \"How to watch the vice presidential debate live on Yahoo\", \"description\": \"Vice President Mike Pence and Sen. Kamala Harris will face off in their first and only debate at 9 p.m. ET on Wednesday.\", \"date\": \"2020-10-07T14:09:49.000Z\", \"author\": \"Julia Munslow\", \"text\": [\"Vice President Mike Pence and Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris will face off in their first and only debate at 9 p.m. ET on Wednesday, Oct. 7 at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City.\\u00a0\", \"Yahoo News will provide \", \" during the debates from our own team of journalists and our network of premium news partners.\\u00a0\", \"To watch Wednesday\\u2019s showdown and the future presidential debates, you can tune in on \", \", the\", \" or the \", \".\", \"The debates will also stream on several Yahoo social media channels, including \", \", \", \", \", \", \", \" and \", \".\\u00a0\", \"Below is information on remaining debates for the 2020 election. Both begin at 9 p.m. ET and will last for about 90 minutes.\\u00a0\\u00a0\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://news.yahoo.com/india-media-frenzy-over-sushant-170043766.html\", \"source\": \"Yahoo News\", \"title\": \"Is India\\u2019s Media Frenzy Over Sushant Singh Rajput\\u2019s Death a Bollywood Circus or a Political Distraction?\", \"description\": \"Indian media, fueled by aggressive television anchors, has worked itself into an unprecedented feeding frenzy since the death of popular 34-year-old actor...\", \"date\": \"2020-10-07T17:00:43.000Z\", \"author\": \"Naman Ramachandran\", \"text\": [\"Indian media, fueled by aggressive television anchors, has worked itself into an unprecedented feeding frenzy since the death of popular 34-year-old actor \", \" at his Mumbai home June 14. The question now is whether this is \", \" on self-destruct or a further example of media manipulation in service of a conservative political agenda.\", \"The Mumbai police initially ruled the death a suicide. But media and the public found it difficult to accept that a successful actor with hits like \\u201cM.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story\\u201d and \\u201cKedarnath\\u201d under his belt would take his life. Within days of Rajput\\u2019s death, rumors involving the highest echelons of Bollywood circulated on social media and WhatsApp, suggesting that the self-made outsider from a small town was depressed as a result of being shunned in the elite, nepotistic circles of the film industry.\", \"By the end of July, when the police ruled out foul play, the narrative changed. The star\\u2019s father, K.K. Singh, accused Rajput\\u2019s former girlfriend, the actor Rhea Chakraborty, and her family of abetting suicide and financial misappropriation. India\\u2019s Enforcement Directorate for financial crimes began an investigation. The following month, the Supreme Court transferred the investigation of Rajput\\u2019s death to the Central Bureau of Investigation and rumors that Rajput was murdered began to circulate.\", \"By the end of August, the narrative changed yet again, and a third national investigative body, the Narcotics Control Bureau, got into the act. In early September, Chakraborty was arrested on suspicion of supplying marijuana to Rajput.\", \"Haranguing television anchors appointed themselves judge and jury, with daily trials on primetime television. Matters went into overdrive when WhatsApp messages with Chakraborty led the NCB to haul in actors Deepika Padukone (\\u201cxXx: Return of Xander Cage\\u201d), Sara Ali Khan, Rakul Preet Singh and Shraddha Kapoor for drug-related questioning. Prominent filmmaker Karan Johar was forced to issue a statement denying claims that drugs were consumed at a party at his home in 2019.\", \"So far, so Bollywood. But the political angles are rarely far from the surface. Why have only women been called by the NCB? Why is free-spirited Bollywood \\u2014 which has often led the social agenda on issues including gender identity, arranged marriages and religious integration \\u2014 under attack?\", \"Liberal filmmaker Hansal Mehta, known for Muslim rights biopic \\u201cShahid\\u201d and seminal gay rights film \\u201cAligarh,\\u201d is a trenchant presence on Twitter. \\u201cThese are entertainment channels masquerading as news channels,\\u201d Mehta tells \", \". \\u201cWhat they are doing is, in the absence of entertainment at the multiplexes, providing us daily entertainment featuring Bollywood stars on news channels.\\u201d\", \"Mehta cites several burning issues in India, like contentious farm legislation, unemployment, plunging GDP and toxic pandemic numbers (6.3 million infected and counting), that have taken a backseat to the daily drip feeds that Indian news channels claim are leaked to them by the investigative agencies. A producer who wished to remain anonymous for fear of being targeted in an increasingly authoritarian political atmosphere, tells \", \": \\u201cThe fascists have found Bollywood as a tool for policing thought. The media is completely manipulated, including social media.\\u201d\", \"Civil society has been under attack from the Modi government, which seems to accept no other authority or version of the truth. Human rights activists languish in jail. Amnesty International recently closed down its India operations after years of frustration. \\u201cWe are in an undeclared state of emergency,\\u201d the producer says.\", \"Chandraprakash Dwivedi is a respected chronicler of Indian history and culture via his film and television output, including \\u201cChanakya,\\u201d \\u201cPinjar,\\u201d \\u201cUpanishad Ganga\\u201d and the upcoming historical epic film \\u201cPrithviraj,\\u201d starring top Bollywood actor Akshay Kumar. Dwivedi describes the\", \" current scenario in India as a \\u201cmedia circus\\u201d but disagrees that it is in the service of diverting attention from other issues. \\u201cAll the [TV] channels cannot work on the agenda of any government,\\u201d he tells \", \". \\u201cSo this projection that it is to divert attention from success or failure of the government, I do not buy this argument.\\u201d\", \"The general audience appears to be consuming the ongoing drama with relish. \\u201cSuddenly you are getting a peek into their homes, their lives,\\u201d says Mehta, referring to Bollywood stars on daily primetime display.\", \"On Oct. 2, Johar tweeted a letter to Prime Minister Modi, with leading filmmakers Rajkumar Hirani, Aanand L. Rai, Rohit Shetty, Sajid Nadiadwala, Ekta Kapoor and Dinesh Vijan tagged, launching the Change Within initiative to celebrate the 75th anniversary of India\\u2019s independence.\", \"The following day, Kumar released a video saying that the industry has a drug problem but that not all Bollywood stars should be tarred with the same brush.\", \"On Oct. 7, Chakraborty was released on bail by the Bombay High Court that found no merit in the NCB\\u2019s charge of \\u201cfinancing and harbouring illegal drug trafficking.\\u201d The court also rejected the prosecution\\u2019s argument that \\u201ccelebrities and role models should be treated harshly so that it sets an example for the young generation,\\u201d saying that the law of the land is the same for everyone.\", \"Mehta is saddened by the general perception of Bollywood caused by the media maelstrom.\", \"\\u201cWe are still providing livelihoods through this tough time,\\u201d he says. \\u201cWe are providing content to the ecosystem that is still running \\u2014 the OTTs, and the audiences are getting films and shows to watch. Rather than appreciating that, there is this campaign to vilify and make us look like drug addicts.\\u201d\", \"Sign up for \", \". For the latest news, follow us on \", \", \", \", and \", \".\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://news.yahoo.com/bollywood-actress-granted-bail-judge-163624833.html\", \"source\": \"Yahoo News\", \"title\": \"Bollywood actress granted bail as judge says no evidence she supplied drugs to stars\", \"description\": \"Bollywood actress Rhea Chakraborty has been granted bail nearly a month after she was arrested for allegedly supplying drugs to her late boyfriend, the actor...\", \"date\": \"2020-10-07T16:36:24.000Z\", \"author\": \"Joe Wallen\", \"text\": [\"Bollywood actress Rhea Chakraborty has been granted bail nearly a month after she was arrested for allegedly supplying drugs to her late boyfriend, the actor Sushant Singh Rajput.\", \"On Wednesday, a court in the city of Mumbai ordered the actress to be released on bail, saying there was yet no evidence Ms Chakraborty had supplied Mr Rajput with drugs or been involved in any trade in narcotics. There was no trial date set.\\u00a0\", \"Mr Rajput committed suicide in June, after which\\u00a0after which television networks\\u00a0leaked what they claimed were WhatsApp messages from Ms Chakraborty discussing drugs.\", \"The actress was then taken into custody by India's Central Bureau of Investigation for questioning.\", \"Activists slammed Ms Chakraborty's arrest and said she was the victim of a witch-hunt in the\\u00a0patriarchal country.\\u00a0\", \"Santish Maneshinde, the lawyer representing the actress, said he was delighted the \\\"hounding\\\" of Ms Chakraborty would now end.\", \"\\u201cThe arrest and custody of Rhea was totally unwarranted and beyond the reach of law,\\u201d said Mr Maneshinde.\", \"However, the saga has now spiralled into a probe into \", \" after Ms Chakraborty was allegedly pressured into naming 25 leading industry figures involved in the sale and consumption of narcotics.\", \"The police have since brought in other superstars for questioning, including Deepika Padukone and Sara Ali Khan, although details of the probe have not been made public. They all deny the allegations.\\u00a0\", \"On Saturday, another Bollywood star, Akshay Kumar, posted a four-minute video to his Twitter account in which he admitted there was \", \" within the\\u00a0film industry.\", \"Mr Kumar said that while the issue needed to be resolved, the Indian public should understand that not all Bollywood stars are narcotics users.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://news.yahoo.com/drop-visitors-hawaii-leads-hundreds-200041078.html\", \"source\": \"Yahoo News\", \"title\": \"Drop in visitors from Hawaii leads to hundreds of layoffs at two Las Vegas hotels\", \"description\": \"The cuts come at a time when Nevada recorded a 13.2%\\u00a0unemployment rate\\u00a0\\u2013 the highest in the nation \\u2013\\u00a0in the month of August.\", \"date\": \"2020-10-07T20:00:41.000Z\", \"author\": \"Ed Komenda, Reno Gazette Journal\", \"text\": [\"LAS VEGAS\\u00a0\\u2013 A decline in travel between\\u00a0Hawaii and Southern Nevada has led\\u00a0U.S. casino company\\u00a0Boyd Gaming to\\u00a0cut\\u00a0almost 300\\u00a0workers at two\\u00a0downtown hotels.\", \"In letters to Nevada unemployment officials, Boyd revealed 284 employees at the California Hotel and Casino\\u00a0and Main Street Station will lose their jobs on Nov. 13.\", \"\\\"As we are all aware, the pandemic continues with no predictable date for its end,\\\" a\\u00a0\", \".\\u00a0\\u201cThe economy continues to struggle and extended travel-related restrictions are preventing many customers from visiting our properties.\\u201d\", \"The layoffs \\u2013 116 at Main Street and 168\\u00a0at California \\u2013\\u00a0impact every manner of casino worker, including bartenders, chefs, cocktail servers and card dealers.\", \"\\\"The reductions are the direct result of continued declines in tourism to Las Vegas, particularly from the Hawaiian market,\\\" Boyd spokesman David Strow said in an email.\\u00a0\", \"Historically, Boyd's downtown properties have been dependent on tourists\\u00a0from Hawaii. \", \" have led to a\\u00a0steep drop\\u00a0in visitors to\\u00a0destinations like Las Vegas.\", \" by \", \" on Scribd\", \"The cuts come at a time when Nevada \", \"\\u00a0\\u2013 the highest in the nation \\u2013\\u00a0in the month of August, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. In Las Vegas, the jobless rate \", \".\\u00a0\", \"In July, Boyd Gaming\\u00a0\", \"\\u00a0in 10 states as visitation levels remained\\u00a0far below pre-pandemic levels. The layoffs impacted at least 25% of Boyd's\\u00a024,300 employees \\u2013 a total of\\u00a06,075.\\u00a0\", \"Boyd is best known for the Fremont Hotel, California Hotel and Casino,\\u00a0Gold Coast, Sam\\u2019s Town, Suncoast and The Orleans resorts in Las Vegas.\\u00a0\", \"The publicly traded Las Vegas company had about 10,000 employees in Southern Nevada and another 14,300 nationally, according to its last annual report.\", \"It has properties in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, Ohio and Pennsylvania. All company casinos have reopened, except three in Las Vegas.\", \"The Nevada closures in mid-March followed an order by Gov. Steve Sisolak aimed at reducing the spread of COVID-19.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://news.yahoo.com/bollywood-actress-center-media-frenzy-142258391.html\", \"source\": \"Yahoo News\", \"title\": \"Bollywood actress at the center of media frenzy granted bail\", \"description\": \"A Bollywood actress who was arrested by India&#39;s narcotics agency, setting off a media frenzy that has gripped the nation, walked out of jail on Wednesday...\", \"date\": \"2020-10-07T14:22:58.000Z\", \"author\": \"SHEIKH SAALIQ\", \"text\": [\"NEW DELHI (AP) \\u2014 A Bollywood actress who was arrested by India's narcotics agency, setting off a media frenzy that has gripped the nation, walked out of jail on Wednesday after being granted bail.\", \"Rhea Chakraborty was released from Bycula District Prison in Mumbai a month after being arrested for allegedly buying drugs for her boyfriend, popular movie actor Sushant Singh Rajput, who was found dead in a suspected suicide in June.\", \"India\\u2019s freewheeling TV news channels speculated that Chakraborty drove him to take his life and was part of a drug-dealing mafia in Bollywood, India's Mumbai-based film industry.\", \"The court in Mumbai on Wednesday said the actress was not part of any drug syndicate and had no criminal record. It said Chakraborty could not have financed or supported illegal drug trafficking as alleged by the narcotics agency.\", \"The 28-year-old actress' lawyer, Satish Maneshinde, said her arrest was \\u201ctotally unwarranted and beyond the reach of law.\\u201d\", \"Chakraborty\\u2019s brother, who was arrested in the same case and has also denied the charges, however, remains in custody.\", \"Rajput\\u2019s suspected suicide in June initially triggered a debate over mental health. But his family disputed Indian media reports that he suffered from mental illness and lodged a police complaint accusing Chakraborty of abetment of suicide. She has denied the allegation.\", \"Many Indian television news channels then declared Chakraborty guilty of Rajput\\u2019s death and claimed she had overdosed him on drugs. The TV channels have since spent months obsessing over the case, at the expense of other issues such as India\\u2019s stalling economy, the government\\u2019s virus response and growing hostilities with China over a border dispute.\", \"Earlier this week, a panel of doctors examining Rajput\\u2019s autopsy reports at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, a leading public hospital in New Delhi, submitted a report to the Central Bureau of Investigation that ruled out murder as a cause of the actor's death.\", \"Rajput, 34, was found dead in his Mumbai apartment on June 14. Police listed the cause of death as asphyxia by hanging and said he appeared to have taken his own life. The case is still being investigated.\", \"Rajput, an engineering student who grew up in Bihar, India\\u2019s poorest state, was the quintessential outsider who managed to open the doors of Bollywood and craft a brief but successful acting career.\", \"After Chakraborty\\u2019s arrest in September, the federal narcotics agency also questioned other actresses in a parallel investigation into claims of widespread drug use and trafficking in Bollywood.\", \"No date has been set for Chakraborty's trial.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://news.yahoo.com/trump-authorizes-declassification-documents-related-093730369.html\", \"source\": \"Yahoo News\", \"title\": \"Trump authorizes declassification of documents related to Russia probe\", \"description\": \"Declassified documents reveal former CIA Director John Brennan briefed Obama on Hillary Clinton&#39;s plan to tie Trump to Russia; reaction from former...\", \"date\": \"2020-10-07T09:37:30.000Z\", \"author\": \"FOX News Videos\", \"text\": [\"Declassified documents reveal former CIA Director John Brennan briefed Obama on Hillary Clinton's plan to tie Trump to Russia; reaction from former California GOP party chair Tom Del Beccaro.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://news.yahoo.com/hurricane-delta-grew-tropical-storm-231700211.html\", \"source\": \"Yahoo News\", \"title\": \"Hurricane Delta grew from a tropical storm to a Category 4 hurricane in 1 day. Here's how cyclones are now intensifying so quickly.\", \"description\": \"Hurricane Delta has whipped winds faster and faster in a process of rapid intensification. As oceans warm, experts expect more powerful cyclones.\", \"date\": \"2020-10-06T23:17:00.000Z\", \"author\": \"Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Aylin Woodward\", \"text\": [\"In the span of a single day, \", \" swelled from a tropical storm to a major hurricane. It's churning toward Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, where it's expected to make landfall late Tuesday or early Wednesday. Then forecasts suggest it could move back over water and make a second landfall in Louisiana later this week.\", \"By Tuesday morning, Delta had whipped itself into a 130-mph frenzy, making it an \\\"extremely dangerous\\\" Category 4 hurricane, according to the National Hurricane Center. But 24 hours prior, its winds were just 45 mph.\", \"That swift change is called \", \" \\u2014 the term refers to a process in which a tropical cyclone's maximum sustained winds increase by 35 mph in just 24 hours. Hurricane \", \" did the same thing in August, when it jumped from a Category 1 to a Category 4 in one day.\", \"Delta has not stopped intensifying since it emerged. As of Tuesday evening, the storm's winds were wailing at 145 mph.\", \"\\\"No other Atlantic hurricane has ever strengthened this much this quickly immediately after it formed,\\\" meteorologist Eric Holthaus \", \" on Twitter. \\\"We are in a climate emergency.\\\"\", \"Climate change makes hurricanes more frequent and devastating, on average, than they would otherwise be.\", \"That's because storms feed on warm water, and higher water temperatures lead to sea-level rise, which in turn increases the risk of flooding during high tides and storm surges. Warmer air also holds more atmospheric water vapor, which enables tropical storms to strengthen and unleash more precipitation.\", \"\\\"Our confidence continues to grow that storms have become stronger, and it is linked to climate change, and they will continue to get stronger as the world continues to warm,\\\" James Kossin, an atmospheric scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, told the \", \" in August.\", \" are vast, low-pressure tropical cyclones with wind speeds over 74 mph. They form over warm water near the equator, when sea surface temperature is at least 80 degrees, according to \", \".\", \"That's because when warm moisture rises from the ocean, it releases energy and forms thunderstorms. As more thunderstorms appear, the winds spiral upward and outward, creating a vortex. Clouds then form in the upper atmosphere as the warm air condenses, and an area of low pressure forms over the ocean's surface. Then hurricanes just need low wind shear \\u2014 a lack of prevailing wind \\u2014 to form their cyclonic shape.\", \"Cyclones start out as tropical depressions, with sustained wind speeds below 39 mph. Once winds pass that threshold, the cyclone becomes a tropical storm. Then above 74 mph, the storm is considered a Category 1 hurricane on the \", \"\\u00a0scale.\\u00a0\", \"The Atlantic\\u00a0\", \" generally runs from June through November, with storm activity peaking around September 10. On average, the Atlantic sees six hurricanes during a season, with three of them developing into major hurricanes (Category 3 or above).\", \"So far, 2020 has seen nine Atlantic hurricanes, three that became major.\", \"In total, the Atlantic Ocean has produced 25 named storms in just six months. That's just three fewer than in 2005, which had the greatest number of named storms in history. But 2020 is ahead of the 2005 season by more than a month, so is likely to break the record.\", \"As ocean temperatures increase, we're seeing\\u00a0\", \" because water temperatures influence the wind speed of storms above. A 1-degree-Fahrenheit rise in ocean temperature can increase a storm's wind speed by 15 to 20 miles per hour, \", \".\", \"That also enables storms to intensify and\\u00a0\", \"\\u00a0in less time.\", \"\\\"Rapid intensification events are more likely because of climate change,\\\" Kossin told the Post.\", \"In a recent\\u00a0\", \", Kossin's team found that each new decade over the last 40 years has brought an 8% increase in the chance that a storm turns into a major hurricane.\", \"\\\"Almost all of the damage and mortality caused by hurricanes is done by major hurricanes,\\\" Kossin told\\u00a0\", \". \\\"Increasing the likelihood of having a major hurricane will certainly increase this risk.\\\"\", \"Generally, a strong storm also brings a storm surge: an abnormal rise of water above the predicted tide level. If a storm's winds are blowing toward the shore and the tide is high, storm surges can cause water levels to rise as rapidly as\\u00a0\", \" along a coast. Higher sea levels lead to more destructive storm surges.\", \"Even if we were to cut emissions dramatically starting today, some sea-level rise is already inevitable, since the planet's oceans absorb 93% of the extra heat that greenhouse gases trap, and water (like most things) expands when heated.\", \"Over the past 70 years or so, the speed at which hurricanes and tropical storms travel has dropped about 10%, \", \". Over land in the North Atlantic and Western North Pacific specifically, storms are\\u00a0\", \".\", \"That gives a storm more time to pummel an area with powerful winds and rain.\", \"To make matters worse,\\u00a0\", \", so a 10% slowdown in a storm's pace could double the amount of rainfall and flooding that an area experiences. The peak\\u00a0\", \" over the past 60 years.\", \"Hurricane Harvey in 2017 was a prime example of this: After it made landfall, Harvey weakened to a tropical storm,\\u00a0 then stalled for days over Houston, \", \". The storm flooded much of the city, killed more than 100 people, and caused $125 billion in damages.\", \"Climate scientist Michael Mann\\u00a0\", \" that Hurricane Harvey \\\"was almost certainly more intense than it would have been in the absence of human-caused warming.\\\"\", \"Hurricane Dorian did something similar last year when it hung over the Bahamas, \", \" with 185-mph winds and up to 30 inches of rain. Although the country's government only counted 74 dead, a NOAA \", \" estimated that more than 200 people died in the storm.\", \"Read the original article on \"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://news.yahoo.com/republicans-ditch-trump-save-senate-083753026.html\", \"source\": \"Yahoo News\", \"title\": \"Republicans: Ditch Trump, Save the Senate\", \"description\": \"Increasingly convinced that President Donald Trump\\u2019s election chances are grim, top Republican donors, lobbyists, and operatives are directing their...\", \"date\": \"2020-10-07T08:37:53.000Z\", \"author\": \"Sam Stein, Lachlan Markay\", \"text\": [\"Increasingly convinced that President Donald Trump\\u2019s election chances are grim, top Republican donors, lobbyists, and operatives are directing their attention to the Senate in hopes of keeping a majority in the chamber and, with it, a check on a future President Joe Biden.\", \"Top GOP money men said that efforts to shift resources to Republicans running for the Senate have been happening for weeks, as Trump\\u2019s chances have not improved\\u2014indeed, worsened\\u2014and as the party\\u2019s candidates have been dramatically outraised.\", \"\\u201cThere is no discussion among donors about giving money to the president,\\u201d said one prominent GOP donor. \\u201cThe discussion among donors, bundlers and check writers is about the Senate seats.\\u201d\", \"But among seasoned GOP operatives, the imperative to prioritize down-ballot races has only increased in recent days amid Trump\\u2019s shaky debate performance and his infection with COVID-19. The argument is one of political triage: the party must use the specter of uniform Democratic control of Washington to save more viable Republicans, not just in the Senate\\u2014where the party very well could retain control\\u2014but also the House, where continued minority status seems almost assured.\", \"Tom Davis, the former head of the National Republican Congressional Committee, said he had sent Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN), the current NRCC chair, a memo laying out the case for selling voters the benefits of a divided government, with the implication that they would support congressional Republicans if they viewed them as a bulwark against Biden.\", \"\\u201cThis is the time you have to make tough decisions,\\u201d Davis said, of the party allocating its resources. \\u201cYou have to let voters know there is a price if you sweep Democrats into office.\\u201d\", \"\\u201cThere are a lot of people who voted Republican for years till Trump,\\u201d he added. \\u201cThey haven\\u2019t changed their philosophies. So, they\\u2019re still getable. You have to make the argument that, \\u2018Look, you can displace Trump, but you still need a Republican Senate to hold Biden in check.\\u2019\\u201d\", \"Republican veterans say there is a template for trying to focus the party\\u2019s attention and resources on down-ballot races while allowing the presidential candidate to drift. The GOP was able to do so successfully in 1996, with the party holding both chambers of Congress even as Bill Clinton coasted to re-election. Should Biden win this go around, Republicans can only afford to lose three Senate seats, as they\\u2019re likely to gain one in Alabama.\", \"The circumstances are far different 24 years later for other reasons as well. All of the sources interviewed for this piece acknowledged that the strategy carried risk, mainly because it is assumed that the party\\u2019s prospects writ large are tied to Trump\\u2019s core supporters coming out in droves.\", \"And yet, signs that some in the GOP are thinking of subtle ways to cut bait are starting to appear. Several operatives pointed to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell\\u2019s increased warnings about Democrats expanding the Supreme Court, pushing for Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia to be granted statehood, and axing the legislative filibuster\\u2014all propositions whose likelihoods are predicated on Biden winning.\", \"\\u201cHe\\u2019s already moving into those talking points. And that is by design \\u201d said one top GOP operative.\", \"There are also signs that some of Trump\\u2019s biggest financial supporters of yore are now devoting more resources to holding onto the Senate than they are to re-electing the president.\", \"Steve Wynn, the disgraced casino mogul who ran fundraising for the Republican National Committee early in Trump\\u2019s tenure, took a brief hiatus from high-dollar political giving after dozens of people relayed allegations of sexual assault and misconduct against him (Wynn denies the allegations, but resigned from his eponymous company, Wynn Resorts, in early 2018). Those allegations were \", \" by the \", \" just days after Wynn cut a $500,000 check to America First Action.\", \"After his fall from grace, Wynn\\u2019s political giving mostly dropped off. But it resumed in a big way this year. In 2020 alone, he\\u2019s given $4 million to the Senate Leadership Fund and $1.5 million to American Crossroads, making him the latter\\u2019s single largest donor as it tries to beat back a challenge to Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC). Wynn has also donated to McConnell\\u2019s campaign and PAC this year, and made six figure contributions to the National Republican Senatorial Committee and one of its joint fundraising accounts.\", \"He has also contributed to the Trump campaign this year, but the sums are significantly smaller\\u2014under half a million dollars to Trump Victory, a joint fundraising committee benefitting the RNC and the Trump campaign, and under $400,000 to the RNC. He\\u2019s given nothing to pro-Trump super PACs since that donation in early 2018.\", \"Among the GOP\\u2019s donor base in business and finance, the incentive structure is increasingly geared towards hanging onto levers of power that could check a Democratic administration\\u2014even if it means cutting bait when it comes to the White House. One top Republican lobbyist, for instance, said that corporate clients have become increasingly invested in trying to retain GOP control of the Senate for fear of the tax legislation that could originate from a Nancy Pelosi-run House and find its way to Biden\\u2019s desk.\", \"\\u201cDivided government is good for most donors and most of corporate America,\\u201d the lobbyist stressed.\", \"And a major GOP donor based in the Midwest said that donors were increasingly focused on the Senate contests\\u2014at the expense of the presidential\\u2014because they have come to view Trump\\u2019s campaign as an irrational entity in which to invest. Mere minutes after that donor talked up the virtues of propping up Senate institutionalists, Trump tweeted that he was unilaterally ending negotiations over a COVID-related stimulus deal. The donor promptly called back.\", \"\\u201cWhat\\u2019s happening in the stock market proves my point,\\u201d he said, a sense of exasperation evident in his voice. \\u201cEverything was up and now it\\u2019s down 300 points cuz a guy sent a tweet. I don\\u2019t care if it\\u2019s the head of Goldman Sachs or a food bank. They\\u2019re gonna say, this is crazy.\\u201d\", \"The Trump campaign did not respond to a request for comment. But the president has been in this predicament before. Following the release of the \", \" tapes at this very same juncture during the 2016 presidential campaign, there was a growing chorus of Republicans calling for the party to consolidate ranks around congressional candidates for the inevitability of a Hillary Clinton presidency. Trump went on to win.\", \"This time around, Trump\\u2019s base of financial support is arguably more considerable. Putting aside the more than $400 million raised by his re-election campaign through August, he also now enjoys the backing of two high-dollar super PACs, America First Action and Preserve America PAC.\", \"But the president also trailed Biden by nearly $60 million in cash on hand at the end of August, the most recent reporting period. His campaign has taken down ads in various states as an effort to consolidate and prioritize resources. And there is scant desire among the formal GOP party operatives to come to the aid of a candidate who has spent his time in the political spotlight mocking, degrading, and attacking them.\", \"\\u201cWhy should the party put more effort into winning the race than the president himself?\\u201d asked Rory Cooper, a longtime Republican operative and unapologetic Never Trumper. \\u201cPresident Trump is by all evidence doing more harm than good to his re-election chances. Three out of four voters don't approve of his response to COVID, meaning this includes his own supporters, and yet he triples down on what they don't like. He hasn't led a credible poll since February. Republicans need to work to hold the Senate and sell a check on a Biden agenda.\\u201d\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://news.yahoo.com/long-lines-reported-gas-stations-172341914.html\", \"source\": \"Yahoo News\", \"title\": \"Long Lines Reported at Gas Stations in Mexico Ahead of Hurricane Delta Landfall\", \"description\": \"Mexico braced for the impact of Hurricane Delta on October 6, right on the heels of Tropical Storm Gamma, which left at least six people dead amid heavy rain...\", \"date\": \"2020-10-06T17:23:41.000Z\", \"author\": \"Storyful\", \"text\": [\"Mexico braced for the impact of Hurricane Delta on October 6, right on the heels of Tropical Storm Gamma, which left at least \", \" amid heavy rain over the weekend.\", \"Delta was approaching the Yucat\\u00e1n Peninsula as a Category 4 storm, the National Hurricane Center (\", \") said.\", \"The \", \" expected an \\u201cextremely dangerous\\u201d storm surge starting on the evening of October 6. The storm \", \" over the course of 24 hours and was forecast to hit southeastern Mexico later in the week with \\u201cdirect aim\\u201d at Canc\\u00fan.\", \"This footage shared from Cozumel shows long lines at gas stations in anticipation of a shortage after the storm hits. Storefronts in the area were \", \" and tourists reported having to \", \"Similar scenes were reported in \", \".\", \"A hurricane warning was issued for Cozumel and Tulum. Credit: Israel Herrera via Storyful\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://news.yahoo.com/proposed-sri-lankan-charter-change-052242103.html\", \"source\": \"Yahoo News\", \"title\": \"Proposed Sri Lankan charter change raises rights concerns\", \"description\": \"A proposed amendment to Sri Lanka\\u2019s Constitution that would consolidate power in the president\\u2019s hands has raised concerns about the independence of the...\", \"date\": \"2020-10-07T05:22:42.000Z\", \"author\": \"KRISHAN FRANCIS\", \"text\": [\"COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) \\u2014 A proposed amendment to Sri Lanka\\u2019s Constitution that would consolidate power in the president\\u2019s hands has raised concerns about the independence of the country\\u2019s institutions and the impact on ethnic minorities who fear their rights could be undermined by a nationalistic Sinhala Buddhist parliamentary majority.\", \"If passed, the amendment will bring Parliament under the control of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who will have the power to dissolve the legislature, appoint top judges, have full immunity against any prosecution and make decisions critical for minorities, without checks.\", \"The constitution now allows presidential decisions to be questioned in court, gives the prime minister the power to appoint Cabinet ministers, grants independent commissions power to appoint officials to key institutions and bars dual citizens from holding political office.\", \"Rajapaksa renounced his dual U.S citizenship when he ran for president last year. The proposal allowing dual citizens to hold political office would further strengthen the Rajapaksa family's grip on political power by enabling another sibling who is a dual U.S. citizen to be appointed to Parliament.\", \"Rajapaksa\\u2019s older brother, former President Mahinda Rajapaksa, is now prime minister. Another older brother and three nephews are also lawmakers \\u2014 three of them ministers.\", \"Rajapaksa was elected last November promising to be the guardian of the majority Buddhist-Sinhalese. His mandate was endorsed in August elections in which his party gained control of nearly two-thirds of the country\\u2019s 225-member Parliament.\", \"His government is most likely to obtain the needed two-thirds support to pass the proposed amendment. However, several petitions have been filed in the Supreme Court seeking an order that the amendment also be subject to a public referendum.\", \"The constitution says certain provisions must be approved by a referendum.\", \"\\u201cThe government is heading toward dictatorial governance by weakening checks and balances in the system,\\u201d said lawyer and independent political columnist Subramanium Jothilingam.\", \"The amendment would allow Rajapaksa to head any number of ministries, appoint and fire ministers and select the police chief and members of the elections, public service, bribery and human rights commissions at his discretion.\", \"Jehan Perera from the independent National Peace Council think tank said public institutions may become politicized and serve the interests of the majority Buddhist-Sinhalese community if they come under the authority of one person.\", \"Rajapaksa\\u2019s election slogan of \\u201cone country, one law\\u201d is widely seen as a policy of centralized governance that rejects power sharing with the provinces, a long-standing demand of minority Tamils. Rajapaksa has rejected a Tamil demand for autonomy.\", \"Sri Lanka\\u2019s Tamil community, concentrated mostly in the north and east, consider themselves a distinct nation, entitled to rule a traditional homeland. Tamil rebels fought a nearly three-decade separatist war accusing Sinhalese-controlled governments of systemic marginalization.\", \"Government forces crushed the rebels in 2009, ending a war that claimed at least 100,000 lives.\", \"Earlier this year, Rajapaksa withdrew Sri Lanka from a U.N. Human Rights Council resolution in which it had agreed to investigate allegations of wartime abuses by both government forces and Tamil rebels.\", \"M.A. Sumanthiran, an ethnic Tamil lawmaker, said the weakening of Parliament would result in minority communities losing their voices.\", \"\\u201cThere will be power changing hands from the legislature to the executive. In the legislature all sections of the polity have a say, however small they may be,\\u201d he said. \\u201cEven if presidents win election with votes from minority groups, past experience has shown that they will only look after the interests of the majority community, from whom they received most of their votes.\\u201d\", \"Many minority Tamils and Muslims say they are worried about the government\\u2019s proposed actions.\", \"On Sept. 29, the government announced it will ban cattle slaughter, a decision analysts say was politically motivated to please the majority Sinhala Buddhist constituency. Buddhists as well as minority Hindus avoid beef for religious and cultural reasons.\", \"Many believe the decision was a direct affront to the Muslim community, which owns most of the slaughterhouses and beef stalls.\", \"Fazal Samsudeen, an Islamic preacher, said he fears government interference in religious laws, such as Islamic courts and banking, in the name of establishing a unified national law.\", \"Many majority Sinhalese find minority religious laws disconcerting because they help preserve the groups' separate identities, and support their incorporation into a common national law, Perera said.\", \"Jothilingam warned that a rise in nationalism could lead to conflicts with other countries, such as the United States and India, which have long called for power sharing with Tamil-majority provinces.\", \"\\u201cThe government is becoming a prisoner of ultra-nationalists. When you try to satisfy them, they will keeping increasing their demands and someday the government won\\u2019t be able to fulfill them without making enemies of powerful countries,\\u201d he said.\", \"\\u201cA small country can\\u2019t survive if it is isolated by the world community.\\u201d\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://news.yahoo.com/delta-went-tropical-storm-cat-205357955.html\", \"source\": \"Yahoo News\", \"title\": \"Delta went from tropical storm to Cat 4 hurricane in 24 hours. How did that happen?\", \"description\": \"Meteorologists are comparing it to Wilma, the most intense Atlantic hurricane on record. Here\\u2019s what you need to know.\", \"date\": \"2020-10-06T20:53:57.000Z\", \"author\": \"Mary Perez\", \"text\": [\"Hurricane Delta strengthened from a tropical storm to a Category 4 hurricane with 140 mph in 30 hours, making it the \", \" tropical storm in Atlantic basin history since Hurricane Wilma.\", \"The process is called rapid intensification, and Delta could get stronger yet.\", \"NOAA defines rapid intensification as an increase in the maximum sustained winds of a tropical cyclone by at least 34.5 mph in a 24-hour period. Hurricane Delta increased by 63 mph in 24 hours, according to the National Hurricane Center, going from a Category 1 on Monday to a Category 3 on Tuesday morning, with wind speeds of 115 mph. By 4 p.m. Tuesday, the wind speed was 145 mph.\", \"\\u201cOnce Hurricane Delta moves into the Gulf of Mexico, we will see rapid intensification. A brief period of Category 5 may not be out of the question,\\u201d said longtime Gulf Coast meteorologist Rocco Calaci said in his\", \".\", \"The Weather Channel\\u2019s Jim Cantore and others \", \" in 2005. He tweeted Tuesday, \\u201cThis is Wilma type rapid intensification!!\\u201d\", \"In one day, Oct. 19, 2005, \", \" strengthened from a Category 2 to the most intense Category 5 hurricane on record, according to the NHC.\", \"Cantore also said Monday that Gulfport has been in the cone of probability for hurricanes six times this year.\", \"\\u201cYesterday, the models expected Delta to become a hurricane by Wednesday and only reach Category 2 status,\\u201d said Calaci. \\u201cWell, that was definitely wrong! Delta became a hurricane last night and is already a strong Category 2 hurricane and will definitely hit category 4 by tomorrow afternoon.\\u201d\", \"On Tuesday, he said anxiety is building along the Gulf Coast as Hurricane Delta moves into the Gulf of Mexico \\u2014 \\u201cand it\\u2019s going to be a monster.\\u201d\", \"Powerful thunderstorms \", \" of the hurricane and southern quadrant as it moved through the Caribbean Sea on Tuesday.\", \"Environmental conditions are prime for intensification, with low vertical wind shear, deep warm waters and sufficient mid-level moisture that are expected to support additional rapid intensification through today, the NHC report said.\", \"It\\u2019s the earliest landing for a 25th named storm of the season and the first landfall of a storm named from the Greek alphabet.\", \"Oct 4 \\u2014 The cyclone formed over the Central Caribbean at 3 p.m. Sunday. Six hours later it was classified as Tropical Depression #26.\", \"Oct. 5 \\u2014 By 7 a.m. the depression strengthened into Tropical Storm Delta. It becomes a hurricane Monday night.\", \"Oct. 6 \\u2014 Delta had wind speeds of 63 mph at 5 a.m. that increased to 115 mph by the 10 a.m. report from the National Hurricane Center. Delta became a Category 4 storm, according to a 10:20 a.m. update from the National Weather service in New Orleans, with wind speeds of 130 mph. The speed had intensified to 140 mph by the 2 p.m. report.\", \"Forecast \\u2014 It\\u2019s first target is forecast to be the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico.\", \"\\u201cSome reduction in intensity is likely when Delta moves over land, but the environmental conditions over the southern Gulf of Mexico are expected to support re-strengthening, and the NHC intensity forecast shows a second peak in 48-72 hours,\\u201d the report said.\", \"Delta is forecast to make a second landfall Friday or Saturday along the northern Gulf Coast. Wind speeds are expected to weaken when Delta meets increasing southwesterly shear and cooler shelf waters near the coastline, but it is still expected to be a dangerous hurricane when it makes landfall.\", \"Accoridng to the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale:\", \"South Mississippi Coast saw Hurricane Laura go to the west into Louisiana, and Hurricane Sally last month make landfall near the Alabama-Florida border.\", \"Hurricane Laura made landfall in Louisiana on Aug. 29 \\u2014 15 years to the day after Hurricane Katrina \\u2014 and was the last storm to see rapid intensification.\", \"Laura went from a Category 1 with winds of 75 mph to a category 4 with winds of 140 mph \", \".\", \"In 2018 Hurricane Michael jumped from Category 2 to Category 5 in one day before hitting the Florida Panhandle.\", \"The major difference between Hurricane Delta and Hurricane Sally that dumped more than two feet of rain on parts of Florida is Delta is speed. Delta is moving much faster, with the latest report showing Delta has increased forward speed to 16 mph, while Sally was barely moving at 2 mph before it made landfall.\", \"Forecasters say a faster moving storm will bring less rain and less damage when it makes landfall compared to Sally.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://news.yahoo.com/russian-goes-trial-charges-carrying-141339719.html\", \"source\": \"Yahoo News\", \"title\": \"Russian goes on trial on charges of carrying out Kremlin-ordered killing in Berlin\", \"description\": \"The trial of a Russian man accused of carrying out a Kremlin-ordered assassination on German soil opened in Berlin on Wednesday. The case is expected to...\", \"date\": \"2020-10-07T14:13:39.000Z\", \"author\": \"Justin Huggler\", \"text\": [\"The trial of a Russian man accused of carrying out a Kremlin-ordered assassination on German soil opened in Berlin on Wednesday.\", \"The case is expected to further damage relations between Germany and Russia, which are already strained by the attempted poisoning of opposition leader Alexei Navalny.\", \"The defendant, a 55-year-old Russian, is accused of \", \" on orders from Moscow last year.\", \"Khangoshvili, a 40-year-old ethnic Chechen from Georgia, fought against Russia\\u00a0in the Chechnya war and had links to Georgian intelligence.\\u00a0\", \"The accused\\u2019s true identity is disputed and the judge said he would address him as \\u201cHerr Defendant\\u201d throughout the trial.\", \"According to the indictment read out in court, he was given orders \\u201cto liquidate the victim\\u201d by \\u201cRussian state agencies\\u201d.\\u00a0\", \"He entered Germany on a false passport in the name of Vadim Sokolov but prosecutors allege he is really Vadim Krasikov, a Russian hitman previously wanted for the murder of a businessman in Moscow.\", \"He is accused of approaching the unsuspecting Khangoshvili from behind on a bicycle in Berlin\\u2019s Kleiner Tiergarten park.\", \"Prosecutors allege he shot Khangoshvili in the upper body with a Glock handgun fitted with a silencer, then shot him twice in the head after he fell to the ground. He escaped on the bicycle but was later captured.\", \"No pleas are entered in the German legal system and the defendant did not make any statement.\", \"The case is being held under intense security in a secure courtroom, and the defendant is being held in a secret location over concerns about possible interference.\", \"The killing was already being spoken of as \\u201c\", \"\\u201d in Germany before the poisoning of Mr Navalny with Novichok, the same nerve agent used in the failed assassination attempt against Sergei Skripal in Salisbury.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://news.yahoo.com/celebs-respond-trump-telling-people-123117363.html\", \"source\": \"Yahoo News\", \"title\": \"Celebs respond to Trump telling people 'Don't be afraid of Covid': 'This is reckless to a shocking degree, even for you'\", \"description\": \"President Trump created a firestorm Monday when he tweeted, &quot;Don&#39;t be afraid of Covid,&quot; as he was leaving Walter Reed National Military Medical...\", \"date\": \"2020-10-06T12:31:17.000Z\", \"author\": \"Yahoo Entertainment\", \"text\": [\"President Trump created a firestorm Monday when he tweeted, \\\"Don't be afraid of Covid,\\\" as he was leaving Walter Reed National Military Medical Center to return to the White House.\", \"[MUSIC PLAYING]\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://news.yahoo.com/high-stakes-russian-hitman-trial-013259825.html\", \"source\": \"Yahoo News\", \"title\": \"High-stakes 'Russian hitman' trial opens in Berlin\", \"description\": \"A German court on Wednesday put a Russian man on trial over the assassination of a former Chechen commander in a Berlin park, allegedly on Moscow&#39;s...\", \"date\": \"2020-10-07T13:07:19.000Z\", \"author\": \"Isabelle LE PAGE\", \"text\": [\"A German court on Wednesday put a Russian man on trial over the assassination of a former Chechen commander in a Berlin park, allegedly on Moscow's orders, a case that risks worsening acrimonious ties between Germany and Russia.\", \"The 55-year-old named by prosecutors as Vadim Krasikov, alias Vadim Sokolov, stands accused of gunning down 40-year-old Georgian national Tornike Kavtarashvili in the Kleiner Tiergarten park on August 23 last year.\", \"The defendant has so far stayed mum over the case, but German prosecutors have alleged that Russia ordered the killing.\", \"In court on Wednesday, he told the court through his lawyer Robert Unger that he should be identified only as Vadim Sokolov, who is \\\"Russian, single and a construction engineer\\\". He denied being known as Krasikov, saying \\\"I know of no one by this name\\\".\", \"Prosecutors said the alleged killer was carrying out a \\\"state mission, whether for pay or because he shared the motives of his clients for killing a political opponent...as retaliation for his participation\\\" in a conflict with Russia.\", \"The brazen murder in the heart of the German capital appeared to be a tipping point for Chancellor Angela Merkel, who said in May that the killing \\\"disrupts a cooperation of trust\\\" between Berlin and Moscow.\", \"The German leader has always stressed the importance of keeping dialogue open with Russian President Vladimir Putin, but she has sharpened her tone in recent months.\\u00a0\", \"The trial comes with Europe already outraged over the poisoning in August of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, who is receiving treatment in Berlin.\", \"Germany has said that tests it carried out showed the 44-year-old was poisoned with a Novichok-type deadly nerve agent -- a finding corroborated by France, Sweden and the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW).\", \"Russia denies all allegations over the Berlin murder and Navalny's poisoning.\\u00a0\", \"But Merkel's government said Wednesday sanctions from the European Union over the Novichok attack may be \\\"unavoidable\\\".\", \" - Posed as a tourist - \", \"Given the high stakes, Wednesday's trial will be closely scrutinised for details pointing to \", \"Investigative website Bellingcat, which had named the suspect as Vadim Krasikov, said he grew up in Kazakhstan when it was part of the Soviet Union before moving to the Russian region of Siberia.\", \"He received training from Russia's FSB intelligence service and was part of its elite squad, the website said.\", \"Days before the August 2019 killing, he had posed as a tourist, visiting sights in Paris including the Eiffel Tower before travelling to Warsaw, according to a report in Der Spiegel weekly.\", \"He also toured the Polish capital before vanishing on August 22, without checking out from his hotel, the report said.\", \"A day later, riding a bicycle in Berlin's Kleiner Tiergarten park, the suspect approached the victim from behind, firing a Glock 26 pistol equipped with a silencer at the side of Kavtarashvili's torso, German prosecutors said.\", \"After the victim fell to the ground, the accused fired another two shots at his head that killed the Georgian on the spot.\", \"He was seen throwing a bag into the nearby Spree river from where police divers later recovered the Glock handgun, a wig and a bicycle, according to the prosecutors.\", \"The suspect was arrested after the killing, which took place just minutes away from the chancellery and the German parliament.\", \"Investigators later found his mobile phone and a return flight ticket for Moscow on August 25 in his hotel room in Warsaw, Spiegel reported.\", \" - 'Very cruel' - \", \"Putin had described the victim as a \\\"fighter, very cruel and bloody\\\" who had joined separatists against Russian forces in the Caucasus and also been involved in bombing attacks on the Moscow metro.\", \"Moscow also said it had been seeking his extradition.\", \"Named as Zelimkhan Khangoshvili by German media, the victim had survived two assassination attempts in Georgia.\", \"Following that, he sought asylum in Germany and had spent the past years in the country.\", \"Both the killing and Navalny's poisoning have been likened to the poisoning of former Russian agent Sergei Skripal in Britain in 2018, also widely blamed on Russian intelligence.\", \"If convicted, the suspect faces life in jail.\", \"ilp-hmn/dlc/fec/jj\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://news.yahoo.com/trump-coronavirus-morning-joe-host-182614665.html\", \"source\": \"Yahoo News\", \"title\": \"Trump coronavirus: Morning Joe host says president could be guilty of \\u2018manslaughter\\u2019 if he infects Secret Service and White House staff\", \"description\": \"\\u2018At some point isn\\u2019t this manslaughter?\\u2019 Ms Brzezinski said\", \"date\": \"2020-10-06T18:26:14.000Z\", \"author\": \"Danielle Zoellner\", \"text\": [\"MSNBC\\u2019s Morning Joe host Mika Brzezinski has questioned if President Donald Trump would face \\u201cmanslaughter\\u201d charges for potentially infecting the Secret Service and members of the White House with Covid-19.\", \"The question was posed on Tuesday as Ms Brzezinksi and guests on Morning Joe discussed the president\\u2019s dramatic journey back to the White House after he was discharged from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Monday.\", \"\\u201cMaybe the president is immune from everything, because he said, \\u2018Am I immune now?'\\u201d she said. \\u201cIs he legally immune? What if the Secret Service men and women who got exposed to the deadly coronavirus, what if someone gets sick and dies? I don\\u2019t want this to happen, I wish for his health but he\\u2019s pushing all of this against the advice of the professionals in his government, against the advice of scientists.\\u201d\", \"Mr Trump, who tested positive for Covid-19 on Thursday, walked up the steps of the White House to a balcony where he then took off his mask. The president\\u2019s doctors would not reveal if he was still infected with the novel virus, making it unclear if he could still spread it to others.\", \"The Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends for people to quarantine themselves away from others for 14 days after testing positive for the virus.\", \"Following the photo-op, Mr Trump reportedly entered the White House without wearing a mask and then conferred with a group of people, heightening criticism that the president was still not taking the virus seriously.\", \"\\u201cAt some point isn\\u2019t this manslaughter?\\u201d Ms Brzezinski said. \\u201cIf you purposely put people in a position that you send a deadly virus their way, what is that?\\u201d\", \"The president has faced backlash for multiple moments where he potentially infected others with the novel virus.\", \"White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, who tested positive on Monday, reportedly got off Marine One on Thursday when the president was heading to Bedminster, New Jersey, for a fundraiser. She got off the plane because senior aide Hope Hicks tested positive for the virus, but the president, who also met with Ms Hicks, still went to the fundraiser.\", \"He tested positive on Thursday evening after the fundraiser.\\u00a0\", \"The president also took a ride around Walter Reed on Sunday while hospitalised from Covid-19 to wave at supporters outside the medical centre. He was pictured inside an enclosed vehicle with Secret Service agents. Everyone was wearing a mask.\", \"Whether others in the White House have been exposed to the coronavirus is not yet known.\", \"Thus far, First Lady Melania Trump, Trump \\u201cbody man\\u201d Nick Luna, Former senior advisor Kellyanne Conway, Trump campaign manager Bill Stepien, Kayleigh McEnany, RNC chairwoman Ronna McDaniel, Senator Mike Lee, and Senator Thom Tillis, among others, have all tested positive in the last week.\", \"Read more\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://news.yahoo.com/should-the-supreme-court-have-term-limits-133552695.html\", \"source\": \"Yahoo News\", \"title\": \"Should the Supreme Court have term limits?\", \"description\": \"Would limiting Supreme Court justices to 18 year terms help prevent the brutal political battles that arise when a seat becomes available?\", \"date\": \"2020-09-29T13:35:52.000Z\", \"author\": \"Mike Bebernes\", \"text\": [\"The death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has spurred a partisan fight over her replacement and sparked a larger discussion about the structure of the court itself and whether major changes should be made to protect the legitimacy of the judiciary branch.\", \"Some Democrats have floated the idea of \\u201cpacking the court\\u201d (adding additional seats to offset the influence of conservative judges) if they take control of the Senate in 2021. The unexpected vacancy has also brought renewed attention to a long-simmering debate over whether Supreme Court justices should have term limits rather than lifelong appointments.\", \"Progressive Democrats are reportedly planning to introduce a bill in the House of Representatives \", \"and stagger the schedule of appointments so every president would get two nominations in a four-year term. Completely eliminating lifetime appointments would likely require a Constitutional amendment. This proposal, and others like it, get around that by allowing long-serving justices to hold a \\u201csenior\\u201d status in which they officially remain on the court but have limited duties.\", \"Supporters of term limits believe it would decrease the intensity of the Supreme Court confirmation process, which has become a brutal political slugfest in recent years. In turn, justices would be less likely to allow partisanship to color their rulings once they\\u2019re on the court, they say. A more regular schedule of appointments would also prevent what some consider antidemocratic tactics, like Republicans\\u2019 refusal to consider Barack Obama\\u2019s nominee in 2016, that in some views have undermined the public\\u2019s trust in the nation\\u2019s highest court.\\u00a0\", \"The Supreme Court is far too important, some argue, for its membership to be determined by whichever party happens to hold the White House and Senate when a sitting justice dies, especially since increasing life expectancy means that will happen less often. This randomness means some presidents have disproportionate influence over the court\\u2019s makeup, which can skew the balance of power in the country long after they\\u2019ve left office. No other democracy in the world gives lifetime appointments to members of its highest court. Others fear the court is on the brink of a legitimacy crisis. If \", \"is confirmed, a majority of the Supreme Court will have been appointed by presidents who lost the popular vote.\", \"Opponents of term limits say regular vacancies would worsen, not reduce, partisan bickering about the court. A new seat coming available every two years would mean Congress would always have an upcoming confirmation battle on the horizon. The Founding Fathers intended lifetime appointments to free Supreme Court justices of the day-to-day influence of politics, and critics say term limits would spoil that.\\u00a0\\u00a0\", \"There are also practical questions about how the limits might be implemented, since any plan would have to consider what to do with current justices, who were all named to lifetime seats. Depending on the proposal, it could be decades before a plan for term limits has any real influence on the makeup of the court.\", \"The Senate Judiciary Committee is scheduled to begin hearings on Barrett\\u2019s nomination in mid-October. It\\u2019s unclear at this time whether a confirmation vote will be held before or after the presidential election on Nov. 3. In the short term, the odds of any bill imposing term limits passing would almost certainly depend on Democrats taking back the Senate next year.\", \"\\u201cImplementing term limits for the Supreme Court would be a step toward repairing and normalizing a process that raises the stakes of vacancies beyond what our politics, or the human beings who serve on the Court, can comfortably bear. It would be one important way we could deescalate the stakes of American politics, and protect the system from total breakdown.\\u201d \\u2014 Ezra Klein, \", \"\\u201cIt\\u2019s time to end the unseemly position that the anachronism of life tenure for Supreme Court justices has put the country in. It\\u2019s a good thing that modern medicine is extending the lives of everyone, including Supreme Court justices. But the time has come to remove the incentives that make justices serve until they drop dead or are gaga.\\u201d \\u2014 John Fund, \", \"\\u201cStaggered term limits would ensure that electoral winners shaped the Supreme Court, not the Grim Reaper.\\u201d \\u2014 Elie Mystal, \", \"\\u201cOver time, more justices would have impact, preventing the idiosyncratic preferences of one or two individuals from determining U.S. jurisprudence for decades. This plan would also eliminate the incentive for presidents to pick young and relatively inexperienced judges merely because they are likely to live longer.\\u201d \\u2014 Editorial, \", \"\\u201cThis approach would end what has become a poisonous process of picking a Supreme Court justice. It would depoliticize the court and judicial selection, and thus promote the rule of law.\\u201d \\u2014 Steven G. Calabresi, \", \"\\u201cMore than any other branch of government, the courts \\u2014 and the Supreme Court in particular \\u2014 gain their power from the public trust. Yet today, lifetime tenure for justices, and the strange and morbid circumstances that result, threaten to undermine that trust.\\u201d \\u2014 David Litt, \", \"\\u201cTerm limits and regularly recurring vacancies might tone down the epic Supreme Court confirmation battles that have occurred roughly twice every eight years. But they might instead make knock-down, drag-outs a recurring part of the political landscape. An election preceding the end of a swing justice\\u2019s 18-year term could thrust the court into election year battles more intense than we\\u2019ve already seen.\\u201d \\u2014 Russell Wheeler, \", \"\\u201cThere are also transition problems. Since term limits wouldn\\u2019t apply to sitting justices, for decades we would have term-limited justices serving alongside life-tenured ones. \\u2026 Fixes could be put in place to prevent all this, but at some point the complications become more trouble than they\\u2019re worth.\\u201d \\u2014 Ilya Shapiro, \", \"\\u201c[Term limits] undermine the primary function of the judiciary, especially the Supreme Court: preventing political majorities from trampling on others\\u2019 constitutional rights. \\u2026 Judges without life tenure are less likely to act independently of the political branches or of public opinion, and thus cannot serve the purpose of holding the tyranny of the majority in check.\\u201d \\u2014 Suzanna Sherry, \", \"\\u201cIf Congress can impose an 18 year term, they can also impose one that is 3 years or 6 years, and use that power to get rid of Supreme Court justices whose decisions they dislike. When the opposing party comes to power, they can make the terms still shorter, and thereby get rid of justices they dislike.\\u201d \\u2014 Ilya Somin, \", \"\\u201cWait, why is it that once the court could go 6\\u20133 in favor of strict-constructionist originalist \\u2018conservative\\u2019 judges that we see this concern over lowering the temperature over fights for the Court?... I guess the legitimacy of the court is never at risk when it\\u2019s ruling in your favor.\\u201d \\u2014 Jim Geraghty, \"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://news.yahoo.com/russian-trial-accused-state-ordered-211717454.html\", \"source\": \"Yahoo News\", \"title\": \"Russian on trial accused of state-ordered Berlin execution\", \"description\": \"A Russian accused of killing a Georgian man in broad daylight in downtown Berlin on Moscow&#39;s orders went on trial for murder Wednesday, in a case that...\", \"date\": \"2020-10-06T21:17:17.000Z\", \"author\": \"DAVID RISING\", \"text\": [\"BERLIN (AP) \\u2014 A Russian accused of killing a Georgian man in broad daylight in downtown Berlin on Moscow's orders went on trial for murder Wednesday, in a case that has contributed to growing frictions between Germany and Russia.\", \"Prosecutor Ronald Georg said the defendant Vadim Krasikov, using the alias Vadim Solokov, traveled to the German capital last August on the orders of the Russian government to kill a Georgian citizen of Chechen ethnicity who fought Russian troops in Chechnya.\", \"\\u201cState agencies of the central government of the Russian Federation gave the defendant the contract to liquidate the Georgian citizen with Chechen roots,\\u201d Georg told the court, reading the indictment.\", \"\\u201cThe defendant took the contract, either for an unknown sum of money or because he shared the motive of those who gave the contract to liquidate the (victim) as a political enemy in revenge for his role in the second Chechen war and participation in other armed conflict against the Russian Federation.\\u201d\", \"No pleas are entered in the German trial system, and the defendant made only a short statement as the trial began under tight security and coronavirus precautions, saying that he had been misidentified.\", \"\\u201cI am Vadim Adreyevich Sokolov, not Vadim Nikolayevich Krasikov,\\\" he said through his attorney Robert Unger. \\u201cSuch a person is not known to me.\\\"\", \"After the Aug. 23, 2019 killing, Germany expelled two Russian diplomats last December over the case, prompting Russia to oust two German diplomats in retaliation.\", \"If the allegations against the 55-year-old suspect are proved in court, the case has the potential to exacerbate tensions between Moscow and Berlin, which have also been fueled by allegations of Russian involvement in the 2015 hacking of the German parliament and the theft of documents from Chancellor Angela Merkel's own office, as well as the poisoning of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny.\", \"Navalny fell ill on a flight in Russia on Aug 20, landing in a Siberian hospital. Two days later, he was transferred on Merkel's personal invitation to Berlin\\u2019s Charite hospital, where doctors concluded he had been poisoned by a Soviet-era nerve agent.\", \"Moscow has dismissed accusations of involvement in the Navalny case and denied ties in the parliamentary hacking, even though Merkel herself said there was \\u201chard evidence\\u201d of the latter.\", \"Russian President Vladimir Putin\\u2019s spokesman Dmitry Peskov called the allegations of Russian involvement in the Berlin killing \\u201cabsolutely groundless.\\u201d\", \"After Merkel confronted Putin about the killing at a meeting in Paris in December, the Russian leader called the victim, Zelimkhan \\u201cTornike\\u201d Khangoshvili, a \\u201cbandit\\u201d and a \\u201cmurderer,\\\" accusing him of killing scores of people during fighting in the Caucasus.\", \"The growing acrimony between the two countries comes at a delicate time, as Germany and Russia work towards the completion of a joint pipeline project to bring Russian gas directly to Germany under the Baltic, and work to try and salvage a nuclear deal with Iran that has been unraveling since President Donald Trump pulled the United States out of it unilaterally in 2018.\", \"Khangoshvili was a Georgian citizen of Chechen ethnicity who fought Russian troops in Chechnya. He had also volunteered to fight for a Georgian unit against the Russians in South Ossetia in 2008, but peace was negotiated before he took part. He had previously survived multiple assassination attempts and continued to receive threats after fleeing in 2016 to Germany, where he had been granted asylum.\", \"Prosecutors allege the killer approached Khangoshvili from behind on a bicycle in the small Kleiner Tiergarten park, shooting him twice in the torso with a silencer-fitted handgun. After Khangoshvili fell to the ground, the suspect fired two fatal shots into his head.\", \"Witnesses saw the suspect disposing of the bike, weapon and a wig in the Spree River as he fled the scene and alerted police, who quickly identified and arrested him.\", \"In their indictment, prosecutors allege there is ample evidence indicating official Russian involvement in the crime.\", \"German investigators used facial recognition to match the suspect to a photograph Russia had sent partner agencies in 2014 as it sought help finding Vadim Krasikov in connection with a killing in Moscow. That request was canceled on July 7, 2015, and a person with the identity of Vadim Sokolov first appears on Sept. 3, 2015, with a Russian passport.\", \"On July 18, 2019, Vadim S. obtained a new passport from an official office in the Russian city of Bryansk, which he used to apply for a French visa at the general consulate in Moscow, prosecutors said.\", \"Russian authorities confirmed the suspect\\u2019s passport, found on him at the time of his arrest, was valid, prosecutors said.\", \"He was granted the visa and flew on Aug. 17, 2019, from Moscow to Paris. In his visa application, prosecutors said the suspect claimed to work for a St. Petersburg firm known as Zao Rust.\", \"Investigators found that Zao Rust had only one employee in 2018 and on April 10, 2019, was listed as being in \\u201creorganization.\\u201d The company\\u2019s fax number was one used by two firms that are operated by the Russian Defense Ministry, prosecutors said.\", \"He left Paris on Aug. 20 and flew to Warsaw where he had a hotel booked until Aug. 25. Upon arrival, he extended his room to Aug. 26, but left at 8 a.m. on Aug. 22 and never returned, prosecutors said.\", \"It is not clear, they said, what he did between his departure from the hotel and the killing in Berlin at 11:55 a.m. on Aug. 23.\", \"The trial is scheduled through Jan. 27.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://news.yahoo.com/justice-department-just-announced-significant-183052805.html\", \"source\": \"Yahoo News\", \"title\": \"The Justice Department just announced a significant policy change that would allow prosecutors to take steps that could affect the outcome of the election\", \"description\": \"The DOJ&#39;s decision could place it on a collision course with the FBI and US intelligence community ahead of the November election.\", \"date\": \"2020-10-07T18:30:52.000Z\", \"author\": \"Sonam Sheth\", \"text\": [\"The Department of Justice (DOJ) made a significant change to a longstanding policy against election interference that would allow prosecutors to take steps that may alter the outcome of the election, \", \".\", \"The non-interference policy has been in place for at least the last four decades, according to the report, and it prohibits prosecutors from taking overt steps to address election-related offenses in the run-up to an election to avoid changing the outcome of the race.\", \"But an official in the DOJ's Public Integrity Section sent an email Friday saying that if a US attorney's office suspects postal workers or military employees engaged in election fraud, federal prosecutors can publicly take steps to investigate the matter before polls close, even if they affect the outcome, according to ProPublica.\", \"The exception to the policy applies to cases where \\\"the integrity of any component of the federal government is implicated by election offenses within the scope of the policy including but not limited to misconduct by federal officials or employees administering an aspect of the voting process through the United States Postal Service, the Department of Defense or any other federal department or agency.\\\"\", \"President Donald Trump has repeatedly and falsely suggested that sending mail-in ballots through the US Postal Service will lead to widespread voter fraud and delegitimize the result of the election. His administration took steps to \", \" while Trump amplified those claims. The president has also falsely suggested that ballots cast by military servicemembers are being illegally tossed out or manipulated.\", \"Wednesday's report comes one day after ProPublica published a separate piece highlighting that the DOJ may have violated its own non-interference policy when it \", \" in September saying it was investigating \\\"potential issues with mail-in ballots\\\" in Pennsylvania's Luzerne county.\", \"Initially, the department announced a \\\"small number of military ballots were discarded\\\" and that investigators had \\\"recovered nine ballots at this time.\\\" It added that \\\"all nine ballots were cast for presidential candidate Donald Trump.\\\"\", \"A second, revised statement said that \\\"of the nine ballots that were discarded and then recovered, 7 were cast for presidential candidate Donald Trump. Two of the discarded ballots had been resealed inside their appropriate envelopes by Luzerne elections staff prior to recovery by the FBI and the contents of those 2 ballots are unknown.\\\"\", \"Attorney General William Barr \", \" told Trump about the investigation, which the president and his allies seized on as evidence that proved his allegations about election fraud. As it turned out, the county and Pennsylvania secretary of state both confirmed that the ballots were discarded by mistake by a temporary contract worker who may have mistook them for mail ballot applications.\", \"Wednesday's report could also put the DOJ on a collision course with the FBI and US intelligence community, whose leaders \", \" this week reassuring voters of the integrity of the electoral process and countering many of Trump's claims about election rigging.\", \"\\\"Next month, we will exercise one of our most cherished rights and a foundation of our democracy \\u2013 the right to vote in a free and fair election,\\\" FBI director Christopher Wray said in the video. \\\"Some Americans will go to the polls on November 3rd to cast their votes, while others will be voting by mail; in fact, some have already begun to return their ballots.\\\"\", \"Chris Krebs, the director of the Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency, added: \\\"I'm here to tell you that my confidence in the security of your vote has never been higher. That's because of an all-of-nation, unprecedented election security effort over the last several years.\\\"\", \"Read the original article on \"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://news.yahoo.com/live-vp-debate-pence-kamala-harris-fact-check-stream-200006197.html\", \"source\": \"Yahoo News\", \"title\": \"Live: Watch and fact-check the vice presidential debate\", \"description\": \"Yahoo News will provide live fact checking and analysis during Wednesday night\\u2019s vice presidential debate, highlighting false and misleading claims made by...\", \"date\": \"2020-10-07T20:00:14.000Z\", \"author\": \"Dylan Stableford\", \"text\": [\"\\u2014\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://news.yahoo.com/facebook-trump-cant-recruit-army-213045310.html\", \"source\": \"Yahoo News\", \"title\": \"Facebook: Trump can't recruit 'army' of poll watchers under new voter intimidation rules\", \"description\": \"In a blog post Wednesday, Facebook  said it will no longer allow content that encourages poll watching that uses &quot;militarized&quot; language or intends ...\", \"date\": \"2020-10-07T21:30:45.000Z\", \"author\": \"Taylor Hatmaker\", \"text\": [\"In a blog post Wednesday, \", \" said it will no longer allow content that encourages poll watching that uses \\\"militarized\\\" language or intends to \\\"intimidate, exert control, or display power over election officials or voters.\\\" Facebook credited the update to its platform rules to civil rights experts who it worked with to create the policy.\", \"Facebook Vice President of Content Policy Monika Bickert elaborated on the new rules in a call with reporters, noting that wording would prohibit posts that use words like \\\"army\\\" or \\\"battle\\\" \\u2014 a choice that appears to take direct aim at the Trump campaign's effort to \", \" to watch the polls on election day. Last month, Donald Trump Jr. called for supporters to \\\"enlist now\\\" in an \\\"army for Trump election security operation\\\" in a video that was posted on Facebook and other social platforms.\", \"\\\"Under the new policy if that video were to be posted again, we would indeed remove it,\\\" Bickert said.\", \"The company says that while posts calling for \\\"coordinated interference\\\" or showing up armed at polling places are already targeted for removal, the expanded policy will more fully address voter intimidation concerns. Facebook will apply the expanded policy going forward but it won't affect content already on the platform, including the Trump Jr. post.\", \"Poll watching to ensure fair elections is a regular part of the process, but weaponizing those observers to seek evidence for unfounded claims about \\\"fraudulent ballots\\\" and a \\\"rigged\\\" election is something new \\u2014 and something \", \". Poll watching laws \", \" and some states limit how many poll watchers can be present and how they must identify themselves.\", \"Trump has repeatedly failed to commit to accepting the results of the election in the event that he loses, an unprecedented threat to the peaceful transfer of power in the U.S. and one social media companies are \", \".\", \"Facebook is also making some changes to its rules around political advertising. The company will no longer allow political ads immediately following the election in an effort to avoid chaos and false claims.\", \"\\\"... While ads are an important way to express voice, we plan to temporarily stop running all social issue, electoral, or political ads in the U.S. after the polls close on November 3, to reduce opportunities for confusion or abuse,\\\" Facebook Vice President of Integrity Guy Rosen wrote in a blog post. Rosen added that Facebook will let advertisers know when those ads are allowed again.\", \"Facebook also provided a glimpse of what its apps will look like on what might shape up to be an unusual election night. The company will place a notification at the top of the Instagram and Facebook apps with the status of the election in an effort to broadly fact-check false claims.\", \"Images via Facebook\", \"Those messages will remind users that \\\"Votes are still being counted\\\" before switching over to a message that \\\"A winner has been projected\\\" after a reliable consensus emerges about the race. Because the results of the election may not be apparent on election night this year, it's possible that users will see these messages beyond November 3. If a candidate declares a premature victory, Facebook will add one of these labels to that content.\", \"Facebook also noted that is is now using a viral content review system, a measure designed to prevent the many instances in which misinformation or otherwise harmful content racks up thousands of views before eventually being removed. Facebook says the tool, which it says it has relied on \\\"throughout election season,\\\" provides a safety net that helps the company detect content that breaks its rules so it can take action to limit its spread.\", \"In the final month before the election, Facebook is notably showing less hesitation toward policing misinformation and other harmful political content on its platform. The company \", \" that it would no longer allow the pro-Trump conspiracy theory known as QAnon to flourish there, as it has over the last four years. Facebook also \", \" in which President Trump, fresh out of a multi-day hospital stay, claimed that COVID-19 is \\\"far less lethal\\\" than the flu.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://news.yahoo.com/facebook-remove-posts-militarized-calls-214130712.html\", \"source\": \"Yahoo News\", \"title\": \"Facebook will remove posts with 'militarized' calls for poll watchers\", \"description\": \"Facebook also said in a blog post that it would respond to candidates or parties making premature claims of victory, before races were called by major media ...\", \"date\": \"2020-10-07T21:41:30.000Z\", \"author\": \"Reuters\", \"text\": [\"(Reuters) - Facebook Inc said on Wednesday it would remove calls for people to engage in poll watching that use \\u201cmilitarized language\\u201d or suggest the goal is to intimidate voters or election officials, as part of the social media company\\u2019s latest restrictions around the U.S. election.\", \"Facebook also said in a blog post that it would respond to candidates or parties making premature claims of victory, before races were called by major media outlets, by adding labels and notifications about the state of the race.\", \"It also said it would temporarily stop running political ads in the United States after polls close on Nov. 3.\", \"(Reporting by Katie Paul, writing by Greg Mitchell, editing by Peter Henderson)\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://news.yahoo.com/world-fell-madly-love-dilwale-100000518.html\", \"source\": \"Yahoo News\", \"title\": \"How the World Fell Madly in Love With \\u2018Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge\\u2019\", \"description\": \"An oral history of the film that rewrote the modern Hindi rom-com.\", \"date\": \"2020-10-07T10:00:00.000Z\", \"author\": \"Neha Prakash\", \"text\": [\"It\\u2019s a tale as old as, well, \", \" On October 20, 1995, \", \" premiered in theaters and...never left. Directed and written by then-24-year-old first-time filmmaker Aditya Chopra\\u2014under his father Yash Chopra\\u2019s mega-successful production banner Yash Raj Films\\u2014the Bollywood rom-com went on to become the longest-running Hindi film of all time. (In the midst of an historic 1,274-week run at Mumbai\\u2019s Maratha Mandir theater, it was forced to temporarily close in March due to COVID-19.)\", \"The flick, about \", \" (NRIs) Raj and Simran and their star-crossed love that began and ended on a train, captured lightning in a bottle: It catapulted stars Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol to meteoric levels of fame, cemented the careers of music composers Jatin-Lalit and designer Manish Malhotra, and became a launching pad for future Bollywood mainstays like Karan Johar, who cut his teeth on \", \" as one of the film\\u2019s assistant directors and supporting cast members. What started as a passion project for Chopra and a group of up-and-comers with a fresh perspective on what it meant to fall in love, went on to become a revered classic, a box-office heavyweight, the winner of a record-breaking (at the time) 10 Filmfare Awards\\u2014India\\u2019s Academy Award equivalent\\u2014and the film that changed the face of an industry.\", \"And it all started when a boy met a girl.\\u2026\", \"(lead actress, Simran Singh): We saw the whole film, together, at the premiere. We all dressed up in our Bombay finery, and it was fabulous. It was an amazing feeling to know you made this. And all of us loved the film universally. That is something that\\u2019s quite rare, actually.\", \"(film critic and author of the 2002 book \", \"): It was a blockbuster out of the gate. This was not about word of mouth. I remember so clearly at the premiere at New Excelsior [in Mumbai]\\u2014it\\u2019s a 1,000-seat hall. And it was just euphoric. And the critical reception was exactly the same. It was just one of those movies that sweep you away.\", \"(art director): This wasn\\u2019t any part of our Indian genre, in terms of visuals. It was one of the earliest road [trip] films.\", \"(costume designer): There was a lot of glamour. That\\u2019s a tough one to \", \" because you are [also] trying to make the characters a bit real, which was a new thing, which Aditya Chopra started.\", \"Traditionally, the West had been portrayed as a sort of decadent hotbed of sin in Hindi movies. In films like \", \" or \", \" it was the person from India who showed the Indian in the West what Indian values were. And here was this film that completely turned this on its head, because here\\u2019s a guy [Raj] who is buying beer in the first few minutes of the film. Here\\u2019s a guy who\\u2019s obviously flirtatious. Here\\u2019s a guy who\\u2019s born and bred in the U.K., and yet he turns out to be more Hindustani than the guy who was raised in Punjab. That was a very new idea at that time.\", \" (lead actor, Raj Malhotra): This film came at a time when the audiences were getting more receptive to a story like \", \" and a pairing like mine and Kajol\\u2019s. A lot of external factors worked for the film: the novelty of a modern rom-com, for example, and liberalization.\", \" It\\u2019s such a seductive fantasy. It appealed to people in the West because all the NRIs felt like \\u201cJust because we live here doesn\\u2019t mean we lost our Indian-ness. It doesn\\u2019t mean we\\u2019re not desi anymore; it doesn\\u2019t mean that our roots have been severed.\\u201d And, of course, it works for the people who are still living in India because it reconfirms this is the original land of value and beauty and song and dance and all the rest of it.\", \"(supporting actor, Dharamvir Malhotra): The script was very, very fresh. [In Hindi films before], it was a typical \", \" concept: The parents aren\\u2019t happy with who you are; the world wanted [the couple] to be united, and the so-called \\u201cforces against you\\u201d were the parents. But here, the boy was a very idealistic person. [The boy] respected the girl \", \" her parents, especially her father. [Aditya] very intelligently represented NRIs and Londoners and the typical Punjabi [person].\", \"I loved the script, from beginning to end. There was no part that I heard that I did not feel completely there, and present, and completely part of the film....There is one song where I wasn\\u2019t sure about how it would be taken on screen: \\u201cZara Sa Jhoom Loon Main.\\u201d I didn\\u2019t think I looked drunk at all, and I was like, \\u201cThis is not gonna work. I don\\u2019t believe this myself.\\u201d Because I\\u2019m a complete teetotaler. I don\\u2019t know what it\\u2019s like to get drunk. But fortunately for me, [that scene] turned out okay. It\\u2019s not as bad as I thought it was.\", \"There were several improv moments. They enhanced the script, for sure. There was this scene with Amrish Puri [who played Simran\\u2019s father, Chaudhry Baldev Singh] where he was feeding the pigeons. And we had this really funny scene where we are both awkwardly going \", \" to the pigeons. It is a call for pigeons I had heard in Delhi, so I added it. Even the flower that sprays water on Kajol\\u2019s face, we hadn\\u2019t told her what would happen.\", \"That\\u2019s one thing that is fantastic about Shah Rukh: He is a very affectionate, easy person [to act with]. When we sort of clap hands and do gibberish words with each other, I invented those words on the set. And when Raj is saying, \\u201cI just failed,\\u201d and I introduce him to our \\u201cancestors\\u201d in paintings on the wall, that was similar to my own family....My own uncle had failed in 7th/8th grade. So I asked Mr. Chopra, \\u201cCan I use their real names in the movie?\\u201d\", \"It was a set of friends just having fun...with the material. Adi had a much clearer vision [of] where he was going with it and what he wanted to say in it. So the voices belong to us, but the words and feelings are all his, to be honest.\", \" I think when Adi wrote the film, he meant it to show that families are the way they are everywhere. That\\u2019s what the film was about: embracing what the world has ahead of you, but don\\u2019t forget your roots.\", \"The name of the film is given by my wife [actress Kirron Kher]. There was a lot of debate: \\u201cWhat should be the title of the film?\\u201d There is a very famous song called \\u201cLe Jayenge Le Jayenge\\u201d from an old Hindi film [1974\\u2019s \", \"]. So my wife said, \\u201cAt the end of [this] movie, the boy finally says, \\u2018I will take away the bride.\\u2019 Why don\\u2019t we call it \", \"?\\u201d Everybody loved it. [She] gets a separate [credit] in the [film]. It says, \\u201cTitle given by Kirron Kher.\\u201d\", \" My first impression of Simran was that she was nothing like me. I didn\\u2019t agree with all this being too dutiful. I was like, \\u201cCan\\u2019t she think for herself?\\u201d [\", \"] I played her dutifully, but I made fun of her on set.\", \" Her energy was palpable.\\u2026Nobody could\\u2019ve played Simran better than Kajol.\", \" I thought, \", \". So maybe 90 percent of her wasn\\u2019t [me], but that 10 percent was.\", \"Raj was unlike anything I had done. Before \", \" there was \", \" \", \", \", \"films in which I had portrayed negative characters.\", \"I thought Raj was a cool hero. I thought that he had a lot of unexpected depth to him. You get the feeling he\\u2019s this really carefree guy who doesn\\u2019t really have much to him; he\\u2019s just into how his hair looks and how he kicks the football. But somewhere toward the end of the film, you start believing in him as a character.\", \" It really spoke to a country in a great sort of cultural churning. In the \\u201990s, we got satellite television, the economy had opened up, and there was all this stuff coming in from the West: the programming, the clothes, the brands. There was an actual dilemma about what constitutes \\u201can Indian.\\u201d \", \" constitutes an Indian? And Shah Rukh Khan as Raj was the answer.\", \"I was told by many people that I looked unconventional\\u2026very different from what the perception of a leading man was. I did feel maybe not being handsome enough\\u2014or as they called it then \\u201cchocolaty\\u201d\\u2014would make me unsuitable for romantic roles. Also, I am very shy and awkward with ladies, and I didn\\u2019t know how I would say all the loving, romantic bits. I was excited to work with [Adi], but I had no idea how to go about it and also if I would be able to do it well. I always felt Adi\\u2019s love for me made him cast me. \", \" In [Adi\\u2019s] mind, he was Raj. [Adi] wanted Shah Rukh to be the way \", \" wanted to be in life: principled but naughty.\", \" This was the film that established SRK as a guy who can romance in a way that we had never seen before. Because he\\u2019s not \\u201cmacho\\u201d in the traditional sense. Here\\u2019s a guy who\\u2019s in the kitchen with the women. Here\\u2019s a guy who keeps Karva Chauth with his girlfriend. He\\u2019s telling the aunt which sari to buy. And none of this means that he\\u2019s any less manly. It\\u2019s just that he\\u2019s secure enough to be all of those things and to be in places that are traditionally female. You can\\u2019t imagine that very macho action hero of the \\u201980s doing that.\", \" I found the character endearing and sweet in the right way. The over-the-topness was my contribution.\", \"Shah Rukh played Raj really convincingly. With every film he works on, he\\u2019s there 300 percent of the time. He memorized everybody\\u2019s [lines], and then [\", \"] during rehearsals he\\u2019d be saying my dialogues as well as his dialogues.\", \" What worked for Raj and Simran on screen was basically the pure friendship that Kajol and I shared off screen. It was all so organic that there were moments in front of the camera that we didn\\u2019t feel like we were acting at all. We didn\\u2019t really plan scenes. We just let them flow, and if we didn\\u2019t like something, we could just blurt it out to each other without any formality.\", \" We would just crack jokes. Everybody on set was so mischievous. It\\u2019s just great fun to work with people that you actually enjoy the company of. When you work on film, there\\u2019s a lot of time that you\\u2019re just waiting for everybody to get set up for one shot after the other. That actually makes people friends and makes people be completely comfortable with each other. We can sit and wait for the sun to rise, literally, [together].\", \" I have to admit, for someone who doesn\\u2019t like mushy, romantic films, the scenes with Kajol and I did make me feel all fuzzy and warm. There, I said it!\", \"(music composer): We had a grand session [audition] with Yash Chopra, Aditya...We didn\\u2019t know what film was being planned. We just wanted to work with Yash Chopra. We were singing our new songs\\u2014I still remember I had sung two songs. One was \\u201cMehndi Laga Ke Rakhna.\\u201d And I sang the tune for \\u201cMere Khwabon Mein Jo Aaye.\\u201d I didn\\u2019t have the words, so I just sang the tune.\", \"Nothing happened for about a month. But then we got a call from Aditya Chopra: \\u201cI\\u2019m planning a film. How busy are you guys?\", \"And he asked, \\u201cThat \\u2018Mehndi\\u2019 song, do you still have that song?\\u201d\", \" Once we heard the script, we made up our mind that we have a jackpot on our hands. We both worked very hard. For all the [scenes], we made at least 20 songs. And out of 20, we ourselves rejected five or six songs. And then we [presented them] to Aditya Chopra. \\u201cChal Pyar Karegi\\u201d we had done [for] \", \" as well. It was in [the 1998 film] \", \" We sat for days and days and days and days, trying to crack each of the songs. It was a once-in-a-lifetime kind of an opportunity. Anand Bakshi was on board, and Lataji [Lata Mangeshkar] was going to sing all the songs, which was very rare during those days. \", \" My daughter recently downloaded the entire album. She was like, \\u201cOh my God, Mum, you had great music.\\u201d It\\u2019s the kind of music that is timeless. I loved \\u201cNa Jaane Mere Dil Ko Kya Ho Gaya.\\u201d That\\u2019s one of my favorite songs.\", \" There was one song I was very sure about: \\u201cZara Sa Jhoom Loon Main.\\u201d They were thinking it was too fast and energetic to have a drunk girl singing those lines. But Anand Bakshi said, \\u201cWhen you\\u2019re young and you drink, you get all the more energy.\\u201d\", \" One of my most favorite songs on the film is \\u201cNa Jaane Mere Dil Ko Kya Ho Gaya.\\u201d I was singing out the intro at [Adi\\u2019s] place. When I sang those lines, he said, \\u201cYou know how I\\u2019m going to [shoot it]? I\\u2019m going to fade in and fade out, they\\u2019re going to be on the bus, and Shah Rukh will come, and then he\\u2019ll fade out, and then Kajol will come, and then again Shah Rukh will come, and then again he\\u2019ll fade out.\\u201d I had never heard such kind of detail. Adi was completely\\u2014there\\u2019s no other word\\u2014brilliant. He was like a third partner in music, he contributed so much. He was very instinctive about what he wanted in his songs.\", \"The piano piece in \\u201cRuk Ja O Dil Deewane,\\u201d so many people tried to play it, but Aditya Chopra played that. And \\u201cGhar Aaja Pardesi\\u201d\\u2014it also became one of the film\\u2019s biggest hits, and Pamji [Pamela Chopra, Aditya\\u2019s mother] sang in that song.\", \" I don\\u2019t change the radio channel when a \", \" song comes on. I can never get sick of them. They bring back memories of a film that shaped my path forward in an unforgettable way.\", \"In the \\u201990s, all the tailors were making dresses with frills, all these fitted dresses. That was the norm. But [in Yash Chopra films], it was all about the luxury, the lifestyle, the richness. There\\u2019s one kind of richness that is all about embroidery, but Yash Chopra films were different. The richness was about the setup: the beautiful home, the girl in a pure chiffon sari with pearls. It was an elite chicness. An upmarket understanding. I was trying to remove all the frills and make it more monochromatic and make it more Western looking. My first thing was color. Old-world colors\\u2014bring them all back in. A lot of old rose; a lot of powder blue. There\\u2019s a lot of peachy coral.\", \": It\\u2019s a very simple, beautiful aesthetic. It\\u2019s classic\\u2014maybe not the beret on my head. [\", \"]\", \": Simran is a girl who is real. She\\u2019s very identifiable. There\\u2019s something that makes her look stand out when she\\u2019s in a crowd. That was key. They didn\\u2019t want a sensuous or a very sexy Simran. I did a very real Simran\\u2014with a dash of glamour.\", \"And Kajol, being Kajol, she didn\\u2019t care too much about the drape [of the sari]. She was never the actress who would be like completely pinned and completely stitched and all of that. And Kajol would never want to do too much makeup. She\\u2019d be like, \\u201cI\\u2019m just running to the set. I\\u2019m happy with my look.\\u201d\", \"I can still imagine wearing the shaded chiffon sari, or I can still imagine myself wearing a plain, simple salwar kameez with a shaded dupatta.\", \": [The thinking was] there can be a beauty in a white kurta and a white salwar. The quality and the class also can come from the way it\\u2019s tailored.\", \"When we were shooting for \\u201cNa Jaane Mere Dil Ko Kya Ho Gaya,\\u201d there was a shot where we\\u2019re going round and round in the rain. We had to get these fire engines to pour the rain for us. It was Switzerland, and that cold was unimaginable. And by the end of it, it was so cold that if I did not walk or run back to the hotel, we would have just frozen on the spot.\", \"I don\\u2019t think anybody ever thought about my comfort when I was wearing a chiffon sari in the middle of the snow and the ice. The red [mini] dress in the snow was even worse, trust me. [\", \"]\", \" \", \" We didn\\u2019t even know there would be that much snow. In those days, the heroes were in mufflers and coats, and the heroines wore these itsy-bitsy saris. I think I was that culprit who started that. It was about looking glamorous.\", \" There was a certain charm and playfulness that came along with the hat [which was taken from the film\\u2019s production head], the guitar, the leather jacket, the sunglasses. They all added to the character and helped shape how I eventually portrayed him. Today, if you see those three things next to each other, without any picture of Raj, your mind will immediately take you to \", \".\", \" That was completely from Aditya Chopra\\u2019s eye; he wanted that jacket.\", \" The jacket, I loved it and still have it. It was a Harley-Davidson jacket. [But] the motorcycle was rented and we had to return it.\", \" [For Simran\\u2019s house] we were keen it should be warm in its color palette and also have a very strong Indian element. We used a lot of plaids. There are lots of artifacts that [the family] would have picked up from their visits to India. I hadn\\u2019t actually ever been [to London] to see the houses. [At the time] I believed if you\\u2019re in a foreign land, you believe it\\u2019s going to be a big, big space. But, in fact, a family like that would have lived in a rather cramped space. Now when I look back and see [the big house set], I find that bothersome.\", \" The first song, \\u201cMere Khwabon Mein,\\u201d we were shooting in a studio in Mumbai. There was this whole thing that she\\u2019s dancing in the rain and she wears a towel and all of that.\", \" It was a really big towel, let me put it that way.\", \" With the white skirt, Adi saw it and he says, \\u201cI think it\\u2019s looking too long.\\u201d I said, \\u201cSo should we cut it?\\u201d And suddenly the skirt, which was so much [\", \"], became so much [\", \"]. I said, \\u201cNow what do we do?\\u201d And Kajol said, \\u201cWell, I\\u2019m okay if you guys are okay.\\u201d Kajol was very \\u201cWhatever you guys decide\\u201d kind of thing. But I told Aditya, \\u201cWill it look too much that she\\u2019s wearing this sexy white skirt in the rain?\\u201d He said, \\u201cYou know what? She\\u2019s with her mother [played by Farida Jalal] in this song. It won\\u2019t look like that.\\u201d\", \"We just wanted to make it look kind of, like, innocent-sexy.\", \"[Pamela Chopra] told me how they dried their clothes over there [in London] for that scene: put out in the backyard with a simple stand, a kind of clothes hanger. And she actually drew that out for me to show me what it would look like.\", \"It was great fun, actually. \", \" was choreographed, from the window opening to the song. The only part that I could not do, I think, was feeling shy. So that took at least 45 minutes for Adi to explain to me: \\u201cThis is what you are supposed to do when you are feeling shy. How would you feel shy?\\u201d I don\\u2019t have a single shy bone in my body. Eventually he gave up on me, and he was just like, \\u201cJust do this: Look straight at one point, and then eventually just slowly lower your eyes down.\\u201d And that\\u2019s exactly what I did.\", \" The song that I first recorded was Lataji\\u2019s solo song, \\u201cMere Khwabon Mein Jo Aaye\\u201d\\u2014the same tune I had hummed out to Adi in the meeting session that we had. Having Lataji on this album gave it that edge that the music needed.\", \" She\\u2019s an icon. There\\u2019s no words to express what she is.\", \"We had the most fun during \\u201cMehndi Laga Ke Rakhna\\u201d because we were all together.\", \"I remember how difficult it was to do \\u201cMehndi Laga Ke Rakhna.\\u201d I am not very good with dances like that, but it doesn\\u2019t show so much on screen.\", \" When the film is in the U.K., we had to have a different kind of texture to the melody and the treatment. But \\u201cMehndi Laga Ke Rakhna\\u201d was totally Indian. Like a festive mood, and the instruments, the tutti and the arrangement of the violin\\u2014we had this arrangement by which we can differentiate the two countries. The song was very authentic in style.\", \"The song lyrics originally were: \\u201cMehndi laga ke chalna / Payal bacha ke chalna / Mehndi laga ke chalna / Payal baja ke chalna\", \"Par aashiq se appna / Daman bacha kay chalna / Mehndi laga ke chalna / Payal bacha ke chalna\\u201d\", \"And then, of course, [our lyricist] Anand Bakshi took it to another level: \\u201cO mehndi laga rakhna / Doli saja ke rakhna / Mehndi laga rakhna / Doli saja ke rakhna\", \"Lene tujhe o gori / Aayenge tere sajna / Mehndi laga rakhna /Doli saja ke rakhna\\u201d\", \"He wrote 25 verse [options] for those two verses. That wonderful kind of effort, I never experienced again.\", \"The courtyard became an important aspect of that house [set]. It was meant to be a typical [compound] in Punjab, where joined families would stay. What decided the warm color palette for those scenes was actually the brick floor. And because it was a house for the wedding\\u2014where a lot of golds and jewel tones were used\\u2014it formed a perfect backdrop for it.\", \" We went shopping and saw this satiny fabric, like a lime-green color going into pistachio. And Adi said, \\u201cThis green is \", \" bright\", \"\\u201d But I said, \\u201cIt will look really nice. Let\\u2019s use it.\\u201d\", \" We didn\\u2019t think so much about what the impact [of the color] eventually would be. We all agreed that the [green] color was going to look very nice on screen. Nobody thought about whether it would be trendsetting or anything like that. We just wanted it to look good and shoot comfortably in it\\u2014at least, my thought was that we should be comfortable in it.\", \"That green got very, very famous for \", \" We shot for about three days in Apta railway station [in Mumbai]. It was so hot at that time, and with this ghagra\\u2014it was this incredibly heavy outfit that I was wearing.\", \" I remember with any heavy outfit, she would tease me. \\u201cYou wear it first.\\u201d\", \"For this outfit, I was very keen we shouldn\\u2019t do [a traditional] red; we should do gold. [Finally, we chose] one where there\\u2019s gold kota work. They all said, \\u201cThat\\u2019s really nice. It\\u2019ll look heavy, but it won\\u2019t look like too much because it\\u2019s a daytime sequence.\\u201d\", \"All I was to do was to hold Kajol\\u2019s hand, so that was simple. And she does run awesomely in a lehenga.\\u2026\", \" The train wasn\\u2019t going as fast as it looks. [\", \"] It wasn\\u2019t the running so much, just the crying. Your eyes are swollen and red by the end of the day because you\\u2019re crying for three days straight.\", \"I was more keen on the fight that happens before that because I felt it will add some non-mushy stuff to this film. I was way happier holding the gun than holding Simran\\u2019s hand. [\", \"]\", \"When the action part was happening, I was singing out these pieces I had in mind, in sync with the actions happening: Shah Rukh is being beaten by this gang, and his father\\u2019s getting hurt. And when I played out that [song] to Adi, he completely rejected it. He said, \\u201cPlay \\u2018Mehndi Laga Ke Rakhna\\u2019 here.\\u201d I completely disagreed.\", \"He said, \\u201cIf you play this in a different manner, just try to change the phrase a little bit but keep that melody. You\\u2019ll see, people will clap in the audience.\\u201d\", \"So I took a lot of the chorus section and I asked the dholis to play the rhythm. And instead of making it melodic, I made an aggressive kind of singing. Then, for that emotional piece where Kajol is running, I said, \\u201cOkay, why don\\u2019t I play the melody from \", \"\\u2014one part we have not used throughout the film: Lataji humming.\\u201d\", \"Adi, Jatin, and I were roaming around the theater on the first day of the film opening. When this part came on, I was very alert to see how the audience would react. And just as Adi had said, people were clapping as soon as this part came on.\", \" There could have been no other ending, but I did not think it would be as iconic as it eventually turned out to be.\", \" When you watch the film, it\\u2019s so appealing because by the time you are hearing this piece again, you remember every bit of it from [earlier]. The moment the saxophone plays in that part, you get a goosebump.\", \"[The premiere] was the who\\u2019s who of the film industry, of the city, of the politicians. [They] were there watching the film because it was Mr. Chopra\\u2019s son\\u2019s first film. The film finished and there was pin-drop silence. And Mr. Chopra looked at me like, \\u201cOh my God, something has gone wrong\", \"\\u201d It [seemed to be] a never-ending silence, and then after a minute, there was a never-ending standing ovation. That was the magic of the film.\", \"I think \", \" is a film which showed, in the \", \"90s, that youngsters had a mind of their own. It spoke about a time of the changing youth. And it also spoke about the changing time of the parents.\", \" I have met millions and millions of young boys and girls who say, \\u201cWe want our parents to be like Raj\\u2019s father.\\u2026\\u201d\", \" Every generation goes through a point of rebellion and then eventually realizes that rebellion is really not the way to go. You need to figure things out. You need to work through them rather than rebelling against something. It\\u2019s not only Indian. Everybody feels like \\u201cI don\\u2019t want to hurt my family. I don\\u2019t want to lose what I have in my family, and I don\\u2019t want to hurt anybody. I just want everybody to love who I love.\\u201d It made sense, then and now. I think that\\u2019s why it\\u2019s eternal.\", \"The film bridged two ideologies. We had the generation before who believed in conventional relationships, and the film honored that. At the same time, it made a statement about how the youth think and their need for space. I think of the film poster: Here is a man with a woman on his shoulders. At the same time, she\\u2019s dressed traditionally.\", \" The film had tradition; it had family values; it celebrated culture. And yet there was so much of youth and modernness to it. The visual was so fresh. Every young Indian living abroad and Indian living in India identified with it.\", \"It\\u2019s an extraordinary love story. And the combination of East and West, and with the music, photography\\u2026There\\u2019s so much of repeat [value in this film]. I myself have seen it at least 20 times in theaters with my family.\", \" A film is never about only one person. It\\u2019s about everybody put together. Everybody put their little bits of energy and love into it. It\\u2019s a memory more than a film, really. It\\u2019s like watching my very own personal photo album.\", \"I think \", \" helped me cement my place and brought me fame in a way that I didn\\u2019t think it would. We were all living in the moment, trying to make the best film we could. There are so many reasons attributed to its success, but I don\\u2019t think any one specific thing can explain the phenomenon it has become. I think all the success is to be credited to the pure heart with which the film was made by Adi, Yashji, and the entire cast and crew\\u2014and my nonexistent \\u201cgood looks.\\u201d\", \"It\\u2019s been a struggle to not be considered romantic and sweet for the last 25 years\\u2014a struggle, I guess, I am happy to lose.\", \"Video Courtesy & Copyright: Yash Raj Films Pvt. Ltd\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://news.yahoo.com/congress-remains-vulnerable-covid-despite-213002980.html\", \"source\": \"Yahoo News\", \"title\": \"Congress remains vulnerable to Covid despite White House outbreak\", \"description\": \"While those working around Trump are tested for coronavirus daily, the Capitol has no such protocols.\", \"date\": \"2020-10-07T21:30:02.000Z\", \"author\": \"Julie Tsirkin and Haley Talbot\", \"text\": [\"WASHINGTON \\u2014 The White House \", \", which has \", \" in President Donald Trump\\u2019s circle, sheds new light on the lack of contact tracing and safety protocols in place for the House and Senate.\", \"And while those working around President Donald Trump are tested daily, the Capitol has no such protocols.\", \"Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell ignored multiple questions from reporters this week when asked if widespread testing should be offered in the Capitol. Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Tuesday on MSNBC \\u201cMost of the people in our world who have come into contact and have been tested positive did not get the virus at the Capitol. It was in other encounters, including at the White House.\\u201d\", \"Since the offer of rapid testing machines was initially made by the White House in May, Pelosi and McConnell have remained in agreement on one thing: no widespread testing on Capitol Hill, despite pressure from leaders on both sides of the aisle to do so.\", \"\\u201cWith just so many bodies coming in and out of here, I don\\u2019t understand why the speaker would continue to not have testing,\\u201d House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy, who supported the White House\\u2019s offer since July, told reporters on Friday.\", \"After the \", \" and \", \" who had recently been there announcing they had tested positive, high-ranking lawmakers endorsed endorsed widespread testing for the 535 members of Congress and Capitol staff.\", \"Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said in the hours after Trump\\u2019s diagnosis \\u201cThis episode demonstrates that the Senate needs a testing and contact tracing program for senators, staff, and all who work in the Capitol complex.\\u201d\", \"McConnell and Schumer agreed to recess the Senate until Oct. 19 following the outbreak, with the exception of committee hearings \\u2014 meaning confirmation hearings for Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court will go on as planned beginning Oct. 12. It is not clear whether Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., will require proof of negative tests for those attending in person.\", \"Despite all of this, there remains no indication that the Capitol will have any kind of precautionary measures to prevent more cases within its walls. And even now, senators are being urged against precautionary testing unless there are symptoms present.\", \"There is no temperature check system, no mandatory testing, and no proof of a negative Covid test required upon entry to the Capitol building. That means hundreds of lawmakers, their staff, Capitol workers, and reporters enter the complex each day without any assurances that it is safe. And every weekend, most lawmakers travel all over the country back to their home states.\", \"There are also no apparent contact tracing measures in place. NBC News has learned that individual offices each have their own protocols on reporting positive cases and exposures. The Office of the Attending Physician has not responded to numerous requests for comment.\", \"On Wednesday, Schumer and Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, the top Democrat on the Rules Committee, introduced a resolution that would mandate things like rapid testing for all who work in the Capitol complex, mask wearing in all Senate buildings, and proof of negative Covid tests ahead of committee hearings.\", \"Since February, 123 front-line workers including Capitol Police and Architect of the Capitol employees have tested positive for Covid or are presumed positive, according to House Administration Committee GOP spokeswoman Ashley Phelps. These numbers are not routinely disclosed to the public unless specifically requested, highlighting a lack of transparency, not just within the White House but up Pennsylvania Avenue as well.\", \"After Republican Sens. 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The Sharia court is, however, statute-bound to provide legal representation.\", \"Advocates from the \", \"Foundation for Religious Freedom\", \" (FRF), a not-for-profit aimed at protecting religious freedom in Nigeria, which is representing Sharif-Aminu, told CNN he has also not been permitted access to legal advice to prepare an appeal against his conviction. \", \"The FRF says it has lodged an appeal on his behalf in Kano's high court, a common-law court with constitutional powers. \", \"\\\"The state laws he is accused of breaking are in gross conflict with the Nigerian constitution,\\\" said his counsel, Kola Alapinni. \", \"No Muslim will condone it. People hold Prophet Mohammed higher than their parents. \", \"Islamic cleric, Bashir Aliyu Umar\", \"Kano's State Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje told clerics in Kano that he would sign Sharif-Aminu's death warrant as soon as the singer had exhausted the appeals process, local media reports say. \", \"\\\"I assure you that immediately the Supreme Court affirms the judgment, I will sign it without any hesitation,\\\" Ganduje said, according to \", \"Nigeria's Daily Post newspaper\", \". CNN contacted a spokesman for Governor Ganduje several times for comment but did not receive a response. \", \"Islamic scholar and cleric Bashir Aliyu Umar, who is not connected to the case, but said he had read the transcript of the court proceedings, told CNN, \\\"No Muslim will condone it. 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Sharif-Aminu went into hiding, according to Amnesty and his lawyers, but in March he was arrested by the Hisbah Corps, the religious police force that enforces Sharia law in Kano state. \", \"'A travesty of justice'\", \"Human rights organization Amnesty International has described Sharif-Aminu's trial as a \\\"travesty of justice,\\\" and called on Kano state authorities to quash his conviction and death sentence. \", \"\\\"There are serious concerns about the fairness of his trial and the framing of the charges against him based on his Whatsapp messages,\\\" said Amnesty's Nigeria director Osai Ojigho. \\\"Furthermore, the imposition of the death penalty following an unfair trial violates the right to life,\\\" she added. \", \"The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has also condemned Sharif-Aminu's death sentence. 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People always want closure but life is not about a Hollywood ending; you can't always get a happy ending,\\\" he said.\", \"While directing the film, Gyang visited places with sex workers to get a better idea of how they live and work, he said.\", \"\\\"I actually went to places where we have sex workers in Lagos with one of the producers of the film. We wanted to really capture their lives so that we would be able to show it realistically in the movie. We talked to them, and some of the rooms we used in the movie were actually used previously by sex workers,\\\" he explained. \", \"'The most impactful movie we have ever done'\", \"The film was shot in 21 days towards the end of 2018, he said. 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CNN&#39;s Stephanie Busari reports.\\\",\\\"thumbnailURL\\\": \\\"https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/181213143041-nigeria-suicide-prison-africa-large-169.jpg\\\",\\\"image\\\": \\\"https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/181213143041-nigeria-suicide-prison-africa-large-169.jpg\\\",\\\"duration\\\": \\\"PT3M\\\",\\\"uploadDate\\\": \\\"2018-12-31T13:03:29Z\\\",\\\"contentUrl\\\": \\\"https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2018/12/30/imprisoned-suicide-illegal-nigeria-busari-pkg.cnn\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2018/12/30/imprisoned-suicide-illegal-nigeria-busari-pkg.cnn\\\",\\\"embedUrl\\\": \\\"https://fave.api.cnn.io/v1/fav/?video=world/2018/12/30/imprisoned-suicide-illegal-nigeria-busari-pkg.cnn&customer=cnn&edition=domestic&env=prod\\\"}\", \"Locked up where suicide is still a crime\", \" \", \"02:59\", \"She added that she was sexually abused in 2014 and did not know how to express being raped by a trusted partner to the people around her. \", \"Read More\", \"Her experiences, she said, piled up till she eventually snapped and started nursing suicidal notions. \", \"\\\"Trying to explain what was going on in my head was difficult. I looked fine physically, but it started to affect me mentally. I could go a day without being able to construct sentences, and I was a research analyst at the time which meant I had to write daily reports but I couldn't,\\\" she said. \", \"After expressing her suicidal thoughts to a friend, she was encouraged to see a psychiatrist at a psychiatric hospital in Lagos, one of Nigeria's largest cities. \", \"She was diagnosed with Bipolar and post traumatic stress disorder with mild psychosis. \\\"I poured out my heart, got some tests done and eventually got a diagnosis.\\\"\", \"Creating awareness \", \"Two months after Ojeifo's diagnosis, she said she decided to turn her difficult experiences around. She started to create awareness on the far-reaching impacts of mental health in Nigeria. \", \"In April 2016, she created\", \" She Writes Woman\", \", a non-profit organization focused on providing mental health support for those who may need it in the west African nation. \", \"There is minimal mental health awareness and there are not enough mental health professionals in Nigeria. \", \"In a country of more than \", \"200 million\", \" people, there are only 250 practicing psychiatrists, according to the\", \" Association of Psychiatrists of Nigeria. \", \"Ojeifo told CNN that She Writes Woman started as a blog but she realized she could do more with it, \\\"At first, I was just using it as an outlet to share my experiences and that of other women,\\\" she explained. \", \"Eventually, it morphed into a support community for people with mental health conditions. \", \"The 28-year-old got trained as a mental health coach so that she could start a helpline to talk to people experiencing overwhelming mental health symptoms.\", \"\\\"From sharing stories on the blog and social media, She Writes Woman blew up into a helpline which was run by me for a while, and then to a support group for people in vulnerable conditions,\\\" she said. \", \"24-hour mental health helpline\", \"She Writes Woman provides a\", \" 24-hour mental health helpline\", \" for anyone within Nigeria.\", \"The helpline serves as a first point of contact for people in distress or those who just want to talk about their mental health and symptoms. \", \"\\\"People call the helpline to get what we call a first-aid treatment. On the call you don't get immediate professional counseling, what happens is you get a first response communication where someone listens to you and what you have to say,\\\" Ojeifo explained.\", \"She added that after the first responders, callers can be referred to mental health professionals for therapy or a diagnosis if needed, \\\"depending on what the issue is we que people in to either a therapist or a psychiatrist.\\\"\", \"Data on mental health in Nigeria is hard to find, but according to a 2016 report in the Annals of Nigerian Medicine journal, an estimated\", \" 20-30% \", \"of the country's population is suffering from mental disorders.\", \"And in 2017, a World Health Organization report found that Nigerians have the highest incidences of depression in Africa, with \", \"more than 7 million people \", \"in the country suffering from depression.\", \"Despite the numbers, there is an absence of \", \"effective mental health legislation\", \" setting standards for psychiatric treatment or encouraging mental health awareness in the country. \", \"In February, following deliberations by legislators to pass a proposed mental health bill, Ojeifo became the first person to testify before the Nigerian parliament on the rights of persons with mental health conditions in the country.\", \"var id = '//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js'.replace(/\\\\s+/g, '');!!document.getElementById(id) || (function makeEmbedScript(d, id) {var js,fjs;js = d.createElement('script');js.id = id;js.charset = 'utf-8';js.setAttribute('async', '');js.src = '//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js';fjs = d.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];window.WM.UserConsent.addScriptElement(js, [\\\"vendor\\\",\\\"measure-ads\\\"], fjs);}(document, id));\", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" View this post on Instagram\", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \"We are so proud of our founder @hauwa_ojeifo for the great milestone achieved today. . She graciously spoke before the Senate at the public hearing of the #mentalhealth bill earlier today on behalf of all persons living with mental health conditions. . If you were there, you'd have been so proud. Word on the street is that this is the first time a person with a mental health condition is speaking before the Senate. . Go Hauwa!!\\ud83d\\udc83\\ud83c\\udffd . Want to know more about the mental health bill? Check out our stories to make your suggestions.\", \" \", \"A post shared by \", \" SWW | Mental Health in Nigeria\", \" (@shewriteswoman) on \", \"Feb 17, 2020 at 10:46am PST\", \"\\n\", \"The bill has yet to be implemented. \", \"To close the mental health gap in Nigeria, Ojeifo's organization also offers a support group for women and girls called \", \"Safe Place\", \" in six Nigerian states. \", \"\\\"Safe Space provides a community of shared experiences for women and girls. It provides a space for women to connect and share their experiences on whatever topic, to be there for one another and understand that they are not alone in their journeys,\\\" she explained, estimating that there have been over 50 meetings of the support group since the inception of the organization.\", \"In the beginning, Ojeifo, a former investment banker,  self-funded the organization. \", \"But now, with donations and grants from organizations such as One Young World, Airtel Nigeria and Disability Rights Advocacy Fund, it is able to expand and carry out more activities in Nigeria's mental health space.\", \"In 2018, the activist received a\", \" Queen's Young Leaders Award\", \" in in recognition of her work with the 24-hour mental health helpline and Safe Space support group. \", \"Changemaker Award Winner \", \"On Tuesday, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation named Ojeifo as its\", \" Changemaker Award winner for 2020\", \" for her work with She Writes Woman. \", \"The Changemaker Award is one of the Goalkeepers Global Goals Awards pushed yearly by the foundation. It celebrates individuals who have inspired change from a position of leadership or using their personal experience. \", \"In a statement released Tuesday, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation said it recognized the activist for her work in promoting\", \" Gender Equality\", \", the fifth global goal for sustainable development prescribed by the United Nations. \", \"These Africans are among the world's 100 most influential people, according to Time magazine\", \"Ojeifo said that she was in \\\"disbelief\\\" when she first received the email alerting her that she was a recipient of the award. \", \"\\\"It was so unexpected and it came as a surprise because I was not expecting it. It's like an added validation to the work She Writes Woman does,\\\" she said. \", \"\\\"During one of the meetings with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation I asked them how I was selected because I was just so blown away. I was told that it was because I had used my personal experience to build hope for people and to drive change,\\\" she added. \", \"Through the 2020 Changemaker Award, Ojeifo is hoping to gather a network that will help amplify the work She Writes Woman does even more. \", \"\\\"The Changemaker award means I am part of this network that is dedicated to amplifying my cause and giving me visibility,\\\" she said.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/26/africa/gambia-migration-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"He almost died migrating to Europe. Now he is warning other Gambians about it\", \"description\": \"Mustapha Sallah and Youth Against Irregular Migration are raising awareness in The Gambia about the dangers of migrating to Europe through irregular means.\", \"date\": \"2020-08-26T14:16:23Z\", \"author\": \"Aisha Salaudeen\", \"text\": [\" (CNN)\", \"Mustapha Sallah was in trouble.\", \"He had hoped to be in Europe by now, pursuing his dreams of studying computer science and making a better life for himself.\", \"Instead, he was sitting in a Libyan detention center, having been detained in Tripoli by the Libyan Coast Guard.\", \"\\\"We were kept in rooms with little ventilation and no toilets. We would sit for days without taking baths. It was like hell,\\\" Sallah told CNN.\", \"He added that officers at the detention center often assaulted them by \\\"beating us for the slightest things like refusing to sleep.\\\"\", \"Read More\", \"It was January 2017, and the 25-year-old Gambian had taken a gamble, risking his life in search of a better one in Europe. But no one had warned him of the dangers ahead.\", \"If and when he got out of the detention center, he vowed to help others make a more informed decision.\", \"Migrating to Europe\", \"Sallah grew up in Serekunda, southwest of The Gambia's capital city, Banjul. He said he worked hard in school to earn a scholarship so that his mother could retire from her job selling vegetables in the market.\", \"In 2016, he thought he'd have that chance when he earned a scholarship to study computer science in Taiwan. \\\"But there was no Taiwan embassy in Gambia, so I had to go to the closest one in Abuja, Nigeria,\\\" he explained.\", \"After borrowing money from his sister to travel to Nigeria, he said he spent three months there before his visa application was denied. Three years earlier, then-president of The Gambia, Yahya Jammeh, had cut diplomatic ties with Taiwan for what he called \\\"national strategic interest.\\\"\", \"At least 58 people killed as boat carrying migrants sinks off Mauritania coast\", \"\\\"I didn't know what to do: stay in Nigeria, or go to any other African country. At the end of the day, I got the mind of migrating (to Europe) because I know several people who took the journey and made it there,\\\" Sallah explained.\", \"With a population of \", \"2.3 million people\", \", The Gambia is among the smallest countries in Africa. But despite its small size, migration is a fairly common practice and plays a key role in the country's economy.\", \"According to the International Organization for Migration (IOM), overseas remittances for an average of 90,000 Gambians who live abroad make up \", \"more than 20% of the country's GDP\", \". \", \"48% of Gambians\", \" live in poverty, and many people find themselves looking outside the country for opportunities to improve their lives. \", \"But some people leave the country without proper documentation or without crossing an official border point. Between 2014 and 2018, the IOM estimates \", \"more than 35,000 \", \"Gambians reached Europe through \\\"irregular means.\\\"\", \"\\\"There's a tradition of mobility in Gambia. It's a long history of people using migration as a means of life, and of getting their income. Many of the returnees we have worked with claim they took the journey for economic reasons,\\\" Etienne Micallef, the IOM's program manager in The Gambia told CNN.\", \"\\\"They have the perception that if they migrate with the final destination as Europe, they will get a much better income to sustain themselves and their families back home,\\\" he added. \", \"How the Kenyan consulate in Lebanon became feared by the women it was meant to help\", \"But it comes at a high risk. Globally, at least \", \"33,687 migrant deaths and disappearances\", \" were recorded between January 2014 and October 2019, according to IOM -- with nearly half occurring on the route between Northern Africa and Italy. \", \"Sallah, who said he wanted an education that would allow him to find a job to support his family, reiterated that no one warned him how incredibly dangerous the journey would be.\", \"After his visa to study in Taiwan was rejected, he said he got on a bus heading north to Agadez, a city in Niger. \\\"I didn't even know the area -- I just kept asking people around what the best or possible way to reach Niger was.\\\"\", \"From there, he managed to travel to Libya. \\\"You have to pay smugglers who drive pickup trucks to put you at the back of their trucks to get to Libya and then to Europe. I spent a month with my cousin in Libya before heading in another pickup truck for Tripoli,\\\" he told CNN.\", \"His journey to Tripoli was treacherous, he said, telling CNN he was detained and extorted multiple times by armed bandits. \", \"Sallah said he was close to death from starvation and even witnessed a gun battle between armed bandits and smugglers: \\\"The man that was smuggling us told us that if we want to stay in Tripoli, we must get used to gunshots,\\\" he said. \", \"But it all came to an abrupt halt in January 2017, when he was arrested by the Libyan Coast Guard in Tripoli.\", \" Detention Center\", \"Libya is a primary transit point along the central Mediterranean route. People who get stuck there are often detained by the Libyan Coast Guard, responsible for patrolling coastal waters to prevent smuggling and trafficking.  \", \"Sallah said he was kept in a detention center in Tripoli with migrants from different West African countries for nearly four months under poor conditions.\", \"Migrants describe being tortured and raped on perilous journey to Libya\", \"There are\", \" 11 detention centers\", \" for migrants run by the U.N.-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) in Libya. Some \", \"2,362\", \" detainees are held at these facilities on any given day, according to the Global Detention Project. \", \"Human Rights Watch\", \" (HRW) and \", \"Amnesty International\", \" have criticized the conditions at these detention centers; both groups signed onto a statement released in April that urged EU member states and institutions to review their policy on migrants and cooperation with Libya. \", \"The policy, the statement says, has allowed for the \", \"\\\"arbitrary detention and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment\\\"\", \" of migrants and refugees.\", \"While in detention, Sallah met a fellow Gambian who suggested they set up the non-profit organization \", \"Youth Against Irregular Migration\", \" (YAIM) to warn others back home about the risks of irregular migration.\", \"\\\"I went around the detention center gathering details of all the Gambians I could find,\\\" estimating he registered 171 people to join the organization. \\\"We agreed that if we made it out of there, we would start an association to make people aware of how problematic the journey to Europe is,\\\" he said.\", \"Youth Against Irregular Migration\", \"In April 2017, as part of its mandate to return and reintegrate migrants stranded or detained in their transit countries, IOM facilitated the return of Sallah and many others within the detention center back to The Gambia. \", \"That same year, IOM received funding from the EU worth\", \" 3.9 million euros\", \" (about $4.6 million) over the course of three years, to expand its operations in The Gambia.\", \"Since then, according to Micallef, IOM has repatriated more than 5,000 people to the West African nation.\", \"He added that when returnees arrive at the airport or land border, they are met by IOM staff who arrange for temporary shelter, counseling, and medical support for those who need it.\", \"Weeks after returning to The Gambia, Sallah said he met with some members of YAIM who signed up in the detention center. \", \"\\\"We met almost every week after arriving in Gambia,\\\" he explained. \\\"It was difficult for us financially at the start but many of us had the support of our families.\\\"\", \"YAIM members speak to community members about the dangers of irregular migration.\", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"YAIM members speak to community members about the dangers of irregular migration.\\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"YAIM members speak to community members about the dangers of irregular migration.\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200819175004-03-gambia-migration-intl-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"He added that even though many of them struggled to make a living at the start and had to pick up menial jobs around town to survive, being around other members gave them a renewed sense of hope.\", \"Being safe at home, he said, was a better option than the dangerous journey to Europe.\", \"\\\"We bonded by sharing our stories with each other as a way to work through the trauma,\\\" Sallah said. \\\"We made sure to be there for each other.\\\"\", \"Community awareness\", \"Through YAIM, the returnees began campaigns around irregular migration in The Gambia, warning others about the perils of journeying to Europe. \", \"Tombong Kuyateh, a returnee and YAIM member, told CNN that the association visits schools to share experiences with students who may be thinking about migrating.\", \"\\\"We share our personal stories with them. We show them examples of victims who were injured or affected during the journey to prevent them from experiencing the same,\\\" he said.\", \"The 27-year-old added that a lot of people listen to them because they have first-hand experience of what it's like to attempt that trip.\", \"Members of YAIM take to the streets of Banjul, The Gambia, during one of their public campaigns.\", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"Members of YAIM take to the streets of Banjul, The Gambia, during one of their public campaigns.\\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"Members of YAIM take to the streets of Banjul, The Gambia, during one of their public campaigns.\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200819175001-04-gambia-migration-intl-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"By crowdfunding and partnering with local and international groups for support, YAIM is also able to visit small communities across the country for campaigns against irregular migration, Kuyateh said.\", \"Miko Alazas, the IOM communications officer based in The Gambia, told CNN that the organization sometimes partners with returnee associations like YAIM to get people access to the right information, in order to make better migration-related choices.\", \"\\\"We work a lot with returnees because many of them are passionate about sharing their experiences in terms of exploitation and abuse -- so they are at the forefront of a lot of campaigns to raise awareness on irregular migration,\\\" he said.\", \"Now 29, Sallah travels around his home country, visiting radio stations and communities to talk about his harrowing experience. He believes in the power of storytelling to educate others about migration.\", \"\\\"I always tell them about the difficulties,\\\" he said. \\\"Some people lost their lives on the journey. I was part of those who ended up in detention. Every time you are on that journey, you are close to death.\\\"\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/18/africa/kenyan-comic-sensation-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"This chip-eating Kenyan comic is keeping Africans entertained on social media \", \"description\": \"Kenyan teenager, Elsa Majimbo is making viral monolgues on social media \", \"date\": \"2020-08-18T11:06:18Z\", \"author\": \"Aisha Salaudeen\", \"text\": [\" (CNN)\", \"Elsa Majimbo is taking over social media by providing comic relief on Instagram and Twitter amid the \", \"Covid-19 pandemic\", \". \", \"The Kenyan comic, whose relatable monologues often go viral, films from her home in Nairobi, the country's capital city. \", \"Majimbo first went viral after posting a video in March when initial restrictions such as intermittent lockdowns, border controls, and closure of schools and restaurants were\", \" imposed by the Kenyan government\", \" to curb the spread of Covid-19.\", \"In the video, the 19-year-old talked about being in isolation at the time and wanting to be left alone.\", \"var id = '//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js'.replace(/\\\\s+/g, '');!!document.getElementById(id) || (function makeEmbedScript(d, id) {var js,fjs;js = d.createElement('script');js.id = id;js.charset = 'utf-8';js.setAttribute('async', '');js.src = '//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js';fjs = d.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];window.WM.UserConsent.addScriptElement(js, [\\\"vendor\\\",\\\"measure-ads\\\"], fjs);}(document, id));\", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" View this post on Instagram\", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \"'Sending love,sending hugs,sending kisses'. Kama Hautumi Mpesa don't waste my time\", \" \", \"A post shared by \", \" Elsa Mpho Majimbo\", \" (@majimb.o) on \", \"Mar 30, 2020 at 10:20am PDT\", \"\\n\", \"\\\"Ever since corona started, we've all been in isolation, and I like, miss no one,\\\" she said, laughing and eating potato-based crunchy chips\", \" in the video\", \". \", \"Read More\", \"\\\"Why am I missing you? There is no reason for me to miss you... do I pay your rent? Do I provide food for you? Why are you missing me?\\\" she added, still laughing. \", \"The quirky humor in the video earned Majimbo many reshares and more than 250,000 views from users across the continent, including South Africa, Kenya and Nigeria. \", \"She told CNN she did not expect the video to get as much attention as it did, but many people related to it. \", \"Gentlemen, start your wheelbarrows! Meet the Nigerian kids ingeniously remaking famous videos with household objects\", \"\\\"It was the time we had just gotten to lockdown, and everyone was telling me they missed me, and I literally like being away from people, so I thought to myself, 'Let me make a video about that,'\\\" she said. \", \"\\\"I did not expect all the attention, but it happened, and I am glad it did.\\\"\", \"Since going viral, Majimbo has made more videos combining dry humor and criticism around the subject matters she decides to film about. \", \"Many of the videos have more than 250,000 views on Instagram and an average of 50,000 views on Twitter.  \", \"Some of the videos have also been featured on American owned cable channel, \", \"Comedy Central\", \". \", \"Eating crunchy chips \", \"Majimbo often incorporates eating crunchy chips, which has become one of her signature moves, to emphasize her points in her monologues.\", \"\\\"In the first video that trended, I ate chips. A lot of people seemed to like it. There were a lot of comments asking me to do it again. So, I was like, OK whatever, and I did it again,\\\" she told CNN. \", \"The comic sensation additionally wears tiny dark sunglasses as a prop in her videos. Just like crunching on chips, the '90s shades are for emphasizing on points made in her skits, she said. \", \"var id = '//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js'.replace(/\\\\s+/g, '');!!document.getElementById(id) || (function makeEmbedScript(d, id) {var js,fjs;js = d.createElement('script');js.id = id;js.charset = 'utf-8';js.setAttribute('async', '');js.src = '//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js';fjs = d.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];window.WM.UserConsent.addScriptElement(js, [\\\"vendor\\\",\\\"measure-ads\\\"], fjs);}(document, id));\", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" View this post on Instagram\", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \"If I pay for the app I own the abs\", \" \", \"A post shared by \", \" Elsa Mpho Majimbo\", \" (@majimb.o) on \", \"Jun 11, 2020 at 10:10am PDT\", \"\\n\", \"\\\"How do I manage to be this hot? The key to being hot is Photoshop,\\\" she said in \", \"one of her videos\", \" titled \\\"If I pay for the app, I own the abs.\\\"\", \"In the video, Majimbo joked about using Photoshop to look good in pictures, \\\"Why get a six-pack in five months when you can get them in five minutes?\\\" she added, putting on the sunglasses to make her point. \", \"Her videos have received support from \", \"celebrities \", \"like actor Lupita Nyongo and current Miss Universe, Zozibini Tunzi. \", \"Majimbo, who records all her monologues using her iPhone 6, said she does not write her lines down before filming, instead she simply \\\"goes with the flow.\\\"\", \"\\\"The thing I like the most about my videos is that they come to me so easily and so naturally. I could just be sitting and feel like making a video about something, and I do it. Anything that comes to my mind, I record,\\\" she said. \", \"\\\"If I don't have any lines to record. I don't even bother, I just skip it and say no video today,\\\" she added. \", \"'I've been able to find myself in a way I hadn't before'\", \"Since becoming an internet sensation, Majimbo said she partnered with brands such as Canadian cosmetics manufacturer, MAC cosmetics, to create content aimed at promoting their products in fun ways. \", \"The teenager, who is currently a journalism student at Strathmore University in Nairobi, is thinking about a completely different career.\", \"According to her, she is taking the time to explore different and newer options, particularly in entertainment, \\\"I think the career I wanted before is not what I want now. A lot of things have changed, I've been able to find myself in a way I hadn't before.\\\" \", \"She added that she is looking into acting roles and having her own comedy show. \", \"This Nigerian comic is getting a lot of love on TikTok with the 'Don't Leave Me' challenge\", \"But regardless of the career part Majimbo takes, she is already influencing social media users in Africa. \", \"She has been given a South African name \\\"Mpho\\\" by her fans in the country. The name means \\\"gift\\\" in Tswana language spoken in Southern Africa, Botswana, Namibia and Zimbabwe. \", \"Majimbo says she will continue to make relatable and funny monologues but will not be limited to them.\", \"\\\"I don't like setting expectations for my future plans because I don't want to be limited. I am open to exploring and becoming many things in the future.\\\"\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/07/africa/africa-engineering-prize-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"A 26-year-old is first woman to win Royal Academy of Engineering's Africa Prize for innovation\", \"description\": \"A 26-year-old has become the first woman to win the prestigious Royal Academy of Engineering's Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation.\\n\\n\", \"date\": \"2020-09-07T13:54:59Z\", \"author\": \"Aisha Salaudeen\", \"text\": [\" (CNN)\", \"A 26-year-old from Ivory Coast has won the 2020 Royal Academy of Engineering's Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation.\", \"Charlette N'Guessan is the \", \"first woman to win the award\", \", which could revolutionize cyber security and help curb identity fraud on the continent. \", \"N'Guessan and her team won the \\u00a325,000 award (about $33,000) for BACE API, a digital verification system that uses Artificial Intelligence and facial recognition to verify the identities of Africans remotely and in real time.\", \"BACE API works by matching the live photo of a user to the image on their documents such as passports or ID card, N'Guessan said. \", \"For websites and online applications that have BACE API integrated in them, users will be verified via their webcam to establish their  identity. \", \"Read More\", \"\\\"For the person trying to submit their application, we ask them to switch on their camera to make sure the person behind the camera is real, and not a robot. \", \"\\\"We are able to capture the face of the person live and match their image with the one on the existing document the person submitted,\\\" she explained. \", \"BACE API verifies users identities in real time using their phone camera or webcam\", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"BACE API verifies users identities in real time using their phone camera or webcam\\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"BACE API verifies users identities in real time using their phone camera or webcam\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200904115946-restricted-03-africa-engineering-prize-intl-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"BACE API can be integrated into already existing applications and systems for identity verification and is targeted at mostly financial institutions on the continent, N'Guessan told CNN. \", \"N'Guessan and her team won the Africa Prize for Innovation in a virtual award ceremony on September 3 where the Africa Prize judges and a live audience voted in their favor, the Royal Academy of Engineering said in\", \" a statement\", \". \", \"\\\"We are very proud to have Charlette N'Guessan and her team win this award,\\\" said Rebecca Enonchong, an entrepreneur from Cameroon entrepreneur and Africa Prize judge in the statement. \", \"\\\"It is essential to have technologies like facial recognition based on African communities, and we are confident their innovative technology will have far reaching benefits for the continent.\\\"\", \"BACE API matches a user's live photo with the image on their official documents to verify their identity. \", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"BACE API matches a user&#39;s live photo with the image on their official documents to verify their identity. \\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"BACE API matches a user&#39;s live photo with the image on their official documents to verify their identity. \\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200904115800-restricted-02-africa-engineering-prize-intl-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"Curbing identity fraud\", \"N'Guessan, who is the CEO and co-founder of Ghana-based software company, \", \"BACE Group\", \", told CNN that the idea came about while she was studying at the \", \"Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology\", \" (MEST) in Accra, Ghana's capital city. \", \"While there, she worked with a team of four and it was during one of their research projects in 2018 they decided to create BACE API, and later a software company. \", \"\\\"We ... talked to tech entrepreneurs. That's when we noticed that there is a huge problem with cyber security with online services and businesses,\\\" she said.\", \"N'Guessan said their research found that many financial institutions in the west African country deal with identity fraud, estimating that they spend up to $400 million dollars yearly to identify their customers. \", \"\\\"We decided to make our contribution as software engineers and data scientists by building a solution that can be useful for this market,\\\" N'Guessan added. \", \"Before the winner was announced on September 3, N'Guessan and other entrepreneurs shortlisted for the Africa Prize received eight months of training from experts across the world and her team was paired with an AI specialist who helped with improvements to their system. \", \" An African woman in tech\", \"N'Guessan's interest in technology started at a young age. Growing up in Ivory Coast, west Africa, she was encouraged to focus on science and technology subjects by her father, a mathematics professor.  \", \"\\\"He inspired my choice for studying STEM. I was actually really good in science-related courses. After high school, I went on to study software engineering at university,\\\" she said. \", \"Now running her own technology company, she told CNN that winning the Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation has helped to boost her confidence as a CEO leading a technical team of men.\", \"The Academy was founded in 1976 and has been running the award to reward engineering innovation in Africa since 2014. \", \"Globally, the technology industry is growing, but women led startups are in short supply with\", \" only 22%\", \" founded by at least one woman, according to a report in Disrupt Africa.\", \"This 9-year-old has built more than 30 mobile games\", \"Data specific to Africa is hard to come by but some studies suggest that \", \"only 9% of startups\", \" on the continent have women founders. \", \"N'Guessan says she hopes that her achievement will motivate more women to consider careers in tech. \", \"\\\"I will be happy if people are inspired by my story, being the first woman to win the Africa Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation and by my work as a woman in tech,\\\" she said. \"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/23/africa/asequals-nigeria-rape-sexual-violence-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"She's on the frontline of a rape epidemic. The pandemic has made her work more dangerous\", \"description\": null, \"date\": \"2020-06-23T09:00:49Z\", \"author\": \"Bukola Adebayo\", \"text\": [\"CNN is committed to covering gender inequality wherever it occurs in the world. This story is part of As Equals, an ongoing series.\", \" \", \"Lagos, Nigeria --\", \" At the start of each day, Dr. Anita Kemi DaSilva-Ibru and her team put on gloves, facemasks and other personal protective equipment to see their patients.\", \"They're not treating people for Covid-19, but they are on the frontline of the pandemic, working at the Women at Risk International Foundation (WARIF), a rape crisis center in Lagos, Nigeria.\", \"Wearing protective gear is the new reality for crisis center workers, like DaSilva-Ibru.\", \"\\\"We change these kits each time we see a survivor as we are mindful of the risk of transmission of the virus between the survivor and us and the cross-contamination between a survivor and the next,\\\" she told CNN.\", \"US-trained gynecologist DaSilva-Ibru has spent most of her career treating hundreds of sexual violence victims but it was the growing scale of the crisis in Nigeria that prompted her to set up WARIF in 2016.\", \"Read More\", \"The clinic in Yaba, a suburb of Lagos, provides medical treatment, legal assistance therapy and space for rape victims and survivors of sexual abuse to get back on their feet.\", \"One in four Nigerian girls \", \"has been the victim of sexual violence, according to UN estimates but DaSilva-Ibru says the numbers are higher as many cases go unreported due to the stigma attached.\", \"In recent weeks, two high profile cases of gender-based violence have brought Nigerian women out onto the streets demanding change.\", \"Uwaila Vera Omozuwa, a 22-year-old microbiology student, was \", \"found half-naked in a pool of blood\", \" in a local church where she had gone to study after the Covid-19 lockdown left universities across the country shut. \", \"\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote {\\n position: relative;\\n color: #262626;\\n margin: 25px auto;\\n padding: 10px 0 14px 0;\\n width: 100%;\\n max-width: 660px;\\n border-left: 0;\\n text-align: center;\\n}\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote:before, .cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote:after {\\n position: absolute;\\n content: '';\\n width: 50px;\\n height: 2px;\\n left: 50%;\\n transform: translateX(-50%);\\n -webkit-transform: translateX(-50%);\\n background-color: #262626;\\n}\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote:before {\\n top: 0;\\n}\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote:after {\\n bottom: -2px;\\n}\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote {\\n position: relative;\\n margin: 0;\\n text-align: center;\\n font-size: 35px;\\n font-weight: 700;\\n word-spacing: -1px;\\n line-height: 1.15;\\n padding: 24px 10px 22px 10px;\\n margin-bottom: 24px;\\n}\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote-cite {\\n margin: 0;\\n text-align: center;\\n font-size: 12px;\\n font-weight: 200;\\n color: #262626;\\n line-height: 1.15;\\n padding: 0 10px;\\n display: inline-block;\\n}\\n@media only screen and (min-width: 768px)  {\\n .cnnix-golf__pullquote {\\n  margin: 50px auto;\\n }\\n .cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote {\\n  font-size: 35px;\\n }\\n} \\n\", \"\\n \", \"\\n \", \"\\\"Rape is an epidemic in this country.\\\"\", \"\\n \", \" Dr. Anita Kemi DaSilva-Ibru, Women at Risk International Foundation\", \"\\n \", \"Her family said her attackers raped her and the student died while being treated at the hospital. A few days later, another student, Barakat Bello, was allegedly raped and killed during a robbery at her home,\", \" according to human rights group Amnesty International.\", \"\\\"Rape is an epidemic in this country,\\\" DaSilva-Ibru told CNN.\", \"She says her work with survivors of sexual violence has become more critical during the outbreak, with restrictions to curb the virus from spreading fueling a surge in calls. \", \"It's a story echoed in other parts of the region, as authorities grapple with a growing number of Covid-19 cases and the impact restrictions are having on women.\", \"Related: A transport ban in Uganda means women are trapped at home with their abusers\", \"DaSilva-Ibru said she initially closed the center after authorities locked down the city in March, she had to reconsider the decision as the organization became inundated with SOS messages from sexual violence victims and their guardians.\", \"Staff operating the 24-hour helpline at the center also reported a 64% increase in calls during this period, according to DaSilva-Ibru. \", \"\\\"Our phones were ringing. Women were calling and desperately asking how we can help them, these were women in fear of their lives, as many have now been forced into quarantine with their abusers, in an already volatile environment,\\\" DaSilva-Ibru told CNN.\", \"For the center to re-open, DaSilva-Ibru said she had to source PPE, face masks and other protective gear personally and when that was not enough, the center launched an online appeal for funds from donors to buy the equipment at no cost to survivors, she said. \", \"\\\"We carry out forensic examinations on survivors and our frontline health workers who triage and examine patients are in close proximity to the survivors. As much as we need to carry out our duties, we also need to ensure our workers are adequately protected,\\\" DaSilva-Ibru told CNN.\", \"The challenges Ibru faces to keep the center open, doesn't compare to what sexual violence victims have experienced as a result of this pandemic, she said.\", \"DaSilva-Ibru recalls a woman who told staff at the center that her male friend had raped her in her home during the lockdown.\", \"Dr. Anita Kemi DaSilva-Ibru. \", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"Dr. Anita Kemi DaSilva-Ibru. \\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"Dr. Anita Kemi DaSilva-Ibru. \\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200618151608-02-dr-kemi-dasilva-ibru-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"\\\"The first day we re-opened, we attended to women who had walked many miles in spite of the mandatory lockdown to get to the center. These are women who had been terrorized in their homes,\\\" she added.\", \"\\\"She (a survivor) had repeatedly been calling (the center) to find out how she could get help. She feared she might have contracted HIV and wanted to be tested,\\\" Ibru said. \", \"Speaking to CNN, the woman, who didn't want to use her name to protect her identity, said a co-worker raped her after he came to her apartment unannounced in April. \", \"The young banker said she had previously rebuffed his attempts to visit, but on that Sunday afternoon in April, he showed up at her doorstep.\", \"\\\"He's a friend, not a stranger, so I opened the door for him. I was still asking him what was so urgent that made him leave his home. He said he wanted to check up on me and I told him he could have done that over the phone,\\\" she told CNN.\", \"But a few minutes into his visit, the conversation became uncomfortable between them.\", \"\\\"He kept coming towards me, and when I told him to stop, he put his hand over my mouth and pinned me on the floor,\\\" she said.\", \"She says he apologized after raping her and hurriedly left her house.\", \"The survivor told CNN she did not make a police complaint because she was worried about the stigma and strain that the rape might have on her parents.  \", \"A friend she confided in told her to reach out to the \", \"Lagos Domestic and Sexual Violence Response Team\", \" who put survivors in touch with treatment centers for help.\", \"After several calls to the centers on their website, she was referred to \", \"WARIF\", \".\", \"When she went to the clinic, she says staff ran some tests and placed her on Post Exposure Prophylaxis, a HIV prevention treatment for possible exposure.\", \"\\\"Sometimes I get really angry, and sometimes I feel numb,\\\" she said, reflecting on the assault.\", \"She says she was sick every night for 28 days because of the drugs.\", \"\\\"...even though the doctor prepared me for the side effect, it has not been easy,\\\" she told CNN. \", \"Gender-based violence is a problem in many countries, but the coronavirus pandemic has worsened the situation.\", \"The \", \"UN says\", \" the raft of measures deployed by governments to fight the pandemic have led to economic hardship, stress, and fear -- conditions that lead to violence against women and girls. \", \"Equality Now Regional Coordinator in Africa Judy Gitau told CNN that the wave of unemployment and school closures has put victims in a precarious situation.\", \"She recalls a similar situation in Sierra Leone \", \"during the 2014 Ebola outbreak\", \" when\", \" teenage pregnancies spiked\", \" in the country\", \"The government enforced strict stay-at-home orders that closed businesses and schools across the West African nation to curb the spread of the virus, she said.\", \"The restrictions made schoolgirls vulnerable to abuse as some were assaulted in their homes by relatives, and at the same time, a majority of girls from low-income families were coerced to exchange sex for money for food, Gitau said. \", \"\\\"Many of them wound up pregnant but the evidence became available when people were plugging back to life as they knew it as a normal society,\\\" she said.\", \"Gitau says authorities must know that perpetrators often take advantage of the strict measures to abuse victims without arousing much suspicion.\", \"As state resources are being re-focused to tackle the spread of coronavirus, law enforcement agencies should also respond quickly to reports of abuse and create shelters for victims in need of immediate rescue, she said.\", \"But placing women in shelters, especially in countries battling an outbreak, comes with the additional burden of proof, according to DaSilva-Ibru who said shelters in Lagos city are asking survivors to take coronavirus tests before they can be admitted to prevent infection in their facilities.\", \"\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote {\\n position: relative;\\n color: #262626;\\n margin: 25px auto;\\n padding: 10px 0 14px 0;\\n width: 100%;\\n max-width: 660px;\\n border-left: 0;\\n text-align: center;\\n}\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote:before, .cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote:after {\\n position: absolute;\\n content: '';\\n width: 50px;\\n height: 2px;\\n left: 50%;\\n transform: translateX(-50%);\\n -webkit-transform: translateX(-50%);\\n background-color: #262626;\\n}\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote:before {\\n top: 0;\\n}\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote:after {\\n bottom: -2px;\\n}\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote {\\n position: relative;\\n margin: 0;\\n text-align: center;\\n font-size: 35px;\\n font-weight: 700;\\n word-spacing: -1px;\\n line-height: 1.15;\\n padding: 24px 10px 22px 10px;\\n margin-bottom: 24px;\\n}\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote-cite {\\n margin: 0;\\n text-align: center;\\n font-size: 12px;\\n font-weight: 200;\\n color: #262626;\\n line-height: 1.15;\\n padding: 0 10px;\\n display: inline-block;\\n}\\n@media only screen and (min-width: 768px)  {\\n .cnnix-golf__pullquote {\\n  margin: 50px auto;\\n }\\n .cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote {\\n  font-size: 35px;\\n }\\n} \\n\", \"\\n \", \"\\n \", \"\\\"Violence against women and girls is one of the most pervasive forms of a human rights violation and should be recognized by all countries.\\\"\", \"\\n \", \" Dr. Anita Kemi DaSilva-Ibru, Women at Risk International Foundation\", \"\\n \", \"Authorities in Lagos designated gender-based violence services essential in May as it eased lockdown into curfews to allow service providers to get to work more smoothly, DaSilva-Ibru said. \", \"The police force says it has now deployed more officers to its stations across the country to respond to the \\\"increasing challenges of sexual assaults and domestic/gender-based violence linked with the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic.\\\" And last week, governors across the country resolved to declare \", \"a state of emergency on rape\", \", according to the Nigerian Governor's Forum (NGF).\", \"Related: Nigerian women are taking to the streets in protests against rape and sexual violence\", \"It's the first time federal and state authorities are coming out with a united voice to condemn gender violence, DaSilva-Ibru said and it validates the outcry of women in the country and the scale of the problem in Nigeria, she added.\", \"\\\"Violence against women and girls is one of the most pervasive forms of a human rights violation and should be recognized by all countries,\\\" DaSilva-Ibru said.\", \"\\\"In Nigeria, it has become a national crisis that needs urgent attention. I am pleased that this has been recognized.\\\"\", \"\\n  window.cnnAsEqualsConfig = window.cnnAsEqualsConfig || {};\\n  window.cnnAsEqualsConfig.theme = 'black';\\n\", \"\\n\", \"Click here for more stories from the As Equals series.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/24/africa/kenya-maasai-warriors-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"Kenya's Maasai gather for once-in-a-decade ceremony to turn warriors into elders\", \"description\": \"Thousands of Maasai men clad in red and purple shawls and with their heads coated in red ocher gathered this week for a ceremony that transforms them from Moran (warriors) to Mzee (elders).\", \"date\": \"2020-09-24T14:41:25Z\", \"author\": \"Story by Reuters \", \"text\": [\"Maparasha Hills, Kenya\", \"Thousands of Maasai men clad in red and purple shawls and with their heads coated in red ocher gathered this week for a ceremony that transforms them from Moran (warriors) to Mzee (elders).\", \"Around 15,000 men from all over Kenya and neighboring Tanzania congregated in Maparasha Hills in Kajiado County, 128 kilometers from Nairobi, to feast on an estimated 3,000 bulls and 30,000 goats and sheep.\", \"The ceremony occurs once every decade at the site, which is surrounded by hills and dotted with acacia trees.\", \"On Wednesday, the men roasted the meat on beds of coal from acacia trees, holding staffs and swords.\", \"\\\"I used to be a Moran, But after this ceremony, I now graduate to be a Mzee (elder),\\\" Stephen Seriamu Sarbabi, a 34-year-old livestock trader, told Reuters.\", \"Read More\", \"\\\"I will now be having a lot of responsibilities in the community. I will be chairing some different meetings, I will be consulted,\\\" he added.\", \"The arrival of coronavirus in March forced a postponement of the ceremony, which was meant to have been held earlier in the year.\", \"\\\"My role here in this ceremony, is to come and bless my boys to graduate, to another stage of being wazees (elders), and to give them their privileges,\\\" Moses Lepunyo ole Purkei, a farmer, community health volunteer and elder, told Reuters.\", \"During the ceremony, the men were accompanied by their wives, who also wore colorful shawls and beads around their necks and sang songs praising and encouraging the incoming group of elders.\", \"There are about 1.2 million Maasai living in Kenya, according to the government statistics office.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/12/us/ray-hushpuppi-alleged-money-laundering-trnd/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"He flaunted private jets and luxury cars on Instagram. Feds used his posts to link him to alleged cyber crimes \", \"description\": \"A federal affidavit alleged his extravagant lifestyle was financed through hacking schemes that stole millions of dollars from major companies in the United States and Europe. \", \"date\": \"2020-07-12T04:04:56Z\", \"author\": \"Faith Karimi\", \"text\": [\" (CNN)\", \"Ramon Abbas flaunted \", \"a lavish lifestyle of private jets, designer clothes\", \" and luxury cars. \", \"To his \", \"2.5 million Instagram followers,\", \" he went by Ray Hushpuppi, a man who boarded helicopters from his Dubai waterfront apartment and walked around with shopping bags from Gucci, Versace and Fendi.  \", \"On social media, where he posted a video of himself tossing wads of cash like confetti, he told his followers he was a real estate developer. But a federal affidavit alleged his extravagant lifestyle was financed through hacking schemes that\", \" stole millions of dollars \", \"from major companies in the United States and Europe. \", \"His flamboyant posts left a digital trail of evidence that investigators used to link him to the crimes, the affidavit shows. \", \"Last month, United Arab Emirates investigators swooped into his Dubai apartment, arrested him and handed him over to FBI agents, who flew him to Chicago on July 2, federal officials said. \", \"Read More\", \"In the coming weeks, he'll be transferred to Los Angeles -- where the affidavit was filed -- to face accusations of conspiring to launder hundreds of millions of dollars through cyber crime schemes.  \", \"Ramon Abbas allegedly  conspired to launder millions of dollars.\", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"Ramon Abbas allegedly  conspired to launder millions of dollars.\\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"Ramon Abbas allegedly  conspired to launder millions of dollars.\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200703180555-01-nigerian-man-charged-money-laundering-conspiracy-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"$41 million and 13 luxury cars seized  \", \"The Nigerian national lived at the exclusive Palazzo Versace in Dubai, and led a global network that used computer intrusions, business email compromise schemes and money laundering to steal hundreds of millions of dollars from companies, federal prosecutors allege. \", \"He worked with multiple co-conspirators and was arrested along with 11 others. Investigators seized nearly $41 million, 13 luxury cars worth $6.8 million, and phone and computer evidence, \", \"Dubai Police\", \" said in a statement. They uncovered email addresses of nearly 2 million possible victims on phones, computers and hard drives, Dubai authorities said. \", \"\\\"This case targets a key player in a large, transnational conspiracy who was living an opulent lifestyle in another country while allegedly providing safe havens for stolen money around the world,\\\" US Attorney Nick Hanna said in a statement. \", \"Abbas' attorney, Gal Pissetzky, declined to get into details on how his client earns his money. But what he does for a living is going to be \\\"one of the main points of contention here,\\\" he told CNN\", \".\", \"Pissetzky called his client's arrest a kidnapping, saying Dubai handed him to the United States with \\\"no legal proceedings whatsoever.\\\" Abbas has not been formally indicted, and the government has 30 days to indict him, his attorney said Thursday.  \", \"His birthday post helped track him down\", \"Abbas made no secret of his opulent lifestyle and remarkable wealth. On Snapchat, he called himself the \\\"Billionaire Gucci Master.\\\" \", \"\\\"Started out my day having sushi down at Nobu in Monte Carlo, Monaco, then decided to book a helicopter to have ... facials at the Christian Dior spa in Paris then ended my day having champagne in Gucci,\\\" he \", \"posted on Instagram\", \". \", \"Photos of him displaying multiple models of Bentley, Ferrari, Mercedes and Rolls Royce cars included the hashtag #AllMine. Others show him rubbing elbows with international sports stars and other celebrities. \", \"In the affidavit, federal officials detailed how his social media accounts provided a treasure trove of information to confirm his identity. His Instagram, for example, had an email and phone number saved for account security purposes. Federal officials got that information and linked that email and phone number to financial transactions and transfers with people the FBI believed were his co-conspirators. \", \"\\\"The email account ... also contained emails with attachments relating to wire transfers in large dollar values,\\\" the affidavit said.\", \"His Apple and Snapchat records also provided information that helped investigators confirm his identity, address and communications with other suspects. Even his Instagram birthday celebration photos provided key information. \", \"One \", \"post displayed a birthday cake\", \" topped with a Fendi logo and a miniature image of him surrounded by tiny shopping bags. Investigators used that post to verify his date of birth on a previous US visa application. \", \"Ramon Abbas told his 2.5 million Instagram followers that he's in real estate.\", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"Ramon Abbas told his 2.5 million Instagram followers that he&#39;s in real estate.\\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"Ramon Abbas told his 2.5 million Instagram followers that he&#39;s in real estate.\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200703180655-03-nigerian-man-charged-money-laundering-conspiracy-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"Companies targeted spanned two continents \", \"His alleged cyber crimes involved jaw-dropping amounts of money.\", \"Federal documents detailed how a paralegal at a New York law firm wired nearly $923,000 meant for a client's real estate refinancing to a bank account controlled by Abbas and his co-conspirators. The paralegal had received fraudulent wire instructions after sending an email to what appeared to be a bank email address but was later identified as a \\\"spoofed\\\" email address, the affidavit said.    \", \"Abbas sent a co-conspirator an image of the wire transfer confirmation for the transaction, according to the affidavit.\", \" \", \"He\", \" \", \"and an unnamed person also conspired to launder $14.7 million from a foreign financial institution last year, according to a criminal complaint.\", \"During that alleged cyber crime, Abbas sent a co-conspirator the account information for a Romanian bank account, which he said could be used for \\\"large amounts.\\\" In other alleged schemes, he also provided Dubai bank accounts that can be used to deposit money from victims in the United States, the affidavit said. \", \"He's also accused of conspiring to try to steal $124 million from an unnamed English Premier League soccer club. But it's unclear whether the attempt was successful.\", \"FBI recorded $1.7 billion in losses from such scams\", \"Business email compromise schemes are sophisticated scams that involve a hacker redirecting business email account communications to try and intercept wire transfers. \", \"\\\"BEC schemes are one of the most difficult cyber crimes we encounter as they typically involve a coordinated group of con artists scattered around the world who have experience with computer hacking and exploiting the international financial system,\\\"  Hanna said. \", \"Last year alone, the FBI recorded $1.7 billion in losses by companies and individuals victimized through business email compromise scams, according to Paul Delacourt of the FBI field office in Los Angeles. \", \"If convicted of money laundering, Abbas faces up to 20 years in prison. His bond hearing is set for Monday. \", \"His transfer to Los Angeles has been complicated by logistics linked to coronavirus, his attorney said. \", \"CNN's Laurie Ure and Steve Almasy contributed to this report.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/20/africa/nigeria-fashion-tiffany-amber-coronavirus-ppe-spc-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"Nigerian fashion label Tiffany Amber swaps couture for PPE\", \"description\": \"Company founder Folake Akindele Coker pivoted her fashion label into PPE production after she realized that a prolonged lockdown in Nigeria would impact consumer sales.\", \"date\": \"2020-07-21T01:21:46Z\", \"author\": \"Daniel Renjifo\", \"text\": [\" (CNN)\", \"These days, things look a little different when Folake Akindele Coker gets to her office. \\\"I arrive at 9am, all geared (up) for this invisible enemy,\\\" she says. The 45-year-old designer and founder of Nigerian fashion label Tiffany Amber now starts each day with a 10-minute safety talk for her production team, \\\"who at first did not seem to understand the gravity and the potential of being infected by the (Covid-19) virus.\\\"\", \"Coker founded \", \"Tiffany Amber\", \" in 1998, and it's now considered one of Nigeria's most influential fashion and lifestyle brands.\", \"In early March, the number of colorful prints and couture runway garments that normally littered the factory floor dissipated, and the company's sewing machines began stitching hospital scrubs, gowns, stretcher sheets and non-medical face masks. Less than a month after the pandemic reached Africa, Tiffany Amber's entire factory refocused to produce personal protective equipment (PPE), something Coker notes took immense pressure to turn around. \", \"The colorful garments of the Tiffany Amber fashion line, seen here during Arise Fashion week in 2019, have since been replaced in production by PPE to help during the pandemic.\", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"The colorful garments of the Tiffany Amber fashion line, seen here during Arise Fashion week in 2019, have since been replaced in production by PPE to help during the pandemic.\\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"Tiffany Amber Nigeria fashion runway\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200715102210-tiffany-amber-fashion-nigeria-restricted-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"To make the shift, Coker says the company first had to secure more than 15 tons of raw materials including approximately 90,000 yards of fabric, 300,000 yards of elastic, and almost a million yards of thread. All of this happened, she says, right before borders closed in Nigeria and prices spiked due to the unforeseen demand for materials.\", \"See more stories from Marketplace Africa\", \"Read More\", \"As of mid-July, the World Health Organization shows Nigeria as having\", \" more than 30,000\", \" total confirmed cases of coronavirus, the second-most on the continent behind South Africa.\", \"As Covid-19 cases rose and consumer spending fell, Coker saw an opportunity for her business to stay open -- and to help out. \\\"Our expertise in garment production helped facilitate this shift to bridge the gap in the supply of medical apparel,\\\" she tells CNN.\", \"A Tiffany Amber employee sorts ready-to-ship gowns for healthcare workers.\", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"A Tiffany Amber employee sorts ready-to-ship gowns for healthcare workers.\\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"A Tiffany Amber employee sorts ready-to-ship gowns for healthcare workers.\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200626121436-tiffany-amber-ppe-production-gowns-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"The push for PPE\", \"This pivot has been a trend in the private sector worldwide, as companies around the globe have \", \"switched gears to supply the growing demand for PPE\", \".\", \"According to the World Bank, Covid-19 has pushed sub-Saharan Africa into its \", \"first recession in 25 years\", \", greatly impacting the continent's biggest revenue drivers such as energy, agriculture and manufacturing. \", \"Read more: Across Africa, the pandemic reveals both inequality and innovation\", \"Globally, the \", \"luxury market is also expected to shrink \", \"as much as 35% this year, as consumer spending sharply declines mainly due to job loss, according to consulting firm Bain and Co.\", \"Tiffany Amber employees wearing masks, and making masks.\", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"Tiffany Amber employees wearing masks, and making masks.\\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"Tiffany Amber employees wearing masks, and making masks.\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200626120613-tiffany-amber-production-ppe-employees-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"Efforts to make and source \", \"PPE in Nigeria\", \" have primarily relied on private corporations\", \" \", \"working hand in hand with suppliers. In an attempt to stay solvent, Coker says Tiffany Amber is working with partners in the financial sector to fund and distribute the PPE products.\", \"By early June, she notes, the fashion label had made approximately 500,000 cloth masks, 20,000 sets of sheets and pillowcases, 10,000 scrubs, 15,000 patient gowns and close to 5,000 surgical gowns.\", \"Alcohol ban has South African distilleries pivoting to a new product\", \"In Tiffany Amber's case, shifting to PPE production has had an unlikely silver lining: job creation. Since March, Coker says her company has actually managed to grow from 100 employees to a staff of 300.\", \"At the time of writing, Coker does not anticipate returning to regular Tiffany Amber fashion production in the near future. But even as her company responds to the current reality, she keeps planning for when that day will come. \\\"One mind is thinking about tomorrow morning and the other mind is processing the next two years,\\\" says Coker. \\\"Subconsciously, I find myself drifting away, putting together the next Tiffany Amber collection.\\\"\", \"CNN's Lamide Akintobi contributed to this report\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/16/africa/amnesty-mozambique-video-killing-investigation-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"Amnesty International calls for investigation into video showing execution of woman in Mozambique\", \"description\": \"Amnesty International has called for an immediate investigation into the apparent extrajudicial killing of a woman in Mozambique that was shared widely in a horrifying video on social media earlier this week. \", \"date\": \"2020-09-16T17:31:35Z\", \"author\": \"David McKenzie, Brent Swails and Vasco Cotovio\", \"text\": [\" (CNN)\", \"Amnesty International has called for an immediate investigation into the apparent extrajudicial killing of a woman in Mozambique that was shared widely in a horrifying video on social media earlier this week. \", \"In the nearly two-minute-long video, men wearing military uniforms are seen chasing down a naked woman, surrounding and verbally harassing her along a rural road. One of the men repeatedly beats her with a stick before another man shoots her at close range. \", \" \", \"She is then repeatedly shot by the men while lying on the road before one of the men shouts \\\"Stop, stop, enough, it's done.\\\" \", \" \", \"Read More\", \"The video ends as the men turn and walk away, with one of them announcing, \\\"They've killed the al-Shabaab,\\\" the local name given to the growing insurgency in the far north of the country. \", \"It has no known links to the Somali terrorist group of the same name. The uniformed man looks directly into camera and raises his two fingers before the recording stops. \", \" \", \"\\\"The horrendous video is yet another gruesome example of the gross human rights violations taking place in Cabo Delgado by the Mozambican forces,\\\" said Deprose Muchena, Amnesty International's Director for East and Southern Africa.\", \"A young boy was killed by a police stray bullet during a coronavirus curfew. Now his parents want answers\", \" \", \"In its own analysis of the video, the human rights group says that the men were wearing the uniform of the Mozambican military. Amnesty says four different gunmen shot the woman a total of 36 times with AK-47s and PKM-style machine guns. Its investigation concluded that the incident took place near Awasse in the country's northernmost province Cabo Delgado. \", \" \", \"\\\"The incident is consistent with our recent findings of appalling human rights violations and crimes under international law happening in the area,\\\" said Muchena. \", \" \", \"CNN could not independently the authenticity of the video, the date and location it was filmed, nor the identity of the gunmen. \", \" \", \"Mozambique's Minister of Interior Amade Miquidade denied the accusations of atrocities, though did not address the video specifically, on national television Tuesday, saying that insurgents frequently wear army uniforms. \", \" \", \"\\\"When they want to produce their propaganda against the security and defense forces, against the Mozambican state, they remove those signs/characters that identify them and make videos to promote an image of atrocity practiced by those who defend the people,\\\" he said. \", \"Ammonium nitrate that exploded in Beirut bought for mining, Mozambican firm says \", \" \", \"Cabo Delgado is home to a $60 billion natural gas development that is heavily guarded by Mozambican military and private security. \", \" \", \"Loosely aligned with ISIS, the insurgents have undertaken increasingly sophisticated attacks in recent months, overrunning large parts of Mocimba de Praia, a strategic port north of the regional capital Pemba in August. Unlike in previous attacks, government forces have struggled to fully retake the territory. \", \" \", \"The insurgents have been accused by the government and human rights groups of their own violent abuses -- including beheadings, looting, and indiscriminate killing of civilians. \", \" \", \"And the interior minister highlighted those alleged abuses on Tuesday. \", \" \", \"\\\"Once more, our country continues to be the object of aggression by the terrorists, namely in the province of Cabo Delgado, where they've enforced cruel, inhuman, atrocious acts against our population,\\\" said Miquidade.\", \" \", \"Security analysts and human rights workers say that insurgents operating in the area do sometimes wear Mozambican military uniforms. But the uniformed men in the video showing the woman's killing speak Portuguese, generally more common to Mozambicans from the South. \", \"CNN's David McKenzie and Brent Swails reported from Johannesburg and Vasco Cotovio reported from London.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/16/africa/blasphemy-nigeria-boy-sentenced-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"Outrage as Nigeria sentences 13-year-old boy to 10 years in prison for blasphemy\", \"description\": \"Child rights agency UNICEF has condemned the sentencing of a 13-year-old boy to 10 years in prison for blasphemy in northern Nigeria. \", \"date\": \"2020-09-16T14:09:33Z\", \"author\": \"Stephanie Busari and Eoin McSweeney\", \"text\": [\" (CNN)\", \"Child rights agency UNICEF has condemned the sentencing of a 13-year-old boy to 10 years in prison for blasphemy in northern Nigeria. \", \"Omar Farouq was convicted in a Sharia court in Kano State in northwest Nigeria after he was accused of using foul language toward Allah in an argument with a friend. \", \"He was sentenced on August 10 by the same court that recently sentenced a studio assistant Yahaya Sharif-Aminu to death for blaspheming Prophet Mohammed, according to lawyers. \", \"Farouq's punishment is in violation of the African Charter of the Rights and Welfare of a Child and the Nigerian constitution, said his counsel Kola Alapinni, who told CNN they filed an appeal on his behalf on September 7. \", \"Farouq was tried as an adult because he has attained puberty and has full responsibility under Islamic law. \", \"Read More\", \"Alapinni told CNN he or other lawyers working on the case have not been granted access to Farouq by authorities in Kano State. \", \"He said he found out about Farouq's case by chance when working on the case of Sharif-Aminu, who was sentenced to death for blasphemy at the Kano Upper Sharia Court. \", \"\\\"We found out they were convicted on the same day, by the same judge, in the same court, for blasphemy and we found out no one was talking about Omar, so we had to move quickly to file an appeal for him,\\\" he said. \", \"\\\"Blasphemy is not recognized by Nigerian law. It is inconsistent with the constitution of Nigeria.\\\"\", \" \", \" .m-infographic--1600276717888 { background: url(//cdn.cnn.com/cnn/.e/interactive/html5-video-media/2020/09/16/20201609_kano_state_map_375px.jpg) no-repeat 0 0 transparent; margin-bottom: 30px; padding-top: 111.4513981358189%; width: 100%; -moz-background-size: cover; -o-background-size: cover; -webkit-background-size: cover; background-size: cover; } @media (min-width: 640px) { .m-infographic--1600276717888{ background-image: url(//cdn.cnn.com/cnn/.e/interactive/html5-video-media/2020/09/16/20201609_kano_state_map_780px.jpg); padding-top: 84.2948717948718%; } } @media (min-width: 1120px) { .m-infographic--1600276717888{ background-image: url(//cdn.cnn.com/cnn/.e/interactive/html5-video-media/2020/09/16/20201609_kano_state_map_780px.jpg); padding-top: 84.2948717948718%; } } \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \"The lawyer said Farouq's mother had fled to a neighboring town after mobs descended on their home following his arrest. \", \"\\\"Everyone here is scared to speak and living under fear of reprisal attacks,\\\" he said. \", \"UNICEF Wednesday issued a statement \\\"expressing deep concern\\\" about the sentencing. \", \"\\\"The sentencing of this child -- 13-year-old Omar Farouq -- to 10 years in prison with menial labour is wrong,\\\" said Peter Hawkins, UNICEF representative in Nigeria. \\\"It also negates all core underlying principles of child rights and child justice that Nigeria -- and by implication, Kano State -- has signed on to.\\\" \", \"Kano State, like most predominantly Muslim states in Nigeria, practices Sharia law alongside secular law. \", \"Islam Fast Facts\", \"CNN contacted a spokesman for the Kano State governor for comment but had not heard back before publication. \", \"UNICEF has called on the Nigerian government and the Kano State government to urgently review the case and reverse the sentence, the organization said in a statement. \", \"\\\"This case further underlines the urgent need to accelerate the enactment of the Kano State Child Protection Bill so as to ensure that all children under 18, including Omar Farouq are protected -- and that all children in Kano are treated in accordance with child rights standards,\\\" Hawkins said.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/18/africa/disney-partners-with-nollywood/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"Disney partners with Nollywood to bring American movies to English-speaking West Africa\", \"description\": \"FilmOne Entertainment is now the sole distributor of Disney titles in English speaking West Africa\", \"date\": \"2020-09-18T12:02:13Z\", \"author\": \"Aisha Salaudeen\", \"text\": [\"Lagos, Nigeria (CNN)\", \"Disney, is joining forces with a Nigerian production and distribution company to market some of the American entertainment conglomerate's new releases such as \\\"Mulan\\\" in English-speaking West Africa.\", \"The deal makes FilmOne Entertainment the sole distributors of Disney-owned films in Nigeria, Ghana, and Liberia. \", \"\\\"It is a major career highlight, that we're able to get the world's biggest movie studio as a partner,\\\" Moses Babatope, a director at FilmOne, told CNN. \", \"Bollywood and Nollywood collide in a tale of a big fat Indian-Nigerian wedding\", \"FilmOne Entertainment has been at the forefront of growing Nigeria's cinema culture and has built cinemas across the country, including IMAX screens.\", \"The firm has also distributed and produced \", \"Nigerian box office hits \", \"such as \\\"The Wedding Party,\\\" and \\\"New Money.'\\\"\", \"Read More\", \"\\\"What the deal means is that we are exclusive marketers and distributors of Disney titles in the English-speaking West African countries that have studio licensed cinemas. We will distribute the films to all those cinemas in the territory,\\\" he explained. \", \"The agreement, which commenced this month, covers titles from all Disney studio divisions including Pixar, Marvel Studios, Walt Disney Pictures, and Blue Sky pictures. \", \"\\\"With their in-depth knowledge of the region and expertise in bringing theatrical releases to fans, we are thrilled to welcome FilmOne as our distribution partner for this territory,\\\" Disney Africa's country manager, Christine Service said in a statement. \", \"Bigger opportunities\", \"Film analysts in the country say this deal may convince investors and film producers to look further into the African movie industry. \", \"\\\"This deal is huge because it means that Disney is paying attention. Their presence can open doors for movie collaborations,\\\" said Shola Thompson, a Nigeria-based film consultant.\", \"Thompson added that distributing Disney movies is a pathway to getting the best content to cinemas, which can improve the cinema-going culture in the region as well as increase their potential earnings.\", \"As a result of restrictions following the Covid-19 pandemic, many cinemas in West Africa are not operating at full capacity. But FilmOne Entertainment says it is working on improving the cinema experience as a way of encouraging people to show up when all restrictions have been lifted.\", \"Netflix partners with Nigerian filmmaker in new major deal \", \"\\\"We will let people know that they enjoy films better when they watch with other people. To say that the experience out of home is very different,\\\" Babatope said. \", \"\\\"We will communicate that cinemas are safe in our communications to audiences. We will document what the cinemas are doing regarding incorporating safety procedures,\\\" he added. \", \"Disney's deal is not the first time a multinational entertainment company is partnering with film companies in West Africa.\", \"In 2019, FilmOne Entertainment signed a deal with Chinese media giant Huahua to co-produce the first \", \"major China-Nigeria film. \", \"In the same year, French Media giant,\", \" Canal+ acquired leading Nollywood film studio, ROK film studios\", \" to create more hours of Nigerian content for its French-speaking audience.\", \"Independence key to collaboration\", \"Thompson who is also a film analyst says the growing influence of entertainment companies like Disney on the continent may create room for greater Hollywood influence in Africa, without a corresponding influence of African film content in Hollywood.\", \"\\\"We need to be a bit careful to make sure we don't lose creative control of our stories. With more multinationals looking into Africa for partnerships, we don't want to find ourselves stuck with them dictating what we start to produce,\\\" he said. \", \"\\\"At the same time, we can still be glad that they are paying attention as that means growth for our film industry,\\\" he added. \", \"As FilmOne Entertainment prepares to start distributing Disney content, Babatope says the partnership is an opportunity that can lead to future collaborations involving largely African content. \", \"\\\"It's true that a lot of the content we will be distributing are from other parts of the world but if we are able to demonstrate that we are accountable and transparent, then there will be room to attract future investments involving content from this region.\\\"\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/23/africa/china-ethiopia-test-kits-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"China's BGI wins 1.5 million coronavirus test kit order from Ethiopia\", \"description\": \"Ethiopia has agreed to purchase 1.5 million coronavirus testing kits that will be manufactured at a factory in the African country that has been newly built by China's BGI Group, China's state media agency Xinhua said late on Tuesday.\", \"date\": \"2020-09-23T11:22:20Z\", \"author\": \"Story by Reuters\", \"text\": [\"Beijing \", \"Ethiopia has agreed to purchase 1.5 million coronavirus testing kits that will be manufactured at a factory in the African country that has been newly built by China's BGI Group, China's state media agency Xinhua said late on Tuesday.\", \"The BGI factory, the first coronavirus test production facility in Ethiopia that opened earlier this month, is designed to be able to make 6-8 million tests in a year and can expand the annual capacity to up to 10 million in accordance with local demand, Xinhua reported.\", \"BGI, which makes genome sequencing and medical devices, is hoping to use its footprint in Ethiopia in expanding its supplies to other African countries, Xinhua quoted a BGI official as saying in a separate report on Wednesday.\", \"BGI did not immediately respond to a request for comment.\", \"BGI Group's unit BGI Genomics had said it supplied over 35 million coronavirus testing kits overseas and built 58 labs in 18 countries as of June 30.\", \"Read More\", \"The Ethiopia factory could be later converted to make test kits for HIV, malaria and tuberculosis once the Covid-19 pandemic ends, Xinhua said.\", \"Ethiopia, one of the countries that has the most new daily infections on average in Africa, has reported 69,709 infections and 1,108 coronavirus-related deaths since the pandemic began.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/29/health/who-rapid-test-kits-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"WHO announces Covid-19 rapid tests for low and middle income countries\", \"description\": \"The World Health Organization has announced an agreement to make rapid Covid-19 tests available to lower and middle-income countries across the world.\", \"date\": \"2020-09-29T14:08:02Z\", \"author\": \"Amanda Watts \", \"text\": [\" (CNN)\", \"The World Health Organization has announced an agreement to make rapid Covid-19 tests available to lower and middle-income countries across the world.\", \"Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO director-general said, \\\"a substantial proportion of these rapid tests - 120 million - will be made available to low and middle-income countries. These tests provide reliable results in approximately 15 to 30 minutes, rather than hours or days, at a lower price, with less sophisticated equipment.\\\" \", \" \", \"Tedros said during a Monday news conference that these \\\"vital\\\" tests will help expand testing in remote areas, \\\"that do not have lab facilities or enough trained health workers to carry out PCR tests.\\\" \", \" \", \"Read More\", \"He added: \\\"High-quality rapid tests show us where the virus is hiding, which is key to quickly tracing and isolating contacts and breaking the chains of transmission. The tests are a critical tool for governments as they look to reopen economies and ultimately save both lives and livelihoods.\\\"\", \"Coronavirus has killed 1 million people worldwide. Experts fear the toll may double before a vaccine is ready\", \"The first orders are expected already to be placed this week and it will be rolled out in up to 20 countries in Africa starting in October. \", \"Peter Sands, executive director of the Global Fund said the tests are hugely valuable as a complement to PCR tests but warned that they are not \\\"a silver bullet.\\\" \", \" \", \"\\\"Although they're a bit less accurate - they're much faster, cheaper, and don't require a lab,\\\" he explained. \\\"Being able to deploy quality antigen RDTs, rapid diagnostic tests, will be a significant step forward in enabling countries to contain and combat Covid-19,\\\" Sands added. \", \"The PCR test is the most widespread and most accurate diagnostic test for determining whether someone is currently infected with coronavirus.  However, the tests requires specialized supplies, expensive instruments, and the expertise of trained lab technicians. which has led to shortages and a testing gap globally. \", \"Read related: \", \"https://edition.cnn.com/2020/04/28/us/coronavirus-testing-pcr-antigen-antibody/index.html\", \"This $5 rapid test is a potential game-changer in Covid testing\", \" \", \"Sands said these tests will help low and middle-income countries to \\\"close the dramatic gap in testing between rich and poor countries.\\\" \", \" \", \"\\\"Right now, high-income countries are conducting 292 tests per day per 100,000 people. For upper-middle-income countries, that number is 77. For lower-middle-income countries, 61, and from low-income countries, 14,\\\" Sands said, though he did not expand on where that data originates. \", \" \", \"Dr. John Nkengasong, director of the Africa CDC, welcomed the development as it would allow \\\"healthcare workers to quickly isolate cases and treat them while tracing their contacts to cut the transmission chain.\\\"\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/29/africa/togo-female-prime-minister-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"Togo names first female Prime Minister\", \"description\": \"President's former chief-of-staff Victoire Tomegah Dogbe, 60, has become the first female prime minister of Togo, a tiny West African nation of about eight million people.\", \"date\": \"2020-09-29T18:09:26Z\", \"author\": \"Orji Sunday\", \"text\": [\" (CNN)\", \"Togo's President Faure Gnassingbe has appointed the country's first female prime minister.\", \"Victoire Tomegah Dogbe, 60, became the first female prime minister of the tiny West African nation of about eight million people.\", \" \", \"Dogbe, whose appointment was confirmed by President Faure Gnassingbe on Monday, replaces Komi Selom Klassou, who resigned as prime minister on Friday, a position he held since 2015.\", \" \", \"Read More\", \"Dogbe is well known and respected in Togo, having served in several positions under Gnassingbe's government in the past decade, including working as his chief-of-staff, director of the cabinet of the President of the Republic and more recently as Minister for youth and grassroots development, according to local media reports.\", \"Ethiopia appoints its first female president \", \" \", \"Prior to joining politics, she worked with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) according to information from the agency. \", \" \", \"Her appointment comes after an expected cabinet reshuffle, which was delayed by the country's fight against coronavirus pandemic, following the controversial re-election of Gnassingbe, \", \"who has ruled Togo since 2005\", \". \", \"He took power from his father who, before his death,  ruled Togo for 38 years, dating back to a 1967 coup. \", \"Despite a \", \"series of protests between 2017 -- 2019\", \" calling for an end to a single family rule in Togo, Gnassingbe forced a constitutional reform in 2019 that allowed him to run for an election which he won easily in February 2020. His current tenure runs till 2025.  \", \"Faure must go: How one Togolese woman is risking her life to end the 50-year Gnassingb\\u00e9 dynasty\", \"The 56-year-old leader has seen growing opposition, following slowed economic growth, accusations of electoral fraud, \", \"corruption and human rights violations.\", \" \", \"Dogbe's has vast experience in governance and administration which is well positioned to help the country achieve a long-expected economic boom which has eluded the country since independence in 1960.\", \" \", \"Dogbe has been deeply involved in the country's fight against youth unemployment and poverty, introducing reforms that have been praised as a local success in her country, according to \", \"Togo-First, an online publication\", \" in the country. \", \" \", \"As the parliament awaits Dogbe's policy plan, observers are keen to see what economic difference her reforms can make in a country where half its population live below the poverty line, according to a \", \"2014 report by the International Monetary Fund\", \". \"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/30/africa/zimbabwe-elephant-disease-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"Zimbabwe suspects bacterial disease behind elephant deaths\", \"description\": \"Zimbabwe suspects a bacterial disease called hemorrhagic septicemia is behind the recent deaths of more than 30 elephants but is doing further tests to make sure, the parks authority said.\", \"date\": \"2020-09-30T14:48:29Z\", \"author\": \"Story by Reuters\", \"text\": [\"Zimbabwe suspects a bacterial disease called hemorrhagic septicemia is behind the recent deaths of more than 30 elephants but is doing further tests to make sure, the parks authority said.\", \"The elephant deaths, which began in late August, come soon after hundreds of elephants died in neighboring Botswana in mysterious circumstances.\", \"Officials in Botswana were initially at a loss to explain the elephant deaths there but have since blamed toxins produced by another type of bacterium.\", \"Toxins in water blamed for deaths of hundreds of elephants in Botswana \", \"Experts say Botswana and Zimbabwe could be home to roughly half of the continent's 400,000 elephants, often targeted by poachers.\", \"Elephants in Botswana and parts of Zimbabwe are at historically high levels, but elsewhere on the continent -- especially in forested areas -- many populations are severely depleted, said Chris Thouless, head of research at Save the Elephants.\", \"Read More\", \"\\\"Higher populations equal greater risk from infectious diseases,\\\" Thouless told Reuters, adding that climate change could put pressure on elephant populations as water supplies diminish and temperatures rise, potentially increasing the probability of pathogen outbreaks.\", \"Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority Director-General Fulton Mangwanya told a parliamentary committee on Monday that so far 34 dead elephants had been counted.\", \"\\\"It is unlikely that this disease alone will have any serious overall impact on the survival of the elephant population,\\\" he said. \\\"The northwest regions of Zimbabwe have an over-abundance of elephants and this outbreak of disease is probably a manifestation of that ... particularly in the hot, dry season elephants are stressed by competition for water and food resources.\\\"\", \"Postmortems on some of the dead elephants showed inflamed livers and other organs, Mangwanya said. The elephants were found lying on their stomachs, suggesting a sudden death.\", \"Vernon Booth, a Zimbabwe-based wildlife management consultant, told Reuters it was difficult to put a number on Zimbabwe's current elephant population. He estimated it could be close to 90,000, up from 82,000 in 2014 when the last national survey was conducted, assuming that roughly 2,000-3,000 have died each year from all causes.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/01/world/covid-girls-child-marriage-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"Half a million more girls are at risk of child marriage in 2020 because of Covid-19, charity warns\", \"description\": \"The pandemic has put 500,000 more girls at risk of being forced into child marriage this year, reversing 25 years of progress that saw child marriage rates decline, according to a new report by the charity Save the Children.\", \"date\": \"2020-10-01T12:59:25Z\", \"author\": \"Tara John\", \"text\": [\"London (CNN)\", \"The pandemic has put 500,000 more girls at risk of being forced into child marriage this year, reversing \", \"25 years of progress\", \" that saw child marriage rates decline, according to a new report by the charity Save the Children.\", \"Before the global outbreak, 12 million girls married each year, now the charity warns that up to 2.5 million more girls could be at risk of \", \"child marriage\", \" over the next five years.  \", \"How saying 'I do' can help millions of girls to say 'I don't'\", \"With up to 117 million children estimated to fall into poverty in 2020, many will face pressure to work and help provide for their families.\", \"\\\"The pandemic means more families are being pushed into poverty, forcing many girls to work to support their families, to go without food, to become the main caregivers for sick family members, and to drop out of school -- with far less of a chance than boys of ever returning,\\\" Inger Ashing, CEO of Save the Children International, \", \"said in a press release\", \".\", \"The pandemic led to school closures and \\\"experience during the Ebola outbreak suggests many girls will never return\\\" to class due \\\"to increasing pressure to work, risk of child marriage, bans on pregnant girls attending school, and lost contact with education,\\\" the charity wrote.\", \"Read More\", \"A girl gets married every 2 seconds somewhere in the world\", \"This year, 191,200 girls in South Asia will be disproportionately affected by the risk of increased child marriage, the report says. It is followed by West and Central Africa, where 90,000 girls are at risk of child marriage, Latin America and the Caribbean (73,400), and Europe and Central Asia (37,200).  \", \"Girls affected by humanitarian crises, such as wars, floods and earthquakes, face the greatest risk of child marriage, the report notes. Before the pandemic, data showed child marriage was increasing among refugee populations. In Lebanon, child marriage among Syrian refugee girls rose by 7% between 2017 and 2018.\", \"\\\"Every year, around 12 million girls are married, 2 million before their 15th birthday,\\\" Ashing said. \\\"Half a million more girls are now at risk of this gender-based violence this year alone -- and these only are the ones we know about. We believe this is the tip of the iceberg.\\\"\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/30/politics/esper-africa-trip/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"US Defense Secretary visits Africa for first time seeking to push back on Russia and China\", \"description\": \"US Secretary of Defense Mark Esper made his first visit to Africa Wednesday, a trip aimed in part at pushing back on Russian and Chinese influence in the region.\", \"date\": \"2020-09-30T16:14:06Z\", \"author\": \"Ryan Browne\", \"text\": [\"Malta (CNN)\", \"US Secretary of Defense \", \"Mark Esper \", \"made his first visit to Africa Wednesday, a trip aimed in part at pushing back on Russian and Chinese influence in the region.\", \"Esper arrived in Tunisia to meet with top officials, including the country's president, Kais Saied, and to lay a wreath and give a speech at a World War II cemetery to honor US service members who fell during the North African campaign.\", \"The trip was not announced until after Esper departed the country.\", \"Tunisia which has been touted as the sole democratic success story to come out of the 2011 \\\"Arab Spring,\\\" was designated \\\"a major-non NATO ally of the United States\\\" in 2015 and has partnered with the US on counterterrorism efforts aimed at ISIS-linked groups.\", \"As Trump refuses to commit to a peaceful transition, Pentagon stresses it will play no role in the election\", \"During a meeting at the Tunisian Defense Ministry, Esper and his counterpart signed a \\\"ten-year Roadmap of Defense Cooperation.\\\"\", \"Read More\", \"\\\"The United States will continue to deepen our alliances and partnerships across the continent, including with Tunisia, where your democratic government and sovereignty have made much of our work in the region possible,\\\" Esper said during his speech at the North Africa American cemetery and memorial in Carthage.\", \"\\\"We look forward to expanding this relationship to help Tunisia protect its maritime ports and land borders, deter terrorism, and keep the corrosive efforts of autocratic regimes out of your country,\\\" he added.\", \"The US has worked to help Tunisia secure its border with Libya which has been beset by civil war and recently deployed 40 American military advisers to the country, part of a the Army's Security Force Assistance Brigade, in order to aid Tunisia's fight against terrorist groups which have carried out high profile attacks in the country since 2011.\", \"The US is also Tunisia's largest supplier of weapons, providing nearly 50% of all arms imports from 2015 to 2019 according to the Center for International Policy and in February the Trump Administration approved the sale of four AT-6C Wolverine light attack aircraft to Tunisia, an arms package estimated to cost $325.8 million.\", \"While in North Africa, Esper is seeking to push back on Russian and Chinese activity in the region, according to defense officials.\", \"\\\"Today, our strategic competitors China and Russia continue to intimidate and coerce their neighbors while expanding their authoritarian influence worldwide, including on this continent,\\\" Esper said.\", \"The US has accused China of seeking to expand its influence in the region via predatory loans and the US military has accused Moscow of deploying Russian mercenaries and fighter jets to bolster Libyan Gen. Khalifa Haftar, the commander of the self-styled Libyan National Army, one of the belligerents in that country's civil war.\", \"China is doubling down on its territorial claims and that's causing conflict across Asia\", \"\\\"Together we continue to counter the malign, coercive, and predatory behavior of Beijing and Moscow, meant to undermine African institutions, erode national sovereignty, create instability, and exploit resources throughout the region,\\\" Esper said.\", \"Esper also visited the island republic of Malta Tuesday, becoming the first US defense secretary to visit there since President Richard Nixon's Secretary of Defense Mel Laird visited in 1970, just six years after the country became independent of the UK.\", \"While in Malta, Esper on Wednesday met with the country's Prime Minister Robert Abela and President George Vella.\", \"While Malta's military is small, totaling some 2,000 personnel, it sits in a strategic location off the coast of North Africa and possesses a significant port and was until the 1970s was the site of a major UK Royal Navy installation.\", \"A senior defense official told CNN that Esper planned to discuss maritime security with Maltese officials, a major issue given the country's proximity to shipping and smuggling lanes connecting Europe to North Africa. \"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/02/africa/paul-rusesabagina-family-appeal-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"Family of 'Hotel Rwanda hero' urges US, EU and Belgium to help free him\", \"description\": \"The family of Paul Rusesabagina, the former hotelier portrayed as a hero in a film about Rwanda's 1994 genocide, on Thursday called on the United States, the European Union and Belgium to appeal for his release from prison in Rwanda.\", \"date\": \"2020-10-02T11:02:23Z\", \"author\": \"Story by Reuters\", \"text\": [\" (CNN)\", \"The family of Paul Rusesabagina, the former hotelier portrayed as a hero in a film about Rwanda's 1994 genocide, on Thursday called on the United States, the European Union and Belgium to appeal for his release from prison in Rwanda.\", \"Rusesabagina, a political dissident who lived in exile in Belgium and the United States, was charged with terrorism and other offenses last month after he returned to Rwanda and \", \"was arrested in August\", \".\", \"His case has attracted widespread international attention partly because his story of protecting Tutsi guests during the genocide was made into a popular Hollywood film.\", \"Paul Rusesabagina of 'Hotel Rwanda' appears in court again seeking bail after arrest on terrorism charges\", \"Rusesabagina, who says he was tricked into returning to Rwanda, has been denied his choice of defense lawyers, his family and their lawyer told an online news conference. \", \"Instead, Rusesabagina's defense team was appointed by the government of Rwanda.\", \"Read More\", \"\\\"This is unprecedented,\\\" said Peter Robinson, an American lawyer who has previously defended people accused at the International Criminal Court and international war crimes tribunals for Rwanda. \\\"They are preventing Paul from being defended by lawyers of his choice.\\\"\", \"The foreign ministry and the justice ministry did not respond to requests for comment.\", \"Robinson said the family had appointed him and six other lawyers to defend Rusesabagina. \", \"But their local lawyer -- one of the six -- has not been permitted to see Rusesabagina and his government-appointed lawyers have not communicated with Rusesabagina's family, he said.\", \"Robinson urged the United States, Belgium and European Union to put pressure on the Rwandan government to free Rusesabagina, who is a Belgian citizen and lawful permanent resident of the United States. He received the United States' highest civilian award, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, in 2005.\", \"Rwanda has said that Rusesabagina's trial will be quick, fair and public. But his family want him freed.\", \"\\\"We ask Belgium to protect its citizen and bring him home as quickly as possible,\\\" Rusesabagina's youngest daughter Carine Kanimba, said. \", \"Rusesabagina's eldest daughter Lys Rusesabagina appealed for her father to stand trial in Belgium.\", \"Rusesabagina told \", \"The New York Times during an interview\", \" conducted after his arrest that he had been tricked into boarding a private jet he thought was bound for Burundi and arrested when it touched down in Rwanda.\", \"Rusesabagina has been charged with crimes including terrorism, financing terrorism, arson, kidnap and murder. He has told a court that he backed opposition groups but denied any role in violence. On Friday, a Rwandan court will rule on Rusesabagina's appeal against the denial of bail.\", \"\\\"My dad is surrounded by people who want him to fall, from the gunmen around him to his lawyers pretending to defend him. He is fighting alone out there,\\\" Rusesabagina's son Tresor Rusesabagina said.\"]}\n][\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/29/africa/blasphemy-trial-nigeria/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"The WhatsApp voice note that led to a death sentence\", \"description\": \"A heated conversation in a WhatsApp group has led to a death penalty sentence and a family torn apart in northern Nigeria over allegations of insulting Prophet Mohammed. \", \"date\": \"2020-09-29T09:51:49Z\", \"author\": \"Eoin McSweeney and Stephanie Busari\", \"text\": [\" (CNN)\", \"An intense argument recorded and posted in a WhatsApp group has led to a death penalty sentence and a family torn apart over allegations of insulting Prophet Mohammed, according to lawyers for the defendant. \", \"Music studio assistant Yahaya Sharif-Aminu was sentenced to death by hanging on August 10 after being convicted of blasphemy by an Islamic court in northern Nigeria. \", \"The judgment document states that Sharif-Aminu, 22, was convicted for making \\\"a blasphemous statement against Prophet Mohammed in a WhatsApp Group,\\\" which is contrary to the Kano State Sharia Penal Code and is an offence which carries the death sentence. \", \"The recording was shared widely, causing mass outrage in the highly conservative, majority Muslim, state, according to various reports. \", \"\\\"Whoever insults, defames or utters words or acts which are capable of bringing into disrespect ... such a person has committed a serious crime which is punishable by death,\\\" according to a translation of court documents provided to CNN by his lawyers. \", \"Read More\", \"Sharif-Aminu, described by his friend Kabiru Ibrahim, as \\\"kind, religious and dutiful,\\\" admitted charges of blasphemy during his trial, but said he had made a mistake. \", \"No legal representation\", \"Under Sharia law, a voluntary confession is binding, according to court papers. \", \"Sharif-Aminu's lawyers, who became involved in the case only after his conviction, say he was not allowed legal representation before or during his trial -- in contravention of Nigerian citizens' constitutional right to legal representation. \", \"Outrage as Nigeria sentences 13-year-old boy to 10 years in prison for blasphemy\", \"According to the lawyers, the Sharia court adjourned his case four times because no lawyer came forth from the Legal Aid Council to represent him, likely because of the sensitivity of the case. The Sharia court is, however, statute-bound to provide legal representation.\", \"Advocates from the \", \"Foundation for Religious Freedom\", \" (FRF), a not-for-profit aimed at protecting religious freedom in Nigeria, which is representing Sharif-Aminu, told CNN he has also not been permitted access to legal advice to prepare an appeal against his conviction. \", \"The FRF says it has lodged an appeal on his behalf in Kano's high court, a common-law court with constitutional powers. \", \"\\\"The state laws he is accused of breaking are in gross conflict with the Nigerian constitution,\\\" said his counsel, Kola Alapinni. \", \"No Muslim will condone it. People hold Prophet Mohammed higher than their parents. \", \"Islamic cleric, Bashir Aliyu Umar\", \"Kano's State Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje told clerics in Kano that he would sign Sharif-Aminu's death warrant as soon as the singer had exhausted the appeals process, local media reports say. \", \"\\\"I assure you that immediately the Supreme Court affirms the judgment, I will sign it without any hesitation,\\\" Ganduje said, according to \", \"Nigeria's Daily Post newspaper\", \". CNN contacted a spokesman for Governor Ganduje several times for comment but did not receive a response. \", \"Islamic scholar and cleric Bashir Aliyu Umar, who is not connected to the case, but said he had read the transcript of the court proceedings, told CNN, \\\"No Muslim will condone it. People hold Prophet Mohammed higher than their parents, and when things like this happen, it will lead to a breakdown of peace because of mob action and attacks against the accused.\\\" \", \"When news of Sharif-Aminu's alleged crime broke earlier this year, protesters marched to his family home and destroyed it, prompting his father to flee to a neighboring town, his lawyers told CNN. Sharif-Aminu went into hiding, according to Amnesty and his lawyers, but in March he was arrested by the Hisbah Corps, the religious police force that enforces Sharia law in Kano state. \", \"'A travesty of justice'\", \"Human rights organization Amnesty International has described Sharif-Aminu's trial as a \\\"travesty of justice,\\\" and called on Kano state authorities to quash his conviction and death sentence. \", \"\\\"There are serious concerns about the fairness of his trial and the framing of the charges against him based on his Whatsapp messages,\\\" said Amnesty's Nigeria director Osai Ojigho. \\\"Furthermore, the imposition of the death penalty following an unfair trial violates the right to life,\\\" she added. \", \"The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has also condemned Sharif-Aminu's death sentence. It said Nigeria's blasphemy laws were inconsistent with universal human rights standards. \", \"\\\"It is unconscionable that Sharif-Aminu is facing a death sentence merely for expressing his beliefs artistically through music,\\\" said the organization's commissioner, Frederick A. Davie, in a statement. \", \"The organization released a \", \"follow-up statement\", \" saying it had adopted Aminu-Sharif as \\\"a religious prisoner of conscience.\\\"  \", \"Atheism frowned upon \", \"Nigeria is Africa's most populous nation and religion permeates every facet of life here, with prayers routinely said in schools and public offices. 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CNN&#39;s Jon Jensen has more.\\\",\\\"thumbnailURL\\\": \\\"https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/151201062200-saudi-poet-death-sentence-jenson-pkg-00015222-large-169.jpg\\\",\\\"image\\\": \\\"https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/151201062200-saudi-poet-death-sentence-jenson-pkg-00015222-large-169.jpg\\\",\\\"duration\\\": \\\"PT1M58S\\\",\\\"uploadDate\\\": \\\"2015-12-01T11:28:00Z\\\",\\\"contentUrl\\\": \\\"https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2015/12/01/saudi-poet-death-sentence-jenson-pkg.cnn\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2015/12/01/saudi-poet-death-sentence-jenson-pkg.cnn\\\",\\\"embedUrl\\\": \\\"https://fave.api.cnn.io/v1/fav/?video=world/2015/12/01/saudi-poet-death-sentence-jenson-pkg.cnn&customer=cnn&edition=domestic&env=prod\\\"}\", \"Poet sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia\", \" \", \"01:57\", \"In 2015 and 2016 nine men and one woman were sentenced to death by hanging for insulting the Prophet Mohammed in Kano state, according to a \", \"2019 research paper by the USCIRF\", \". The sentences were not carried out. \", \"In 2000, a Muslim man in the northern state of Zamfara had his hand amputated for stealing a cow. A year later, another man had his hand cut off after he was convicted of stealing bicycles, according to the same USCIRF research paper. \", \"A constitutional violation? \", \"In the eyes of many Nigerians, the adoption of Sharia law is a violation of the \", \"country's constitution\", \", because Article 10 guarantees religious freedom when it states that \\\"the Government of the Federation or of a State shall not adopt any religion as State Religion.\\\" \", \"\\\"This issue of blasphemy is incompatible with the Nigerian constitution,\\\" Leo Igwe, chair of the board of trustees for the Humanist Association of Nigeria, told CNN. \", \"\\\"We hope this case will help Nigeria confront the biggest constitutional challenge since independence. What should take precedence, Sharia law, or the Nigerian constitution?\\\" \", \"Governors of the northern states, where Sharia law is practiced, argue that it applies only to Muslims, and not to citizens of other faiths. The FRF says it is working on six other constitutional cases which will challenge what it sees as government interference in Nigerian citizens' right to religious freedom. \", \"US national shot dead in Pakistan courtroom during blasphemy trial\", \"One of these, on behalf of the Atheist Society of Nigeria (ASN), is against the state government of Akwa Ibom, in the country's southeast, for its involvement in the construction of an 8,500-seat worship center at its High Court. \", \"The ASN says millions of dollars in state funding have been spent on the center, which it says amounts to government interference in freedom of religion. \", \"\\\"The government has no business legislating on religions. End of story,\\\" Ebenezer Odubule, a founding member of the FRF told CNN. \", \"The FRF says it has had to put some of its other cases on hold, to focus on Sharif-Aminu's case. It is also hampered by a lack of funding to fight new cases. \"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/07/africa/human-trafficking-film-nigeria/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"New Nollywood film shines a light on human trafficking in Nigeria\", \"description\": \"\\\"Oloture,\\\" a Netflix original film, features an investigative journalist covering sex trafficking in Nigeria.\", \"date\": \"2020-10-07T13:35:16Z\", \"author\": \" By Aisha Salaudeen\", \"text\": [\"Lagos, Nigeria  (CNN)\", \"Dressed in a transparent and colorful blouse, a sex worker in Lagos, the commercial center of Nigeria jumps out the window of a room at a party to avoid having sex with a potential customer. \", \"She is seen, heels in her hand, running away from the party and eventually getting into a bus heading back to a brothel, where she lives with other sex workers.\", \"These scenes are from the Netflix original film, \\\"\", \"Oloture\", \",\\\" in which we later find out that the sex worker, also named Oloture, is a Nigerian journalist who is undercover to expose sex trafficking in the country.       \", \"var id = '//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js'.replace(/\\\\s+/g, '');!!document.getElementById(id) || (function makeEmbedScript(d, id) {var js,fjs;js = d.createElement('script');js.id = id;js.charset = 'utf-8';js.setAttribute('async', '');js.src = '//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js';fjs = d.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);}(document, id));\", \"Sometimes, stay and fight. Other times, run away and come back to fight another day. \", \"pic.twitter.com/I29c7QtbSa\", \"\\u2014 Netflix Naija (@NetflixNaija) \", \"October 4, 2020\", \"\\n\", \"\\n\", \"Every year, \", \"tens of thousands of people\", \" are trafficked from Nigeria, particularly Edo State in the nation's south, which has become one of Africa's largest departure points for irregular migration.\", \"The International Organization for Migration (IMO) estimates that \", \"91% victims trafficked from Nigeria are women\", \", and their traffickers have sexually exploited more than half of them. \", \"Read More\", \"Through \\\"Oloture,\\\" the difficult realities of these women, particularly those who are sexually exploited, come to light. It shows how they are recruited and trafficked overseas for commercial gain.\", \"Directed by award-winning Nigerian filmmaker, Kenneth Gyang, the film features Nollywood actors including Sharon Ooja, Omoni Oboli and Blossom Chukwujekwu. \", \"Mo Abudu, executive producer of \\\"Oloture,\\\" told CNN that the crime drama was inspired by the numerous cases of trafficking around the world and in Nigeria. \", \"Actors pose as sex workers on the set of Netflix original film, \\\"Oloture.\\\"\", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"Actors pose as sex workers on the set of Netflix original film, &quot;Oloture.&quot;\\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"Actors pose as sex workers on the set of Netflix original film, &quot;Oloture.&quot;\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/201007071906-restricted-04-human-trafficking-film-nigeria-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"\\\"There have been many reports around the world highlighting human trafficking and modern slavery. It has been in our faces. I dug and dug and did a bit more research, and when I came across the numbers and saw how much was made annually from human trafficking, I was totally shocked,\\\" she said. \", \"Human trafficking is a \", \"$150 billion global industry.\", \" And two-thirds of this figure is generated from sexual exploitation, according to a 2014 report by the International Labor Organization. \", \"Abudu -- who is also CEO of EbonyLife Films, which produced \\\"Oloture\\\" -- added that the film mirrored some real-life reports by journalists who had gone undercover to expose sex trafficking patterns in the country.\", \"One of them, she said, was a \", \"2014 report \", \"by journalist Tobore Ovuorie, in the Nigerian newspaper, Premium Times. \", \"\\\"Upon research, we found that many journalists had gone undercover to report on human trafficking. But the Premium Times article did spark our interest as some of it plays out in the film,\\\" Abudu said. \", \"Easy prey for traffickers\", \"Ovuorie, whose report was credited in \\\"Oloture,\\\" told CNN that women often get trafficked as a result of their need to make money abroad. \", \"Ovuorie said she met many women in the course of her reporting who wanted to get to Europe in hopes of better job opportunities that would earn them more money.\", \"UK joins forces with Nigeria to fight human trafficking\", \"\\\"People were motivated by greed, you know, the need to get rich. I spoke with the women I was supposed to be trafficked with, and many of them wanted better lives motivated by money. There was one girl who had never earned more than 50,000 naira (about $130) as salary since she graduated from university,\\\" she told CNN.\", \"Most of the women were fleeing harsh economic conditions and poverty, making them easy prey for traffickers, Ovuorie said.\", \"During Ovuorie's investigation, she said she \", \"posed as a sex worker\", \" on the streets of Lagos, looking to travel to Europe.\", \"Lead actor, Sharon Ooja, and Omowunmi Dada (right) pose on set of \\\"Oloture.\\\"\", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"Lead actor, Sharon Ooja, and Omowunmi Dada (right) pose on set of &quot;Oloture.&quot;\\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"Lead actor, Sharon Ooja, and Omowunmi Dada (right) pose on set of &quot;Oloture.&quot;\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/201007072041-restricted-05-human-trafficking-film-nigeria-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"Her plan worked. She was eventually linked with a trafficker who promised to get her to Italy. In partnership with ZAM Chronicles and Premium Times, she documented her experience. \", \"After a series of \\\"humiliating trainings\\\" and physical abuse, she said she was told she and other girls would receive a \", \"fake passport\", \" in preparation to be smuggled outside the country through the border in Benin in West Africa.\", \"She escaped at the border. \", \"Physical and sexual abuse \", \"Many women who are trafficked in Nigeria face sexual, physical and mental abuse, according to \", \"a 2019 report \", \"by Human Rights Watch. \", \"The rights group interviewed many women who said they were trafficked within and across national borders under life-threatening conditions as they were starved, raped and extorted. \", \"On some occasions, according to the report, they were forced into prostitution where they were made to have abortions and \", \"coerced to have sex \", \"with customers when they were sick, menstruating or pregnant. \", \"\\\"Oloture\\\" portrays some of these harsh realities as the lead character (played by Ooja) suffers sexual violence and physical abuse, including being whipped by one of her traffickers. \", \"It was important to depict the reality of sex trafficking so viewers can understand the experiences of women who are forced into the trade, Gyang, the director, told CNN.\", \"Director Kenneth Gyang works behind the scenes of film, \\\"Oloture.\\\"\", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"Director Kenneth Gyang works behind the scenes of film, &quot;Oloture.&quot;\\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"Director Kenneth Gyang works behind the scenes of film, &quot;Oloture.&quot;\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/201007071340-restricted-01-human-trafficking-film-nigeria-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"\\\"I wanted people to know that this is the reality of these ladies. People always want closure but life is not about a Hollywood ending; you can't always get a happy ending,\\\" he said.\", \"While directing the film, Gyang visited places with sex workers to get a better idea of how they live and work, he said.\", \"\\\"I actually went to places where we have sex workers in Lagos with one of the producers of the film. We wanted to really capture their lives so that we would be able to show it realistically in the movie. We talked to them, and some of the rooms we used in the movie were actually used previously by sex workers,\\\" he explained. \", \"'The most impactful movie we have ever done'\", \"The film was shot in 21 days towards the end of 2018, he said. Post-production was covered in 2019, and it was released Friday on Netflix.\", \"In just days, it has become the top watched movie in Nigeria and is among the \", \"top 10 watched movies in the world on Netflix. \", \"\\\"It's huge for me as a filmmaker that people have access to the film from all over the world. I want many people as possible to see it and have conversations about sex trafficking,\\\" Gyang said. \", \"The film is doing well in countries like Switzerland, Brazil, and South Africa because it is authentic and \\\"deals with the truth,\\\" Abudu said.\", \"\\\"EbonyLife has done seven movies. But this is the most impactful one we have ever done. And the most important,\\\" Abudu said. \", \"A smuggler's chilling warning\", \"The \", \"National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons\", \" (NAPTIP), the law enforcement agency in charge of combating human trafficking in Nigeria, wants the film to be made available to people in rural communities who don't have access to Netflix.\", \"\\\"I haven't seen the movie, but if it is trying to portray the ills and dangers of trafficking, then it's fine since that is going to raise awareness,\\\" Julie Okah-Donli, the director-general of the agency said. \", \"And while she is happy that \\\"Oloture\\\" is shining the light on human trafficking, she told CNN that women mostly targeted by traffickers may not get to watch it.\", \"\\\"The people watching it on Netflix all know what trafficking is. It needs to go to those girls in rural communities where traffickers go to bring them from. Those are the girls that the awareness should go to,\\\" Okah-Donli said. \", \"With more people partnering with NAPTIP and raising awareness of the dangers of trafficking, sex trafficking will be minimized in Nigeria, she said. \"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/23/africa/asequals-nigeria-rape-sexual-violence-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"She's on the frontline of a rape epidemic. The pandemic has made her work more dangerous\", \"description\": null, \"date\": \"2020-06-23T09:00:49Z\", \"author\": \"Bukola Adebayo\", \"text\": [\"CNN is committed to covering gender inequality wherever it occurs in the world. This story is part of As Equals, an ongoing series.\", \" \", \"Lagos, Nigeria --\", \" At the start of each day, Dr. Anita Kemi DaSilva-Ibru and her team put on gloves, facemasks and other personal protective equipment to see their patients.\", \"They're not treating people for Covid-19, but they are on the frontline of the pandemic, working at the Women at Risk International Foundation (WARIF), a rape crisis center in Lagos, Nigeria.\", \"Wearing protective gear is the new reality for crisis center workers, like DaSilva-Ibru.\", \"\\\"We change these kits each time we see a survivor as we are mindful of the risk of transmission of the virus between the survivor and us and the cross-contamination between a survivor and the next,\\\" she told CNN.\", \"US-trained gynecologist DaSilva-Ibru has spent most of her career treating hundreds of sexual violence victims but it was the growing scale of the crisis in Nigeria that prompted her to set up WARIF in 2016.\", \"Read More\", \"The clinic in Yaba, a suburb of Lagos, provides medical treatment, legal assistance therapy and space for rape victims and survivors of sexual abuse to get back on their feet.\", \"One in four Nigerian girls \", \"has been the victim of sexual violence, according to UN estimates but DaSilva-Ibru says the numbers are higher as many cases go unreported due to the stigma attached.\", \"In recent weeks, two high profile cases of gender-based violence have brought Nigerian women out onto the streets demanding change.\", \"Uwaila Vera Omozuwa, a 22-year-old microbiology student, was \", \"found half-naked in a pool of blood\", \" in a local church where she had gone to study after the Covid-19 lockdown left universities across the country shut. \", \"\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote {\\n position: relative;\\n color: #262626;\\n margin: 25px auto;\\n padding: 10px 0 14px 0;\\n width: 100%;\\n max-width: 660px;\\n border-left: 0;\\n text-align: center;\\n}\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote:before, .cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote:after {\\n position: absolute;\\n content: '';\\n width: 50px;\\n height: 2px;\\n left: 50%;\\n transform: translateX(-50%);\\n -webkit-transform: translateX(-50%);\\n background-color: #262626;\\n}\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote:before {\\n top: 0;\\n}\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote:after {\\n bottom: -2px;\\n}\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote {\\n position: relative;\\n margin: 0;\\n text-align: center;\\n font-size: 35px;\\n font-weight: 700;\\n word-spacing: -1px;\\n line-height: 1.15;\\n padding: 24px 10px 22px 10px;\\n margin-bottom: 24px;\\n}\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote-cite {\\n margin: 0;\\n text-align: center;\\n font-size: 12px;\\n font-weight: 200;\\n color: #262626;\\n line-height: 1.15;\\n padding: 0 10px;\\n display: inline-block;\\n}\\n@media only screen and (min-width: 768px)  {\\n .cnnix-golf__pullquote {\\n  margin: 50px auto;\\n }\\n .cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote {\\n  font-size: 35px;\\n }\\n} \\n\", \"\\n \", \"\\n \", \"\\\"Rape is an epidemic in this country.\\\"\", \"\\n \", \" Dr. Anita Kemi DaSilva-Ibru, Women at Risk International Foundation\", \"\\n \", \"Her family said her attackers raped her and the student died while being treated at the hospital. A few days later, another student, Barakat Bello, was allegedly raped and killed during a robbery at her home,\", \" according to human rights group Amnesty International.\", \"\\\"Rape is an epidemic in this country,\\\" DaSilva-Ibru told CNN.\", \"She says her work with survivors of sexual violence has become more critical during the outbreak, with restrictions to curb the virus from spreading fueling a surge in calls. \", \"It's a story echoed in other parts of the region, as authorities grapple with a growing number of Covid-19 cases and the impact restrictions are having on women.\", \"Related: A transport ban in Uganda means women are trapped at home with their abusers\", \"DaSilva-Ibru said she initially closed the center after authorities locked down the city in March, she had to reconsider the decision as the organization became inundated with SOS messages from sexual violence victims and their guardians.\", \"Staff operating the 24-hour helpline at the center also reported a 64% increase in calls during this period, according to DaSilva-Ibru. \", \"\\\"Our phones were ringing. Women were calling and desperately asking how we can help them, these were women in fear of their lives, as many have now been forced into quarantine with their abusers, in an already volatile environment,\\\" DaSilva-Ibru told CNN.\", \"For the center to re-open, DaSilva-Ibru said she had to source PPE, face masks and other protective gear personally and when that was not enough, the center launched an online appeal for funds from donors to buy the equipment at no cost to survivors, she said. \", \"\\\"We carry out forensic examinations on survivors and our frontline health workers who triage and examine patients are in close proximity to the survivors. As much as we need to carry out our duties, we also need to ensure our workers are adequately protected,\\\" DaSilva-Ibru told CNN.\", \"The challenges Ibru faces to keep the center open, doesn't compare to what sexual violence victims have experienced as a result of this pandemic, she said.\", \"DaSilva-Ibru recalls a woman who told staff at the center that her male friend had raped her in her home during the lockdown.\", \"Dr. Anita Kemi DaSilva-Ibru. \", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"Dr. Anita Kemi DaSilva-Ibru. \\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"Dr. Anita Kemi DaSilva-Ibru. \\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200618151608-02-dr-kemi-dasilva-ibru-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"\\\"The first day we re-opened, we attended to women who had walked many miles in spite of the mandatory lockdown to get to the center. These are women who had been terrorized in their homes,\\\" she added.\", \"\\\"She (a survivor) had repeatedly been calling (the center) to find out how she could get help. She feared she might have contracted HIV and wanted to be tested,\\\" Ibru said. \", \"Speaking to CNN, the woman, who didn't want to use her name to protect her identity, said a co-worker raped her after he came to her apartment unannounced in April. \", \"The young banker said she had previously rebuffed his attempts to visit, but on that Sunday afternoon in April, he showed up at her doorstep.\", \"\\\"He's a friend, not a stranger, so I opened the door for him. I was still asking him what was so urgent that made him leave his home. He said he wanted to check up on me and I told him he could have done that over the phone,\\\" she told CNN.\", \"But a few minutes into his visit, the conversation became uncomfortable between them.\", \"\\\"He kept coming towards me, and when I told him to stop, he put his hand over my mouth and pinned me on the floor,\\\" she said.\", \"She says he apologized after raping her and hurriedly left her house.\", \"The survivor told CNN she did not make a police complaint because she was worried about the stigma and strain that the rape might have on her parents.  \", \"A friend she confided in told her to reach out to the \", \"Lagos Domestic and Sexual Violence Response Team\", \" who put survivors in touch with treatment centers for help.\", \"After several calls to the centers on their website, she was referred to \", \"WARIF\", \".\", \"When she went to the clinic, she says staff ran some tests and placed her on Post Exposure Prophylaxis, a HIV prevention treatment for possible exposure.\", \"\\\"Sometimes I get really angry, and sometimes I feel numb,\\\" she said, reflecting on the assault.\", \"She says she was sick every night for 28 days because of the drugs.\", \"\\\"...even though the doctor prepared me for the side effect, it has not been easy,\\\" she told CNN. \", \"Gender-based violence is a problem in many countries, but the coronavirus pandemic has worsened the situation.\", \"The \", \"UN says\", \" the raft of measures deployed by governments to fight the pandemic have led to economic hardship, stress, and fear -- conditions that lead to violence against women and girls. \", \"Equality Now Regional Coordinator in Africa Judy Gitau told CNN that the wave of unemployment and school closures has put victims in a precarious situation.\", \"She recalls a similar situation in Sierra Leone \", \"during the 2014 Ebola outbreak\", \" when\", \" teenage pregnancies spiked\", \" in the country\", \"The government enforced strict stay-at-home orders that closed businesses and schools across the West African nation to curb the spread of the virus, she said.\", \"The restrictions made schoolgirls vulnerable to abuse as some were assaulted in their homes by relatives, and at the same time, a majority of girls from low-income families were coerced to exchange sex for money for food, Gitau said. \", \"\\\"Many of them wound up pregnant but the evidence became available when people were plugging back to life as they knew it as a normal society,\\\" she said.\", \"Gitau says authorities must know that perpetrators often take advantage of the strict measures to abuse victims without arousing much suspicion.\", \"As state resources are being re-focused to tackle the spread of coronavirus, law enforcement agencies should also respond quickly to reports of abuse and create shelters for victims in need of immediate rescue, she said.\", \"But placing women in shelters, especially in countries battling an outbreak, comes with the additional burden of proof, according to DaSilva-Ibru who said shelters in Lagos city are asking survivors to take coronavirus tests before they can be admitted to prevent infection in their facilities.\", \"\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote {\\n position: relative;\\n color: #262626;\\n margin: 25px auto;\\n padding: 10px 0 14px 0;\\n width: 100%;\\n max-width: 660px;\\n border-left: 0;\\n text-align: center;\\n}\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote:before, .cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote:after {\\n position: absolute;\\n content: '';\\n width: 50px;\\n height: 2px;\\n left: 50%;\\n transform: translateX(-50%);\\n -webkit-transform: translateX(-50%);\\n background-color: #262626;\\n}\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote:before {\\n top: 0;\\n}\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote:after {\\n bottom: -2px;\\n}\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote {\\n position: relative;\\n margin: 0;\\n text-align: center;\\n font-size: 35px;\\n font-weight: 700;\\n word-spacing: -1px;\\n line-height: 1.15;\\n padding: 24px 10px 22px 10px;\\n margin-bottom: 24px;\\n}\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote-cite {\\n margin: 0;\\n text-align: center;\\n font-size: 12px;\\n font-weight: 200;\\n color: #262626;\\n line-height: 1.15;\\n padding: 0 10px;\\n display: inline-block;\\n}\\n@media only screen and (min-width: 768px)  {\\n .cnnix-golf__pullquote {\\n  margin: 50px auto;\\n }\\n .cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote {\\n  font-size: 35px;\\n }\\n} \\n\", \"\\n \", \"\\n \", \"\\\"Violence against women and girls is one of the most pervasive forms of a human rights violation and should be recognized by all countries.\\\"\", \"\\n \", \" Dr. Anita Kemi DaSilva-Ibru, Women at Risk International Foundation\", \"\\n \", \"Authorities in Lagos designated gender-based violence services essential in May as it eased lockdown into curfews to allow service providers to get to work more smoothly, DaSilva-Ibru said. \", \"The police force says it has now deployed more officers to its stations across the country to respond to the \\\"increasing challenges of sexual assaults and domestic/gender-based violence linked with the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic.\\\" And last week, governors across the country resolved to declare \", \"a state of emergency on rape\", \", according to the Nigerian Governor's Forum (NGF).\", \"Related: Nigerian women are taking to the streets in protests against rape and sexual violence\", \"It's the first time federal and state authorities are coming out with a united voice to condemn gender violence, DaSilva-Ibru said and it validates the outcry of women in the country and the scale of the problem in Nigeria, she added.\", \"\\\"Violence against women and girls is one of the most pervasive forms of a human rights violation and should be recognized by all countries,\\\" DaSilva-Ibru said.\", \"\\\"In Nigeria, it has become a national crisis that needs urgent attention. I am pleased that this has been recognized.\\\"\", \"\\n  window.cnnAsEqualsConfig = window.cnnAsEqualsConfig || {};\\n  window.cnnAsEqualsConfig.theme = 'black';\\n\", \"\\n\", \"Click here for more stories from the As Equals series.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/20/africa/nigeria-fashion-tiffany-amber-coronavirus-ppe-spc-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"Nigerian fashion label Tiffany Amber swaps couture for PPE\", \"description\": \"Company founder Folake Akindele Coker pivoted her fashion label into PPE production after she realized that a prolonged lockdown in Nigeria would impact consumer sales.\", \"date\": \"2020-07-21T01:21:46Z\", \"author\": \"Daniel Renjifo\", \"text\": [\" (CNN)\", \"These days, things look a little different when Folake Akindele Coker gets to her office. \\\"I arrive at 9am, all geared (up) for this invisible enemy,\\\" she says. The 45-year-old designer and founder of Nigerian fashion label Tiffany Amber now starts each day with a 10-minute safety talk for her production team, \\\"who at first did not seem to understand the gravity and the potential of being infected by the (Covid-19) virus.\\\"\", \"Coker founded \", \"Tiffany Amber\", \" in 1998, and it's now considered one of Nigeria's most influential fashion and lifestyle brands.\", \"In early March, the number of colorful prints and couture runway garments that normally littered the factory floor dissipated, and the company's sewing machines began stitching hospital scrubs, gowns, stretcher sheets and non-medical face masks. Less than a month after the pandemic reached Africa, Tiffany Amber's entire factory refocused to produce personal protective equipment (PPE), something Coker notes took immense pressure to turn around. \", \"The colorful garments of the Tiffany Amber fashion line, seen here during Arise Fashion week in 2019, have since been replaced in production by PPE to help during the pandemic.\", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"The colorful garments of the Tiffany Amber fashion line, seen here during Arise Fashion week in 2019, have since been replaced in production by PPE to help during the pandemic.\\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"Tiffany Amber Nigeria fashion runway\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200715102210-tiffany-amber-fashion-nigeria-restricted-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"To make the shift, Coker says the company first had to secure more than 15 tons of raw materials including approximately 90,000 yards of fabric, 300,000 yards of elastic, and almost a million yards of thread. All of this happened, she says, right before borders closed in Nigeria and prices spiked due to the unforeseen demand for materials.\", \"See more stories from Marketplace Africa\", \"Read More\", \"As of mid-July, the World Health Organization shows Nigeria as having\", \" more than 30,000\", \" total confirmed cases of coronavirus, the second-most on the continent behind South Africa.\", \"As Covid-19 cases rose and consumer spending fell, Coker saw an opportunity for her business to stay open -- and to help out. \\\"Our expertise in garment production helped facilitate this shift to bridge the gap in the supply of medical apparel,\\\" she tells CNN.\", \"A Tiffany Amber employee sorts ready-to-ship gowns for healthcare workers.\", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"A Tiffany Amber employee sorts ready-to-ship gowns for healthcare workers.\\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"A Tiffany Amber employee sorts ready-to-ship gowns for healthcare workers.\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200626121436-tiffany-amber-ppe-production-gowns-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"The push for PPE\", \"This pivot has been a trend in the private sector worldwide, as companies around the globe have \", \"switched gears to supply the growing demand for PPE\", \".\", \"According to the World Bank, Covid-19 has pushed sub-Saharan Africa into its \", \"first recession in 25 years\", \", greatly impacting the continent's biggest revenue drivers such as energy, agriculture and manufacturing. \", \"Read more: Across Africa, the pandemic reveals both inequality and innovation\", \"Globally, the \", \"luxury market is also expected to shrink \", \"as much as 35% this year, as consumer spending sharply declines mainly due to job loss, according to consulting firm Bain and Co.\", \"Tiffany Amber employees wearing masks, and making masks.\", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"Tiffany Amber employees wearing masks, and making masks.\\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"Tiffany Amber employees wearing masks, and making masks.\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200626120613-tiffany-amber-production-ppe-employees-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"Efforts to make and source \", \"PPE in Nigeria\", \" have primarily relied on private corporations\", \" \", \"working hand in hand with suppliers. In an attempt to stay solvent, Coker says Tiffany Amber is working with partners in the financial sector to fund and distribute the PPE products.\", \"By early June, she notes, the fashion label had made approximately 500,000 cloth masks, 20,000 sets of sheets and pillowcases, 10,000 scrubs, 15,000 patient gowns and close to 5,000 surgical gowns.\", \"Alcohol ban has South African distilleries pivoting to a new product\", \"In Tiffany Amber's case, shifting to PPE production has had an unlikely silver lining: job creation. Since March, Coker says her company has actually managed to grow from 100 employees to a staff of 300.\", \"At the time of writing, Coker does not anticipate returning to regular Tiffany Amber fashion production in the near future. But even as her company responds to the current reality, she keeps planning for when that day will come. \\\"One mind is thinking about tomorrow morning and the other mind is processing the next two years,\\\" says Coker. \\\"Subconsciously, I find myself drifting away, putting together the next Tiffany Amber collection.\\\"\", \"CNN's Lamide Akintobi contributed to this report\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/26/africa/gambia-migration-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"He almost died migrating to Europe. Now he is warning other Gambians about it\", \"description\": \"Mustapha Sallah and Youth Against Irregular Migration are raising awareness in The Gambia about the dangers of migrating to Europe through irregular means.\", \"date\": \"2020-08-26T14:16:23Z\", \"author\": \"Aisha Salaudeen\", \"text\": [\" (CNN)\", \"Mustapha Sallah was in trouble.\", \"He had hoped to be in Europe by now, pursuing his dreams of studying computer science and making a better life for himself.\", \"Instead, he was sitting in a Libyan detention center, having been detained in Tripoli by the Libyan Coast Guard.\", \"\\\"We were kept in rooms with little ventilation and no toilets. We would sit for days without taking baths. It was like hell,\\\" Sallah told CNN.\", \"He added that officers at the detention center often assaulted them by \\\"beating us for the slightest things like refusing to sleep.\\\"\", \"Read More\", \"It was January 2017, and the 25-year-old Gambian had taken a gamble, risking his life in search of a better one in Europe. But no one had warned him of the dangers ahead.\", \"If and when he got out of the detention center, he vowed to help others make a more informed decision.\", \"Migrating to Europe\", \"Sallah grew up in Serekunda, southwest of The Gambia's capital city, Banjul. He said he worked hard in school to earn a scholarship so that his mother could retire from her job selling vegetables in the market.\", \"In 2016, he thought he'd have that chance when he earned a scholarship to study computer science in Taiwan. \\\"But there was no Taiwan embassy in Gambia, so I had to go to the closest one in Abuja, Nigeria,\\\" he explained.\", \"After borrowing money from his sister to travel to Nigeria, he said he spent three months there before his visa application was denied. Three years earlier, then-president of The Gambia, Yahya Jammeh, had cut diplomatic ties with Taiwan for what he called \\\"national strategic interest.\\\"\", \"At least 58 people killed as boat carrying migrants sinks off Mauritania coast\", \"\\\"I didn't know what to do: stay in Nigeria, or go to any other African country. At the end of the day, I got the mind of migrating (to Europe) because I know several people who took the journey and made it there,\\\" Sallah explained.\", \"With a population of \", \"2.3 million people\", \", The Gambia is among the smallest countries in Africa. But despite its small size, migration is a fairly common practice and plays a key role in the country's economy.\", \"According to the International Organization for Migration (IOM), overseas remittances for an average of 90,000 Gambians who live abroad make up \", \"more than 20% of the country's GDP\", \". \", \"48% of Gambians\", \" live in poverty, and many people find themselves looking outside the country for opportunities to improve their lives. \", \"But some people leave the country without proper documentation or without crossing an official border point. Between 2014 and 2018, the IOM estimates \", \"more than 35,000 \", \"Gambians reached Europe through \\\"irregular means.\\\"\", \"\\\"There's a tradition of mobility in Gambia. It's a long history of people using migration as a means of life, and of getting their income. Many of the returnees we have worked with claim they took the journey for economic reasons,\\\" Etienne Micallef, the IOM's program manager in The Gambia told CNN.\", \"\\\"They have the perception that if they migrate with the final destination as Europe, they will get a much better income to sustain themselves and their families back home,\\\" he added. \", \"How the Kenyan consulate in Lebanon became feared by the women it was meant to help\", \"But it comes at a high risk. Globally, at least \", \"33,687 migrant deaths and disappearances\", \" were recorded between January 2014 and October 2019, according to IOM -- with nearly half occurring on the route between Northern Africa and Italy. \", \"Sallah, who said he wanted an education that would allow him to find a job to support his family, reiterated that no one warned him how incredibly dangerous the journey would be.\", \"After his visa to study in Taiwan was rejected, he said he got on a bus heading north to Agadez, a city in Niger. \\\"I didn't even know the area -- I just kept asking people around what the best or possible way to reach Niger was.\\\"\", \"From there, he managed to travel to Libya. \\\"You have to pay smugglers who drive pickup trucks to put you at the back of their trucks to get to Libya and then to Europe. I spent a month with my cousin in Libya before heading in another pickup truck for Tripoli,\\\" he told CNN.\", \"His journey to Tripoli was treacherous, he said, telling CNN he was detained and extorted multiple times by armed bandits. \", \"Sallah said he was close to death from starvation and even witnessed a gun battle between armed bandits and smugglers: \\\"The man that was smuggling us told us that if we want to stay in Tripoli, we must get used to gunshots,\\\" he said. \", \"But it all came to an abrupt halt in January 2017, when he was arrested by the Libyan Coast Guard in Tripoli.\", \" Detention Center\", \"Libya is a primary transit point along the central Mediterranean route. People who get stuck there are often detained by the Libyan Coast Guard, responsible for patrolling coastal waters to prevent smuggling and trafficking.  \", \"Sallah said he was kept in a detention center in Tripoli with migrants from different West African countries for nearly four months under poor conditions.\", \"Migrants describe being tortured and raped on perilous journey to Libya\", \"There are\", \" 11 detention centers\", \" for migrants run by the U.N.-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) in Libya. Some \", \"2,362\", \" detainees are held at these facilities on any given day, according to the Global Detention Project. \", \"Human Rights Watch\", \" (HRW) and \", \"Amnesty International\", \" have criticized the conditions at these detention centers; both groups signed onto a statement released in April that urged EU member states and institutions to review their policy on migrants and cooperation with Libya. \", \"The policy, the statement says, has allowed for the \", \"\\\"arbitrary detention and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment\\\"\", \" of migrants and refugees.\", \"While in detention, Sallah met a fellow Gambian who suggested they set up the non-profit organization \", \"Youth Against Irregular Migration\", \" (YAIM) to warn others back home about the risks of irregular migration.\", \"\\\"I went around the detention center gathering details of all the Gambians I could find,\\\" estimating he registered 171 people to join the organization. \\\"We agreed that if we made it out of there, we would start an association to make people aware of how problematic the journey to Europe is,\\\" he said.\", \"Youth Against Irregular Migration\", \"In April 2017, as part of its mandate to return and reintegrate migrants stranded or detained in their transit countries, IOM facilitated the return of Sallah and many others within the detention center back to The Gambia. \", \"That same year, IOM received funding from the EU worth\", \" 3.9 million euros\", \" (about $4.6 million) over the course of three years, to expand its operations in The Gambia.\", \"Since then, according to Micallef, IOM has repatriated more than 5,000 people to the West African nation.\", \"He added that when returnees arrive at the airport or land border, they are met by IOM staff who arrange for temporary shelter, counseling, and medical support for those who need it.\", \"Weeks after returning to The Gambia, Sallah said he met with some members of YAIM who signed up in the detention center. \", \"\\\"We met almost every week after arriving in Gambia,\\\" he explained. \\\"It was difficult for us financially at the start but many of us had the support of our families.\\\"\", \"YAIM members speak to community members about the dangers of irregular migration.\", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"YAIM members speak to community members about the dangers of irregular migration.\\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"YAIM members speak to community members about the dangers of irregular migration.\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200819175004-03-gambia-migration-intl-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"He added that even though many of them struggled to make a living at the start and had to pick up menial jobs around town to survive, being around other members gave them a renewed sense of hope.\", \"Being safe at home, he said, was a better option than the dangerous journey to Europe.\", \"\\\"We bonded by sharing our stories with each other as a way to work through the trauma,\\\" Sallah said. \\\"We made sure to be there for each other.\\\"\", \"Community awareness\", \"Through YAIM, the returnees began campaigns around irregular migration in The Gambia, warning others about the perils of journeying to Europe. \", \"Tombong Kuyateh, a returnee and YAIM member, told CNN that the association visits schools to share experiences with students who may be thinking about migrating.\", \"\\\"We share our personal stories with them. We show them examples of victims who were injured or affected during the journey to prevent them from experiencing the same,\\\" he said.\", \"The 27-year-old added that a lot of people listen to them because they have first-hand experience of what it's like to attempt that trip.\", \"Members of YAIM take to the streets of Banjul, The Gambia, during one of their public campaigns.\", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"Members of YAIM take to the streets of Banjul, The Gambia, during one of their public campaigns.\\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"Members of YAIM take to the streets of Banjul, The Gambia, during one of their public campaigns.\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200819175001-04-gambia-migration-intl-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"By crowdfunding and partnering with local and international groups for support, YAIM is also able to visit small communities across the country for campaigns against irregular migration, Kuyateh said.\", \"Miko Alazas, the IOM communications officer based in The Gambia, told CNN that the organization sometimes partners with returnee associations like YAIM to get people access to the right information, in order to make better migration-related choices.\", \"\\\"We work a lot with returnees because many of them are passionate about sharing their experiences in terms of exploitation and abuse -- so they are at the forefront of a lot of campaigns to raise awareness on irregular migration,\\\" he said.\", \"Now 29, Sallah travels around his home country, visiting radio stations and communities to talk about his harrowing experience. He believes in the power of storytelling to educate others about migration.\", \"\\\"I always tell them about the difficulties,\\\" he said. \\\"Some people lost their lives on the journey. I was part of those who ended up in detention. Every time you are on that journey, you are close to death.\\\"\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/24/africa/kenya-maasai-warriors-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"Kenya's Maasai gather for once-in-a-decade ceremony to turn warriors into elders\", \"description\": \"Thousands of Maasai men clad in red and purple shawls and with their heads coated in red ocher gathered this week for a ceremony that transforms them from Moran (warriors) to Mzee (elders).\", \"date\": \"2020-09-24T14:41:25Z\", \"author\": \"Story by Reuters \", \"text\": [\"Maparasha Hills, Kenya\", \"Thousands of Maasai men clad in red and purple shawls and with their heads coated in red ocher gathered this week for a ceremony that transforms them from Moran (warriors) to Mzee (elders).\", \"Around 15,000 men from all over Kenya and neighboring Tanzania congregated in Maparasha Hills in Kajiado County, 128 kilometers from Nairobi, to feast on an estimated 3,000 bulls and 30,000 goats and sheep.\", \"The ceremony occurs once every decade at the site, which is surrounded by hills and dotted with acacia trees.\", \"On Wednesday, the men roasted the meat on beds of coal from acacia trees, holding staffs and swords.\", \"\\\"I used to be a Moran, But after this ceremony, I now graduate to be a Mzee (elder),\\\" Stephen Seriamu Sarbabi, a 34-year-old livestock trader, told Reuters.\", \"Read More\", \"\\\"I will now be having a lot of responsibilities in the community. I will be chairing some different meetings, I will be consulted,\\\" he added.\", \"The arrival of coronavirus in March forced a postponement of the ceremony, which was meant to have been held earlier in the year.\", \"\\\"My role here in this ceremony, is to come and bless my boys to graduate, to another stage of being wazees (elders), and to give them their privileges,\\\" Moses Lepunyo ole Purkei, a farmer, community health volunteer and elder, told Reuters.\", \"During the ceremony, the men were accompanied by their wives, who also wore colorful shawls and beads around their necks and sang songs praising and encouraging the incoming group of elders.\", \"There are about 1.2 million Maasai living in Kenya, according to the government statistics office.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/12/us/ray-hushpuppi-alleged-money-laundering-trnd/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"He flaunted private jets and luxury cars on Instagram. Feds used his posts to link him to alleged cyber crimes \", \"description\": \"A federal affidavit alleged his extravagant lifestyle was financed through hacking schemes that stole millions of dollars from major companies in the United States and Europe. \", \"date\": \"2020-07-12T04:04:56Z\", \"author\": \"Faith Karimi\", \"text\": [\" (CNN)\", \"Ramon Abbas flaunted \", \"a lavish lifestyle of private jets, designer clothes\", \" and luxury cars. \", \"To his \", \"2.5 million Instagram followers,\", \" he went by Ray Hushpuppi, a man who boarded helicopters from his Dubai waterfront apartment and walked around with shopping bags from Gucci, Versace and Fendi.  \", \"On social media, where he posted a video of himself tossing wads of cash like confetti, he told his followers he was a real estate developer. But a federal affidavit alleged his extravagant lifestyle was financed through hacking schemes that\", \" stole millions of dollars \", \"from major companies in the United States and Europe. \", \"His flamboyant posts left a digital trail of evidence that investigators used to link him to the crimes, the affidavit shows. \", \"Last month, United Arab Emirates investigators swooped into his Dubai apartment, arrested him and handed him over to FBI agents, who flew him to Chicago on July 2, federal officials said. \", \"Read More\", \"In the coming weeks, he'll be transferred to Los Angeles -- where the affidavit was filed -- to face accusations of conspiring to launder hundreds of millions of dollars through cyber crime schemes.  \", \"Ramon Abbas allegedly  conspired to launder millions of dollars.\", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"Ramon Abbas allegedly  conspired to launder millions of dollars.\\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"Ramon Abbas allegedly  conspired to launder millions of dollars.\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200703180555-01-nigerian-man-charged-money-laundering-conspiracy-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"$41 million and 13 luxury cars seized  \", \"The Nigerian national lived at the exclusive Palazzo Versace in Dubai, and led a global network that used computer intrusions, business email compromise schemes and money laundering to steal hundreds of millions of dollars from companies, federal prosecutors allege. \", \"He worked with multiple co-conspirators and was arrested along with 11 others. Investigators seized nearly $41 million, 13 luxury cars worth $6.8 million, and phone and computer evidence, \", \"Dubai Police\", \" said in a statement. They uncovered email addresses of nearly 2 million possible victims on phones, computers and hard drives, Dubai authorities said. \", \"\\\"This case targets a key player in a large, transnational conspiracy who was living an opulent lifestyle in another country while allegedly providing safe havens for stolen money around the world,\\\" US Attorney Nick Hanna said in a statement. \", \"Abbas' attorney, Gal Pissetzky, declined to get into details on how his client earns his money. But what he does for a living is going to be \\\"one of the main points of contention here,\\\" he told CNN\", \".\", \"Pissetzky called his client's arrest a kidnapping, saying Dubai handed him to the United States with \\\"no legal proceedings whatsoever.\\\" Abbas has not been formally indicted, and the government has 30 days to indict him, his attorney said Thursday.  \", \"His birthday post helped track him down\", \"Abbas made no secret of his opulent lifestyle and remarkable wealth. On Snapchat, he called himself the \\\"Billionaire Gucci Master.\\\" \", \"\\\"Started out my day having sushi down at Nobu in Monte Carlo, Monaco, then decided to book a helicopter to have ... facials at the Christian Dior spa in Paris then ended my day having champagne in Gucci,\\\" he \", \"posted on Instagram\", \". \", \"Photos of him displaying multiple models of Bentley, Ferrari, Mercedes and Rolls Royce cars included the hashtag #AllMine. Others show him rubbing elbows with international sports stars and other celebrities. \", \"In the affidavit, federal officials detailed how his social media accounts provided a treasure trove of information to confirm his identity. His Instagram, for example, had an email and phone number saved for account security purposes. Federal officials got that information and linked that email and phone number to financial transactions and transfers with people the FBI believed were his co-conspirators. \", \"\\\"The email account ... also contained emails with attachments relating to wire transfers in large dollar values,\\\" the affidavit said.\", \"His Apple and Snapchat records also provided information that helped investigators confirm his identity, address and communications with other suspects. Even his Instagram birthday celebration photos provided key information. \", \"One \", \"post displayed a birthday cake\", \" topped with a Fendi logo and a miniature image of him surrounded by tiny shopping bags. Investigators used that post to verify his date of birth on a previous US visa application. \", \"Ramon Abbas told his 2.5 million Instagram followers that he's in real estate.\", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"Ramon Abbas told his 2.5 million Instagram followers that he&#39;s in real estate.\\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"Ramon Abbas told his 2.5 million Instagram followers that he&#39;s in real estate.\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200703180655-03-nigerian-man-charged-money-laundering-conspiracy-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"Companies targeted spanned two continents \", \"His alleged cyber crimes involved jaw-dropping amounts of money.\", \"Federal documents detailed how a paralegal at a New York law firm wired nearly $923,000 meant for a client's real estate refinancing to a bank account controlled by Abbas and his co-conspirators. The paralegal had received fraudulent wire instructions after sending an email to what appeared to be a bank email address but was later identified as a \\\"spoofed\\\" email address, the affidavit said.    \", \"Abbas sent a co-conspirator an image of the wire transfer confirmation for the transaction, according to the affidavit.\", \" \", \"He\", \" \", \"and an unnamed person also conspired to launder $14.7 million from a foreign financial institution last year, according to a criminal complaint.\", \"During that alleged cyber crime, Abbas sent a co-conspirator the account information for a Romanian bank account, which he said could be used for \\\"large amounts.\\\" In other alleged schemes, he also provided Dubai bank accounts that can be used to deposit money from victims in the United States, the affidavit said. \", \"He's also accused of conspiring to try to steal $124 million from an unnamed English Premier League soccer club. But it's unclear whether the attempt was successful.\", \"FBI recorded $1.7 billion in losses from such scams\", \"Business email compromise schemes are sophisticated scams that involve a hacker redirecting business email account communications to try and intercept wire transfers. \", \"\\\"BEC schemes are one of the most difficult cyber crimes we encounter as they typically involve a coordinated group of con artists scattered around the world who have experience with computer hacking and exploiting the international financial system,\\\"  Hanna said. \", \"Last year alone, the FBI recorded $1.7 billion in losses by companies and individuals victimized through business email compromise scams, according to Paul Delacourt of the FBI field office in Los Angeles. \", \"If convicted of money laundering, Abbas faces up to 20 years in prison. His bond hearing is set for Monday. \", \"His transfer to Los Angeles has been complicated by logistics linked to coronavirus, his attorney said. \", \"CNN's Laurie Ure and Steve Almasy contributed to this report.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/25/africa/hauwa-ojeifo-mental-health-nigeria/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"She was diagnosed with a mental health disorder. Now she is helping others work through theirs\\n\", \"description\": \"Mental health advocate Hauwa Ojeifo is one of the 2020 winner of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Changemaker award \", \"date\": \"2020-09-25T13:54:42Z\", \"author\": \"Aisha Salaudeen\", \"text\": [\"Lagos, Nigeria (CNN)\", \"In February of 2016, \", \"Hauwa Ojeifo \", \"considered taking her own life. 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CNN&#39;s Stephanie Busari reports.\\\",\\\"thumbnailURL\\\": \\\"https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/181213143041-nigeria-suicide-prison-africa-large-169.jpg\\\",\\\"image\\\": \\\"https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/181213143041-nigeria-suicide-prison-africa-large-169.jpg\\\",\\\"duration\\\": \\\"PT3M\\\",\\\"uploadDate\\\": \\\"2018-12-31T13:03:29Z\\\",\\\"contentUrl\\\": \\\"https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2018/12/30/imprisoned-suicide-illegal-nigeria-busari-pkg.cnn\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2018/12/30/imprisoned-suicide-illegal-nigeria-busari-pkg.cnn\\\",\\\"embedUrl\\\": \\\"https://fave.api.cnn.io/v1/fav/?video=world/2018/12/30/imprisoned-suicide-illegal-nigeria-busari-pkg.cnn&customer=cnn&edition=domestic&env=prod\\\"}\", \"Locked up where suicide is still a crime\", \" \", \"02:59\", \"She added that she was sexually abused in 2014 and did not know how to express being raped by a trusted partner to the people around her. \", \"Read More\", \"Her experiences, she said, piled up till she eventually snapped and started nursing suicidal notions. \", \"\\\"Trying to explain what was going on in my head was difficult. I looked fine physically, but it started to affect me mentally. I could go a day without being able to construct sentences, and I was a research analyst at the time which meant I had to write daily reports but I couldn't,\\\" she said. \", \"After expressing her suicidal thoughts to a friend, she was encouraged to see a psychiatrist at a psychiatric hospital in Lagos, one of Nigeria's largest cities. \", \"She was diagnosed with Bipolar and post traumatic stress disorder with mild psychosis. \\\"I poured out my heart, got some tests done and eventually got a diagnosis.\\\"\", \"Creating awareness \", \"Two months after Ojeifo's diagnosis, she said she decided to turn her difficult experiences around. She started to create awareness on the far-reaching impacts of mental health in Nigeria. \", \"In April 2016, she created\", \" She Writes Woman\", \", a non-profit organization focused on providing mental health support for those who may need it in the west African nation. \", \"There is minimal mental health awareness and there are not enough mental health professionals in Nigeria. \", \"In a country of more than \", \"200 million\", \" people, there are only 250 practicing psychiatrists, according to the\", \" Association of Psychiatrists of Nigeria. \", \"Ojeifo told CNN that She Writes Woman started as a blog but she realized she could do more with it, \\\"At first, I was just using it as an outlet to share my experiences and that of other women,\\\" she explained. \", \"Eventually, it morphed into a support community for people with mental health conditions. \", \"The 28-year-old got trained as a mental health coach so that she could start a helpline to talk to people experiencing overwhelming mental health symptoms.\", \"\\\"From sharing stories on the blog and social media, She Writes Woman blew up into a helpline which was run by me for a while, and then to a support group for people in vulnerable conditions,\\\" she said. \", \"24-hour mental health helpline\", \"She Writes Woman provides a\", \" 24-hour mental health helpline\", \" for anyone within Nigeria.\", \"The helpline serves as a first point of contact for people in distress or those who just want to talk about their mental health and symptoms. \", \"\\\"People call the helpline to get what we call a first-aid treatment. On the call you don't get immediate professional counseling, what happens is you get a first response communication where someone listens to you and what you have to say,\\\" Ojeifo explained.\", \"She added that after the first responders, callers can be referred to mental health professionals for therapy or a diagnosis if needed, \\\"depending on what the issue is we que people in to either a therapist or a psychiatrist.\\\"\", \"Data on mental health in Nigeria is hard to find, but according to a 2016 report in the Annals of Nigerian Medicine journal, an estimated\", \" 20-30% \", \"of the country's population is suffering from mental disorders.\", \"And in 2017, a World Health Organization report found that Nigerians have the highest incidences of depression in Africa, with \", \"more than 7 million people \", \"in the country suffering from depression.\", \"Despite the numbers, there is an absence of \", \"effective mental health legislation\", \" setting standards for psychiatric treatment or encouraging mental health awareness in the country. \", \"In February, following deliberations by legislators to pass a proposed mental health bill, Ojeifo became the first person to testify before the Nigerian parliament on the rights of persons with mental health conditions in the country.\", \"var id = '//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js'.replace(/\\\\s+/g, '');!!document.getElementById(id) || (function makeEmbedScript(d, id) {var js,fjs;js = d.createElement('script');js.id = id;js.charset = 'utf-8';js.setAttribute('async', '');js.src = '//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js';fjs = d.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];window.WM.UserConsent.addScriptElement(js, [\\\"vendor\\\",\\\"measure-ads\\\"], fjs);}(document, id));\", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" View this post on Instagram\", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \"We are so proud of our founder @hauwa_ojeifo for the great milestone achieved today. . She graciously spoke before the Senate at the public hearing of the #mentalhealth bill earlier today on behalf of all persons living with mental health conditions. . If you were there, you'd have been so proud. Word on the street is that this is the first time a person with a mental health condition is speaking before the Senate. . Go Hauwa!!\\ud83d\\udc83\\ud83c\\udffd . Want to know more about the mental health bill? Check out our stories to make your suggestions.\", \" \", \"A post shared by \", \" SWW | Mental Health in Nigeria\", \" (@shewriteswoman) on \", \"Feb 17, 2020 at 10:46am PST\", \"\\n\", \"The bill has yet to be implemented. \", \"To close the mental health gap in Nigeria, Ojeifo's organization also offers a support group for women and girls called \", \"Safe Place\", \" in six Nigerian states. \", \"\\\"Safe Space provides a community of shared experiences for women and girls. It provides a space for women to connect and share their experiences on whatever topic, to be there for one another and understand that they are not alone in their journeys,\\\" she explained, estimating that there have been over 50 meetings of the support group since the inception of the organization.\", \"In the beginning, Ojeifo, a former investment banker,  self-funded the organization. \", \"But now, with donations and grants from organizations such as One Young World, Airtel Nigeria and Disability Rights Advocacy Fund, it is able to expand and carry out more activities in Nigeria's mental health space.\", \"In 2018, the activist received a\", \" Queen's Young Leaders Award\", \" in in recognition of her work with the 24-hour mental health helpline and Safe Space support group. \", \"Changemaker Award Winner \", \"On Tuesday, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation named Ojeifo as its\", \" Changemaker Award winner for 2020\", \" for her work with She Writes Woman. \", \"The Changemaker Award is one of the Goalkeepers Global Goals Awards pushed yearly by the foundation. It celebrates individuals who have inspired change from a position of leadership or using their personal experience. \", \"In a statement released Tuesday, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation said it recognized the activist for her work in promoting\", \" Gender Equality\", \", the fifth global goal for sustainable development prescribed by the United Nations. \", \"These Africans are among the world's 100 most influential people, according to Time magazine\", \"Ojeifo said that she was in \\\"disbelief\\\" when she first received the email alerting her that she was a recipient of the award. \", \"\\\"It was so unexpected and it came as a surprise because I was not expecting it. It's like an added validation to the work She Writes Woman does,\\\" she said. \", \"\\\"During one of the meetings with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation I asked them how I was selected because I was just so blown away. I was told that it was because I had used my personal experience to build hope for people and to drive change,\\\" she added. \", \"Through the 2020 Changemaker Award, Ojeifo is hoping to gather a network that will help amplify the work She Writes Woman does even more. \", \"\\\"The Changemaker award means I am part of this network that is dedicated to amplifying my cause and giving me visibility,\\\" she said.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/18/africa/kenyan-comic-sensation-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"This chip-eating Kenyan comic is keeping Africans entertained on social media \", \"description\": \"Kenyan teenager, Elsa Majimbo is making viral monolgues on social media \", \"date\": \"2020-08-18T11:06:18Z\", \"author\": \"Aisha Salaudeen\", \"text\": [\" (CNN)\", \"Elsa Majimbo is taking over social media by providing comic relief on Instagram and Twitter amid the \", \"Covid-19 pandemic\", \". \", \"The Kenyan comic, whose relatable monologues often go viral, films from her home in Nairobi, the country's capital city. \", \"Majimbo first went viral after posting a video in March when initial restrictions such as intermittent lockdowns, border controls, and closure of schools and restaurants were\", \" imposed by the Kenyan government\", \" to curb the spread of Covid-19.\", \"In the video, the 19-year-old talked about being in isolation at the time and wanting to be left alone.\", \"var id = '//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js'.replace(/\\\\s+/g, '');!!document.getElementById(id) || (function makeEmbedScript(d, id) {var js,fjs;js = d.createElement('script');js.id = id;js.charset = 'utf-8';js.setAttribute('async', '');js.src = '//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js';fjs = d.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];window.WM.UserConsent.addScriptElement(js, [\\\"vendor\\\",\\\"measure-ads\\\"], fjs);}(document, id));\", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" View this post on Instagram\", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \"'Sending love,sending hugs,sending kisses'. Kama Hautumi Mpesa don't waste my time\", \" \", \"A post shared by \", \" Elsa Mpho Majimbo\", \" (@majimb.o) on \", \"Mar 30, 2020 at 10:20am PDT\", \"\\n\", \"\\\"Ever since corona started, we've all been in isolation, and I like, miss no one,\\\" she said, laughing and eating potato-based crunchy chips\", \" in the video\", \". \", \"Read More\", \"\\\"Why am I missing you? There is no reason for me to miss you... do I pay your rent? Do I provide food for you? Why are you missing me?\\\" she added, still laughing. \", \"The quirky humor in the video earned Majimbo many reshares and more than 250,000 views from users across the continent, including South Africa, Kenya and Nigeria. \", \"She told CNN she did not expect the video to get as much attention as it did, but many people related to it. \", \"Gentlemen, start your wheelbarrows! Meet the Nigerian kids ingeniously remaking famous videos with household objects\", \"\\\"It was the time we had just gotten to lockdown, and everyone was telling me they missed me, and I literally like being away from people, so I thought to myself, 'Let me make a video about that,'\\\" she said. \", \"\\\"I did not expect all the attention, but it happened, and I am glad it did.\\\"\", \"Since going viral, Majimbo has made more videos combining dry humor and criticism around the subject matters she decides to film about. \", \"Many of the videos have more than 250,000 views on Instagram and an average of 50,000 views on Twitter.  \", \"Some of the videos have also been featured on American owned cable channel, \", \"Comedy Central\", \". \", \"Eating crunchy chips \", \"Majimbo often incorporates eating crunchy chips, which has become one of her signature moves, to emphasize her points in her monologues.\", \"\\\"In the first video that trended, I ate chips. A lot of people seemed to like it. There were a lot of comments asking me to do it again. So, I was like, OK whatever, and I did it again,\\\" she told CNN. \", \"The comic sensation additionally wears tiny dark sunglasses as a prop in her videos. Just like crunching on chips, the '90s shades are for emphasizing on points made in her skits, she said. \", \"var id = '//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js'.replace(/\\\\s+/g, '');!!document.getElementById(id) || (function makeEmbedScript(d, id) {var js,fjs;js = d.createElement('script');js.id = id;js.charset = 'utf-8';js.setAttribute('async', '');js.src = '//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js';fjs = d.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];window.WM.UserConsent.addScriptElement(js, [\\\"vendor\\\",\\\"measure-ads\\\"], fjs);}(document, id));\", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" View this post on Instagram\", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \"If I pay for the app I own the abs\", \" \", \"A post shared by \", \" Elsa Mpho Majimbo\", \" (@majimb.o) on \", \"Jun 11, 2020 at 10:10am PDT\", \"\\n\", \"\\\"How do I manage to be this hot? The key to being hot is Photoshop,\\\" she said in \", \"one of her videos\", \" titled \\\"If I pay for the app, I own the abs.\\\"\", \"In the video, Majimbo joked about using Photoshop to look good in pictures, \\\"Why get a six-pack in five months when you can get them in five minutes?\\\" she added, putting on the sunglasses to make her point. \", \"Her videos have received support from \", \"celebrities \", \"like actor Lupita Nyongo and current Miss Universe, Zozibini Tunzi. \", \"Majimbo, who records all her monologues using her iPhone 6, said she does not write her lines down before filming, instead she simply \\\"goes with the flow.\\\"\", \"\\\"The thing I like the most about my videos is that they come to me so easily and so naturally. I could just be sitting and feel like making a video about something, and I do it. Anything that comes to my mind, I record,\\\" she said. \", \"\\\"If I don't have any lines to record. I don't even bother, I just skip it and say no video today,\\\" she added. \", \"'I've been able to find myself in a way I hadn't before'\", \"Since becoming an internet sensation, Majimbo said she partnered with brands such as Canadian cosmetics manufacturer, MAC cosmetics, to create content aimed at promoting their products in fun ways. \", \"The teenager, who is currently a journalism student at Strathmore University in Nairobi, is thinking about a completely different career.\", \"According to her, she is taking the time to explore different and newer options, particularly in entertainment, \\\"I think the career I wanted before is not what I want now. A lot of things have changed, I've been able to find myself in a way I hadn't before.\\\" \", \"She added that she is looking into acting roles and having her own comedy show. \", \"This Nigerian comic is getting a lot of love on TikTok with the 'Don't Leave Me' challenge\", \"But regardless of the career part Majimbo takes, she is already influencing social media users in Africa. \", \"She has been given a South African name \\\"Mpho\\\" by her fans in the country. The name means \\\"gift\\\" in Tswana language spoken in Southern Africa, Botswana, Namibia and Zimbabwe. \", \"Majimbo says she will continue to make relatable and funny monologues but will not be limited to them.\", \"\\\"I don't like setting expectations for my future plans because I don't want to be limited. I am open to exploring and becoming many things in the future.\\\"\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/16/africa/amnesty-mozambique-video-killing-investigation-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"Amnesty International calls for investigation into video showing execution of woman in Mozambique\", \"description\": \"Amnesty International has called for an immediate investigation into the apparent extrajudicial killing of a woman in Mozambique that was shared widely in a horrifying video on social media earlier this week. \", \"date\": \"2020-09-16T17:31:35Z\", \"author\": \"David McKenzie, Brent Swails and Vasco Cotovio\", \"text\": [\" (CNN)\", \"Amnesty International has called for an immediate investigation into the apparent extrajudicial killing of a woman in Mozambique that was shared widely in a horrifying video on social media earlier this week. \", \"In the nearly two-minute-long video, men wearing military uniforms are seen chasing down a naked woman, surrounding and verbally harassing her along a rural road. One of the men repeatedly beats her with a stick before another man shoots her at close range. \", \" \", \"She is then repeatedly shot by the men while lying on the road before one of the men shouts \\\"Stop, stop, enough, it's done.\\\" \", \" \", \"Read More\", \"The video ends as the men turn and walk away, with one of them announcing, \\\"They've killed the al-Shabaab,\\\" the local name given to the growing insurgency in the far north of the country. \", \"It has no known links to the Somali terrorist group of the same name. The uniformed man looks directly into camera and raises his two fingers before the recording stops. \", \" \", \"\\\"The horrendous video is yet another gruesome example of the gross human rights violations taking place in Cabo Delgado by the Mozambican forces,\\\" said Deprose Muchena, Amnesty International's Director for East and Southern Africa.\", \"A young boy was killed by a police stray bullet during a coronavirus curfew. Now his parents want answers\", \" \", \"In its own analysis of the video, the human rights group says that the men were wearing the uniform of the Mozambican military. Amnesty says four different gunmen shot the woman a total of 36 times with AK-47s and PKM-style machine guns. Its investigation concluded that the incident took place near Awasse in the country's northernmost province Cabo Delgado. \", \" \", \"\\\"The incident is consistent with our recent findings of appalling human rights violations and crimes under international law happening in the area,\\\" said Muchena. \", \" \", \"CNN could not independently the authenticity of the video, the date and location it was filmed, nor the identity of the gunmen. \", \" \", \"Mozambique's Minister of Interior Amade Miquidade denied the accusations of atrocities, though did not address the video specifically, on national television Tuesday, saying that insurgents frequently wear army uniforms. \", \" \", \"\\\"When they want to produce their propaganda against the security and defense forces, against the Mozambican state, they remove those signs/characters that identify them and make videos to promote an image of atrocity practiced by those who defend the people,\\\" he said. \", \"Ammonium nitrate that exploded in Beirut bought for mining, Mozambican firm says \", \" \", \"Cabo Delgado is home to a $60 billion natural gas development that is heavily guarded by Mozambican military and private security. \", \" \", \"Loosely aligned with ISIS, the insurgents have undertaken increasingly sophisticated attacks in recent months, overrunning large parts of Mocimba de Praia, a strategic port north of the regional capital Pemba in August. Unlike in previous attacks, government forces have struggled to fully retake the territory. \", \" \", \"The insurgents have been accused by the government and human rights groups of their own violent abuses -- including beheadings, looting, and indiscriminate killing of civilians. \", \" \", \"And the interior minister highlighted those alleged abuses on Tuesday. \", \" \", \"\\\"Once more, our country continues to be the object of aggression by the terrorists, namely in the province of Cabo Delgado, where they've enforced cruel, inhuman, atrocious acts against our population,\\\" said Miquidade.\", \" \", \"Security analysts and human rights workers say that insurgents operating in the area do sometimes wear Mozambican military uniforms. But the uniformed men in the video showing the woman's killing speak Portuguese, generally more common to Mozambicans from the South. \", \"CNN's David McKenzie and Brent Swails reported from Johannesburg and Vasco Cotovio reported from London.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/07/africa/africa-engineering-prize-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"A 26-year-old is first woman to win Royal Academy of Engineering's Africa Prize for innovation\", \"description\": \"A 26-year-old has become the first woman to win the prestigious Royal Academy of Engineering's Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation.\\n\\n\", \"date\": \"2020-09-07T13:54:59Z\", \"author\": \"Aisha Salaudeen\", \"text\": [\" (CNN)\", \"A 26-year-old from Ivory Coast has won the 2020 Royal Academy of Engineering's Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation.\", \"Charlette N'Guessan is the \", \"first woman to win the award\", \", which could revolutionize cyber security and help curb identity fraud on the continent. \", \"N'Guessan and her team won the \\u00a325,000 award (about $33,000) for BACE API, a digital verification system that uses Artificial Intelligence and facial recognition to verify the identities of Africans remotely and in real time.\", \"BACE API works by matching the live photo of a user to the image on their documents such as passports or ID card, N'Guessan said. \", \"For websites and online applications that have BACE API integrated in them, users will be verified via their webcam to establish their  identity. \", \"Read More\", \"\\\"For the person trying to submit their application, we ask them to switch on their camera to make sure the person behind the camera is real, and not a robot. \", \"\\\"We are able to capture the face of the person live and match their image with the one on the existing document the person submitted,\\\" she explained. \", \"BACE API verifies users identities in real time using their phone camera or webcam\", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"BACE API verifies users identities in real time using their phone camera or webcam\\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"BACE API verifies users identities in real time using their phone camera or webcam\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200904115946-restricted-03-africa-engineering-prize-intl-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"BACE API can be integrated into already existing applications and systems for identity verification and is targeted at mostly financial institutions on the continent, N'Guessan told CNN. \", \"N'Guessan and her team won the Africa Prize for Innovation in a virtual award ceremony on September 3 where the Africa Prize judges and a live audience voted in their favor, the Royal Academy of Engineering said in\", \" a statement\", \". \", \"\\\"We are very proud to have Charlette N'Guessan and her team win this award,\\\" said Rebecca Enonchong, an entrepreneur from Cameroon entrepreneur and Africa Prize judge in the statement. \", \"\\\"It is essential to have technologies like facial recognition based on African communities, and we are confident their innovative technology will have far reaching benefits for the continent.\\\"\", \"BACE API matches a user's live photo with the image on their official documents to verify their identity. \", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"BACE API matches a user&#39;s live photo with the image on their official documents to verify their identity. \\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"BACE API matches a user&#39;s live photo with the image on their official documents to verify their identity. \\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200904115800-restricted-02-africa-engineering-prize-intl-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"Curbing identity fraud\", \"N'Guessan, who is the CEO and co-founder of Ghana-based software company, \", \"BACE Group\", \", told CNN that the idea came about while she was studying at the \", \"Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology\", \" (MEST) in Accra, Ghana's capital city. \", \"While there, she worked with a team of four and it was during one of their research projects in 2018 they decided to create BACE API, and later a software company. \", \"\\\"We ... talked to tech entrepreneurs. That's when we noticed that there is a huge problem with cyber security with online services and businesses,\\\" she said.\", \"N'Guessan said their research found that many financial institutions in the west African country deal with identity fraud, estimating that they spend up to $400 million dollars yearly to identify their customers. \", \"\\\"We decided to make our contribution as software engineers and data scientists by building a solution that can be useful for this market,\\\" N'Guessan added. \", \"Before the winner was announced on September 3, N'Guessan and other entrepreneurs shortlisted for the Africa Prize received eight months of training from experts across the world and her team was paired with an AI specialist who helped with improvements to their system. \", \" An African woman in tech\", \"N'Guessan's interest in technology started at a young age. Growing up in Ivory Coast, west Africa, she was encouraged to focus on science and technology subjects by her father, a mathematics professor.  \", \"\\\"He inspired my choice for studying STEM. I was actually really good in science-related courses. After high school, I went on to study software engineering at university,\\\" she said. \", \"Now running her own technology company, she told CNN that winning the Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation has helped to boost her confidence as a CEO leading a technical team of men.\", \"The Academy was founded in 1976 and has been running the award to reward engineering innovation in Africa since 2014. \", \"Globally, the technology industry is growing, but women led startups are in short supply with\", \" only 22%\", \" founded by at least one woman, according to a report in Disrupt Africa.\", \"This 9-year-old has built more than 30 mobile games\", \"Data specific to Africa is hard to come by but some studies suggest that \", \"only 9% of startups\", \" on the continent have women founders. \", \"N'Guessan says she hopes that her achievement will motivate more women to consider careers in tech. \", \"\\\"I will be happy if people are inspired by my story, being the first woman to win the Africa Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation and by my work as a woman in tech,\\\" she said. \"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/16/africa/blasphemy-nigeria-boy-sentenced-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"Outrage as Nigeria sentences 13-year-old boy to 10 years in prison for blasphemy\", \"description\": \"Child rights agency UNICEF has condemned the sentencing of a 13-year-old boy to 10 years in prison for blasphemy in northern Nigeria. \", \"date\": \"2020-09-16T14:09:33Z\", \"author\": \"Stephanie Busari and Eoin McSweeney\", \"text\": [\" (CNN)\", \"Child rights agency UNICEF has condemned the sentencing of a 13-year-old boy to 10 years in prison for blasphemy in northern Nigeria. \", \"Omar Farouq was convicted in a Sharia court in Kano State in northwest Nigeria after he was accused of using foul language toward Allah in an argument with a friend. \", \"He was sentenced on August 10 by the same court that recently sentenced a studio assistant Yahaya Sharif-Aminu to death for blaspheming Prophet Mohammed, according to lawyers. \", \"Farouq's punishment is in violation of the African Charter of the Rights and Welfare of a Child and the Nigerian constitution, said his counsel Kola Alapinni, who told CNN they filed an appeal on his behalf on September 7. \", \"Farouq was tried as an adult because he has attained puberty and has full responsibility under Islamic law. \", \"Read More\", \"Alapinni told CNN he or other lawyers working on the case have not been granted access to Farouq by authorities in Kano State. \", \"He said he found out about Farouq's case by chance when working on the case of Sharif-Aminu, who was sentenced to death for blasphemy at the Kano Upper Sharia Court. \", \"\\\"We found out they were convicted on the same day, by the same judge, in the same court, for blasphemy and we found out no one was talking about Omar, so we had to move quickly to file an appeal for him,\\\" he said. \", \"\\\"Blasphemy is not recognized by Nigerian law. It is inconsistent with the constitution of Nigeria.\\\"\", \" \", \" .m-infographic--1600276717888 { background: url(//cdn.cnn.com/cnn/.e/interactive/html5-video-media/2020/09/16/20201609_kano_state_map_375px.jpg) no-repeat 0 0 transparent; margin-bottom: 30px; padding-top: 111.4513981358189%; width: 100%; -moz-background-size: cover; -o-background-size: cover; -webkit-background-size: cover; background-size: cover; } @media (min-width: 640px) { .m-infographic--1600276717888{ background-image: url(//cdn.cnn.com/cnn/.e/interactive/html5-video-media/2020/09/16/20201609_kano_state_map_780px.jpg); padding-top: 84.2948717948718%; } } @media (min-width: 1120px) { .m-infographic--1600276717888{ background-image: url(//cdn.cnn.com/cnn/.e/interactive/html5-video-media/2020/09/16/20201609_kano_state_map_780px.jpg); padding-top: 84.2948717948718%; } } \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \"The lawyer said Farouq's mother had fled to a neighboring town after mobs descended on their home following his arrest. \", \"\\\"Everyone here is scared to speak and living under fear of reprisal attacks,\\\" he said. \", \"UNICEF Wednesday issued a statement \\\"expressing deep concern\\\" about the sentencing. \", \"\\\"The sentencing of this child -- 13-year-old Omar Farouq -- to 10 years in prison with menial labour is wrong,\\\" said Peter Hawkins, UNICEF representative in Nigeria. \\\"It also negates all core underlying principles of child rights and child justice that Nigeria -- and by implication, Kano State -- has signed on to.\\\" \", \"Kano State, like most predominantly Muslim states in Nigeria, practices Sharia law alongside secular law. \", \"Islam Fast Facts\", \"CNN contacted a spokesman for the Kano State governor for comment but had not heard back before publication. \", \"UNICEF has called on the Nigerian government and the Kano State government to urgently review the case and reverse the sentence, the organization said in a statement. \", \"\\\"This case further underlines the urgent need to accelerate the enactment of the Kano State Child Protection Bill so as to ensure that all children under 18, including Omar Farouq are protected -- and that all children in Kano are treated in accordance with child rights standards,\\\" Hawkins said.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/18/africa/disney-partners-with-nollywood/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"Disney partners with Nollywood to bring American movies to English-speaking West Africa\", \"description\": \"FilmOne Entertainment is now the sole distributor of Disney titles in English speaking West Africa\", \"date\": \"2020-09-18T12:02:13Z\", \"author\": \"Aisha Salaudeen\", \"text\": [\"Lagos, Nigeria (CNN)\", \"Disney, is joining forces with a Nigerian production and distribution company to market some of the American entertainment conglomerate's new releases such as \\\"Mulan\\\" in English-speaking West Africa.\", \"The deal makes FilmOne Entertainment the sole distributors of Disney-owned films in Nigeria, Ghana, and Liberia. \", \"\\\"It is a major career highlight, that we're able to get the world's biggest movie studio as a partner,\\\" Moses Babatope, a director at FilmOne, told CNN. \", \"Bollywood and Nollywood collide in a tale of a big fat Indian-Nigerian wedding\", \"FilmOne Entertainment has been at the forefront of growing Nigeria's cinema culture and has built cinemas across the country, including IMAX screens.\", \"The firm has also distributed and produced \", \"Nigerian box office hits \", \"such as \\\"The Wedding Party,\\\" and \\\"New Money.'\\\"\", \"Read More\", \"\\\"What the deal means is that we are exclusive marketers and distributors of Disney titles in the English-speaking West African countries that have studio licensed cinemas. We will distribute the films to all those cinemas in the territory,\\\" he explained. \", \"The agreement, which commenced this month, covers titles from all Disney studio divisions including Pixar, Marvel Studios, Walt Disney Pictures, and Blue Sky pictures. \", \"\\\"With their in-depth knowledge of the region and expertise in bringing theatrical releases to fans, we are thrilled to welcome FilmOne as our distribution partner for this territory,\\\" Disney Africa's country manager, Christine Service said in a statement. \", \"Bigger opportunities\", \"Film analysts in the country say this deal may convince investors and film producers to look further into the African movie industry. \", \"\\\"This deal is huge because it means that Disney is paying attention. Their presence can open doors for movie collaborations,\\\" said Shola Thompson, a Nigeria-based film consultant.\", \"Thompson added that distributing Disney movies is a pathway to getting the best content to cinemas, which can improve the cinema-going culture in the region as well as increase their potential earnings.\", \"As a result of restrictions following the Covid-19 pandemic, many cinemas in West Africa are not operating at full capacity. But FilmOne Entertainment says it is working on improving the cinema experience as a way of encouraging people to show up when all restrictions have been lifted.\", \"Netflix partners with Nigerian filmmaker in new major deal \", \"\\\"We will let people know that they enjoy films better when they watch with other people. To say that the experience out of home is very different,\\\" Babatope said. \", \"\\\"We will communicate that cinemas are safe in our communications to audiences. We will document what the cinemas are doing regarding incorporating safety procedures,\\\" he added. \", \"Disney's deal is not the first time a multinational entertainment company is partnering with film companies in West Africa.\", \"In 2019, FilmOne Entertainment signed a deal with Chinese media giant Huahua to co-produce the first \", \"major China-Nigeria film. \", \"In the same year, French Media giant,\", \" Canal+ acquired leading Nollywood film studio, ROK film studios\", \" to create more hours of Nigerian content for its French-speaking audience.\", \"Independence key to collaboration\", \"Thompson who is also a film analyst says the growing influence of entertainment companies like Disney on the continent may create room for greater Hollywood influence in Africa, without a corresponding influence of African film content in Hollywood.\", \"\\\"We need to be a bit careful to make sure we don't lose creative control of our stories. With more multinationals looking into Africa for partnerships, we don't want to find ourselves stuck with them dictating what we start to produce,\\\" he said. \", \"\\\"At the same time, we can still be glad that they are paying attention as that means growth for our film industry,\\\" he added. \", \"As FilmOne Entertainment prepares to start distributing Disney content, Babatope says the partnership is an opportunity that can lead to future collaborations involving largely African content. \", \"\\\"It's true that a lot of the content we will be distributing are from other parts of the world but if we are able to demonstrate that we are accountable and transparent, then there will be room to attract future investments involving content from this region.\\\"\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/23/africa/china-ethiopia-test-kits-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"China's BGI wins 1.5 million coronavirus test kit order from Ethiopia\", \"description\": \"Ethiopia has agreed to purchase 1.5 million coronavirus testing kits that will be manufactured at a factory in the African country that has been newly built by China's BGI Group, China's state media agency Xinhua said late on Tuesday.\", \"date\": \"2020-09-23T11:22:20Z\", \"author\": \"Story by Reuters\", \"text\": [\"Beijing \", \"Ethiopia has agreed to purchase 1.5 million coronavirus testing kits that will be manufactured at a factory in the African country that has been newly built by China's BGI Group, China's state media agency Xinhua said late on Tuesday.\", \"The BGI factory, the first coronavirus test production facility in Ethiopia that opened earlier this month, is designed to be able to make 6-8 million tests in a year and can expand the annual capacity to up to 10 million in accordance with local demand, Xinhua reported.\", \"BGI, which makes genome sequencing and medical devices, is hoping to use its footprint in Ethiopia in expanding its supplies to other African countries, Xinhua quoted a BGI official as saying in a separate report on Wednesday.\", \"BGI did not immediately respond to a request for comment.\", \"BGI Group's unit BGI Genomics had said it supplied over 35 million coronavirus testing kits overseas and built 58 labs in 18 countries as of June 30.\", \"Read More\", \"The Ethiopia factory could be later converted to make test kits for HIV, malaria and tuberculosis once the Covid-19 pandemic ends, Xinhua said.\", \"Ethiopia, one of the countries that has the most new daily infections on average in Africa, has reported 69,709 infections and 1,108 coronavirus-related deaths since the pandemic began.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/29/health/who-rapid-test-kits-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"WHO announces Covid-19 rapid tests for low and middle income countries\", \"description\": \"The World Health Organization has announced an agreement to make rapid Covid-19 tests available to lower and middle-income countries across the world.\", \"date\": \"2020-09-29T14:08:02Z\", \"author\": \"Amanda Watts \", \"text\": [\" (CNN)\", \"The World Health Organization has announced an agreement to make rapid Covid-19 tests available to lower and middle-income countries across the world.\", \"Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO director-general said, \\\"a substantial proportion of these rapid tests - 120 million - will be made available to low and middle-income countries. These tests provide reliable results in approximately 15 to 30 minutes, rather than hours or days, at a lower price, with less sophisticated equipment.\\\" \", \" \", \"Tedros said during a Monday news conference that these \\\"vital\\\" tests will help expand testing in remote areas, \\\"that do not have lab facilities or enough trained health workers to carry out PCR tests.\\\" \", \" \", \"Read More\", \"He added: \\\"High-quality rapid tests show us where the virus is hiding, which is key to quickly tracing and isolating contacts and breaking the chains of transmission. The tests are a critical tool for governments as they look to reopen economies and ultimately save both lives and livelihoods.\\\"\", \"Coronavirus has killed 1 million people worldwide. Experts fear the toll may double before a vaccine is ready\", \"The first orders are expected already to be placed this week and it will be rolled out in up to 20 countries in Africa starting in October. \", \"Peter Sands, executive director of the Global Fund said the tests are hugely valuable as a complement to PCR tests but warned that they are not \\\"a silver bullet.\\\" \", \" \", \"\\\"Although they're a bit less accurate - they're much faster, cheaper, and don't require a lab,\\\" he explained. \\\"Being able to deploy quality antigen RDTs, rapid diagnostic tests, will be a significant step forward in enabling countries to contain and combat Covid-19,\\\" Sands added. \", \"The PCR test is the most widespread and most accurate diagnostic test for determining whether someone is currently infected with coronavirus.  However, the tests requires specialized supplies, expensive instruments, and the expertise of trained lab technicians. which has led to shortages and a testing gap globally. \", \"Read related: \", \"https://edition.cnn.com/2020/04/28/us/coronavirus-testing-pcr-antigen-antibody/index.html\", \"This $5 rapid test is a potential game-changer in Covid testing\", \" \", \"Sands said these tests will help low and middle-income countries to \\\"close the dramatic gap in testing between rich and poor countries.\\\" \", \" \", \"\\\"Right now, high-income countries are conducting 292 tests per day per 100,000 people. For upper-middle-income countries, that number is 77. For lower-middle-income countries, 61, and from low-income countries, 14,\\\" Sands said, though he did not expand on where that data originates. \", \" \", \"Dr. John Nkengasong, director of the Africa CDC, welcomed the development as it would allow \\\"healthcare workers to quickly isolate cases and treat them while tracing their contacts to cut the transmission chain.\\\"\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/29/africa/togo-female-prime-minister-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"Togo names first female Prime Minister\", \"description\": \"President's former chief-of-staff Victoire Tomegah Dogbe, 60, has become the first female prime minister of Togo, a tiny West African nation of about eight million people.\", \"date\": \"2020-09-29T18:09:26Z\", \"author\": \"Orji Sunday\", \"text\": [\" (CNN)\", \"Togo's President Faure Gnassingbe has appointed the country's first female prime minister.\", \"Victoire Tomegah Dogbe, 60, became the first female prime minister of the tiny West African nation of about eight million people.\", \" \", \"Dogbe, whose appointment was confirmed by President Faure Gnassingbe on Monday, replaces Komi Selom Klassou, who resigned as prime minister on Friday, a position he held since 2015.\", \" \", \"Read More\", \"Dogbe is well known and respected in Togo, having served in several positions under Gnassingbe's government in the past decade, including working as his chief-of-staff, director of the cabinet of the President of the Republic and more recently as Minister for youth and grassroots development, according to local media reports.\", \"Ethiopia appoints its first female president \", \" \", \"Prior to joining politics, she worked with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) according to information from the agency. \", \" \", \"Her appointment comes after an expected cabinet reshuffle, which was delayed by the country's fight against coronavirus pandemic, following the controversial re-election of Gnassingbe, \", \"who has ruled Togo since 2005\", \". \", \"He took power from his father who, before his death,  ruled Togo for 38 years, dating back to a 1967 coup. \", \"Despite a \", \"series of protests between 2017 -- 2019\", \" calling for an end to a single family rule in Togo, Gnassingbe forced a constitutional reform in 2019 that allowed him to run for an election which he won easily in February 2020. His current tenure runs till 2025.  \", \"Faure must go: How one Togolese woman is risking her life to end the 50-year Gnassingb\\u00e9 dynasty\", \"The 56-year-old leader has seen growing opposition, following slowed economic growth, accusations of electoral fraud, \", \"corruption and human rights violations.\", \" \", \"Dogbe's has vast experience in governance and administration which is well positioned to help the country achieve a long-expected economic boom which has eluded the country since independence in 1960.\", \" \", \"Dogbe has been deeply involved in the country's fight against youth unemployment and poverty, introducing reforms that have been praised as a local success in her country, according to \", \"Togo-First, an online publication\", \" in the country. \", \" \", \"As the parliament awaits Dogbe's policy plan, observers are keen to see what economic difference her reforms can make in a country where half its population live below the poverty line, according to a \", \"2014 report by the International Monetary Fund\", \". \"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/30/africa/zimbabwe-elephant-disease-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"Zimbabwe suspects bacterial disease behind elephant deaths\", \"description\": \"Zimbabwe suspects a bacterial disease called hemorrhagic septicemia is behind the recent deaths of more than 30 elephants but is doing further tests to make sure, the parks authority said.\", \"date\": \"2020-09-30T14:48:29Z\", \"author\": \"Story by Reuters\", \"text\": [\"Zimbabwe suspects a bacterial disease called hemorrhagic septicemia is behind the recent deaths of more than 30 elephants but is doing further tests to make sure, the parks authority said.\", \"The elephant deaths, which began in late August, come soon after hundreds of elephants died in neighboring Botswana in mysterious circumstances.\", \"Officials in Botswana were initially at a loss to explain the elephant deaths there but have since blamed toxins produced by another type of bacterium.\", \"Toxins in water blamed for deaths of hundreds of elephants in Botswana \", \"Experts say Botswana and Zimbabwe could be home to roughly half of the continent's 400,000 elephants, often targeted by poachers.\", \"Elephants in Botswana and parts of Zimbabwe are at historically high levels, but elsewhere on the continent -- especially in forested areas -- many populations are severely depleted, said Chris Thouless, head of research at Save the Elephants.\", \"Read More\", \"\\\"Higher populations equal greater risk from infectious diseases,\\\" Thouless told Reuters, adding that climate change could put pressure on elephant populations as water supplies diminish and temperatures rise, potentially increasing the probability of pathogen outbreaks.\", \"Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority Director-General Fulton Mangwanya told a parliamentary committee on Monday that so far 34 dead elephants had been counted.\", \"\\\"It is unlikely that this disease alone will have any serious overall impact on the survival of the elephant population,\\\" he said. \\\"The northwest regions of Zimbabwe have an over-abundance of elephants and this outbreak of disease is probably a manifestation of that ... particularly in the hot, dry season elephants are stressed by competition for water and food resources.\\\"\", \"Postmortems on some of the dead elephants showed inflamed livers and other organs, Mangwanya said. The elephants were found lying on their stomachs, suggesting a sudden death.\", \"Vernon Booth, a Zimbabwe-based wildlife management consultant, told Reuters it was difficult to put a number on Zimbabwe's current elephant population. He estimated it could be close to 90,000, up from 82,000 in 2014 when the last national survey was conducted, assuming that roughly 2,000-3,000 have died each year from all causes.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/30/politics/esper-africa-trip/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"US Defense Secretary visits Africa for first time seeking to push back on Russia and China\", \"description\": \"US Secretary of Defense Mark Esper made his first visit to Africa Wednesday, a trip aimed in part at pushing back on Russian and Chinese influence in the region.\", \"date\": \"2020-09-30T16:14:06Z\", \"author\": \"Ryan Browne\", \"text\": [\"Malta (CNN)\", \"US Secretary of Defense \", \"Mark Esper \", \"made his first visit to Africa Wednesday, a trip aimed in part at pushing back on Russian and Chinese influence in the region.\", \"Esper arrived in Tunisia to meet with top officials, including the country's president, Kais Saied, and to lay a wreath and give a speech at a World War II cemetery to honor US service members who fell during the North African campaign.\", \"The trip was not announced until after Esper departed the country.\", \"Tunisia which has been touted as the sole democratic success story to come out of the 2011 \\\"Arab Spring,\\\" was designated \\\"a major-non NATO ally of the United States\\\" in 2015 and has partnered with the US on counterterrorism efforts aimed at ISIS-linked groups.\", \"As Trump refuses to commit to a peaceful transition, Pentagon stresses it will play no role in the election\", \"During a meeting at the Tunisian Defense Ministry, Esper and his counterpart signed a \\\"ten-year Roadmap of Defense Cooperation.\\\"\", \"Read More\", \"\\\"The United States will continue to deepen our alliances and partnerships across the continent, including with Tunisia, where your democratic government and sovereignty have made much of our work in the region possible,\\\" Esper said during his speech at the North Africa American cemetery and memorial in Carthage.\", \"\\\"We look forward to expanding this relationship to help Tunisia protect its maritime ports and land borders, deter terrorism, and keep the corrosive efforts of autocratic regimes out of your country,\\\" he added.\", \"The US has worked to help Tunisia secure its border with Libya which has been beset by civil war and recently deployed 40 American military advisers to the country, part of a the Army's Security Force Assistance Brigade, in order to aid Tunisia's fight against terrorist groups which have carried out high profile attacks in the country since 2011.\", \"The US is also Tunisia's largest supplier of weapons, providing nearly 50% of all arms imports from 2015 to 2019 according to the Center for International Policy and in February the Trump Administration approved the sale of four AT-6C Wolverine light attack aircraft to Tunisia, an arms package estimated to cost $325.8 million.\", \"While in North Africa, Esper is seeking to push back on Russian and Chinese activity in the region, according to defense officials.\", \"\\\"Today, our strategic competitors China and Russia continue to intimidate and coerce their neighbors while expanding their authoritarian influence worldwide, including on this continent,\\\" Esper said.\", \"The US has accused China of seeking to expand its influence in the region via predatory loans and the US military has accused Moscow of deploying Russian mercenaries and fighter jets to bolster Libyan Gen. Khalifa Haftar, the commander of the self-styled Libyan National Army, one of the belligerents in that country's civil war.\", \"China is doubling down on its territorial claims and that's causing conflict across Asia\", \"\\\"Together we continue to counter the malign, coercive, and predatory behavior of Beijing and Moscow, meant to undermine African institutions, erode national sovereignty, create instability, and exploit resources throughout the region,\\\" Esper said.\", \"Esper also visited the island republic of Malta Tuesday, becoming the first US defense secretary to visit there since President Richard Nixon's Secretary of Defense Mel Laird visited in 1970, just six years after the country became independent of the UK.\", \"While in Malta, Esper on Wednesday met with the country's Prime Minister Robert Abela and President George Vella.\", \"While Malta's military is small, totaling some 2,000 personnel, it sits in a strategic location off the coast of North Africa and possesses a significant port and was until the 1970s was the site of a major UK Royal Navy installation.\", \"A senior defense official told CNN that Esper planned to discuss maritime security with Maltese officials, a major issue given the country's proximity to shipping and smuggling lanes connecting Europe to North Africa. \"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/01/world/covid-girls-child-marriage-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"Half a million more girls are at risk of child marriage in 2020 because of Covid-19, charity warns\", \"description\": \"The pandemic has put 500,000 more girls at risk of being forced into child marriage this year, reversing 25 years of progress that saw child marriage rates decline, according to a new report by the charity Save the Children.\", \"date\": \"2020-10-01T12:59:25Z\", \"author\": \"Tara John\", \"text\": [\"London (CNN)\", \"The pandemic has put 500,000 more girls at risk of being forced into child marriage this year, reversing \", \"25 years of progress\", \" that saw child marriage rates decline, according to a new report by the charity Save the Children.\", \"Before the global outbreak, 12 million girls married each year, now the charity warns that up to 2.5 million more girls could be at risk of \", \"child marriage\", \" over the next five years.  \", \"How saying 'I do' can help millions of girls to say 'I don't'\", \"With up to 117 million children estimated to fall into poverty in 2020, many will face pressure to work and help provide for their families.\", \"\\\"The pandemic means more families are being pushed into poverty, forcing many girls to work to support their families, to go without food, to become the main caregivers for sick family members, and to drop out of school -- with far less of a chance than boys of ever returning,\\\" Inger Ashing, CEO of Save the Children International, \", \"said in a press release\", \".\", \"The pandemic led to school closures and \\\"experience during the Ebola outbreak suggests many girls will never return\\\" to class due \\\"to increasing pressure to work, risk of child marriage, bans on pregnant girls attending school, and lost contact with education,\\\" the charity wrote.\", \"Read More\", \"A girl gets married every 2 seconds somewhere in the world\", \"This year, 191,200 girls in South Asia will be disproportionately affected by the risk of increased child marriage, the report says. It is followed by West and Central Africa, where 90,000 girls are at risk of child marriage, Latin America and the Caribbean (73,400), and Europe and Central Asia (37,200).  \", \"Girls affected by humanitarian crises, such as wars, floods and earthquakes, face the greatest risk of child marriage, the report notes. Before the pandemic, data showed child marriage was increasing among refugee populations. In Lebanon, child marriage among Syrian refugee girls rose by 7% between 2017 and 2018.\", \"\\\"Every year, around 12 million girls are married, 2 million before their 15th birthday,\\\" Ashing said. \\\"Half a million more girls are now at risk of this gender-based violence this year alone -- and these only are the ones we know about. We believe this is the tip of the iceberg.\\\"\"]}\n]"
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    "path": "03_03_b/news_scraper/news_scraper/spiders/yahoo.py",
    "content": "# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-\nimport json\nfrom news_scraper.items import NewsArticle\nfrom scrapy.spiders import CrawlSpider, Rule\nfrom scrapy.linkextractors import LinkExtractor\n\nclass YahooSpider(CrawlSpider):\n    name = 'yahoo'\n    allowed_domains = ['news.yahoo.com']\n    start_urls = ['http://news.yahoo.com/']\n    rules = [Rule(LinkExtractor(allow=r'\\/[a-zA-Z\\-]+-[0-9]+.html'), callback='parse_item', follow=True)]\n\n    def parse_item(self, response):\n        article = NewsArticle()\n        article['url'] = response.url\n        article['source'] = 'Yahoo News'\n\n        \n        jsonData = json.loads(response.xpath('//article[@role=\"article\"]/script[@type=\"application/ld+json\"]/text()').get())\n\n        article['title'] = jsonData['headline']\n        article['description'] = jsonData['description']\n        article['date'] = jsonData['datePublished']\n        article['author'] = jsonData['author']['name']\n        article['text'] = response.xpath('//div[@class=\"caas-body\"]/p/text()').getall()\n        return article\n"
  },
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    "path": "03_03_b/news_scraper/scrapy.cfg",
    "content": "# Automatically created by: scrapy startproject\n#\n# For more information about the [deploy] section see:\n# https://scrapyd.readthedocs.io/en/latest/deploy.html\n\n[settings]\ndefault = news_scraper.settings\n\n[deploy]\n#url = http://localhost:6800/\nproject = news_scraper\n"
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    "path": "03_03_e/news_scraper/news_scraper/__init__.py",
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  },
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    "path": "03_03_e/news_scraper/news_scraper/items.py",
    "content": "# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-\n\n# Define here the models for your scraped items\n#\n# See documentation in:\n# https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/items.html\n\nimport scrapy\n\n\nclass NewsArticle(scrapy.Item):\n    url = scrapy.Field()\n    source = scrapy.Field()\n    title = scrapy.Field()\n    description = scrapy.Field()\n    date = scrapy.Field()\n    author = scrapy.Field()\n    text = scrapy.Field()\n"
  },
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    "path": "03_03_e/news_scraper/news_scraper/middlewares.py",
    "content": "# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-\n\n# Define here the models for your spider middleware\n#\n# See documentation in:\n# https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/spider-middleware.html\n\nfrom scrapy import signals\n\n\nclass NewsScraperSpiderMiddleware:\n    # Not all methods need to be defined. If a method is not defined,\n    # scrapy acts as if the spider middleware does not modify the\n    # passed objects.\n\n    @classmethod\n    def from_crawler(cls, crawler):\n        # This method is used by Scrapy to create your spiders.\n        s = cls()\n        crawler.signals.connect(s.spider_opened, signal=signals.spider_opened)\n        return s\n\n    def process_spider_input(self, response, spider):\n        # Called for each response that goes through the spider\n        # middleware and into the spider.\n\n        # Should return None or raise an exception.\n        return None\n\n    def process_spider_output(self, response, result, spider):\n        # Called with the results returned from the Spider, after\n        # it has processed the response.\n\n        # Must return an iterable of Request, dict or Item objects.\n        for i in result:\n            yield i\n\n    def process_spider_exception(self, response, exception, spider):\n        # Called when a spider or process_spider_input() method\n        # (from other spider middleware) raises an exception.\n\n        # Should return either None or an iterable of Request, dict\n        # or Item objects.\n        pass\n\n    def process_start_requests(self, start_requests, spider):\n        # Called with the start requests of the spider, and works\n        # similarly to the process_spider_output() method, except\n        # that it doesn’t have a response associated.\n\n        # Must return only requests (not items).\n        for r in start_requests:\n            yield r\n\n    def spider_opened(self, spider):\n        spider.logger.info('Spider opened: %s' % spider.name)\n\n\nclass NewsScraperDownloaderMiddleware:\n    # Not all methods need to be defined. If a method is not defined,\n    # scrapy acts as if the downloader middleware does not modify the\n    # passed objects.\n\n    @classmethod\n    def from_crawler(cls, crawler):\n        # This method is used by Scrapy to create your spiders.\n        s = cls()\n        crawler.signals.connect(s.spider_opened, signal=signals.spider_opened)\n        return s\n\n    def process_request(self, request, spider):\n        # Called for each request that goes through the downloader\n        # middleware.\n\n        # Must either:\n        # - return None: continue processing this request\n        # - or return a Response object\n        # - or return a Request object\n        # - or raise IgnoreRequest: process_exception() methods of\n        #   installed downloader middleware will be called\n        return None\n\n    def process_response(self, request, response, spider):\n        # Called with the response returned from the downloader.\n\n        # Must either;\n        # - return a Response object\n        # - return a Request object\n        # - or raise IgnoreRequest\n        return response\n\n    def process_exception(self, request, exception, spider):\n        # Called when a download handler or a process_request()\n        # (from other downloader middleware) raises an exception.\n\n        # Must either:\n        # - return None: continue processing this exception\n        # - return a Response object: stops process_exception() chain\n        # - return a Request object: stops process_exception() chain\n        pass\n\n    def spider_opened(self, spider):\n        spider.logger.info('Spider opened: %s' % spider.name)\n"
  },
  {
    "path": "03_03_e/news_scraper/news_scraper/pipelines.py",
    "content": "# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-\nfrom datetime import datetime\n\nclass NewsScraperPipeline:\n    def process_item(self, item, spider):\n        item.date = datetime.strptime(item.date.split('T')[0], '%Y-%B-%D')\n        item.author = item.author.replace(', CNN', '')\n        item.text = [text.strip() for text in item.text]\n        return item\n"
  },
  {
    "path": "03_03_e/news_scraper/news_scraper/settings.py",
    "content": "# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-\n\n# Scrapy settings for news_scraper project\n#\n# For simplicity, this file contains only settings considered important or\n# commonly used. You can find more settings consulting the documentation:\n#\n#     https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/settings.html\n#     https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/downloader-middleware.html\n#     https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/spider-middleware.html\n\nBOT_NAME = 'news_scraper'\n\nSPIDER_MODULES = ['news_scraper.spiders']\nNEWSPIDER_MODULE = 'news_scraper.spiders'\n\nCLOSESPIDER_PAGECOUNT=10\n\nFEED_URI='news_articles.json'\nFEED_FORMAT='json'\n\n# Crawl responsibly by identifying yourself (and your website) on the user-agent\n#USER_AGENT = 'news_scraper (+http://www.yourdomain.com)'\n\n# Obey robots.txt rules\nROBOTSTXT_OBEY = False\n\n# Configure maximum concurrent requests performed by Scrapy (default: 16)\n#CONCURRENT_REQUESTS = 32\n\n# Configure a delay for requests for the same website (default: 0)\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/settings.html#download-delay\n# See also autothrottle settings and docs\n#DOWNLOAD_DELAY = 3\n# The download delay setting will honor only one of:\n#CONCURRENT_REQUESTS_PER_DOMAIN = 16\n#CONCURRENT_REQUESTS_PER_IP = 16\n\n# Disable cookies (enabled by default)\n#COOKIES_ENABLED = False\n\n# Disable Telnet Console (enabled by default)\n#TELNETCONSOLE_ENABLED = False\n\n# Override the default request headers:\n#DEFAULT_REQUEST_HEADERS = {\n#   'Accept': 'text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8',\n#   'Accept-Language': 'en',\n#}\n\n# Enable or disable spider middlewares\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/spider-middleware.html\n#SPIDER_MIDDLEWARES = {\n#    'news_scraper.middlewares.NewsScraperSpiderMiddleware': 543,\n#}\n\n# Enable or disable downloader middlewares\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/downloader-middleware.html\n#DOWNLOADER_MIDDLEWARES = {\n#    'news_scraper.middlewares.NewsScraperDownloaderMiddleware': 543,\n#}\n\n# Enable or disable extensions\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/extensions.html\n#EXTENSIONS = {\n#    'scrapy.extensions.telnet.TelnetConsole': None,\n#}\n\n# Configure item pipelines\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/item-pipeline.html\n#ITEM_PIPELINES = {\n#    'news_scraper.pipelines.NewsScraperPipeline': 300,\n#}\n\n# Enable and configure the AutoThrottle extension (disabled by default)\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/autothrottle.html\n#AUTOTHROTTLE_ENABLED = True\n# The initial download delay\n#AUTOTHROTTLE_START_DELAY = 5\n# The maximum download delay to be set in case of high latencies\n#AUTOTHROTTLE_MAX_DELAY = 60\n# The average number of requests Scrapy should be sending in parallel to\n# each remote server\n#AUTOTHROTTLE_TARGET_CONCURRENCY = 1.0\n# Enable showing throttling stats for every response received:\n#AUTOTHROTTLE_DEBUG = False\n\n# Enable and configure HTTP caching (disabled by default)\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/downloader-middleware.html#httpcache-middleware-settings\n#HTTPCACHE_ENABLED = True\n#HTTPCACHE_EXPIRATION_SECS = 0\n#HTTPCACHE_DIR = 'httpcache'\n#HTTPCACHE_IGNORE_HTTP_CODES = []\n#HTTPCACHE_STORAGE = 'scrapy.extensions.httpcache.FilesystemCacheStorage'\n"
  },
  {
    "path": "03_03_e/news_scraper/news_scraper/spiders/__init__.py",
    "content": "# This package will contain the spiders of your Scrapy project\n#\n# Please refer to the documentation for information on how to create and manage\n# your spiders.\n"
  },
  {
    "path": "03_03_e/news_scraper/news_scraper/spiders/associated_press.py",
    "content": "# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-\nfrom scrapy.spiders import CrawlSpider, Rule\nfrom scrapy.linkextractors import LinkExtractor\nfrom news_scraper.items import NewsArticle\nimport json \n\nclass AssociatedPressSpider(CrawlSpider):\n    name = 'associated_press'\n    allowed_domains = ['apnews.com']\n    start_urls = ['http://apnews.com/']\n    rules = [Rule(LinkExtractor(allow=r'\\/article\\/[a-zA-Z\\-]+\\-[a-zA-Z0-9]{32}'), callback='parse_item', follow=True)]\n\n    def parse_item(self, response):\n        article = NewsArticle()\n        # <script data-rh=\"true\">\n        article['url'] = response.url\n        article['source'] = 'Associated Press'\n\n        jsonData = json.loads(response.xpath('//script[@data-rh=\"true\"]/text()').get())\n        article['title'] = jsonData['headline']\n        article['description'] = jsonData['description']\n        article['date'] = jsonData['datePublished']\n        article['author'] = jsonData['author'][0]\n        article['text'] = response.xpath('//div[@class=\"Article\"]/p/text()').getall()\n        return article\n"
  },
  {
    "path": "03_03_e/news_scraper/news_scraper/spiders/cnn.py",
    "content": "# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-\nfrom scrapy.spiders import CrawlSpider, Rule, SitemapSpider\nfrom scrapy.linkextractors import LinkExtractor\nfrom news_scraper.items import NewsArticle\n\nclass CnnSpider(SitemapSpider):\n    name = 'cnn'\n    allowed_domains = ['cnn.com']\n    sitemap_urls = ['https://www.cnn.com/sitemaps/article-2020-10.xml']\n\n    def parse(self, response):\n        article = NewsArticle()\n        # <script data-rh=\"true\">\n        article['url'] = response.url\n        article['source'] = 'CNN'\n        article['title'] = response.xpath('//h1/text()').get()\n        article['description'] = response.xpath('//meta[@name=\"description\"]/@content').get()\n        article['date'] = response.xpath('//meta[@itemprop=\"datePublished\"]/@content').get()\n        article['author'] = response.xpath('//meta[@itemprop=\"author\"]/@content').get().replace(', CNN', '')\n        article['text'] = response.xpath('//section[@data-zone-label=\"bodyText\"]/div[@class=\"l-container\"]//*/text()').getall()\n        return article\n"
  },
  {
    "path": "03_03_e/news_scraper/news_scraper/spiders/news_articles.json",
    "content": "[\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/29/africa/blasphemy-trial-nigeria/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"The WhatsApp voice note that led to a death sentence\", \"description\": \"A heated conversation in a WhatsApp group has led to a death penalty sentence and a family torn apart in northern Nigeria over allegations of insulting Prophet Mohammed. \", \"date\": \"2020-09-29T09:51:49Z\", \"author\": \"Eoin McSweeney and Stephanie Busari\", \"text\": [\" (CNN)\", \"An intense argument recorded and posted in a WhatsApp group has led to a death penalty sentence and a family torn apart over allegations of insulting Prophet Mohammed, according to lawyers for the defendant. \", \"Music studio assistant Yahaya Sharif-Aminu was sentenced to death by hanging on August 10 after being convicted of blasphemy by an Islamic court in northern Nigeria. \", \"The judgment document states that Sharif-Aminu, 22, was convicted for making \\\"a blasphemous statement against Prophet Mohammed in a WhatsApp Group,\\\" which is contrary to the Kano State Sharia Penal Code and is an offence which carries the death sentence. \", \"The recording was shared widely, causing mass outrage in the highly conservative, majority Muslim, state, according to various reports. \", \"\\\"Whoever insults, defames or utters words or acts which are capable of bringing into disrespect ... such a person has committed a serious crime which is punishable by death,\\\" according to a translation of court documents provided to CNN by his lawyers. \", \"Read More\", \"Sharif-Aminu, described by his friend Kabiru Ibrahim, as \\\"kind, religious and dutiful,\\\" admitted charges of blasphemy during his trial, but said he had made a mistake. \", \"No legal representation\", \"Under Sharia law, a voluntary confession is binding, according to court papers. \", \"Sharif-Aminu's lawyers, who became involved in the case only after his conviction, say he was not allowed legal representation before or during his trial -- in contravention of Nigerian citizens' constitutional right to legal representation. \", \"Outrage as Nigeria sentences 13-year-old boy to 10 years in prison for blasphemy\", \"According to the lawyers, the Sharia court adjourned his case four times because no lawyer came forth from the Legal Aid Council to represent him, likely because of the sensitivity of the case. The Sharia court is, however, statute-bound to provide legal representation.\", \"Advocates from the \", \"Foundation for Religious Freedom\", \" (FRF), a not-for-profit aimed at protecting religious freedom in Nigeria, which is representing Sharif-Aminu, told CNN he has also not been permitted access to legal advice to prepare an appeal against his conviction. \", \"The FRF says it has lodged an appeal on his behalf in Kano's high court, a common-law court with constitutional powers. \", \"\\\"The state laws he is accused of breaking are in gross conflict with the Nigerian constitution,\\\" said his counsel, Kola Alapinni. \", \"No Muslim will condone it. People hold Prophet Mohammed higher than their parents. \", \"Islamic cleric, Bashir Aliyu Umar\", \"Kano's State Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje told clerics in Kano that he would sign Sharif-Aminu's death warrant as soon as the singer had exhausted the appeals process, local media reports say. \", \"\\\"I assure you that immediately the Supreme Court affirms the judgment, I will sign it without any hesitation,\\\" Ganduje said, according to \", \"Nigeria's Daily Post newspaper\", \". CNN contacted a spokesman for Governor Ganduje several times for comment but did not receive a response. \", \"Islamic scholar and cleric Bashir Aliyu Umar, who is not connected to the case, but said he had read the transcript of the court proceedings, told CNN, \\\"No Muslim will condone it. People hold Prophet Mohammed higher than their parents, and when things like this happen, it will lead to a breakdown of peace because of mob action and attacks against the accused.\\\" \", \"When news of Sharif-Aminu's alleged crime broke earlier this year, protesters marched to his family home and destroyed it, prompting his father to flee to a neighboring town, his lawyers told CNN. Sharif-Aminu went into hiding, according to Amnesty and his lawyers, but in March he was arrested by the Hisbah Corps, the religious police force that enforces Sharia law in Kano state. \", \"'A travesty of justice'\", \"Human rights organization Amnesty International has described Sharif-Aminu's trial as a \\\"travesty of justice,\\\" and called on Kano state authorities to quash his conviction and death sentence. \", \"\\\"There are serious concerns about the fairness of his trial and the framing of the charges against him based on his Whatsapp messages,\\\" said Amnesty's Nigeria director Osai Ojigho. \\\"Furthermore, the imposition of the death penalty following an unfair trial violates the right to life,\\\" she added. \", \"The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has also condemned Sharif-Aminu's death sentence. It said Nigeria's blasphemy laws were inconsistent with universal human rights standards. \", \"\\\"It is unconscionable that Sharif-Aminu is facing a death sentence merely for expressing his beliefs artistically through music,\\\" said the organization's commissioner, Frederick A. Davie, in a statement. \", \"The organization released a \", \"follow-up statement\", \" saying it had adopted Aminu-Sharif as \\\"a religious prisoner of conscience.\\\"  \", \"Atheism frowned upon \", \"Nigeria is Africa's most populous nation and religion permeates every facet of life here, with prayers routinely said in schools and public offices. 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CNN&#39;s Jon Jensen has more.\\\",\\\"thumbnailURL\\\": \\\"https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/151201062200-saudi-poet-death-sentence-jenson-pkg-00015222-large-169.jpg\\\",\\\"image\\\": \\\"https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/151201062200-saudi-poet-death-sentence-jenson-pkg-00015222-large-169.jpg\\\",\\\"duration\\\": \\\"PT1M58S\\\",\\\"uploadDate\\\": \\\"2015-12-01T11:28:00Z\\\",\\\"contentUrl\\\": \\\"https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2015/12/01/saudi-poet-death-sentence-jenson-pkg.cnn\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2015/12/01/saudi-poet-death-sentence-jenson-pkg.cnn\\\",\\\"embedUrl\\\": \\\"https://fave.api.cnn.io/v1/fav/?video=world/2015/12/01/saudi-poet-death-sentence-jenson-pkg.cnn&customer=cnn&edition=domestic&env=prod\\\"}\", \"Poet sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia\", \" \", \"01:57\", \"In 2015 and 2016 nine men and one woman were sentenced to death by hanging for insulting the Prophet Mohammed in Kano state, according to a \", \"2019 research paper by the USCIRF\", \". The sentences were not carried out. \", \"In 2000, a Muslim man in the northern state of Zamfara had his hand amputated for stealing a cow. A year later, another man had his hand cut off after he was convicted of stealing bicycles, according to the same USCIRF research paper. \", \"A constitutional violation? \", \"In the eyes of many Nigerians, the adoption of Sharia law is a violation of the \", \"country's constitution\", \", because Article 10 guarantees religious freedom when it states that \\\"the Government of the Federation or of a State shall not adopt any religion as State Religion.\\\" \", \"\\\"This issue of blasphemy is incompatible with the Nigerian constitution,\\\" Leo Igwe, chair of the board of trustees for the Humanist Association of Nigeria, told CNN. \", \"\\\"We hope this case will help Nigeria confront the biggest constitutional challenge since independence. What should take precedence, Sharia law, or the Nigerian constitution?\\\" \", \"Governors of the northern states, where Sharia law is practiced, argue that it applies only to Muslims, and not to citizens of other faiths. The FRF says it is working on six other constitutional cases which will challenge what it sees as government interference in Nigerian citizens' right to religious freedom. \", \"US national shot dead in Pakistan courtroom during blasphemy trial\", \"One of these, on behalf of the Atheist Society of Nigeria (ASN), is against the state government of Akwa Ibom, in the country's southeast, for its involvement in the construction of an 8,500-seat worship center at its High Court. \", \"The ASN says millions of dollars in state funding have been spent on the center, which it says amounts to government interference in freedom of religion. \", \"\\\"The government has no business legislating on religions. End of story,\\\" Ebenezer Odubule, a founding member of the FRF told CNN. \", \"The FRF says it has had to put some of its other cases on hold, to focus on Sharif-Aminu's case. It is also hampered by a lack of funding to fight new cases. \"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/07/africa/human-trafficking-film-nigeria/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"New Nollywood film shines a light on human trafficking in Nigeria\", \"description\": \"\\\"Oloture,\\\" a Netflix original film, features an investigative journalist covering sex trafficking in Nigeria.\", \"date\": \"2020-10-07T13:35:16Z\", \"author\": \" By Aisha Salaudeen\", \"text\": [\"Lagos, Nigeria  (CNN)\", \"Dressed in a transparent and colorful blouse, a sex worker in Lagos, the commercial center of Nigeria jumps out the window of a room at a party to avoid having sex with a potential customer. \", \"She is seen, heels in her hand, running away from the party and eventually getting into a bus heading back to a brothel, where she lives with other sex workers.\", \"These scenes are from the Netflix original film, \\\"\", \"Oloture\", \",\\\" in which we later find out that the sex worker, also named Oloture, is a Nigerian journalist who is undercover to expose sex trafficking in the country.       \", \"var id = '//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js'.replace(/\\\\s+/g, '');!!document.getElementById(id) || (function makeEmbedScript(d, id) {var js,fjs;js = d.createElement('script');js.id = id;js.charset = 'utf-8';js.setAttribute('async', '');js.src = '//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js';fjs = d.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);}(document, id));\", \"Sometimes, stay and fight. Other times, run away and come back to fight another day. \", \"pic.twitter.com/I29c7QtbSa\", \"\\u2014 Netflix Naija (@NetflixNaija) \", \"October 4, 2020\", \"\\n\", \"\\n\", \"Every year, \", \"tens of thousands of people\", \" are trafficked from Nigeria, particularly Edo State in the nation's south, which has become one of Africa's largest departure points for irregular migration.\", \"The International Organization for Migration (IMO) estimates that \", \"91% victims trafficked from Nigeria are women\", \", and their traffickers have sexually exploited more than half of them. \", \"Read More\", \"Through \\\"Oloture,\\\" the difficult realities of these women, particularly those who are sexually exploited, come to light. It shows how they are recruited and trafficked overseas for commercial gain.\", \"Directed by award-winning Nigerian filmmaker, Kenneth Gyang, the film features Nollywood actors including Sharon Ooja, Omoni Oboli and Blossom Chukwujekwu. \", \"Mo Abudu, executive producer of \\\"Oloture,\\\" told CNN that the crime drama was inspired by the numerous cases of trafficking around the world and in Nigeria. \", \"Actors pose as sex workers on the set of Netflix original film, \\\"Oloture.\\\"\", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"Actors pose as sex workers on the set of Netflix original film, &quot;Oloture.&quot;\\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"Actors pose as sex workers on the set of Netflix original film, &quot;Oloture.&quot;\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/201007071906-restricted-04-human-trafficking-film-nigeria-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"\\\"There have been many reports around the world highlighting human trafficking and modern slavery. It has been in our faces. I dug and dug and did a bit more research, and when I came across the numbers and saw how much was made annually from human trafficking, I was totally shocked,\\\" she said. \", \"Human trafficking is a \", \"$150 billion global industry.\", \" And two-thirds of this figure is generated from sexual exploitation, according to a 2014 report by the International Labor Organization. \", \"Abudu -- who is also CEO of EbonyLife Films, which produced \\\"Oloture\\\" -- added that the film mirrored some real-life reports by journalists who had gone undercover to expose sex trafficking patterns in the country.\", \"One of them, she said, was a \", \"2014 report \", \"by journalist Tobore Ovuorie, in the Nigerian newspaper, Premium Times. \", \"\\\"Upon research, we found that many journalists had gone undercover to report on human trafficking. But the Premium Times article did spark our interest as some of it plays out in the film,\\\" Abudu said. \", \"Easy prey for traffickers\", \"Ovuorie, whose report was credited in \\\"Oloture,\\\" told CNN that women often get trafficked as a result of their need to make money abroad. \", \"Ovuorie said she met many women in the course of her reporting who wanted to get to Europe in hopes of better job opportunities that would earn them more money.\", \"UK joins forces with Nigeria to fight human trafficking\", \"\\\"People were motivated by greed, you know, the need to get rich. I spoke with the women I was supposed to be trafficked with, and many of them wanted better lives motivated by money. There was one girl who had never earned more than 50,000 naira (about $130) as salary since she graduated from university,\\\" she told CNN.\", \"Most of the women were fleeing harsh economic conditions and poverty, making them easy prey for traffickers, Ovuorie said.\", \"During Ovuorie's investigation, she said she \", \"posed as a sex worker\", \" on the streets of Lagos, looking to travel to Europe.\", \"Lead actor, Sharon Ooja, and Omowunmi Dada (right) pose on set of \\\"Oloture.\\\"\", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"Lead actor, Sharon Ooja, and Omowunmi Dada (right) pose on set of &quot;Oloture.&quot;\\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"Lead actor, Sharon Ooja, and Omowunmi Dada (right) pose on set of &quot;Oloture.&quot;\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/201007072041-restricted-05-human-trafficking-film-nigeria-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"Her plan worked. She was eventually linked with a trafficker who promised to get her to Italy. In partnership with ZAM Chronicles and Premium Times, she documented her experience. \", \"After a series of \\\"humiliating trainings\\\" and physical abuse, she said she was told she and other girls would receive a \", \"fake passport\", \" in preparation to be smuggled outside the country through the border in Benin in West Africa.\", \"She escaped at the border. \", \"Physical and sexual abuse \", \"Many women who are trafficked in Nigeria face sexual, physical and mental abuse, according to \", \"a 2019 report \", \"by Human Rights Watch. \", \"The rights group interviewed many women who said they were trafficked within and across national borders under life-threatening conditions as they were starved, raped and extorted. \", \"On some occasions, according to the report, they were forced into prostitution where they were made to have abortions and \", \"coerced to have sex \", \"with customers when they were sick, menstruating or pregnant. \", \"\\\"Oloture\\\" portrays some of these harsh realities as the lead character (played by Ooja) suffers sexual violence and physical abuse, including being whipped by one of her traffickers. \", \"It was important to depict the reality of sex trafficking so viewers can understand the experiences of women who are forced into the trade, Gyang, the director, told CNN.\", \"Director Kenneth Gyang works behind the scenes of film, \\\"Oloture.\\\"\", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"Director Kenneth Gyang works behind the scenes of film, &quot;Oloture.&quot;\\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"Director Kenneth Gyang works behind the scenes of film, &quot;Oloture.&quot;\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/201007071340-restricted-01-human-trafficking-film-nigeria-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"\\\"I wanted people to know that this is the reality of these ladies. People always want closure but life is not about a Hollywood ending; you can't always get a happy ending,\\\" he said.\", \"While directing the film, Gyang visited places with sex workers to get a better idea of how they live and work, he said.\", \"\\\"I actually went to places where we have sex workers in Lagos with one of the producers of the film. We wanted to really capture their lives so that we would be able to show it realistically in the movie. We talked to them, and some of the rooms we used in the movie were actually used previously by sex workers,\\\" he explained. \", \"'The most impactful movie we have ever done'\", \"The film was shot in 21 days towards the end of 2018, he said. Post-production was covered in 2019, and it was released Friday on Netflix.\", \"In just days, it has become the top watched movie in Nigeria and is among the \", \"top 10 watched movies in the world on Netflix. \", \"\\\"It's huge for me as a filmmaker that people have access to the film from all over the world. I want many people as possible to see it and have conversations about sex trafficking,\\\" Gyang said. \", \"The film is doing well in countries like Switzerland, Brazil, and South Africa because it is authentic and \\\"deals with the truth,\\\" Abudu said.\", \"\\\"EbonyLife has done seven movies. But this is the most impactful one we have ever done. And the most important,\\\" Abudu said. \", \"A smuggler's chilling warning\", \"The \", \"National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons\", \" (NAPTIP), the law enforcement agency in charge of combating human trafficking in Nigeria, wants the film to be made available to people in rural communities who don't have access to Netflix.\", \"\\\"I haven't seen the movie, but if it is trying to portray the ills and dangers of trafficking, then it's fine since that is going to raise awareness,\\\" Julie Okah-Donli, the director-general of the agency said. \", \"And while she is happy that \\\"Oloture\\\" is shining the light on human trafficking, she told CNN that women mostly targeted by traffickers may not get to watch it.\", \"\\\"The people watching it on Netflix all know what trafficking is. It needs to go to those girls in rural communities where traffickers go to bring them from. Those are the girls that the awareness should go to,\\\" Okah-Donli said. \", \"With more people partnering with NAPTIP and raising awareness of the dangers of trafficking, sex trafficking will be minimized in Nigeria, she said. \"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/23/africa/asequals-nigeria-rape-sexual-violence-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"She's on the frontline of a rape epidemic. The pandemic has made her work more dangerous\", \"description\": null, \"date\": \"2020-06-23T09:00:49Z\", \"author\": \"Bukola Adebayo\", \"text\": [\"CNN is committed to covering gender inequality wherever it occurs in the world. This story is part of As Equals, an ongoing series.\", \" \", \"Lagos, Nigeria --\", \" At the start of each day, Dr. Anita Kemi DaSilva-Ibru and her team put on gloves, facemasks and other personal protective equipment to see their patients.\", \"They're not treating people for Covid-19, but they are on the frontline of the pandemic, working at the Women at Risk International Foundation (WARIF), a rape crisis center in Lagos, Nigeria.\", \"Wearing protective gear is the new reality for crisis center workers, like DaSilva-Ibru.\", \"\\\"We change these kits each time we see a survivor as we are mindful of the risk of transmission of the virus between the survivor and us and the cross-contamination between a survivor and the next,\\\" she told CNN.\", \"US-trained gynecologist DaSilva-Ibru has spent most of her career treating hundreds of sexual violence victims but it was the growing scale of the crisis in Nigeria that prompted her to set up WARIF in 2016.\", \"Read More\", \"The clinic in Yaba, a suburb of Lagos, provides medical treatment, legal assistance therapy and space for rape victims and survivors of sexual abuse to get back on their feet.\", \"One in four Nigerian girls \", \"has been the victim of sexual violence, according to UN estimates but DaSilva-Ibru says the numbers are higher as many cases go unreported due to the stigma attached.\", \"In recent weeks, two high profile cases of gender-based violence have brought Nigerian women out onto the streets demanding change.\", \"Uwaila Vera Omozuwa, a 22-year-old microbiology student, was \", \"found half-naked in a pool of blood\", \" in a local church where she had gone to study after the Covid-19 lockdown left universities across the country shut. \", \"\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote {\\n position: relative;\\n color: #262626;\\n margin: 25px auto;\\n padding: 10px 0 14px 0;\\n width: 100%;\\n max-width: 660px;\\n border-left: 0;\\n text-align: center;\\n}\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote:before, .cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote:after {\\n position: absolute;\\n content: '';\\n width: 50px;\\n height: 2px;\\n left: 50%;\\n transform: translateX(-50%);\\n -webkit-transform: translateX(-50%);\\n background-color: #262626;\\n}\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote:before {\\n top: 0;\\n}\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote:after {\\n bottom: -2px;\\n}\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote {\\n position: relative;\\n margin: 0;\\n text-align: center;\\n font-size: 35px;\\n font-weight: 700;\\n word-spacing: -1px;\\n line-height: 1.15;\\n padding: 24px 10px 22px 10px;\\n margin-bottom: 24px;\\n}\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote-cite {\\n margin: 0;\\n text-align: center;\\n font-size: 12px;\\n font-weight: 200;\\n color: #262626;\\n line-height: 1.15;\\n padding: 0 10px;\\n display: inline-block;\\n}\\n@media only screen and (min-width: 768px)  {\\n .cnnix-golf__pullquote {\\n  margin: 50px auto;\\n }\\n .cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote {\\n  font-size: 35px;\\n }\\n} \\n\", \"\\n \", \"\\n \", \"\\\"Rape is an epidemic in this country.\\\"\", \"\\n \", \" Dr. Anita Kemi DaSilva-Ibru, Women at Risk International Foundation\", \"\\n \", \"Her family said her attackers raped her and the student died while being treated at the hospital. A few days later, another student, Barakat Bello, was allegedly raped and killed during a robbery at her home,\", \" according to human rights group Amnesty International.\", \"\\\"Rape is an epidemic in this country,\\\" DaSilva-Ibru told CNN.\", \"She says her work with survivors of sexual violence has become more critical during the outbreak, with restrictions to curb the virus from spreading fueling a surge in calls. \", \"It's a story echoed in other parts of the region, as authorities grapple with a growing number of Covid-19 cases and the impact restrictions are having on women.\", \"Related: A transport ban in Uganda means women are trapped at home with their abusers\", \"DaSilva-Ibru said she initially closed the center after authorities locked down the city in March, she had to reconsider the decision as the organization became inundated with SOS messages from sexual violence victims and their guardians.\", \"Staff operating the 24-hour helpline at the center also reported a 64% increase in calls during this period, according to DaSilva-Ibru. \", \"\\\"Our phones were ringing. Women were calling and desperately asking how we can help them, these were women in fear of their lives, as many have now been forced into quarantine with their abusers, in an already volatile environment,\\\" DaSilva-Ibru told CNN.\", \"For the center to re-open, DaSilva-Ibru said she had to source PPE, face masks and other protective gear personally and when that was not enough, the center launched an online appeal for funds from donors to buy the equipment at no cost to survivors, she said. \", \"\\\"We carry out forensic examinations on survivors and our frontline health workers who triage and examine patients are in close proximity to the survivors. As much as we need to carry out our duties, we also need to ensure our workers are adequately protected,\\\" DaSilva-Ibru told CNN.\", \"The challenges Ibru faces to keep the center open, doesn't compare to what sexual violence victims have experienced as a result of this pandemic, she said.\", \"DaSilva-Ibru recalls a woman who told staff at the center that her male friend had raped her in her home during the lockdown.\", \"Dr. Anita Kemi DaSilva-Ibru. \", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"Dr. Anita Kemi DaSilva-Ibru. \\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"Dr. Anita Kemi DaSilva-Ibru. \\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200618151608-02-dr-kemi-dasilva-ibru-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"\\\"The first day we re-opened, we attended to women who had walked many miles in spite of the mandatory lockdown to get to the center. These are women who had been terrorized in their homes,\\\" she added.\", \"\\\"She (a survivor) had repeatedly been calling (the center) to find out how she could get help. She feared she might have contracted HIV and wanted to be tested,\\\" Ibru said. \", \"Speaking to CNN, the woman, who didn't want to use her name to protect her identity, said a co-worker raped her after he came to her apartment unannounced in April. \", \"The young banker said she had previously rebuffed his attempts to visit, but on that Sunday afternoon in April, he showed up at her doorstep.\", \"\\\"He's a friend, not a stranger, so I opened the door for him. I was still asking him what was so urgent that made him leave his home. He said he wanted to check up on me and I told him he could have done that over the phone,\\\" she told CNN.\", \"But a few minutes into his visit, the conversation became uncomfortable between them.\", \"\\\"He kept coming towards me, and when I told him to stop, he put his hand over my mouth and pinned me on the floor,\\\" she said.\", \"She says he apologized after raping her and hurriedly left her house.\", \"The survivor told CNN she did not make a police complaint because she was worried about the stigma and strain that the rape might have on her parents.  \", \"A friend she confided in told her to reach out to the \", \"Lagos Domestic and Sexual Violence Response Team\", \" who put survivors in touch with treatment centers for help.\", \"After several calls to the centers on their website, she was referred to \", \"WARIF\", \".\", \"When she went to the clinic, she says staff ran some tests and placed her on Post Exposure Prophylaxis, a HIV prevention treatment for possible exposure.\", \"\\\"Sometimes I get really angry, and sometimes I feel numb,\\\" she said, reflecting on the assault.\", \"She says she was sick every night for 28 days because of the drugs.\", \"\\\"...even though the doctor prepared me for the side effect, it has not been easy,\\\" she told CNN. \", \"Gender-based violence is a problem in many countries, but the coronavirus pandemic has worsened the situation.\", \"The \", \"UN says\", \" the raft of measures deployed by governments to fight the pandemic have led to economic hardship, stress, and fear -- conditions that lead to violence against women and girls. \", \"Equality Now Regional Coordinator in Africa Judy Gitau told CNN that the wave of unemployment and school closures has put victims in a precarious situation.\", \"She recalls a similar situation in Sierra Leone \", \"during the 2014 Ebola outbreak\", \" when\", \" teenage pregnancies spiked\", \" in the country\", \"The government enforced strict stay-at-home orders that closed businesses and schools across the West African nation to curb the spread of the virus, she said.\", \"The restrictions made schoolgirls vulnerable to abuse as some were assaulted in their homes by relatives, and at the same time, a majority of girls from low-income families were coerced to exchange sex for money for food, Gitau said. \", \"\\\"Many of them wound up pregnant but the evidence became available when people were plugging back to life as they knew it as a normal society,\\\" she said.\", \"Gitau says authorities must know that perpetrators often take advantage of the strict measures to abuse victims without arousing much suspicion.\", \"As state resources are being re-focused to tackle the spread of coronavirus, law enforcement agencies should also respond quickly to reports of abuse and create shelters for victims in need of immediate rescue, she said.\", \"But placing women in shelters, especially in countries battling an outbreak, comes with the additional burden of proof, according to DaSilva-Ibru who said shelters in Lagos city are asking survivors to take coronavirus tests before they can be admitted to prevent infection in their facilities.\", \"\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote {\\n position: relative;\\n color: #262626;\\n margin: 25px auto;\\n padding: 10px 0 14px 0;\\n width: 100%;\\n max-width: 660px;\\n border-left: 0;\\n text-align: center;\\n}\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote:before, .cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote:after {\\n position: absolute;\\n content: '';\\n width: 50px;\\n height: 2px;\\n left: 50%;\\n transform: translateX(-50%);\\n -webkit-transform: translateX(-50%);\\n background-color: #262626;\\n}\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote:before {\\n top: 0;\\n}\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote:after {\\n bottom: -2px;\\n}\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote {\\n position: relative;\\n margin: 0;\\n text-align: center;\\n font-size: 35px;\\n font-weight: 700;\\n word-spacing: -1px;\\n line-height: 1.15;\\n padding: 24px 10px 22px 10px;\\n margin-bottom: 24px;\\n}\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote-cite {\\n margin: 0;\\n text-align: center;\\n font-size: 12px;\\n font-weight: 200;\\n color: #262626;\\n line-height: 1.15;\\n padding: 0 10px;\\n display: inline-block;\\n}\\n@media only screen and (min-width: 768px)  {\\n .cnnix-golf__pullquote {\\n  margin: 50px auto;\\n }\\n .cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote {\\n  font-size: 35px;\\n }\\n} \\n\", \"\\n \", \"\\n \", \"\\\"Violence against women and girls is one of the most pervasive forms of a human rights violation and should be recognized by all countries.\\\"\", \"\\n \", \" Dr. Anita Kemi DaSilva-Ibru, Women at Risk International Foundation\", \"\\n \", \"Authorities in Lagos designated gender-based violence services essential in May as it eased lockdown into curfews to allow service providers to get to work more smoothly, DaSilva-Ibru said. \", \"The police force says it has now deployed more officers to its stations across the country to respond to the \\\"increasing challenges of sexual assaults and domestic/gender-based violence linked with the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic.\\\" And last week, governors across the country resolved to declare \", \"a state of emergency on rape\", \", according to the Nigerian Governor's Forum (NGF).\", \"Related: Nigerian women are taking to the streets in protests against rape and sexual violence\", \"It's the first time federal and state authorities are coming out with a united voice to condemn gender violence, DaSilva-Ibru said and it validates the outcry of women in the country and the scale of the problem in Nigeria, she added.\", \"\\\"Violence against women and girls is one of the most pervasive forms of a human rights violation and should be recognized by all countries,\\\" DaSilva-Ibru said.\", \"\\\"In Nigeria, it has become a national crisis that needs urgent attention. I am pleased that this has been recognized.\\\"\", \"\\n  window.cnnAsEqualsConfig = window.cnnAsEqualsConfig || {};\\n  window.cnnAsEqualsConfig.theme = 'black';\\n\", \"\\n\", \"Click here for more stories from the As Equals series.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/20/africa/nigeria-fashion-tiffany-amber-coronavirus-ppe-spc-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"Nigerian fashion label Tiffany Amber swaps couture for PPE\", \"description\": \"Company founder Folake Akindele Coker pivoted her fashion label into PPE production after she realized that a prolonged lockdown in Nigeria would impact consumer sales.\", \"date\": \"2020-07-21T01:21:46Z\", \"author\": \"Daniel Renjifo\", \"text\": [\" (CNN)\", \"These days, things look a little different when Folake Akindele Coker gets to her office. \\\"I arrive at 9am, all geared (up) for this invisible enemy,\\\" she says. The 45-year-old designer and founder of Nigerian fashion label Tiffany Amber now starts each day with a 10-minute safety talk for her production team, \\\"who at first did not seem to understand the gravity and the potential of being infected by the (Covid-19) virus.\\\"\", \"Coker founded \", \"Tiffany Amber\", \" in 1998, and it's now considered one of Nigeria's most influential fashion and lifestyle brands.\", \"In early March, the number of colorful prints and couture runway garments that normally littered the factory floor dissipated, and the company's sewing machines began stitching hospital scrubs, gowns, stretcher sheets and non-medical face masks. Less than a month after the pandemic reached Africa, Tiffany Amber's entire factory refocused to produce personal protective equipment (PPE), something Coker notes took immense pressure to turn around. \", \"The colorful garments of the Tiffany Amber fashion line, seen here during Arise Fashion week in 2019, have since been replaced in production by PPE to help during the pandemic.\", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"The colorful garments of the Tiffany Amber fashion line, seen here during Arise Fashion week in 2019, have since been replaced in production by PPE to help during the pandemic.\\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"Tiffany Amber Nigeria fashion runway\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200715102210-tiffany-amber-fashion-nigeria-restricted-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"To make the shift, Coker says the company first had to secure more than 15 tons of raw materials including approximately 90,000 yards of fabric, 300,000 yards of elastic, and almost a million yards of thread. All of this happened, she says, right before borders closed in Nigeria and prices spiked due to the unforeseen demand for materials.\", \"See more stories from Marketplace Africa\", \"Read More\", \"As of mid-July, the World Health Organization shows Nigeria as having\", \" more than 30,000\", \" total confirmed cases of coronavirus, the second-most on the continent behind South Africa.\", \"As Covid-19 cases rose and consumer spending fell, Coker saw an opportunity for her business to stay open -- and to help out. \\\"Our expertise in garment production helped facilitate this shift to bridge the gap in the supply of medical apparel,\\\" she tells CNN.\", \"A Tiffany Amber employee sorts ready-to-ship gowns for healthcare workers.\", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"A Tiffany Amber employee sorts ready-to-ship gowns for healthcare workers.\\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"A Tiffany Amber employee sorts ready-to-ship gowns for healthcare workers.\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200626121436-tiffany-amber-ppe-production-gowns-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"The push for PPE\", \"This pivot has been a trend in the private sector worldwide, as companies around the globe have \", \"switched gears to supply the growing demand for PPE\", \".\", \"According to the World Bank, Covid-19 has pushed sub-Saharan Africa into its \", \"first recession in 25 years\", \", greatly impacting the continent's biggest revenue drivers such as energy, agriculture and manufacturing. \", \"Read more: Across Africa, the pandemic reveals both inequality and innovation\", \"Globally, the \", \"luxury market is also expected to shrink \", \"as much as 35% this year, as consumer spending sharply declines mainly due to job loss, according to consulting firm Bain and Co.\", \"Tiffany Amber employees wearing masks, and making masks.\", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"Tiffany Amber employees wearing masks, and making masks.\\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"Tiffany Amber employees wearing masks, and making masks.\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200626120613-tiffany-amber-production-ppe-employees-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"Efforts to make and source \", \"PPE in Nigeria\", \" have primarily relied on private corporations\", \" \", \"working hand in hand with suppliers. In an attempt to stay solvent, Coker says Tiffany Amber is working with partners in the financial sector to fund and distribute the PPE products.\", \"By early June, she notes, the fashion label had made approximately 500,000 cloth masks, 20,000 sets of sheets and pillowcases, 10,000 scrubs, 15,000 patient gowns and close to 5,000 surgical gowns.\", \"Alcohol ban has South African distilleries pivoting to a new product\", \"In Tiffany Amber's case, shifting to PPE production has had an unlikely silver lining: job creation. Since March, Coker says her company has actually managed to grow from 100 employees to a staff of 300.\", \"At the time of writing, Coker does not anticipate returning to regular Tiffany Amber fashion production in the near future. But even as her company responds to the current reality, she keeps planning for when that day will come. \\\"One mind is thinking about tomorrow morning and the other mind is processing the next two years,\\\" says Coker. \\\"Subconsciously, I find myself drifting away, putting together the next Tiffany Amber collection.\\\"\", \"CNN's Lamide Akintobi contributed to this report\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/26/africa/gambia-migration-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"He almost died migrating to Europe. Now he is warning other Gambians about it\", \"description\": \"Mustapha Sallah and Youth Against Irregular Migration are raising awareness in The Gambia about the dangers of migrating to Europe through irregular means.\", \"date\": \"2020-08-26T14:16:23Z\", \"author\": \"Aisha Salaudeen\", \"text\": [\" (CNN)\", \"Mustapha Sallah was in trouble.\", \"He had hoped to be in Europe by now, pursuing his dreams of studying computer science and making a better life for himself.\", \"Instead, he was sitting in a Libyan detention center, having been detained in Tripoli by the Libyan Coast Guard.\", \"\\\"We were kept in rooms with little ventilation and no toilets. We would sit for days without taking baths. It was like hell,\\\" Sallah told CNN.\", \"He added that officers at the detention center often assaulted them by \\\"beating us for the slightest things like refusing to sleep.\\\"\", \"Read More\", \"It was January 2017, and the 25-year-old Gambian had taken a gamble, risking his life in search of a better one in Europe. But no one had warned him of the dangers ahead.\", \"If and when he got out of the detention center, he vowed to help others make a more informed decision.\", \"Migrating to Europe\", \"Sallah grew up in Serekunda, southwest of The Gambia's capital city, Banjul. He said he worked hard in school to earn a scholarship so that his mother could retire from her job selling vegetables in the market.\", \"In 2016, he thought he'd have that chance when he earned a scholarship to study computer science in Taiwan. \\\"But there was no Taiwan embassy in Gambia, so I had to go to the closest one in Abuja, Nigeria,\\\" he explained.\", \"After borrowing money from his sister to travel to Nigeria, he said he spent three months there before his visa application was denied. Three years earlier, then-president of The Gambia, Yahya Jammeh, had cut diplomatic ties with Taiwan for what he called \\\"national strategic interest.\\\"\", \"At least 58 people killed as boat carrying migrants sinks off Mauritania coast\", \"\\\"I didn't know what to do: stay in Nigeria, or go to any other African country. At the end of the day, I got the mind of migrating (to Europe) because I know several people who took the journey and made it there,\\\" Sallah explained.\", \"With a population of \", \"2.3 million people\", \", The Gambia is among the smallest countries in Africa. But despite its small size, migration is a fairly common practice and plays a key role in the country's economy.\", \"According to the International Organization for Migration (IOM), overseas remittances for an average of 90,000 Gambians who live abroad make up \", \"more than 20% of the country's GDP\", \". \", \"48% of Gambians\", \" live in poverty, and many people find themselves looking outside the country for opportunities to improve their lives. \", \"But some people leave the country without proper documentation or without crossing an official border point. Between 2014 and 2018, the IOM estimates \", \"more than 35,000 \", \"Gambians reached Europe through \\\"irregular means.\\\"\", \"\\\"There's a tradition of mobility in Gambia. It's a long history of people using migration as a means of life, and of getting their income. Many of the returnees we have worked with claim they took the journey for economic reasons,\\\" Etienne Micallef, the IOM's program manager in The Gambia told CNN.\", \"\\\"They have the perception that if they migrate with the final destination as Europe, they will get a much better income to sustain themselves and their families back home,\\\" he added. \", \"How the Kenyan consulate in Lebanon became feared by the women it was meant to help\", \"But it comes at a high risk. Globally, at least \", \"33,687 migrant deaths and disappearances\", \" were recorded between January 2014 and October 2019, according to IOM -- with nearly half occurring on the route between Northern Africa and Italy. \", \"Sallah, who said he wanted an education that would allow him to find a job to support his family, reiterated that no one warned him how incredibly dangerous the journey would be.\", \"After his visa to study in Taiwan was rejected, he said he got on a bus heading north to Agadez, a city in Niger. \\\"I didn't even know the area -- I just kept asking people around what the best or possible way to reach Niger was.\\\"\", \"From there, he managed to travel to Libya. \\\"You have to pay smugglers who drive pickup trucks to put you at the back of their trucks to get to Libya and then to Europe. I spent a month with my cousin in Libya before heading in another pickup truck for Tripoli,\\\" he told CNN.\", \"His journey to Tripoli was treacherous, he said, telling CNN he was detained and extorted multiple times by armed bandits. \", \"Sallah said he was close to death from starvation and even witnessed a gun battle between armed bandits and smugglers: \\\"The man that was smuggling us told us that if we want to stay in Tripoli, we must get used to gunshots,\\\" he said. \", \"But it all came to an abrupt halt in January 2017, when he was arrested by the Libyan Coast Guard in Tripoli.\", \" Detention Center\", \"Libya is a primary transit point along the central Mediterranean route. People who get stuck there are often detained by the Libyan Coast Guard, responsible for patrolling coastal waters to prevent smuggling and trafficking.  \", \"Sallah said he was kept in a detention center in Tripoli with migrants from different West African countries for nearly four months under poor conditions.\", \"Migrants describe being tortured and raped on perilous journey to Libya\", \"There are\", \" 11 detention centers\", \" for migrants run by the U.N.-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) in Libya. Some \", \"2,362\", \" detainees are held at these facilities on any given day, according to the Global Detention Project. \", \"Human Rights Watch\", \" (HRW) and \", \"Amnesty International\", \" have criticized the conditions at these detention centers; both groups signed onto a statement released in April that urged EU member states and institutions to review their policy on migrants and cooperation with Libya. \", \"The policy, the statement says, has allowed for the \", \"\\\"arbitrary detention and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment\\\"\", \" of migrants and refugees.\", \"While in detention, Sallah met a fellow Gambian who suggested they set up the non-profit organization \", \"Youth Against Irregular Migration\", \" (YAIM) to warn others back home about the risks of irregular migration.\", \"\\\"I went around the detention center gathering details of all the Gambians I could find,\\\" estimating he registered 171 people to join the organization. \\\"We agreed that if we made it out of there, we would start an association to make people aware of how problematic the journey to Europe is,\\\" he said.\", \"Youth Against Irregular Migration\", \"In April 2017, as part of its mandate to return and reintegrate migrants stranded or detained in their transit countries, IOM facilitated the return of Sallah and many others within the detention center back to The Gambia. \", \"That same year, IOM received funding from the EU worth\", \" 3.9 million euros\", \" (about $4.6 million) over the course of three years, to expand its operations in The Gambia.\", \"Since then, according to Micallef, IOM has repatriated more than 5,000 people to the West African nation.\", \"He added that when returnees arrive at the airport or land border, they are met by IOM staff who arrange for temporary shelter, counseling, and medical support for those who need it.\", \"Weeks after returning to The Gambia, Sallah said he met with some members of YAIM who signed up in the detention center. \", \"\\\"We met almost every week after arriving in Gambia,\\\" he explained. \\\"It was difficult for us financially at the start but many of us had the support of our families.\\\"\", \"YAIM members speak to community members about the dangers of irregular migration.\", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"YAIM members speak to community members about the dangers of irregular migration.\\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"YAIM members speak to community members about the dangers of irregular migration.\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200819175004-03-gambia-migration-intl-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"He added that even though many of them struggled to make a living at the start and had to pick up menial jobs around town to survive, being around other members gave them a renewed sense of hope.\", \"Being safe at home, he said, was a better option than the dangerous journey to Europe.\", \"\\\"We bonded by sharing our stories with each other as a way to work through the trauma,\\\" Sallah said. \\\"We made sure to be there for each other.\\\"\", \"Community awareness\", \"Through YAIM, the returnees began campaigns around irregular migration in The Gambia, warning others about the perils of journeying to Europe. \", \"Tombong Kuyateh, a returnee and YAIM member, told CNN that the association visits schools to share experiences with students who may be thinking about migrating.\", \"\\\"We share our personal stories with them. We show them examples of victims who were injured or affected during the journey to prevent them from experiencing the same,\\\" he said.\", \"The 27-year-old added that a lot of people listen to them because they have first-hand experience of what it's like to attempt that trip.\", \"Members of YAIM take to the streets of Banjul, The Gambia, during one of their public campaigns.\", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"Members of YAIM take to the streets of Banjul, The Gambia, during one of their public campaigns.\\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"Members of YAIM take to the streets of Banjul, The Gambia, during one of their public campaigns.\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200819175001-04-gambia-migration-intl-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"By crowdfunding and partnering with local and international groups for support, YAIM is also able to visit small communities across the country for campaigns against irregular migration, Kuyateh said.\", \"Miko Alazas, the IOM communications officer based in The Gambia, told CNN that the organization sometimes partners with returnee associations like YAIM to get people access to the right information, in order to make better migration-related choices.\", \"\\\"We work a lot with returnees because many of them are passionate about sharing their experiences in terms of exploitation and abuse -- so they are at the forefront of a lot of campaigns to raise awareness on irregular migration,\\\" he said.\", \"Now 29, Sallah travels around his home country, visiting radio stations and communities to talk about his harrowing experience. He believes in the power of storytelling to educate others about migration.\", \"\\\"I always tell them about the difficulties,\\\" he said. \\\"Some people lost their lives on the journey. I was part of those who ended up in detention. Every time you are on that journey, you are close to death.\\\"\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/12/us/ray-hushpuppi-alleged-money-laundering-trnd/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"He flaunted private jets and luxury cars on Instagram. Feds used his posts to link him to alleged cyber crimes \", \"description\": \"A federal affidavit alleged his extravagant lifestyle was financed through hacking schemes that stole millions of dollars from major companies in the United States and Europe. \", \"date\": \"2020-07-12T04:04:56Z\", \"author\": \"Faith Karimi\", \"text\": [\" (CNN)\", \"Ramon Abbas flaunted \", \"a lavish lifestyle of private jets, designer clothes\", \" and luxury cars. \", \"To his \", \"2.5 million Instagram followers,\", \" he went by Ray Hushpuppi, a man who boarded helicopters from his Dubai waterfront apartment and walked around with shopping bags from Gucci, Versace and Fendi.  \", \"On social media, where he posted a video of himself tossing wads of cash like confetti, he told his followers he was a real estate developer. But a federal affidavit alleged his extravagant lifestyle was financed through hacking schemes that\", \" stole millions of dollars \", \"from major companies in the United States and Europe. \", \"His flamboyant posts left a digital trail of evidence that investigators used to link him to the crimes, the affidavit shows. \", \"Last month, United Arab Emirates investigators swooped into his Dubai apartment, arrested him and handed him over to FBI agents, who flew him to Chicago on July 2, federal officials said. \", \"Read More\", \"In the coming weeks, he'll be transferred to Los Angeles -- where the affidavit was filed -- to face accusations of conspiring to launder hundreds of millions of dollars through cyber crime schemes.  \", \"Ramon Abbas allegedly  conspired to launder millions of dollars.\", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"Ramon Abbas allegedly  conspired to launder millions of dollars.\\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"Ramon Abbas allegedly  conspired to launder millions of dollars.\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200703180555-01-nigerian-man-charged-money-laundering-conspiracy-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"$41 million and 13 luxury cars seized  \", \"The Nigerian national lived at the exclusive Palazzo Versace in Dubai, and led a global network that used computer intrusions, business email compromise schemes and money laundering to steal hundreds of millions of dollars from companies, federal prosecutors allege. \", \"He worked with multiple co-conspirators and was arrested along with 11 others. Investigators seized nearly $41 million, 13 luxury cars worth $6.8 million, and phone and computer evidence, \", \"Dubai Police\", \" said in a statement. They uncovered email addresses of nearly 2 million possible victims on phones, computers and hard drives, Dubai authorities said. \", \"\\\"This case targets a key player in a large, transnational conspiracy who was living an opulent lifestyle in another country while allegedly providing safe havens for stolen money around the world,\\\" US Attorney Nick Hanna said in a statement. \", \"Abbas' attorney, Gal Pissetzky, declined to get into details on how his client earns his money. But what he does for a living is going to be \\\"one of the main points of contention here,\\\" he told CNN\", \".\", \"Pissetzky called his client's arrest a kidnapping, saying Dubai handed him to the United States with \\\"no legal proceedings whatsoever.\\\" Abbas has not been formally indicted, and the government has 30 days to indict him, his attorney said Thursday.  \", \"His birthday post helped track him down\", \"Abbas made no secret of his opulent lifestyle and remarkable wealth. On Snapchat, he called himself the \\\"Billionaire Gucci Master.\\\" \", \"\\\"Started out my day having sushi down at Nobu in Monte Carlo, Monaco, then decided to book a helicopter to have ... facials at the Christian Dior spa in Paris then ended my day having champagne in Gucci,\\\" he \", \"posted on Instagram\", \". \", \"Photos of him displaying multiple models of Bentley, Ferrari, Mercedes and Rolls Royce cars included the hashtag #AllMine. Others show him rubbing elbows with international sports stars and other celebrities. \", \"In the affidavit, federal officials detailed how his social media accounts provided a treasure trove of information to confirm his identity. His Instagram, for example, had an email and phone number saved for account security purposes. Federal officials got that information and linked that email and phone number to financial transactions and transfers with people the FBI believed were his co-conspirators. \", \"\\\"The email account ... also contained emails with attachments relating to wire transfers in large dollar values,\\\" the affidavit said.\", \"His Apple and Snapchat records also provided information that helped investigators confirm his identity, address and communications with other suspects. Even his Instagram birthday celebration photos provided key information. \", \"One \", \"post displayed a birthday cake\", \" topped with a Fendi logo and a miniature image of him surrounded by tiny shopping bags. Investigators used that post to verify his date of birth on a previous US visa application. \", \"Ramon Abbas told his 2.5 million Instagram followers that he's in real estate.\", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"Ramon Abbas told his 2.5 million Instagram followers that he&#39;s in real estate.\\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"Ramon Abbas told his 2.5 million Instagram followers that he&#39;s in real estate.\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200703180655-03-nigerian-man-charged-money-laundering-conspiracy-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"Companies targeted spanned two continents \", \"His alleged cyber crimes involved jaw-dropping amounts of money.\", \"Federal documents detailed how a paralegal at a New York law firm wired nearly $923,000 meant for a client's real estate refinancing to a bank account controlled by Abbas and his co-conspirators. The paralegal had received fraudulent wire instructions after sending an email to what appeared to be a bank email address but was later identified as a \\\"spoofed\\\" email address, the affidavit said.    \", \"Abbas sent a co-conspirator an image of the wire transfer confirmation for the transaction, according to the affidavit.\", \" \", \"He\", \" \", \"and an unnamed person also conspired to launder $14.7 million from a foreign financial institution last year, according to a criminal complaint.\", \"During that alleged cyber crime, Abbas sent a co-conspirator the account information for a Romanian bank account, which he said could be used for \\\"large amounts.\\\" In other alleged schemes, he also provided Dubai bank accounts that can be used to deposit money from victims in the United States, the affidavit said. \", \"He's also accused of conspiring to try to steal $124 million from an unnamed English Premier League soccer club. But it's unclear whether the attempt was successful.\", \"FBI recorded $1.7 billion in losses from such scams\", \"Business email compromise schemes are sophisticated scams that involve a hacker redirecting business email account communications to try and intercept wire transfers. \", \"\\\"BEC schemes are one of the most difficult cyber crimes we encounter as they typically involve a coordinated group of con artists scattered around the world who have experience with computer hacking and exploiting the international financial system,\\\"  Hanna said. \", \"Last year alone, the FBI recorded $1.7 billion in losses by companies and individuals victimized through business email compromise scams, according to Paul Delacourt of the FBI field office in Los Angeles. \", \"If convicted of money laundering, Abbas faces up to 20 years in prison. His bond hearing is set for Monday. \", \"His transfer to Los Angeles has been complicated by logistics linked to coronavirus, his attorney said. \", \"CNN's Laurie Ure and Steve Almasy contributed to this report.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/24/africa/kenya-maasai-warriors-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"Kenya's Maasai gather for once-in-a-decade ceremony to turn warriors into elders\", \"description\": \"Thousands of Maasai men clad in red and purple shawls and with their heads coated in red ocher gathered this week for a ceremony that transforms them from Moran (warriors) to Mzee (elders).\", \"date\": \"2020-09-24T14:41:25Z\", \"author\": \"Story by Reuters \", \"text\": [\"Maparasha Hills, Kenya\", \"Thousands of Maasai men clad in red and purple shawls and with their heads coated in red ocher gathered this week for a ceremony that transforms them from Moran (warriors) to Mzee (elders).\", \"Around 15,000 men from all over Kenya and neighboring Tanzania congregated in Maparasha Hills in Kajiado County, 128 kilometers from Nairobi, to feast on an estimated 3,000 bulls and 30,000 goats and sheep.\", \"The ceremony occurs once every decade at the site, which is surrounded by hills and dotted with acacia trees.\", \"On Wednesday, the men roasted the meat on beds of coal from acacia trees, holding staffs and swords.\", \"\\\"I used to be a Moran, But after this ceremony, I now graduate to be a Mzee (elder),\\\" Stephen Seriamu Sarbabi, a 34-year-old livestock trader, told Reuters.\", \"Read More\", \"\\\"I will now be having a lot of responsibilities in the community. I will be chairing some different meetings, I will be consulted,\\\" he added.\", \"The arrival of coronavirus in March forced a postponement of the ceremony, which was meant to have been held earlier in the year.\", \"\\\"My role here in this ceremony, is to come and bless my boys to graduate, to another stage of being wazees (elders), and to give them their privileges,\\\" Moses Lepunyo ole Purkei, a farmer, community health volunteer and elder, told Reuters.\", \"During the ceremony, the men were accompanied by their wives, who also wore colorful shawls and beads around their necks and sang songs praising and encouraging the incoming group of elders.\", \"There are about 1.2 million Maasai living in Kenya, according to the government statistics office.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/25/africa/hauwa-ojeifo-mental-health-nigeria/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"She was diagnosed with a mental health disorder. Now she is helping others work through theirs\\n\", \"description\": \"Mental health advocate Hauwa Ojeifo is one of the 2020 winner of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Changemaker award \", \"date\": \"2020-09-25T13:54:42Z\", \"author\": \"Aisha Salaudeen\", \"text\": [\"Lagos, Nigeria (CNN)\", \"In February of 2016, \", \"Hauwa Ojeifo \", \"considered taking her own life. She had spent a significant part of her teenage and early adult life years battling symptoms such as mood swings, bouts of exhaustion, fainting spells and difficulty recollecting daily events.\", \"She told CNN that growing up, there were days she could not get out of bed to carry out mundane activities like brushing her teeth. \", \"At the time, she did not realize she was experiencing symptoms of\", \" bipolar disorder\", \", a mental health condition where a person's mood swings from high and overactive to low and dull.\", \"\\\"There were a lot of things leading to that moment where I thought about dying. I had an abusive relationship -- well, I can't call it a relationship now because I was like 14 or 15 at the time. 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CNN&#39;s Stephanie Busari reports.\\\",\\\"thumbnailURL\\\": \\\"https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/181213143041-nigeria-suicide-prison-africa-large-169.jpg\\\",\\\"image\\\": \\\"https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/181213143041-nigeria-suicide-prison-africa-large-169.jpg\\\",\\\"duration\\\": \\\"PT3M\\\",\\\"uploadDate\\\": \\\"2018-12-31T13:03:29Z\\\",\\\"contentUrl\\\": \\\"https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2018/12/30/imprisoned-suicide-illegal-nigeria-busari-pkg.cnn\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2018/12/30/imprisoned-suicide-illegal-nigeria-busari-pkg.cnn\\\",\\\"embedUrl\\\": \\\"https://fave.api.cnn.io/v1/fav/?video=world/2018/12/30/imprisoned-suicide-illegal-nigeria-busari-pkg.cnn&customer=cnn&edition=domestic&env=prod\\\"}\", \"Locked up where suicide is still a crime\", \" \", \"02:59\", \"She added that she was sexually abused in 2014 and did not know how to express being raped by a trusted partner to the people around her. \", \"Read More\", \"Her experiences, she said, piled up till she eventually snapped and started nursing suicidal notions. \", \"\\\"Trying to explain what was going on in my head was difficult. I looked fine physically, but it started to affect me mentally. I could go a day without being able to construct sentences, and I was a research analyst at the time which meant I had to write daily reports but I couldn't,\\\" she said. \", \"After expressing her suicidal thoughts to a friend, she was encouraged to see a psychiatrist at a psychiatric hospital in Lagos, one of Nigeria's largest cities. \", \"She was diagnosed with Bipolar and post traumatic stress disorder with mild psychosis. \\\"I poured out my heart, got some tests done and eventually got a diagnosis.\\\"\", \"Creating awareness \", \"Two months after Ojeifo's diagnosis, she said she decided to turn her difficult experiences around. She started to create awareness on the far-reaching impacts of mental health in Nigeria. \", \"In April 2016, she created\", \" She Writes Woman\", \", a non-profit organization focused on providing mental health support for those who may need it in the west African nation. \", \"There is minimal mental health awareness and there are not enough mental health professionals in Nigeria. \", \"In a country of more than \", \"200 million\", \" people, there are only 250 practicing psychiatrists, according to the\", \" Association of Psychiatrists of Nigeria. \", \"Ojeifo told CNN that She Writes Woman started as a blog but she realized she could do more with it, \\\"At first, I was just using it as an outlet to share my experiences and that of other women,\\\" she explained. \", \"Eventually, it morphed into a support community for people with mental health conditions. \", \"The 28-year-old got trained as a mental health coach so that she could start a helpline to talk to people experiencing overwhelming mental health symptoms.\", \"\\\"From sharing stories on the blog and social media, She Writes Woman blew up into a helpline which was run by me for a while, and then to a support group for people in vulnerable conditions,\\\" she said. \", \"24-hour mental health helpline\", \"She Writes Woman provides a\", \" 24-hour mental health helpline\", \" for anyone within Nigeria.\", \"The helpline serves as a first point of contact for people in distress or those who just want to talk about their mental health and symptoms. \", \"\\\"People call the helpline to get what we call a first-aid treatment. On the call you don't get immediate professional counseling, what happens is you get a first response communication where someone listens to you and what you have to say,\\\" Ojeifo explained.\", \"She added that after the first responders, callers can be referred to mental health professionals for therapy or a diagnosis if needed, \\\"depending on what the issue is we que people in to either a therapist or a psychiatrist.\\\"\", \"Data on mental health in Nigeria is hard to find, but according to a 2016 report in the Annals of Nigerian Medicine journal, an estimated\", \" 20-30% \", \"of the country's population is suffering from mental disorders.\", \"And in 2017, a World Health Organization report found that Nigerians have the highest incidences of depression in Africa, with \", \"more than 7 million people \", \"in the country suffering from depression.\", \"Despite the numbers, there is an absence of \", \"effective mental health legislation\", \" setting standards for psychiatric treatment or encouraging mental health awareness in the country. \", \"In February, following deliberations by legislators to pass a proposed mental health bill, Ojeifo became the first person to testify before the Nigerian parliament on the rights of persons with mental health conditions in the country.\", \"var id = '//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js'.replace(/\\\\s+/g, '');!!document.getElementById(id) || (function makeEmbedScript(d, id) {var js,fjs;js = d.createElement('script');js.id = id;js.charset = 'utf-8';js.setAttribute('async', '');js.src = '//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js';fjs = d.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];window.WM.UserConsent.addScriptElement(js, [\\\"vendor\\\",\\\"measure-ads\\\"], fjs);}(document, id));\", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" View this post on Instagram\", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \"We are so proud of our founder @hauwa_ojeifo for the great milestone achieved today. . She graciously spoke before the Senate at the public hearing of the #mentalhealth bill earlier today on behalf of all persons living with mental health conditions. . If you were there, you'd have been so proud. Word on the street is that this is the first time a person with a mental health condition is speaking before the Senate. . Go Hauwa!!\\ud83d\\udc83\\ud83c\\udffd . Want to know more about the mental health bill? Check out our stories to make your suggestions.\", \" \", \"A post shared by \", \" SWW | Mental Health in Nigeria\", \" (@shewriteswoman) on \", \"Feb 17, 2020 at 10:46am PST\", \"\\n\", \"The bill has yet to be implemented. \", \"To close the mental health gap in Nigeria, Ojeifo's organization also offers a support group for women and girls called \", \"Safe Place\", \" in six Nigerian states. \", \"\\\"Safe Space provides a community of shared experiences for women and girls. It provides a space for women to connect and share their experiences on whatever topic, to be there for one another and understand that they are not alone in their journeys,\\\" she explained, estimating that there have been over 50 meetings of the support group since the inception of the organization.\", \"In the beginning, Ojeifo, a former investment banker,  self-funded the organization. \", \"But now, with donations and grants from organizations such as One Young World, Airtel Nigeria and Disability Rights Advocacy Fund, it is able to expand and carry out more activities in Nigeria's mental health space.\", \"In 2018, the activist received a\", \" Queen's Young Leaders Award\", \" in in recognition of her work with the 24-hour mental health helpline and Safe Space support group. \", \"Changemaker Award Winner \", \"On Tuesday, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation named Ojeifo as its\", \" Changemaker Award winner for 2020\", \" for her work with She Writes Woman. \", \"The Changemaker Award is one of the Goalkeepers Global Goals Awards pushed yearly by the foundation. It celebrates individuals who have inspired change from a position of leadership or using their personal experience. \", \"In a statement released Tuesday, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation said it recognized the activist for her work in promoting\", \" Gender Equality\", \", the fifth global goal for sustainable development prescribed by the United Nations. \", \"These Africans are among the world's 100 most influential people, according to Time magazine\", \"Ojeifo said that she was in \\\"disbelief\\\" when she first received the email alerting her that she was a recipient of the award. \", \"\\\"It was so unexpected and it came as a surprise because I was not expecting it. It's like an added validation to the work She Writes Woman does,\\\" she said. \", \"\\\"During one of the meetings with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation I asked them how I was selected because I was just so blown away. I was told that it was because I had used my personal experience to build hope for people and to drive change,\\\" she added. \", \"Through the 2020 Changemaker Award, Ojeifo is hoping to gather a network that will help amplify the work She Writes Woman does even more. \", \"\\\"The Changemaker award means I am part of this network that is dedicated to amplifying my cause and giving me visibility,\\\" she said.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/18/africa/kenyan-comic-sensation-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"This chip-eating Kenyan comic is keeping Africans entertained on social media \", \"description\": \"Kenyan teenager, Elsa Majimbo is making viral monolgues on social media \", \"date\": \"2020-08-18T11:06:18Z\", \"author\": \"Aisha Salaudeen\", \"text\": [\" (CNN)\", \"Elsa Majimbo is taking over social media by providing comic relief on Instagram and Twitter amid the \", \"Covid-19 pandemic\", \". \", \"The Kenyan comic, whose relatable monologues often go viral, films from her home in Nairobi, the country's capital city. \", \"Majimbo first went viral after posting a video in March when initial restrictions such as intermittent lockdowns, border controls, and closure of schools and restaurants were\", \" imposed by the Kenyan government\", \" to curb the spread of Covid-19.\", \"In the video, the 19-year-old talked about being in isolation at the time and wanting to be left alone.\", \"var id = '//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js'.replace(/\\\\s+/g, '');!!document.getElementById(id) || (function makeEmbedScript(d, id) {var js,fjs;js = d.createElement('script');js.id = id;js.charset = 'utf-8';js.setAttribute('async', '');js.src = '//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js';fjs = d.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];window.WM.UserConsent.addScriptElement(js, [\\\"vendor\\\",\\\"measure-ads\\\"], fjs);}(document, id));\", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" View this post on Instagram\", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \"'Sending love,sending hugs,sending kisses'. Kama Hautumi Mpesa don't waste my time\", \" \", \"A post shared by \", \" Elsa Mpho Majimbo\", \" (@majimb.o) on \", \"Mar 30, 2020 at 10:20am PDT\", \"\\n\", \"\\\"Ever since corona started, we've all been in isolation, and I like, miss no one,\\\" she said, laughing and eating potato-based crunchy chips\", \" in the video\", \". \", \"Read More\", \"\\\"Why am I missing you? There is no reason for me to miss you... do I pay your rent? Do I provide food for you? Why are you missing me?\\\" she added, still laughing. \", \"The quirky humor in the video earned Majimbo many reshares and more than 250,000 views from users across the continent, including South Africa, Kenya and Nigeria. \", \"She told CNN she did not expect the video to get as much attention as it did, but many people related to it. \", \"Gentlemen, start your wheelbarrows! Meet the Nigerian kids ingeniously remaking famous videos with household objects\", \"\\\"It was the time we had just gotten to lockdown, and everyone was telling me they missed me, and I literally like being away from people, so I thought to myself, 'Let me make a video about that,'\\\" she said. \", \"\\\"I did not expect all the attention, but it happened, and I am glad it did.\\\"\", \"Since going viral, Majimbo has made more videos combining dry humor and criticism around the subject matters she decides to film about. \", \"Many of the videos have more than 250,000 views on Instagram and an average of 50,000 views on Twitter.  \", \"Some of the videos have also been featured on American owned cable channel, \", \"Comedy Central\", \". \", \"Eating crunchy chips \", \"Majimbo often incorporates eating crunchy chips, which has become one of her signature moves, to emphasize her points in her monologues.\", \"\\\"In the first video that trended, I ate chips. A lot of people seemed to like it. There were a lot of comments asking me to do it again. So, I was like, OK whatever, and I did it again,\\\" she told CNN. \", \"The comic sensation additionally wears tiny dark sunglasses as a prop in her videos. Just like crunching on chips, the '90s shades are for emphasizing on points made in her skits, she said. \", \"var id = '//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js'.replace(/\\\\s+/g, '');!!document.getElementById(id) || (function makeEmbedScript(d, id) {var js,fjs;js = d.createElement('script');js.id = id;js.charset = 'utf-8';js.setAttribute('async', '');js.src = '//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js';fjs = d.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];window.WM.UserConsent.addScriptElement(js, [\\\"vendor\\\",\\\"measure-ads\\\"], fjs);}(document, id));\", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" View this post on Instagram\", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \"If I pay for the app I own the abs\", \" \", \"A post shared by \", \" Elsa Mpho Majimbo\", \" (@majimb.o) on \", \"Jun 11, 2020 at 10:10am PDT\", \"\\n\", \"\\\"How do I manage to be this hot? The key to being hot is Photoshop,\\\" she said in \", \"one of her videos\", \" titled \\\"If I pay for the app, I own the abs.\\\"\", \"In the video, Majimbo joked about using Photoshop to look good in pictures, \\\"Why get a six-pack in five months when you can get them in five minutes?\\\" she added, putting on the sunglasses to make her point. \", \"Her videos have received support from \", \"celebrities \", \"like actor Lupita Nyongo and current Miss Universe, Zozibini Tunzi. \", \"Majimbo, who records all her monologues using her iPhone 6, said she does not write her lines down before filming, instead she simply \\\"goes with the flow.\\\"\", \"\\\"The thing I like the most about my videos is that they come to me so easily and so naturally. I could just be sitting and feel like making a video about something, and I do it. Anything that comes to my mind, I record,\\\" she said. \", \"\\\"If I don't have any lines to record. I don't even bother, I just skip it and say no video today,\\\" she added. \", \"'I've been able to find myself in a way I hadn't before'\", \"Since becoming an internet sensation, Majimbo said she partnered with brands such as Canadian cosmetics manufacturer, MAC cosmetics, to create content aimed at promoting their products in fun ways. \", \"The teenager, who is currently a journalism student at Strathmore University in Nairobi, is thinking about a completely different career.\", \"According to her, she is taking the time to explore different and newer options, particularly in entertainment, \\\"I think the career I wanted before is not what I want now. A lot of things have changed, I've been able to find myself in a way I hadn't before.\\\" \", \"She added that she is looking into acting roles and having her own comedy show. \", \"This Nigerian comic is getting a lot of love on TikTok with the 'Don't Leave Me' challenge\", \"But regardless of the career part Majimbo takes, she is already influencing social media users in Africa. \", \"She has been given a South African name \\\"Mpho\\\" by her fans in the country. The name means \\\"gift\\\" in Tswana language spoken in Southern Africa, Botswana, Namibia and Zimbabwe. \", \"Majimbo says she will continue to make relatable and funny monologues but will not be limited to them.\", \"\\\"I don't like setting expectations for my future plans because I don't want to be limited. I am open to exploring and becoming many things in the future.\\\"\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/07/africa/africa-engineering-prize-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"A 26-year-old is first woman to win Royal Academy of Engineering's Africa Prize for innovation\", \"description\": \"A 26-year-old has become the first woman to win the prestigious Royal Academy of Engineering's Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation.\\n\\n\", \"date\": \"2020-09-07T13:54:59Z\", \"author\": \"Aisha Salaudeen\", \"text\": [\" (CNN)\", \"A 26-year-old from Ivory Coast has won the 2020 Royal Academy of Engineering's Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation.\", \"Charlette N'Guessan is the \", \"first woman to win the award\", \", which could revolutionize cyber security and help curb identity fraud on the continent. \", \"N'Guessan and her team won the \\u00a325,000 award (about $33,000) for BACE API, a digital verification system that uses Artificial Intelligence and facial recognition to verify the identities of Africans remotely and in real time.\", \"BACE API works by matching the live photo of a user to the image on their documents such as passports or ID card, N'Guessan said. \", \"For websites and online applications that have BACE API integrated in them, users will be verified via their webcam to establish their  identity. \", \"Read More\", \"\\\"For the person trying to submit their application, we ask them to switch on their camera to make sure the person behind the camera is real, and not a robot. \", \"\\\"We are able to capture the face of the person live and match their image with the one on the existing document the person submitted,\\\" she explained. \", \"BACE API verifies users identities in real time using their phone camera or webcam\", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"BACE API verifies users identities in real time using their phone camera or webcam\\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"BACE API verifies users identities in real time using their phone camera or webcam\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200904115946-restricted-03-africa-engineering-prize-intl-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"BACE API can be integrated into already existing applications and systems for identity verification and is targeted at mostly financial institutions on the continent, N'Guessan told CNN. \", \"N'Guessan and her team won the Africa Prize for Innovation in a virtual award ceremony on September 3 where the Africa Prize judges and a live audience voted in their favor, the Royal Academy of Engineering said in\", \" a statement\", \". \", \"\\\"We are very proud to have Charlette N'Guessan and her team win this award,\\\" said Rebecca Enonchong, an entrepreneur from Cameroon entrepreneur and Africa Prize judge in the statement. \", \"\\\"It is essential to have technologies like facial recognition based on African communities, and we are confident their innovative technology will have far reaching benefits for the continent.\\\"\", \"BACE API matches a user's live photo with the image on their official documents to verify their identity. \", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"BACE API matches a user&#39;s live photo with the image on their official documents to verify their identity. \\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"BACE API matches a user&#39;s live photo with the image on their official documents to verify their identity. \\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200904115800-restricted-02-africa-engineering-prize-intl-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"Curbing identity fraud\", \"N'Guessan, who is the CEO and co-founder of Ghana-based software company, \", \"BACE Group\", \", told CNN that the idea came about while she was studying at the \", \"Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology\", \" (MEST) in Accra, Ghana's capital city. \", \"While there, she worked with a team of four and it was during one of their research projects in 2018 they decided to create BACE API, and later a software company. \", \"\\\"We ... talked to tech entrepreneurs. That's when we noticed that there is a huge problem with cyber security with online services and businesses,\\\" she said.\", \"N'Guessan said their research found that many financial institutions in the west African country deal with identity fraud, estimating that they spend up to $400 million dollars yearly to identify their customers. \", \"\\\"We decided to make our contribution as software engineers and data scientists by building a solution that can be useful for this market,\\\" N'Guessan added. \", \"Before the winner was announced on September 3, N'Guessan and other entrepreneurs shortlisted for the Africa Prize received eight months of training from experts across the world and her team was paired with an AI specialist who helped with improvements to their system. \", \" An African woman in tech\", \"N'Guessan's interest in technology started at a young age. Growing up in Ivory Coast, west Africa, she was encouraged to focus on science and technology subjects by her father, a mathematics professor.  \", \"\\\"He inspired my choice for studying STEM. I was actually really good in science-related courses. After high school, I went on to study software engineering at university,\\\" she said. \", \"Now running her own technology company, she told CNN that winning the Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation has helped to boost her confidence as a CEO leading a technical team of men.\", \"The Academy was founded in 1976 and has been running the award to reward engineering innovation in Africa since 2014. \", \"Globally, the technology industry is growing, but women led startups are in short supply with\", \" only 22%\", \" founded by at least one woman, according to a report in Disrupt Africa.\", \"This 9-year-old has built more than 30 mobile games\", \"Data specific to Africa is hard to come by but some studies suggest that \", \"only 9% of startups\", \" on the continent have women founders. \", \"N'Guessan says she hopes that her achievement will motivate more women to consider careers in tech. \", \"\\\"I will be happy if people are inspired by my story, being the first woman to win the Africa Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation and by my work as a woman in tech,\\\" she said. \"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/16/africa/amnesty-mozambique-video-killing-investigation-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"Amnesty International calls for investigation into video showing execution of woman in Mozambique\", \"description\": \"Amnesty International has called for an immediate investigation into the apparent extrajudicial killing of a woman in Mozambique that was shared widely in a horrifying video on social media earlier this week. \", \"date\": \"2020-09-16T17:31:35Z\", \"author\": \"David McKenzie, Brent Swails and Vasco Cotovio\", \"text\": [\" (CNN)\", \"Amnesty International has called for an immediate investigation into the apparent extrajudicial killing of a woman in Mozambique that was shared widely in a horrifying video on social media earlier this week. \", \"In the nearly two-minute-long video, men wearing military uniforms are seen chasing down a naked woman, surrounding and verbally harassing her along a rural road. One of the men repeatedly beats her with a stick before another man shoots her at close range. \", \" \", \"She is then repeatedly shot by the men while lying on the road before one of the men shouts \\\"Stop, stop, enough, it's done.\\\" \", \" \", \"Read More\", \"The video ends as the men turn and walk away, with one of them announcing, \\\"They've killed the al-Shabaab,\\\" the local name given to the growing insurgency in the far north of the country. \", \"It has no known links to the Somali terrorist group of the same name. The uniformed man looks directly into camera and raises his two fingers before the recording stops. \", \" \", \"\\\"The horrendous video is yet another gruesome example of the gross human rights violations taking place in Cabo Delgado by the Mozambican forces,\\\" said Deprose Muchena, Amnesty International's Director for East and Southern Africa.\", \"A young boy was killed by a police stray bullet during a coronavirus curfew. Now his parents want answers\", \" \", \"In its own analysis of the video, the human rights group says that the men were wearing the uniform of the Mozambican military. Amnesty says four different gunmen shot the woman a total of 36 times with AK-47s and PKM-style machine guns. Its investigation concluded that the incident took place near Awasse in the country's northernmost province Cabo Delgado. \", \" \", \"\\\"The incident is consistent with our recent findings of appalling human rights violations and crimes under international law happening in the area,\\\" said Muchena. \", \" \", \"CNN could not independently the authenticity of the video, the date and location it was filmed, nor the identity of the gunmen. \", \" \", \"Mozambique's Minister of Interior Amade Miquidade denied the accusations of atrocities, though did not address the video specifically, on national television Tuesday, saying that insurgents frequently wear army uniforms. \", \" \", \"\\\"When they want to produce their propaganda against the security and defense forces, against the Mozambican state, they remove those signs/characters that identify them and make videos to promote an image of atrocity practiced by those who defend the people,\\\" he said. \", \"Ammonium nitrate that exploded in Beirut bought for mining, Mozambican firm says \", \" \", \"Cabo Delgado is home to a $60 billion natural gas development that is heavily guarded by Mozambican military and private security. \", \" \", \"Loosely aligned with ISIS, the insurgents have undertaken increasingly sophisticated attacks in recent months, overrunning large parts of Mocimba de Praia, a strategic port north of the regional capital Pemba in August. Unlike in previous attacks, government forces have struggled to fully retake the territory. \", \" \", \"The insurgents have been accused by the government and human rights groups of their own violent abuses -- including beheadings, looting, and indiscriminate killing of civilians. \", \" \", \"And the interior minister highlighted those alleged abuses on Tuesday. \", \" \", \"\\\"Once more, our country continues to be the object of aggression by the terrorists, namely in the province of Cabo Delgado, where they've enforced cruel, inhuman, atrocious acts against our population,\\\" said Miquidade.\", \" \", \"Security analysts and human rights workers say that insurgents operating in the area do sometimes wear Mozambican military uniforms. But the uniformed men in the video showing the woman's killing speak Portuguese, generally more common to Mozambicans from the South. \", \"CNN's David McKenzie and Brent Swails reported from Johannesburg and Vasco Cotovio reported from London.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/23/africa/china-ethiopia-test-kits-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"China's BGI wins 1.5 million coronavirus test kit order from Ethiopia\", \"description\": \"Ethiopia has agreed to purchase 1.5 million coronavirus testing kits that will be manufactured at a factory in the African country that has been newly built by China's BGI Group, China's state media agency Xinhua said late on Tuesday.\", \"date\": \"2020-09-23T11:22:20Z\", \"author\": \"Story by Reuters\", \"text\": [\"Beijing \", \"Ethiopia has agreed to purchase 1.5 million coronavirus testing kits that will be manufactured at a factory in the African country that has been newly built by China's BGI Group, China's state media agency Xinhua said late on Tuesday.\", \"The BGI factory, the first coronavirus test production facility in Ethiopia that opened earlier this month, is designed to be able to make 6-8 million tests in a year and can expand the annual capacity to up to 10 million in accordance with local demand, Xinhua reported.\", \"BGI, which makes genome sequencing and medical devices, is hoping to use its footprint in Ethiopia in expanding its supplies to other African countries, Xinhua quoted a BGI official as saying in a separate report on Wednesday.\", \"BGI did not immediately respond to a request for comment.\", \"BGI Group's unit BGI Genomics had said it supplied over 35 million coronavirus testing kits overseas and built 58 labs in 18 countries as of June 30.\", \"Read More\", \"The Ethiopia factory could be later converted to make test kits for HIV, malaria and tuberculosis once the Covid-19 pandemic ends, Xinhua said.\", \"Ethiopia, one of the countries that has the most new daily infections on average in Africa, has reported 69,709 infections and 1,108 coronavirus-related deaths since the pandemic began.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/29/africa/togo-female-prime-minister-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"Togo names first female Prime Minister\", \"description\": \"President's former chief-of-staff Victoire Tomegah Dogbe, 60, has become the first female prime minister of Togo, a tiny West African nation of about eight million people.\", \"date\": \"2020-09-29T18:09:26Z\", \"author\": \"Orji Sunday\", \"text\": [\" (CNN)\", \"Togo's President Faure Gnassingbe has appointed the country's first female prime minister.\", \"Victoire Tomegah Dogbe, 60, became the first female prime minister of the tiny West African nation of about eight million people.\", \" \", \"Dogbe, whose appointment was confirmed by President Faure Gnassingbe on Monday, replaces Komi Selom Klassou, who resigned as prime minister on Friday, a position he held since 2015.\", \" \", \"Read More\", \"Dogbe is well known and respected in Togo, having served in several positions under Gnassingbe's government in the past decade, including working as his chief-of-staff, director of the cabinet of the President of the Republic and more recently as Minister for youth and grassroots development, according to local media reports.\", \"Ethiopia appoints its first female president \", \" \", \"Prior to joining politics, she worked with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) according to information from the agency. \", \" \", \"Her appointment comes after an expected cabinet reshuffle, which was delayed by the country's fight against coronavirus pandemic, following the controversial re-election of Gnassingbe, \", \"who has ruled Togo since 2005\", \". \", \"He took power from his father who, before his death,  ruled Togo for 38 years, dating back to a 1967 coup. \", \"Despite a \", \"series of protests between 2017 -- 2019\", \" calling for an end to a single family rule in Togo, Gnassingbe forced a constitutional reform in 2019 that allowed him to run for an election which he won easily in February 2020. His current tenure runs till 2025.  \", \"Faure must go: How one Togolese woman is risking her life to end the 50-year Gnassingb\\u00e9 dynasty\", \"The 56-year-old leader has seen growing opposition, following slowed economic growth, accusations of electoral fraud, \", \"corruption and human rights violations.\", \" \", \"Dogbe's has vast experience in governance and administration which is well positioned to help the country achieve a long-expected economic boom which has eluded the country since independence in 1960.\", \" \", \"Dogbe has been deeply involved in the country's fight against youth unemployment and poverty, introducing reforms that have been praised as a local success in her country, according to \", \"Togo-First, an online publication\", \" in the country. \", \" \", \"As the parliament awaits Dogbe's policy plan, observers are keen to see what economic difference her reforms can make in a country where half its population live below the poverty line, according to a \", \"2014 report by the International Monetary Fund\", \". \"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/30/africa/zimbabwe-elephant-disease-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"Zimbabwe suspects bacterial disease behind elephant deaths\", \"description\": \"Zimbabwe suspects a bacterial disease called hemorrhagic septicemia is behind the recent deaths of more than 30 elephants but is doing further tests to make sure, the parks authority said.\", \"date\": \"2020-09-30T14:48:29Z\", \"author\": \"Story by Reuters\", \"text\": [\"Zimbabwe suspects a bacterial disease called hemorrhagic septicemia is behind the recent deaths of more than 30 elephants but is doing further tests to make sure, the parks authority said.\", \"The elephant deaths, which began in late August, come soon after hundreds of elephants died in neighboring Botswana in mysterious circumstances.\", \"Officials in Botswana were initially at a loss to explain the elephant deaths there but have since blamed toxins produced by another type of bacterium.\", \"Toxins in water blamed for deaths of hundreds of elephants in Botswana \", \"Experts say Botswana and Zimbabwe could be home to roughly half of the continent's 400,000 elephants, often targeted by poachers.\", \"Elephants in Botswana and parts of Zimbabwe are at historically high levels, but elsewhere on the continent -- especially in forested areas -- many populations are severely depleted, said Chris Thouless, head of research at Save the Elephants.\", \"Read More\", \"\\\"Higher populations equal greater risk from infectious diseases,\\\" Thouless told Reuters, adding that climate change could put pressure on elephant populations as water supplies diminish and temperatures rise, potentially increasing the probability of pathogen outbreaks.\", \"Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority Director-General Fulton Mangwanya told a parliamentary committee on Monday that so far 34 dead elephants had been counted.\", \"\\\"It is unlikely that this disease alone will have any serious overall impact on the survival of the elephant population,\\\" he said. \\\"The northwest regions of Zimbabwe have an over-abundance of elephants and this outbreak of disease is probably a manifestation of that ... particularly in the hot, dry season elephants are stressed by competition for water and food resources.\\\"\", \"Postmortems on some of the dead elephants showed inflamed livers and other organs, Mangwanya said. The elephants were found lying on their stomachs, suggesting a sudden death.\", \"Vernon Booth, a Zimbabwe-based wildlife management consultant, told Reuters it was difficult to put a number on Zimbabwe's current elephant population. He estimated it could be close to 90,000, up from 82,000 in 2014 when the last national survey was conducted, assuming that roughly 2,000-3,000 have died each year from all causes.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/01/world/covid-girls-child-marriage-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"Half a million more girls are at risk of child marriage in 2020 because of Covid-19, charity warns\", \"description\": \"The pandemic has put 500,000 more girls at risk of being forced into child marriage this year, reversing 25 years of progress that saw child marriage rates decline, according to a new report by the charity Save the Children.\", \"date\": \"2020-10-01T12:59:25Z\", \"author\": \"Tara John\", \"text\": [\"London (CNN)\", \"The pandemic has put 500,000 more girls at risk of being forced into child marriage this year, reversing \", \"25 years of progress\", \" that saw child marriage rates decline, according to a new report by the charity Save the Children.\", \"Before the global outbreak, 12 million girls married each year, now the charity warns that up to 2.5 million more girls could be at risk of \", \"child marriage\", \" over the next five years.  \", \"How saying 'I do' can help millions of girls to say 'I don't'\", \"With up to 117 million children estimated to fall into poverty in 2020, many will face pressure to work and help provide for their families.\", \"\\\"The pandemic means more families are being pushed into poverty, forcing many girls to work to support their families, to go without food, to become the main caregivers for sick family members, and to drop out of school -- with far less of a chance than boys of ever returning,\\\" Inger Ashing, CEO of Save the Children International, \", \"said in a press release\", \".\", \"The pandemic led to school closures and \\\"experience during the Ebola outbreak suggests many girls will never return\\\" to class due \\\"to increasing pressure to work, risk of child marriage, bans on pregnant girls attending school, and lost contact with education,\\\" the charity wrote.\", \"Read More\", \"A girl gets married every 2 seconds somewhere in the world\", \"This year, 191,200 girls in South Asia will be disproportionately affected by the risk of increased child marriage, the report says. It is followed by West and Central Africa, where 90,000 girls are at risk of child marriage, Latin America and the Caribbean (73,400), and Europe and Central Asia (37,200).  \", \"Girls affected by humanitarian crises, such as wars, floods and earthquakes, face the greatest risk of child marriage, the report notes. Before the pandemic, data showed child marriage was increasing among refugee populations. In Lebanon, child marriage among Syrian refugee girls rose by 7% between 2017 and 2018.\", \"\\\"Every year, around 12 million girls are married, 2 million before their 15th birthday,\\\" Ashing said. \\\"Half a million more girls are now at risk of this gender-based violence this year alone -- and these only are the ones we know about. We believe this is the tip of the iceberg.\\\"\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/16/africa/blasphemy-nigeria-boy-sentenced-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"Outrage as Nigeria sentences 13-year-old boy to 10 years in prison for blasphemy\", \"description\": \"Child rights agency UNICEF has condemned the sentencing of a 13-year-old boy to 10 years in prison for blasphemy in northern Nigeria. \", \"date\": \"2020-09-16T14:09:33Z\", \"author\": \"Stephanie Busari and Eoin McSweeney\", \"text\": [\" (CNN)\", \"Child rights agency UNICEF has condemned the sentencing of a 13-year-old boy to 10 years in prison for blasphemy in northern Nigeria. \", \"Omar Farouq was convicted in a Sharia court in Kano State in northwest Nigeria after he was accused of using foul language toward Allah in an argument with a friend. \", \"He was sentenced on August 10 by the same court that recently sentenced a studio assistant Yahaya Sharif-Aminu to death for blaspheming Prophet Mohammed, according to lawyers. \", \"Farouq's punishment is in violation of the African Charter of the Rights and Welfare of a Child and the Nigerian constitution, said his counsel Kola Alapinni, who told CNN they filed an appeal on his behalf on September 7. \", \"Farouq was tried as an adult because he has attained puberty and has full responsibility under Islamic law. \", \"Read More\", \"Alapinni told CNN he or other lawyers working on the case have not been granted access to Farouq by authorities in Kano State. \", \"He said he found out about Farouq's case by chance when working on the case of Sharif-Aminu, who was sentenced to death for blasphemy at the Kano Upper Sharia Court. \", \"\\\"We found out they were convicted on the same day, by the same judge, in the same court, for blasphemy and we found out no one was talking about Omar, so we had to move quickly to file an appeal for him,\\\" he said. \", \"\\\"Blasphemy is not recognized by Nigerian law. It is inconsistent with the constitution of Nigeria.\\\"\", \" \", \" .m-infographic--1600276717888 { background: url(//cdn.cnn.com/cnn/.e/interactive/html5-video-media/2020/09/16/20201609_kano_state_map_375px.jpg) no-repeat 0 0 transparent; margin-bottom: 30px; padding-top: 111.4513981358189%; width: 100%; -moz-background-size: cover; -o-background-size: cover; -webkit-background-size: cover; background-size: cover; } @media (min-width: 640px) { .m-infographic--1600276717888{ background-image: url(//cdn.cnn.com/cnn/.e/interactive/html5-video-media/2020/09/16/20201609_kano_state_map_780px.jpg); padding-top: 84.2948717948718%; } } @media (min-width: 1120px) { .m-infographic--1600276717888{ background-image: url(//cdn.cnn.com/cnn/.e/interactive/html5-video-media/2020/09/16/20201609_kano_state_map_780px.jpg); padding-top: 84.2948717948718%; } } \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \"The lawyer said Farouq's mother had fled to a neighboring town after mobs descended on their home following his arrest. \", \"\\\"Everyone here is scared to speak and living under fear of reprisal attacks,\\\" he said. \", \"UNICEF Wednesday issued a statement \\\"expressing deep concern\\\" about the sentencing. \", \"\\\"The sentencing of this child -- 13-year-old Omar Farouq -- to 10 years in prison with menial labour is wrong,\\\" said Peter Hawkins, UNICEF representative in Nigeria. \\\"It also negates all core underlying principles of child rights and child justice that Nigeria -- and by implication, Kano State -- has signed on to.\\\" \", \"Kano State, like most predominantly Muslim states in Nigeria, practices Sharia law alongside secular law. \", \"Islam Fast Facts\", \"CNN contacted a spokesman for the Kano State governor for comment but had not heard back before publication. \", \"UNICEF has called on the Nigerian government and the Kano State government to urgently review the case and reverse the sentence, the organization said in a statement. \", \"\\\"This case further underlines the urgent need to accelerate the enactment of the Kano State Child Protection Bill so as to ensure that all children under 18, including Omar Farouq are protected -- and that all children in Kano are treated in accordance with child rights standards,\\\" Hawkins said.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/18/africa/disney-partners-with-nollywood/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"Disney partners with Nollywood to bring American movies to English-speaking West Africa\", \"description\": \"FilmOne Entertainment is now the sole distributor of Disney titles in English speaking West Africa\", \"date\": \"2020-09-18T12:02:13Z\", \"author\": \"Aisha Salaudeen\", \"text\": [\"Lagos, Nigeria (CNN)\", \"Disney, is joining forces with a Nigerian production and distribution company to market some of the American entertainment conglomerate's new releases such as \\\"Mulan\\\" in English-speaking West Africa.\", \"The deal makes FilmOne Entertainment the sole distributors of Disney-owned films in Nigeria, Ghana, and Liberia. \", \"\\\"It is a major career highlight, that we're able to get the world's biggest movie studio as a partner,\\\" Moses Babatope, a director at FilmOne, told CNN. \", \"Bollywood and Nollywood collide in a tale of a big fat Indian-Nigerian wedding\", \"FilmOne Entertainment has been at the forefront of growing Nigeria's cinema culture and has built cinemas across the country, including IMAX screens.\", \"The firm has also distributed and produced \", \"Nigerian box office hits \", \"such as \\\"The Wedding Party,\\\" and \\\"New Money.'\\\"\", \"Read More\", \"\\\"What the deal means is that we are exclusive marketers and distributors of Disney titles in the English-speaking West African countries that have studio licensed cinemas. We will distribute the films to all those cinemas in the territory,\\\" he explained. \", \"The agreement, which commenced this month, covers titles from all Disney studio divisions including Pixar, Marvel Studios, Walt Disney Pictures, and Blue Sky pictures. \", \"\\\"With their in-depth knowledge of the region and expertise in bringing theatrical releases to fans, we are thrilled to welcome FilmOne as our distribution partner for this territory,\\\" Disney Africa's country manager, Christine Service said in a statement. \", \"Bigger opportunities\", \"Film analysts in the country say this deal may convince investors and film producers to look further into the African movie industry. \", \"\\\"This deal is huge because it means that Disney is paying attention. Their presence can open doors for movie collaborations,\\\" said Shola Thompson, a Nigeria-based film consultant.\", \"Thompson added that distributing Disney movies is a pathway to getting the best content to cinemas, which can improve the cinema-going culture in the region as well as increase their potential earnings.\", \"As a result of restrictions following the Covid-19 pandemic, many cinemas in West Africa are not operating at full capacity. But FilmOne Entertainment says it is working on improving the cinema experience as a way of encouraging people to show up when all restrictions have been lifted.\", \"Netflix partners with Nigerian filmmaker in new major deal \", \"\\\"We will let people know that they enjoy films better when they watch with other people. To say that the experience out of home is very different,\\\" Babatope said. \", \"\\\"We will communicate that cinemas are safe in our communications to audiences. We will document what the cinemas are doing regarding incorporating safety procedures,\\\" he added. \", \"Disney's deal is not the first time a multinational entertainment company is partnering with film companies in West Africa.\", \"In 2019, FilmOne Entertainment signed a deal with Chinese media giant Huahua to co-produce the first \", \"major China-Nigeria film. \", \"In the same year, French Media giant,\", \" Canal+ acquired leading Nollywood film studio, ROK film studios\", \" to create more hours of Nigerian content for its French-speaking audience.\", \"Independence key to collaboration\", \"Thompson who is also a film analyst says the growing influence of entertainment companies like Disney on the continent may create room for greater Hollywood influence in Africa, without a corresponding influence of African film content in Hollywood.\", \"\\\"We need to be a bit careful to make sure we don't lose creative control of our stories. With more multinationals looking into Africa for partnerships, we don't want to find ourselves stuck with them dictating what we start to produce,\\\" he said. \", \"\\\"At the same time, we can still be glad that they are paying attention as that means growth for our film industry,\\\" he added. \", \"As FilmOne Entertainment prepares to start distributing Disney content, Babatope says the partnership is an opportunity that can lead to future collaborations involving largely African content. \", \"\\\"It's true that a lot of the content we will be distributing are from other parts of the world but if we are able to demonstrate that we are accountable and transparent, then there will be room to attract future investments involving content from this region.\\\"\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/29/health/who-rapid-test-kits-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"WHO announces Covid-19 rapid tests for low and middle income countries\", \"description\": \"The World Health Organization has announced an agreement to make rapid Covid-19 tests available to lower and middle-income countries across the world.\", \"date\": \"2020-09-29T14:08:02Z\", \"author\": \"Amanda Watts \", \"text\": [\" (CNN)\", \"The World Health Organization has announced an agreement to make rapid Covid-19 tests available to lower and middle-income countries across the world.\", \"Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO director-general said, \\\"a substantial proportion of these rapid tests - 120 million - will be made available to low and middle-income countries. 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Experts fear the toll may double before a vaccine is ready\", \"The first orders are expected already to be placed this week and it will be rolled out in up to 20 countries in Africa starting in October. \", \"Peter Sands, executive director of the Global Fund said the tests are hugely valuable as a complement to PCR tests but warned that they are not \\\"a silver bullet.\\\" \", \" \", \"\\\"Although they're a bit less accurate - they're much faster, cheaper, and don't require a lab,\\\" he explained. \\\"Being able to deploy quality antigen RDTs, rapid diagnostic tests, will be a significant step forward in enabling countries to contain and combat Covid-19,\\\" Sands added. \", \"The PCR test is the most widespread and most accurate diagnostic test for determining whether someone is currently infected with coronavirus.  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People hold Prophet Mohammed higher than their parents, and when things like this happen, it will lead to a breakdown of peace because of mob action and attacks against the accused.\\\" \", \"When news of Sharif-Aminu's alleged crime broke earlier this year, protesters marched to his family home and destroyed it, prompting his father to flee to a neighboring town, his lawyers told CNN. 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The sentences were not carried out. \", \"In 2000, a Muslim man in the northern state of Zamfara had his hand amputated for stealing a cow. A year later, another man had his hand cut off after he was convicted of stealing bicycles, according to the same USCIRF research paper. \", \"A constitutional violation? \", \"In the eyes of many Nigerians, the adoption of Sharia law is a violation of the \", \"country's constitution\", \", because Article 10 guarantees religious freedom when it states that \\\"the Government of the Federation or of a State shall not adopt any religion as State Religion.\\\" \", \"\\\"This issue of blasphemy is incompatible with the Nigerian constitution,\\\" Leo Igwe, chair of the board of trustees for the Humanist Association of Nigeria, told CNN. \", \"\\\"We hope this case will help Nigeria confront the biggest constitutional challenge since independence. What should take precedence, Sharia law, or the Nigerian constitution?\\\" \", \"Governors of the northern states, where Sharia law is practiced, argue that it applies only to Muslims, and not to citizens of other faiths. The FRF says it is working on six other constitutional cases which will challenge what it sees as government interference in Nigerian citizens' right to religious freedom. \", \"US national shot dead in Pakistan courtroom during blasphemy trial\", \"One of these, on behalf of the Atheist Society of Nigeria (ASN), is against the state government of Akwa Ibom, in the country's southeast, for its involvement in the construction of an 8,500-seat worship center at its High Court. \", \"The ASN says millions of dollars in state funding have been spent on the center, which it says amounts to government interference in freedom of religion. \", \"\\\"The government has no business legislating on religions. 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It shows how they are recruited and trafficked overseas for commercial gain.\", \"Directed by award-winning Nigerian filmmaker, Kenneth Gyang, the film features Nollywood actors including Sharon Ooja, Omoni Oboli and Blossom Chukwujekwu. \", \"Mo Abudu, executive producer of \\\"Oloture,\\\" told CNN that the crime drama was inspired by the numerous cases of trafficking around the world and in Nigeria. \", \"Actors pose as sex workers on the set of Netflix original film, \\\"Oloture.\\\"\", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"Actors pose as sex workers on the set of Netflix original film, &quot;Oloture.&quot;\\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"Actors pose as sex workers on the set of Netflix original film, &quot;Oloture.&quot;\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/201007071906-restricted-04-human-trafficking-film-nigeria-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"\\\"There have been many reports around the world highlighting human trafficking and modern slavery. It has been in our faces. I dug and dug and did a bit more research, and when I came across the numbers and saw how much was made annually from human trafficking, I was totally shocked,\\\" she said. \", \"Human trafficking is a \", \"$150 billion global industry.\", \" And two-thirds of this figure is generated from sexual exploitation, according to a 2014 report by the International Labor Organization. \", \"Abudu -- who is also CEO of EbonyLife Films, which produced \\\"Oloture\\\" -- added that the film mirrored some real-life reports by journalists who had gone undercover to expose sex trafficking patterns in the country.\", \"One of them, she said, was a \", \"2014 report \", \"by journalist Tobore Ovuorie, in the Nigerian newspaper, Premium Times. \", \"\\\"Upon research, we found that many journalists had gone undercover to report on human trafficking. But the Premium Times article did spark our interest as some of it plays out in the film,\\\" Abudu said. \", \"Easy prey for traffickers\", \"Ovuorie, whose report was credited in \\\"Oloture,\\\" told CNN that women often get trafficked as a result of their need to make money abroad. \", \"Ovuorie said she met many women in the course of her reporting who wanted to get to Europe in hopes of better job opportunities that would earn them more money.\", \"UK joins forces with Nigeria to fight human trafficking\", \"\\\"People were motivated by greed, you know, the need to get rich. I spoke with the women I was supposed to be trafficked with, and many of them wanted better lives motivated by money. There was one girl who had never earned more than 50,000 naira (about $130) as salary since she graduated from university,\\\" she told CNN.\", \"Most of the women were fleeing harsh economic conditions and poverty, making them easy prey for traffickers, Ovuorie said.\", \"During Ovuorie's investigation, she said she \", \"posed as a sex worker\", \" on the streets of Lagos, looking to travel to Europe.\", \"Lead actor, Sharon Ooja, and Omowunmi Dada (right) pose on set of \\\"Oloture.\\\"\", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"Lead actor, Sharon Ooja, and Omowunmi Dada (right) pose on set of &quot;Oloture.&quot;\\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"Lead actor, Sharon Ooja, and Omowunmi Dada (right) pose on set of &quot;Oloture.&quot;\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/201007072041-restricted-05-human-trafficking-film-nigeria-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"Her plan worked. 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In partnership with ZAM Chronicles and Premium Times, she documented her experience. \", \"After a series of \\\"humiliating trainings\\\" and physical abuse, she said she was told she and other girls would receive a \", \"fake passport\", \" in preparation to be smuggled outside the country through the border in Benin in West Africa.\", \"She escaped at the border. \", \"Physical and sexual abuse \", \"Many women who are trafficked in Nigeria face sexual, physical and mental abuse, according to \", \"a 2019 report \", \"by Human Rights Watch. \", \"The rights group interviewed many women who said they were trafficked within and across national borders under life-threatening conditions as they were starved, raped and extorted. \", \"On some occasions, according to the report, they were forced into prostitution where they were made to have abortions and \", \"coerced to have sex \", \"with customers when they were sick, menstruating or pregnant. \", \"\\\"Oloture\\\" portrays some of these harsh realities as the lead character (played by Ooja) suffers sexual violence and physical abuse, including being whipped by one of her traffickers. \", \"It was important to depict the reality of sex trafficking so viewers can understand the experiences of women who are forced into the trade, Gyang, the director, told CNN.\", \"Director Kenneth Gyang works behind the scenes of film, \\\"Oloture.\\\"\", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"Director Kenneth Gyang works behind the scenes of film, &quot;Oloture.&quot;\\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"Director Kenneth Gyang works behind the scenes of film, &quot;Oloture.&quot;\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/201007071340-restricted-01-human-trafficking-film-nigeria-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"\\\"I wanted people to know that this is the reality of these ladies. People always want closure but life is not about a Hollywood ending; you can't always get a happy ending,\\\" he said.\", \"While directing the film, Gyang visited places with sex workers to get a better idea of how they live and work, he said.\", \"\\\"I actually went to places where we have sex workers in Lagos with one of the producers of the film. We wanted to really capture their lives so that we would be able to show it realistically in the movie. We talked to them, and some of the rooms we used in the movie were actually used previously by sex workers,\\\" he explained. \", \"'The most impactful movie we have ever done'\", \"The film was shot in 21 days towards the end of 2018, he said. Post-production was covered in 2019, and it was released Friday on Netflix.\", \"In just days, it has become the top watched movie in Nigeria and is among the \", \"top 10 watched movies in the world on Netflix. \", \"\\\"It's huge for me as a filmmaker that people have access to the film from all over the world. I want many people as possible to see it and have conversations about sex trafficking,\\\" Gyang said. \", \"The film is doing well in countries like Switzerland, Brazil, and South Africa because it is authentic and \\\"deals with the truth,\\\" Abudu said.\", \"\\\"EbonyLife has done seven movies. But this is the most impactful one we have ever done. And the most important,\\\" Abudu said. \", \"A smuggler's chilling warning\", \"The \", \"National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons\", \" (NAPTIP), the law enforcement agency in charge of combating human trafficking in Nigeria, wants the film to be made available to people in rural communities who don't have access to Netflix.\", \"\\\"I haven't seen the movie, but if it is trying to portray the ills and dangers of trafficking, then it's fine since that is going to raise awareness,\\\" Julie Okah-Donli, the director-general of the agency said. \", \"And while she is happy that \\\"Oloture\\\" is shining the light on human trafficking, she told CNN that women mostly targeted by traffickers may not get to watch it.\", \"\\\"The people watching it on Netflix all know what trafficking is. It needs to go to those girls in rural communities where traffickers go to bring them from. Those are the girls that the awareness should go to,\\\" Okah-Donli said. \", \"With more people partnering with NAPTIP and raising awareness of the dangers of trafficking, sex trafficking will be minimized in Nigeria, she said. \"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/23/africa/asequals-nigeria-rape-sexual-violence-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"She's on the frontline of a rape epidemic. The pandemic has made her work more dangerous\", \"description\": null, \"date\": \"2020-06-23T09:00:49Z\", \"author\": \"Bukola Adebayo\", \"text\": [\"CNN is committed to covering gender inequality wherever it occurs in the world. This story is part of As Equals, an ongoing series.\", \" \", \"Lagos, Nigeria --\", \" At the start of each day, Dr. Anita Kemi DaSilva-Ibru and her team put on gloves, facemasks and other personal protective equipment to see their patients.\", \"They're not treating people for Covid-19, but they are on the frontline of the pandemic, working at the Women at Risk International Foundation (WARIF), a rape crisis center in Lagos, Nigeria.\", \"Wearing protective gear is the new reality for crisis center workers, like DaSilva-Ibru.\", \"\\\"We change these kits each time we see a survivor as we are mindful of the risk of transmission of the virus between the survivor and us and the cross-contamination between a survivor and the next,\\\" she told CNN.\", \"US-trained gynecologist DaSilva-Ibru has spent most of her career treating hundreds of sexual violence victims but it was the growing scale of the crisis in Nigeria that prompted her to set up WARIF in 2016.\", \"Read More\", \"The clinic in Yaba, a suburb of Lagos, provides medical treatment, legal assistance therapy and space for rape victims and survivors of sexual abuse to get back on their feet.\", \"One in four Nigerian girls \", \"has been the victim of sexual violence, according to UN estimates but DaSilva-Ibru says the numbers are higher as many cases go unreported due to the stigma attached.\", \"In recent weeks, two high profile cases of gender-based violence have brought Nigerian women out onto the streets demanding change.\", \"Uwaila Vera Omozuwa, a 22-year-old microbiology student, was \", \"found half-naked in a pool of blood\", \" in a local church where she had gone to study after the Covid-19 lockdown left universities across the country shut. \", \"\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote {\\n position: relative;\\n color: #262626;\\n margin: 25px auto;\\n padding: 10px 0 14px 0;\\n width: 100%;\\n max-width: 660px;\\n border-left: 0;\\n text-align: center;\\n}\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote:before, .cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote:after {\\n position: absolute;\\n content: '';\\n width: 50px;\\n height: 2px;\\n left: 50%;\\n transform: translateX(-50%);\\n -webkit-transform: translateX(-50%);\\n background-color: #262626;\\n}\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote:before {\\n top: 0;\\n}\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote:after {\\n bottom: -2px;\\n}\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote {\\n position: relative;\\n margin: 0;\\n text-align: center;\\n font-size: 35px;\\n font-weight: 700;\\n word-spacing: -1px;\\n line-height: 1.15;\\n padding: 24px 10px 22px 10px;\\n margin-bottom: 24px;\\n}\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote-cite {\\n margin: 0;\\n text-align: center;\\n font-size: 12px;\\n font-weight: 200;\\n color: #262626;\\n line-height: 1.15;\\n padding: 0 10px;\\n display: inline-block;\\n}\\n@media only screen and (min-width: 768px)  {\\n .cnnix-golf__pullquote {\\n  margin: 50px auto;\\n }\\n .cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote {\\n  font-size: 35px;\\n }\\n} \\n\", \"\\n \", \"\\n \", \"\\\"Rape is an epidemic in this country.\\\"\", \"\\n \", \" Dr. Anita Kemi DaSilva-Ibru, Women at Risk International Foundation\", \"\\n \", \"Her family said her attackers raped her and the student died while being treated at the hospital. A few days later, another student, Barakat Bello, was allegedly raped and killed during a robbery at her home,\", \" according to human rights group Amnesty International.\", \"\\\"Rape is an epidemic in this country,\\\" DaSilva-Ibru told CNN.\", \"She says her work with survivors of sexual violence has become more critical during the outbreak, with restrictions to curb the virus from spreading fueling a surge in calls. \", \"It's a story echoed in other parts of the region, as authorities grapple with a growing number of Covid-19 cases and the impact restrictions are having on women.\", \"Related: A transport ban in Uganda means women are trapped at home with their abusers\", \"DaSilva-Ibru said she initially closed the center after authorities locked down the city in March, she had to reconsider the decision as the organization became inundated with SOS messages from sexual violence victims and their guardians.\", \"Staff operating the 24-hour helpline at the center also reported a 64% increase in calls during this period, according to DaSilva-Ibru. \", \"\\\"Our phones were ringing. Women were calling and desperately asking how we can help them, these were women in fear of their lives, as many have now been forced into quarantine with their abusers, in an already volatile environment,\\\" DaSilva-Ibru told CNN.\", \"For the center to re-open, DaSilva-Ibru said she had to source PPE, face masks and other protective gear personally and when that was not enough, the center launched an online appeal for funds from donors to buy the equipment at no cost to survivors, she said. \", \"\\\"We carry out forensic examinations on survivors and our frontline health workers who triage and examine patients are in close proximity to the survivors. As much as we need to carry out our duties, we also need to ensure our workers are adequately protected,\\\" DaSilva-Ibru told CNN.\", \"The challenges Ibru faces to keep the center open, doesn't compare to what sexual violence victims have experienced as a result of this pandemic, she said.\", \"DaSilva-Ibru recalls a woman who told staff at the center that her male friend had raped her in her home during the lockdown.\", \"Dr. Anita Kemi DaSilva-Ibru. \", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"Dr. Anita Kemi DaSilva-Ibru. \\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"Dr. Anita Kemi DaSilva-Ibru. \\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200618151608-02-dr-kemi-dasilva-ibru-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"\\\"The first day we re-opened, we attended to women who had walked many miles in spite of the mandatory lockdown to get to the center. These are women who had been terrorized in their homes,\\\" she added.\", \"\\\"She (a survivor) had repeatedly been calling (the center) to find out how she could get help. She feared she might have contracted HIV and wanted to be tested,\\\" Ibru said. \", \"Speaking to CNN, the woman, who didn't want to use her name to protect her identity, said a co-worker raped her after he came to her apartment unannounced in April. \", \"The young banker said she had previously rebuffed his attempts to visit, but on that Sunday afternoon in April, he showed up at her doorstep.\", \"\\\"He's a friend, not a stranger, so I opened the door for him. I was still asking him what was so urgent that made him leave his home. He said he wanted to check up on me and I told him he could have done that over the phone,\\\" she told CNN.\", \"But a few minutes into his visit, the conversation became uncomfortable between them.\", \"\\\"He kept coming towards me, and when I told him to stop, he put his hand over my mouth and pinned me on the floor,\\\" she said.\", \"She says he apologized after raping her and hurriedly left her house.\", \"The survivor told CNN she did not make a police complaint because she was worried about the stigma and strain that the rape might have on her parents.  \", \"A friend she confided in told her to reach out to the \", \"Lagos Domestic and Sexual Violence Response Team\", \" who put survivors in touch with treatment centers for help.\", \"After several calls to the centers on their website, she was referred to \", \"WARIF\", \".\", \"When she went to the clinic, she says staff ran some tests and placed her on Post Exposure Prophylaxis, a HIV prevention treatment for possible exposure.\", \"\\\"Sometimes I get really angry, and sometimes I feel numb,\\\" she said, reflecting on the assault.\", \"She says she was sick every night for 28 days because of the drugs.\", \"\\\"...even though the doctor prepared me for the side effect, it has not been easy,\\\" she told CNN. \", \"Gender-based violence is a problem in many countries, but the coronavirus pandemic has worsened the situation.\", \"The \", \"UN says\", \" the raft of measures deployed by governments to fight the pandemic have led to economic hardship, stress, and fear -- conditions that lead to violence against women and girls. \", \"Equality Now Regional Coordinator in Africa Judy Gitau told CNN that the wave of unemployment and school closures has put victims in a precarious situation.\", \"She recalls a similar situation in Sierra Leone \", \"during the 2014 Ebola outbreak\", \" when\", \" teenage pregnancies spiked\", \" in the country\", \"The government enforced strict stay-at-home orders that closed businesses and schools across the West African nation to curb the spread of the virus, she said.\", \"The restrictions made schoolgirls vulnerable to abuse as some were assaulted in their homes by relatives, and at the same time, a majority of girls from low-income families were coerced to exchange sex for money for food, Gitau said. \", \"\\\"Many of them wound up pregnant but the evidence became available when people were plugging back to life as they knew it as a normal society,\\\" she said.\", \"Gitau says authorities must know that perpetrators often take advantage of the strict measures to abuse victims without arousing much suspicion.\", \"As state resources are being re-focused to tackle the spread of coronavirus, law enforcement agencies should also respond quickly to reports of abuse and create shelters for victims in need of immediate rescue, she said.\", \"But placing women in shelters, especially in countries battling an outbreak, comes with the additional burden of proof, according to DaSilva-Ibru who said shelters in Lagos city are asking survivors to take coronavirus tests before they can be admitted to prevent infection in their facilities.\", \"\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote {\\n position: relative;\\n color: #262626;\\n margin: 25px auto;\\n padding: 10px 0 14px 0;\\n width: 100%;\\n max-width: 660px;\\n border-left: 0;\\n text-align: center;\\n}\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote:before, .cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote:after {\\n position: absolute;\\n content: '';\\n width: 50px;\\n height: 2px;\\n left: 50%;\\n transform: translateX(-50%);\\n -webkit-transform: translateX(-50%);\\n background-color: #262626;\\n}\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote:before {\\n top: 0;\\n}\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote:after {\\n bottom: -2px;\\n}\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote {\\n position: relative;\\n margin: 0;\\n text-align: center;\\n font-size: 35px;\\n font-weight: 700;\\n word-spacing: -1px;\\n line-height: 1.15;\\n padding: 24px 10px 22px 10px;\\n margin-bottom: 24px;\\n}\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote-cite {\\n margin: 0;\\n text-align: center;\\n font-size: 12px;\\n font-weight: 200;\\n color: #262626;\\n line-height: 1.15;\\n padding: 0 10px;\\n display: inline-block;\\n}\\n@media only screen and (min-width: 768px)  {\\n .cnnix-golf__pullquote {\\n  margin: 50px auto;\\n }\\n .cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote {\\n  font-size: 35px;\\n }\\n} \\n\", \"\\n \", \"\\n \", \"\\\"Violence against women and girls is one of the most pervasive forms of a human rights violation and should be recognized by all countries.\\\"\", \"\\n \", \" Dr. Anita Kemi DaSilva-Ibru, Women at Risk International Foundation\", \"\\n \", \"Authorities in Lagos designated gender-based violence services essential in May as it eased lockdown into curfews to allow service providers to get to work more smoothly, DaSilva-Ibru said. \", \"The police force says it has now deployed more officers to its stations across the country to respond to the \\\"increasing challenges of sexual assaults and domestic/gender-based violence linked with the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic.\\\" And last week, governors across the country resolved to declare \", \"a state of emergency on rape\", \", according to the Nigerian Governor's Forum (NGF).\", \"Related: Nigerian women are taking to the streets in protests against rape and sexual violence\", \"It's the first time federal and state authorities are coming out with a united voice to condemn gender violence, DaSilva-Ibru said and it validates the outcry of women in the country and the scale of the problem in Nigeria, she added.\", \"\\\"Violence against women and girls is one of the most pervasive forms of a human rights violation and should be recognized by all countries,\\\" DaSilva-Ibru said.\", \"\\\"In Nigeria, it has become a national crisis that needs urgent attention. I am pleased that this has been recognized.\\\"\", \"\\n  window.cnnAsEqualsConfig = window.cnnAsEqualsConfig || {};\\n  window.cnnAsEqualsConfig.theme = 'black';\\n\", \"\\n\", \"Click here for more stories from the As Equals series.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/24/africa/kenya-maasai-warriors-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"Kenya's Maasai gather for once-in-a-decade ceremony to turn warriors into elders\", \"description\": \"Thousands of Maasai men clad in red and purple shawls and with their heads coated in red ocher gathered this week for a ceremony that transforms them from Moran (warriors) to Mzee (elders).\", \"date\": \"2020-09-24T14:41:25Z\", \"author\": \"Story by Reuters \", \"text\": [\"Maparasha Hills, Kenya\", \"Thousands of Maasai men clad in red and purple shawls and with their heads coated in red ocher gathered this week for a ceremony that transforms them from Moran (warriors) to Mzee (elders).\", \"Around 15,000 men from all over Kenya and neighboring Tanzania congregated in Maparasha Hills in Kajiado County, 128 kilometers from Nairobi, to feast on an estimated 3,000 bulls and 30,000 goats and sheep.\", \"The ceremony occurs once every decade at the site, which is surrounded by hills and dotted with acacia trees.\", \"On Wednesday, the men roasted the meat on beds of coal from acacia trees, holding staffs and swords.\", \"\\\"I used to be a Moran, But after this ceremony, I now graduate to be a Mzee (elder),\\\" Stephen Seriamu Sarbabi, a 34-year-old livestock trader, told Reuters.\", \"Read More\", \"\\\"I will now be having a lot of responsibilities in the community. I will be chairing some different meetings, I will be consulted,\\\" he added.\", \"The arrival of coronavirus in March forced a postponement of the ceremony, which was meant to have been held earlier in the year.\", \"\\\"My role here in this ceremony, is to come and bless my boys to graduate, to another stage of being wazees (elders), and to give them their privileges,\\\" Moses Lepunyo ole Purkei, a farmer, community health volunteer and elder, told Reuters.\", \"During the ceremony, the men were accompanied by their wives, who also wore colorful shawls and beads around their necks and sang songs praising and encouraging the incoming group of elders.\", \"There are about 1.2 million Maasai living in Kenya, according to the government statistics office.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/20/africa/nigeria-fashion-tiffany-amber-coronavirus-ppe-spc-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"Nigerian fashion label Tiffany Amber swaps couture for PPE\", \"description\": \"Company founder Folake Akindele Coker pivoted her fashion label into PPE production after she realized that a prolonged lockdown in Nigeria would impact consumer sales.\", \"date\": \"2020-07-21T01:21:46Z\", \"author\": \"Daniel Renjifo\", \"text\": [\" (CNN)\", \"These days, things look a little different when Folake Akindele Coker gets to her office. \\\"I arrive at 9am, all geared (up) for this invisible enemy,\\\" she says. The 45-year-old designer and founder of Nigerian fashion label Tiffany Amber now starts each day with a 10-minute safety talk for her production team, \\\"who at first did not seem to understand the gravity and the potential of being infected by the (Covid-19) virus.\\\"\", \"Coker founded \", \"Tiffany Amber\", \" in 1998, and it's now considered one of Nigeria's most influential fashion and lifestyle brands.\", \"In early March, the number of colorful prints and couture runway garments that normally littered the factory floor dissipated, and the company's sewing machines began stitching hospital scrubs, gowns, stretcher sheets and non-medical face masks. Less than a month after the pandemic reached Africa, Tiffany Amber's entire factory refocused to produce personal protective equipment (PPE), something Coker notes took immense pressure to turn around. \", \"The colorful garments of the Tiffany Amber fashion line, seen here during Arise Fashion week in 2019, have since been replaced in production by PPE to help during the pandemic.\", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"The colorful garments of the Tiffany Amber fashion line, seen here during Arise Fashion week in 2019, have since been replaced in production by PPE to help during the pandemic.\\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"Tiffany Amber Nigeria fashion runway\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200715102210-tiffany-amber-fashion-nigeria-restricted-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"To make the shift, Coker says the company first had to secure more than 15 tons of raw materials including approximately 90,000 yards of fabric, 300,000 yards of elastic, and almost a million yards of thread. All of this happened, she says, right before borders closed in Nigeria and prices spiked due to the unforeseen demand for materials.\", \"See more stories from Marketplace Africa\", \"Read More\", \"As of mid-July, the World Health Organization shows Nigeria as having\", \" more than 30,000\", \" total confirmed cases of coronavirus, the second-most on the continent behind South Africa.\", \"As Covid-19 cases rose and consumer spending fell, Coker saw an opportunity for her business to stay open -- and to help out. \\\"Our expertise in garment production helped facilitate this shift to bridge the gap in the supply of medical apparel,\\\" she tells CNN.\", \"A Tiffany Amber employee sorts ready-to-ship gowns for healthcare workers.\", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"A Tiffany Amber employee sorts ready-to-ship gowns for healthcare workers.\\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"A Tiffany Amber employee sorts ready-to-ship gowns for healthcare workers.\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200626121436-tiffany-amber-ppe-production-gowns-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"The push for PPE\", \"This pivot has been a trend in the private sector worldwide, as companies around the globe have \", \"switched gears to supply the growing demand for PPE\", \".\", \"According to the World Bank, Covid-19 has pushed sub-Saharan Africa into its \", \"first recession in 25 years\", \", greatly impacting the continent's biggest revenue drivers such as energy, agriculture and manufacturing. \", \"Read more: Across Africa, the pandemic reveals both inequality and innovation\", \"Globally, the \", \"luxury market is also expected to shrink \", \"as much as 35% this year, as consumer spending sharply declines mainly due to job loss, according to consulting firm Bain and Co.\", \"Tiffany Amber employees wearing masks, and making masks.\", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"Tiffany Amber employees wearing masks, and making masks.\\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"Tiffany Amber employees wearing masks, and making masks.\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200626120613-tiffany-amber-production-ppe-employees-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"Efforts to make and source \", \"PPE in Nigeria\", \" have primarily relied on private corporations\", \" \", \"working hand in hand with suppliers. In an attempt to stay solvent, Coker says Tiffany Amber is working with partners in the financial sector to fund and distribute the PPE products.\", \"By early June, she notes, the fashion label had made approximately 500,000 cloth masks, 20,000 sets of sheets and pillowcases, 10,000 scrubs, 15,000 patient gowns and close to 5,000 surgical gowns.\", \"Alcohol ban has South African distilleries pivoting to a new product\", \"In Tiffany Amber's case, shifting to PPE production has had an unlikely silver lining: job creation. Since March, Coker says her company has actually managed to grow from 100 employees to a staff of 300.\", \"At the time of writing, Coker does not anticipate returning to regular Tiffany Amber fashion production in the near future. But even as her company responds to the current reality, she keeps planning for when that day will come. \\\"One mind is thinking about tomorrow morning and the other mind is processing the next two years,\\\" says Coker. \\\"Subconsciously, I find myself drifting away, putting together the next Tiffany Amber collection.\\\"\", \"CNN's Lamide Akintobi contributed to this report\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/16/africa/amnesty-mozambique-video-killing-investigation-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"Amnesty International calls for investigation into video showing execution of woman in Mozambique\", \"description\": \"Amnesty International has called for an immediate investigation into the apparent extrajudicial killing of a woman in Mozambique that was shared widely in a horrifying video on social media earlier this week. \", \"date\": \"2020-09-16T17:31:35Z\", \"author\": \"David McKenzie, Brent Swails and Vasco Cotovio\", \"text\": [\" (CNN)\", \"Amnesty International has called for an immediate investigation into the apparent extrajudicial killing of a woman in Mozambique that was shared widely in a horrifying video on social media earlier this week. \", \"In the nearly two-minute-long video, men wearing military uniforms are seen chasing down a naked woman, surrounding and verbally harassing her along a rural road. One of the men repeatedly beats her with a stick before another man shoots her at close range. \", \" \", \"She is then repeatedly shot by the men while lying on the road before one of the men shouts \\\"Stop, stop, enough, it's done.\\\" \", \" \", \"Read More\", \"The video ends as the men turn and walk away, with one of them announcing, \\\"They've killed the al-Shabaab,\\\" the local name given to the growing insurgency in the far north of the country. \", \"It has no known links to the Somali terrorist group of the same name. The uniformed man looks directly into camera and raises his two fingers before the recording stops. \", \" \", \"\\\"The horrendous video is yet another gruesome example of the gross human rights violations taking place in Cabo Delgado by the Mozambican forces,\\\" said Deprose Muchena, Amnesty International's Director for East and Southern Africa.\", \"A young boy was killed by a police stray bullet during a coronavirus curfew. Now his parents want answers\", \" \", \"In its own analysis of the video, the human rights group says that the men were wearing the uniform of the Mozambican military. Amnesty says four different gunmen shot the woman a total of 36 times with AK-47s and PKM-style machine guns. Its investigation concluded that the incident took place near Awasse in the country's northernmost province Cabo Delgado. \", \" \", \"\\\"The incident is consistent with our recent findings of appalling human rights violations and crimes under international law happening in the area,\\\" said Muchena. \", \" \", \"CNN could not independently the authenticity of the video, the date and location it was filmed, nor the identity of the gunmen. \", \" \", \"Mozambique's Minister of Interior Amade Miquidade denied the accusations of atrocities, though did not address the video specifically, on national television Tuesday, saying that insurgents frequently wear army uniforms. \", \" \", \"\\\"When they want to produce their propaganda against the security and defense forces, against the Mozambican state, they remove those signs/characters that identify them and make videos to promote an image of atrocity practiced by those who defend the people,\\\" he said. \", \"Ammonium nitrate that exploded in Beirut bought for mining, Mozambican firm says \", \" \", \"Cabo Delgado is home to a $60 billion natural gas development that is heavily guarded by Mozambican military and private security. \", \" \", \"Loosely aligned with ISIS, the insurgents have undertaken increasingly sophisticated attacks in recent months, overrunning large parts of Mocimba de Praia, a strategic port north of the regional capital Pemba in August. Unlike in previous attacks, government forces have struggled to fully retake the territory. \", \" \", \"The insurgents have been accused by the government and human rights groups of their own violent abuses -- including beheadings, looting, and indiscriminate killing of civilians. \", \" \", \"And the interior minister highlighted those alleged abuses on Tuesday. \", \" \", \"\\\"Once more, our country continues to be the object of aggression by the terrorists, namely in the province of Cabo Delgado, where they've enforced cruel, inhuman, atrocious acts against our population,\\\" said Miquidade.\", \" \", \"Security analysts and human rights workers say that insurgents operating in the area do sometimes wear Mozambican military uniforms. But the uniformed men in the video showing the woman's killing speak Portuguese, generally more common to Mozambicans from the South. \", \"CNN's David McKenzie and Brent Swails reported from Johannesburg and Vasco Cotovio reported from London.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/26/africa/gambia-migration-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"He almost died migrating to Europe. Now he is warning other Gambians about it\", \"description\": \"Mustapha Sallah and Youth Against Irregular Migration are raising awareness in The Gambia about the dangers of migrating to Europe through irregular means.\", \"date\": \"2020-08-26T14:16:23Z\", \"author\": \"Aisha Salaudeen\", \"text\": [\" (CNN)\", \"Mustapha Sallah was in trouble.\", \"He had hoped to be in Europe by now, pursuing his dreams of studying computer science and making a better life for himself.\", \"Instead, he was sitting in a Libyan detention center, having been detained in Tripoli by the Libyan Coast Guard.\", \"\\\"We were kept in rooms with little ventilation and no toilets. We would sit for days without taking baths. It was like hell,\\\" Sallah told CNN.\", \"He added that officers at the detention center often assaulted them by \\\"beating us for the slightest things like refusing to sleep.\\\"\", \"Read More\", \"It was January 2017, and the 25-year-old Gambian had taken a gamble, risking his life in search of a better one in Europe. But no one had warned him of the dangers ahead.\", \"If and when he got out of the detention center, he vowed to help others make a more informed decision.\", \"Migrating to Europe\", \"Sallah grew up in Serekunda, southwest of The Gambia's capital city, Banjul. He said he worked hard in school to earn a scholarship so that his mother could retire from her job selling vegetables in the market.\", \"In 2016, he thought he'd have that chance when he earned a scholarship to study computer science in Taiwan. \\\"But there was no Taiwan embassy in Gambia, so I had to go to the closest one in Abuja, Nigeria,\\\" he explained.\", \"After borrowing money from his sister to travel to Nigeria, he said he spent three months there before his visa application was denied. Three years earlier, then-president of The Gambia, Yahya Jammeh, had cut diplomatic ties with Taiwan for what he called \\\"national strategic interest.\\\"\", \"At least 58 people killed as boat carrying migrants sinks off Mauritania coast\", \"\\\"I didn't know what to do: stay in Nigeria, or go to any other African country. At the end of the day, I got the mind of migrating (to Europe) because I know several people who took the journey and made it there,\\\" Sallah explained.\", \"With a population of \", \"2.3 million people\", \", The Gambia is among the smallest countries in Africa. But despite its small size, migration is a fairly common practice and plays a key role in the country's economy.\", \"According to the International Organization for Migration (IOM), overseas remittances for an average of 90,000 Gambians who live abroad make up \", \"more than 20% of the country's GDP\", \". \", \"48% of Gambians\", \" live in poverty, and many people find themselves looking outside the country for opportunities to improve their lives. \", \"But some people leave the country without proper documentation or without crossing an official border point. Between 2014 and 2018, the IOM estimates \", \"more than 35,000 \", \"Gambians reached Europe through \\\"irregular means.\\\"\", \"\\\"There's a tradition of mobility in Gambia. It's a long history of people using migration as a means of life, and of getting their income. Many of the returnees we have worked with claim they took the journey for economic reasons,\\\" Etienne Micallef, the IOM's program manager in The Gambia told CNN.\", \"\\\"They have the perception that if they migrate with the final destination as Europe, they will get a much better income to sustain themselves and their families back home,\\\" he added. \", \"How the Kenyan consulate in Lebanon became feared by the women it was meant to help\", \"But it comes at a high risk. Globally, at least \", \"33,687 migrant deaths and disappearances\", \" were recorded between January 2014 and October 2019, according to IOM -- with nearly half occurring on the route between Northern Africa and Italy. \", \"Sallah, who said he wanted an education that would allow him to find a job to support his family, reiterated that no one warned him how incredibly dangerous the journey would be.\", \"After his visa to study in Taiwan was rejected, he said he got on a bus heading north to Agadez, a city in Niger. \\\"I didn't even know the area -- I just kept asking people around what the best or possible way to reach Niger was.\\\"\", \"From there, he managed to travel to Libya. \\\"You have to pay smugglers who drive pickup trucks to put you at the back of their trucks to get to Libya and then to Europe. 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People who get stuck there are often detained by the Libyan Coast Guard, responsible for patrolling coastal waters to prevent smuggling and trafficking.  \", \"Sallah said he was kept in a detention center in Tripoli with migrants from different West African countries for nearly four months under poor conditions.\", \"Migrants describe being tortured and raped on perilous journey to Libya\", \"There are\", \" 11 detention centers\", \" for migrants run by the U.N.-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) in Libya. Some \", \"2,362\", \" detainees are held at these facilities on any given day, according to the Global Detention Project. \", \"Human Rights Watch\", \" (HRW) and \", \"Amnesty International\", \" have criticized the conditions at these detention centers; both groups signed onto a statement released in April that urged EU member states and institutions to review their policy on migrants and cooperation with Libya. \", \"The policy, the statement says, has allowed for the \", \"\\\"arbitrary detention and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment\\\"\", \" of migrants and refugees.\", \"While in detention, Sallah met a fellow Gambian who suggested they set up the non-profit organization \", \"Youth Against Irregular Migration\", \" (YAIM) to warn others back home about the risks of irregular migration.\", \"\\\"I went around the detention center gathering details of all the Gambians I could find,\\\" estimating he registered 171 people to join the organization. \\\"We agreed that if we made it out of there, we would start an association to make people aware of how problematic the journey to Europe is,\\\" he said.\", \"Youth Against Irregular Migration\", \"In April 2017, as part of its mandate to return and reintegrate migrants stranded or detained in their transit countries, IOM facilitated the return of Sallah and many others within the detention center back to The Gambia. \", \"That same year, IOM received funding from the EU worth\", \" 3.9 million euros\", \" (about $4.6 million) over the course of three years, to expand its operations in The Gambia.\", \"Since then, according to Micallef, IOM has repatriated more than 5,000 people to the West African nation.\", \"He added that when returnees arrive at the airport or land border, they are met by IOM staff who arrange for temporary shelter, counseling, and medical support for those who need it.\", \"Weeks after returning to The Gambia, Sallah said he met with some members of YAIM who signed up in the detention center. \", \"\\\"We met almost every week after arriving in Gambia,\\\" he explained. \\\"It was difficult for us financially at the start but many of us had the support of our families.\\\"\", \"YAIM members speak to community members about the dangers of irregular migration.\", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"YAIM members speak to community members about the dangers of irregular migration.\\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"YAIM members speak to community members about the dangers of irregular migration.\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200819175004-03-gambia-migration-intl-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"He added that even though many of them struggled to make a living at the start and had to pick up menial jobs around town to survive, being around other members gave them a renewed sense of hope.\", \"Being safe at home, he said, was a better option than the dangerous journey to Europe.\", \"\\\"We bonded by sharing our stories with each other as a way to work through the trauma,\\\" Sallah said. \\\"We made sure to be there for each other.\\\"\", \"Community awareness\", \"Through YAIM, the returnees began campaigns around irregular migration in The Gambia, warning others about the perils of journeying to Europe. \", \"Tombong Kuyateh, a returnee and YAIM member, told CNN that the association visits schools to share experiences with students who may be thinking about migrating.\", \"\\\"We share our personal stories with them. We show them examples of victims who were injured or affected during the journey to prevent them from experiencing the same,\\\" he said.\", \"The 27-year-old added that a lot of people listen to them because they have first-hand experience of what it's like to attempt that trip.\", \"Members of YAIM take to the streets of Banjul, The Gambia, during one of their public campaigns.\", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"Members of YAIM take to the streets of Banjul, The Gambia, during one of their public campaigns.\\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"Members of YAIM take to the streets of Banjul, The Gambia, during one of their public campaigns.\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200819175001-04-gambia-migration-intl-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"By crowdfunding and partnering with local and international groups for support, YAIM is also able to visit small communities across the country for campaigns against irregular migration, Kuyateh said.\", \"Miko Alazas, the IOM communications officer based in The Gambia, told CNN that the organization sometimes partners with returnee associations like YAIM to get people access to the right information, in order to make better migration-related choices.\", \"\\\"We work a lot with returnees because many of them are passionate about sharing their experiences in terms of exploitation and abuse -- so they are at the forefront of a lot of campaigns to raise awareness on irregular migration,\\\" he said.\", \"Now 29, Sallah travels around his home country, visiting radio stations and communities to talk about his harrowing experience. 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Investigators seized nearly $41 million, 13 luxury cars worth $6.8 million, and phone and computer evidence, \", \"Dubai Police\", \" said in a statement. They uncovered email addresses of nearly 2 million possible victims on phones, computers and hard drives, Dubai authorities said. \", \"\\\"This case targets a key player in a large, transnational conspiracy who was living an opulent lifestyle in another country while allegedly providing safe havens for stolen money around the world,\\\" US Attorney Nick Hanna said in a statement. \", \"Abbas' attorney, Gal Pissetzky, declined to get into details on how his client earns his money. But what he does for a living is going to be \\\"one of the main points of contention here,\\\" he told CNN\", \".\", \"Pissetzky called his client's arrest a kidnapping, saying Dubai handed him to the United States with \\\"no legal proceedings whatsoever.\\\" Abbas has not been formally indicted, and the government has 30 days to indict him, his attorney said Thursday.  \", \"His birthday post helped track him down\", \"Abbas made no secret of his opulent lifestyle and remarkable wealth. On Snapchat, he called himself the \\\"Billionaire Gucci Master.\\\" \", \"\\\"Started out my day having sushi down at Nobu in Monte Carlo, Monaco, then decided to book a helicopter to have ... facials at the Christian Dior spa in Paris then ended my day having champagne in Gucci,\\\" he \", \"posted on Instagram\", \". \", \"Photos of him displaying multiple models of Bentley, Ferrari, Mercedes and Rolls Royce cars included the hashtag #AllMine. 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Even his Instagram birthday celebration photos provided key information. \", \"One \", \"post displayed a birthday cake\", \" topped with a Fendi logo and a miniature image of him surrounded by tiny shopping bags. 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The paralegal had received fraudulent wire instructions after sending an email to what appeared to be a bank email address but was later identified as a \\\"spoofed\\\" email address, the affidavit said.    \", \"Abbas sent a co-conspirator an image of the wire transfer confirmation for the transaction, according to the affidavit.\", \" \", \"He\", \" \", \"and an unnamed person also conspired to launder $14.7 million from a foreign financial institution last year, according to a criminal complaint.\", \"During that alleged cyber crime, Abbas sent a co-conspirator the account information for a Romanian bank account, which he said could be used for \\\"large amounts.\\\" In other alleged schemes, he also provided Dubai bank accounts that can be used to deposit money from victims in the United States, the affidavit said. \", \"He's also accused of conspiring to try to steal $124 million from an unnamed English Premier League soccer club. 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CNN&#39;s Stephanie Busari reports.\\\",\\\"thumbnailURL\\\": \\\"https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/181213143041-nigeria-suicide-prison-africa-large-169.jpg\\\",\\\"image\\\": \\\"https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/181213143041-nigeria-suicide-prison-africa-large-169.jpg\\\",\\\"duration\\\": \\\"PT3M\\\",\\\"uploadDate\\\": \\\"2018-12-31T13:03:29Z\\\",\\\"contentUrl\\\": \\\"https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2018/12/30/imprisoned-suicide-illegal-nigeria-busari-pkg.cnn\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2018/12/30/imprisoned-suicide-illegal-nigeria-busari-pkg.cnn\\\",\\\"embedUrl\\\": \\\"https://fave.api.cnn.io/v1/fav/?video=world/2018/12/30/imprisoned-suicide-illegal-nigeria-busari-pkg.cnn&customer=cnn&edition=domestic&env=prod\\\"}\", \"Locked up where suicide is still a crime\", \" \", \"02:59\", \"She added that she was sexually abused in 2014 and did not know how to express being raped by a trusted partner to the people around her. \", \"Read More\", \"Her experiences, she said, piled up till she eventually snapped and started nursing suicidal notions. \", \"\\\"Trying to explain what was going on in my head was difficult. I looked fine physically, but it started to affect me mentally. I could go a day without being able to construct sentences, and I was a research analyst at the time which meant I had to write daily reports but I couldn't,\\\" she said. \", \"After expressing her suicidal thoughts to a friend, she was encouraged to see a psychiatrist at a psychiatric hospital in Lagos, one of Nigeria's largest cities. \", \"She was diagnosed with Bipolar and post traumatic stress disorder with mild psychosis. \\\"I poured out my heart, got some tests done and eventually got a diagnosis.\\\"\", \"Creating awareness \", \"Two months after Ojeifo's diagnosis, she said she decided to turn her difficult experiences around. She started to create awareness on the far-reaching impacts of mental health in Nigeria. \", \"In April 2016, she created\", \" She Writes Woman\", \", a non-profit organization focused on providing mental health support for those who may need it in the west African nation. \", \"There is minimal mental health awareness and there are not enough mental health professionals in Nigeria. \", \"In a country of more than \", \"200 million\", \" people, there are only 250 practicing psychiatrists, according to the\", \" Association of Psychiatrists of Nigeria. \", \"Ojeifo told CNN that She Writes Woman started as a blog but she realized she could do more with it, \\\"At first, I was just using it as an outlet to share my experiences and that of other women,\\\" she explained. \", \"Eventually, it morphed into a support community for people with mental health conditions. \", \"The 28-year-old got trained as a mental health coach so that she could start a helpline to talk to people experiencing overwhelming mental health symptoms.\", \"\\\"From sharing stories on the blog and social media, She Writes Woman blew up into a helpline which was run by me for a while, and then to a support group for people in vulnerable conditions,\\\" she said. \", \"24-hour mental health helpline\", \"She Writes Woman provides a\", \" 24-hour mental health helpline\", \" for anyone within Nigeria.\", \"The helpline serves as a first point of contact for people in distress or those who just want to talk about their mental health and symptoms. \", \"\\\"People call the helpline to get what we call a first-aid treatment. On the call you don't get immediate professional counseling, what happens is you get a first response communication where someone listens to you and what you have to say,\\\" Ojeifo explained.\", \"She added that after the first responders, callers can be referred to mental health professionals for therapy or a diagnosis if needed, \\\"depending on what the issue is we que people in to either a therapist or a psychiatrist.\\\"\", \"Data on mental health in Nigeria is hard to find, but according to a 2016 report in the Annals of Nigerian Medicine journal, an estimated\", \" 20-30% \", \"of the country's population is suffering from mental disorders.\", \"And in 2017, a World Health Organization report found that Nigerians have the highest incidences of depression in Africa, with \", \"more than 7 million people \", \"in the country suffering from depression.\", \"Despite the numbers, there is an absence of \", \"effective mental health legislation\", \" setting standards for psychiatric treatment or encouraging mental health awareness in the country. \", \"In February, following deliberations by legislators to pass a proposed mental health bill, Ojeifo became the first person to testify before the Nigerian parliament on the rights of persons with mental health conditions in the country.\", \"var id = '//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js'.replace(/\\\\s+/g, '');!!document.getElementById(id) || (function makeEmbedScript(d, id) {var js,fjs;js = d.createElement('script');js.id = id;js.charset = 'utf-8';js.setAttribute('async', '');js.src = '//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js';fjs = d.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];window.WM.UserConsent.addScriptElement(js, [\\\"vendor\\\",\\\"measure-ads\\\"], fjs);}(document, id));\", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" View this post on Instagram\", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \"We are so proud of our founder @hauwa_ojeifo for the great milestone achieved today. . She graciously spoke before the Senate at the public hearing of the #mentalhealth bill earlier today on behalf of all persons living with mental health conditions. . If you were there, you'd have been so proud. Word on the street is that this is the first time a person with a mental health condition is speaking before the Senate. . Go Hauwa!!\\ud83d\\udc83\\ud83c\\udffd . Want to know more about the mental health bill? Check out our stories to make your suggestions.\", \" \", \"A post shared by \", \" SWW | Mental Health in Nigeria\", \" (@shewriteswoman) on \", \"Feb 17, 2020 at 10:46am PST\", \"\\n\", \"The bill has yet to be implemented. \", \"To close the mental health gap in Nigeria, Ojeifo's organization also offers a support group for women and girls called \", \"Safe Place\", \" in six Nigerian states. \", \"\\\"Safe Space provides a community of shared experiences for women and girls. It provides a space for women to connect and share their experiences on whatever topic, to be there for one another and understand that they are not alone in their journeys,\\\" she explained, estimating that there have been over 50 meetings of the support group since the inception of the organization.\", \"In the beginning, Ojeifo, a former investment banker,  self-funded the organization. \", \"But now, with donations and grants from organizations such as One Young World, Airtel Nigeria and Disability Rights Advocacy Fund, it is able to expand and carry out more activities in Nigeria's mental health space.\", \"In 2018, the activist received a\", \" Queen's Young Leaders Award\", \" in in recognition of her work with the 24-hour mental health helpline and Safe Space support group. \", \"Changemaker Award Winner \", \"On Tuesday, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation named Ojeifo as its\", \" Changemaker Award winner for 2020\", \" for her work with She Writes Woman. \", \"The Changemaker Award is one of the Goalkeepers Global Goals Awards pushed yearly by the foundation. It celebrates individuals who have inspired change from a position of leadership or using their personal experience. \", \"In a statement released Tuesday, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation said it recognized the activist for her work in promoting\", \" Gender Equality\", \", the fifth global goal for sustainable development prescribed by the United Nations. \", \"These Africans are among the world's 100 most influential people, according to Time magazine\", \"Ojeifo said that she was in \\\"disbelief\\\" when she first received the email alerting her that she was a recipient of the award. \", \"\\\"It was so unexpected and it came as a surprise because I was not expecting it. It's like an added validation to the work She Writes Woman does,\\\" she said. \", \"\\\"During one of the meetings with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation I asked them how I was selected because I was just so blown away. I was told that it was because I had used my personal experience to build hope for people and to drive change,\\\" she added. \", \"Through the 2020 Changemaker Award, Ojeifo is hoping to gather a network that will help amplify the work She Writes Woman does even more. \", \"\\\"The Changemaker award means I am part of this network that is dedicated to amplifying my cause and giving me visibility,\\\" she said.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/18/africa/kenyan-comic-sensation-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"This chip-eating Kenyan comic is keeping Africans entertained on social media \", \"description\": \"Kenyan teenager, Elsa Majimbo is making viral monolgues on social media \", \"date\": \"2020-08-18T11:06:18Z\", \"author\": \"Aisha Salaudeen\", \"text\": [\" (CNN)\", \"Elsa Majimbo is taking over social media by providing comic relief on Instagram and Twitter amid the \", \"Covid-19 pandemic\", \". \", \"The Kenyan comic, whose relatable monologues often go viral, films from her home in Nairobi, the country's capital city. \", \"Majimbo first went viral after posting a video in March when initial restrictions such as intermittent lockdowns, border controls, and closure of schools and restaurants were\", \" imposed by the Kenyan government\", \" to curb the spread of Covid-19.\", \"In the video, the 19-year-old talked about being in isolation at the time and wanting to be left alone.\", \"var id = '//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js'.replace(/\\\\s+/g, '');!!document.getElementById(id) || (function makeEmbedScript(d, id) {var js,fjs;js = d.createElement('script');js.id = id;js.charset = 'utf-8';js.setAttribute('async', '');js.src = '//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js';fjs = d.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];window.WM.UserConsent.addScriptElement(js, [\\\"vendor\\\",\\\"measure-ads\\\"], fjs);}(document, id));\", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" View this post on Instagram\", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \"'Sending love,sending hugs,sending kisses'. Kama Hautumi Mpesa don't waste my time\", \" \", \"A post shared by \", \" Elsa Mpho Majimbo\", \" (@majimb.o) on \", \"Mar 30, 2020 at 10:20am PDT\", \"\\n\", \"\\\"Ever since corona started, we've all been in isolation, and I like, miss no one,\\\" she said, laughing and eating potato-based crunchy chips\", \" in the video\", \". \", \"Read More\", \"\\\"Why am I missing you? There is no reason for me to miss you... do I pay your rent? Do I provide food for you? Why are you missing me?\\\" she added, still laughing. \", \"The quirky humor in the video earned Majimbo many reshares and more than 250,000 views from users across the continent, including South Africa, Kenya and Nigeria. \", \"She told CNN she did not expect the video to get as much attention as it did, but many people related to it. \", \"Gentlemen, start your wheelbarrows! Meet the Nigerian kids ingeniously remaking famous videos with household objects\", \"\\\"It was the time we had just gotten to lockdown, and everyone was telling me they missed me, and I literally like being away from people, so I thought to myself, 'Let me make a video about that,'\\\" she said. \", \"\\\"I did not expect all the attention, but it happened, and I am glad it did.\\\"\", \"Since going viral, Majimbo has made more videos combining dry humor and criticism around the subject matters she decides to film about. \", \"Many of the videos have more than 250,000 views on Instagram and an average of 50,000 views on Twitter.  \", \"Some of the videos have also been featured on American owned cable channel, \", \"Comedy Central\", \". \", \"Eating crunchy chips \", \"Majimbo often incorporates eating crunchy chips, which has become one of her signature moves, to emphasize her points in her monologues.\", \"\\\"In the first video that trended, I ate chips. A lot of people seemed to like it. There were a lot of comments asking me to do it again. So, I was like, OK whatever, and I did it again,\\\" she told CNN. \", \"The comic sensation additionally wears tiny dark sunglasses as a prop in her videos. Just like crunching on chips, the '90s shades are for emphasizing on points made in her skits, she said. \", \"var id = '//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js'.replace(/\\\\s+/g, '');!!document.getElementById(id) || (function makeEmbedScript(d, id) {var js,fjs;js = d.createElement('script');js.id = id;js.charset = 'utf-8';js.setAttribute('async', '');js.src = '//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js';fjs = d.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];window.WM.UserConsent.addScriptElement(js, [\\\"vendor\\\",\\\"measure-ads\\\"], fjs);}(document, id));\", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" View this post on Instagram\", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \"If I pay for the app I own the abs\", \" \", \"A post shared by \", \" Elsa Mpho Majimbo\", \" (@majimb.o) on \", \"Jun 11, 2020 at 10:10am PDT\", \"\\n\", \"\\\"How do I manage to be this hot? The key to being hot is Photoshop,\\\" she said in \", \"one of her videos\", \" titled \\\"If I pay for the app, I own the abs.\\\"\", \"In the video, Majimbo joked about using Photoshop to look good in pictures, \\\"Why get a six-pack in five months when you can get them in five minutes?\\\" she added, putting on the sunglasses to make her point. \", \"Her videos have received support from \", \"celebrities \", \"like actor Lupita Nyongo and current Miss Universe, Zozibini Tunzi. \", \"Majimbo, who records all her monologues using her iPhone 6, said she does not write her lines down before filming, instead she simply \\\"goes with the flow.\\\"\", \"\\\"The thing I like the most about my videos is that they come to me so easily and so naturally. I could just be sitting and feel like making a video about something, and I do it. Anything that comes to my mind, I record,\\\" she said. \", \"\\\"If I don't have any lines to record. I don't even bother, I just skip it and say no video today,\\\" she added. \", \"'I've been able to find myself in a way I hadn't before'\", \"Since becoming an internet sensation, Majimbo said she partnered with brands such as Canadian cosmetics manufacturer, MAC cosmetics, to create content aimed at promoting their products in fun ways. \", \"The teenager, who is currently a journalism student at Strathmore University in Nairobi, is thinking about a completely different career.\", \"According to her, she is taking the time to explore different and newer options, particularly in entertainment, \\\"I think the career I wanted before is not what I want now. A lot of things have changed, I've been able to find myself in a way I hadn't before.\\\" \", \"She added that she is looking into acting roles and having her own comedy show. \", \"This Nigerian comic is getting a lot of love on TikTok with the 'Don't Leave Me' challenge\", \"But regardless of the career part Majimbo takes, she is already influencing social media users in Africa. \", \"She has been given a South African name \\\"Mpho\\\" by her fans in the country. The name means \\\"gift\\\" in Tswana language spoken in Southern Africa, Botswana, Namibia and Zimbabwe. \", \"Majimbo says she will continue to make relatable and funny monologues but will not be limited to them.\", \"\\\"I don't like setting expectations for my future plans because I don't want to be limited. I am open to exploring and becoming many things in the future.\\\"\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/07/africa/africa-engineering-prize-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"A 26-year-old is first woman to win Royal Academy of Engineering's Africa Prize for innovation\", \"description\": \"A 26-year-old has become the first woman to win the prestigious Royal Academy of Engineering's Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation.\\n\\n\", \"date\": \"2020-09-07T13:54:59Z\", \"author\": \"Aisha Salaudeen\", \"text\": [\" (CNN)\", \"A 26-year-old from Ivory Coast has won the 2020 Royal Academy of Engineering's Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation.\", \"Charlette N'Guessan is the \", \"first woman to win the award\", \", which could revolutionize cyber security and help curb identity fraud on the continent. \", \"N'Guessan and her team won the \\u00a325,000 award (about $33,000) for BACE API, a digital verification system that uses Artificial Intelligence and facial recognition to verify the identities of Africans remotely and in real time.\", \"BACE API works by matching the live photo of a user to the image on their documents such as passports or ID card, N'Guessan said. \", \"For websites and online applications that have BACE API integrated in them, users will be verified via their webcam to establish their  identity. \", \"Read More\", \"\\\"For the person trying to submit their application, we ask them to switch on their camera to make sure the person behind the camera is real, and not a robot. \", \"\\\"We are able to capture the face of the person live and match their image with the one on the existing document the person submitted,\\\" she explained. \", \"BACE API verifies users identities in real time using their phone camera or webcam\", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"BACE API verifies users identities in real time using their phone camera or webcam\\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"BACE API verifies users identities in real time using their phone camera or webcam\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200904115946-restricted-03-africa-engineering-prize-intl-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"BACE API can be integrated into already existing applications and systems for identity verification and is targeted at mostly financial institutions on the continent, N'Guessan told CNN. \", \"N'Guessan and her team won the Africa Prize for Innovation in a virtual award ceremony on September 3 where the Africa Prize judges and a live audience voted in their favor, the Royal Academy of Engineering said in\", \" a statement\", \". \", \"\\\"We are very proud to have Charlette N'Guessan and her team win this award,\\\" said Rebecca Enonchong, an entrepreneur from Cameroon entrepreneur and Africa Prize judge in the statement. \", \"\\\"It is essential to have technologies like facial recognition based on African communities, and we are confident their innovative technology will have far reaching benefits for the continent.\\\"\", \"BACE API matches a user's live photo with the image on their official documents to verify their identity. \", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"BACE API matches a user&#39;s live photo with the image on their official documents to verify their identity. \\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"BACE API matches a user&#39;s live photo with the image on their official documents to verify their identity. \\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200904115800-restricted-02-africa-engineering-prize-intl-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"Curbing identity fraud\", \"N'Guessan, who is the CEO and co-founder of Ghana-based software company, \", \"BACE Group\", \", told CNN that the idea came about while she was studying at the \", \"Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology\", \" (MEST) in Accra, Ghana's capital city. \", \"While there, she worked with a team of four and it was during one of their research projects in 2018 they decided to create BACE API, and later a software company. \", \"\\\"We ... talked to tech entrepreneurs. That's when we noticed that there is a huge problem with cyber security with online services and businesses,\\\" she said.\", \"N'Guessan said their research found that many financial institutions in the west African country deal with identity fraud, estimating that they spend up to $400 million dollars yearly to identify their customers. \", \"\\\"We decided to make our contribution as software engineers and data scientists by building a solution that can be useful for this market,\\\" N'Guessan added. \", \"Before the winner was announced on September 3, N'Guessan and other entrepreneurs shortlisted for the Africa Prize received eight months of training from experts across the world and her team was paired with an AI specialist who helped with improvements to their system. \", \" An African woman in tech\", \"N'Guessan's interest in technology started at a young age. Growing up in Ivory Coast, west Africa, she was encouraged to focus on science and technology subjects by her father, a mathematics professor.  \", \"\\\"He inspired my choice for studying STEM. I was actually really good in science-related courses. After high school, I went on to study software engineering at university,\\\" she said. \", \"Now running her own technology company, she told CNN that winning the Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation has helped to boost her confidence as a CEO leading a technical team of men.\", \"The Academy was founded in 1976 and has been running the award to reward engineering innovation in Africa since 2014. \", \"Globally, the technology industry is growing, but women led startups are in short supply with\", \" only 22%\", \" founded by at least one woman, according to a report in Disrupt Africa.\", \"This 9-year-old has built more than 30 mobile games\", \"Data specific to Africa is hard to come by but some studies suggest that \", \"only 9% of startups\", \" on the continent have women founders. \", \"N'Guessan says she hopes that her achievement will motivate more women to consider careers in tech. \", \"\\\"I will be happy if people are inspired by my story, being the first woman to win the Africa Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation and by my work as a woman in tech,\\\" she said. \"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/16/africa/blasphemy-nigeria-boy-sentenced-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"Outrage as Nigeria sentences 13-year-old boy to 10 years in prison for blasphemy\", \"description\": \"Child rights agency UNICEF has condemned the sentencing of a 13-year-old boy to 10 years in prison for blasphemy in northern Nigeria. \", \"date\": \"2020-09-16T14:09:33Z\", \"author\": \"Stephanie Busari and Eoin McSweeney\", \"text\": [\" (CNN)\", \"Child rights agency UNICEF has condemned the sentencing of a 13-year-old boy to 10 years in prison for blasphemy in northern Nigeria. \", \"Omar Farouq was convicted in a Sharia court in Kano State in northwest Nigeria after he was accused of using foul language toward Allah in an argument with a friend. \", \"He was sentenced on August 10 by the same court that recently sentenced a studio assistant Yahaya Sharif-Aminu to death for blaspheming Prophet Mohammed, according to lawyers. \", \"Farouq's punishment is in violation of the African Charter of the Rights and Welfare of a Child and the Nigerian constitution, said his counsel Kola Alapinni, who told CNN they filed an appeal on his behalf on September 7. \", \"Farouq was tried as an adult because he has attained puberty and has full responsibility under Islamic law. \", \"Read More\", \"Alapinni told CNN he or other lawyers working on the case have not been granted access to Farouq by authorities in Kano State. \", \"He said he found out about Farouq's case by chance when working on the case of Sharif-Aminu, who was sentenced to death for blasphemy at the Kano Upper Sharia Court. \", \"\\\"We found out they were convicted on the same day, by the same judge, in the same court, for blasphemy and we found out no one was talking about Omar, so we had to move quickly to file an appeal for him,\\\" he said. \", \"\\\"Blasphemy is not recognized by Nigerian law. It is inconsistent with the constitution of Nigeria.\\\"\", \" \", \" .m-infographic--1600276717888 { background: url(//cdn.cnn.com/cnn/.e/interactive/html5-video-media/2020/09/16/20201609_kano_state_map_375px.jpg) no-repeat 0 0 transparent; margin-bottom: 30px; padding-top: 111.4513981358189%; width: 100%; -moz-background-size: cover; -o-background-size: cover; -webkit-background-size: cover; background-size: cover; } @media (min-width: 640px) { .m-infographic--1600276717888{ background-image: url(//cdn.cnn.com/cnn/.e/interactive/html5-video-media/2020/09/16/20201609_kano_state_map_780px.jpg); padding-top: 84.2948717948718%; } } @media (min-width: 1120px) { .m-infographic--1600276717888{ background-image: url(//cdn.cnn.com/cnn/.e/interactive/html5-video-media/2020/09/16/20201609_kano_state_map_780px.jpg); padding-top: 84.2948717948718%; } } \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \"The lawyer said Farouq's mother had fled to a neighboring town after mobs descended on their home following his arrest. \", \"\\\"Everyone here is scared to speak and living under fear of reprisal attacks,\\\" he said. \", \"UNICEF Wednesday issued a statement \\\"expressing deep concern\\\" about the sentencing. \", \"\\\"The sentencing of this child -- 13-year-old Omar Farouq -- to 10 years in prison with menial labour is wrong,\\\" said Peter Hawkins, UNICEF representative in Nigeria. \\\"It also negates all core underlying principles of child rights and child justice that Nigeria -- and by implication, Kano State -- has signed on to.\\\" \", \"Kano State, like most predominantly Muslim states in Nigeria, practices Sharia law alongside secular law. \", \"Islam Fast Facts\", \"CNN contacted a spokesman for the Kano State governor for comment but had not heard back before publication. \", \"UNICEF has called on the Nigerian government and the Kano State government to urgently review the case and reverse the sentence, the organization said in a statement. \", \"\\\"This case further underlines the urgent need to accelerate the enactment of the Kano State Child Protection Bill so as to ensure that all children under 18, including Omar Farouq are protected -- and that all children in Kano are treated in accordance with child rights standards,\\\" Hawkins said.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/18/africa/disney-partners-with-nollywood/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"Disney partners with Nollywood to bring American movies to English-speaking West Africa\", \"description\": \"FilmOne Entertainment is now the sole distributor of Disney titles in English speaking West Africa\", \"date\": \"2020-09-18T12:02:13Z\", \"author\": \"Aisha Salaudeen\", \"text\": [\"Lagos, Nigeria (CNN)\", \"Disney, is joining forces with a Nigerian production and distribution company to market some of the American entertainment conglomerate's new releases such as \\\"Mulan\\\" in English-speaking West Africa.\", \"The deal makes FilmOne Entertainment the sole distributors of Disney-owned films in Nigeria, Ghana, and Liberia. \", \"\\\"It is a major career highlight, that we're able to get the world's biggest movie studio as a partner,\\\" Moses Babatope, a director at FilmOne, told CNN. \", \"Bollywood and Nollywood collide in a tale of a big fat Indian-Nigerian wedding\", \"FilmOne Entertainment has been at the forefront of growing Nigeria's cinema culture and has built cinemas across the country, including IMAX screens.\", \"The firm has also distributed and produced \", \"Nigerian box office hits \", \"such as \\\"The Wedding Party,\\\" and \\\"New Money.'\\\"\", \"Read More\", \"\\\"What the deal means is that we are exclusive marketers and distributors of Disney titles in the English-speaking West African countries that have studio licensed cinemas. We will distribute the films to all those cinemas in the territory,\\\" he explained. \", \"The agreement, which commenced this month, covers titles from all Disney studio divisions including Pixar, Marvel Studios, Walt Disney Pictures, and Blue Sky pictures. \", \"\\\"With their in-depth knowledge of the region and expertise in bringing theatrical releases to fans, we are thrilled to welcome FilmOne as our distribution partner for this territory,\\\" Disney Africa's country manager, Christine Service said in a statement. \", \"Bigger opportunities\", \"Film analysts in the country say this deal may convince investors and film producers to look further into the African movie industry. \", \"\\\"This deal is huge because it means that Disney is paying attention. Their presence can open doors for movie collaborations,\\\" said Shola Thompson, a Nigeria-based film consultant.\", \"Thompson added that distributing Disney movies is a pathway to getting the best content to cinemas, which can improve the cinema-going culture in the region as well as increase their potential earnings.\", \"As a result of restrictions following the Covid-19 pandemic, many cinemas in West Africa are not operating at full capacity. But FilmOne Entertainment says it is working on improving the cinema experience as a way of encouraging people to show up when all restrictions have been lifted.\", \"Netflix partners with Nigerian filmmaker in new major deal \", \"\\\"We will let people know that they enjoy films better when they watch with other people. To say that the experience out of home is very different,\\\" Babatope said. \", \"\\\"We will communicate that cinemas are safe in our communications to audiences. We will document what the cinemas are doing regarding incorporating safety procedures,\\\" he added. \", \"Disney's deal is not the first time a multinational entertainment company is partnering with film companies in West Africa.\", \"In 2019, FilmOne Entertainment signed a deal with Chinese media giant Huahua to co-produce the first \", \"major China-Nigeria film. \", \"In the same year, French Media giant,\", \" Canal+ acquired leading Nollywood film studio, ROK film studios\", \" to create more hours of Nigerian content for its French-speaking audience.\", \"Independence key to collaboration\", \"Thompson who is also a film analyst says the growing influence of entertainment companies like Disney on the continent may create room for greater Hollywood influence in Africa, without a corresponding influence of African film content in Hollywood.\", \"\\\"We need to be a bit careful to make sure we don't lose creative control of our stories. With more multinationals looking into Africa for partnerships, we don't want to find ourselves stuck with them dictating what we start to produce,\\\" he said. \", \"\\\"At the same time, we can still be glad that they are paying attention as that means growth for our film industry,\\\" he added. \", \"As FilmOne Entertainment prepares to start distributing Disney content, Babatope says the partnership is an opportunity that can lead to future collaborations involving largely African content. \", \"\\\"It's true that a lot of the content we will be distributing are from other parts of the world but if we are able to demonstrate that we are accountable and transparent, then there will be room to attract future investments involving content from this region.\\\"\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/23/africa/china-ethiopia-test-kits-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"China's BGI wins 1.5 million coronavirus test kit order from Ethiopia\", \"description\": \"Ethiopia has agreed to purchase 1.5 million coronavirus testing kits that will be manufactured at a factory in the African country that has been newly built by China's BGI Group, China's state media agency Xinhua said late on Tuesday.\", \"date\": \"2020-09-23T11:22:20Z\", \"author\": \"Story by Reuters\", \"text\": [\"Beijing \", \"Ethiopia has agreed to purchase 1.5 million coronavirus testing kits that will be manufactured at a factory in the African country that has been newly built by China's BGI Group, China's state media agency Xinhua said late on Tuesday.\", \"The BGI factory, the first coronavirus test production facility in Ethiopia that opened earlier this month, is designed to be able to make 6-8 million tests in a year and can expand the annual capacity to up to 10 million in accordance with local demand, Xinhua reported.\", \"BGI, which makes genome sequencing and medical devices, is hoping to use its footprint in Ethiopia in expanding its supplies to other African countries, Xinhua quoted a BGI official as saying in a separate report on Wednesday.\", \"BGI did not immediately respond to a request for comment.\", \"BGI Group's unit BGI Genomics had said it supplied over 35 million coronavirus testing kits overseas and built 58 labs in 18 countries as of June 30.\", \"Read More\", \"The Ethiopia factory could be later converted to make test kits for HIV, malaria and tuberculosis once the Covid-19 pandemic ends, Xinhua said.\", \"Ethiopia, one of the countries that has the most new daily infections on average in Africa, has reported 69,709 infections and 1,108 coronavirus-related deaths since the pandemic began.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/29/health/who-rapid-test-kits-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"WHO announces Covid-19 rapid tests for low and middle income countries\", \"description\": \"The World Health Organization has announced an agreement to make rapid Covid-19 tests available to lower and middle-income countries across the world.\", \"date\": \"2020-09-29T14:08:02Z\", \"author\": \"Amanda Watts \", \"text\": [\" (CNN)\", \"The World Health Organization has announced an agreement to make rapid Covid-19 tests available to lower and middle-income countries across the world.\", \"Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO director-general said, \\\"a substantial proportion of these rapid tests - 120 million - will be made available to low and middle-income countries. These tests provide reliable results in approximately 15 to 30 minutes, rather than hours or days, at a lower price, with less sophisticated equipment.\\\" \", \" \", \"Tedros said during a Monday news conference that these \\\"vital\\\" tests will help expand testing in remote areas, \\\"that do not have lab facilities or enough trained health workers to carry out PCR tests.\\\" \", \" \", \"Read More\", \"He added: \\\"High-quality rapid tests show us where the virus is hiding, which is key to quickly tracing and isolating contacts and breaking the chains of transmission. The tests are a critical tool for governments as they look to reopen economies and ultimately save both lives and livelihoods.\\\"\", \"Coronavirus has killed 1 million people worldwide. Experts fear the toll may double before a vaccine is ready\", \"The first orders are expected already to be placed this week and it will be rolled out in up to 20 countries in Africa starting in October. \", \"Peter Sands, executive director of the Global Fund said the tests are hugely valuable as a complement to PCR tests but warned that they are not \\\"a silver bullet.\\\" \", \" \", \"\\\"Although they're a bit less accurate - they're much faster, cheaper, and don't require a lab,\\\" he explained. \\\"Being able to deploy quality antigen RDTs, rapid diagnostic tests, will be a significant step forward in enabling countries to contain and combat Covid-19,\\\" Sands added. \", \"The PCR test is the most widespread and most accurate diagnostic test for determining whether someone is currently infected with coronavirus.  However, the tests requires specialized supplies, expensive instruments, and the expertise of trained lab technicians. which has led to shortages and a testing gap globally. \", \"Read related: \", \"https://edition.cnn.com/2020/04/28/us/coronavirus-testing-pcr-antigen-antibody/index.html\", \"This $5 rapid test is a potential game-changer in Covid testing\", \" \", \"Sands said these tests will help low and middle-income countries to \\\"close the dramatic gap in testing between rich and poor countries.\\\" \", \" \", \"\\\"Right now, high-income countries are conducting 292 tests per day per 100,000 people. For upper-middle-income countries, that number is 77. For lower-middle-income countries, 61, and from low-income countries, 14,\\\" Sands said, though he did not expand on where that data originates. \", \" \", \"Dr. John Nkengasong, director of the Africa CDC, welcomed the development as it would allow \\\"healthcare workers to quickly isolate cases and treat them while tracing their contacts to cut the transmission chain.\\\"\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/29/africa/togo-female-prime-minister-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"Togo names first female Prime Minister\", \"description\": \"President's former chief-of-staff Victoire Tomegah Dogbe, 60, has become the first female prime minister of Togo, a tiny West African nation of about eight million people.\", \"date\": \"2020-09-29T18:09:26Z\", \"author\": \"Orji Sunday\", \"text\": [\" (CNN)\", \"Togo's President Faure Gnassingbe has appointed the country's first female prime minister.\", \"Victoire Tomegah Dogbe, 60, became the first female prime minister of the tiny West African nation of about eight million people.\", \" \", \"Dogbe, whose appointment was confirmed by President Faure Gnassingbe on Monday, replaces Komi Selom Klassou, who resigned as prime minister on Friday, a position he held since 2015.\", \" \", \"Read More\", \"Dogbe is well known and respected in Togo, having served in several positions under Gnassingbe's government in the past decade, including working as his chief-of-staff, director of the cabinet of the President of the Republic and more recently as Minister for youth and grassroots development, according to local media reports.\", \"Ethiopia appoints its first female president \", \" \", \"Prior to joining politics, she worked with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) according to information from the agency. \", \" \", \"Her appointment comes after an expected cabinet reshuffle, which was delayed by the country's fight against coronavirus pandemic, following the controversial re-election of Gnassingbe, \", \"who has ruled Togo since 2005\", \". \", \"He took power from his father who, before his death,  ruled Togo for 38 years, dating back to a 1967 coup. \", \"Despite a \", \"series of protests between 2017 -- 2019\", \" calling for an end to a single family rule in Togo, Gnassingbe forced a constitutional reform in 2019 that allowed him to run for an election which he won easily in February 2020. His current tenure runs till 2025.  \", \"Faure must go: How one Togolese woman is risking her life to end the 50-year Gnassingb\\u00e9 dynasty\", \"The 56-year-old leader has seen growing opposition, following slowed economic growth, accusations of electoral fraud, \", \"corruption and human rights violations.\", \" \", \"Dogbe's has vast experience in governance and administration which is well positioned to help the country achieve a long-expected economic boom which has eluded the country since independence in 1960.\", \" \", \"Dogbe has been deeply involved in the country's fight against youth unemployment and poverty, introducing reforms that have been praised as a local success in her country, according to \", \"Togo-First, an online publication\", \" in the country. \", \" \", \"As the parliament awaits Dogbe's policy plan, observers are keen to see what economic difference her reforms can make in a country where half its population live below the poverty line, according to a \", \"2014 report by the International Monetary Fund\", \". \"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/30/africa/zimbabwe-elephant-disease-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"Zimbabwe suspects bacterial disease behind elephant deaths\", \"description\": \"Zimbabwe suspects a bacterial disease called hemorrhagic septicemia is behind the recent deaths of more than 30 elephants but is doing further tests to make sure, the parks authority said.\", \"date\": \"2020-09-30T14:48:29Z\", \"author\": \"Story by Reuters\", \"text\": [\"Zimbabwe suspects a bacterial disease called hemorrhagic septicemia is behind the recent deaths of more than 30 elephants but is doing further tests to make sure, the parks authority said.\", \"The elephant deaths, which began in late August, come soon after hundreds of elephants died in neighboring Botswana in mysterious circumstances.\", \"Officials in Botswana were initially at a loss to explain the elephant deaths there but have since blamed toxins produced by another type of bacterium.\", \"Toxins in water blamed for deaths of hundreds of elephants in Botswana \", \"Experts say Botswana and Zimbabwe could be home to roughly half of the continent's 400,000 elephants, often targeted by poachers.\", \"Elephants in Botswana and parts of Zimbabwe are at historically high levels, but elsewhere on the continent -- especially in forested areas -- many populations are severely depleted, said Chris Thouless, head of research at Save the Elephants.\", \"Read More\", \"\\\"Higher populations equal greater risk from infectious diseases,\\\" Thouless told Reuters, adding that climate change could put pressure on elephant populations as water supplies diminish and temperatures rise, potentially increasing the probability of pathogen outbreaks.\", \"Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority Director-General Fulton Mangwanya told a parliamentary committee on Monday that so far 34 dead elephants had been counted.\", \"\\\"It is unlikely that this disease alone will have any serious overall impact on the survival of the elephant population,\\\" he said. \\\"The northwest regions of Zimbabwe have an over-abundance of elephants and this outbreak of disease is probably a manifestation of that ... particularly in the hot, dry season elephants are stressed by competition for water and food resources.\\\"\", \"Postmortems on some of the dead elephants showed inflamed livers and other organs, Mangwanya said. The elephants were found lying on their stomachs, suggesting a sudden death.\", \"Vernon Booth, a Zimbabwe-based wildlife management consultant, told Reuters it was difficult to put a number on Zimbabwe's current elephant population. He estimated it could be close to 90,000, up from 82,000 in 2014 when the last national survey was conducted, assuming that roughly 2,000-3,000 have died each year from all causes.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/01/world/covid-girls-child-marriage-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"Half a million more girls are at risk of child marriage in 2020 because of Covid-19, charity warns\", \"description\": \"The pandemic has put 500,000 more girls at risk of being forced into child marriage this year, reversing 25 years of progress that saw child marriage rates decline, according to a new report by the charity Save the Children.\", \"date\": \"2020-10-01T12:59:25Z\", \"author\": \"Tara John\", \"text\": [\"London (CNN)\", \"The pandemic has put 500,000 more girls at risk of being forced into child marriage this year, reversing \", \"25 years of progress\", \" that saw child marriage rates decline, according to a new report by the charity Save the Children.\", \"Before the global outbreak, 12 million girls married each year, now the charity warns that up to 2.5 million more girls could be at risk of \", \"child marriage\", \" over the next five years.  \", \"How saying 'I do' can help millions of girls to say 'I don't'\", \"With up to 117 million children estimated to fall into poverty in 2020, many will face pressure to work and help provide for their families.\", \"\\\"The pandemic means more families are being pushed into poverty, forcing many girls to work to support their families, to go without food, to become the main caregivers for sick family members, and to drop out of school -- with far less of a chance than boys of ever returning,\\\" Inger Ashing, CEO of Save the Children International, \", \"said in a press release\", \".\", \"The pandemic led to school closures and \\\"experience during the Ebola outbreak suggests many girls will never return\\\" to class due \\\"to increasing pressure to work, risk of child marriage, bans on pregnant girls attending school, and lost contact with education,\\\" the charity wrote.\", \"Read More\", \"A girl gets married every 2 seconds somewhere in the world\", \"This year, 191,200 girls in South Asia will be disproportionately affected by the risk of increased child marriage, the report says. It is followed by West and Central Africa, where 90,000 girls are at risk of child marriage, Latin America and the Caribbean (73,400), and Europe and Central Asia (37,200).  \", \"Girls affected by humanitarian crises, such as wars, floods and earthquakes, face the greatest risk of child marriage, the report notes. Before the pandemic, data showed child marriage was increasing among refugee populations. In Lebanon, child marriage among Syrian refugee girls rose by 7% between 2017 and 2018.\", \"\\\"Every year, around 12 million girls are married, 2 million before their 15th birthday,\\\" Ashing said. \\\"Half a million more girls are now at risk of this gender-based violence this year alone -- and these only are the ones we know about. We believe this is the tip of the iceberg.\\\"\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/30/politics/esper-africa-trip/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"US Defense Secretary visits Africa for first time seeking to push back on Russia and China\", \"description\": \"US Secretary of Defense Mark Esper made his first visit to Africa Wednesday, a trip aimed in part at pushing back on Russian and Chinese influence in the region.\", \"date\": \"2020-09-30T16:14:06Z\", \"author\": \"Ryan Browne\", \"text\": [\"Malta (CNN)\", \"US Secretary of Defense \", \"Mark Esper \", \"made his first visit to Africa Wednesday, a trip aimed in part at pushing back on Russian and Chinese influence in the region.\", \"Esper arrived in Tunisia to meet with top officials, including the country's president, Kais Saied, and to lay a wreath and give a speech at a World War II cemetery to honor US service members who fell during the North African campaign.\", \"The trip was not announced until after Esper departed the country.\", \"Tunisia which has been touted as the sole democratic success story to come out of the 2011 \\\"Arab Spring,\\\" was designated \\\"a major-non NATO ally of the United States\\\" in 2015 and has partnered with the US on counterterrorism efforts aimed at ISIS-linked groups.\", \"As Trump refuses to commit to a peaceful transition, Pentagon stresses it will play no role in the election\", \"During a meeting at the Tunisian Defense Ministry, Esper and his counterpart signed a \\\"ten-year Roadmap of Defense Cooperation.\\\"\", \"Read More\", \"\\\"The United States will continue to deepen our alliances and partnerships across the continent, including with Tunisia, where your democratic government and sovereignty have made much of our work in the region possible,\\\" Esper said during his speech at the North Africa American cemetery and memorial in Carthage.\", \"\\\"We look forward to expanding this relationship to help Tunisia protect its maritime ports and land borders, deter terrorism, and keep the corrosive efforts of autocratic regimes out of your country,\\\" he added.\", \"The US has worked to help Tunisia secure its border with Libya which has been beset by civil war and recently deployed 40 American military advisers to the country, part of a the Army's Security Force Assistance Brigade, in order to aid Tunisia's fight against terrorist groups which have carried out high profile attacks in the country since 2011.\", \"The US is also Tunisia's largest supplier of weapons, providing nearly 50% of all arms imports from 2015 to 2019 according to the Center for International Policy and in February the Trump Administration approved the sale of four AT-6C Wolverine light attack aircraft to Tunisia, an arms package estimated to cost $325.8 million.\", \"While in North Africa, Esper is seeking to push back on Russian and Chinese activity in the region, according to defense officials.\", \"\\\"Today, our strategic competitors China and Russia continue to intimidate and coerce their neighbors while expanding their authoritarian influence worldwide, including on this continent,\\\" Esper said.\", \"The US has accused China of seeking to expand its influence in the region via predatory loans and the US military has accused Moscow of deploying Russian mercenaries and fighter jets to bolster Libyan Gen. Khalifa Haftar, the commander of the self-styled Libyan National Army, one of the belligerents in that country's civil war.\", \"China is doubling down on its territorial claims and that's causing conflict across Asia\", \"\\\"Together we continue to counter the malign, coercive, and predatory behavior of Beijing and Moscow, meant to undermine African institutions, erode national sovereignty, create instability, and exploit resources throughout the region,\\\" Esper said.\", \"Esper also visited the island republic of Malta Tuesday, becoming the first US defense secretary to visit there since President Richard Nixon's Secretary of Defense Mel Laird visited in 1970, just six years after the country became independent of the UK.\", \"While in Malta, Esper on Wednesday met with the country's Prime Minister Robert Abela and President George Vella.\", \"While Malta's military is small, totaling some 2,000 personnel, it sits in a strategic location off the coast of North Africa and possesses a significant port and was until the 1970s was the site of a major UK Royal Navy installation.\", \"A senior defense official told CNN that Esper planned to discuss maritime security with Maltese officials, a major issue given the country's proximity to shipping and smuggling lanes connecting Europe to North Africa. \"]}\n][\n{\"url\": \"https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-movies-colin-trevorrow-b4fb2ecbc00375b8667ce6630287add8\", \"source\": \"Associated Press\", \"title\": \"'Jurassic World' shoot suspended after COVID-19 positives\", \"description\": \"Filming on the new \\u201cJurassic World\\u201d movie at Pinewood Studios in the U.K. has been suspended for two weeks because of COVID-19 cases on set. Director Colin Trevorrow tweeted Wednesday that there... \", \"date\": \"2020-10-07T19:09:32Z\", \"author\": \"Lindsey Bahr\", \"text\": [\"Filming on the new \\u201cJurassic World\\u201d movie at Pinewood Studios in the U.K. has been suspended for two weeks because of COVID-19 cases on set. Director Colin Trevorrow tweeted Wednesday that there were \\u201ca few\\u201d positive tests for the virus. \", \"He added that the individuals tested negative shortly after, but that they would be pausing for two weeks regardless to adhere to safety protocols. \", \"A spokesperson for Universal Pictures said they were informed of the positive tests last night and that all tested negative this morning. \", \"\\u201cThe safety and well-being of our entire cast and crew is paramount,\\u201d the spokesperson added. \\u201cThose who initially tested positive are currently self-isolating, as are those who they have come into contact with.\\u201d\", \"On Tuesday, Universal said that the release of \\u201cJurassic World: Dominion\\u201d was being delayed a year to June 2022. \", \"The franchise starring Chris Pratt was one of the first major Hollywood productions to restart after pandemic-related shutdowns. The New York Times in August wrote about \", \" and a few crewmember cases in Britain and in Malta over the summer. \", \"It\\u2019s the second significant shoot to be affected by COVID-19. Last month the U.K. shoot on \\u201c \", \",\\u201d a Warner Bros. film, also halted production because of a positive case. \"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-international-news-public-health-europe-italy-77a4fdd5926da76bb94105bb4995b0c7\", \"source\": \"Associated Press\", \"title\": \"Italy imposes mask mandate outside and in as virus rebounds\", \"description\": \"ROME (AP) \\u2014 Italy imposed a nationwide outdoor mask mandate Wednesday with fines of up to 1,000 euros ($1,163) for violators, as the European country where COVID-19 first hit hard scrambles to... \", \"date\": \"2020-10-07T15:47:41Z\", \"author\": \"Nicole Winfield\", \"text\": [\"ROME (AP) \\u2014 Italy imposed a nationwide outdoor mask mandate Wednesday with fines of up to 1,000 euros ($1,163) for violators, as the European country where COVID-19 first hit hard scrambles to keep rebounding infections from spiraling out of control.\", \"The government passed the decree even though Italy\\u2019s overall per capita infection rate is among the lowest in Europe. But Premier Giuseppe Conte warned that a steady, nine-week rise in infections nationwide demanded new preventive measures to stave off economically-devastating closures and shutdowns.\", \"\\u201cWe have to be more rigorous because we want to avoid at all cost more restrictive measures for production and social activities,\\u201d Conte said.\", \"The decree was passed on the same day that Italy added 3,678 new infections and 31 deaths to its official coronavirus toll, the highest increase in new cases since the peak of the outbreak in April. Both hard-hit Lombardy and southern Campania added more than 500 cases each. \", \"Italy has over 36,000 confirmed COVID-19 deaths, the second-highest number in Europe after Britain.\", \"Even though the World Health Organization doesn\\u2019t specifically recommend masks outdoors for the general population, the trend has taken off in Italy, particularly as new clusters have been identified in southern regions that largely escaped the first wave of infection.\", \"The new mask mandate was contained in a government decree extending the state of emergency until Jan. 31. It requires residents to have masks on them at all times outdoors, and wear them unless they can guarantee that they can remain completely isolated from anyone other than family. That effectively makes them obligatory outdoors in all urban and semi-urban settings, with exemptions for eating in restaurants and bars.\", \"In addition, masks must now be worn indoors everywhere except private homes, but even at home, Conte urged Italians to keep their distances with relatives, given most new infections are occurring within families. \", \"\\u201cThe state can\\u2019t ask citizens to wear masks in their own homes,\\u201d Conte said. \\u201cBut we have a strong recommendation for all citizens: Even in our families we have to be careful.\\u201d\", \"Exceptions include for outdoor sporting activities, children under 6 and for people with health conditions that preclude wearing masks. \", \"Fines ranging from 400 to 1,000 euros ($463 to $1,163) are foreseen for violations, Italian news agency ANSA said. \", \"Italy thus is joining Spain, Turkey, North Macedonia, India and a handful of other Asian countries in imposing a nationwide, outdoor mask mandate. Spain has had such a requirement in place since mid-May and Turkey since last month. \", \"Elsewhere in Europe, such outdoor mandates are in effect in hot spot cities such as Paris, Brussels and Pristina, Kosovo. In many Asian countries, social pressure to wear masks outdoors has made binding government decrees unnecessary. The Australian state of Victoria has had one in place for weeks.\", \"Italy has one of the lowest infection rates in Europe, at 46.5 cases per 100,000 residents over the last two weeks. By contrast, the Czech Republic counts 327 per 100,000 while Spain has 302, France 248 and Belgium 233 per 100,000.\", \"While Paris and Brussels have closured bars to cope with the rising infections and Britain has capped pub hours, Conte has said that Italy wouldn\\u2019t impose any curfews or close bars. \", \"The Vatican, which followed Italy\\u2019s strict lockdown in spring and summer, also imposed an outdoor mask mandate this week in the tiny city state in the center of Rome. Pope Francis, however, didn\\u2019t wear a mask during his indoor general audience Wednesday, even as he greeted well-wishers and shook their hands.\", \"Italy became the epicenter of the European outbreak after the first domestic case was identified Feb. 21 in northern Lombardy. The country largely tamed the virus with a strict, nationwide 10-week lockdown, but infections have crept up since August vacations.\", \"There have been various hypotheses for why Italy\\u2019s rebound has been slower than in neighboring countries like Spain or France, where daily new cases often top 10,000. Chief among them is the fact that Italians, seriously scared by the devastation of the initial outbreak in the north, have generally abided by mask mandates and social distancing norms. \", \"Also, Italy\\u2019s national health care system has continued to aggressively trace new infection, as well as test passengers on arrival from at-risk countries \\u2014 and even from its own island of Sardinia after the jet-set destination became a hotspot this summer.\", \"That said, Italy\\u2019s testing capacity has its limitations. It can only process around 120,000 tests a day, more than double what it processed during the peak of the outbreak. But some experts say Italy needs to more than double that number as the virus has now spread across the country.\", \"__\", \"Follow AP\\u2019s pandemic coverage at \", \" and \"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-travel-pandemics-hawaii-archive-1e552052192dbac3cbd8dc97329c811c\", \"source\": \"Associated Press\", \"title\": \"Hawaii pushes forward with tourism despite safety concerns\", \"description\": \"HONOLULU (AP) \\u2014 Despite increasing coronavirus cases across the U.S., Hawaii officials hope to reboot tourism next week by loosening months of economically crippling pandemic restrictions,... \", \"date\": \"2020-10-07T17:10:29Z\", \"author\": \"Caleb Jones\", \"text\": [\"HONOLULU (AP) \\u2014 Despite increasing coronavirus cases across the U.S., Hawaii officials hope to reboot tourism next week by loosening months of economically crippling pandemic restrictions, including a mandatory 14-day quarantine for all arriving travelers.\", \"The plan, which was postponed after the virus surged in the summer, will allow Hawaii-bound travelers who provide negative virus test results within 72 hours of arrival to sidestep two weeks of quarantine.\", \"But the Oct. 15 launch of the pre-travel testing program is causing concern for some who say gaps in the plan could further endanger a community still reeling from summer infection rates that spiked to 10% after local restrictions eased.\", \"State Sen. Glenn Wakai, chair of the Committee on Economic Development, Tourism and Technology, said one problem is that the tests are not mandatory for all. Travelers can still choose to not get tested and instead quarantine for two weeks upon arrival, which means those with a negative test could get infected on the plane. \", \"\\u201cThey\\u2019re going to come here with this false sense of belief that, \\u2018Hey, I got tested, Hawaii, I\\u2019m clean. Here\\u2019s my paperwork. Let me enjoy my Hawaiian vacation,\\u2019 not knowing that the person in seat B on a five-hour flight gave them the coronavirus,\\u201d Wakai said. \", \"Hawaii has lived under quarantine laws for months, but hundreds \\u2014 at times thousands \\u2014 of people have arrived daily since the pandemic started. Some have flouted safety measures, leading to arrests and fines for the scofflaws. \", \"Before the pandemic, the state received about 30,000 visitors a day. \", \"If the islands face another coronavirus surge because of a hasty return to tourism, another lockdown could spell economic disaster, Wakai said. \", \"He said the state has mismanaged the pandemic from the beginning. Hawaii\\u2019s state epidemiologist and its director of health both left their positions in September after concerns were raised about their handling of the virus and the state\\u2019s contact tracing efforts.\", \"Wakai also worries that reopening tourism before children are safely back in school could challenge parents who return to work in the tourism industry. \", \"But others view the pre-travel testing plan as the best way to add a layer of protection while kickstarting the economy. Hawaii has had one the nation\\u2019s highest unemployment rates since the start of the pandemic, which ground to a halt nearly all vacation-related activity. \", \"Hawaii Lt. Gov. Josh Green, who has spearheaded the testing program, acknowledged the risks but said the plan will give the islands a much-needed chance for economic recovery. \", \"\\u201cIt\\u2019s important that people know we welcome them as long as they\\u2019ve gotten their test,\\u201d Green said, adding that wearing a mask in public is still Hawaii law.\", \"Green, an emergency room doctor who recently recovered from COVID-19, said calls for testing at Hawaii\\u2019s airports don\\u2019t take into account capacity or cost. Even if the state could test all visitors, people wouldn\\u2019t get their results right away, he added.\", \"\\u201cIf we were to test everybody that came, we would have to have 8,000 tests\\u201d per day, Green said, estimating the number of visitors he thinks will travel to Hawaii at the program\\u2019s start. The state currently has about 4,000 tests available each day for residents and visitors. \", \"As part of the plan, Hawaii is partnering with several U.S. mainland pharmacies and airlines for testing. Travelers will load their information onto a state website and mobile app that officials will use to track incoming passengers. \", \"Green said travelers must get the correct type of coronavirus screening \\u2014 a nucleic acid amplification test \\u2014 and suggests people work with designated companies. \", \"He has also proposed implementing a surveillance testing program that would screen a percentage of arriving passengers who are in high-risk groups. \", \"Dr. Anthony Fauci, who spoke with Green in a livestream video call Wednesday, said no matter what, some COVID positive vacationers will get into the state. \", \"\\u201cThe reality is, no matter what you do, there are going to be infected people who slip through the cracks. It\\u2019s inevitable,\\u201d Fauci said of Hawaii. \\u201cI can understand the anxiety of people on the islands saying, you know, if you just do a test 72 hours earlier and that\\u2019s all you do, then that\\u2019s not going to be enough.\\u201d\", \"Fauci said that adding some kind of secondary screening would help.\", \"\\u201cYou\\u2019re not going to get everybody, but statistically, you\\u2019re going to dramatically diminish the likelihood that an infected person enters,\\u201d he said. \", \"Travelers will also face a list of restrictions upon arrival in Hawaii \\u2014 especially on Oahu which has seen the bulk of reported cases.\", \"Still, some county officials say the plan is not ready. They want additional layers of protection for their individual islands.\", \"On Tuesday, Big Island Mayor Harry Kim announced that his county would opt out of the testing program and continue to require all visitors to quarantine for two weeks upon arrival. Gov. David Ige on Monday denied a request from the island of Kauai that would have established a post-arrival testing program for visitors to that island. Both island mayors said they want another layer of testing for people arriving in Hawaii.\", \"\\u201cA single pre-arrival testing program alone does not provide the needed level of protection for our Kauai community,\\u201d said Kauai Mayor Derek Kawakami in a statement. He said the island secured 15,000 rapid tests and will develop a plan to mitigate the virus\\u2019 spread. \", \"The blow to tourism has taken a toll on Hawaii residents who depend on the sector to survive. Scores of businesses have closed for good. Hotels have shuttered or operate under limited capacity. Bars remain closed and restaurants struggle with take-out only or a cap on the number of guests they can serve. The October measure could bring back paychecks for many workers. \", \"\\u201cIn a perfect world, we wouldn\\u2019t reopen until we had a vaccine,\\u201d said John De Fries, president and CEO of the Hawaii Tourism Authority. However, waiting that long, he said, \\u201cwould take us out.\\u201d \", \"Miriam Thorpe, a California school teacher, recently flew to Hawaii from San Francisco with her husband to visit family. She was nervous about the flight but said she looked forward to seeing her grandchildren for the first time in nearly a year.\", \"\\u201cNot so sure about how safe it is on the plane or in the airports,\\u201d Thorpe said before leaving.\", \"The Thorpes said they were tested for COVID-19 before they left, but would not get their results for several days after arriving in Hawaii.\", \"Under the new rules, travelers like the Thorpes who do not get their test results in time for their trips will have to quarantine until their negative results are in. Those who test positive after arriving in Hawaii will have to isolate alongside their close contacts. They must be medically cleared of the disease before they can travel home. \", \"\\u201cOnce I get to Hawaii, I\\u2019ll feel much better,\\u201d Thorpe said before boarding her flight to paradise. \", \"___\", \"Video journalist Haven Daly in San Francisco contributed to this report. \"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://apnews.com/article/north-america-hollywood-los-angeles-aedf960caf08a91476abc15d0c12ff99\", \"source\": \"Associated Press\", \"title\": \"Women outwit Hollywood bias with help from industry insiders\", \"description\": \"LOS ANGELES (AP) \\u2014 Kaitlyn Yang knows it\\u2019s rare for women to work in visual effects but wanted to find out just how much company she has.  Devising an informal survey earlier this year, she... \", \"date\": \"2020-10-07T17:52:54Z\", \"author\": \"Lynn Elber\", \"text\": [\"LOS ANGELES (AP) \\u2014 Kaitlyn Yang knows it\\u2019s rare for women to work in visual effects but wanted to find out just how much company she has. \", \"Devising an informal survey earlier this year, she painstakingly searched 24,000 LinkedIn entries for female visual effects supervisors in North America. Her tally: 30.\", \"\\u201cSo you do the math,\\u201d she said of the tiny percentage that represents. It\\u2019s not far afield of in-depth research showing women are underrepresented in behind-the-camera positions, including writing, directing and producing, despite recent progress.\", \"A study of the 250 top-grossing films in 2019 by San Diego State University\\u2019s Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film found that women comprise 6% of visual effects supervisors, 5% of cinematographers and 19% of writers. A center report on last season\\u2019s TV shows found similar patterns.\", \"Yang, whose perseverance led to the creation of her own firm, Alpha Studios, is among those succeeding in Hollywood. That\\u2019s true as well of Layne Eskridge, a former Netflix and Apple TV executive who just launched POV Entertainment; writer Gladys Rodriguez, whose credits include \\u201cSons of Anarchy\\u201d and \\u201cVida\\u201d; and Sandra Valde-Hansen, cinematographer for more than a dozen independent films.\", \"The four share a key credit: Each had an industry internship through the Television Academy Foundation, the charitable arm of the academy that administers the prime-time Emmy Awards. \", \"For Valde-Hansen, the internship provided the experience of working alongside veteran cinematographer Alan Caso, who\\u2019d been part of the acclaimed series \\u201cSix Feet Under.\\u201d\", \"Getting to learn from the man \\u201cwho created the look of that show, that very cinematic look, I thought, \\u2019Oh, this is better than getting into college,\\u201d she said. \\u201cThe internship just opened up so many doors for me.\\u201d\", \"The program offers 50 paid, eight-week summer internships on Los Angeles TV productions to college students nationwide.\", \"\\u201cWe couldn\\u2019t be prouder to have helped launch the careers of these exceptional women. They are a testament to the foundation\\u2019s crucial work,\\u201d said Madeline Di Nonno, chair of the foundation\\u2019s board of directors.\", \"As the onetime interns have progressed in their fields, they\\u2019ve gained hard-won insights about Hollywood and the obstacles to women and people of color. Yang, who uses a wheelchair because of spinal muscular atrophy, faces other challenges. In recent interviews, the women discussed their experiences and how the industry can evolve.\", \"THE CLUB STILL EXISTS\", \"Bias can be subtle, or not. \", \"Rodriguez recalled a stretch in which she worked as a writer\\u2019s assistant on shows with primarily white male writing staffs.\", \"Men in jobs comparable to hers were \\u201cinvited to play Ping-Pong, but they wouldn\\u2019t invite me, or they would invite them to after-work drinks and I wouldn\\u2019t get invited,\\u201d she said. \\u201cI was definitely not part of the boys club, so that excluded me from certain opportunities,\\u201d such as developing story ideas. \", \"Eskridge has found that older writers can be uncomfortable with an executive who is younger and Black. That appeared to be the case with a sitcom creator she ushered into her office for a first meeting.\", \"\\u201cMaybe he thought I was an assistant, but when I closed the door and sat down he realized I was Layne,\\u201d she said. \\u201cHe was so flustered. And I think we sat there for about two minutes while he tried to gather himself. And then he eventually said he needed to call his agent and that he wasn\\u2019t going to take the meeting.\\u201d\", \"Yang, who became more public-facing after starting her company, found she wasn\\u2019t what some expected.\", \"One man \\u201cwas very surprised that I attended USC film school, in a way that was almost questioning if my resume was made up,\\u201d she said. \\u201dI was like, \\u2018You want to see my student loans?\\u2019\\u201d\", \"(Women are well-represented at the USC School of Cinematic Arts: This fall, they\\u2019re 56% of students, the school said.)\", \"GETTING A BOOST\", \"Valde-Hansen said she owes a debt of gratitude to Florida-based cinematographer Tony Foresta, who took her on as his assistant when nobody else would.\", \"\\u201cI remember walking into the (equipment) rental houses and they would literally come up to me and say, \\u2019Oh, I\\u2019ve worked with another woman camera assistant before...\\u2032 like I was an alien,\\u201d she said. \\u201cIt was unnerving at times. I was so thankful to have this one person who saw me, unlike anyone else.\\u201d\", \"After Rodriguez completed her internship, she worked on CBS\\u2019 \\u201cCold Case,\\u201d created and produced by Meredith Stiehm.\", \"\\u201cIt\\u2019s not that she gave me a leg up, more that she saw me and she didn\\u2019t dismiss me,\\u201d Rodriguez said. It was on the show that she met Veena Sud, a \\u201cwonderful writer who became a sort of mentor to me.\\u201d\", \"\\u201cShe was the first person that took me aside and said, \\u2018I\\u2019ll read your stuff if you\\u2019re writing,\\u2019\\u201d Rodriguez recalled. \\u201cI think Meredith empowered her, and she was giving back to me by empowering me.\\u201d\", \"TRUE SYSTEMIC CHANGE \", \"A female colleague told Valde-Hansen recently that a director wanted to hire her for a project, but the producer thought the budget was out of her league \\u2014 although there was a relatively small gap between it and other projects she\\u2019d worked on.\", \"\\u201cThis has happened to me. Why? Why is that story happening, when a white man makes a movie for $500,000, it does really well, and then suddenly he\\u2019s handed an $80 million Marvel movie,\\u201d Valde-Hansen said. \\u201cThat has to change.\\u201d\", \"Rodriguez says that when studios complain that they can\\u2019t find diversity among writers, she has lists at the ready.\", \"\\u201cIt starts at the top, with execs realizing they have to do the work to look for writers of color, hire writers of color and give people chances,\\u201d she said. \\u201cJust like they would take a chance on a white director or a white writer.\\u201d\", \"Eskridge recalls a few times when she was the \\u201chighest-ranking person of color in the building, and I\\u2019m not a president or part of the C-suite. That shows you that\\u2019s a problem.\\u201d\", \"Yang wants the industry to think diversity for every aspect of production.\", \"\\u201cThe more down the credits you move, it\\u2019s still the same old, same old. And I don\\u2019t want to be the first one of the few,\\u201d she said.\", \"___\", \"Lynn Elber can be reached at lelber@ap.org or on Twitter at http://twitter.com/lynnelber.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-archive-49f5db73e102cd5d5422ab33cade929b\", \"source\": \"Associated Press\", \"title\": \"Audit likely gave congressional staff glimpse of Trump taxes\", \"description\": \"WASHINGTON (AP) \\u2014 It\\u2019s one of the most obscure functions of Congress, little known or understood even by most lawmakers. But it may have once put staffers in possession of one of the most enduring... \", \"date\": \"2020-10-07T04:07:18Z\", \"author\": \"Andrew Taylor\", \"text\": [\"WASHINGTON (AP) \\u2014 It\\u2019s one of the most obscure functions of Congress, little known or understood even by most lawmakers. But it may have once put staffers in possession of one of the most enduring mysteries of the Donald Trump era: his tax data, which The New York Times revealed to the world.\", \"The Times report last month included a \", \", including that he paid only $750 in federal income taxes in 2016 and 2017 and that he carries $421 million in debt. Trump has long refused to release his tax returns, blaming an IRS audit. \", \"That\\u2019s where Congress comes in. The audit of Trump\\u2019s taxes, the Times reported, has been held up for more than four years by staffers for the Joint Committee on Taxation, which has 30 days to review individual refunds and tax credits over $2 million. When JCT staffers disagree with the IRS on a decision, the review is typically kept open until the matter is resolved. \", \"The upshot is that information on Trump\\u2019s taxes, which Democrats are now suing to see, has almost certainly passed through the JCT\\u2019s hands, putting it tantalizingly close to lawmakers.\", \"Key members of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee defended the JCT after the Times report and were emphatic that the panel does not have copies of tax forms pertaining to Trump. \", \"\\u201cThey are not sitting at JCT,\\u201d said House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal, D-Mass. \\u201cI see no evidence that they\\u2019re sitting on those forms.\\u201d \", \"But lawmakers did not say whether the JCT has reviewed any tax refund involving the president. Neal and top House Republican tax expert Kevin Brady of Texas said the panel typically completes its reviews in a month or two, at most.\", \"\\u201cThe vast majority of JCT refund reviews are processed quickly and very rarely does JCT express concerns with the IRS audit findings,\\u201d said Brady, who has previously chaired the panel. \\u201cContrary to the Times\\u2019 reporting, I think the longest time JCT has ever had a case pending is one year. I think we should focus on the facts as much as possible.\\u201d\", \"The topic went unmentioned in a House oversight hearing Wednesday featuring IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig, who reminded lawmakers that \\u201cevery taxpayer in this country is assured of confidentiality and privacy with respect to their tax matters.\\u201d\", \"Lawmakers on Joint Tax are provided summary information on the categories of cases handled and how long it takes to process them, but the information is not made public. Even acknowledging that Trump\\u2019s taxes were before the panel is verboten. \", \"\\u201cThat gets too close to talking about potential tax return information, which is protected under the internal revenue code,\\u201d Joint Tax chief of staff Thomas Barthold said in declining to comment about the Times\\u2019 Trump story.\", \"Representatives for the Trump Organization did not respond to messages seeking comment and confirmation that the Joint Tax Committee had reviewed Trump\\u2019s taxes.\", \"How the process works: When an individual refund or credit over $2 million is approved, the IRS is statutorily required to notify Congress. A designated team at the IRS prepares a report for the JCT on each individual case that contains taxpayer information, spreadsheets and technical data and analysis. Trump should have been sent a letter disclosing that his case was sent to the JCT for review.\", \"Even when the JCT was sifting through Trump\\u2019s tax information, it should have remained beyond the grasp of the five Democrats and five Republicans on the committee. The reviews are performed by the panel\\u2019s tax experts and attorneys, typically working in dedicated space in an IRS facility. Lawmakers don\\u2019t participate.\", \"\\u201cIt is held quite tightly in the hands of just a few lawyers in the staff who are dedicated to doing this work. And they know not to communicate any of it to outsiders,\\u201d said George Yin, an emeritus University of Virginia law professor who was JCT chief of staff from 2003 to 2005.\", \"Former JCT staffers would not comment on whether they remembered the dispute with Trump, citing confidentiality rules. Unauthorized release of tax return information can mean a felony conviction and a prison sentence of up to five years.\", \"Kenneth Kies, a tax attorney who served as chief of staff on the committee from 1994 to 1998, said the committee typically handled a \\u201ccouple hundred\\u201d cases year. And usually the JCT \\u2014 which includes former IRS staffers \\u2014 ratifies the IRS\\u2019s decision.\", \"\\u201cA lot of them were fairly straightforward. Those were no drama,\\u201d Kies said. \\u201cOnly occasionally we would get one where there was an interpretation of the law we didn\\u2019t agree with.\\u201d \", \"While the Joint Committee rarely makes headlines, it plays a crucial role in policymaking, delivering cost estimates that can be make-or-break for proposed tax legislation. It was instrumental during the creation of both the Obama administration health care law and the GOP tax overhaul in 2017.\", \"The office is overseen by chief of staff Barthold, a Harvard Ph.D. economist who has worked on the panel for more than 30 years. As the JCT\\u2019s top staffer since 2009, he is among the very few who might know whether Trump\\u2019s audit was reviewed. But he is legally barred from disclosing most information related to the committee\\u2019s audit work. \", \"Left unresolved is a full accounting of Trump\\u2019s finances, which Democrats predict will illustrate numerous conflicts of interest between his businesses and his presidency. They point to Trump\\u2019s reported $421 million in debt, \", \".\", \"Neal, the lead force behind a Democratic lawsuit to expose Trump\\u2019s taxes, said the Times\\u2019 reporting is proof that the documents should be given to Congress. The existence of the audit also strengthens their legal case, he said, since the Democratic investigation is focused on that very issue.\", \"\\u201cThat\\u2019s what this case has been about \\u2014 have the IRS tell us how auditing is done,\\u201d Neal said. \\u201cThat\\u2019s always been our case.\\u201d\", \"___\", \"Associated Press writer Brian Slodysko contributed to this report.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-john-bel-edwards-storms-evacuations-hurricane-delta-4e18bc3890566c8c206e379358242670\", \"source\": \"Associated Press\", \"title\": \"Busy 2020 hurricane season has Louisiana bracing a 6th time\", \"description\": \"MORGAN CITY, La. (AP) \\u2014 For the sixth time in the Atlantic hurricane season, people in Louisiana are once more fleeing the state's barrier islands and sailing boats to safe harbor while emergency... \", \"date\": \"2020-10-07T19:04:31Z\", \"author\": \"Stacey Plaisance\", \"text\": [\"MORGAN CITY, La. (AP) \\u2014 For the sixth time in the Atlantic hurricane season, people in Louisiana are once more fleeing the state\\u2019s barrier islands and sailing boats to safe harbor while emergency officials ramp up command centers and consider ordering evacuations.\", \"The storm being watched Wednesday was \", \", the 25th named storm of the Atlantic\\u2019s \", \". Forecasts placed most of Louisiana within Delta\\u2019s path, with the latest National Hurricane Center estimating landfall in the state on Friday. \", \"The center\\u2019s forecasters warned of winds that could gust well above 100 mph (160 kph) and up to 11 feet (3.4 meters) of ocean water potentially getting pushed onshore when the storm\\u2019s center hits land.\", \"\\u201cThis season has been relentless,\\u201d Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards said, dusting off what has become his common refrain in 2020 - \\u201cPrepare for the worst. Pray for the best.\\u201d\", \"So far, Louisiana has seen both major strikes and near misses. The southwest area of the state around Lake Charles, which forecasts show is on Delta\\u2019s current trajectory, is still recovering from \", \" which made landfall on Aug. 27. \", \"Nearly six weeks later, some 5,600 people remain in New Orleans hotels because their homes are too damaged to occupy. Trees, roofs and other debris left in Laura\\u2019s wake still sit by roadsides in the Lake Charles area waiting for pickup even as forecasters warned that Delta could be a larger than average storm.\", \"New Orleans spent a few days last month bracing for \", \" before it skirted off to the east, making landfall in Alabama on Sept. 16.\", \"Delta is predicted to strengthen back into a Category 3 storm after \", \" on Wednesday. The National Hurricane Center forecast anticipated that landfall in Louisiana would hit a sparsely populated area between Cameron and Vermilion Bay.\", \"Plywood, batteries and rope already were flying off the shelves at the Tiger Island hardware store in Morgan City, Louisiana, which would be close to the center of the storm\\u2019s path. \", \"\\u201cThe other ones didn\\u2019t bother me, but this one seems like we\\u2019re the target,\\u201d customer Terry Guarisco said as a store employee helped him load his truck with the plywood he planned to use to board up his home for the first time of the hurricane season.\", \"In Sulphur, just across the Calcasieu River from Lake Charles, Ben Reynolds was deciding whether to leave or not because of Delta. He had to use a generator for power for a week after Hurricane Laura.\", \"\\u201cIt\\u2019s depressing,\\u201d Reynolds said. \\u201cIt\\u2019s scary as hell.\\u201d\", \"By sundown Wednesday, Acy Cooper planned to have his three shrimp boats locked down and tucked into a southern Louisiana bayou for the third time this season.\", \"\\u201cWe\\u2019re not making any money,\\u201d Cooper said. \\u201cEvery time one comes we end up losing a week or two.\\u201d\", \"Lynn Nguyen, who works at the TLC Seafood Market in Abbeville, said each storm threat forces fisherman to spend days pulling hundreds of crab traps from the water or risk losing them. \", \"\\u201cIt\\u2019s been a rough year. The minute you get your traps out and get fishing, its time to pull them out again because something is brewing out there,\\u201d Nguyen said.\", \"Elsewhere in Abbeville, Wednesday brought another round of boarding up and planning, Vermilion Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Lynn Guillory said.\", \"\\u201cI think that the stress is not just the stress of the storm this year, it\\u2019s everything \\u2013 one thing after another. Somebody just told me, \\u2018You know, we\\u2019ve really had enough,\\u2019\\u201d Guillory said,\", \"On Grand Isle, the Starfish restaurant plans to stay open until it runs out of food Wednesday. Restaurant employee Nicole Fantiny then intends to join the rush of people leaving the barrier island, where the COVID-19 pandemic already devastated the tourism industry.\", \"\\u201cThe epidemic, the coronavirus, put a lot of people out of work. Now, having to leave once a month for these storms \\u2014 it\\u2019s been taking a lot,\\u201d said Fantiny, who tried to quit smoking two weeks ago but gave in and bought a pack of cigarettes Tuesday as Delta rapidly strengthened.\", \"While New Orleans has been mostly spared by the weather and found itself outside Delta\\u2019s cone Wednesday, constant vigilance and months as a COVID-19 hot spot have strained the vulnerable city, which has a long hurricane memory due to the scars from 2005\\u2032s Hurricane Katrina.\", \"The shift in Delta\\u2019s forecast track likely meant no need for a major evacuation, but the city\\u2019s emergency officials were on alert.\", \"\\u201cWe\\u2019ve had five near misses. We need to watch this one very, very closely,\\u201d New Orleans Emergency Director Collin Arnold said.\", \"Along with getting hit by Hurricane Laura and escaping Hurricane Sally, Louisiana saw heavy flooding on June 7 from Tropical Storm Cristobal. Tropical Storm Beta prompted tropical storm warnings in mid-September as it slowly crawled up the northeast Texas coast. \", \"Tropical Storm Marco looked like it might deliver the first half of a hurricane double-blow with Laura, but nearly dissipated before hitting the state near the mouth of the Mississippi River on Aug. 24. \", \"\\u201cI don\\u2019t really remember all the names,\\u201d Keith Dunn said as he loaded up his crab traps as a storm threatened for a fourth time this season in Theriot, a tiny bayou town just a few feet above sea level south of Houma.\", \"And there are nearly eight weeks of hurricane season left to go, although forecasters at the National Weather Service office in New Orleans noted in a \", \" of this week\\u2019s forecast that outside of Delta, the skies above the Gulf of Mexico look calm.\", \"\\u201cNot seeing any signs of any additional tropical weather in the extended which is OK with us because we are SO DONE with Hurricane Season 2020,\\u201d they wrote.\", \"___\", \"Santana reported from New Orleans. Gerald Herbert in Theriot, Louisiana; Kevin McGill in New Orleans; Melinda Deslatte in Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Leah Willingham in Jackson, Mississippi; and Jeffrey Collins in Columbia, South Carolina, contributed to this report.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-new-york-archive-f557d51b5e960d15cde3c2bf3ac303e1\", \"source\": \"Associated Press\", \"title\": \"AP PHOTOS: Faces meet fashion in New Yorkers' mask choices\", \"description\": \"NEW YORK (AP) \\u2014 New Yorkers have increasingly embraced the wearing of masks to slow the spread of coronavirus since the pandemic began earlier this year. With no end in sight, many have moved... \", \"date\": \"2020-10-07T18:28:29Z\", \"author\": \"Mark Lennihan\", \"text\": []},\n{\"url\": \"https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-pandemics-colombia-health-martin-vizcarra-931ab5fbe3d0bcefad19968695ea3a2a\", \"source\": \"Associated Press\", \"title\": \" Peru bet on cheap COVID antibody tests; it didn't go well\", \"description\": \"BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) \\u2014 In the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, the harried health officials of Peru faced a quandary. They knew molecular tests for COVID-19 were the best option to detect... \", \"date\": \"2020-10-07T18:24:24Z\", \"author\": \"Christine Armario\", \"text\": [\"BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) \\u2014 In the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, the harried health officials of Peru faced a quandary. They knew molecular tests for COVID-19 were the best option to detect the virus \\u2013 yet they didn\\u2019t have the labs, the supplies, or the technicians to make them work. \", \"But there was a cheaper alternative -- antibody tests, mostly from China, that were flooding the market at a fraction of the price and could deliver a positive or negative result within minutes of a simple fingerstick.\", \"In March, President Martin Vizcarra took the airwaves to announce he\\u2019d signed off on a massive purchase of 1.6 million tests \\u2013 almost all of them for antibodies. \", \"Now, interviews with experts, public purchase orders, import records, government resolutions, patients, and COVID-19 health reports show that the country\\u2019s bet on rapid antibody tests went dangerously off course. \", \"Unlike almost every other nation, Peru is relying heavily on rapid antibody blood tests to diagnose active cases \\u2013 a purpose for which they are not designed. The tests cannot detect early COVID-19 infections, making it hard to quickly identify and isolate the sick. Epidemiologists interviewed by The Associated Press say their misuse is producing a sizable number of false positives and negatives, helping fuel one of the world\\u2019s worst COVID-19 outbreaks. \", \"What\\u2019s more, a number of the antibody tests purchased for use in Peru have since been rejected by the United States after independent analysis found they did not meet standards for accurately detecting COVID-19.\", \"Today the South American nation has the highest per capita COVID-19 mortality rate of any country across the globe, according to John Hopkins University \\u2013 and physicians there believe the country\\u2019s faulty testing approach is one reason why.\", \"\\u201cThis was a multi-systemic failure,\\u201d said Dr. V\\u00edctor Zamora, Peru\\u2019s former minister of health. \\u201cWe should have stopped the rapid tests by now.\\u201d\", \"___\", \"As COVID-19 cases popped up across the globe, low- and middle-income nations found themselves in a dilemma.\", \"The World Health Organization was calling on authorities to ramp up testing to prevent the virus from spreading out of control. One particular test \\u2013 a polymerase chain reaction exam \\u2013 was deemed the best option. Using a specimen collected from deep in the nose, the test is developed on specialized machines that can detect the genetic material of the virus within days of infection.\", \"If COVID-19 cases are caught early, the sick can be isolated, their contacts traced, and the chain of contagion severed.\", \"Within weeks of the initial outbreak in China, genome sequences for the virus were made available and specialists in Asia and Europe got to work creating their own tests. But in parts of the world like Africa and Latin America, there was no such option. They would have to wait for the tests to become available \\u2013 and when they did, the incredible demand meant most weren\\u2019t able to secure the number they required. \", \"\\u201cThe collapse of global cooperation and a failure of international solidarity have shoved Africa out of the diagnostics market,\\u201d Dr. John Nkengasong, director of the Africa CDC, wrote in Nature magazine in April as the hunt was underway. \", \"Nations that got an early jump start in preparing or had a relatively robust health care system already in place fared best. Two weeks after Colombia identified its first case, the country had 22 private and public laboratories signed up to do PCR testing. Peru, by contrast, relied on just one laboratory capable of 200 tests a day.\", \"For years, Peru has invested a smaller part of its GDP on public health than others in the region. As COVID-19 approached, glaring deficiencies in Peru became evident. There were just 100 ICU beds available for COVID-19 patients, said Dr. V\\u00edctor Zamora, who was appointed to lead Peru\\u2019s Ministry of Health in March. Corruption scandals had left numerous hospital construction projects on pause. Peru also faced a significant shortage of doctors, forcing the state to embark on a massive hiring campaign.\", \"Even now, months later, Peru\\u2019s needs are vastly under met. To date, the country has less than 2,000 ICU beds, compared to over 6,000 in the state of Florida, which has 10 million fewer inhabitants, according to official data.\", \"High levels of poverty and people who depend on daily wages from informal work complicated the government\\u2019s efforts to impose a strict quarantine, further challenging Peru\\u2019s ability to respond effectively to the virus.\", \"When Zamora arrived, he said the government had already decided molecular tests weren\\u2019t a viable option. The nation didn\\u2019t have the infrastructure needed to run the tests but also acted too slowly in trying to obtain what little was available on the market.\", \"\\u201cPeru didn\\u2019t buy in time,\\u201d he said. \\u201cEveryone in Latin America bought before us \\u2013 even Cuba.\\u201d\", \"Antibody tests \\u2013 which detect proteins created by the immune system in response to a virus \\u2013 had numerous drawbacks. They had not been widely tested and their accuracy was in question. If taken too early, most people with the virus test negative. That could lead those infected to think they do not have COVID-19. False positives can be equally perilous, leading people to incorrectly believe they are immune.\", \"Antibody tests didn\\u2019t require high-skill training or even a lab; municipal workers with no medical education could be taught how to administer then.\", \"\\u201cFor the time we were in, it was the right decision,\\u201d Zamora said. \\u201cWe didn\\u2019t know what we know about the virus today.\\u201d\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://apnews.com/article/army-media-social-media-sexual-assault-texas-c7277011ba4b7300bf7a9708b0ca82b2\", \"source\": \"Associated Press\", \"title\": \"'The military's #MeToo moment:' Fort Hood victims speak out \", \"description\": \"AUSTIN, Texas (AP) \\u2014 Maria Valentine says she was just months into her training at Fort Hood, a U.S. Army base in Texas, in 2006 when a sergeant with a history of alleged harassment toward other... \", \"date\": \"2020-10-07T19:12:30Z\", \"author\": \"Acacia Coronado\", \"text\": [\"AUSTIN, Texas (AP) \\u2014 Maria Valentine says she was just months into her training at Fort Hood, a U.S. Army base in Texas, in 2006 when a sergeant with a history of alleged harassment toward other soldiers wrote her up after she complained that she didn\\u2019t want him touching her during body mass measurements.\", \"She said authorities promised the disciplinary report would be wiped from her record if she didn\\u2019t make a formal complaint. Valentine\\u2019s decision not to file one would haunt her years later when she learned another woman had accused the same sergeant of rape.\", \"Valentine is one of five women \\u2014 two active duty soldiers, two veterans and one civilian \\u2014 who spoke to The Associated Press about experiencing harassment, assault or rape by soldiers at Fort Hood, the other four since 2014.\", \"Current and former soldiers have taken to social media with their own accounts of sexual assault and harassment at the base following the \", \" this year of Spc. Vanessa Guillen, whose family members say was sexually harassed by the officer who eventually killed her.\", \"\\u201cI wasn\\u2019t surprised,\\u201d Valentine said after learning about \", \". \\u201cThat was the environment. I live with the regret that I did not go through with the complaint.\\u201d\", \"Maj. Gabriela Thompson, a Fort Hood spokeswoman, told the AP she had no information about Valentine\\u2019s allegation.\", \"Members of Congress launched an \", \" of Fort Hood in September after \", \" was found dead on Aug. 25 hanging from a tree in Temple, Texas, months after reporting sexual harassment. \", \"Guillen and Fernandes are among 28 soldiers at the base to have died this year, \", \", according to Army data. Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy says that based on Fort Hood\\u2019s average of 129 violent crimes between 2015 and 2019, it has one of the \", \" among Army installations.\", \"The Associated Press typically doesn\\u2019t publish the names of sex abuse victims, but two women who said they were sexually assaulted by soldiers at Fort Hood decided to speak on the record to describe what they say is a disturbing culture at the base. Many victims have become connected by sharing their experiences using the hashtag #IAMVANESSAGUILLEN.\", \"Among them is Deborah Urquidez, who told the AP she was raped by the same sergeant, Staff Sgt. Roberto Jimenez, Valentine said harassed her more than a decade earlier. \", \"Urquidez said her relationship with Jimenez in 2014 began consensually, but that later he raped her while a friend desperately tried to break into the room to stop him. Then came months of stalking, threatening messages and a lengthy battle in military court in which he was found not guilty, according to court documents obtained by the AP. Urquidez was given a temporary military protective order against the sergeant for an \\u201calleged sexual assault.\\u201d \", \"The Department of Veterans Affairs considers her permanently disabled after she reported the rape and the trauma, which included multiple suicide attempts, according to documents obtained by the AP.\", \"\\u201cThere was never justice for me,\\u201d Urquidez said. \\u201cIn any other world, what more evidence do you need?\\u201d\", \"Jimenez later filed for a protective order against Urquidez. A Fort Hood spokesperson said the Army\\u2019s Criminal Investigation Command investigated and the accused was acquitted of all charges following a military court martial in 2017. He remains on active duty at Fort Bliss. Officials from Fort Bliss did not comment or provide a comment from him.\", \"Kaitlyn Buxton, a civilian, said her partner, Brandon Espindola, then stationed at Fort Hood beat her numerous times and raped her in 2018 at their off-base apartment in Killeen. On one occasion at the barracks, he pinned her down and repeatedly punched her in the face while she screamed for help, Buxton said.\", \"A Fort Hood officer went with his wife to their apartment during one altercation after Buxton called for help. Buxton said members of Espindola\\u2019s chain of command saw her body bruised on more than one occasion.\", \"The Killeen Police Department eventually granted Buxton a protective order and charged Espindola with assault with bodily injury and assault by strangulation, but records show he bonded out and the case was closed. \", \"Buxton said military police have taken no action on a separate case she filed in 2018, which was briefly closed and then reopened this past August. Espindola has since been discharged from the Army on unrelated matters.\", \"\\u201cThe whole process has been a constant victimization,\\u201d Buxton said. \\u201cNo matter what I do, my voice is not being heard.\\u201d\", \"Sean Timmons, Espindola\\u2019s attorney, said his client \\u201cmaintains his innocence to all allegations and charges and believes they are fabricated.\\u201d The Killeen Police Department did not respond to a request for comment. A Fort Hood spokesperson said they had no information on this allegation.\", \"According to a federal complaint, the soldier who killed Guillen, Aaron Robinson, died by suicide in July when confronted by police. Natalie Khawam, who represents the Guillen family, told the AP that Guillen shared with family members that a soldier of superior rank walked in and watched her when she was showering. Khawam said Guillen was too scared to file a report.\", \"McCarthy said though it is believed Guillen faced other kinds of harassment at Fort Hood, officials have found no report or evidence that she was sexually harassed. Since then, an \", \" of command climate has been ordered at the Texas base, in addition to the ongoing investigation into the command response to Guillen\\u2019s disappearance and death.\", \"In a press conference the morning after Fernandes\\u2019 body was found, Lupe Guillen, the younger sister of Vanessa Guillen, said Fernandes was an example of why her sister did not report the harassment she experienced.\", \"\\u201cHow many more must die at Fort Hood for them to be held accountable?\\u201d Lupe Guillen said. \\u201cHow many more have to be sexually harassed?\\u201d\", \"Rep. Jackie Speier, a California Democrat who is among the members of Congress investigating Fort Hood, coauthored the \", \" It aims to expand measures aimed at preventing sexual assault and harassment involving U.S. military personnel, including codifying sexual harassment as a crime in military law and removing decisions on whether to prosecute sexual assault and harassment out of the chain of command. \", \"\\u201cThe voices of those survivors have never been louder or more clear,\\u201d Speier said. \\u201cThis is the military\\u2019s \\u2019#MeToo moment.\\u201d\", \"___\", \"Acacia Coronado is a corps member for the Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. \", \" is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-milwaukee-wisconsin-archive-61856a69ec6e9e6f032bb121b6d58a5d\", \"source\": \"Associated Press\", \"title\": \"Wisconsin activates field hospital as COVID keeps surging\", \"description\": \"MADISON, Wis. (AP) \\u2014 Wisconsin health officials announced Wednesday that a field hospital will open next week at the state fairgrounds near Milwaukee as a surge in COVID-19 cases threatens to... \", \"date\": \"2020-10-07T17:44:53Z\", \"author\": \"Todd Richmond\", \"text\": [\"MADISON, Wis. (AP) \\u2014 Wisconsin health officials announced Wednesday that a field hospital will open next week at the state fairgrounds near Milwaukee as a surge in COVID-19 cases threatens to overwhelm hospitals.\", \"Wisconsin has become a hot spot for the disease over the last month, ranking third nationwide this week in new cases per capita over the last two weeks. Health experts have attributed the spike to the reopening of colleges and K-12 schools as well as general fatigue over wearing masks and socially distancing. \", \"State Department of Health Services Secretary Andrea Palm told reporters during a video conference that the facility will open on Oct. 14.\", \"\\u201cWe hoped this day wouldn\\u2019t come, but unfortunately, Wisconsin is in a much different, more dire place today and our healthcare systems are beginning to become overwhelmed by the surge of COVID-19 cases,\\u201d Democratic Gov. Tony Evers said in a statement. \\u201cThis alternative care facility will take some of the pressure off our healthcare facilities while expanding the continuum of care for folks who have COVID-19.\\u201d\", \"The move also came as a state judge was considering a lawsuit seeking to strike down Evers\\u2019 \", \" that masks be worn in enclosed public spaces. The governor on Tuesday issued new restrictions on the size of indoor public gatherings through Nov. 6.\", \"Only 16% of the state\\u2019s 11,452 hospital beds were available as of Tuesday afternoon, according to the DHS. The number of hospitalized COVID-19 patients had grown to 853, it\\u2019s highest during the pandemic according to the \", \", with 216 in intensive care. \", \"Results of COVID-19 tests on an additional 262 in-patients in Wisconsin were pending. The southeastern region of the state had 250 COVID-19 patients, the most of any of the state\\u2019s seven hospital regions.\", \"Nationwide, about 30,000 coronavirus patients are hospitalized, the COVID Tracking Project reported.\", \"The DHS reported 2,319 new confirmed cases on Wednesday and 16 more deaths. The state has now seen 138,698 cases and 1,415 deaths since the pandemic began. \", \"Virus spread is particularly rampant in northeastern Wisconsin. The Green Bay Packers announced this week that no home fans would be admitted to home games until the situation improved, and head coach Matt LaFleur asked area residents to wear masks and practice social distancing.\", \"The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers built a 530-bed field hospital on the state fairgrounds in West Allis just outside Milwaukee in April at the request of Evers\\u2019 administration. Local leaders had warned about the possibility of area hospitals being overwhelmed, but hospitalizations never reached the point where the hospital was needed until now. \", \"The hospital will accept patients from across Wisconsin but is designed to provide low-level care, and it will accept only patients who have already been hospitalized elsewhere for at least 24 to 48 hours, according to the state Department of Administration. Patients who qualify will be transported to the facility by ambulance. The facility will not accept walk-ins. Palm said the facility will be ready to accept 50 patients on its first day.\", \"\\u201cThe goal of this facility is to transition COVID-19 patients who are less ill out of hospitals and reserve hospital beds for patients who are more ill and in need of hospital-level care,\\u201d Evers\\u2019 office said.\", \"The hospital will be staffed by volunteers, state workers and National Guard members, DOA officials said. Patients will not be allowed to have visitors.\", \"Several other states moved to set up field hospitals in the early stages of the pandemic \\u2014 \", \" \\u2014 only to find that they \", \", and many were shut down.\", \"___\", \"This story has been updated to correct that Wisconsin ranked third nationwide in new cases per capita over the last two weeks, not new daily cases.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-donald-trump-financial-markets-airlines-asia-8e329d7439e781ac37732bb8168022d2\", \"source\": \"Associated Press\", \"title\": \"Stocks rise as Trump tweets on stimulus keep market spinning\", \"description\": \"Stocks closed broadly higher on Wall Street Wednesday after President Donald Trump appeared to backtrack on his decision to halt talks on another rescue effort for the economy.  The S&P 500... \", \"date\": \"2020-10-07T13:40:59Z\", \"author\": \"Stan Choe, Damian J. Troise\", \"text\": [\"Stocks closed broadly higher on Wall Street Wednesday after President Donald Trump \", \" on his decision to halt talks on another rescue effort for the economy. \", \"The S&P 500 climbed 1.7% after Trump sent a series of tweets late Tuesday saying he\\u2019s open to sending out $1,200 payments to Americans, as well as limited programs to prop up the airline industry and small businesses. \", \"The tweets came just hours after Trump sent the market into a sudden tailspin with his \", \" that his representatives should halt talks with Democrats on a broad stimulus effort for the economy until after the election, saying House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had been negotiating in bad faith. The stakes are high, as economists, investors and the chair of the Federal Reserve all say the economy needs another dose of support following the expiration of weekly jobless benefits and other stimulus Congress approved earlier this year. \", \"\\u201cWhat we\\u2019ve seen over the last 24 hours is just confirmation that the market is really addicted to stimulus from the government,\\u201d said Sal Bruno, chief investment officer at IndexIQ. \\u201cWhen it thinks it\\u2019s not getting it, it sells off, and when it looks like there\\u2019s a possibility for that it rises, as we\\u2019ve seen today.\\u201d\", \"The S&P 500 index rose 58.49 points to 3,419.44, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 530.70 points, or 1.9%, to 28,303.46. \", \"The Nasdaq composite climbed 210 points, or 1.9%, to 11,364.60, despite a call by Democratic lawmakers for Congress to rein in the Big Tech companies that dominate it and other indexes. The \", \", which follows a 15-month investigation by a House Judiciary Committee panel, could make it harder for Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google\\u2019s parent company to acquire others and impose new rules to safeguard competition.\", \"Amazon rose 3.1%, and Apple climbed 1.7%. Google\\u2019s parent company added 0.6%, and Facebook slipped 0.2%.\", \"Still, much of the market\\u2019s attention remains fixed on the prospects for more stimulus for the economy from Washington. Wednesday\\u2019s gains helped the S&P 500 recoup all of its loss from the day before, when Trump\\u2019s tweets suddenly sent it from a 0.7% gain to a 1.4% loss.\", \"Just a few hours before Trump made his announcement on Tuesday to halt negotiations, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell had \", \" to come through with more aid. He said that too little support \\u201cwould lead to a weak recovery, creating unnecessary hardship.\\u201d \", \"Some analysts characterized Trump\\u2019s move as likely a negotiating ploy. \", \"\\u201cI do not believe hopes of a stimulus deal are now gone forever,\\u201d said Jeffrey Halley of trading and research firm Oanda. \\u201cOne of Mr. Trump\\u2019s favorite negotiating tactics, judging by past actions, is to walk away from the negotiating table abruptly. The intention being to frighten the other side into concessions.\\u201d \", \"In the longer term, many investors say a big stimulus package may still be possible regardless of what Trump says. A Democratic sweep of the upcoming elections would likely clear the way for a big government program after the transfer of power, and Wall Street has begun to see a blue wave as more likely than before. \", \"Airlines jumped to some of the day\\u2019s bigger gains after Trump \", \", asking Congress to \\u201cIMMEDIATELY\\u201d approve $25 billion for them. Last week, Pelosi had told airline executives to halt the furloughs of tens of thousands of workers with the promise that aid for them was imminent, though a proposal by House Democrats to give the airline industry $28.8 billion failed to advance.\", \"United Airlines Holdings and American Airlines Group climbed 4.3%. Delta Air Lines pulled 3.5% higher.\", \"The S&P 500 rose broadly, with technology stocks making the biggest gains. Other areas that would benefit most from a strengthening economy were also climbing, including retailers and travel-related companies.\", \"\\u201cThe market\\u2019s just been relentlessly led by long-duration growth stocks,\\u201d said Barry Bannister, head of institutional equity strategy at Stifel. \\u201cThe big question is are we going to see some signs of a shift to economic growth beneficiaries.\\u201d\", \"Smaller stocks also rose more than the rest of the market, an indication of rising optimism about the economy\\u2019s prospects. The Russell 2000 index of small-cap stocks climbed 33.75 points, or 2.1%, to 1,611.04.\", \"The 360-degree spin for Wall Street in less than 24 hours is just the latest bump in its shaky run since early last month. After plunging nearly 34% early this year on worries about the \", \" and the recession it would cause, the S&P 500 rallied back to record heights thanks to tremendous aid from the Federal Reserve and Congress, along with signs of strengthening in the economy. \", \"It\\u2019s been struggling since setting an all-time high in early September on a range of worries. Besides the clouded prospects for more stimulus from a bitterly divided Congress when parts of the economy have begun to slow, investors are also worried about whether the continuing pandemic will lead governments to put more restrictions on businesses. Tensions between the United States and China are still simmering, and stocks still look too expensive in the eyes of some critics despite their recent pullback.\", \"The yield on the 10-year Treasury rose to 0.78% from 0.76% late Tuesday. European and Asian markets ended mixed. \", \"___\", \"AP Business Writer Elaine Kurtenbach contributed. \"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-college-football-college-football-picks-jeremy-pruitt-football-383ddc1c5a091e31a81b586a4b055ac0\", \"source\": \"Associated Press\", \"title\": \"College Football Picks: Tennessee, Miami take big swings\", \"description\": \"Enough talking about whether Texas is back.  Time to talk about whether Tennessee and Miami are back!  Like the Longhorns, the Volunteers and Hurricanes are programs with national... \", \"date\": \"2020-10-07T20:00:40Z\", \"author\": \"Ralph D. Russo\", \"text\": [\"Enough talking about whether Texas is back. \", \"Time to talk about whether Tennessee and Miami are back! \", \"Like the Longhorns, the Volunteers and Hurricanes are programs with national championship pedigrees that have been lost in the college football wilderness for about two decades, searching for past glory and relevance.\", \"Both are showing early season signs of being dark horse contenders in their conferences and face foes Saturday who are where they aspire to be.\", \"The 14th-ranked Volunteers are at No. 3 Georgia and No. 7 Miami visits No. 1 Clemson.\", \"The Vols faithful are as hopeful as they have been in years. Tennessee has won eight straight games, the longest active streak in the Southeastern Conference. That streak includes zero victories against ranked teams, but this is a program that is on its fourth coach since it last had a double-digit win season (2007).\", \"Jeremy Pruitt\\u2019s progress has been good enough to earn 15 victories and a contract extension two games into his third season. The Volunteers look like a very different team under Pruitt than they ever did for his predecessor. Butch Jones was 13-14 in his first 27 games with the Volunteers and headed toward the first of two consecutive nine-win seasons. Pruitt is now 15-12. \", \"Yearly games against Alabama and Georgia have been stark reminders of how far the Volunteers have to go to get back to the national championship contention days of the late 1990s. The Bulldogs have won the last three meetings 122-26.\", \"\\u201cWe\\u2019ve continued to improve over the last three years,\\u201d Pruitt said. \\u201cWe\\u2019re nowhere near where we want to be.\\u201d\", \"Miami\\u2019s last national championship was in 2001. Since then, it has won just one Atlantic Coast Conference division title, back in 2017. That surprising run to playoff contention and No. 2 in the country was marred by a three-game slide to end the season that included a 38-3 loss to Clemson in the ACC championship game.\", \"Unlike Tennessee, Miami is not forced to confront the realization of its aspirations every season. Before that conference title game, Miami last played Clemson in 2015 and lost 58-0. The worst loss in program history ended the coach Al Golden era in Coral Gables, Florida.\", \"Clemson since then has won two national titles and lost in the title game two other times.\", \"\\u201cThis is not a big game at Clemson,\\u201d Miami coach Manny Diaz said. \\u201cThis is just what they do. We\\u2019ve got to get our program where it\\u2019s the same way.\\u201d\", \"The picks:\", \"SATURDAY\", \"No. 7 Miami (plus 14) at No. 1 Clemson\", \"\\u2019Canes are 9-5 against No. 1 ranked teams in last 40 years, with the last victory coming in 2000 vs. Florida State and last loss coming to Clemson three years ago ... CLEMSON 38-21. \", \"No. 2 Alabama (minus 23) at Mississippi\", \"Ole Miss coach Lane Kiffin gets first crack at old boss Nick Saban since he was an offensive coordinator for the Tide. Saban improved to 20-0 against his former assistants last week ... ALABAMA 52-32.\", \"No. 14 Tennessee (plus 12 1/2) at No. 3 Georgia\", \"Vols\\u2019 last victory against a top-five team came in 2005 against No. 4 LSU ... GEORGIA 31-14.\", \"No. 4 Florida (minus 6 1/2) at No. 21 Texas A&M\", \"Aggies are 3-8 against ranked teams in two-plus seasons under coach Jimbo Fisher, including 1-8 vs. top-10 opponents ... FLORIDA 30-27.\", \"No. Florida State (plus 20 1/2) at No. 5 Notre Dame\", \"Irish last played Sept. 19 because of a COVID-19 outbreak ... NOTRE DAME 35-17.\", \"No. 19 Virginia Tech (plus 5) at No. 8 North Carolina\", \"Hokies have won the last four meetings, including a six overtime thriller last year ... NORTH CAROLINA 31-24.\", \"Arkansas (plus 14) at No. 13 Auburn\", \"Nothing has perked up Auburn\\u2019s offense quite like the Razorbacks in recent years; Tigers have won the last four meetings and averaged by 48.3 points ... AUBURN 35-17. \", \"UTSA (plus 34 1/2) at No. 15 BYU\", \"Cougars QB Zach Wilson has thrown 11 incomplete passes and accounted for 11 touchdowns ... BYU 42-14. \", \"No. 17 LSU (minus 14 1/2) at Missouri\", \"Game was scheduled to be played at LSU but Hurricane Delta forced a move to Columbia ... LSU 31-14.\", \"No. 22 Texas (plus 2 1/2) vs. Oklahoma\", \"Last time both the Longhorns and Sooners lost the week before the Red River Shootout was 2014 ... TEXAS 35-34. \", \"Coastal Carolina (plus 7) at No. 23 Louisiana-Lafayette\", \"Get to know Chanticleers QB Grayson McCall, who is fourth in the nation in yards per pass (11.6) with nine TD passes and only one INT ... LOUISIANA-LAFAYETTE 31-23.\", \"Texas Tech (plus 12 1/2) at No. 24 Iowa State\", \"Cyclones have won four straight against the Red Raiders ... IOWA STATE 34-24.\", \"TWITTER REQUESTS\", \"THURSDAY\", \"Tulane (plus 6 1/2) at Houston \\u2014 @jefe172\", \"Cougars finally get to open the season (fingers crossed) after COVID-19 issues forced three opponents to call off games ... HOUSTON 27-24.\", \"SATURDAY\", \"Kansas State (plus 9) at TCU \\u2014 @DCAbloob\", \"Status of Wildcats QB Skylar Thompson (throwing arm) is uncertain; freshman back-up Will Howard relieved in a win against Texas Tech last week ... TCU 28-21. \", \"Mississippi State (plus 1 1/2) at Kentucky \\u2014 @DarrylKerr\", \"Bulldogs\\u2019 Air Raid vs. Wildcats\\u2019 ground and pound ... KENTUCKY 27-23.\", \"___\", \"Record\", \"Last week: 13-6 straight; 7-12 against the spread.\", \"Season: 40-15 straight; 27-27 against the spread.\", \"___\", \"Follow Ralph D. Russo at https://twitter.com/ralphDrussoAP and listen at http://www.westwoodonepodcasts.com/pods/ap-top-25-college-football-podcast/\", \"___\", \"More AP college football: https://apnews.com/Collegefootball and https://twitter.com/AP_Top25\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-pandemics-bucharest-romania-archive-2998096f7aa9161099d8e0e42c018177\", \"source\": \"Associated Press\", \"title\": \"Romanian hospitality workers protest as new lockdown starts\", \"description\": \"BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) \\u2014 Hundreds of Romanian hospitality workers protested Wednesday evening in the capital, Bucharest, accusing the government of failing to protect their industry from the... \", \"date\": \"2020-10-07T20:38:52Z\", \"author\": \"Andreea Alexandru\", \"text\": [\"BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) \\u2014 Hundreds of Romanian hospitality workers protested Wednesday evening in the capital, Bucharest, accusing the government of failing to protect their industry from the pandemic\\u2019s economic fallout, even as a new lockdown kicked in. \", \"The peaceful protest outside the Romanian government building came as the country reported a record daily 2,985 coronavirus infections nationwide.\", \"It also coincided with Bucharest authorities\\u2019 decision earlier in the day to once again shut down all the capital\\u2019s indoor restaurants, theaters, movie cinemas, gambling and dance venues. These establishments reopened early last month after being forced to stay shut for nearly half a year. \", \"Protesters carried signs and banners reading: \\u201cToday\\u2019s menu: unemployment\\u201d and \\u201c400,000 affected while not infected\\u201d -- in reference to the pre-pandemic number of Romania\\u2019s hospitality sector jobs. \", \"Cezar Andrei, who has been running a fish restaurant in Bucharest for the past 20 years, said he won\\u2019t be able to stay afloat for much longer if he is not allowed to work.\", \"\\u201cWe are aware of the risks posed by the virus, but this is not the way to solve the problem,\\u201d Andrei said. \", \"\\u201cWe can probably last for another month or so, but not much longer,\\u201d he added, arguing that the recent surge in COVID-19 cases in Romania has not been traced back to the hospitality sector. \", \"The national association of restaurant owners and hoteliers, which backed the protest, said more than 40% of jobs in the hospitality sector have been lost due to lockdown measures since the pandemic hit the country in February, while turnover fell 70%. Hospitality accounted for about a tenth of all private sector jobs in Romania last year, and contributed 5% of GDP. \", \"Moaghin Marius Ciprian, the owner of the popular Grivita Pub n Grill in downtown Bucharest, stressed that restaurants were not to blame for the increase in infections.\", \"\\u201cWe were closed for six months, the restaurants didn\\u2019t work and yet the number of cases still rose,\\u201d Cipriani said. \\u201cI am not an expert, but I am not stupid either \\u2026 we are not responsible,\\u201d for the accelerated spread of the virus. \", \"On Wednesday, the total number of confirmed infections in Romania \\u2014 a country of some 19 million -- stood at over 142,000, including 5,200 deaths. Almost two-thirds of the confirmed cases were reported since the end of July.\", \"___\", \"Follow AP pandemic coverage at http://apnews.com/VirusOutbreak and https://apnews.com/UnderstandingtheOutbreak\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-florida-us-news-layoffs-california-033389009958e5c939aa1445a5d9a41f\", \"source\": \"Associated Press\", \"title\": \"8,800 part-time workers in Florida part of Disney layoffs\", \"description\": \"ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) \\u2014 About 8,800 part-time union workers at Walt Disney World in Florida will be part of the 28,000 layoffs in Disney's parks division in California and Florida, union officials... \", \"date\": \"2020-10-07T20:34:04Z\", \"author\": \"Mike Schneider\", \"text\": [\"ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) \\u2014 About 8,800 part-time union workers at Walt Disney World in Florida will be part of the 28,000 layoffs in Disney\\u2019s parks division in California and Florida, union officials said Wednesday.\", \"The addition of the union workers to nearly 6,500 nonunion layoffs already announced brings the Disney-related job losses in Florida to more than 15,000 workers.\", \"Disney officials announced last week that it was laying off 28,000 workers because of the coronavirus pandemic. Two-thirds of the planned layoffs involved part-time workers and they ranged from salaried employees to hourly workers.\", \"Disney\\u2019s parks closed last spring as the pandemic began spreading in the U.S. The \", \" this summer, but the California parks have yet to reopen as the company awaits guidance from the state of California.\", \"In a letter to employees, Josh D\\u2019Amaro, chairman of Disney Parks, Experience and Product, said California\\u2019s \\u201cunwillingness to lift restrictions that would allow Disneyland to reopen\\u201d exacerbated \", \" for the company.\", \"Disney has soared to success with the breadth of its media and entertainment offerings, but is now trying to recover after the coronavirus pandemic pummeled many of its businesses. It was hit by several months of its parks and stores being closed, cruise ships idled, movie releases postponed and a halt in film and video production.\", \"The layoffs of the part-time union workers were announced by the Service Trades Council Union, a coalition of six unions that represents 43,000 workers at Disney World.\", \"\\u201cThese are unprecedented times,\\u201d the Service Trades Council Union said in a statement. \\u201cIt is unfortunate anytime a worker is laid off and the mass layoffs that Disney is facing are extremely difficult for 1,000s of Cast Members.\\u201d\", \"No fulltime workers, also called cast members, will be laid off under the deal the unions negotiated with Disney. Over the next two years, workers who have been laid off will get priority when Disney starts hiring again, and they will retain their seniority and pay rate.\", \"According to the deal with the unions, full-time workers whose positions aren\\u2019t needed by the company can transfer to another position. But if they don\\u2019t agree to the transfers, they can be laid off. Those workers who are laid off will receive two months pay.\", \"___\", \"Follow Mike Schneider on Twitter at https://twitter.com/MikeSchneiderAP.\", \"___\", \"Follow AP coverage of the pandemic at https://apnews.com/VirusOutbreak and https://apnews.com/UnderstandingtheOutbreak.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://apnews.com/article/jamaica-johnny-mathis-johnny-nash-archive-bob-marley-0f9f260a1c75a6901ceaab05b52be458\", \"source\": \"Associated Press\", \"title\": \"Johnny Nash, singer of \\u2018I Can See Clearly Now,\\u2019 dies at 80\", \"description\": \"Johnny Nash, a singer-songwriter, actor and producer who rose from pop crooner to early reggae star to the creator and performer of the million-selling anthem \\u201cI Can See Clearly Now,\\u201d died... \", \"date\": \"2020-10-07T00:22:09Z\", \"author\": \"Hillel Italie\", \"text\": [\"Johnny Nash, a singer-songwriter, actor and producer who rose from pop crooner to early reggae star to the creator and performer of the million-selling anthem \\u201cI Can See Clearly Now,\\u201d died Tuesday, his son said. \", \"Nash, who had been in declining health, died of natural causes at home in Houston, the city of his birth, his son, Johnny Nash Jr., told The Associated Press. He was 80. \", \"Nash was in his early 30s when \\u201cI Can See Clearly Now\\u201d topped the charts in 1972 and he had lived several show business lives. In the mid-1950s, he was a teenager covering \\u201cDarn That Dream\\u201d and other standards, his light tenor likened to the voice of Johnny Mathis. A decade later, he was co-running a record company, had become a rare American-born singer of reggae and helped launch the career of his friend Bob Marley. \", \"Nash praised \\u201cthe vibes of this little island\\u201d when speaking of Jamaica, and he was among the first artists to bring reggae to U.S. audiences. He peaked commercially in the late 1960s and early 1970s, when he had hits with \\u201cHold Me Tight,\\u201d \\u201cYou Got Soul,\\u201d an early version of Marley\\u2019s \\u201cStir It Up\\u201d and \\u201cI Can See Clearly Now,\\u201d still his signature song.\", \"Reportedly written by Nash while recovering from cataract surgery, \\u201cI Can See Clearly Now\\u201d was a story of overcoming hard times that itself raised the spirits of countless listeners, with its swelling pop-reggae groove, promise of a \\u201cbright, bright sunshiny day\\u201d and Nash\\u2019s gospel-styled exclamation midway, \\u201cLook straight ahead, nothing but blue skies!\\u201d, a backing chorus lifting the words into the heavens. \", \"The rock critic Robert Christgau would call the song, which Nash also produced, \\u201c2 minutes and 48 seconds of undiluted inspiration.\\u201d\", \"Although overlooked by Grammys judges, \\u201cI Can See Clearly Now\\u201d was covered by artists ranging from Ray Charles and Donny Osmond to Soul Asylum and Jimmy Cliff, whose version was featured in the 1993 movie \\u201cCool Runnings.\\u201d It also turned up everywhere from \\u201cThelma and Louise\\u201d to a Windex commercial, and in recent years was often referred to on websites about cataract procedures.\", \"\\u201cI feel that music is universal. Music is for the ears and not the age,\\u201d Nash told Cameron Crowe, then writing for Zoo World Magazine, in 1973. \\u201cThere are some people who say that they hate music. I\\u2019ve run into a few, but I\\u2019m not sure I believe them.\\u201d\", \"The fame of \\u201cI Can See Clearly Now\\u201d outlasted Nash\\u2019s own. He rarely made the charts in the years following, even as he released such albums as \\u201cTears On My Pillow\\u201d and \\u201cCelebrate Life,\\u201d and by the 1990s had essentially left the business. His last album, \\u201cHere Again,\\u201d came out in 1986, although in recent years he was reportedly digitizing his old work, some of which was lost in a 2008 fire at Universal Studios in Los Angeles.\", \"Nash was married three times, and had two children. He had loved riding horses since childhood and as an adult lived with his family on a ranch in Houston, where for years he also managed rodeo shows at the Johnny Nash Indoor Arena.\", \"In addition to his son, he is survived by daughter Monica and wife Carli Nash. \", \"John Lester Nash Jr., whose father was a chauffeur, grew up singing in church and by age 13 had his own show on Houston television. Within a few years, he had a national following through his appearances on \\u201cThe Arthur Godfrey Show,\\u201d his hit cover of Doris Day\\u2019s \\u201cA Very Special Love\\u201d and a collaboration with peers Paul Anka and George Hamilton IV on the wholesome \\u201cThe Teen Commandments (of Love).\\u201d He also had roles in the films \\u201cTake a Giant Step,\\u201d in which he starred as a high school student rebelling against how the Civil War is taught, and \\u201cKey Witness,\\u201d a crime drama starring Dennis Hopper and Jeffrey Hunter.\", \"His career faded during the first half of the 1960s, but he found a new sound, and renewed success, in the mid-60s after having a rhythm and blues hit with \\u201cLet\\u2019s Move and Groove Together\\u201d and meeting Marley and fellow Wailers Peter Tosh and Bunny Livingston during a visit to Jamaica. Over the next few years their careers would be closely aligned. \", \"Nash convinced his manager and business partner Danny Sims, with whom he formed JAD Records, to sign up Marley and the Wailers, who recorded \\u201cReggae On Broadway\\u201d and dozens of other songs for JAD. Nash brought Marley to London in the early 1970s when Nash was the bigger star internationally and with Marley gave an impromptu concert at a local boys school. Nash\\u2019s covers of \\u201cStir It Up\\u201d and \\u201cGuava Jelly\\u201d helped expose Marley\\u2019s writing to a general audience. The two also collaborated on the ballad \\u201cYou Poured Sugar On Me,\\u201d which appeared on the \\u201cI Can See Clearly Now\\u201d album.\", \"After the 1980s, Nash became a mystery to fans and former colleagues as he stopped recording and performing and rarely spoke to the press or anyone in the music industry. In 1973, he told Crowe that he anticipated years of hard work: \\u201cWhat I want to do is be a part of this business and to express myself and get some kind of acceptance by making people happy.\\u201d\", \"A quarter century later, he explained to The Gleaner during a visit to Jamaica that it was \\u201cdifficult to develop major music projects\\u201d without touring and promoting and that he preferred to be with his family. \", \"\\u201cI think I\\u2019ve achieved gratification in terms of the people I\\u2019ve had the chance to meet. I never won the Grammy, but I don\\u2019t put my faith in things of that nature,\\u201d he added. \\u201cA lifetime body of work I can be proud of is more important to me. And the special folksy blend to the music I make, that\\u2019s what it is all about.\\u201d\", \"___\", \"AP Entertainment Writer Andrew Dalton contributed to this story from Los Angeles. Italie reported from New York.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://apnews.com/article/michael-jackson-eddie-van-halen-archive-ad6e71e78b0b5d7e87a72eef1ceaaf26\", \"source\": \"Associated Press\", \"title\": \"Guitar rock legend Eddie Van Halen dies of cancer at 65\", \"description\": \"NEW YORK (AP) \\u2014 Eddie Van Halen, the guitar virtuoso whose blinding speed, control and innovation propelled his band Van Halen into one of hard rock\\u2019s biggest groups and became elevated to the... \", \"date\": \"2020-10-06T19:58:41Z\", \"author\": \"Mark Kennedy\", \"text\": [\"NEW YORK (AP) \\u2014 Eddie Van Halen, the guitar virtuoso whose blinding speed, control and innovation propelled his band Van Halen into one of hard rock\\u2019s biggest groups and became elevated to the status of rock god, has died. He was 65.\", \"A person close to Van Halen\\u2019s family confirmed the rocker died Tuesday due to cancer. The person was not authorized to publicly release details in advance of an official announcement.\", \"\\u201cHe was the best father I could ask for,\\u201d Van Halen\\u2019s son Wolfgang \", \". \\u201cEvery moment I\\u2019ve shared with him on and off stage was a gift.\\u201d\", \"With his distinct solos, Eddie Van Halen fueled the ultimate California party band and helped knock disco off the charts starting in the late 1970s with his band\\u2019s self-titled debut album and then with the blockbuster record \\u201c1984,\\u201d which contains the classics \\u201cJump,\\u201d \\u201cPanama\\u201d and \\u201cHot for Teacher.\\u201d\", \"Van Halen is among the top 20 best-selling artists of all time, and the band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2007. Rolling Stone magazine put Eddie Van Halen at No. 8 in its list of the 100 greatest guitarists.\", \"Eddie Van Halen was something of a musical contradiction. He was an autodidact who could play almost any instrument, but he couldn\\u2019t read music. He was a classically trained pianist who also created some of the most distinctive guitar riffs in rock history. He was a Dutch immigrant who was considered one of the greatest American guitarists of his generation.\", \"Honors came from the music world, from Lenny Kravitz to Kenny Chesney. \\u201cYou changed our world. You were the Mozart of rock guitar. Travel safe, rockstar,\\u201d Motley Crue\\u2019s Nikki Sixx said on Twitter. Added Lenny Kravitz: \\u201cHeaven will be electric tonight.\\u201d\", \"The members of Van Halen \\u2014 the two Van Halen brothers, Eddie and Alex; vocalist David Lee Roth; and bassist Michael Anthony \\u2014 formed in 1974 in Pasadena, California. They were members of rival high school bands and then attended Pasadena City College together. They combined to form the band Mammoth, but then changed to Van Halen after discovering there was another band called Mammoth.\", \"Their 1978 release \\u201cVan Halen\\u201d opened with a blistering \\u201cRunnin\\u2019 With the Devil\\u201d and then Eddie Van Halen showed off his astonishing skills in the next song, \\u201cEruption,\\u201d a furious 1:42 minute guitar solo that swoops and soars like a deranged bird. The album also contained a cover of the Kinks\\u2019 \\u201cYou Really Got Me\\u201d and \\u201cAin\\u2019t Talkin\\u2019 \\u2019Bout Love.\\u201d \", \"Van Halen released albums on a yearly timetable \\u2014 \\u201cVan Halen II\\u201d (1979), \\u201cWomen and Children First\\u201d (1980), \\u201cFair Warning\\u201d (1981) and \\u201cDiver Down\\u201d (1982) \\u2014 until the monumental \\u201c1984,\\u201d which hit No. 2 on the Billboard 200 album charts (only behind Michael Jackson\\u2019s \\u201cThriller\\u201d). Rolling Stone ranked \\u201c1984\\u201d No. 81 on its list of the 100 Greatest Albums of the 1980s.\", \"\\u201cEddie put the smile back in rock guitar, at a time when it was all getting a bit brooding. He also scared the hell out of a million guitarists around the world, because he was so damn good. And original,\\u201d Joe Satriani, a fellow virtuoso, told Billboard in 2015.\", \"Van Halen also played guitar on one of the biggest singles of the 1980s: Jackson\\u2019s \\u201cBeat It.\\u201d His solo lasted all of 20 seconds and took only a half an hour to record. \", \"Van Halen received no compensation or credit for the work, even though he rearranged the section he played on. \\u201cIt was 20 minutes of my life. I didn\\u2019t want anything for doing that,\\u201d he told Billboard in 2015. \\u201cI literally thought to myself, \\u2018Who is possibly going to know if I play on this kid\\u2019s record?\\u2019\\u201d Rolling Stone ranked \\u201cBeat It\\u201d No. 344 on its list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. Jackson\\u2019s melding of hard rock and R&B preceded the meeting of Run-DMC and Aerosmith by four years. \", \"But strains between Roth and the band erupted after their 1984 world tour and Roth left. The group then recruited Sammy Hagar as lead singer \\u2014some critics called the new formulation \\u201cVan Hagar\\u201d \\u2014 and the band went on to score its first No. 1 album with \\u201c5150,\\u201d More studio albums followed, including \\u201cOU812,\\u201d \\u201cFor Unlawful Carnal Knowledge\\u201d and \\u201cBalance.\\u201d Hit singles included \\u201cWhy Can\\u2019t This Be Love\\u201d and \\u201cWhen It\\u2019s Love.\\u201d\", \"Hagar was ousted in 1996 and former Extreme singer Gary Cherone stepped in for the album \\u201cVan Halen III,\\u201d a stumble that didn\\u2019t lead to another album and the quick departure of Cherone. Roth would eventually return in 2007 and team up with the Van Halen brothers and Wolfgang Van Halen on bass for a tour, the album \\u201cA Different Kind of Truth\\u201d and the 2015 album \\u201cTokyo Dome Live in Concert.\\u201d\", \"Van Halen\\u2019s music has appeared in films as varied as \\u201cSuperbad,\\u201d \\u201cMinions\\u201d and \\u201cSing\\u201d as well as TV shows like \\u201cGlee\\u201d and \\u201cIt\\u2019s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.\\u201d Video games such as \\u201cGran Turismo 4\\u201d and \\u201cGuitar Hero\\u201d have used his riffs. Their song \\u201cJamie\\u2019s Cryin\\u201d was sampled by rapper Tone Loc in his hit \\u201cWild Thing.\\u201d\", \"For much of his career, Eddie Van Halen wrote and experimented with sounds while drunk or high or both. He revealed that he would stay in his hotel room drinking vodka and snorting cocaine while playing into a tape recorder. (Hagar\\u2019s 2011 autobiography \\u201cRed: My Uncensored Life in Rock\\u201d portrays Eddie as a violent, booze-addled vampire, living inside a garbage-strewn house.)\", \"\\u201cI didn\\u2019t drink to party,\\u201d Van Halen told Billboard. \\u201cAlcohol and cocaine were private things to me. I would use them for work. The blow keeps you awake and the alcohol lowers your inhibitions. I\\u2019m sure there were musical things I would not have attempted were I not in that mental state.\\u201d\", \"Eddie Van Halen was born in Amsterdam and his family immigrated to California in 1962 when he was 7. His father was a big band clarinetist who rarely found work after coming to the U.S., and their mother was a maid who had dreams of her sons being classical pianists. The Van Halens shared a house with three other families. Eddie and Alex had only each other, a tight relationship that flowed through their music.\", \"\\u201cWe showed up here with the equivalent of $50 and a piano,\\u201d Eddie Van Halen told The Associated Press in 2015. \\u201cWe came halfway around the world without money, without a set job, no place to live and couldn\\u2019t even speak the language.\\u201d\", \"He said his earliest memories of music were banging pots and pans together, marching to John Philip Sousa marches. At one point, Eddie got a drum set, which his older brother coveted.\", \"\\u201cI never wanted to play guitar,\\u201d he confessed at a talk at the Smithsonian\\u2019s National Museum of American History in 2015. But his brother was good at the drums, so Eddie gave into his brother\\u2019s wishes: \\u201cI said, \\u2018Go ahead, take my drums. I\\u2019ll play your damn guitar.\\u2019\\u201d\", \"He was a relentless experimenter who would solder different parts from different guitar-makers, including Gibson and Fender. He created his own graphic design for his guitars by adding tape to the instruments and then spray-painting them. He said his influences were Eric Clapton, and Jimi Hendrix.\", \"Van Halen, sober since 2008, lost one-third of his tongue to a cancer that eventually drifted into his esophagus. In 1999, he had a hip replacement. He was married twice, to actress Valerie Bertinelli from 1981 to 2007 and then to stuntwoman-turned-publicist Janie Liszewski, whom he wed in 2009. \", \"\\u201cI\\u2019m so grateful Wolfie and I were able to hold you in your last moments,\\u201d Bertinelli wrote on Instagram, showing an image of their baby son. \\u201cI will see you in our next life.\\u201d\", \"__\", \"AP Music Editor Mesfin Fekadu contributed to this report.\", \"___ \", \"Mark Kennedy is at \"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://apnews.com/article/police-thomas-lane-trials-minneapolis-crime-1e0d9bcb6e751c31c8de0794434c5730\", \"source\": \"Associated Press\", \"title\": \"Ex-officer charged in George Floyd's death freed on $1M bond\", \"description\": \"MINNEAPOLIS (AP) \\u2014 The former Minneapolis police officer charged with murder in the death of George Floyd posted bail on Wednesday and was released from prison. According to court documents,... \", \"date\": \"2020-10-07T17:44:06Z\", \"author\": \"Amy Forliti\", \"text\": [\"MINNEAPOLIS (AP) \\u2014 The former Minneapolis police officer charged with murder in the death of George Floyd posted bail on Wednesday and was released from prison.\", \"According to court documents, \", \" posted a $1 million bond and was released from the state\\u2019s facility in Oak Park Heights, where he had been detained. Hennepin County jail records show he was released shortly before 11:30 a.m.\", \"Floyd, a Black man in handcuffs, died May 25 after Chauvin, who is white, pressed his knee against Floyd\\u2019s neck for several minutes as Floyd said he couldn\\u2019t breathe. Floyd\\u2019s death was captured in widely seen bystander video that set off protests around the world. Chauvin and three other officers were fired. Chauvin is charged with second-degree murder, third-degree murder and manslaughter; Thomas Lane, J. Kueng and Tou Thao are charged with aiding and abetting both second-degree murder and manslaughter.\", \"It was not immediately clear where Chauvin got the money to pay his bond. In Minnesota, someone who posts bond must pay 10%, in this case $100,000, to the bond company and have collateral, such as a house, to back the full amount. A message left with the company that posted the bond, Allegheny Casualty Company, was not immediately returned. \", \"The Minnesota Police and Peace Officers Association, which has a legal defense fund, did not provide any money for bail, a spokeswoman said. A message left with the union representing Minneapolis police officers was not returned. \", \"The website GiveSendGo.com, which says it is a free Christian crowdfunding site, has a Derek Chauvin Bail Fund that says it was created by his family. According to the site, as of midday Wednesday that fund raised $4,198 of its $125,000 goal, with donations from more than 35 people. A posting on the site dated Sept. 12 said it took time to set up a fundraising effort due to the high-profile nature of the case. \", \"Chauvin had the option of posting bail for $1.25 million without conditions or $1 million with conditions. Under the conditions of his release, he must attend all court appearances, cannot have any direct or indirect contact \\u2014 including social media contact \\u2014 with any members of Floyd\\u2019s family, cannot work in law enforcement or security, and must not possess any firearms ammunition. \", \"Chauvin\\u2019s attorney had no comment Wednesday.\", \"Chauvin\\u2019s wife, Kellie Chauvin, filed for divorce shortly after Floyd\\u2019s death. The records in that case have since been sealed and Kellie Chauvin\\u2019s divorce attorney didn\\u2019t immediately reply to a message seeking comment. \", \"In July, the Chauvins were charged with multiple felony counts of tax evasion for allegedly failing to report income from various jobs, including more than $95,000 from Derek Chauvin\\u2019s off-duty security work. The criminal complaints in that case allege that from 2014 through 2019, the Chauvins underreported their joint income by $464,433 and owe the state $37,868 in unpaid taxes, interest and fees.\", \"The tax evasion case also listed other assets, including the couple\\u2019s second home in Florida and a $100,000 BMW. \", \"The Chauvin home in the St. Paul suburb of Oakdale was sold on Aug. 28 for $279,000, which was $26,000 less than the price it was listed at a month after Floyd\\u2019s death, according to online real estate records. It was not clear where Chauvin was staying after his release, but one of the conditions of his bail was that he not leave Minnesota without permission.\", \"The other three officers charged in Floyd\\u2019s death had previously posted bond amounts of $750,000 and have been free pending trial. Currently, all four men are scheduled to \", \", but the judge is weighing a request to have them tried separately. \"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://apnews.com/article/plays-sundance-film-festival-harriet-tubman-spike-lee-film-festivals-c843e4b8aa5c4bc98b433b3fc5cba412\", \"source\": \"Associated Press\", \"title\": \"Radha Blank of 'The Forty-Year-Old Version' isn't late\", \"description\": \"If Radha Blank had a tagline for her film, \\u201cThe Forty-Year-Old Version,\\u201d it would be: \\u201cYou don't age out of your passion.\\u201d Blank wrote, directed and stars in her debut film, a heavily... \", \"date\": \"2020-10-07T16:08:11Z\", \"author\": \"Jake Coyle\", \"text\": [\"If Radha Blank had a tagline for her film, \\u201cThe Forty-Year-Old Version,\\u201d it would be: \\u201cYou don\\u2019t age out of your passion.\\u201d\", \"Blank wrote, directed and stars in her debut film, a heavily autobiographical tale, shot in black-and-white and on 35mm, about a middle-aged playwright in Harlem struggling to fulfill her career\\u2019s earlier promise. Faced with unappealing options, like a Harriet Tubman musical put on by white producers, she turns to an old passion, hip-hop, and begins performing as RadhaMUSprime.\", \"The film \\u2014 laceratingly funny, relentlessly frank, wholly original \\u2014 made its lauded premiere at the Sundance Film Festival where Blank won a directing prize and Netflix acquired it. It begins streaming Friday. \", \"Blank, who has written for the Spike Lee series \\u201cShe\\u2019s Gotta Have It\\u201d (on which she was also a producer) and \\u201cEmpire,\\u201d first began the project as a web series that would have culminated in a mix tape. The death of her mother derailed the series, and Blank realized \\u201cThe 40-Year-Old Version\\u201d needed a bigger canvas. Lena Waithe (\\u201cMaster of None,\\u201d \\u201cQueen & Slim\\u201d) came aboard as a producer.\", \"In an interview back when \\u201cThe Forty-Year-Old Version\\u201d was landing at Sundance, Blank \\u2014 a proud New Yorker who, like her character, struggled to get her plays mounted before rapping under a pseudonym \\u2014 talked about her delayed but inevitable arrival.\", \"AP: What compelled you to start writing this?\", \"BLANK: I was fired from a film job. This is like before I was writing for TV. I got a job. Someone had seen a play of mine and they hired me to adapt a book. And I got fired off the job. And I was kind of devastated and felt a little powerless and just decided, you know what? (Expletive) it. I\\u2019m going to make a web series so that I\\u2019m in charge. No one can fire me. About two weeks before we were going to shoot the first two episodes, my mom passed away and it pretty much devastated my life. Like we were like Dorothy and Sophia domestically, as a viewer of \\u201cThe Golden Girls.\\u201d We shared the same birthday and she\\u2019s the person who nurtured all these storytelling seeds in me. I was probably going to quit anything creative because my biggest champion and friend was now gone. I was going to go back to school and become a social worker. I\\u2019m glad I didn\\u2019t. I probably saved more children by not becoming a social worker.\", \"AP: Is your protagonist you?\", \"BLANK: It\\u2019s me but a heightened version. She is who I wish I could be all the time. She tells it like it is. What we have in common is how we use rejection to fuel an idea. My character, the idea of her becoming a rapper is a joke until she starts rhyming. And for me, when I first decided I wanted to shoot this in black and white. Everyone was like, why would you do that? It\\u2019s a matter of trusting your impulses.\", \"AP: How does it feel to be making your filmmaking debut at this stage in your life?\", \"BLANK: \\u201cAuteurs\\u201d are reserved for older filmmakers. And groundbreaking, fresh films seems to be associated with young filmmakers. I\\u2019m somewhere in the middle. I\\u2019ve been telling and crafting stories for over 20 years. When it came time to make the film, I knew exactly what it is I wanted to say. For people who know me and know my work, it was just a matter of time before I got here. It\\u2019s kind of this idea that we never stop learning about who you are. You can have revelations about yourself and what you should be doing at any age.\", \"AP: And that includes rapping for you. But you bring a different perspective to hip-hop.\", \"BLANK: It\\u2019s all of the bravado of hip-hop but it\\u2019s from a person whose body is changing. There\\u2019s some hot flashes in there. AARP is sending me (expletive) in the mail. I know a lot of people who feel that way, I just don\\u2019t see it reflected in mainstream culture. Especially with hip-hop. I love this culture. I am the same age as hip-hop culture. Some of the culture is over-sexualized and over-saturated and so loud. That\\u2019s part of why I wanted to film it in black and white. Black and white cools it down.\", \"AP: How would you describe your film\\u2019s connection with Judd Apatow\\u2019s \\u201cThe 40-Year-Old Virgin\\u201d?\", \"BLANK: Honestly, I\\u2019m just like appropriating his (expletive). People appropriate Black culture all the time. I\\u2019m like, \\u201cHey, Judd. I\\u2019m comin\\u2019 for you!\\u201d I think he will have a great sense of humor about it, but I\\u2019m totally appropriating his (expletive). I love it when I say \\u201cForty-Year-Old Version\\u201d and they go, \\u201cThat move came out 15 years ago.\\u201d And I go, \\u201cNope! V-E-R-S-I-O-N.\\u201d But also trying to stay in the spirit of Judd Apatow, Black protagonists are quirky and awkward and can\\u2019t figure things out and are having identity crises at 40. I would hope one day my films can be in the canon of his storytelling. I lived in L.A. for about three years and even though I look like I might have blended into the cool arts scene, I always felt like Larry David. There are people who look like me who have those odd moments where there are clashes of culture right in front of them.\", \"___\", \"Follow AP Film Writer Jake Coyle on Twitter at: \"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-nfl-aaron-rodgers-green-bay-football-d7c9063da78bcccdb55201614b501238\", \"source\": \"Associated Press\", \"title\": \"Pandemic limiting what NFL players can do on their off weeks\", \"description\": \"GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) \\u2014 Aaron Rodgers and his Green Bay Packers teammates won\\u2019t get a chance to celebrate their fast start by leaving town during their week off. The Packers (4-0) and Detroit... \", \"date\": \"2020-10-07T20:02:03Z\", \"author\": \"Steve Megargee\", \"text\": [\"GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) \\u2014 Aaron Rodgers and his Green Bay Packers teammates won\\u2019t get a chance to celebrate their fast start by leaving town during their week off.\", \"The Packers (4-0) and Detroit Lions (1-3) don\\u2019t play this week and therefore are the first NFL teams to get a taste of how different off weeks will be amid a pandemic. Players and coaches aren\\u2019t allowed to leave the city where the team is located during the off week, as they must provide daily specimens for COVID-19 testing. \", \"\\u201cTotally sucks,\\u201d the 36-year-old Rodgers said after the Packers\\u2019 \", \" \\u201cThat\\u2019s all I can say about that. Obviously it is what it is, the situation. But especially as a older player, I look forward to the bye weeks immensely. I look forward to kind of a reset, recharging the batteries.\\u201d\", \"Indeed, players often have used these off weeks to visit their hometowns, take their families on a quick trip or return to their alma maters to watch college football games from the sidelines. They won\\u2019t get those chances this year.\", \"\\u201cWe have new protocols in place that are meant to keep everybody safe and healthy,\\u201d Lions coach Matt Patricia said. \\u201cAnd that\\u2019s important right now. We\\u2019re still in that world and still in the middle of COVID-19.\\u201d\", \"Both teams understand what\\u2019s at stake, particularly in light of recent events.\", \"\\n\", \" have had 20 positive cases since Sept. 29, which caused their scheduled Oct. 4 game with the Pittsburgh Steelers to get pushed back to Oct. 25. New England canceled its practices Wednesday and Thursday amid reports that a third Patriots player has tested positive. \", \"NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell \", \" Monday that any violations of COVID-19 protocols that force schedule changes could result in punishment including forfeiting games, fines or loss of draft picks.\", \"The NFL \", \" Friday that the league\\u2019s agreement with the NFL Players Association in August means players who miss tests can be punished with a $50,000 fine. A second missed test can result in a one-game suspension.\", \"\\u201cThere definitely had to be a lot of sacrifices made this year for this season to happen, but I think everyone can say that they\\u2019re definitely willing to make those sacrifices,\\u201d Lions center Frank Ragnow said.\", \"The Packers\\u2019 off week comes at a time when the high COVID-19 rates around Green Bay caused the team to announce Tuesday that \", \"Packers coach Matt LaFleur closed his postgame Zoom session Monday by reminding players and other Green Bay-area residents to wear a mask and practice social distancing.\", \"\\u201cUnfortunately COVID is running rampant in our community, and our guys got to continue to make smart decisions because you can see how it can impact a football team,\\u201d LaFleur said. \\u201cYou\\u2019ve got to look no further than Tennessee.\\u201d\", \"The protocols are impacting some players more than others.\", \"For instance, Packers running back Jamaal Williams said his routine this week wouldn\\u2019t be much different from normal.\", \"\\u201cShoot, (it\\u2019s) the same thing I do every time when I leave practice: Go home, chill, watch anime, play my video game,\\u201d Williams said. \\u201cIt\\u2019s nothing different for me. I like being at home, chilling by myself. My daughter is coming now so now she get to see me. Now we really get to have fun together. It\\u2019s really nothing new to me. I like my peace and quiet.\\u201d\", \"Packers running back Aaron Jones said he normally would have visited his family in his hometown of El Paso, Texas, this week. Lions defensive end Trey Flowers said he would have gone to Alabama to spend time with his children.\", \"While the protocols have changed those plans, it has created opportunities for those players who already have their family members with them. Lions safety Duron Harmon said he\\u2019ll try to make the most of a chance to celebrate his wife\\u2019s birthday Thursday\", \"\\u201cHappy wife, happy life,\\u201d Harmon said. \\u201cI\\u2019ll try to make her as happy as I can.\\u201d\", \"Ragnow said he\\u2019d try to find someplace nearby where he could fish but acknowledged he\\u2019d spend much of the Lions\\u2019 off week \\u201cquarantining and hanging out.\\u201d Green Bay tight end Robert Tonyan said he\\u2019d probably \\u201cjust lay in the ice tub a lot\\u201d to make sure he\\u2019s at full strength for the Packers\\u2019 Oct. 25 game at Tampa Bay.\", \"They\\u2019re all just looking for different ways to pass the time without the opportunity to go anywhere.\", \"\\u201cWe\\u2019ll be here,\\u201d Rodgers said. \\u201cWe\\u2019ll make the most of it. But it sucks.\\u201d\", \"___\", \"AP Sports Writers Larry Lage and Noah Trister and AP Pro Football Writer Teresa M. Walker contributed to this report.\", \"___\", \"More AP NFL: https://apnews.com/NFL and https://twitter.com/AP_NFL\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://apnews.com/article/politics-syria-islamic-state-group-1efbea5b67c6e15f67882d488293730e\", \"source\": \"Associated Press\", \"title\": \"US charges British IS members in deaths of American hostages\", \"description\": \"WASHINGTON (AP) \\u2014 Two Islamic State militants from Britain were brought to the United States on Wednesday to face charges in a gruesome campaign of torture, beheadings and other acts of violence... \", \"date\": \"2020-10-07T12:20:09Z\", \"author\": \"Eric Tucker\", \"text\": [\"WASHINGTON (AP) \\u2014 Two Islamic State militants from Britain were brought to the United States on Wednesday to \", \" in a gruesome campaign of torture, beheadings and other acts of violence against four Americans and others captured and held hostage in Syria, the Justice Department said.\", \"El Shafee Elsheikh and Alexanda Kotey are two of four men who were called \\u201cthe Beatles\\u201d by the hostages because of the captors\\u2019 British accents. The two men were expected to make their first appearance Wednesday afternoon in federal court in Alexandria, Virginia, where a federal grand jury issued an \", \" that accuses them of being \\u201cleading participants in a brutal hostage-taking scheme\\u201d that resulted in the deaths of Western hostages, including \", \".\", \"The charges are a milestone in a yearslong effort by U.S. authorities to bring to justice members of the group known for beheadings and barbaric treatment of aid workers, journalists and other hostages in Syria. Startling for their unflinching depictions of cruelty and violence, recordings of the murders were released online in the form of propaganda for a group that at its peak controlled vast swaths of Syria and Iraq.\", \"The case underscores the Justice Department\\u2019s commitment to prosecuting in American civilian court militants captured overseas, said Assistant Attorney General John Demers, who vowed that other extremists \\u201cwill be pursued to the ends of the earth.\\u201d The defendants\\u2019 arrival in the U.S. sets the stage for arguably the most sensational terrorism trial since the 2014 criminal case against the suspected ringleader of a deadly attack on a U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya.\", \"\\u201cIf you have American blood in your veins or American blood on your hands, you will face American justice,\\u201d said Demers, the department\\u2019s top national security official.\", \"The men are charged in connection with the deaths of four American hostages \\u2014 Foley, journalist Steven Sotloff and aid workers Peter Kassig and Kayla Mueller \\u2014 as well as British and Japanese nationals who were also held captive. \", \"The pair face charges of hostage-taking resulting in death and other terrorism-related counts. Because of a recent concession by the Justice Department, prosecutors will not be seeking the death penalty. \", \"The indictment describes Kotey and Elsheikh, both of whom prosecutors say radicalized in London and left for Syria in 2012, as \\u201cleading participants in a brutal hostage-taking scheme\\u201d that targeted American and European citizens and that involved murders, mock executions, shocks with electric tasers, physical restraints and other brutal acts.\", \"Prosecutors say the men worked closely with a chief spokesman for IS who reported to the group\\u2019s leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who was killed in a U.S. military operation last year. They were joined in the \\u201cBeatles\\u201d by Mohamed Emwazi, who was killed in a 2015 drone strike and was also known as \\u201cJihadi John\\u201d after appearing and speaking in the videos of multiple executions, including Foley\\u2019s. A fourth member, Aine Lesley Davis, is serving a prison sentence in Turkey. \", \"The indictment accuses Kotey and Elsheikh of participating in Foley\\u2019s 2012 kidnapping and of supervising detention facilities for hostages, \\u201cin addition to engaging in a long pattern of physical and psychological violence.\\u201d \", \"It also alleges that they coordinated ransom negotiations over email with hostage families. In interviews while in detention, the two men admitted they helped collect email addresses from Mueller that could be used to send out ransom demands. Mueller was killed in 2015 after 18 months in IS captivity. The indictment says Mueller\\u2019s family received an email demanding a cash payment of 5 million euros for Mueller\\u2019s release.\", \"In July 2014, according to the indictment, Elsheikh described to a family member his participation in an IS attack on the Syrian Army. He sent the family member photos of decapitated heads and said in a voice message, \\u201cThere\\u2019s many heads, this is just a couple that I took a photo of.\\u201d \", \"The indictment describes the execution of a Syrian prisoner in 2014 that the two forced their Western hostages to watch. Kotey instructed the hostages to kneel while watching the execution and holding signs pleading for their release. Emwazi shot the prisoner in the back of the head while Elsheikh videotaped the execution. Elsheikh told one of the hostages, \\u201cyou\\u2019re next,\\u201d prosecutors say.\", \"The 24-page indictment accuses Kotey and Elsheikh of conspiring to murder the hostages and of helping cause their deaths by detaining them. It does not spell out any specific roles for them in the executions. But G. Zachary Terwilliger, the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, whose office will prosecute the case, said under U.S. law Elsheikh and Kotey can \\u201cbe held liable for the foreseeable acts of their co-conspirators.\\u201d\", \"Relatives of the four slain Americans praised the Justice Department for transferring the men to the U.S. for trial, calling it \\u201cthe first step in the pursuit of justice for the alleged horrific human rights crimes against these four young Americans.\\u201d\", \"\\u201cWe are hopeful that the U.S. government will finally be able to send the important message that if you harm Americans, you will never escape justice. And when you are caught, you will face the full power of American law,\\u201d their statement said.\", \"Elsheikh and Kotey have been held since October 2019 in American military custody after being captured in Syria one year earlier by the U.S.-based Syrian Democratic Forces while trying to escape Syria for Turkey. The Justice Department has long wanted to put them on trial, but those efforts were complicated by wrangling over whether Britain, which does not have the death penalty, would share evidence that could be used in a death penalty prosecution.\", \"Attorney General William Barr broke the diplomatic standoff this year when he promised the men would not face the death penalty. That prompted British authorities to share evidence that U.S. prosecutors deemed crucial for obtaining convictions.\", \"___\", \"Barakat reported from Alexandria, Virginia.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://apnews.com/article/david-alan-grier-john-malkovich-plays-lucas-hedges-elizabeth-ashley-7d5b1a85c6e91bd7533297539c21228f\", \"source\": \"Associated Press\", \"title\": \"Online fall Broadway play revivals attract starry casts\", \"description\": \"NEW YORK (AP) \\u2014 Broadway theaters may be dark, but there will be plenty of new online productions of some of classic plays this fall with some starry self-isolating actors, including Matthew... \", \"date\": \"2020-10-07T20:12:48Z\", \"author\": \"Mark Kennedy\", \"text\": [\"NEW YORK (AP) \\u2014 Broadway theaters may be dark, but there will be plenty of new online productions of some of classic plays this fall with some starry self-isolating actors, including Matthew Broderick, Morgan Freeman, Patti LuPone, Laura Linney and David Alan Grier.\", \"Producer Jeffrey Richards on Wednesday unveiled a weekly play run of livestreamed works to benefit The Actors Fund. They will stream on \", \" and ticket buyers can access the events through TodayTix starting at $5. The series will last seven weeks.\", \"The push begins Oct. 14 with Gore Vidal\\u2019s \\u201cThe Best Man\\u201d starring Matthew Broderick, Morgan Freeman, John Malkovich, Zachary Quinto, Phylicia Rashad, Vanessa Williams, Reed Birney, Stacy Keach and Elizabeth Ashley.\", \"On Oct. 20, a production of Kenneth Lonergan\\u2019s \\u201cThis Is Our Youth\\u201d will star Lucas Hedges, Paul Mescal and Grace Van Patten. David Mamet\\u2019s \\u201dRace\\u201d is up on Oct. 29, starring David Alan Grier and Ed O\\u2019Neill. \", \"Mamet\\u2019s \\u201cBoston Marriage\\u201d is slated for Nov. 12 with Patti LuPone and Rebecca Pidgeon. A revival of Anton Chekhov\\u2019s \\u201cUncle Vanya\\u201d an adapted by Neil LaBute follows on Nov. 19 with Alan Cumming, Samira Wiley, Constance Wu and Ellen Burstyn. \", \"On Dec. 3, the original Broadway cast of Donald Margulies\\u2019 \\u201cTime Stands Still\\u201d reunites with Eric Bogosian, Brian d\\u2019Arcy James, Laura Linney and Alicia Silverstone. The last effort is Robert O\\u2019Hara\\u2019s \\u201cBarbecue\\u201d on Dec. 10 with Carrie Coon, Colman Domingo, S. Epatha Merkerson, Laurie Metcalf, David Morse and Kristine Nielsen.\", \"___\", \"Mark Kennedy is at \"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://apnews.com/article/film-reviews-adam-sandler-halloween-movies-june-squibb-2ad074e1d7e94db011b4c4454f7b1ac4\", \"source\": \"Associated Press\", \"title\": \"Review: Adam Sandler's 'Hubie Halloween' is ... good?\", \"description\": \"The distance for Adam Sandler from last year's frantic, high-wire act \\u201cUncut Gems\\u201d to his new Netflix comedy, \\u201cHubie Halloween,\\\" is great, but maybe not as vast as it sounds.  Both feature... \", \"date\": \"2020-10-07T20:27:49Z\", \"author\": \"Jake Coyle\", \"text\": [\"The distance for Adam Sandler from last year\\u2019s \", \" to his new Netflix comedy, \", \" is great, but maybe not as vast as it sounds. \", \"Both feature Sandler playing someone who romanticizes something out of proportion (a high-priced gem in \\u201cUncut Gems,\\u201d Halloween in \\u201cHubie Halloween\\u201d), an appearance by a former NBA star (Kevin Garnett in \\u201cUncut Gems,\\u201d Shaquille O\\u2019Neal in \\u201cHubie Halloween\\u201d) and June Squibb wearing a T-shirt that says \\u201cBoner Doner.\\u201d\", \"OK, that last one isn\\u2019t in \\u201cUncut Gems\\u201d but you wouldn\\u2019t exactly put it past the Safdie brothers, either. Yes, Sandler\\u2019s bouncing between movie realms has seemingly grown even more schizophrenic in recent years as his factory of Netflix releases chugs along with occasional departures like \\u201cThe Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)\\u201d and \\u201cUncut Gems.\\u201d But here\\u2019s the thing: \\u201cHubie Halloween\\u201d is good.\", \"Yeah, I\\u2019m kind of surprised by that, too. The latest Billy Madison production might not seem especially distinguishable from the rest of Sandler\\u2019s recent Netflix output. In many ways it\\u2019s not. It\\u2019s got most of his regular chums (Kevin James, Tim Meadows, Rob Schneider) and it\\u2019s directed by Steven Brill, who helmed Sandler\\u2019s \\u201cSandy Wexler,\\u201d \\u201cThe Do-Over,\\u201d \\u201cMr. Deeds\\u201d and \\u201cLittle Nicky.\\u201d These are movies made with only a little more thought than another pick-up basketball game: \\u201cLet\\u2019s run it back!\\u201d\", \"And yet it feels like it\\u2019s been a while since it was this much fun to watch Sandler et al goofing around. Sandler, already inextricably linked to Thanksgiving, has now left a mark on Halloween. Maybe it\\u2019s because his movies can seem like (highly paid) extended vacations with friends, but holidays seem to work for him.\", \"The destination this time is Salem, Massachusetts, where Hubie Dubois (Sandler), is a thermos-carrying stunted man-child who\\u2019s been the butt of jokes since high school, taunted for his unhipness and his good-hearted sincerity. He\\u2019s an immediately familiar protagonist for Sandler \\u2014 a cousin to Canteen Boy and a brother to Bobby Boucher of \\u201cThe Water Boy.\\u201d Hubie, a Halloween devotee who\\u2019s nevertheless easily spooked by the season\\u2019s decorations, has anointed himself the holiday\\u2019s official \\u201cmonitor\\u201d in Salem. \", \"Living with his mom (Squibb, outfitted in a running gag of T-shirts), Hubie bikes around town with his monitor sash slung across his chest and a thermos full of soup always in hand. He\\u2019s regularly mocked by just about everyone in the town, young and old, but his old high-school torch (Julie Bowen, comically out of his league) is one of the few who recognize and value Hubie\\u2019s sweetness. When a genuine mystery develops and people start going missing, Hubie is the first to recognize the danger. Having made police reports a hobby, the local cops (Kenan Thompson, James) have long learned to ignore his concerns. \", \"It\\u2019s all just an excuse for Sandler to do a funny voice and a bunch of pratfalls, but the voice is pretty funny and so are the pratfalls. Even the production design is a cut above what you\\u2019re expect. But most of all, the ensemble of townspeople lend plenty of support. Is there anyone, really, who doesn\\u2019t want to watch a movie with Steve Buscemi as a werewolf, Michael Chiklis as a cranky priest, Ray Liotta for some reason and Maya Rudolph dressed up as the Bride of Frankenstein playing the dissatisfied wife of Tim Meadows? \", \"The jokes aren\\u2019t often Sandler\\u2019s best material but \\u201cHubie Halloween\\u201d is as sweet and easily digestible as a Milky Way. After this, \\u201cUncut Gems\\u201d and his best and most tender stand-up special (\\u201c100% Fresh,\\u201d a title that references his normally low critic scores), the Sandler-verse is weirdly in a kind of perfect harmony. Maybe, too, we\\u2019re more in need of some good, stupid fun right now, and \\u201cHubie Halloween\\u201d is smart enough to do stupid just right. Steve Buscemi as a werewolf, at least, is an antidote to something.\", \"\\u201cHubie Halloween,\\u201d a Netflix release, is rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America for crude and suggestive content, language and brief teen partying. Running time: 104 minutes. Three stars out of four.\", \"___\", \"Follow AP Film Writer Jake Coyle on Twitter at: http://twitter.com/jakecoyleAP\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://apnews.com/article/nfl-football-los-angeles-rams-kyle-allen-dwayne-haskins-17486c674f69b88eab2b8e14bc37ca4d\", \"source\": \"Associated Press\", \"title\": \"Washington benches QB Haskins, switches to Allen vs. Rams\", \"description\": \"Dwayne Haskins didn't show enough progress in Ron Rivera's eyes, so he's going from starting quarterback to out of uniform. Rivera benched Haskins for Washington's next game Sunday against... \", \"date\": \"2020-10-07T14:04:56Z\", \"author\": \"Stephen Whyno\", \"text\": [\"Dwayne Haskins didn\\u2019t show enough progress in Ron Rivera\\u2019s eyes, so he\\u2019s going from starting quarterback to out of uniform.\", \"Rivera benched Haskins for Washington\\u2019s next game Sunday against the Los Angeles Rams and turned to Kyle Allen as the new starter. The team is 1-3 and at what the coach believes is a crucial moment of the season in a wide-open NFC East within reach, so he pulled the plug on Haskins despite no pressure to win now.\", \"\\u201cI think our best chance to win is putting the ball in somebody else\\u2019s hands,\\u201d Rivera said Wednesday. \\u201cI think the best chance to have things done in our offense is in somebody else\\u2019s hands. That\\u2019s what I\\u2019m doing.\\u201d\", \"Alex Smith will back up Allen with Haskins inactive after not having enough time to learn a new system in his second year in the NFL. Smith will be active for the first time since breaking his right tibia and fibula Nov. 18, 2018.\", \"Rivera ended the Haskins experiment after a third consecutive loss in just his 11th pro start. Washington\\u2019s first-year coach defended the 2019 first-round pick for having \\u201can NFL arm\\u201d but lamented Haskins not getting enough snaps in offseason workouts, training camp and practice to make him ready for this.\", \"\\u201cWe gave him every opportunity,\\u201d Rivera said. \\u201cWe gave him a chance to start four games and truly evaluate. But with the division where it is right now, I\\u2019d be stupid to not give it a shot and see what happens in the next four games. But I wanted to put it in the hands of someone that knows the situation a little better, backed up by a guy that\\u2019s been there.\\u201d\", \"Rivera passed on the opportunity to bring in former Carolina Panthers QB Cam Newton, whom he\\u2019d coached for nine seasons dating to his rookie year, preferring to give Haskins an opportunity to keep his starting job. Washington acquired Allen from Carolina instead, and Smith was cleared for full contact \", \" since the broken leg and subsequent medical troubles he had to overcome.\", \"Haskins was made the Week 1 starter, and Rivera saw some of Newton\\u2019s qualities in the 2019 first-round pick out of Ohio State. Leading a comeback against Philadelphia after no preseason work in new offensive coordinator Scott Turner\\u2019s system was a good start.\", \"It was downhill from there. Haskins completed 72 of 115 passing attempts, threw three touchdowns and three interceptions and was sacked 10 times during Washington\\u2019s three game skid.\", \"Overall, Haskins has thrown for 939 yards and has completed 61% of his passes, with four touchdowns and three interceptions.\", \"\\u201cWe\\u2019ve been trying to do things to play toward his strengths,\\u201d Turner said. \\u201cWe just feel like at this point he\\u2019s got a little ways to go. There\\u2019s been some mistakes that showed up that were kind of repeat-type mistakes.\\u201d\", \"As a rookie, Haskins had 1,365 yards passing, seven TDs and seven interceptions and completed 58.6% of his throws. Washington went 2-5 in his starts last year.\", \"Agent David Mulugheta tweeted Sunday pointing out Haskins\\u2019 limited opportunity as a starter, the new system, lack of weapons and young offensive line contributing to the current situation. \", \"Rivera was looking for growth from Haskins and didn\\u2019t see enough in Sunday\\u2019s 31-17 loss to Baltimore. A key play came on fourth-and-goal from the 13-yard line, with Haskins managing only a 5-yard pass to the 8, turning the ball over on downs.\", \"\\u201cThe one thing a lot of people don\\u2019t see is the frustration on the sidelines of the other players, as well,\\u201d Rivera said. \\u201cI see that. I feel that. The guys want to win. Right now, where his development is, I think our best shot to win now is with guys that have been in the system.\\u201d\", \"That\\u2019s Allen, who is familiar with Turner from their time together in Carolina. The 24-year-old took over for Rivera\\u2019s Panthers last season when Newton was injured and feels ready to jump in with Washington. \", \"Allen only has slightly more experience than Haskins: 13 pro starts and 15 appearances in which he has thrown for 19 TDs and 16 INTs. But the familiarity is his benefit, along with watching the first four games from the sideline.\", \"\\u201cI just need to go out there and be myself,\\u201d Allen said. \\u201cI don\\u2019t think there\\u2019s anything extra that needs to be done or anything over the top. I think we just need to go out there and execute and do our thing. We\\u2019re a good enough team.\\u201d\", \"After \", \", Smith is now one injury to Allen away from completing a remarkable comeback. Rivera is confident putting the 36-year-old into a game because doctors have said it\\u2019s safe. \", \"\\u201cWe feel good about Alex\\u2019s progression physically,\\u201d said Turner, who confirmed Smith has not been hit in practice despite his unique circumstances. \\u201cThis is the next step with him.\\u201d\", \"___\", \"AP Sports Writer Howard Fendrich contributed.\", \"___\", \"More AP NFL: https://apnews.com/NFL and https://twitter.com/AP_NFL\"]}\n][\n{\"url\": \"https://news.yahoo.com/how-to-watch-the-vice-presidential-debate-live-on-yahoo-140949164.html?soc_src=hl-viewer&soc_trk=tw\", \"source\": \"Yahoo News\", \"title\": \"How to watch the vice presidential debate live on Yahoo\", \"description\": \"Vice President Mike Pence and Sen. Kamala Harris will face off in their first and only debate at 9 p.m. ET on Wednesday.\", \"date\": \"2020-10-07T14:09:49.000Z\", \"author\": \"Julia Munslow\", \"text\": [\"Vice President Mike Pence and Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris will face off in their first and only debate at 9 p.m. ET on Wednesday, Oct. 7 at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City.\\u00a0\", \"Yahoo News will provide \", \" during the debates from our own team of journalists and our network of premium news partners.\\u00a0\", \"To watch Wednesday\\u2019s showdown and the future presidential debates, you can tune in on \", \", the\", \" or the \", \".\", \"The debates will also stream on several Yahoo social media channels, including \", \", \", \", \", \", \", \" and \", \".\\u00a0\", \"Below is information on remaining debates for the 2020 election. Both begin at 9 p.m. ET and will last for about 90 minutes.\\u00a0\\u00a0\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://news.yahoo.com/india-media-frenzy-over-sushant-170043766.html\", \"source\": \"Yahoo News\", \"title\": \"Is India\\u2019s Media Frenzy Over Sushant Singh Rajput\\u2019s Death a Bollywood Circus or a Political Distraction?\", \"description\": \"Indian media, fueled by aggressive television anchors, has worked itself into an unprecedented feeding frenzy since the death of popular 34-year-old actor...\", \"date\": \"2020-10-07T17:00:43.000Z\", \"author\": \"Naman Ramachandran\", \"text\": [\"Indian media, fueled by aggressive television anchors, has worked itself into an unprecedented feeding frenzy since the death of popular 34-year-old actor \", \" at his Mumbai home June 14. The question now is whether this is \", \" on self-destruct or a further example of media manipulation in service of a conservative political agenda.\", \"The Mumbai police initially ruled the death a suicide. But media and the public found it difficult to accept that a successful actor with hits like \\u201cM.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story\\u201d and \\u201cKedarnath\\u201d under his belt would take his life. Within days of Rajput\\u2019s death, rumors involving the highest echelons of Bollywood circulated on social media and WhatsApp, suggesting that the self-made outsider from a small town was depressed as a result of being shunned in the elite, nepotistic circles of the film industry.\", \"By the end of July, when the police ruled out foul play, the narrative changed. The star\\u2019s father, K.K. Singh, accused Rajput\\u2019s former girlfriend, the actor Rhea Chakraborty, and her family of abetting suicide and financial misappropriation. India\\u2019s Enforcement Directorate for financial crimes began an investigation. The following month, the Supreme Court transferred the investigation of Rajput\\u2019s death to the Central Bureau of Investigation and rumors that Rajput was murdered began to circulate.\", \"By the end of August, the narrative changed yet again, and a third national investigative body, the Narcotics Control Bureau, got into the act. In early September, Chakraborty was arrested on suspicion of supplying marijuana to Rajput.\", \"Haranguing television anchors appointed themselves judge and jury, with daily trials on primetime television. Matters went into overdrive when WhatsApp messages with Chakraborty led the NCB to haul in actors Deepika Padukone (\\u201cxXx: Return of Xander Cage\\u201d), Sara Ali Khan, Rakul Preet Singh and Shraddha Kapoor for drug-related questioning. Prominent filmmaker Karan Johar was forced to issue a statement denying claims that drugs were consumed at a party at his home in 2019.\", \"So far, so Bollywood. But the political angles are rarely far from the surface. Why have only women been called by the NCB? Why is free-spirited Bollywood \\u2014 which has often led the social agenda on issues including gender identity, arranged marriages and religious integration \\u2014 under attack?\", \"Liberal filmmaker Hansal Mehta, known for Muslim rights biopic \\u201cShahid\\u201d and seminal gay rights film \\u201cAligarh,\\u201d is a trenchant presence on Twitter. \\u201cThese are entertainment channels masquerading as news channels,\\u201d Mehta tells \", \". \\u201cWhat they are doing is, in the absence of entertainment at the multiplexes, providing us daily entertainment featuring Bollywood stars on news channels.\\u201d\", \"Mehta cites several burning issues in India, like contentious farm legislation, unemployment, plunging GDP and toxic pandemic numbers (6.3 million infected and counting), that have taken a backseat to the daily drip feeds that Indian news channels claim are leaked to them by the investigative agencies. A producer who wished to remain anonymous for fear of being targeted in an increasingly authoritarian political atmosphere, tells \", \": \\u201cThe fascists have found Bollywood as a tool for policing thought. The media is completely manipulated, including social media.\\u201d\", \"Civil society has been under attack from the Modi government, which seems to accept no other authority or version of the truth. Human rights activists languish in jail. Amnesty International recently closed down its India operations after years of frustration. \\u201cWe are in an undeclared state of emergency,\\u201d the producer says.\", \"Chandraprakash Dwivedi is a respected chronicler of Indian history and culture via his film and television output, including \\u201cChanakya,\\u201d \\u201cPinjar,\\u201d \\u201cUpanishad Ganga\\u201d and the upcoming historical epic film \\u201cPrithviraj,\\u201d starring top Bollywood actor Akshay Kumar. Dwivedi describes the\", \" current scenario in India as a \\u201cmedia circus\\u201d but disagrees that it is in the service of diverting attention from other issues. \\u201cAll the [TV] channels cannot work on the agenda of any government,\\u201d he tells \", \". \\u201cSo this projection that it is to divert attention from success or failure of the government, I do not buy this argument.\\u201d\", \"The general audience appears to be consuming the ongoing drama with relish. \\u201cSuddenly you are getting a peek into their homes, their lives,\\u201d says Mehta, referring to Bollywood stars on daily primetime display.\", \"On Oct. 2, Johar tweeted a letter to Prime Minister Modi, with leading filmmakers Rajkumar Hirani, Aanand L. Rai, Rohit Shetty, Sajid Nadiadwala, Ekta Kapoor and Dinesh Vijan tagged, launching the Change Within initiative to celebrate the 75th anniversary of India\\u2019s independence.\", \"The following day, Kumar released a video saying that the industry has a drug problem but that not all Bollywood stars should be tarred with the same brush.\", \"On Oct. 7, Chakraborty was released on bail by the Bombay High Court that found no merit in the NCB\\u2019s charge of \\u201cfinancing and harbouring illegal drug trafficking.\\u201d The court also rejected the prosecution\\u2019s argument that \\u201ccelebrities and role models should be treated harshly so that it sets an example for the young generation,\\u201d saying that the law of the land is the same for everyone.\", \"Mehta is saddened by the general perception of Bollywood caused by the media maelstrom.\", \"\\u201cWe are still providing livelihoods through this tough time,\\u201d he says. \\u201cWe are providing content to the ecosystem that is still running \\u2014 the OTTs, and the audiences are getting films and shows to watch. Rather than appreciating that, there is this campaign to vilify and make us look like drug addicts.\\u201d\", \"Sign up for \", \". For the latest news, follow us on \", \", \", \", and \", \".\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://news.yahoo.com/bollywood-actress-granted-bail-judge-163624833.html\", \"source\": \"Yahoo News\", \"title\": \"Bollywood actress granted bail as judge says no evidence she supplied drugs to stars\", \"description\": \"Bollywood actress Rhea Chakraborty has been granted bail nearly a month after she was arrested for allegedly supplying drugs to her late boyfriend, the actor...\", \"date\": \"2020-10-07T16:36:24.000Z\", \"author\": \"Joe Wallen\", \"text\": [\"Bollywood actress Rhea Chakraborty has been granted bail nearly a month after she was arrested for allegedly supplying drugs to her late boyfriend, the actor Sushant Singh Rajput.\", \"On Wednesday, a court in the city of Mumbai ordered the actress to be released on bail, saying there was yet no evidence Ms Chakraborty had supplied Mr Rajput with drugs or been involved in any trade in narcotics. There was no trial date set.\\u00a0\", \"Mr Rajput committed suicide in June, after which\\u00a0after which television networks\\u00a0leaked what they claimed were WhatsApp messages from Ms Chakraborty discussing drugs.\", \"The actress was then taken into custody by India's Central Bureau of Investigation for questioning.\", \"Activists slammed Ms Chakraborty's arrest and said she was the victim of a witch-hunt in the\\u00a0patriarchal country.\\u00a0\", \"Santish Maneshinde, the lawyer representing the actress, said he was delighted the \\\"hounding\\\" of Ms Chakraborty would now end.\", \"\\u201cThe arrest and custody of Rhea was totally unwarranted and beyond the reach of law,\\u201d said Mr Maneshinde.\", \"However, the saga has now spiralled into a probe into \", \" after Ms Chakraborty was allegedly pressured into naming 25 leading industry figures involved in the sale and consumption of narcotics.\", \"The police have since brought in other superstars for questioning, including Deepika Padukone and Sara Ali Khan, although details of the probe have not been made public. They all deny the allegations.\\u00a0\", \"On Saturday, another Bollywood star, Akshay Kumar, posted a four-minute video to his Twitter account in which he admitted there was \", \" within the\\u00a0film industry.\", \"Mr Kumar said that while the issue needed to be resolved, the Indian public should understand that not all Bollywood stars are narcotics users.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://news.yahoo.com/drop-visitors-hawaii-leads-hundreds-200041078.html\", \"source\": \"Yahoo News\", \"title\": \"Drop in visitors from Hawaii leads to hundreds of layoffs at two Las Vegas hotels\", \"description\": \"The cuts come at a time when Nevada recorded a 13.2%\\u00a0unemployment rate\\u00a0\\u2013 the highest in the nation \\u2013\\u00a0in the month of August.\", \"date\": \"2020-10-07T20:00:41.000Z\", \"author\": \"Ed Komenda, Reno Gazette Journal\", \"text\": [\"LAS VEGAS\\u00a0\\u2013 A decline in travel between\\u00a0Hawaii and Southern Nevada has led\\u00a0U.S. casino company\\u00a0Boyd Gaming to\\u00a0cut\\u00a0almost 300\\u00a0workers at two\\u00a0downtown hotels.\", \"In letters to Nevada unemployment officials, Boyd revealed 284 employees at the California Hotel and Casino\\u00a0and Main Street Station will lose their jobs on Nov. 13.\", \"\\\"As we are all aware, the pandemic continues with no predictable date for its end,\\\" a\\u00a0\", \".\\u00a0\\u201cThe economy continues to struggle and extended travel-related restrictions are preventing many customers from visiting our properties.\\u201d\", \"The layoffs \\u2013 116 at Main Street and 168\\u00a0at California \\u2013\\u00a0impact every manner of casino worker, including bartenders, chefs, cocktail servers and card dealers.\", \"\\\"The reductions are the direct result of continued declines in tourism to Las Vegas, particularly from the Hawaiian market,\\\" Boyd spokesman David Strow said in an email.\\u00a0\", \"Historically, Boyd's downtown properties have been dependent on tourists\\u00a0from Hawaii. \", \" have led to a\\u00a0steep drop\\u00a0in visitors to\\u00a0destinations like Las Vegas.\", \" by \", \" on Scribd\", \"The cuts come at a time when Nevada \", \"\\u00a0\\u2013 the highest in the nation \\u2013\\u00a0in the month of August, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. In Las Vegas, the jobless rate \", \".\\u00a0\", \"In July, Boyd Gaming\\u00a0\", \"\\u00a0in 10 states as visitation levels remained\\u00a0far below pre-pandemic levels. The layoffs impacted at least 25% of Boyd's\\u00a024,300 employees \\u2013 a total of\\u00a06,075.\\u00a0\", \"Boyd is best known for the Fremont Hotel, California Hotel and Casino,\\u00a0Gold Coast, Sam\\u2019s Town, Suncoast and The Orleans resorts in Las Vegas.\\u00a0\", \"The publicly traded Las Vegas company had about 10,000 employees in Southern Nevada and another 14,300 nationally, according to its last annual report.\", \"It has properties in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, Ohio and Pennsylvania. All company casinos have reopened, except three in Las Vegas.\", \"The Nevada closures in mid-March followed an order by Gov. Steve Sisolak aimed at reducing the spread of COVID-19.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://news.yahoo.com/bollywood-actress-center-media-frenzy-142258391.html\", \"source\": \"Yahoo News\", \"title\": \"Bollywood actress at the center of media frenzy granted bail\", \"description\": \"A Bollywood actress who was arrested by India&#39;s narcotics agency, setting off a media frenzy that has gripped the nation, walked out of jail on Wednesday...\", \"date\": \"2020-10-07T14:22:58.000Z\", \"author\": \"SHEIKH SAALIQ\", \"text\": [\"NEW DELHI (AP) \\u2014 A Bollywood actress who was arrested by India's narcotics agency, setting off a media frenzy that has gripped the nation, walked out of jail on Wednesday after being granted bail.\", \"Rhea Chakraborty was released from Bycula District Prison in Mumbai a month after being arrested for allegedly buying drugs for her boyfriend, popular movie actor Sushant Singh Rajput, who was found dead in a suspected suicide in June.\", \"India\\u2019s freewheeling TV news channels speculated that Chakraborty drove him to take his life and was part of a drug-dealing mafia in Bollywood, India's Mumbai-based film industry.\", \"The court in Mumbai on Wednesday said the actress was not part of any drug syndicate and had no criminal record. It said Chakraborty could not have financed or supported illegal drug trafficking as alleged by the narcotics agency.\", \"The 28-year-old actress' lawyer, Satish Maneshinde, said her arrest was \\u201ctotally unwarranted and beyond the reach of law.\\u201d\", \"Chakraborty\\u2019s brother, who was arrested in the same case and has also denied the charges, however, remains in custody.\", \"Rajput\\u2019s suspected suicide in June initially triggered a debate over mental health. But his family disputed Indian media reports that he suffered from mental illness and lodged a police complaint accusing Chakraborty of abetment of suicide. She has denied the allegation.\", \"Many Indian television news channels then declared Chakraborty guilty of Rajput\\u2019s death and claimed she had overdosed him on drugs. The TV channels have since spent months obsessing over the case, at the expense of other issues such as India\\u2019s stalling economy, the government\\u2019s virus response and growing hostilities with China over a border dispute.\", \"Earlier this week, a panel of doctors examining Rajput\\u2019s autopsy reports at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, a leading public hospital in New Delhi, submitted a report to the Central Bureau of Investigation that ruled out murder as a cause of the actor's death.\", \"Rajput, 34, was found dead in his Mumbai apartment on June 14. Police listed the cause of death as asphyxia by hanging and said he appeared to have taken his own life. The case is still being investigated.\", \"Rajput, an engineering student who grew up in Bihar, India\\u2019s poorest state, was the quintessential outsider who managed to open the doors of Bollywood and craft a brief but successful acting career.\", \"After Chakraborty\\u2019s arrest in September, the federal narcotics agency also questioned other actresses in a parallel investigation into claims of widespread drug use and trafficking in Bollywood.\", \"No date has been set for Chakraborty's trial.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://news.yahoo.com/trump-authorizes-declassification-documents-related-093730369.html\", \"source\": \"Yahoo News\", \"title\": \"Trump authorizes declassification of documents related to Russia probe\", \"description\": \"Declassified documents reveal former CIA Director John Brennan briefed Obama on Hillary Clinton&#39;s plan to tie Trump to Russia; reaction from former...\", \"date\": \"2020-10-07T09:37:30.000Z\", \"author\": \"FOX News Videos\", \"text\": [\"Declassified documents reveal former CIA Director John Brennan briefed Obama on Hillary Clinton's plan to tie Trump to Russia; reaction from former California GOP party chair Tom Del Beccaro.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://news.yahoo.com/hurricane-delta-grew-tropical-storm-231700211.html\", \"source\": \"Yahoo News\", \"title\": \"Hurricane Delta grew from a tropical storm to a Category 4 hurricane in 1 day. Here's how cyclones are now intensifying so quickly.\", \"description\": \"Hurricane Delta has whipped winds faster and faster in a process of rapid intensification. As oceans warm, experts expect more powerful cyclones.\", \"date\": \"2020-10-06T23:17:00.000Z\", \"author\": \"Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Aylin Woodward\", \"text\": [\"In the span of a single day, \", \" swelled from a tropical storm to a major hurricane. It's churning toward Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, where it's expected to make landfall late Tuesday or early Wednesday. Then forecasts suggest it could move back over water and make a second landfall in Louisiana later this week.\", \"By Tuesday morning, Delta had whipped itself into a 130-mph frenzy, making it an \\\"extremely dangerous\\\" Category 4 hurricane, according to the National Hurricane Center. But 24 hours prior, its winds were just 45 mph.\", \"That swift change is called \", \" \\u2014 the term refers to a process in which a tropical cyclone's maximum sustained winds increase by 35 mph in just 24 hours. Hurricane \", \" did the same thing in August, when it jumped from a Category 1 to a Category 4 in one day.\", \"Delta has not stopped intensifying since it emerged. As of Tuesday evening, the storm's winds were wailing at 145 mph.\", \"\\\"No other Atlantic hurricane has ever strengthened this much this quickly immediately after it formed,\\\" meteorologist Eric Holthaus \", \" on Twitter. \\\"We are in a climate emergency.\\\"\", \"Climate change makes hurricanes more frequent and devastating, on average, than they would otherwise be.\", \"That's because storms feed on warm water, and higher water temperatures lead to sea-level rise, which in turn increases the risk of flooding during high tides and storm surges. Warmer air also holds more atmospheric water vapor, which enables tropical storms to strengthen and unleash more precipitation.\", \"\\\"Our confidence continues to grow that storms have become stronger, and it is linked to climate change, and they will continue to get stronger as the world continues to warm,\\\" James Kossin, an atmospheric scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, told the \", \" in August.\", \" are vast, low-pressure tropical cyclones with wind speeds over 74 mph. They form over warm water near the equator, when sea surface temperature is at least 80 degrees, according to \", \".\", \"That's because when warm moisture rises from the ocean, it releases energy and forms thunderstorms. As more thunderstorms appear, the winds spiral upward and outward, creating a vortex. Clouds then form in the upper atmosphere as the warm air condenses, and an area of low pressure forms over the ocean's surface. Then hurricanes just need low wind shear \\u2014 a lack of prevailing wind \\u2014 to form their cyclonic shape.\", \"Cyclones start out as tropical depressions, with sustained wind speeds below 39 mph. Once winds pass that threshold, the cyclone becomes a tropical storm. Then above 74 mph, the storm is considered a Category 1 hurricane on the \", \"\\u00a0scale.\\u00a0\", \"The Atlantic\\u00a0\", \" generally runs from June through November, with storm activity peaking around September 10. On average, the Atlantic sees six hurricanes during a season, with three of them developing into major hurricanes (Category 3 or above).\", \"So far, 2020 has seen nine Atlantic hurricanes, three that became major.\", \"In total, the Atlantic Ocean has produced 25 named storms in just six months. That's just three fewer than in 2005, which had the greatest number of named storms in history. But 2020 is ahead of the 2005 season by more than a month, so is likely to break the record.\", \"As ocean temperatures increase, we're seeing\\u00a0\", \" because water temperatures influence the wind speed of storms above. A 1-degree-Fahrenheit rise in ocean temperature can increase a storm's wind speed by 15 to 20 miles per hour, \", \".\", \"That also enables storms to intensify and\\u00a0\", \"\\u00a0in less time.\", \"\\\"Rapid intensification events are more likely because of climate change,\\\" Kossin told the Post.\", \"In a recent\\u00a0\", \", Kossin's team found that each new decade over the last 40 years has brought an 8% increase in the chance that a storm turns into a major hurricane.\", \"\\\"Almost all of the damage and mortality caused by hurricanes is done by major hurricanes,\\\" Kossin told\\u00a0\", \". \\\"Increasing the likelihood of having a major hurricane will certainly increase this risk.\\\"\", \"Generally, a strong storm also brings a storm surge: an abnormal rise of water above the predicted tide level. If a storm's winds are blowing toward the shore and the tide is high, storm surges can cause water levels to rise as rapidly as\\u00a0\", \" along a coast. Higher sea levels lead to more destructive storm surges.\", \"Even if we were to cut emissions dramatically starting today, some sea-level rise is already inevitable, since the planet's oceans absorb 93% of the extra heat that greenhouse gases trap, and water (like most things) expands when heated.\", \"Over the past 70 years or so, the speed at which hurricanes and tropical storms travel has dropped about 10%, \", \". Over land in the North Atlantic and Western North Pacific specifically, storms are\\u00a0\", \".\", \"That gives a storm more time to pummel an area with powerful winds and rain.\", \"To make matters worse,\\u00a0\", \", so a 10% slowdown in a storm's pace could double the amount of rainfall and flooding that an area experiences. The peak\\u00a0\", \" over the past 60 years.\", \"Hurricane Harvey in 2017 was a prime example of this: After it made landfall, Harvey weakened to a tropical storm,\\u00a0 then stalled for days over Houston, \", \". The storm flooded much of the city, killed more than 100 people, and caused $125 billion in damages.\", \"Climate scientist Michael Mann\\u00a0\", \" that Hurricane Harvey \\\"was almost certainly more intense than it would have been in the absence of human-caused warming.\\\"\", \"Hurricane Dorian did something similar last year when it hung over the Bahamas, \", \" with 185-mph winds and up to 30 inches of rain. Although the country's government only counted 74 dead, a NOAA \", \" estimated that more than 200 people died in the storm.\", \"Read the original article on \"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://news.yahoo.com/republicans-ditch-trump-save-senate-083753026.html\", \"source\": \"Yahoo News\", \"title\": \"Republicans: Ditch Trump, Save the Senate\", \"description\": \"Increasingly convinced that President Donald Trump\\u2019s election chances are grim, top Republican donors, lobbyists, and operatives are directing their...\", \"date\": \"2020-10-07T08:37:53.000Z\", \"author\": \"Sam Stein, Lachlan Markay\", \"text\": [\"Increasingly convinced that President Donald Trump\\u2019s election chances are grim, top Republican donors, lobbyists, and operatives are directing their attention to the Senate in hopes of keeping a majority in the chamber and, with it, a check on a future President Joe Biden.\", \"Top GOP money men said that efforts to shift resources to Republicans running for the Senate have been happening for weeks, as Trump\\u2019s chances have not improved\\u2014indeed, worsened\\u2014and as the party\\u2019s candidates have been dramatically outraised.\", \"\\u201cThere is no discussion among donors about giving money to the president,\\u201d said one prominent GOP donor. \\u201cThe discussion among donors, bundlers and check writers is about the Senate seats.\\u201d\", \"But among seasoned GOP operatives, the imperative to prioritize down-ballot races has only increased in recent days amid Trump\\u2019s shaky debate performance and his infection with COVID-19. The argument is one of political triage: the party must use the specter of uniform Democratic control of Washington to save more viable Republicans, not just in the Senate\\u2014where the party very well could retain control\\u2014but also the House, where continued minority status seems almost assured.\", \"Tom Davis, the former head of the National Republican Congressional Committee, said he had sent Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN), the current NRCC chair, a memo laying out the case for selling voters the benefits of a divided government, with the implication that they would support congressional Republicans if they viewed them as a bulwark against Biden.\", \"\\u201cThis is the time you have to make tough decisions,\\u201d Davis said, of the party allocating its resources. \\u201cYou have to let voters know there is a price if you sweep Democrats into office.\\u201d\", \"\\u201cThere are a lot of people who voted Republican for years till Trump,\\u201d he added. \\u201cThey haven\\u2019t changed their philosophies. So, they\\u2019re still getable. You have to make the argument that, \\u2018Look, you can displace Trump, but you still need a Republican Senate to hold Biden in check.\\u2019\\u201d\", \"Republican veterans say there is a template for trying to focus the party\\u2019s attention and resources on down-ballot races while allowing the presidential candidate to drift. The GOP was able to do so successfully in 1996, with the party holding both chambers of Congress even as Bill Clinton coasted to re-election. Should Biden win this go around, Republicans can only afford to lose three Senate seats, as they\\u2019re likely to gain one in Alabama.\", \"The circumstances are far different 24 years later for other reasons as well. All of the sources interviewed for this piece acknowledged that the strategy carried risk, mainly because it is assumed that the party\\u2019s prospects writ large are tied to Trump\\u2019s core supporters coming out in droves.\", \"And yet, signs that some in the GOP are thinking of subtle ways to cut bait are starting to appear. Several operatives pointed to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell\\u2019s increased warnings about Democrats expanding the Supreme Court, pushing for Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia to be granted statehood, and axing the legislative filibuster\\u2014all propositions whose likelihoods are predicated on Biden winning.\", \"\\u201cHe\\u2019s already moving into those talking points. And that is by design \\u201d said one top GOP operative.\", \"There are also signs that some of Trump\\u2019s biggest financial supporters of yore are now devoting more resources to holding onto the Senate than they are to re-electing the president.\", \"Steve Wynn, the disgraced casino mogul who ran fundraising for the Republican National Committee early in Trump\\u2019s tenure, took a brief hiatus from high-dollar political giving after dozens of people relayed allegations of sexual assault and misconduct against him (Wynn denies the allegations, but resigned from his eponymous company, Wynn Resorts, in early 2018). Those allegations were \", \" by the \", \" just days after Wynn cut a $500,000 check to America First Action.\", \"After his fall from grace, Wynn\\u2019s political giving mostly dropped off. But it resumed in a big way this year. In 2020 alone, he\\u2019s given $4 million to the Senate Leadership Fund and $1.5 million to American Crossroads, making him the latter\\u2019s single largest donor as it tries to beat back a challenge to Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC). Wynn has also donated to McConnell\\u2019s campaign and PAC this year, and made six figure contributions to the National Republican Senatorial Committee and one of its joint fundraising accounts.\", \"He has also contributed to the Trump campaign this year, but the sums are significantly smaller\\u2014under half a million dollars to Trump Victory, a joint fundraising committee benefitting the RNC and the Trump campaign, and under $400,000 to the RNC. He\\u2019s given nothing to pro-Trump super PACs since that donation in early 2018.\", \"Among the GOP\\u2019s donor base in business and finance, the incentive structure is increasingly geared towards hanging onto levers of power that could check a Democratic administration\\u2014even if it means cutting bait when it comes to the White House. One top Republican lobbyist, for instance, said that corporate clients have become increasingly invested in trying to retain GOP control of the Senate for fear of the tax legislation that could originate from a Nancy Pelosi-run House and find its way to Biden\\u2019s desk.\", \"\\u201cDivided government is good for most donors and most of corporate America,\\u201d the lobbyist stressed.\", \"And a major GOP donor based in the Midwest said that donors were increasingly focused on the Senate contests\\u2014at the expense of the presidential\\u2014because they have come to view Trump\\u2019s campaign as an irrational entity in which to invest. Mere minutes after that donor talked up the virtues of propping up Senate institutionalists, Trump tweeted that he was unilaterally ending negotiations over a COVID-related stimulus deal. The donor promptly called back.\", \"\\u201cWhat\\u2019s happening in the stock market proves my point,\\u201d he said, a sense of exasperation evident in his voice. \\u201cEverything was up and now it\\u2019s down 300 points cuz a guy sent a tweet. I don\\u2019t care if it\\u2019s the head of Goldman Sachs or a food bank. They\\u2019re gonna say, this is crazy.\\u201d\", \"The Trump campaign did not respond to a request for comment. But the president has been in this predicament before. Following the release of the \", \" tapes at this very same juncture during the 2016 presidential campaign, there was a growing chorus of Republicans calling for the party to consolidate ranks around congressional candidates for the inevitability of a Hillary Clinton presidency. Trump went on to win.\", \"This time around, Trump\\u2019s base of financial support is arguably more considerable. Putting aside the more than $400 million raised by his re-election campaign through August, he also now enjoys the backing of two high-dollar super PACs, America First Action and Preserve America PAC.\", \"But the president also trailed Biden by nearly $60 million in cash on hand at the end of August, the most recent reporting period. His campaign has taken down ads in various states as an effort to consolidate and prioritize resources. And there is scant desire among the formal GOP party operatives to come to the aid of a candidate who has spent his time in the political spotlight mocking, degrading, and attacking them.\", \"\\u201cWhy should the party put more effort into winning the race than the president himself?\\u201d asked Rory Cooper, a longtime Republican operative and unapologetic Never Trumper. \\u201cPresident Trump is by all evidence doing more harm than good to his re-election chances. Three out of four voters don't approve of his response to COVID, meaning this includes his own supporters, and yet he triples down on what they don't like. He hasn't led a credible poll since February. Republicans need to work to hold the Senate and sell a check on a Biden agenda.\\u201d\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://news.yahoo.com/long-lines-reported-gas-stations-172341914.html\", \"source\": \"Yahoo News\", \"title\": \"Long Lines Reported at Gas Stations in Mexico Ahead of Hurricane Delta Landfall\", \"description\": \"Mexico braced for the impact of Hurricane Delta on October 6, right on the heels of Tropical Storm Gamma, which left at least six people dead amid heavy rain...\", \"date\": \"2020-10-06T17:23:41.000Z\", \"author\": \"Storyful\", \"text\": [\"Mexico braced for the impact of Hurricane Delta on October 6, right on the heels of Tropical Storm Gamma, which left at least \", \" amid heavy rain over the weekend.\", \"Delta was approaching the Yucat\\u00e1n Peninsula as a Category 4 storm, the National Hurricane Center (\", \") said.\", \"The \", \" expected an \\u201cextremely dangerous\\u201d storm surge starting on the evening of October 6. The storm \", \" over the course of 24 hours and was forecast to hit southeastern Mexico later in the week with \\u201cdirect aim\\u201d at Canc\\u00fan.\", \"This footage shared from Cozumel shows long lines at gas stations in anticipation of a shortage after the storm hits. Storefronts in the area were \", \" and tourists reported having to \", \"Similar scenes were reported in \", \".\", \"A hurricane warning was issued for Cozumel and Tulum. Credit: Israel Herrera via Storyful\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://news.yahoo.com/proposed-sri-lankan-charter-change-052242103.html\", \"source\": \"Yahoo News\", \"title\": \"Proposed Sri Lankan charter change raises rights concerns\", \"description\": \"A proposed amendment to Sri Lanka\\u2019s Constitution that would consolidate power in the president\\u2019s hands has raised concerns about the independence of the...\", \"date\": \"2020-10-07T05:22:42.000Z\", \"author\": \"KRISHAN FRANCIS\", \"text\": [\"COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) \\u2014 A proposed amendment to Sri Lanka\\u2019s Constitution that would consolidate power in the president\\u2019s hands has raised concerns about the independence of the country\\u2019s institutions and the impact on ethnic minorities who fear their rights could be undermined by a nationalistic Sinhala Buddhist parliamentary majority.\", \"If passed, the amendment will bring Parliament under the control of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who will have the power to dissolve the legislature, appoint top judges, have full immunity against any prosecution and make decisions critical for minorities, without checks.\", \"The constitution now allows presidential decisions to be questioned in court, gives the prime minister the power to appoint Cabinet ministers, grants independent commissions power to appoint officials to key institutions and bars dual citizens from holding political office.\", \"Rajapaksa renounced his dual U.S citizenship when he ran for president last year. The proposal allowing dual citizens to hold political office would further strengthen the Rajapaksa family's grip on political power by enabling another sibling who is a dual U.S. citizen to be appointed to Parliament.\", \"Rajapaksa\\u2019s older brother, former President Mahinda Rajapaksa, is now prime minister. Another older brother and three nephews are also lawmakers \\u2014 three of them ministers.\", \"Rajapaksa was elected last November promising to be the guardian of the majority Buddhist-Sinhalese. His mandate was endorsed in August elections in which his party gained control of nearly two-thirds of the country\\u2019s 225-member Parliament.\", \"His government is most likely to obtain the needed two-thirds support to pass the proposed amendment. However, several petitions have been filed in the Supreme Court seeking an order that the amendment also be subject to a public referendum.\", \"The constitution says certain provisions must be approved by a referendum.\", \"\\u201cThe government is heading toward dictatorial governance by weakening checks and balances in the system,\\u201d said lawyer and independent political columnist Subramanium Jothilingam.\", \"The amendment would allow Rajapaksa to head any number of ministries, appoint and fire ministers and select the police chief and members of the elections, public service, bribery and human rights commissions at his discretion.\", \"Jehan Perera from the independent National Peace Council think tank said public institutions may become politicized and serve the interests of the majority Buddhist-Sinhalese community if they come under the authority of one person.\", \"Rajapaksa\\u2019s election slogan of \\u201cone country, one law\\u201d is widely seen as a policy of centralized governance that rejects power sharing with the provinces, a long-standing demand of minority Tamils. Rajapaksa has rejected a Tamil demand for autonomy.\", \"Sri Lanka\\u2019s Tamil community, concentrated mostly in the north and east, consider themselves a distinct nation, entitled to rule a traditional homeland. Tamil rebels fought a nearly three-decade separatist war accusing Sinhalese-controlled governments of systemic marginalization.\", \"Government forces crushed the rebels in 2009, ending a war that claimed at least 100,000 lives.\", \"Earlier this year, Rajapaksa withdrew Sri Lanka from a U.N. Human Rights Council resolution in which it had agreed to investigate allegations of wartime abuses by both government forces and Tamil rebels.\", \"M.A. Sumanthiran, an ethnic Tamil lawmaker, said the weakening of Parliament would result in minority communities losing their voices.\", \"\\u201cThere will be power changing hands from the legislature to the executive. In the legislature all sections of the polity have a say, however small they may be,\\u201d he said. \\u201cEven if presidents win election with votes from minority groups, past experience has shown that they will only look after the interests of the majority community, from whom they received most of their votes.\\u201d\", \"Many minority Tamils and Muslims say they are worried about the government\\u2019s proposed actions.\", \"On Sept. 29, the government announced it will ban cattle slaughter, a decision analysts say was politically motivated to please the majority Sinhala Buddhist constituency. Buddhists as well as minority Hindus avoid beef for religious and cultural reasons.\", \"Many believe the decision was a direct affront to the Muslim community, which owns most of the slaughterhouses and beef stalls.\", \"Fazal Samsudeen, an Islamic preacher, said he fears government interference in religious laws, such as Islamic courts and banking, in the name of establishing a unified national law.\", \"Many majority Sinhalese find minority religious laws disconcerting because they help preserve the groups' separate identities, and support their incorporation into a common national law, Perera said.\", \"Jothilingam warned that a rise in nationalism could lead to conflicts with other countries, such as the United States and India, which have long called for power sharing with Tamil-majority provinces.\", \"\\u201cThe government is becoming a prisoner of ultra-nationalists. When you try to satisfy them, they will keeping increasing their demands and someday the government won\\u2019t be able to fulfill them without making enemies of powerful countries,\\u201d he said.\", \"\\u201cA small country can\\u2019t survive if it is isolated by the world community.\\u201d\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://news.yahoo.com/delta-went-tropical-storm-cat-205357955.html\", \"source\": \"Yahoo News\", \"title\": \"Delta went from tropical storm to Cat 4 hurricane in 24 hours. How did that happen?\", \"description\": \"Meteorologists are comparing it to Wilma, the most intense Atlantic hurricane on record. Here\\u2019s what you need to know.\", \"date\": \"2020-10-06T20:53:57.000Z\", \"author\": \"Mary Perez\", \"text\": [\"Hurricane Delta strengthened from a tropical storm to a Category 4 hurricane with 140 mph in 30 hours, making it the \", \" tropical storm in Atlantic basin history since Hurricane Wilma.\", \"The process is called rapid intensification, and Delta could get stronger yet.\", \"NOAA defines rapid intensification as an increase in the maximum sustained winds of a tropical cyclone by at least 34.5 mph in a 24-hour period. Hurricane Delta increased by 63 mph in 24 hours, according to the National Hurricane Center, going from a Category 1 on Monday to a Category 3 on Tuesday morning, with wind speeds of 115 mph. By 4 p.m. Tuesday, the wind speed was 145 mph.\", \"\\u201cOnce Hurricane Delta moves into the Gulf of Mexico, we will see rapid intensification. A brief period of Category 5 may not be out of the question,\\u201d said longtime Gulf Coast meteorologist Rocco Calaci said in his\", \".\", \"The Weather Channel\\u2019s Jim Cantore and others \", \" in 2005. He tweeted Tuesday, \\u201cThis is Wilma type rapid intensification!!\\u201d\", \"In one day, Oct. 19, 2005, \", \" strengthened from a Category 2 to the most intense Category 5 hurricane on record, according to the NHC.\", \"Cantore also said Monday that Gulfport has been in the cone of probability for hurricanes six times this year.\", \"\\u201cYesterday, the models expected Delta to become a hurricane by Wednesday and only reach Category 2 status,\\u201d said Calaci. \\u201cWell, that was definitely wrong! Delta became a hurricane last night and is already a strong Category 2 hurricane and will definitely hit category 4 by tomorrow afternoon.\\u201d\", \"On Tuesday, he said anxiety is building along the Gulf Coast as Hurricane Delta moves into the Gulf of Mexico \\u2014 \\u201cand it\\u2019s going to be a monster.\\u201d\", \"Powerful thunderstorms \", \" of the hurricane and southern quadrant as it moved through the Caribbean Sea on Tuesday.\", \"Environmental conditions are prime for intensification, with low vertical wind shear, deep warm waters and sufficient mid-level moisture that are expected to support additional rapid intensification through today, the NHC report said.\", \"It\\u2019s the earliest landing for a 25th named storm of the season and the first landfall of a storm named from the Greek alphabet.\", \"Oct 4 \\u2014 The cyclone formed over the Central Caribbean at 3 p.m. Sunday. Six hours later it was classified as Tropical Depression #26.\", \"Oct. 5 \\u2014 By 7 a.m. the depression strengthened into Tropical Storm Delta. It becomes a hurricane Monday night.\", \"Oct. 6 \\u2014 Delta had wind speeds of 63 mph at 5 a.m. that increased to 115 mph by the 10 a.m. report from the National Hurricane Center. Delta became a Category 4 storm, according to a 10:20 a.m. update from the National Weather service in New Orleans, with wind speeds of 130 mph. The speed had intensified to 140 mph by the 2 p.m. report.\", \"Forecast \\u2014 It\\u2019s first target is forecast to be the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico.\", \"\\u201cSome reduction in intensity is likely when Delta moves over land, but the environmental conditions over the southern Gulf of Mexico are expected to support re-strengthening, and the NHC intensity forecast shows a second peak in 48-72 hours,\\u201d the report said.\", \"Delta is forecast to make a second landfall Friday or Saturday along the northern Gulf Coast. Wind speeds are expected to weaken when Delta meets increasing southwesterly shear and cooler shelf waters near the coastline, but it is still expected to be a dangerous hurricane when it makes landfall.\", \"Accoridng to the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale:\", \"South Mississippi Coast saw Hurricane Laura go to the west into Louisiana, and Hurricane Sally last month make landfall near the Alabama-Florida border.\", \"Hurricane Laura made landfall in Louisiana on Aug. 29 \\u2014 15 years to the day after Hurricane Katrina \\u2014 and was the last storm to see rapid intensification.\", \"Laura went from a Category 1 with winds of 75 mph to a category 4 with winds of 140 mph \", \".\", \"In 2018 Hurricane Michael jumped from Category 2 to Category 5 in one day before hitting the Florida Panhandle.\", \"The major difference between Hurricane Delta and Hurricane Sally that dumped more than two feet of rain on parts of Florida is Delta is speed. Delta is moving much faster, with the latest report showing Delta has increased forward speed to 16 mph, while Sally was barely moving at 2 mph before it made landfall.\", \"Forecasters say a faster moving storm will bring less rain and less damage when it makes landfall compared to Sally.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://news.yahoo.com/russian-goes-trial-charges-carrying-141339719.html\", \"source\": \"Yahoo News\", \"title\": \"Russian goes on trial on charges of carrying out Kremlin-ordered killing in Berlin\", \"description\": \"The trial of a Russian man accused of carrying out a Kremlin-ordered assassination on German soil opened in Berlin on Wednesday. The case is expected to...\", \"date\": \"2020-10-07T14:13:39.000Z\", \"author\": \"Justin Huggler\", \"text\": [\"The trial of a Russian man accused of carrying out a Kremlin-ordered assassination on German soil opened in Berlin on Wednesday.\", \"The case is expected to further damage relations between Germany and Russia, which are already strained by the attempted poisoning of opposition leader Alexei Navalny.\", \"The defendant, a 55-year-old Russian, is accused of \", \" on orders from Moscow last year.\", \"Khangoshvili, a 40-year-old ethnic Chechen from Georgia, fought against Russia\\u00a0in the Chechnya war and had links to Georgian intelligence.\\u00a0\", \"The accused\\u2019s true identity is disputed and the judge said he would address him as \\u201cHerr Defendant\\u201d throughout the trial.\", \"According to the indictment read out in court, he was given orders \\u201cto liquidate the victim\\u201d by \\u201cRussian state agencies\\u201d.\\u00a0\", \"He entered Germany on a false passport in the name of Vadim Sokolov but prosecutors allege he is really Vadim Krasikov, a Russian hitman previously wanted for the murder of a businessman in Moscow.\", \"He is accused of approaching the unsuspecting Khangoshvili from behind on a bicycle in Berlin\\u2019s Kleiner Tiergarten park.\", \"Prosecutors allege he shot Khangoshvili in the upper body with a Glock handgun fitted with a silencer, then shot him twice in the head after he fell to the ground. He escaped on the bicycle but was later captured.\", \"No pleas are entered in the German legal system and the defendant did not make any statement.\", \"The case is being held under intense security in a secure courtroom, and the defendant is being held in a secret location over concerns about possible interference.\", \"The killing was already being spoken of as \\u201c\", \"\\u201d in Germany before the poisoning of Mr Navalny with Novichok, the same nerve agent used in the failed assassination attempt against Sergei Skripal in Salisbury.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://news.yahoo.com/celebs-respond-trump-telling-people-123117363.html\", \"source\": \"Yahoo News\", \"title\": \"Celebs respond to Trump telling people 'Don't be afraid of Covid': 'This is reckless to a shocking degree, even for you'\", \"description\": \"President Trump created a firestorm Monday when he tweeted, &quot;Don&#39;t be afraid of Covid,&quot; as he was leaving Walter Reed National Military Medical...\", \"date\": \"2020-10-06T12:31:17.000Z\", \"author\": \"Yahoo Entertainment\", \"text\": [\"President Trump created a firestorm Monday when he tweeted, \\\"Don't be afraid of Covid,\\\" as he was leaving Walter Reed National Military Medical Center to return to the White House.\", \"[MUSIC PLAYING]\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://news.yahoo.com/high-stakes-russian-hitman-trial-013259825.html\", \"source\": \"Yahoo News\", \"title\": \"High-stakes 'Russian hitman' trial opens in Berlin\", \"description\": \"A German court on Wednesday put a Russian man on trial over the assassination of a former Chechen commander in a Berlin park, allegedly on Moscow&#39;s...\", \"date\": \"2020-10-07T13:07:19.000Z\", \"author\": \"Isabelle LE PAGE\", \"text\": [\"A German court on Wednesday put a Russian man on trial over the assassination of a former Chechen commander in a Berlin park, allegedly on Moscow's orders, a case that risks worsening acrimonious ties between Germany and Russia.\", \"The 55-year-old named by prosecutors as Vadim Krasikov, alias Vadim Sokolov, stands accused of gunning down 40-year-old Georgian national Tornike Kavtarashvili in the Kleiner Tiergarten park on August 23 last year.\", \"The defendant has so far stayed mum over the case, but German prosecutors have alleged that Russia ordered the killing.\", \"In court on Wednesday, he told the court through his lawyer Robert Unger that he should be identified only as Vadim Sokolov, who is \\\"Russian, single and a construction engineer\\\". He denied being known as Krasikov, saying \\\"I know of no one by this name\\\".\", \"Prosecutors said the alleged killer was carrying out a \\\"state mission, whether for pay or because he shared the motives of his clients for killing a political opponent...as retaliation for his participation\\\" in a conflict with Russia.\", \"The brazen murder in the heart of the German capital appeared to be a tipping point for Chancellor Angela Merkel, who said in May that the killing \\\"disrupts a cooperation of trust\\\" between Berlin and Moscow.\", \"The German leader has always stressed the importance of keeping dialogue open with Russian President Vladimir Putin, but she has sharpened her tone in recent months.\\u00a0\", \"The trial comes with Europe already outraged over the poisoning in August of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, who is receiving treatment in Berlin.\", \"Germany has said that tests it carried out showed the 44-year-old was poisoned with a Novichok-type deadly nerve agent -- a finding corroborated by France, Sweden and the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW).\", \"Russia denies all allegations over the Berlin murder and Navalny's poisoning.\\u00a0\", \"But Merkel's government said Wednesday sanctions from the European Union over the Novichok attack may be \\\"unavoidable\\\".\", \" - Posed as a tourist - \", \"Given the high stakes, Wednesday's trial will be closely scrutinised for details pointing to \", \"Investigative website Bellingcat, which had named the suspect as Vadim Krasikov, said he grew up in Kazakhstan when it was part of the Soviet Union before moving to the Russian region of Siberia.\", \"He received training from Russia's FSB intelligence service and was part of its elite squad, the website said.\", \"Days before the August 2019 killing, he had posed as a tourist, visiting sights in Paris including the Eiffel Tower before travelling to Warsaw, according to a report in Der Spiegel weekly.\", \"He also toured the Polish capital before vanishing on August 22, without checking out from his hotel, the report said.\", \"A day later, riding a bicycle in Berlin's Kleiner Tiergarten park, the suspect approached the victim from behind, firing a Glock 26 pistol equipped with a silencer at the side of Kavtarashvili's torso, German prosecutors said.\", \"After the victim fell to the ground, the accused fired another two shots at his head that killed the Georgian on the spot.\", \"He was seen throwing a bag into the nearby Spree river from where police divers later recovered the Glock handgun, a wig and a bicycle, according to the prosecutors.\", \"The suspect was arrested after the killing, which took place just minutes away from the chancellery and the German parliament.\", \"Investigators later found his mobile phone and a return flight ticket for Moscow on August 25 in his hotel room in Warsaw, Spiegel reported.\", \" - 'Very cruel' - \", \"Putin had described the victim as a \\\"fighter, very cruel and bloody\\\" who had joined separatists against Russian forces in the Caucasus and also been involved in bombing attacks on the Moscow metro.\", \"Moscow also said it had been seeking his extradition.\", \"Named as Zelimkhan Khangoshvili by German media, the victim had survived two assassination attempts in Georgia.\", \"Following that, he sought asylum in Germany and had spent the past years in the country.\", \"Both the killing and Navalny's poisoning have been likened to the poisoning of former Russian agent Sergei Skripal in Britain in 2018, also widely blamed on Russian intelligence.\", \"If convicted, the suspect faces life in jail.\", \"ilp-hmn/dlc/fec/jj\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://news.yahoo.com/trump-coronavirus-morning-joe-host-182614665.html\", \"source\": \"Yahoo News\", \"title\": \"Trump coronavirus: Morning Joe host says president could be guilty of \\u2018manslaughter\\u2019 if he infects Secret Service and White House staff\", \"description\": \"\\u2018At some point isn\\u2019t this manslaughter?\\u2019 Ms Brzezinski said\", \"date\": \"2020-10-06T18:26:14.000Z\", \"author\": \"Danielle Zoellner\", \"text\": [\"MSNBC\\u2019s Morning Joe host Mika Brzezinski has questioned if President Donald Trump would face \\u201cmanslaughter\\u201d charges for potentially infecting the Secret Service and members of the White House with Covid-19.\", \"The question was posed on Tuesday as Ms Brzezinksi and guests on Morning Joe discussed the president\\u2019s dramatic journey back to the White House after he was discharged from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Monday.\", \"\\u201cMaybe the president is immune from everything, because he said, \\u2018Am I immune now?'\\u201d she said. \\u201cIs he legally immune? What if the Secret Service men and women who got exposed to the deadly coronavirus, what if someone gets sick and dies? I don\\u2019t want this to happen, I wish for his health but he\\u2019s pushing all of this against the advice of the professionals in his government, against the advice of scientists.\\u201d\", \"Mr Trump, who tested positive for Covid-19 on Thursday, walked up the steps of the White House to a balcony where he then took off his mask. The president\\u2019s doctors would not reveal if he was still infected with the novel virus, making it unclear if he could still spread it to others.\", \"The Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends for people to quarantine themselves away from others for 14 days after testing positive for the virus.\", \"Following the photo-op, Mr Trump reportedly entered the White House without wearing a mask and then conferred with a group of people, heightening criticism that the president was still not taking the virus seriously.\", \"\\u201cAt some point isn\\u2019t this manslaughter?\\u201d Ms Brzezinski said. \\u201cIf you purposely put people in a position that you send a deadly virus their way, what is that?\\u201d\", \"The president has faced backlash for multiple moments where he potentially infected others with the novel virus.\", \"White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, who tested positive on Monday, reportedly got off Marine One on Thursday when the president was heading to Bedminster, New Jersey, for a fundraiser. She got off the plane because senior aide Hope Hicks tested positive for the virus, but the president, who also met with Ms Hicks, still went to the fundraiser.\", \"He tested positive on Thursday evening after the fundraiser.\\u00a0\", \"The president also took a ride around Walter Reed on Sunday while hospitalised from Covid-19 to wave at supporters outside the medical centre. He was pictured inside an enclosed vehicle with Secret Service agents. Everyone was wearing a mask.\", \"Whether others in the White House have been exposed to the coronavirus is not yet known.\", \"Thus far, First Lady Melania Trump, Trump \\u201cbody man\\u201d Nick Luna, Former senior advisor Kellyanne Conway, Trump campaign manager Bill Stepien, Kayleigh McEnany, RNC chairwoman Ronna McDaniel, Senator Mike Lee, and Senator Thom Tillis, among others, have all tested positive in the last week.\", \"Read more\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://news.yahoo.com/should-the-supreme-court-have-term-limits-133552695.html\", \"source\": \"Yahoo News\", \"title\": \"Should the Supreme Court have term limits?\", \"description\": \"Would limiting Supreme Court justices to 18 year terms help prevent the brutal political battles that arise when a seat becomes available?\", \"date\": \"2020-09-29T13:35:52.000Z\", \"author\": \"Mike Bebernes\", \"text\": [\"The death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has spurred a partisan fight over her replacement and sparked a larger discussion about the structure of the court itself and whether major changes should be made to protect the legitimacy of the judiciary branch.\", \"Some Democrats have floated the idea of \\u201cpacking the court\\u201d (adding additional seats to offset the influence of conservative judges) if they take control of the Senate in 2021. The unexpected vacancy has also brought renewed attention to a long-simmering debate over whether Supreme Court justices should have term limits rather than lifelong appointments.\", \"Progressive Democrats are reportedly planning to introduce a bill in the House of Representatives \", \"and stagger the schedule of appointments so every president would get two nominations in a four-year term. Completely eliminating lifetime appointments would likely require a Constitutional amendment. This proposal, and others like it, get around that by allowing long-serving justices to hold a \\u201csenior\\u201d status in which they officially remain on the court but have limited duties.\", \"Supporters of term limits believe it would decrease the intensity of the Supreme Court confirmation process, which has become a brutal political slugfest in recent years. In turn, justices would be less likely to allow partisanship to color their rulings once they\\u2019re on the court, they say. A more regular schedule of appointments would also prevent what some consider antidemocratic tactics, like Republicans\\u2019 refusal to consider Barack Obama\\u2019s nominee in 2016, that in some views have undermined the public\\u2019s trust in the nation\\u2019s highest court.\\u00a0\", \"The Supreme Court is far too important, some argue, for its membership to be determined by whichever party happens to hold the White House and Senate when a sitting justice dies, especially since increasing life expectancy means that will happen less often. This randomness means some presidents have disproportionate influence over the court\\u2019s makeup, which can skew the balance of power in the country long after they\\u2019ve left office. No other democracy in the world gives lifetime appointments to members of its highest court. Others fear the court is on the brink of a legitimacy crisis. If \", \"is confirmed, a majority of the Supreme Court will have been appointed by presidents who lost the popular vote.\", \"Opponents of term limits say regular vacancies would worsen, not reduce, partisan bickering about the court. A new seat coming available every two years would mean Congress would always have an upcoming confirmation battle on the horizon. The Founding Fathers intended lifetime appointments to free Supreme Court justices of the day-to-day influence of politics, and critics say term limits would spoil that.\\u00a0\\u00a0\", \"There are also practical questions about how the limits might be implemented, since any plan would have to consider what to do with current justices, who were all named to lifetime seats. Depending on the proposal, it could be decades before a plan for term limits has any real influence on the makeup of the court.\", \"The Senate Judiciary Committee is scheduled to begin hearings on Barrett\\u2019s nomination in mid-October. It\\u2019s unclear at this time whether a confirmation vote will be held before or after the presidential election on Nov. 3. In the short term, the odds of any bill imposing term limits passing would almost certainly depend on Democrats taking back the Senate next year.\", \"\\u201cImplementing term limits for the Supreme Court would be a step toward repairing and normalizing a process that raises the stakes of vacancies beyond what our politics, or the human beings who serve on the Court, can comfortably bear. It would be one important way we could deescalate the stakes of American politics, and protect the system from total breakdown.\\u201d \\u2014 Ezra Klein, \", \"\\u201cIt\\u2019s time to end the unseemly position that the anachronism of life tenure for Supreme Court justices has put the country in. It\\u2019s a good thing that modern medicine is extending the lives of everyone, including Supreme Court justices. But the time has come to remove the incentives that make justices serve until they drop dead or are gaga.\\u201d \\u2014 John Fund, \", \"\\u201cStaggered term limits would ensure that electoral winners shaped the Supreme Court, not the Grim Reaper.\\u201d \\u2014 Elie Mystal, \", \"\\u201cOver time, more justices would have impact, preventing the idiosyncratic preferences of one or two individuals from determining U.S. jurisprudence for decades. This plan would also eliminate the incentive for presidents to pick young and relatively inexperienced judges merely because they are likely to live longer.\\u201d \\u2014 Editorial, \", \"\\u201cThis approach would end what has become a poisonous process of picking a Supreme Court justice. It would depoliticize the court and judicial selection, and thus promote the rule of law.\\u201d \\u2014 Steven G. Calabresi, \", \"\\u201cMore than any other branch of government, the courts \\u2014 and the Supreme Court in particular \\u2014 gain their power from the public trust. Yet today, lifetime tenure for justices, and the strange and morbid circumstances that result, threaten to undermine that trust.\\u201d \\u2014 David Litt, \", \"\\u201cTerm limits and regularly recurring vacancies might tone down the epic Supreme Court confirmation battles that have occurred roughly twice every eight years. But they might instead make knock-down, drag-outs a recurring part of the political landscape. An election preceding the end of a swing justice\\u2019s 18-year term could thrust the court into election year battles more intense than we\\u2019ve already seen.\\u201d \\u2014 Russell Wheeler, \", \"\\u201cThere are also transition problems. Since term limits wouldn\\u2019t apply to sitting justices, for decades we would have term-limited justices serving alongside life-tenured ones. \\u2026 Fixes could be put in place to prevent all this, but at some point the complications become more trouble than they\\u2019re worth.\\u201d \\u2014 Ilya Shapiro, \", \"\\u201c[Term limits] undermine the primary function of the judiciary, especially the Supreme Court: preventing political majorities from trampling on others\\u2019 constitutional rights. \\u2026 Judges without life tenure are less likely to act independently of the political branches or of public opinion, and thus cannot serve the purpose of holding the tyranny of the majority in check.\\u201d \\u2014 Suzanna Sherry, \", \"\\u201cIf Congress can impose an 18 year term, they can also impose one that is 3 years or 6 years, and use that power to get rid of Supreme Court justices whose decisions they dislike. When the opposing party comes to power, they can make the terms still shorter, and thereby get rid of justices they dislike.\\u201d \\u2014 Ilya Somin, \", \"\\u201cWait, why is it that once the court could go 6\\u20133 in favor of strict-constructionist originalist \\u2018conservative\\u2019 judges that we see this concern over lowering the temperature over fights for the Court?... I guess the legitimacy of the court is never at risk when it\\u2019s ruling in your favor.\\u201d \\u2014 Jim Geraghty, \"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://news.yahoo.com/russian-trial-accused-state-ordered-211717454.html\", \"source\": \"Yahoo News\", \"title\": \"Russian on trial accused of state-ordered Berlin execution\", \"description\": \"A Russian accused of killing a Georgian man in broad daylight in downtown Berlin on Moscow&#39;s orders went on trial for murder Wednesday, in a case that...\", \"date\": \"2020-10-06T21:17:17.000Z\", \"author\": \"DAVID RISING\", \"text\": [\"BERLIN (AP) \\u2014 A Russian accused of killing a Georgian man in broad daylight in downtown Berlin on Moscow's orders went on trial for murder Wednesday, in a case that has contributed to growing frictions between Germany and Russia.\", \"Prosecutor Ronald Georg said the defendant Vadim Krasikov, using the alias Vadim Solokov, traveled to the German capital last August on the orders of the Russian government to kill a Georgian citizen of Chechen ethnicity who fought Russian troops in Chechnya.\", \"\\u201cState agencies of the central government of the Russian Federation gave the defendant the contract to liquidate the Georgian citizen with Chechen roots,\\u201d Georg told the court, reading the indictment.\", \"\\u201cThe defendant took the contract, either for an unknown sum of money or because he shared the motive of those who gave the contract to liquidate the (victim) as a political enemy in revenge for his role in the second Chechen war and participation in other armed conflict against the Russian Federation.\\u201d\", \"No pleas are entered in the German trial system, and the defendant made only a short statement as the trial began under tight security and coronavirus precautions, saying that he had been misidentified.\", \"\\u201cI am Vadim Adreyevich Sokolov, not Vadim Nikolayevich Krasikov,\\\" he said through his attorney Robert Unger. \\u201cSuch a person is not known to me.\\\"\", \"After the Aug. 23, 2019 killing, Germany expelled two Russian diplomats last December over the case, prompting Russia to oust two German diplomats in retaliation.\", \"If the allegations against the 55-year-old suspect are proved in court, the case has the potential to exacerbate tensions between Moscow and Berlin, which have also been fueled by allegations of Russian involvement in the 2015 hacking of the German parliament and the theft of documents from Chancellor Angela Merkel's own office, as well as the poisoning of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny.\", \"Navalny fell ill on a flight in Russia on Aug 20, landing in a Siberian hospital. Two days later, he was transferred on Merkel's personal invitation to Berlin\\u2019s Charite hospital, where doctors concluded he had been poisoned by a Soviet-era nerve agent.\", \"Moscow has dismissed accusations of involvement in the Navalny case and denied ties in the parliamentary hacking, even though Merkel herself said there was \\u201chard evidence\\u201d of the latter.\", \"Russian President Vladimir Putin\\u2019s spokesman Dmitry Peskov called the allegations of Russian involvement in the Berlin killing \\u201cabsolutely groundless.\\u201d\", \"After Merkel confronted Putin about the killing at a meeting in Paris in December, the Russian leader called the victim, Zelimkhan \\u201cTornike\\u201d Khangoshvili, a \\u201cbandit\\u201d and a \\u201cmurderer,\\\" accusing him of killing scores of people during fighting in the Caucasus.\", \"The growing acrimony between the two countries comes at a delicate time, as Germany and Russia work towards the completion of a joint pipeline project to bring Russian gas directly to Germany under the Baltic, and work to try and salvage a nuclear deal with Iran that has been unraveling since President Donald Trump pulled the United States out of it unilaterally in 2018.\", \"Khangoshvili was a Georgian citizen of Chechen ethnicity who fought Russian troops in Chechnya. He had also volunteered to fight for a Georgian unit against the Russians in South Ossetia in 2008, but peace was negotiated before he took part. He had previously survived multiple assassination attempts and continued to receive threats after fleeing in 2016 to Germany, where he had been granted asylum.\", \"Prosecutors allege the killer approached Khangoshvili from behind on a bicycle in the small Kleiner Tiergarten park, shooting him twice in the torso with a silencer-fitted handgun. After Khangoshvili fell to the ground, the suspect fired two fatal shots into his head.\", \"Witnesses saw the suspect disposing of the bike, weapon and a wig in the Spree River as he fled the scene and alerted police, who quickly identified and arrested him.\", \"In their indictment, prosecutors allege there is ample evidence indicating official Russian involvement in the crime.\", \"German investigators used facial recognition to match the suspect to a photograph Russia had sent partner agencies in 2014 as it sought help finding Vadim Krasikov in connection with a killing in Moscow. That request was canceled on July 7, 2015, and a person with the identity of Vadim Sokolov first appears on Sept. 3, 2015, with a Russian passport.\", \"On July 18, 2019, Vadim S. obtained a new passport from an official office in the Russian city of Bryansk, which he used to apply for a French visa at the general consulate in Moscow, prosecutors said.\", \"Russian authorities confirmed the suspect\\u2019s passport, found on him at the time of his arrest, was valid, prosecutors said.\", \"He was granted the visa and flew on Aug. 17, 2019, from Moscow to Paris. In his visa application, prosecutors said the suspect claimed to work for a St. Petersburg firm known as Zao Rust.\", \"Investigators found that Zao Rust had only one employee in 2018 and on April 10, 2019, was listed as being in \\u201creorganization.\\u201d The company\\u2019s fax number was one used by two firms that are operated by the Russian Defense Ministry, prosecutors said.\", \"He left Paris on Aug. 20 and flew to Warsaw where he had a hotel booked until Aug. 25. Upon arrival, he extended his room to Aug. 26, but left at 8 a.m. on Aug. 22 and never returned, prosecutors said.\", \"It is not clear, they said, what he did between his departure from the hotel and the killing in Berlin at 11:55 a.m. on Aug. 23.\", \"The trial is scheduled through Jan. 27.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://news.yahoo.com/justice-department-just-announced-significant-183052805.html\", \"source\": \"Yahoo News\", \"title\": \"The Justice Department just announced a significant policy change that would allow prosecutors to take steps that could affect the outcome of the election\", \"description\": \"The DOJ&#39;s decision could place it on a collision course with the FBI and US intelligence community ahead of the November election.\", \"date\": \"2020-10-07T18:30:52.000Z\", \"author\": \"Sonam Sheth\", \"text\": [\"The Department of Justice (DOJ) made a significant change to a longstanding policy against election interference that would allow prosecutors to take steps that may alter the outcome of the election, \", \".\", \"The non-interference policy has been in place for at least the last four decades, according to the report, and it prohibits prosecutors from taking overt steps to address election-related offenses in the run-up to an election to avoid changing the outcome of the race.\", \"But an official in the DOJ's Public Integrity Section sent an email Friday saying that if a US attorney's office suspects postal workers or military employees engaged in election fraud, federal prosecutors can publicly take steps to investigate the matter before polls close, even if they affect the outcome, according to ProPublica.\", \"The exception to the policy applies to cases where \\\"the integrity of any component of the federal government is implicated by election offenses within the scope of the policy including but not limited to misconduct by federal officials or employees administering an aspect of the voting process through the United States Postal Service, the Department of Defense or any other federal department or agency.\\\"\", \"President Donald Trump has repeatedly and falsely suggested that sending mail-in ballots through the US Postal Service will lead to widespread voter fraud and delegitimize the result of the election. His administration took steps to \", \" while Trump amplified those claims. The president has also falsely suggested that ballots cast by military servicemembers are being illegally tossed out or manipulated.\", \"Wednesday's report comes one day after ProPublica published a separate piece highlighting that the DOJ may have violated its own non-interference policy when it \", \" in September saying it was investigating \\\"potential issues with mail-in ballots\\\" in Pennsylvania's Luzerne county.\", \"Initially, the department announced a \\\"small number of military ballots were discarded\\\" and that investigators had \\\"recovered nine ballots at this time.\\\" It added that \\\"all nine ballots were cast for presidential candidate Donald Trump.\\\"\", \"A second, revised statement said that \\\"of the nine ballots that were discarded and then recovered, 7 were cast for presidential candidate Donald Trump. Two of the discarded ballots had been resealed inside their appropriate envelopes by Luzerne elections staff prior to recovery by the FBI and the contents of those 2 ballots are unknown.\\\"\", \"Attorney General William Barr \", \" told Trump about the investigation, which the president and his allies seized on as evidence that proved his allegations about election fraud. As it turned out, the county and Pennsylvania secretary of state both confirmed that the ballots were discarded by mistake by a temporary contract worker who may have mistook them for mail ballot applications.\", \"Wednesday's report could also put the DOJ on a collision course with the FBI and US intelligence community, whose leaders \", \" this week reassuring voters of the integrity of the electoral process and countering many of Trump's claims about election rigging.\", \"\\\"Next month, we will exercise one of our most cherished rights and a foundation of our democracy \\u2013 the right to vote in a free and fair election,\\\" FBI director Christopher Wray said in the video. \\\"Some Americans will go to the polls on November 3rd to cast their votes, while others will be voting by mail; in fact, some have already begun to return their ballots.\\\"\", \"Chris Krebs, the director of the Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency, added: \\\"I'm here to tell you that my confidence in the security of your vote has never been higher. That's because of an all-of-nation, unprecedented election security effort over the last several years.\\\"\", \"Read the original article on \"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://news.yahoo.com/live-vp-debate-pence-kamala-harris-fact-check-stream-200006197.html\", \"source\": \"Yahoo News\", \"title\": \"Live: Watch and fact-check the vice presidential debate\", \"description\": \"Yahoo News will provide live fact checking and analysis during Wednesday night\\u2019s vice presidential debate, highlighting false and misleading claims made by...\", \"date\": \"2020-10-07T20:00:14.000Z\", \"author\": \"Dylan Stableford\", \"text\": [\"\\u2014\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://news.yahoo.com/facebook-trump-cant-recruit-army-213045310.html\", \"source\": \"Yahoo News\", \"title\": \"Facebook: Trump can't recruit 'army' of poll watchers under new voter intimidation rules\", \"description\": \"In a blog post Wednesday, Facebook  said it will no longer allow content that encourages poll watching that uses &quot;militarized&quot; language or intends ...\", \"date\": \"2020-10-07T21:30:45.000Z\", \"author\": \"Taylor Hatmaker\", \"text\": [\"In a blog post Wednesday, \", \" said it will no longer allow content that encourages poll watching that uses \\\"militarized\\\" language or intends to \\\"intimidate, exert control, or display power over election officials or voters.\\\" Facebook credited the update to its platform rules to civil rights experts who it worked with to create the policy.\", \"Facebook Vice President of Content Policy Monika Bickert elaborated on the new rules in a call with reporters, noting that wording would prohibit posts that use words like \\\"army\\\" or \\\"battle\\\" \\u2014 a choice that appears to take direct aim at the Trump campaign's effort to \", \" to watch the polls on election day. Last month, Donald Trump Jr. called for supporters to \\\"enlist now\\\" in an \\\"army for Trump election security operation\\\" in a video that was posted on Facebook and other social platforms.\", \"\\\"Under the new policy if that video were to be posted again, we would indeed remove it,\\\" Bickert said.\", \"The company says that while posts calling for \\\"coordinated interference\\\" or showing up armed at polling places are already targeted for removal, the expanded policy will more fully address voter intimidation concerns. Facebook will apply the expanded policy going forward but it won't affect content already on the platform, including the Trump Jr. post.\", \"Poll watching to ensure fair elections is a regular part of the process, but weaponizing those observers to seek evidence for unfounded claims about \\\"fraudulent ballots\\\" and a \\\"rigged\\\" election is something new \\u2014 and something \", \". Poll watching laws \", \" and some states limit how many poll watchers can be present and how they must identify themselves.\", \"Trump has repeatedly failed to commit to accepting the results of the election in the event that he loses, an unprecedented threat to the peaceful transfer of power in the U.S. and one social media companies are \", \".\", \"Facebook is also making some changes to its rules around political advertising. The company will no longer allow political ads immediately following the election in an effort to avoid chaos and false claims.\", \"\\\"... While ads are an important way to express voice, we plan to temporarily stop running all social issue, electoral, or political ads in the U.S. after the polls close on November 3, to reduce opportunities for confusion or abuse,\\\" Facebook Vice President of Integrity Guy Rosen wrote in a blog post. Rosen added that Facebook will let advertisers know when those ads are allowed again.\", \"Facebook also provided a glimpse of what its apps will look like on what might shape up to be an unusual election night. The company will place a notification at the top of the Instagram and Facebook apps with the status of the election in an effort to broadly fact-check false claims.\", \"Images via Facebook\", \"Those messages will remind users that \\\"Votes are still being counted\\\" before switching over to a message that \\\"A winner has been projected\\\" after a reliable consensus emerges about the race. Because the results of the election may not be apparent on election night this year, it's possible that users will see these messages beyond November 3. If a candidate declares a premature victory, Facebook will add one of these labels to that content.\", \"Facebook also noted that is is now using a viral content review system, a measure designed to prevent the many instances in which misinformation or otherwise harmful content racks up thousands of views before eventually being removed. Facebook says the tool, which it says it has relied on \\\"throughout election season,\\\" provides a safety net that helps the company detect content that breaks its rules so it can take action to limit its spread.\", \"In the final month before the election, Facebook is notably showing less hesitation toward policing misinformation and other harmful political content on its platform. The company \", \" that it would no longer allow the pro-Trump conspiracy theory known as QAnon to flourish there, as it has over the last four years. Facebook also \", \" in which President Trump, fresh out of a multi-day hospital stay, claimed that COVID-19 is \\\"far less lethal\\\" than the flu.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://news.yahoo.com/facebook-remove-posts-militarized-calls-214130712.html\", \"source\": \"Yahoo News\", \"title\": \"Facebook will remove posts with 'militarized' calls for poll watchers\", \"description\": \"Facebook also said in a blog post that it would respond to candidates or parties making premature claims of victory, before races were called by major media ...\", \"date\": \"2020-10-07T21:41:30.000Z\", \"author\": \"Reuters\", \"text\": [\"(Reuters) - Facebook Inc said on Wednesday it would remove calls for people to engage in poll watching that use \\u201cmilitarized language\\u201d or suggest the goal is to intimidate voters or election officials, as part of the social media company\\u2019s latest restrictions around the U.S. election.\", \"Facebook also said in a blog post that it would respond to candidates or parties making premature claims of victory, before races were called by major media outlets, by adding labels and notifications about the state of the race.\", \"It also said it would temporarily stop running political ads in the United States after polls close on Nov. 3.\", \"(Reporting by Katie Paul, writing by Greg Mitchell, editing by Peter Henderson)\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://news.yahoo.com/world-fell-madly-love-dilwale-100000518.html\", \"source\": \"Yahoo News\", \"title\": \"How the World Fell Madly in Love With \\u2018Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge\\u2019\", \"description\": \"An oral history of the film that rewrote the modern Hindi rom-com.\", \"date\": \"2020-10-07T10:00:00.000Z\", \"author\": \"Neha Prakash\", \"text\": [\"It\\u2019s a tale as old as, well, \", \" On October 20, 1995, \", \" premiered in theaters and...never left. Directed and written by then-24-year-old first-time filmmaker Aditya Chopra\\u2014under his father Yash Chopra\\u2019s mega-successful production banner Yash Raj Films\\u2014the Bollywood rom-com went on to become the longest-running Hindi film of all time. (In the midst of an historic 1,274-week run at Mumbai\\u2019s Maratha Mandir theater, it was forced to temporarily close in March due to COVID-19.)\", \"The flick, about \", \" (NRIs) Raj and Simran and their star-crossed love that began and ended on a train, captured lightning in a bottle: It catapulted stars Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol to meteoric levels of fame, cemented the careers of music composers Jatin-Lalit and designer Manish Malhotra, and became a launching pad for future Bollywood mainstays like Karan Johar, who cut his teeth on \", \" as one of the film\\u2019s assistant directors and supporting cast members. What started as a passion project for Chopra and a group of up-and-comers with a fresh perspective on what it meant to fall in love, went on to become a revered classic, a box-office heavyweight, the winner of a record-breaking (at the time) 10 Filmfare Awards\\u2014India\\u2019s Academy Award equivalent\\u2014and the film that changed the face of an industry.\", \"And it all started when a boy met a girl.\\u2026\", \"(lead actress, Simran Singh): We saw the whole film, together, at the premiere. We all dressed up in our Bombay finery, and it was fabulous. It was an amazing feeling to know you made this. And all of us loved the film universally. That is something that\\u2019s quite rare, actually.\", \"(film critic and author of the 2002 book \", \"): It was a blockbuster out of the gate. This was not about word of mouth. I remember so clearly at the premiere at New Excelsior [in Mumbai]\\u2014it\\u2019s a 1,000-seat hall. And it was just euphoric. And the critical reception was exactly the same. It was just one of those movies that sweep you away.\", \"(art director): This wasn\\u2019t any part of our Indian genre, in terms of visuals. It was one of the earliest road [trip] films.\", \"(costume designer): There was a lot of glamour. That\\u2019s a tough one to \", \" because you are [also] trying to make the characters a bit real, which was a new thing, which Aditya Chopra started.\", \"Traditionally, the West had been portrayed as a sort of decadent hotbed of sin in Hindi movies. In films like \", \" or \", \" it was the person from India who showed the Indian in the West what Indian values were. And here was this film that completely turned this on its head, because here\\u2019s a guy [Raj] who is buying beer in the first few minutes of the film. Here\\u2019s a guy who\\u2019s obviously flirtatious. Here\\u2019s a guy who\\u2019s born and bred in the U.K., and yet he turns out to be more Hindustani than the guy who was raised in Punjab. That was a very new idea at that time.\", \" (lead actor, Raj Malhotra): This film came at a time when the audiences were getting more receptive to a story like \", \" and a pairing like mine and Kajol\\u2019s. A lot of external factors worked for the film: the novelty of a modern rom-com, for example, and liberalization.\", \" It\\u2019s such a seductive fantasy. It appealed to people in the West because all the NRIs felt like \\u201cJust because we live here doesn\\u2019t mean we lost our Indian-ness. It doesn\\u2019t mean we\\u2019re not desi anymore; it doesn\\u2019t mean that our roots have been severed.\\u201d And, of course, it works for the people who are still living in India because it reconfirms this is the original land of value and beauty and song and dance and all the rest of it.\", \"(supporting actor, Dharamvir Malhotra): The script was very, very fresh. [In Hindi films before], it was a typical \", \" concept: The parents aren\\u2019t happy with who you are; the world wanted [the couple] to be united, and the so-called \\u201cforces against you\\u201d were the parents. But here, the boy was a very idealistic person. [The boy] respected the girl \", \" her parents, especially her father. [Aditya] very intelligently represented NRIs and Londoners and the typical Punjabi [person].\", \"I loved the script, from beginning to end. There was no part that I heard that I did not feel completely there, and present, and completely part of the film....There is one song where I wasn\\u2019t sure about how it would be taken on screen: \\u201cZara Sa Jhoom Loon Main.\\u201d I didn\\u2019t think I looked drunk at all, and I was like, \\u201cThis is not gonna work. I don\\u2019t believe this myself.\\u201d Because I\\u2019m a complete teetotaler. I don\\u2019t know what it\\u2019s like to get drunk. But fortunately for me, [that scene] turned out okay. It\\u2019s not as bad as I thought it was.\", \"There were several improv moments. They enhanced the script, for sure. There was this scene with Amrish Puri [who played Simran\\u2019s father, Chaudhry Baldev Singh] where he was feeding the pigeons. And we had this really funny scene where we are both awkwardly going \", \" to the pigeons. It is a call for pigeons I had heard in Delhi, so I added it. Even the flower that sprays water on Kajol\\u2019s face, we hadn\\u2019t told her what would happen.\", \"That\\u2019s one thing that is fantastic about Shah Rukh: He is a very affectionate, easy person [to act with]. When we sort of clap hands and do gibberish words with each other, I invented those words on the set. And when Raj is saying, \\u201cI just failed,\\u201d and I introduce him to our \\u201cancestors\\u201d in paintings on the wall, that was similar to my own family....My own uncle had failed in 7th/8th grade. So I asked Mr. Chopra, \\u201cCan I use their real names in the movie?\\u201d\", \"It was a set of friends just having fun...with the material. Adi had a much clearer vision [of] where he was going with it and what he wanted to say in it. So the voices belong to us, but the words and feelings are all his, to be honest.\", \" I think when Adi wrote the film, he meant it to show that families are the way they are everywhere. That\\u2019s what the film was about: embracing what the world has ahead of you, but don\\u2019t forget your roots.\", \"The name of the film is given by my wife [actress Kirron Kher]. There was a lot of debate: \\u201cWhat should be the title of the film?\\u201d There is a very famous song called \\u201cLe Jayenge Le Jayenge\\u201d from an old Hindi film [1974\\u2019s \", \"]. So my wife said, \\u201cAt the end of [this] movie, the boy finally says, \\u2018I will take away the bride.\\u2019 Why don\\u2019t we call it \", \"?\\u201d Everybody loved it. [She] gets a separate [credit] in the [film]. It says, \\u201cTitle given by Kirron Kher.\\u201d\", \" My first impression of Simran was that she was nothing like me. I didn\\u2019t agree with all this being too dutiful. I was like, \\u201cCan\\u2019t she think for herself?\\u201d [\", \"] I played her dutifully, but I made fun of her on set.\", \" Her energy was palpable.\\u2026Nobody could\\u2019ve played Simran better than Kajol.\", \" I thought, \", \". So maybe 90 percent of her wasn\\u2019t [me], but that 10 percent was.\", \"Raj was unlike anything I had done. Before \", \" there was \", \" \", \", \", \"films in which I had portrayed negative characters.\", \"I thought Raj was a cool hero. I thought that he had a lot of unexpected depth to him. You get the feeling he\\u2019s this really carefree guy who doesn\\u2019t really have much to him; he\\u2019s just into how his hair looks and how he kicks the football. But somewhere toward the end of the film, you start believing in him as a character.\", \" It really spoke to a country in a great sort of cultural churning. In the \\u201990s, we got satellite television, the economy had opened up, and there was all this stuff coming in from the West: the programming, the clothes, the brands. There was an actual dilemma about what constitutes \\u201can Indian.\\u201d \", \" constitutes an Indian? And Shah Rukh Khan as Raj was the answer.\", \"I was told by many people that I looked unconventional\\u2026very different from what the perception of a leading man was. I did feel maybe not being handsome enough\\u2014or as they called it then \\u201cchocolaty\\u201d\\u2014would make me unsuitable for romantic roles. Also, I am very shy and awkward with ladies, and I didn\\u2019t know how I would say all the loving, romantic bits. I was excited to work with [Adi], but I had no idea how to go about it and also if I would be able to do it well. I always felt Adi\\u2019s love for me made him cast me. \", \" In [Adi\\u2019s] mind, he was Raj. [Adi] wanted Shah Rukh to be the way \", \" wanted to be in life: principled but naughty.\", \" This was the film that established SRK as a guy who can romance in a way that we had never seen before. Because he\\u2019s not \\u201cmacho\\u201d in the traditional sense. Here\\u2019s a guy who\\u2019s in the kitchen with the women. Here\\u2019s a guy who keeps Karva Chauth with his girlfriend. He\\u2019s telling the aunt which sari to buy. And none of this means that he\\u2019s any less manly. It\\u2019s just that he\\u2019s secure enough to be all of those things and to be in places that are traditionally female. You can\\u2019t imagine that very macho action hero of the \\u201980s doing that.\", \" I found the character endearing and sweet in the right way. The over-the-topness was my contribution.\", \"Shah Rukh played Raj really convincingly. With every film he works on, he\\u2019s there 300 percent of the time. He memorized everybody\\u2019s [lines], and then [\", \"] during rehearsals he\\u2019d be saying my dialogues as well as his dialogues.\", \" What worked for Raj and Simran on screen was basically the pure friendship that Kajol and I shared off screen. It was all so organic that there were moments in front of the camera that we didn\\u2019t feel like we were acting at all. We didn\\u2019t really plan scenes. We just let them flow, and if we didn\\u2019t like something, we could just blurt it out to each other without any formality.\", \" We would just crack jokes. Everybody on set was so mischievous. It\\u2019s just great fun to work with people that you actually enjoy the company of. When you work on film, there\\u2019s a lot of time that you\\u2019re just waiting for everybody to get set up for one shot after the other. That actually makes people friends and makes people be completely comfortable with each other. We can sit and wait for the sun to rise, literally, [together].\", \" I have to admit, for someone who doesn\\u2019t like mushy, romantic films, the scenes with Kajol and I did make me feel all fuzzy and warm. There, I said it!\", \"(music composer): We had a grand session [audition] with Yash Chopra, Aditya...We didn\\u2019t know what film was being planned. We just wanted to work with Yash Chopra. We were singing our new songs\\u2014I still remember I had sung two songs. One was \\u201cMehndi Laga Ke Rakhna.\\u201d And I sang the tune for \\u201cMere Khwabon Mein Jo Aaye.\\u201d I didn\\u2019t have the words, so I just sang the tune.\", \"Nothing happened for about a month. But then we got a call from Aditya Chopra: \\u201cI\\u2019m planning a film. How busy are you guys?\", \"And he asked, \\u201cThat \\u2018Mehndi\\u2019 song, do you still have that song?\\u201d\", \" Once we heard the script, we made up our mind that we have a jackpot on our hands. We both worked very hard. For all the [scenes], we made at least 20 songs. And out of 20, we ourselves rejected five or six songs. And then we [presented them] to Aditya Chopra. \\u201cChal Pyar Karegi\\u201d we had done [for] \", \" as well. It was in [the 1998 film] \", \" We sat for days and days and days and days, trying to crack each of the songs. It was a once-in-a-lifetime kind of an opportunity. Anand Bakshi was on board, and Lataji [Lata Mangeshkar] was going to sing all the songs, which was very rare during those days. \", \" My daughter recently downloaded the entire album. She was like, \\u201cOh my God, Mum, you had great music.\\u201d It\\u2019s the kind of music that is timeless. I loved \\u201cNa Jaane Mere Dil Ko Kya Ho Gaya.\\u201d That\\u2019s one of my favorite songs.\", \" There was one song I was very sure about: \\u201cZara Sa Jhoom Loon Main.\\u201d They were thinking it was too fast and energetic to have a drunk girl singing those lines. But Anand Bakshi said, \\u201cWhen you\\u2019re young and you drink, you get all the more energy.\\u201d\", \" One of my most favorite songs on the film is \\u201cNa Jaane Mere Dil Ko Kya Ho Gaya.\\u201d I was singing out the intro at [Adi\\u2019s] place. When I sang those lines, he said, \\u201cYou know how I\\u2019m going to [shoot it]? I\\u2019m going to fade in and fade out, they\\u2019re going to be on the bus, and Shah Rukh will come, and then he\\u2019ll fade out, and then Kajol will come, and then again Shah Rukh will come, and then again he\\u2019ll fade out.\\u201d I had never heard such kind of detail. Adi was completely\\u2014there\\u2019s no other word\\u2014brilliant. He was like a third partner in music, he contributed so much. He was very instinctive about what he wanted in his songs.\", \"The piano piece in \\u201cRuk Ja O Dil Deewane,\\u201d so many people tried to play it, but Aditya Chopra played that. And \\u201cGhar Aaja Pardesi\\u201d\\u2014it also became one of the film\\u2019s biggest hits, and Pamji [Pamela Chopra, Aditya\\u2019s mother] sang in that song.\", \" I don\\u2019t change the radio channel when a \", \" song comes on. I can never get sick of them. They bring back memories of a film that shaped my path forward in an unforgettable way.\", \"In the \\u201990s, all the tailors were making dresses with frills, all these fitted dresses. That was the norm. But [in Yash Chopra films], it was all about the luxury, the lifestyle, the richness. There\\u2019s one kind of richness that is all about embroidery, but Yash Chopra films were different. The richness was about the setup: the beautiful home, the girl in a pure chiffon sari with pearls. It was an elite chicness. An upmarket understanding. I was trying to remove all the frills and make it more monochromatic and make it more Western looking. My first thing was color. Old-world colors\\u2014bring them all back in. A lot of old rose; a lot of powder blue. There\\u2019s a lot of peachy coral.\", \": It\\u2019s a very simple, beautiful aesthetic. It\\u2019s classic\\u2014maybe not the beret on my head. [\", \"]\", \": Simran is a girl who is real. She\\u2019s very identifiable. There\\u2019s something that makes her look stand out when she\\u2019s in a crowd. That was key. They didn\\u2019t want a sensuous or a very sexy Simran. I did a very real Simran\\u2014with a dash of glamour.\", \"And Kajol, being Kajol, she didn\\u2019t care too much about the drape [of the sari]. She was never the actress who would be like completely pinned and completely stitched and all of that. And Kajol would never want to do too much makeup. She\\u2019d be like, \\u201cI\\u2019m just running to the set. I\\u2019m happy with my look.\\u201d\", \"I can still imagine wearing the shaded chiffon sari, or I can still imagine myself wearing a plain, simple salwar kameez with a shaded dupatta.\", \": [The thinking was] there can be a beauty in a white kurta and a white salwar. The quality and the class also can come from the way it\\u2019s tailored.\", \"When we were shooting for \\u201cNa Jaane Mere Dil Ko Kya Ho Gaya,\\u201d there was a shot where we\\u2019re going round and round in the rain. We had to get these fire engines to pour the rain for us. It was Switzerland, and that cold was unimaginable. And by the end of it, it was so cold that if I did not walk or run back to the hotel, we would have just frozen on the spot.\", \"I don\\u2019t think anybody ever thought about my comfort when I was wearing a chiffon sari in the middle of the snow and the ice. The red [mini] dress in the snow was even worse, trust me. [\", \"]\", \" \", \" We didn\\u2019t even know there would be that much snow. In those days, the heroes were in mufflers and coats, and the heroines wore these itsy-bitsy saris. I think I was that culprit who started that. It was about looking glamorous.\", \" There was a certain charm and playfulness that came along with the hat [which was taken from the film\\u2019s production head], the guitar, the leather jacket, the sunglasses. They all added to the character and helped shape how I eventually portrayed him. Today, if you see those three things next to each other, without any picture of Raj, your mind will immediately take you to \", \".\", \" That was completely from Aditya Chopra\\u2019s eye; he wanted that jacket.\", \" The jacket, I loved it and still have it. It was a Harley-Davidson jacket. [But] the motorcycle was rented and we had to return it.\", \" [For Simran\\u2019s house] we were keen it should be warm in its color palette and also have a very strong Indian element. We used a lot of plaids. There are lots of artifacts that [the family] would have picked up from their visits to India. I hadn\\u2019t actually ever been [to London] to see the houses. [At the time] I believed if you\\u2019re in a foreign land, you believe it\\u2019s going to be a big, big space. But, in fact, a family like that would have lived in a rather cramped space. Now when I look back and see [the big house set], I find that bothersome.\", \" The first song, \\u201cMere Khwabon Mein,\\u201d we were shooting in a studio in Mumbai. There was this whole thing that she\\u2019s dancing in the rain and she wears a towel and all of that.\", \" It was a really big towel, let me put it that way.\", \" With the white skirt, Adi saw it and he says, \\u201cI think it\\u2019s looking too long.\\u201d I said, \\u201cSo should we cut it?\\u201d And suddenly the skirt, which was so much [\", \"], became so much [\", \"]. I said, \\u201cNow what do we do?\\u201d And Kajol said, \\u201cWell, I\\u2019m okay if you guys are okay.\\u201d Kajol was very \\u201cWhatever you guys decide\\u201d kind of thing. But I told Aditya, \\u201cWill it look too much that she\\u2019s wearing this sexy white skirt in the rain?\\u201d He said, \\u201cYou know what? She\\u2019s with her mother [played by Farida Jalal] in this song. It won\\u2019t look like that.\\u201d\", \"We just wanted to make it look kind of, like, innocent-sexy.\", \"[Pamela Chopra] told me how they dried their clothes over there [in London] for that scene: put out in the backyard with a simple stand, a kind of clothes hanger. And she actually drew that out for me to show me what it would look like.\", \"It was great fun, actually. \", \" was choreographed, from the window opening to the song. The only part that I could not do, I think, was feeling shy. So that took at least 45 minutes for Adi to explain to me: \\u201cThis is what you are supposed to do when you are feeling shy. How would you feel shy?\\u201d I don\\u2019t have a single shy bone in my body. Eventually he gave up on me, and he was just like, \\u201cJust do this: Look straight at one point, and then eventually just slowly lower your eyes down.\\u201d And that\\u2019s exactly what I did.\", \" The song that I first recorded was Lataji\\u2019s solo song, \\u201cMere Khwabon Mein Jo Aaye\\u201d\\u2014the same tune I had hummed out to Adi in the meeting session that we had. Having Lataji on this album gave it that edge that the music needed.\", \" She\\u2019s an icon. There\\u2019s no words to express what she is.\", \"We had the most fun during \\u201cMehndi Laga Ke Rakhna\\u201d because we were all together.\", \"I remember how difficult it was to do \\u201cMehndi Laga Ke Rakhna.\\u201d I am not very good with dances like that, but it doesn\\u2019t show so much on screen.\", \" When the film is in the U.K., we had to have a different kind of texture to the melody and the treatment. But \\u201cMehndi Laga Ke Rakhna\\u201d was totally Indian. Like a festive mood, and the instruments, the tutti and the arrangement of the violin\\u2014we had this arrangement by which we can differentiate the two countries. The song was very authentic in style.\", \"The song lyrics originally were: \\u201cMehndi laga ke chalna / Payal bacha ke chalna / Mehndi laga ke chalna / Payal baja ke chalna\", \"Par aashiq se appna / Daman bacha kay chalna / Mehndi laga ke chalna / Payal bacha ke chalna\\u201d\", \"And then, of course, [our lyricist] Anand Bakshi took it to another level: \\u201cO mehndi laga rakhna / Doli saja ke rakhna / Mehndi laga rakhna / Doli saja ke rakhna\", \"Lene tujhe o gori / Aayenge tere sajna / Mehndi laga rakhna /Doli saja ke rakhna\\u201d\", \"He wrote 25 verse [options] for those two verses. That wonderful kind of effort, I never experienced again.\", \"The courtyard became an important aspect of that house [set]. It was meant to be a typical [compound] in Punjab, where joined families would stay. What decided the warm color palette for those scenes was actually the brick floor. And because it was a house for the wedding\\u2014where a lot of golds and jewel tones were used\\u2014it formed a perfect backdrop for it.\", \" We went shopping and saw this satiny fabric, like a lime-green color going into pistachio. And Adi said, \\u201cThis green is \", \" bright\", \"\\u201d But I said, \\u201cIt will look really nice. Let\\u2019s use it.\\u201d\", \" We didn\\u2019t think so much about what the impact [of the color] eventually would be. We all agreed that the [green] color was going to look very nice on screen. Nobody thought about whether it would be trendsetting or anything like that. We just wanted it to look good and shoot comfortably in it\\u2014at least, my thought was that we should be comfortable in it.\", \"That green got very, very famous for \", \" We shot for about three days in Apta railway station [in Mumbai]. It was so hot at that time, and with this ghagra\\u2014it was this incredibly heavy outfit that I was wearing.\", \" I remember with any heavy outfit, she would tease me. \\u201cYou wear it first.\\u201d\", \"For this outfit, I was very keen we shouldn\\u2019t do [a traditional] red; we should do gold. [Finally, we chose] one where there\\u2019s gold kota work. They all said, \\u201cThat\\u2019s really nice. It\\u2019ll look heavy, but it won\\u2019t look like too much because it\\u2019s a daytime sequence.\\u201d\", \"All I was to do was to hold Kajol\\u2019s hand, so that was simple. And she does run awesomely in a lehenga.\\u2026\", \" The train wasn\\u2019t going as fast as it looks. [\", \"] It wasn\\u2019t the running so much, just the crying. Your eyes are swollen and red by the end of the day because you\\u2019re crying for three days straight.\", \"I was more keen on the fight that happens before that because I felt it will add some non-mushy stuff to this film. I was way happier holding the gun than holding Simran\\u2019s hand. [\", \"]\", \"When the action part was happening, I was singing out these pieces I had in mind, in sync with the actions happening: Shah Rukh is being beaten by this gang, and his father\\u2019s getting hurt. And when I played out that [song] to Adi, he completely rejected it. He said, \\u201cPlay \\u2018Mehndi Laga Ke Rakhna\\u2019 here.\\u201d I completely disagreed.\", \"He said, \\u201cIf you play this in a different manner, just try to change the phrase a little bit but keep that melody. You\\u2019ll see, people will clap in the audience.\\u201d\", \"So I took a lot of the chorus section and I asked the dholis to play the rhythm. And instead of making it melodic, I made an aggressive kind of singing. Then, for that emotional piece where Kajol is running, I said, \\u201cOkay, why don\\u2019t I play the melody from \", \"\\u2014one part we have not used throughout the film: Lataji humming.\\u201d\", \"Adi, Jatin, and I were roaming around the theater on the first day of the film opening. When this part came on, I was very alert to see how the audience would react. And just as Adi had said, people were clapping as soon as this part came on.\", \" There could have been no other ending, but I did not think it would be as iconic as it eventually turned out to be.\", \" When you watch the film, it\\u2019s so appealing because by the time you are hearing this piece again, you remember every bit of it from [earlier]. The moment the saxophone plays in that part, you get a goosebump.\", \"[The premiere] was the who\\u2019s who of the film industry, of the city, of the politicians. [They] were there watching the film because it was Mr. Chopra\\u2019s son\\u2019s first film. The film finished and there was pin-drop silence. And Mr. Chopra looked at me like, \\u201cOh my God, something has gone wrong\", \"\\u201d It [seemed to be] a never-ending silence, and then after a minute, there was a never-ending standing ovation. That was the magic of the film.\", \"I think \", \" is a film which showed, in the \", \"90s, that youngsters had a mind of their own. It spoke about a time of the changing youth. And it also spoke about the changing time of the parents.\", \" I have met millions and millions of young boys and girls who say, \\u201cWe want our parents to be like Raj\\u2019s father.\\u2026\\u201d\", \" Every generation goes through a point of rebellion and then eventually realizes that rebellion is really not the way to go. You need to figure things out. You need to work through them rather than rebelling against something. It\\u2019s not only Indian. Everybody feels like \\u201cI don\\u2019t want to hurt my family. I don\\u2019t want to lose what I have in my family, and I don\\u2019t want to hurt anybody. I just want everybody to love who I love.\\u201d It made sense, then and now. I think that\\u2019s why it\\u2019s eternal.\", \"The film bridged two ideologies. We had the generation before who believed in conventional relationships, and the film honored that. At the same time, it made a statement about how the youth think and their need for space. I think of the film poster: Here is a man with a woman on his shoulders. At the same time, she\\u2019s dressed traditionally.\", \" The film had tradition; it had family values; it celebrated culture. And yet there was so much of youth and modernness to it. The visual was so fresh. Every young Indian living abroad and Indian living in India identified with it.\", \"It\\u2019s an extraordinary love story. And the combination of East and West, and with the music, photography\\u2026There\\u2019s so much of repeat [value in this film]. I myself have seen it at least 20 times in theaters with my family.\", \" A film is never about only one person. It\\u2019s about everybody put together. Everybody put their little bits of energy and love into it. It\\u2019s a memory more than a film, really. It\\u2019s like watching my very own personal photo album.\", \"I think \", \" helped me cement my place and brought me fame in a way that I didn\\u2019t think it would. We were all living in the moment, trying to make the best film we could. There are so many reasons attributed to its success, but I don\\u2019t think any one specific thing can explain the phenomenon it has become. 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Ltd\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://news.yahoo.com/congress-remains-vulnerable-covid-despite-213002980.html\", \"source\": \"Yahoo News\", \"title\": \"Congress remains vulnerable to Covid despite White House outbreak\", \"description\": \"While those working around Trump are tested for coronavirus daily, the Capitol has no such protocols.\", \"date\": \"2020-10-07T21:30:02.000Z\", \"author\": \"Julie Tsirkin and Haley Talbot\", \"text\": [\"WASHINGTON \\u2014 The White House \", \", which has \", \" in President Donald Trump\\u2019s circle, sheds new light on the lack of contact tracing and safety protocols in place for the House and Senate.\", \"And while those working around President Donald Trump are tested daily, the Capitol has no such protocols.\", \"Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell ignored multiple questions from reporters this week when asked if widespread testing should be offered in the Capitol. 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It was in other encounters, including at the White House.\\u201d\", \"Since the offer of rapid testing machines was initially made by the White House in May, Pelosi and McConnell have remained in agreement on one thing: no widespread testing on Capitol Hill, despite pressure from leaders on both sides of the aisle to do so.\", \"\\u201cWith just so many bodies coming in and out of here, I don\\u2019t understand why the speaker would continue to not have testing,\\u201d House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy, who supported the White House\\u2019s offer since July, told reporters on Friday.\", \"After the \", \" and \", \" who had recently been there announcing they had tested positive, high-ranking lawmakers endorsed endorsed widespread testing for the 535 members of Congress and Capitol staff.\", \"Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said in the hours after Trump\\u2019s diagnosis \\u201cThis episode demonstrates that the Senate needs a testing and contact tracing program for senators, staff, and all who work in the Capitol complex.\\u201d\", \"McConnell and Schumer agreed to recess the Senate until Oct. 19 following the outbreak, with the exception of committee hearings \\u2014 meaning confirmation hearings for Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court will go on as planned beginning Oct. 12. It is not clear whether Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., will require proof of negative tests for those attending in person.\", \"Despite all of this, there remains no indication that the Capitol will have any kind of precautionary measures to prevent more cases within its walls. And even now, senators are being urged against precautionary testing unless there are symptoms present.\", \"There is no temperature check system, no mandatory testing, and no proof of a negative Covid test required upon entry to the Capitol building. That means hundreds of lawmakers, their staff, Capitol workers, and reporters enter the complex each day without any assurances that it is safe. And every weekend, most lawmakers travel all over the country back to their home states.\", \"There are also no apparent contact tracing measures in place. NBC News has learned that individual offices each have their own protocols on reporting positive cases and exposures. The Office of the Attending Physician has not responded to numerous requests for comment.\", \"On Wednesday, Schumer and Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, the top Democrat on the Rules Committee, introduced a resolution that would mandate things like rapid testing for all who work in the Capitol complex, mask wearing in all Senate buildings, and proof of negative Covid tests ahead of committee hearings.\", \"Since February, 123 front-line workers including Capitol Police and Architect of the Capitol employees have tested positive for Covid or are presumed positive, according to House Administration Committee GOP spokeswoman Ashley Phelps. These numbers are not routinely disclosed to the public unless specifically requested, highlighting a lack of transparency, not just within the White House but up Pennsylvania Avenue as well.\", \"After Republican Sens. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, Thom Tillis of North Carolina, and Mike Lee of Utah, tested positive, NBC News requested data on contact tracing within each office.\", \"\\u201cThe only other on-staff positive was the chief of staff, who was diagnosed in mid-September,\\u201d a spokesperson for Johnson wrote. \\u201cOur office has been working primarily remotely, so few people have been in contact with the Senator.\\u201d\", \"A spokesperson for Tillis wrote that everyone in the Washington office who came in contact with the senator is getting tested and every test so far has been negative. 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His \\u201cJust Vibin\\u2019\\u201d hoodie stems from the idea of \\u201cjust flowing with life.\\u201d Did\\u2019s black hoodie is an homage to the Black Lives Matter movement \\u00a0and the garment\\u2019s glittery accents are meant to represent the shining in the world. The lotus flower design is symbolic of Did blooming into adulthood.\", \"The exclusive items are being sold through TikTok\\u2019s storefront and on Puma\\u2019s \", \" site. There is a commitment of $10,000 in proceeds from sales to the Equal Justice Initiative.\", \"Puma North America\\u2019s president and chief executive officer Bob Philion emphasized last month how a spike in \", \" sales had helped the company gain traction during the pandemic. That online growth has also led to more oppressive at retail, he said. Part of the company\\u2019s e-commerce strategy has involved online-only special offers with the TikTok collaboration being the latest example.\", \"Sign up for \", \". For the latest news, follow us on \", \", \", \", and \", \".\"]}\n][\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/29/africa/blasphemy-trial-nigeria/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"The WhatsApp voice note that led to a death sentence\", \"description\": \"A heated conversation in a WhatsApp group has led to a death penalty sentence and a family torn apart in northern Nigeria over allegations of insulting Prophet Mohammed. \", \"date\": \"2020-09-29T09:51:49Z\", \"author\": \"Eoin McSweeney and Stephanie Busari\", \"text\": [\" (CNN)\", \"An intense argument recorded and posted in a WhatsApp group has led to a death penalty sentence and a family torn apart over allegations of insulting Prophet Mohammed, according to lawyers for the defendant. \", \"Music studio assistant Yahaya Sharif-Aminu was sentenced to death by hanging on August 10 after being convicted of blasphemy by an Islamic court in northern Nigeria. \", \"The judgment document states that Sharif-Aminu, 22, was convicted for making \\\"a blasphemous statement against Prophet Mohammed in a WhatsApp Group,\\\" which is contrary to the Kano State Sharia Penal Code and is an offence which carries the death sentence. \", \"The recording was shared widely, causing mass outrage in the highly conservative, majority Muslim, state, according to various reports. \", \"\\\"Whoever insults, defames or utters words or acts which are capable of bringing into disrespect ... such a person has committed a serious crime which is punishable by death,\\\" according to a translation of court documents provided to CNN by his lawyers. \", \"Read More\", \"Sharif-Aminu, described by his friend Kabiru Ibrahim, as \\\"kind, religious and dutiful,\\\" admitted charges of blasphemy during his trial, but said he had made a mistake. \", \"No legal representation\", \"Under Sharia law, a voluntary confession is binding, according to court papers. \", \"Sharif-Aminu's lawyers, who became involved in the case only after his conviction, say he was not allowed legal representation before or during his trial -- in contravention of Nigerian citizens' constitutional right to legal representation. \", \"Outrage as Nigeria sentences 13-year-old boy to 10 years in prison for blasphemy\", \"According to the lawyers, the Sharia court adjourned his case four times because no lawyer came forth from the Legal Aid Council to represent him, likely because of the sensitivity of the case. The Sharia court is, however, statute-bound to provide legal representation.\", \"Advocates from the \", \"Foundation for Religious Freedom\", \" (FRF), a not-for-profit aimed at protecting religious freedom in Nigeria, which is representing Sharif-Aminu, told CNN he has also not been permitted access to legal advice to prepare an appeal against his conviction. \", \"The FRF says it has lodged an appeal on his behalf in Kano's high court, a common-law court with constitutional powers. \", \"\\\"The state laws he is accused of breaking are in gross conflict with the Nigerian constitution,\\\" said his counsel, Kola Alapinni. \", \"No Muslim will condone it. People hold Prophet Mohammed higher than their parents. \", \"Islamic cleric, Bashir Aliyu Umar\", \"Kano's State Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje told clerics in Kano that he would sign Sharif-Aminu's death warrant as soon as the singer had exhausted the appeals process, local media reports say. \", \"\\\"I assure you that immediately the Supreme Court affirms the judgment, I will sign it without any hesitation,\\\" Ganduje said, according to \", \"Nigeria's Daily Post newspaper\", \". CNN contacted a spokesman for Governor Ganduje several times for comment but did not receive a response. \", \"Islamic scholar and cleric Bashir Aliyu Umar, who is not connected to the case, but said he had read the transcript of the court proceedings, told CNN, \\\"No Muslim will condone it. People hold Prophet Mohammed higher than their parents, and when things like this happen, it will lead to a breakdown of peace because of mob action and attacks against the accused.\\\" \", \"When news of Sharif-Aminu's alleged crime broke earlier this year, protesters marched to his family home and destroyed it, prompting his father to flee to a neighboring town, his lawyers told CNN. Sharif-Aminu went into hiding, according to Amnesty and his lawyers, but in March he was arrested by the Hisbah Corps, the religious police force that enforces Sharia law in Kano state. \", \"'A travesty of justice'\", \"Human rights organization Amnesty International has described Sharif-Aminu's trial as a \\\"travesty of justice,\\\" and called on Kano state authorities to quash his conviction and death sentence. \", \"\\\"There are serious concerns about the fairness of his trial and the framing of the charges against him based on his Whatsapp messages,\\\" said Amnesty's Nigeria director Osai Ojigho. \\\"Furthermore, the imposition of the death penalty following an unfair trial violates the right to life,\\\" she added. \", \"The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has also condemned Sharif-Aminu's death sentence. 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I looked fine physically, but it started to affect me mentally. I could go a day without being able to construct sentences, and I was a research analyst at the time which meant I had to write daily reports but I couldn't,\\\" she said. \", \"After expressing her suicidal thoughts to a friend, she was encouraged to see a psychiatrist at a psychiatric hospital in Lagos, one of Nigeria's largest cities. \", \"She was diagnosed with Bipolar and post traumatic stress disorder with mild psychosis. \\\"I poured out my heart, got some tests done and eventually got a diagnosis.\\\"\", \"Creating awareness \", \"Two months after Ojeifo's diagnosis, she said she decided to turn her difficult experiences around. She started to create awareness on the far-reaching impacts of mental health in Nigeria. \", \"In April 2016, she created\", \" She Writes Woman\", \", a non-profit organization focused on providing mental health support for those who may need it in the west African nation. \", \"There is minimal mental health awareness and there are not enough mental health professionals in Nigeria. \", \"In a country of more than \", \"200 million\", \" people, there are only 250 practicing psychiatrists, according to the\", \" Association of Psychiatrists of Nigeria. \", \"Ojeifo told CNN that She Writes Woman started as a blog but she realized she could do more with it, \\\"At first, I was just using it as an outlet to share my experiences and that of other women,\\\" she explained. \", \"Eventually, it morphed into a support community for people with mental health conditions. \", \"The 28-year-old got trained as a mental health coach so that she could start a helpline to talk to people experiencing overwhelming mental health symptoms.\", \"\\\"From sharing stories on the blog and social media, She Writes Woman blew up into a helpline which was run by me for a while, and then to a support group for people in vulnerable conditions,\\\" she said. \", \"24-hour mental health helpline\", \"She Writes Woman provides a\", \" 24-hour mental health helpline\", \" for anyone within Nigeria.\", \"The helpline serves as a first point of contact for people in distress or those who just want to talk about their mental health and symptoms. \", \"\\\"People call the helpline to get what we call a first-aid treatment. On the call you don't get immediate professional counseling, what happens is you get a first response communication where someone listens to you and what you have to say,\\\" Ojeifo explained.\", \"She added that after the first responders, callers can be referred to mental health professionals for therapy or a diagnosis if needed, \\\"depending on what the issue is we que people in to either a therapist or a psychiatrist.\\\"\", \"Data on mental health in Nigeria is hard to find, but according to a 2016 report in the Annals of Nigerian Medicine journal, an estimated\", \" 20-30% \", \"of the country's population is suffering from mental disorders.\", \"And in 2017, a World Health Organization report found that Nigerians have the highest incidences of depression in Africa, with \", \"more than 7 million people \", \"in the country suffering from depression.\", \"Despite the numbers, there is an absence of \", \"effective mental health legislation\", \" setting standards for psychiatric treatment or encouraging mental health awareness in the country. \", \"In February, following deliberations by legislators to pass a proposed mental health bill, Ojeifo became the first person to testify before the Nigerian parliament on the rights of persons with mental health conditions in the country.\", \"var id = '//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js'.replace(/\\\\s+/g, '');!!document.getElementById(id) || (function makeEmbedScript(d, id) {var js,fjs;js = d.createElement('script');js.id = id;js.charset = 'utf-8';js.setAttribute('async', '');js.src = '//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js';fjs = d.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];window.WM.UserConsent.addScriptElement(js, [\\\"vendor\\\",\\\"measure-ads\\\"], fjs);}(document, id));\", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" View this post on Instagram\", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \"We are so proud of our founder @hauwa_ojeifo for the great milestone achieved today. . She graciously spoke before the Senate at the public hearing of the #mentalhealth bill earlier today on behalf of all persons living with mental health conditions. . If you were there, you'd have been so proud. Word on the street is that this is the first time a person with a mental health condition is speaking before the Senate. . Go Hauwa!!\\ud83d\\udc83\\ud83c\\udffd . Want to know more about the mental health bill? Check out our stories to make your suggestions.\", \" \", \"A post shared by \", \" SWW | Mental Health in Nigeria\", \" (@shewriteswoman) on \", \"Feb 17, 2020 at 10:46am PST\", \"\\n\", \"The bill has yet to be implemented. \", \"To close the mental health gap in Nigeria, Ojeifo's organization also offers a support group for women and girls called \", \"Safe Place\", \" in six Nigerian states. \", \"\\\"Safe Space provides a community of shared experiences for women and girls. It provides a space for women to connect and share their experiences on whatever topic, to be there for one another and understand that they are not alone in their journeys,\\\" she explained, estimating that there have been over 50 meetings of the support group since the inception of the organization.\", \"In the beginning, Ojeifo, a former investment banker,  self-funded the organization. \", \"But now, with donations and grants from organizations such as One Young World, Airtel Nigeria and Disability Rights Advocacy Fund, it is able to expand and carry out more activities in Nigeria's mental health space.\", \"In 2018, the activist received a\", \" Queen's Young Leaders Award\", \" in in recognition of her work with the 24-hour mental health helpline and Safe Space support group. \", \"Changemaker Award Winner \", \"On Tuesday, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation named Ojeifo as its\", \" Changemaker Award winner for 2020\", \" for her work with She Writes Woman. \", \"The Changemaker Award is one of the Goalkeepers Global Goals Awards pushed yearly by the foundation. It celebrates individuals who have inspired change from a position of leadership or using their personal experience. \", \"In a statement released Tuesday, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation said it recognized the activist for her work in promoting\", \" Gender Equality\", \", the fifth global goal for sustainable development prescribed by the United Nations. \", \"These Africans are among the world's 100 most influential people, according to Time magazine\", \"Ojeifo said that she was in \\\"disbelief\\\" when she first received the email alerting her that she was a recipient of the award. \", \"\\\"It was so unexpected and it came as a surprise because I was not expecting it. It's like an added validation to the work She Writes Woman does,\\\" she said. \", \"\\\"During one of the meetings with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation I asked them how I was selected because I was just so blown away. I was told that it was because I had used my personal experience to build hope for people and to drive change,\\\" she added. \", \"Through the 2020 Changemaker Award, Ojeifo is hoping to gather a network that will help amplify the work She Writes Woman does even more. \", \"\\\"The Changemaker award means I am part of this network that is dedicated to amplifying my cause and giving me visibility,\\\" she said.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/26/africa/gambia-migration-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"He almost died migrating to Europe. Now he is warning other Gambians about it\", \"description\": \"Mustapha Sallah and Youth Against Irregular Migration are raising awareness in The Gambia about the dangers of migrating to Europe through irregular means.\", \"date\": \"2020-08-26T14:16:23Z\", \"author\": \"Aisha Salaudeen\", \"text\": [\" (CNN)\", \"Mustapha Sallah was in trouble.\", \"He had hoped to be in Europe by now, pursuing his dreams of studying computer science and making a better life for himself.\", \"Instead, he was sitting in a Libyan detention center, having been detained in Tripoli by the Libyan Coast Guard.\", \"\\\"We were kept in rooms with little ventilation and no toilets. We would sit for days without taking baths. It was like hell,\\\" Sallah told CNN.\", \"He added that officers at the detention center often assaulted them by \\\"beating us for the slightest things like refusing to sleep.\\\"\", \"Read More\", \"It was January 2017, and the 25-year-old Gambian had taken a gamble, risking his life in search of a better one in Europe. But no one had warned him of the dangers ahead.\", \"If and when he got out of the detention center, he vowed to help others make a more informed decision.\", \"Migrating to Europe\", \"Sallah grew up in Serekunda, southwest of The Gambia's capital city, Banjul. He said he worked hard in school to earn a scholarship so that his mother could retire from her job selling vegetables in the market.\", \"In 2016, he thought he'd have that chance when he earned a scholarship to study computer science in Taiwan. \\\"But there was no Taiwan embassy in Gambia, so I had to go to the closest one in Abuja, Nigeria,\\\" he explained.\", \"After borrowing money from his sister to travel to Nigeria, he said he spent three months there before his visa application was denied. Three years earlier, then-president of The Gambia, Yahya Jammeh, had cut diplomatic ties with Taiwan for what he called \\\"national strategic interest.\\\"\", \"At least 58 people killed as boat carrying migrants sinks off Mauritania coast\", \"\\\"I didn't know what to do: stay in Nigeria, or go to any other African country. At the end of the day, I got the mind of migrating (to Europe) because I know several people who took the journey and made it there,\\\" Sallah explained.\", \"With a population of \", \"2.3 million people\", \", The Gambia is among the smallest countries in Africa. But despite its small size, migration is a fairly common practice and plays a key role in the country's economy.\", \"According to the International Organization for Migration (IOM), overseas remittances for an average of 90,000 Gambians who live abroad make up \", \"more than 20% of the country's GDP\", \". \", \"48% of Gambians\", \" live in poverty, and many people find themselves looking outside the country for opportunities to improve their lives. \", \"But some people leave the country without proper documentation or without crossing an official border point. Between 2014 and 2018, the IOM estimates \", \"more than 35,000 \", \"Gambians reached Europe through \\\"irregular means.\\\"\", \"\\\"There's a tradition of mobility in Gambia. It's a long history of people using migration as a means of life, and of getting their income. Many of the returnees we have worked with claim they took the journey for economic reasons,\\\" Etienne Micallef, the IOM's program manager in The Gambia told CNN.\", \"\\\"They have the perception that if they migrate with the final destination as Europe, they will get a much better income to sustain themselves and their families back home,\\\" he added. \", \"How the Kenyan consulate in Lebanon became feared by the women it was meant to help\", \"But it comes at a high risk. Globally, at least \", \"33,687 migrant deaths and disappearances\", \" were recorded between January 2014 and October 2019, according to IOM -- with nearly half occurring on the route between Northern Africa and Italy. \", \"Sallah, who said he wanted an education that would allow him to find a job to support his family, reiterated that no one warned him how incredibly dangerous the journey would be.\", \"After his visa to study in Taiwan was rejected, he said he got on a bus heading north to Agadez, a city in Niger. \\\"I didn't even know the area -- I just kept asking people around what the best or possible way to reach Niger was.\\\"\", \"From there, he managed to travel to Libya. \\\"You have to pay smugglers who drive pickup trucks to put you at the back of their trucks to get to Libya and then to Europe. I spent a month with my cousin in Libya before heading in another pickup truck for Tripoli,\\\" he told CNN.\", \"His journey to Tripoli was treacherous, he said, telling CNN he was detained and extorted multiple times by armed bandits. \", \"Sallah said he was close to death from starvation and even witnessed a gun battle between armed bandits and smugglers: \\\"The man that was smuggling us told us that if we want to stay in Tripoli, we must get used to gunshots,\\\" he said. \", \"But it all came to an abrupt halt in January 2017, when he was arrested by the Libyan Coast Guard in Tripoli.\", \" Detention Center\", \"Libya is a primary transit point along the central Mediterranean route. People who get stuck there are often detained by the Libyan Coast Guard, responsible for patrolling coastal waters to prevent smuggling and trafficking.  \", \"Sallah said he was kept in a detention center in Tripoli with migrants from different West African countries for nearly four months under poor conditions.\", \"Migrants describe being tortured and raped on perilous journey to Libya\", \"There are\", \" 11 detention centers\", \" for migrants run by the U.N.-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) in Libya. Some \", \"2,362\", \" detainees are held at these facilities on any given day, according to the Global Detention Project. \", \"Human Rights Watch\", \" (HRW) and \", \"Amnesty International\", \" have criticized the conditions at these detention centers; both groups signed onto a statement released in April that urged EU member states and institutions to review their policy on migrants and cooperation with Libya. \", \"The policy, the statement says, has allowed for the \", \"\\\"arbitrary detention and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment\\\"\", \" of migrants and refugees.\", \"While in detention, Sallah met a fellow Gambian who suggested they set up the non-profit organization \", \"Youth Against Irregular Migration\", \" (YAIM) to warn others back home about the risks of irregular migration.\", \"\\\"I went around the detention center gathering details of all the Gambians I could find,\\\" estimating he registered 171 people to join the organization. \\\"We agreed that if we made it out of there, we would start an association to make people aware of how problematic the journey to Europe is,\\\" he said.\", \"Youth Against Irregular Migration\", \"In April 2017, as part of its mandate to return and reintegrate migrants stranded or detained in their transit countries, IOM facilitated the return of Sallah and many others within the detention center back to The Gambia. \", \"That same year, IOM received funding from the EU worth\", \" 3.9 million euros\", \" (about $4.6 million) over the course of three years, to expand its operations in The Gambia.\", \"Since then, according to Micallef, IOM has repatriated more than 5,000 people to the West African nation.\", \"He added that when returnees arrive at the airport or land border, they are met by IOM staff who arrange for temporary shelter, counseling, and medical support for those who need it.\", \"Weeks after returning to The Gambia, Sallah said he met with some members of YAIM who signed up in the detention center. \", \"\\\"We met almost every week after arriving in Gambia,\\\" he explained. \\\"It was difficult for us financially at the start but many of us had the support of our families.\\\"\", \"YAIM members speak to community members about the dangers of irregular migration.\", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"YAIM members speak to community members about the dangers of irregular migration.\\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"YAIM members speak to community members about the dangers of irregular migration.\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200819175004-03-gambia-migration-intl-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"He added that even though many of them struggled to make a living at the start and had to pick up menial jobs around town to survive, being around other members gave them a renewed sense of hope.\", \"Being safe at home, he said, was a better option than the dangerous journey to Europe.\", \"\\\"We bonded by sharing our stories with each other as a way to work through the trauma,\\\" Sallah said. \\\"We made sure to be there for each other.\\\"\", \"Community awareness\", \"Through YAIM, the returnees began campaigns around irregular migration in The Gambia, warning others about the perils of journeying to Europe. \", \"Tombong Kuyateh, a returnee and YAIM member, told CNN that the association visits schools to share experiences with students who may be thinking about migrating.\", \"\\\"We share our personal stories with them. We show them examples of victims who were injured or affected during the journey to prevent them from experiencing the same,\\\" he said.\", \"The 27-year-old added that a lot of people listen to them because they have first-hand experience of what it's like to attempt that trip.\", \"Members of YAIM take to the streets of Banjul, The Gambia, during one of their public campaigns.\", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"Members of YAIM take to the streets of Banjul, The Gambia, during one of their public campaigns.\\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"Members of YAIM take to the streets of Banjul, The Gambia, during one of their public campaigns.\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200819175001-04-gambia-migration-intl-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"By crowdfunding and partnering with local and international groups for support, YAIM is also able to visit small communities across the country for campaigns against irregular migration, Kuyateh said.\", \"Miko Alazas, the IOM communications officer based in The Gambia, told CNN that the organization sometimes partners with returnee associations like YAIM to get people access to the right information, in order to make better migration-related choices.\", \"\\\"We work a lot with returnees because many of them are passionate about sharing their experiences in terms of exploitation and abuse -- so they are at the forefront of a lot of campaigns to raise awareness on irregular migration,\\\" he said.\", \"Now 29, Sallah travels around his home country, visiting radio stations and communities to talk about his harrowing experience. He believes in the power of storytelling to educate others about migration.\", \"\\\"I always tell them about the difficulties,\\\" he said. \\\"Some people lost their lives on the journey. I was part of those who ended up in detention. Every time you are on that journey, you are close to death.\\\"\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/18/africa/kenyan-comic-sensation-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"This chip-eating Kenyan comic is keeping Africans entertained on social media \", \"description\": \"Kenyan teenager, Elsa Majimbo is making viral monolgues on social media \", \"date\": \"2020-08-18T11:06:18Z\", \"author\": \"Aisha Salaudeen\", \"text\": [\" (CNN)\", \"Elsa Majimbo is taking over social media by providing comic relief on Instagram and Twitter amid the \", \"Covid-19 pandemic\", \". \", \"The Kenyan comic, whose relatable monologues often go viral, films from her home in Nairobi, the country's capital city. \", \"Majimbo first went viral after posting a video in March when initial restrictions such as intermittent lockdowns, border controls, and closure of schools and restaurants were\", \" imposed by the Kenyan government\", \" to curb the spread of Covid-19.\", \"In the video, the 19-year-old talked about being in isolation at the time and wanting to be left alone.\", \"var id = '//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js'.replace(/\\\\s+/g, '');!!document.getElementById(id) || (function makeEmbedScript(d, id) {var js,fjs;js = d.createElement('script');js.id = id;js.charset = 'utf-8';js.setAttribute('async', '');js.src = '//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js';fjs = d.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];window.WM.UserConsent.addScriptElement(js, [\\\"vendor\\\",\\\"measure-ads\\\"], fjs);}(document, id));\", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" View this post on Instagram\", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \"'Sending love,sending hugs,sending kisses'. Kama Hautumi Mpesa don't waste my time\", \" \", \"A post shared by \", \" Elsa Mpho Majimbo\", \" (@majimb.o) on \", \"Mar 30, 2020 at 10:20am PDT\", \"\\n\", \"\\\"Ever since corona started, we've all been in isolation, and I like, miss no one,\\\" she said, laughing and eating potato-based crunchy chips\", \" in the video\", \". \", \"Read More\", \"\\\"Why am I missing you? There is no reason for me to miss you... do I pay your rent? Do I provide food for you? Why are you missing me?\\\" she added, still laughing. \", \"The quirky humor in the video earned Majimbo many reshares and more than 250,000 views from users across the continent, including South Africa, Kenya and Nigeria. \", \"She told CNN she did not expect the video to get as much attention as it did, but many people related to it. \", \"Gentlemen, start your wheelbarrows! Meet the Nigerian kids ingeniously remaking famous videos with household objects\", \"\\\"It was the time we had just gotten to lockdown, and everyone was telling me they missed me, and I literally like being away from people, so I thought to myself, 'Let me make a video about that,'\\\" she said. \", \"\\\"I did not expect all the attention, but it happened, and I am glad it did.\\\"\", \"Since going viral, Majimbo has made more videos combining dry humor and criticism around the subject matters she decides to film about. \", \"Many of the videos have more than 250,000 views on Instagram and an average of 50,000 views on Twitter.  \", \"Some of the videos have also been featured on American owned cable channel, \", \"Comedy Central\", \". \", \"Eating crunchy chips \", \"Majimbo often incorporates eating crunchy chips, which has become one of her signature moves, to emphasize her points in her monologues.\", \"\\\"In the first video that trended, I ate chips. A lot of people seemed to like it. There were a lot of comments asking me to do it again. So, I was like, OK whatever, and I did it again,\\\" she told CNN. \", \"The comic sensation additionally wears tiny dark sunglasses as a prop in her videos. Just like crunching on chips, the '90s shades are for emphasizing on points made in her skits, she said. \", \"var id = '//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js'.replace(/\\\\s+/g, '');!!document.getElementById(id) || (function makeEmbedScript(d, id) {var js,fjs;js = d.createElement('script');js.id = id;js.charset = 'utf-8';js.setAttribute('async', '');js.src = '//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js';fjs = d.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];window.WM.UserConsent.addScriptElement(js, [\\\"vendor\\\",\\\"measure-ads\\\"], fjs);}(document, id));\", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" View this post on Instagram\", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \"If I pay for the app I own the abs\", \" \", \"A post shared by \", \" Elsa Mpho Majimbo\", \" (@majimb.o) on \", \"Jun 11, 2020 at 10:10am PDT\", \"\\n\", \"\\\"How do I manage to be this hot? The key to being hot is Photoshop,\\\" she said in \", \"one of her videos\", \" titled \\\"If I pay for the app, I own the abs.\\\"\", \"In the video, Majimbo joked about using Photoshop to look good in pictures, \\\"Why get a six-pack in five months when you can get them in five minutes?\\\" she added, putting on the sunglasses to make her point. \", \"Her videos have received support from \", \"celebrities \", \"like actor Lupita Nyongo and current Miss Universe, Zozibini Tunzi. \", \"Majimbo, who records all her monologues using her iPhone 6, said she does not write her lines down before filming, instead she simply \\\"goes with the flow.\\\"\", \"\\\"The thing I like the most about my videos is that they come to me so easily and so naturally. I could just be sitting and feel like making a video about something, and I do it. Anything that comes to my mind, I record,\\\" she said. \", \"\\\"If I don't have any lines to record. I don't even bother, I just skip it and say no video today,\\\" she added. \", \"'I've been able to find myself in a way I hadn't before'\", \"Since becoming an internet sensation, Majimbo said she partnered with brands such as Canadian cosmetics manufacturer, MAC cosmetics, to create content aimed at promoting their products in fun ways. \", \"The teenager, who is currently a journalism student at Strathmore University in Nairobi, is thinking about a completely different career.\", \"According to her, she is taking the time to explore different and newer options, particularly in entertainment, \\\"I think the career I wanted before is not what I want now. A lot of things have changed, I've been able to find myself in a way I hadn't before.\\\" \", \"She added that she is looking into acting roles and having her own comedy show. \", \"This Nigerian comic is getting a lot of love on TikTok with the 'Don't Leave Me' challenge\", \"But regardless of the career part Majimbo takes, she is already influencing social media users in Africa. \", \"She has been given a South African name \\\"Mpho\\\" by her fans in the country. The name means \\\"gift\\\" in Tswana language spoken in Southern Africa, Botswana, Namibia and Zimbabwe. \", \"Majimbo says she will continue to make relatable and funny monologues but will not be limited to them.\", \"\\\"I don't like setting expectations for my future plans because I don't want to be limited. I am open to exploring and becoming many things in the future.\\\"\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/07/africa/africa-engineering-prize-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"A 26-year-old is first woman to win Royal Academy of Engineering's Africa Prize for innovation\", \"description\": \"A 26-year-old has become the first woman to win the prestigious Royal Academy of Engineering's Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation.\\n\\n\", \"date\": \"2020-09-07T13:54:59Z\", \"author\": \"Aisha Salaudeen\", \"text\": [\" (CNN)\", \"A 26-year-old from Ivory Coast has won the 2020 Royal Academy of Engineering's Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation.\", \"Charlette N'Guessan is the \", \"first woman to win the award\", \", which could revolutionize cyber security and help curb identity fraud on the continent. \", \"N'Guessan and her team won the \\u00a325,000 award (about $33,000) for BACE API, a digital verification system that uses Artificial Intelligence and facial recognition to verify the identities of Africans remotely and in real time.\", \"BACE API works by matching the live photo of a user to the image on their documents such as passports or ID card, N'Guessan said. \", \"For websites and online applications that have BACE API integrated in them, users will be verified via their webcam to establish their  identity. \", \"Read More\", \"\\\"For the person trying to submit their application, we ask them to switch on their camera to make sure the person behind the camera is real, and not a robot. \", \"\\\"We are able to capture the face of the person live and match their image with the one on the existing document the person submitted,\\\" she explained. \", \"BACE API verifies users identities in real time using their phone camera or webcam\", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"BACE API verifies users identities in real time using their phone camera or webcam\\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"BACE API verifies users identities in real time using their phone camera or webcam\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200904115946-restricted-03-africa-engineering-prize-intl-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"BACE API can be integrated into already existing applications and systems for identity verification and is targeted at mostly financial institutions on the continent, N'Guessan told CNN. \", \"N'Guessan and her team won the Africa Prize for Innovation in a virtual award ceremony on September 3 where the Africa Prize judges and a live audience voted in their favor, the Royal Academy of Engineering said in\", \" a statement\", \". \", \"\\\"We are very proud to have Charlette N'Guessan and her team win this award,\\\" said Rebecca Enonchong, an entrepreneur from Cameroon entrepreneur and Africa Prize judge in the statement. \", \"\\\"It is essential to have technologies like facial recognition based on African communities, and we are confident their innovative technology will have far reaching benefits for the continent.\\\"\", \"BACE API matches a user's live photo with the image on their official documents to verify their identity. \", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"BACE API matches a user&#39;s live photo with the image on their official documents to verify their identity. \\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"BACE API matches a user&#39;s live photo with the image on their official documents to verify their identity. \\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200904115800-restricted-02-africa-engineering-prize-intl-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"Curbing identity fraud\", \"N'Guessan, who is the CEO and co-founder of Ghana-based software company, \", \"BACE Group\", \", told CNN that the idea came about while she was studying at the \", \"Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology\", \" (MEST) in Accra, Ghana's capital city. \", \"While there, she worked with a team of four and it was during one of their research projects in 2018 they decided to create BACE API, and later a software company. \", \"\\\"We ... talked to tech entrepreneurs. That's when we noticed that there is a huge problem with cyber security with online services and businesses,\\\" she said.\", \"N'Guessan said their research found that many financial institutions in the west African country deal with identity fraud, estimating that they spend up to $400 million dollars yearly to identify their customers. \", \"\\\"We decided to make our contribution as software engineers and data scientists by building a solution that can be useful for this market,\\\" N'Guessan added. \", \"Before the winner was announced on September 3, N'Guessan and other entrepreneurs shortlisted for the Africa Prize received eight months of training from experts across the world and her team was paired with an AI specialist who helped with improvements to their system. \", \" An African woman in tech\", \"N'Guessan's interest in technology started at a young age. Growing up in Ivory Coast, west Africa, she was encouraged to focus on science and technology subjects by her father, a mathematics professor.  \", \"\\\"He inspired my choice for studying STEM. I was actually really good in science-related courses. After high school, I went on to study software engineering at university,\\\" she said. \", \"Now running her own technology company, she told CNN that winning the Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation has helped to boost her confidence as a CEO leading a technical team of men.\", \"The Academy was founded in 1976 and has been running the award to reward engineering innovation in Africa since 2014. \", \"Globally, the technology industry is growing, but women led startups are in short supply with\", \" only 22%\", \" founded by at least one woman, according to a report in Disrupt Africa.\", \"This 9-year-old has built more than 30 mobile games\", \"Data specific to Africa is hard to come by but some studies suggest that \", \"only 9% of startups\", \" on the continent have women founders. \", \"N'Guessan says she hopes that her achievement will motivate more women to consider careers in tech. \", \"\\\"I will be happy if people are inspired by my story, being the first woman to win the Africa Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation and by my work as a woman in tech,\\\" she said. \"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/23/africa/asequals-nigeria-rape-sexual-violence-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"She's on the frontline of a rape epidemic. The pandemic has made her work more dangerous\", \"description\": null, \"date\": \"2020-06-23T09:00:49Z\", \"author\": \"Bukola Adebayo\", \"text\": [\"CNN is committed to covering gender inequality wherever it occurs in the world. This story is part of As Equals, an ongoing series.\", \" \", \"Lagos, Nigeria --\", \" At the start of each day, Dr. Anita Kemi DaSilva-Ibru and her team put on gloves, facemasks and other personal protective equipment to see their patients.\", \"They're not treating people for Covid-19, but they are on the frontline of the pandemic, working at the Women at Risk International Foundation (WARIF), a rape crisis center in Lagos, Nigeria.\", \"Wearing protective gear is the new reality for crisis center workers, like DaSilva-Ibru.\", \"\\\"We change these kits each time we see a survivor as we are mindful of the risk of transmission of the virus between the survivor and us and the cross-contamination between a survivor and the next,\\\" she told CNN.\", \"US-trained gynecologist DaSilva-Ibru has spent most of her career treating hundreds of sexual violence victims but it was the growing scale of the crisis in Nigeria that prompted her to set up WARIF in 2016.\", \"Read More\", \"The clinic in Yaba, a suburb of Lagos, provides medical treatment, legal assistance therapy and space for rape victims and survivors of sexual abuse to get back on their feet.\", \"One in four Nigerian girls \", \"has been the victim of sexual violence, according to UN estimates but DaSilva-Ibru says the numbers are higher as many cases go unreported due to the stigma attached.\", \"In recent weeks, two high profile cases of gender-based violence have brought Nigerian women out onto the streets demanding change.\", \"Uwaila Vera Omozuwa, a 22-year-old microbiology student, was \", \"found half-naked in a pool of blood\", \" in a local church where she had gone to study after the Covid-19 lockdown left universities across the country shut. \", \"\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote {\\n position: relative;\\n color: #262626;\\n margin: 25px auto;\\n padding: 10px 0 14px 0;\\n width: 100%;\\n max-width: 660px;\\n border-left: 0;\\n text-align: center;\\n}\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote:before, .cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote:after {\\n position: absolute;\\n content: '';\\n width: 50px;\\n height: 2px;\\n left: 50%;\\n transform: translateX(-50%);\\n -webkit-transform: translateX(-50%);\\n background-color: #262626;\\n}\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote:before {\\n top: 0;\\n}\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote:after {\\n bottom: -2px;\\n}\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote {\\n position: relative;\\n margin: 0;\\n text-align: center;\\n font-size: 35px;\\n font-weight: 700;\\n word-spacing: -1px;\\n line-height: 1.15;\\n padding: 24px 10px 22px 10px;\\n margin-bottom: 24px;\\n}\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote-cite {\\n margin: 0;\\n text-align: center;\\n font-size: 12px;\\n font-weight: 200;\\n color: #262626;\\n line-height: 1.15;\\n padding: 0 10px;\\n display: inline-block;\\n}\\n@media only screen and (min-width: 768px)  {\\n .cnnix-golf__pullquote {\\n  margin: 50px auto;\\n }\\n .cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote {\\n  font-size: 35px;\\n }\\n} \\n\", \"\\n \", \"\\n \", \"\\\"Rape is an epidemic in this country.\\\"\", \"\\n \", \" Dr. Anita Kemi DaSilva-Ibru, Women at Risk International Foundation\", \"\\n \", \"Her family said her attackers raped her and the student died while being treated at the hospital. A few days later, another student, Barakat Bello, was allegedly raped and killed during a robbery at her home,\", \" according to human rights group Amnesty International.\", \"\\\"Rape is an epidemic in this country,\\\" DaSilva-Ibru told CNN.\", \"She says her work with survivors of sexual violence has become more critical during the outbreak, with restrictions to curb the virus from spreading fueling a surge in calls. \", \"It's a story echoed in other parts of the region, as authorities grapple with a growing number of Covid-19 cases and the impact restrictions are having on women.\", \"Related: A transport ban in Uganda means women are trapped at home with their abusers\", \"DaSilva-Ibru said she initially closed the center after authorities locked down the city in March, she had to reconsider the decision as the organization became inundated with SOS messages from sexual violence victims and their guardians.\", \"Staff operating the 24-hour helpline at the center also reported a 64% increase in calls during this period, according to DaSilva-Ibru. \", \"\\\"Our phones were ringing. Women were calling and desperately asking how we can help them, these were women in fear of their lives, as many have now been forced into quarantine with their abusers, in an already volatile environment,\\\" DaSilva-Ibru told CNN.\", \"For the center to re-open, DaSilva-Ibru said she had to source PPE, face masks and other protective gear personally and when that was not enough, the center launched an online appeal for funds from donors to buy the equipment at no cost to survivors, she said. \", \"\\\"We carry out forensic examinations on survivors and our frontline health workers who triage and examine patients are in close proximity to the survivors. As much as we need to carry out our duties, we also need to ensure our workers are adequately protected,\\\" DaSilva-Ibru told CNN.\", \"The challenges Ibru faces to keep the center open, doesn't compare to what sexual violence victims have experienced as a result of this pandemic, she said.\", \"DaSilva-Ibru recalls a woman who told staff at the center that her male friend had raped her in her home during the lockdown.\", \"Dr. Anita Kemi DaSilva-Ibru. \", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"Dr. Anita Kemi DaSilva-Ibru. \\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"Dr. Anita Kemi DaSilva-Ibru. \\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200618151608-02-dr-kemi-dasilva-ibru-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"\\\"The first day we re-opened, we attended to women who had walked many miles in spite of the mandatory lockdown to get to the center. These are women who had been terrorized in their homes,\\\" she added.\", \"\\\"She (a survivor) had repeatedly been calling (the center) to find out how she could get help. She feared she might have contracted HIV and wanted to be tested,\\\" Ibru said. \", \"Speaking to CNN, the woman, who didn't want to use her name to protect her identity, said a co-worker raped her after he came to her apartment unannounced in April. \", \"The young banker said she had previously rebuffed his attempts to visit, but on that Sunday afternoon in April, he showed up at her doorstep.\", \"\\\"He's a friend, not a stranger, so I opened the door for him. I was still asking him what was so urgent that made him leave his home. He said he wanted to check up on me and I told him he could have done that over the phone,\\\" she told CNN.\", \"But a few minutes into his visit, the conversation became uncomfortable between them.\", \"\\\"He kept coming towards me, and when I told him to stop, he put his hand over my mouth and pinned me on the floor,\\\" she said.\", \"She says he apologized after raping her and hurriedly left her house.\", \"The survivor told CNN she did not make a police complaint because she was worried about the stigma and strain that the rape might have on her parents.  \", \"A friend she confided in told her to reach out to the \", \"Lagos Domestic and Sexual Violence Response Team\", \" who put survivors in touch with treatment centers for help.\", \"After several calls to the centers on their website, she was referred to \", \"WARIF\", \".\", \"When she went to the clinic, she says staff ran some tests and placed her on Post Exposure Prophylaxis, a HIV prevention treatment for possible exposure.\", \"\\\"Sometimes I get really angry, and sometimes I feel numb,\\\" she said, reflecting on the assault.\", \"She says she was sick every night for 28 days because of the drugs.\", \"\\\"...even though the doctor prepared me for the side effect, it has not been easy,\\\" she told CNN. \", \"Gender-based violence is a problem in many countries, but the coronavirus pandemic has worsened the situation.\", \"The \", \"UN says\", \" the raft of measures deployed by governments to fight the pandemic have led to economic hardship, stress, and fear -- conditions that lead to violence against women and girls. \", \"Equality Now Regional Coordinator in Africa Judy Gitau told CNN that the wave of unemployment and school closures has put victims in a precarious situation.\", \"She recalls a similar situation in Sierra Leone \", \"during the 2014 Ebola outbreak\", \" when\", \" teenage pregnancies spiked\", \" in the country\", \"The government enforced strict stay-at-home orders that closed businesses and schools across the West African nation to curb the spread of the virus, she said.\", \"The restrictions made schoolgirls vulnerable to abuse as some were assaulted in their homes by relatives, and at the same time, a majority of girls from low-income families were coerced to exchange sex for money for food, Gitau said. \", \"\\\"Many of them wound up pregnant but the evidence became available when people were plugging back to life as they knew it as a normal society,\\\" she said.\", \"Gitau says authorities must know that perpetrators often take advantage of the strict measures to abuse victims without arousing much suspicion.\", \"As state resources are being re-focused to tackle the spread of coronavirus, law enforcement agencies should also respond quickly to reports of abuse and create shelters for victims in need of immediate rescue, she said.\", \"But placing women in shelters, especially in countries battling an outbreak, comes with the additional burden of proof, according to DaSilva-Ibru who said shelters in Lagos city are asking survivors to take coronavirus tests before they can be admitted to prevent infection in their facilities.\", \"\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote {\\n position: relative;\\n color: #262626;\\n margin: 25px auto;\\n padding: 10px 0 14px 0;\\n width: 100%;\\n max-width: 660px;\\n border-left: 0;\\n text-align: center;\\n}\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote:before, .cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote:after {\\n position: absolute;\\n content: '';\\n width: 50px;\\n height: 2px;\\n left: 50%;\\n transform: translateX(-50%);\\n -webkit-transform: translateX(-50%);\\n background-color: #262626;\\n}\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote:before {\\n top: 0;\\n}\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote:after {\\n bottom: -2px;\\n}\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote {\\n position: relative;\\n margin: 0;\\n text-align: center;\\n font-size: 35px;\\n font-weight: 700;\\n word-spacing: -1px;\\n line-height: 1.15;\\n padding: 24px 10px 22px 10px;\\n margin-bottom: 24px;\\n}\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote-cite {\\n margin: 0;\\n text-align: center;\\n font-size: 12px;\\n font-weight: 200;\\n color: #262626;\\n line-height: 1.15;\\n padding: 0 10px;\\n display: inline-block;\\n}\\n@media only screen and (min-width: 768px)  {\\n .cnnix-golf__pullquote {\\n  margin: 50px auto;\\n }\\n .cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote {\\n  font-size: 35px;\\n }\\n} \\n\", \"\\n \", \"\\n \", \"\\\"Violence against women and girls is one of the most pervasive forms of a human rights violation and should be recognized by all countries.\\\"\", \"\\n \", \" Dr. Anita Kemi DaSilva-Ibru, Women at Risk International Foundation\", \"\\n \", \"Authorities in Lagos designated gender-based violence services essential in May as it eased lockdown into curfews to allow service providers to get to work more smoothly, DaSilva-Ibru said. \", \"The police force says it has now deployed more officers to its stations across the country to respond to the \\\"increasing challenges of sexual assaults and domestic/gender-based violence linked with the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic.\\\" And last week, governors across the country resolved to declare \", \"a state of emergency on rape\", \", according to the Nigerian Governor's Forum (NGF).\", \"Related: Nigerian women are taking to the streets in protests against rape and sexual violence\", \"It's the first time federal and state authorities are coming out with a united voice to condemn gender violence, DaSilva-Ibru said and it validates the outcry of women in the country and the scale of the problem in Nigeria, she added.\", \"\\\"Violence against women and girls is one of the most pervasive forms of a human rights violation and should be recognized by all countries,\\\" DaSilva-Ibru said.\", \"\\\"In Nigeria, it has become a national crisis that needs urgent attention. I am pleased that this has been recognized.\\\"\", \"\\n  window.cnnAsEqualsConfig = window.cnnAsEqualsConfig || {};\\n  window.cnnAsEqualsConfig.theme = 'black';\\n\", \"\\n\", \"Click here for more stories from the As Equals series.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/24/africa/kenya-maasai-warriors-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"Kenya's Maasai gather for once-in-a-decade ceremony to turn warriors into elders\", \"description\": \"Thousands of Maasai men clad in red and purple shawls and with their heads coated in red ocher gathered this week for a ceremony that transforms them from Moran (warriors) to Mzee (elders).\", \"date\": \"2020-09-24T14:41:25Z\", \"author\": \"Story by Reuters \", \"text\": [\"Maparasha Hills, Kenya\", \"Thousands of Maasai men clad in red and purple shawls and with their heads coated in red ocher gathered this week for a ceremony that transforms them from Moran (warriors) to Mzee (elders).\", \"Around 15,000 men from all over Kenya and neighboring Tanzania congregated in Maparasha Hills in Kajiado County, 128 kilometers from Nairobi, to feast on an estimated 3,000 bulls and 30,000 goats and sheep.\", \"The ceremony occurs once every decade at the site, which is surrounded by hills and dotted with acacia trees.\", \"On Wednesday, the men roasted the meat on beds of coal from acacia trees, holding staffs and swords.\", \"\\\"I used to be a Moran, But after this ceremony, I now graduate to be a Mzee (elder),\\\" Stephen Seriamu Sarbabi, a 34-year-old livestock trader, told Reuters.\", \"Read More\", \"\\\"I will now be having a lot of responsibilities in the community. I will be chairing some different meetings, I will be consulted,\\\" he added.\", \"The arrival of coronavirus in March forced a postponement of the ceremony, which was meant to have been held earlier in the year.\", \"\\\"My role here in this ceremony, is to come and bless my boys to graduate, to another stage of being wazees (elders), and to give them their privileges,\\\" Moses Lepunyo ole Purkei, a farmer, community health volunteer and elder, told Reuters.\", \"During the ceremony, the men were accompanied by their wives, who also wore colorful shawls and beads around their necks and sang songs praising and encouraging the incoming group of elders.\", \"There are about 1.2 million Maasai living in Kenya, according to the government statistics office.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/12/us/ray-hushpuppi-alleged-money-laundering-trnd/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"He flaunted private jets and luxury cars on Instagram. Feds used his posts to link him to alleged cyber crimes \", \"description\": \"A federal affidavit alleged his extravagant lifestyle was financed through hacking schemes that stole millions of dollars from major companies in the United States and Europe. \", \"date\": \"2020-07-12T04:04:56Z\", \"author\": \"Faith Karimi\", \"text\": [\" (CNN)\", \"Ramon Abbas flaunted \", \"a lavish lifestyle of private jets, designer clothes\", \" and luxury cars. \", \"To his \", \"2.5 million Instagram followers,\", \" he went by Ray Hushpuppi, a man who boarded helicopters from his Dubai waterfront apartment and walked around with shopping bags from Gucci, Versace and Fendi.  \", \"On social media, where he posted a video of himself tossing wads of cash like confetti, he told his followers he was a real estate developer. But a federal affidavit alleged his extravagant lifestyle was financed through hacking schemes that\", \" stole millions of dollars \", \"from major companies in the United States and Europe. \", \"His flamboyant posts left a digital trail of evidence that investigators used to link him to the crimes, the affidavit shows. \", \"Last month, United Arab Emirates investigators swooped into his Dubai apartment, arrested him and handed him over to FBI agents, who flew him to Chicago on July 2, federal officials said. \", \"Read More\", \"In the coming weeks, he'll be transferred to Los Angeles -- where the affidavit was filed -- to face accusations of conspiring to launder hundreds of millions of dollars through cyber crime schemes.  \", \"Ramon Abbas allegedly  conspired to launder millions of dollars.\", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"Ramon Abbas allegedly  conspired to launder millions of dollars.\\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"Ramon Abbas allegedly  conspired to launder millions of dollars.\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200703180555-01-nigerian-man-charged-money-laundering-conspiracy-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"$41 million and 13 luxury cars seized  \", \"The Nigerian national lived at the exclusive Palazzo Versace in Dubai, and led a global network that used computer intrusions, business email compromise schemes and money laundering to steal hundreds of millions of dollars from companies, federal prosecutors allege. \", \"He worked with multiple co-conspirators and was arrested along with 11 others. Investigators seized nearly $41 million, 13 luxury cars worth $6.8 million, and phone and computer evidence, \", \"Dubai Police\", \" said in a statement. They uncovered email addresses of nearly 2 million possible victims on phones, computers and hard drives, Dubai authorities said. \", \"\\\"This case targets a key player in a large, transnational conspiracy who was living an opulent lifestyle in another country while allegedly providing safe havens for stolen money around the world,\\\" US Attorney Nick Hanna said in a statement. \", \"Abbas' attorney, Gal Pissetzky, declined to get into details on how his client earns his money. But what he does for a living is going to be \\\"one of the main points of contention here,\\\" he told CNN\", \".\", \"Pissetzky called his client's arrest a kidnapping, saying Dubai handed him to the United States with \\\"no legal proceedings whatsoever.\\\" Abbas has not been formally indicted, and the government has 30 days to indict him, his attorney said Thursday.  \", \"His birthday post helped track him down\", \"Abbas made no secret of his opulent lifestyle and remarkable wealth. On Snapchat, he called himself the \\\"Billionaire Gucci Master.\\\" \", \"\\\"Started out my day having sushi down at Nobu in Monte Carlo, Monaco, then decided to book a helicopter to have ... facials at the Christian Dior spa in Paris then ended my day having champagne in Gucci,\\\" he \", \"posted on Instagram\", \". \", \"Photos of him displaying multiple models of Bentley, Ferrari, Mercedes and Rolls Royce cars included the hashtag #AllMine. Others show him rubbing elbows with international sports stars and other celebrities. \", \"In the affidavit, federal officials detailed how his social media accounts provided a treasure trove of information to confirm his identity. His Instagram, for example, had an email and phone number saved for account security purposes. Federal officials got that information and linked that email and phone number to financial transactions and transfers with people the FBI believed were his co-conspirators. \", \"\\\"The email account ... also contained emails with attachments relating to wire transfers in large dollar values,\\\" the affidavit said.\", \"His Apple and Snapchat records also provided information that helped investigators confirm his identity, address and communications with other suspects. Even his Instagram birthday celebration photos provided key information. \", \"One \", \"post displayed a birthday cake\", \" topped with a Fendi logo and a miniature image of him surrounded by tiny shopping bags. Investigators used that post to verify his date of birth on a previous US visa application. \", \"Ramon Abbas told his 2.5 million Instagram followers that he's in real estate.\", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"Ramon Abbas told his 2.5 million Instagram followers that he&#39;s in real estate.\\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"Ramon Abbas told his 2.5 million Instagram followers that he&#39;s in real estate.\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200703180655-03-nigerian-man-charged-money-laundering-conspiracy-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"Companies targeted spanned two continents \", \"His alleged cyber crimes involved jaw-dropping amounts of money.\", \"Federal documents detailed how a paralegal at a New York law firm wired nearly $923,000 meant for a client's real estate refinancing to a bank account controlled by Abbas and his co-conspirators. The paralegal had received fraudulent wire instructions after sending an email to what appeared to be a bank email address but was later identified as a \\\"spoofed\\\" email address, the affidavit said.    \", \"Abbas sent a co-conspirator an image of the wire transfer confirmation for the transaction, according to the affidavit.\", \" \", \"He\", \" \", \"and an unnamed person also conspired to launder $14.7 million from a foreign financial institution last year, according to a criminal complaint.\", \"During that alleged cyber crime, Abbas sent a co-conspirator the account information for a Romanian bank account, which he said could be used for \\\"large amounts.\\\" In other alleged schemes, he also provided Dubai bank accounts that can be used to deposit money from victims in the United States, the affidavit said. \", \"He's also accused of conspiring to try to steal $124 million from an unnamed English Premier League soccer club. But it's unclear whether the attempt was successful.\", \"FBI recorded $1.7 billion in losses from such scams\", \"Business email compromise schemes are sophisticated scams that involve a hacker redirecting business email account communications to try and intercept wire transfers. \", \"\\\"BEC schemes are one of the most difficult cyber crimes we encounter as they typically involve a coordinated group of con artists scattered around the world who have experience with computer hacking and exploiting the international financial system,\\\"  Hanna said. \", \"Last year alone, the FBI recorded $1.7 billion in losses by companies and individuals victimized through business email compromise scams, according to Paul Delacourt of the FBI field office in Los Angeles. \", \"If convicted of money laundering, Abbas faces up to 20 years in prison. His bond hearing is set for Monday. \", \"His transfer to Los Angeles has been complicated by logistics linked to coronavirus, his attorney said. \", \"CNN's Laurie Ure and Steve Almasy contributed to this report.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/20/africa/nigeria-fashion-tiffany-amber-coronavirus-ppe-spc-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"Nigerian fashion label Tiffany Amber swaps couture for PPE\", \"description\": \"Company founder Folake Akindele Coker pivoted her fashion label into PPE production after she realized that a prolonged lockdown in Nigeria would impact consumer sales.\", \"date\": \"2020-07-21T01:21:46Z\", \"author\": \"Daniel Renjifo\", \"text\": [\" (CNN)\", \"These days, things look a little different when Folake Akindele Coker gets to her office. \\\"I arrive at 9am, all geared (up) for this invisible enemy,\\\" she says. The 45-year-old designer and founder of Nigerian fashion label Tiffany Amber now starts each day with a 10-minute safety talk for her production team, \\\"who at first did not seem to understand the gravity and the potential of being infected by the (Covid-19) virus.\\\"\", \"Coker founded \", \"Tiffany Amber\", \" in 1998, and it's now considered one of Nigeria's most influential fashion and lifestyle brands.\", \"In early March, the number of colorful prints and couture runway garments that normally littered the factory floor dissipated, and the company's sewing machines began stitching hospital scrubs, gowns, stretcher sheets and non-medical face masks. Less than a month after the pandemic reached Africa, Tiffany Amber's entire factory refocused to produce personal protective equipment (PPE), something Coker notes took immense pressure to turn around. \", \"The colorful garments of the Tiffany Amber fashion line, seen here during Arise Fashion week in 2019, have since been replaced in production by PPE to help during the pandemic.\", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"The colorful garments of the Tiffany Amber fashion line, seen here during Arise Fashion week in 2019, have since been replaced in production by PPE to help during the pandemic.\\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"Tiffany Amber Nigeria fashion runway\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200715102210-tiffany-amber-fashion-nigeria-restricted-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"To make the shift, Coker says the company first had to secure more than 15 tons of raw materials including approximately 90,000 yards of fabric, 300,000 yards of elastic, and almost a million yards of thread. All of this happened, she says, right before borders closed in Nigeria and prices spiked due to the unforeseen demand for materials.\", \"See more stories from Marketplace Africa\", \"Read More\", \"As of mid-July, the World Health Organization shows Nigeria as having\", \" more than 30,000\", \" total confirmed cases of coronavirus, the second-most on the continent behind South Africa.\", \"As Covid-19 cases rose and consumer spending fell, Coker saw an opportunity for her business to stay open -- and to help out. \\\"Our expertise in garment production helped facilitate this shift to bridge the gap in the supply of medical apparel,\\\" she tells CNN.\", \"A Tiffany Amber employee sorts ready-to-ship gowns for healthcare workers.\", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"A Tiffany Amber employee sorts ready-to-ship gowns for healthcare workers.\\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"A Tiffany Amber employee sorts ready-to-ship gowns for healthcare workers.\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200626121436-tiffany-amber-ppe-production-gowns-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"The push for PPE\", \"This pivot has been a trend in the private sector worldwide, as companies around the globe have \", \"switched gears to supply the growing demand for PPE\", \".\", \"According to the World Bank, Covid-19 has pushed sub-Saharan Africa into its \", \"first recession in 25 years\", \", greatly impacting the continent's biggest revenue drivers such as energy, agriculture and manufacturing. \", \"Read more: Across Africa, the pandemic reveals both inequality and innovation\", \"Globally, the \", \"luxury market is also expected to shrink \", \"as much as 35% this year, as consumer spending sharply declines mainly due to job loss, according to consulting firm Bain and Co.\", \"Tiffany Amber employees wearing masks, and making masks.\", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"Tiffany Amber employees wearing masks, and making masks.\\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"Tiffany Amber employees wearing masks, and making masks.\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200626120613-tiffany-amber-production-ppe-employees-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"Efforts to make and source \", \"PPE in Nigeria\", \" have primarily relied on private corporations\", \" \", \"working hand in hand with suppliers. In an attempt to stay solvent, Coker says Tiffany Amber is working with partners in the financial sector to fund and distribute the PPE products.\", \"By early June, she notes, the fashion label had made approximately 500,000 cloth masks, 20,000 sets of sheets and pillowcases, 10,000 scrubs, 15,000 patient gowns and close to 5,000 surgical gowns.\", \"Alcohol ban has South African distilleries pivoting to a new product\", \"In Tiffany Amber's case, shifting to PPE production has had an unlikely silver lining: job creation. Since March, Coker says her company has actually managed to grow from 100 employees to a staff of 300.\", \"At the time of writing, Coker does not anticipate returning to regular Tiffany Amber fashion production in the near future. But even as her company responds to the current reality, she keeps planning for when that day will come. \\\"One mind is thinking about tomorrow morning and the other mind is processing the next two years,\\\" says Coker. \\\"Subconsciously, I find myself drifting away, putting together the next Tiffany Amber collection.\\\"\", \"CNN's Lamide Akintobi contributed to this report\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/16/africa/amnesty-mozambique-video-killing-investigation-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"Amnesty International calls for investigation into video showing execution of woman in Mozambique\", \"description\": \"Amnesty International has called for an immediate investigation into the apparent extrajudicial killing of a woman in Mozambique that was shared widely in a horrifying video on social media earlier this week. \", \"date\": \"2020-09-16T17:31:35Z\", \"author\": \"David McKenzie, Brent Swails and Vasco Cotovio\", \"text\": [\" (CNN)\", \"Amnesty International has called for an immediate investigation into the apparent extrajudicial killing of a woman in Mozambique that was shared widely in a horrifying video on social media earlier this week. \", \"In the nearly two-minute-long video, men wearing military uniforms are seen chasing down a naked woman, surrounding and verbally harassing her along a rural road. One of the men repeatedly beats her with a stick before another man shoots her at close range. \", \" \", \"She is then repeatedly shot by the men while lying on the road before one of the men shouts \\\"Stop, stop, enough, it's done.\\\" \", \" \", \"Read More\", \"The video ends as the men turn and walk away, with one of them announcing, \\\"They've killed the al-Shabaab,\\\" the local name given to the growing insurgency in the far north of the country. \", \"It has no known links to the Somali terrorist group of the same name. The uniformed man looks directly into camera and raises his two fingers before the recording stops. \", \" \", \"\\\"The horrendous video is yet another gruesome example of the gross human rights violations taking place in Cabo Delgado by the Mozambican forces,\\\" said Deprose Muchena, Amnesty International's Director for East and Southern Africa.\", \"A young boy was killed by a police stray bullet during a coronavirus curfew. Now his parents want answers\", \" \", \"In its own analysis of the video, the human rights group says that the men were wearing the uniform of the Mozambican military. Amnesty says four different gunmen shot the woman a total of 36 times with AK-47s and PKM-style machine guns. Its investigation concluded that the incident took place near Awasse in the country's northernmost province Cabo Delgado. \", \" \", \"\\\"The incident is consistent with our recent findings of appalling human rights violations and crimes under international law happening in the area,\\\" said Muchena. \", \" \", \"CNN could not independently the authenticity of the video, the date and location it was filmed, nor the identity of the gunmen. \", \" \", \"Mozambique's Minister of Interior Amade Miquidade denied the accusations of atrocities, though did not address the video specifically, on national television Tuesday, saying that insurgents frequently wear army uniforms. \", \" \", \"\\\"When they want to produce their propaganda against the security and defense forces, against the Mozambican state, they remove those signs/characters that identify them and make videos to promote an image of atrocity practiced by those who defend the people,\\\" he said. \", \"Ammonium nitrate that exploded in Beirut bought for mining, Mozambican firm says \", \" \", \"Cabo Delgado is home to a $60 billion natural gas development that is heavily guarded by Mozambican military and private security. \", \" \", \"Loosely aligned with ISIS, the insurgents have undertaken increasingly sophisticated attacks in recent months, overrunning large parts of Mocimba de Praia, a strategic port north of the regional capital Pemba in August. Unlike in previous attacks, government forces have struggled to fully retake the territory. \", \" \", \"The insurgents have been accused by the government and human rights groups of their own violent abuses -- including beheadings, looting, and indiscriminate killing of civilians. \", \" \", \"And the interior minister highlighted those alleged abuses on Tuesday. \", \" \", \"\\\"Once more, our country continues to be the object of aggression by the terrorists, namely in the province of Cabo Delgado, where they've enforced cruel, inhuman, atrocious acts against our population,\\\" said Miquidade.\", \" \", \"Security analysts and human rights workers say that insurgents operating in the area do sometimes wear Mozambican military uniforms. But the uniformed men in the video showing the woman's killing speak Portuguese, generally more common to Mozambicans from the South. \", \"CNN's David McKenzie and Brent Swails reported from Johannesburg and Vasco Cotovio reported from London.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/16/africa/blasphemy-nigeria-boy-sentenced-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"Outrage as Nigeria sentences 13-year-old boy to 10 years in prison for blasphemy\", \"description\": \"Child rights agency UNICEF has condemned the sentencing of a 13-year-old boy to 10 years in prison for blasphemy in northern Nigeria. \", \"date\": \"2020-09-16T14:09:33Z\", \"author\": \"Stephanie Busari and Eoin McSweeney\", \"text\": [\" (CNN)\", \"Child rights agency UNICEF has condemned the sentencing of a 13-year-old boy to 10 years in prison for blasphemy in northern Nigeria. \", \"Omar Farouq was convicted in a Sharia court in Kano State in northwest Nigeria after he was accused of using foul language toward Allah in an argument with a friend. \", \"He was sentenced on August 10 by the same court that recently sentenced a studio assistant Yahaya Sharif-Aminu to death for blaspheming Prophet Mohammed, according to lawyers. \", \"Farouq's punishment is in violation of the African Charter of the Rights and Welfare of a Child and the Nigerian constitution, said his counsel Kola Alapinni, who told CNN they filed an appeal on his behalf on September 7. \", \"Farouq was tried as an adult because he has attained puberty and has full responsibility under Islamic law. \", \"Read More\", \"Alapinni told CNN he or other lawyers working on the case have not been granted access to Farouq by authorities in Kano State. \", \"He said he found out about Farouq's case by chance when working on the case of Sharif-Aminu, who was sentenced to death for blasphemy at the Kano Upper Sharia Court. \", \"\\\"We found out they were convicted on the same day, by the same judge, in the same court, for blasphemy and we found out no one was talking about Omar, so we had to move quickly to file an appeal for him,\\\" he said. \", \"\\\"Blasphemy is not recognized by Nigerian law. It is inconsistent with the constitution of Nigeria.\\\"\", \" \", \" .m-infographic--1600276717888 { background: url(//cdn.cnn.com/cnn/.e/interactive/html5-video-media/2020/09/16/20201609_kano_state_map_375px.jpg) no-repeat 0 0 transparent; margin-bottom: 30px; padding-top: 111.4513981358189%; width: 100%; -moz-background-size: cover; -o-background-size: cover; -webkit-background-size: cover; background-size: cover; } @media (min-width: 640px) { .m-infographic--1600276717888{ background-image: url(//cdn.cnn.com/cnn/.e/interactive/html5-video-media/2020/09/16/20201609_kano_state_map_780px.jpg); padding-top: 84.2948717948718%; } } @media (min-width: 1120px) { .m-infographic--1600276717888{ background-image: url(//cdn.cnn.com/cnn/.e/interactive/html5-video-media/2020/09/16/20201609_kano_state_map_780px.jpg); padding-top: 84.2948717948718%; } } \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \"The lawyer said Farouq's mother had fled to a neighboring town after mobs descended on their home following his arrest. \", \"\\\"Everyone here is scared to speak and living under fear of reprisal attacks,\\\" he said. \", \"UNICEF Wednesday issued a statement \\\"expressing deep concern\\\" about the sentencing. \", \"\\\"The sentencing of this child -- 13-year-old Omar Farouq -- to 10 years in prison with menial labour is wrong,\\\" said Peter Hawkins, UNICEF representative in Nigeria. \\\"It also negates all core underlying principles of child rights and child justice that Nigeria -- and by implication, Kano State -- has signed on to.\\\" \", \"Kano State, like most predominantly Muslim states in Nigeria, practices Sharia law alongside secular law. \", \"Islam Fast Facts\", \"CNN contacted a spokesman for the Kano State governor for comment but had not heard back before publication. \", \"UNICEF has called on the Nigerian government and the Kano State government to urgently review the case and reverse the sentence, the organization said in a statement. \", \"\\\"This case further underlines the urgent need to accelerate the enactment of the Kano State Child Protection Bill so as to ensure that all children under 18, including Omar Farouq are protected -- and that all children in Kano are treated in accordance with child rights standards,\\\" Hawkins said.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/18/africa/disney-partners-with-nollywood/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"Disney partners with Nollywood to bring American movies to English-speaking West Africa\", \"description\": \"FilmOne Entertainment is now the sole distributor of Disney titles in English speaking West Africa\", \"date\": \"2020-09-18T12:02:13Z\", \"author\": \"Aisha Salaudeen\", \"text\": [\"Lagos, Nigeria (CNN)\", \"Disney, is joining forces with a Nigerian production and distribution company to market some of the American entertainment conglomerate's new releases such as \\\"Mulan\\\" in English-speaking West Africa.\", \"The deal makes FilmOne Entertainment the sole distributors of Disney-owned films in Nigeria, Ghana, and Liberia. \", \"\\\"It is a major career highlight, that we're able to get the world's biggest movie studio as a partner,\\\" Moses Babatope, a director at FilmOne, told CNN. \", \"Bollywood and Nollywood collide in a tale of a big fat Indian-Nigerian wedding\", \"FilmOne Entertainment has been at the forefront of growing Nigeria's cinema culture and has built cinemas across the country, including IMAX screens.\", \"The firm has also distributed and produced \", \"Nigerian box office hits \", \"such as \\\"The Wedding Party,\\\" and \\\"New Money.'\\\"\", \"Read More\", \"\\\"What the deal means is that we are exclusive marketers and distributors of Disney titles in the English-speaking West African countries that have studio licensed cinemas. We will distribute the films to all those cinemas in the territory,\\\" he explained. \", \"The agreement, which commenced this month, covers titles from all Disney studio divisions including Pixar, Marvel Studios, Walt Disney Pictures, and Blue Sky pictures. \", \"\\\"With their in-depth knowledge of the region and expertise in bringing theatrical releases to fans, we are thrilled to welcome FilmOne as our distribution partner for this territory,\\\" Disney Africa's country manager, Christine Service said in a statement. \", \"Bigger opportunities\", \"Film analysts in the country say this deal may convince investors and film producers to look further into the African movie industry. \", \"\\\"This deal is huge because it means that Disney is paying attention. Their presence can open doors for movie collaborations,\\\" said Shola Thompson, a Nigeria-based film consultant.\", \"Thompson added that distributing Disney movies is a pathway to getting the best content to cinemas, which can improve the cinema-going culture in the region as well as increase their potential earnings.\", \"As a result of restrictions following the Covid-19 pandemic, many cinemas in West Africa are not operating at full capacity. But FilmOne Entertainment says it is working on improving the cinema experience as a way of encouraging people to show up when all restrictions have been lifted.\", \"Netflix partners with Nigerian filmmaker in new major deal \", \"\\\"We will let people know that they enjoy films better when they watch with other people. To say that the experience out of home is very different,\\\" Babatope said. \", \"\\\"We will communicate that cinemas are safe in our communications to audiences. We will document what the cinemas are doing regarding incorporating safety procedures,\\\" he added. \", \"Disney's deal is not the first time a multinational entertainment company is partnering with film companies in West Africa.\", \"In 2019, FilmOne Entertainment signed a deal with Chinese media giant Huahua to co-produce the first \", \"major China-Nigeria film. \", \"In the same year, French Media giant,\", \" Canal+ acquired leading Nollywood film studio, ROK film studios\", \" to create more hours of Nigerian content for its French-speaking audience.\", \"Independence key to collaboration\", \"Thompson who is also a film analyst says the growing influence of entertainment companies like Disney on the continent may create room for greater Hollywood influence in Africa, without a corresponding influence of African film content in Hollywood.\", \"\\\"We need to be a bit careful to make sure we don't lose creative control of our stories. With more multinationals looking into Africa for partnerships, we don't want to find ourselves stuck with them dictating what we start to produce,\\\" he said. \", \"\\\"At the same time, we can still be glad that they are paying attention as that means growth for our film industry,\\\" he added. \", \"As FilmOne Entertainment prepares to start distributing Disney content, Babatope says the partnership is an opportunity that can lead to future collaborations involving largely African content. \", \"\\\"It's true that a lot of the content we will be distributing are from other parts of the world but if we are able to demonstrate that we are accountable and transparent, then there will be room to attract future investments involving content from this region.\\\"\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/23/africa/china-ethiopia-test-kits-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"China's BGI wins 1.5 million coronavirus test kit order from Ethiopia\", \"description\": \"Ethiopia has agreed to purchase 1.5 million coronavirus testing kits that will be manufactured at a factory in the African country that has been newly built by China's BGI Group, China's state media agency Xinhua said late on Tuesday.\", \"date\": \"2020-09-23T11:22:20Z\", \"author\": \"Story by Reuters\", \"text\": [\"Beijing \", \"Ethiopia has agreed to purchase 1.5 million coronavirus testing kits that will be manufactured at a factory in the African country that has been newly built by China's BGI Group, China's state media agency Xinhua said late on Tuesday.\", \"The BGI factory, the first coronavirus test production facility in Ethiopia that opened earlier this month, is designed to be able to make 6-8 million tests in a year and can expand the annual capacity to up to 10 million in accordance with local demand, Xinhua reported.\", \"BGI, which makes genome sequencing and medical devices, is hoping to use its footprint in Ethiopia in expanding its supplies to other African countries, Xinhua quoted a BGI official as saying in a separate report on Wednesday.\", \"BGI did not immediately respond to a request for comment.\", \"BGI Group's unit BGI Genomics had said it supplied over 35 million coronavirus testing kits overseas and built 58 labs in 18 countries as of June 30.\", \"Read More\", \"The Ethiopia factory could be later converted to make test kits for HIV, malaria and tuberculosis once the Covid-19 pandemic ends, Xinhua said.\", \"Ethiopia, one of the countries that has the most new daily infections on average in Africa, has reported 69,709 infections and 1,108 coronavirus-related deaths since the pandemic began.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/29/health/who-rapid-test-kits-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"WHO announces Covid-19 rapid tests for low and middle income countries\", \"description\": \"The World Health Organization has announced an agreement to make rapid Covid-19 tests available to lower and middle-income countries across the world.\", \"date\": \"2020-09-29T14:08:02Z\", \"author\": \"Amanda Watts \", \"text\": [\" (CNN)\", \"The World Health Organization has announced an agreement to make rapid Covid-19 tests available to lower and middle-income countries across the world.\", \"Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO director-general said, \\\"a substantial proportion of these rapid tests - 120 million - will be made available to low and middle-income countries. These tests provide reliable results in approximately 15 to 30 minutes, rather than hours or days, at a lower price, with less sophisticated equipment.\\\" \", \" \", \"Tedros said during a Monday news conference that these \\\"vital\\\" tests will help expand testing in remote areas, \\\"that do not have lab facilities or enough trained health workers to carry out PCR tests.\\\" \", \" \", \"Read More\", \"He added: \\\"High-quality rapid tests show us where the virus is hiding, which is key to quickly tracing and isolating contacts and breaking the chains of transmission. The tests are a critical tool for governments as they look to reopen economies and ultimately save both lives and livelihoods.\\\"\", \"Coronavirus has killed 1 million people worldwide. Experts fear the toll may double before a vaccine is ready\", \"The first orders are expected already to be placed this week and it will be rolled out in up to 20 countries in Africa starting in October. \", \"Peter Sands, executive director of the Global Fund said the tests are hugely valuable as a complement to PCR tests but warned that they are not \\\"a silver bullet.\\\" \", \" \", \"\\\"Although they're a bit less accurate - they're much faster, cheaper, and don't require a lab,\\\" he explained. \\\"Being able to deploy quality antigen RDTs, rapid diagnostic tests, will be a significant step forward in enabling countries to contain and combat Covid-19,\\\" Sands added. \", \"The PCR test is the most widespread and most accurate diagnostic test for determining whether someone is currently infected with coronavirus.  However, the tests requires specialized supplies, expensive instruments, and the expertise of trained lab technicians. which has led to shortages and a testing gap globally. \", \"Read related: \", \"https://edition.cnn.com/2020/04/28/us/coronavirus-testing-pcr-antigen-antibody/index.html\", \"This $5 rapid test is a potential game-changer in Covid testing\", \" \", \"Sands said these tests will help low and middle-income countries to \\\"close the dramatic gap in testing between rich and poor countries.\\\" \", \" \", \"\\\"Right now, high-income countries are conducting 292 tests per day per 100,000 people. For upper-middle-income countries, that number is 77. For lower-middle-income countries, 61, and from low-income countries, 14,\\\" Sands said, though he did not expand on where that data originates. \", \" \", \"Dr. John Nkengasong, director of the Africa CDC, welcomed the development as it would allow \\\"healthcare workers to quickly isolate cases and treat them while tracing their contacts to cut the transmission chain.\\\"\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/29/africa/togo-female-prime-minister-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"Togo names first female Prime Minister\", \"description\": \"President's former chief-of-staff Victoire Tomegah Dogbe, 60, has become the first female prime minister of Togo, a tiny West African nation of about eight million people.\", \"date\": \"2020-09-29T18:09:26Z\", \"author\": \"Orji Sunday\", \"text\": [\" (CNN)\", \"Togo's President Faure Gnassingbe has appointed the country's first female prime minister.\", \"Victoire Tomegah Dogbe, 60, became the first female prime minister of the tiny West African nation of about eight million people.\", \" \", \"Dogbe, whose appointment was confirmed by President Faure Gnassingbe on Monday, replaces Komi Selom Klassou, who resigned as prime minister on Friday, a position he held since 2015.\", \" \", \"Read More\", \"Dogbe is well known and respected in Togo, having served in several positions under Gnassingbe's government in the past decade, including working as his chief-of-staff, director of the cabinet of the President of the Republic and more recently as Minister for youth and grassroots development, according to local media reports.\", \"Ethiopia appoints its first female president \", \" \", \"Prior to joining politics, she worked with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) according to information from the agency. \", \" \", \"Her appointment comes after an expected cabinet reshuffle, which was delayed by the country's fight against coronavirus pandemic, following the controversial re-election of Gnassingbe, \", \"who has ruled Togo since 2005\", \". \", \"He took power from his father who, before his death,  ruled Togo for 38 years, dating back to a 1967 coup. \", \"Despite a \", \"series of protests between 2017 -- 2019\", \" calling for an end to a single family rule in Togo, Gnassingbe forced a constitutional reform in 2019 that allowed him to run for an election which he won easily in February 2020. His current tenure runs till 2025.  \", \"Faure must go: How one Togolese woman is risking her life to end the 50-year Gnassingb\\u00e9 dynasty\", \"The 56-year-old leader has seen growing opposition, following slowed economic growth, accusations of electoral fraud, \", \"corruption and human rights violations.\", \" \", \"Dogbe's has vast experience in governance and administration which is well positioned to help the country achieve a long-expected economic boom which has eluded the country since independence in 1960.\", \" \", \"Dogbe has been deeply involved in the country's fight against youth unemployment and poverty, introducing reforms that have been praised as a local success in her country, according to \", \"Togo-First, an online publication\", \" in the country. \", \" \", \"As the parliament awaits Dogbe's policy plan, observers are keen to see what economic difference her reforms can make in a country where half its population live below the poverty line, according to a \", \"2014 report by the International Monetary Fund\", \". \"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/30/africa/zimbabwe-elephant-disease-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"Zimbabwe suspects bacterial disease behind elephant deaths\", \"description\": \"Zimbabwe suspects a bacterial disease called hemorrhagic septicemia is behind the recent deaths of more than 30 elephants but is doing further tests to make sure, the parks authority said.\", \"date\": \"2020-09-30T14:48:29Z\", \"author\": \"Story by Reuters\", \"text\": [\"Zimbabwe suspects a bacterial disease called hemorrhagic septicemia is behind the recent deaths of more than 30 elephants but is doing further tests to make sure, the parks authority said.\", \"The elephant deaths, which began in late August, come soon after hundreds of elephants died in neighboring Botswana in mysterious circumstances.\", \"Officials in Botswana were initially at a loss to explain the elephant deaths there but have since blamed toxins produced by another type of bacterium.\", \"Toxins in water blamed for deaths of hundreds of elephants in Botswana \", \"Experts say Botswana and Zimbabwe could be home to roughly half of the continent's 400,000 elephants, often targeted by poachers.\", \"Elephants in Botswana and parts of Zimbabwe are at historically high levels, but elsewhere on the continent -- especially in forested areas -- many populations are severely depleted, said Chris Thouless, head of research at Save the Elephants.\", \"Read More\", \"\\\"Higher populations equal greater risk from infectious diseases,\\\" Thouless told Reuters, adding that climate change could put pressure on elephant populations as water supplies diminish and temperatures rise, potentially increasing the probability of pathogen outbreaks.\", \"Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority Director-General Fulton Mangwanya told a parliamentary committee on Monday that so far 34 dead elephants had been counted.\", \"\\\"It is unlikely that this disease alone will have any serious overall impact on the survival of the elephant population,\\\" he said. \\\"The northwest regions of Zimbabwe have an over-abundance of elephants and this outbreak of disease is probably a manifestation of that ... particularly in the hot, dry season elephants are stressed by competition for water and food resources.\\\"\", \"Postmortems on some of the dead elephants showed inflamed livers and other organs, Mangwanya said. The elephants were found lying on their stomachs, suggesting a sudden death.\", \"Vernon Booth, a Zimbabwe-based wildlife management consultant, told Reuters it was difficult to put a number on Zimbabwe's current elephant population. He estimated it could be close to 90,000, up from 82,000 in 2014 when the last national survey was conducted, assuming that roughly 2,000-3,000 have died each year from all causes.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/01/world/covid-girls-child-marriage-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"Half a million more girls are at risk of child marriage in 2020 because of Covid-19, charity warns\", \"description\": \"The pandemic has put 500,000 more girls at risk of being forced into child marriage this year, reversing 25 years of progress that saw child marriage rates decline, according to a new report by the charity Save the Children.\", \"date\": \"2020-10-01T12:59:25Z\", \"author\": \"Tara John\", \"text\": [\"London (CNN)\", \"The pandemic has put 500,000 more girls at risk of being forced into child marriage this year, reversing \", \"25 years of progress\", \" that saw child marriage rates decline, according to a new report by the charity Save the Children.\", \"Before the global outbreak, 12 million girls married each year, now the charity warns that up to 2.5 million more girls could be at risk of \", \"child marriage\", \" over the next five years.  \", \"How saying 'I do' can help millions of girls to say 'I don't'\", \"With up to 117 million children estimated to fall into poverty in 2020, many will face pressure to work and help provide for their families.\", \"\\\"The pandemic means more families are being pushed into poverty, forcing many girls to work to support their families, to go without food, to become the main caregivers for sick family members, and to drop out of school -- with far less of a chance than boys of ever returning,\\\" Inger Ashing, CEO of Save the Children International, \", \"said in a press release\", \".\", \"The pandemic led to school closures and \\\"experience during the Ebola outbreak suggests many girls will never return\\\" to class due \\\"to increasing pressure to work, risk of child marriage, bans on pregnant girls attending school, and lost contact with education,\\\" the charity wrote.\", \"Read More\", \"A girl gets married every 2 seconds somewhere in the world\", \"This year, 191,200 girls in South Asia will be disproportionately affected by the risk of increased child marriage, the report says. It is followed by West and Central Africa, where 90,000 girls are at risk of child marriage, Latin America and the Caribbean (73,400), and Europe and Central Asia (37,200).  \", \"Girls affected by humanitarian crises, such as wars, floods and earthquakes, face the greatest risk of child marriage, the report notes. Before the pandemic, data showed child marriage was increasing among refugee populations. In Lebanon, child marriage among Syrian refugee girls rose by 7% between 2017 and 2018.\", \"\\\"Every year, around 12 million girls are married, 2 million before their 15th birthday,\\\" Ashing said. \\\"Half a million more girls are now at risk of this gender-based violence this year alone -- and these only are the ones we know about. We believe this is the tip of the iceberg.\\\"\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/30/politics/esper-africa-trip/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"US Defense Secretary visits Africa for first time seeking to push back on Russia and China\", \"description\": \"US Secretary of Defense Mark Esper made his first visit to Africa Wednesday, a trip aimed in part at pushing back on Russian and Chinese influence in the region.\", \"date\": \"2020-09-30T16:14:06Z\", \"author\": \"Ryan Browne\", \"text\": [\"Malta (CNN)\", \"US Secretary of Defense \", \"Mark Esper \", \"made his first visit to Africa Wednesday, a trip aimed in part at pushing back on Russian and Chinese influence in the region.\", \"Esper arrived in Tunisia to meet with top officials, including the country's president, Kais Saied, and to lay a wreath and give a speech at a World War II cemetery to honor US service members who fell during the North African campaign.\", \"The trip was not announced until after Esper departed the country.\", \"Tunisia which has been touted as the sole democratic success story to come out of the 2011 \\\"Arab Spring,\\\" was designated \\\"a major-non NATO ally of the United States\\\" in 2015 and has partnered with the US on counterterrorism efforts aimed at ISIS-linked groups.\", \"As Trump refuses to commit to a peaceful transition, Pentagon stresses it will play no role in the election\", \"During a meeting at the Tunisian Defense Ministry, Esper and his counterpart signed a \\\"ten-year Roadmap of Defense Cooperation.\\\"\", \"Read More\", \"\\\"The United States will continue to deepen our alliances and partnerships across the continent, including with Tunisia, where your democratic government and sovereignty have made much of our work in the region possible,\\\" Esper said during his speech at the North Africa American cemetery and memorial in Carthage.\", \"\\\"We look forward to expanding this relationship to help Tunisia protect its maritime ports and land borders, deter terrorism, and keep the corrosive efforts of autocratic regimes out of your country,\\\" he added.\", \"The US has worked to help Tunisia secure its border with Libya which has been beset by civil war and recently deployed 40 American military advisers to the country, part of a the Army's Security Force Assistance Brigade, in order to aid Tunisia's fight against terrorist groups which have carried out high profile attacks in the country since 2011.\", \"The US is also Tunisia's largest supplier of weapons, providing nearly 50% of all arms imports from 2015 to 2019 according to the Center for International Policy and in February the Trump Administration approved the sale of four AT-6C Wolverine light attack aircraft to Tunisia, an arms package estimated to cost $325.8 million.\", \"While in North Africa, Esper is seeking to push back on Russian and Chinese activity in the region, according to defense officials.\", \"\\\"Today, our strategic competitors China and Russia continue to intimidate and coerce their neighbors while expanding their authoritarian influence worldwide, including on this continent,\\\" Esper said.\", \"The US has accused China of seeking to expand its influence in the region via predatory loans and the US military has accused Moscow of deploying Russian mercenaries and fighter jets to bolster Libyan Gen. 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The Sharia court is, however, statute-bound to provide legal representation.\", \"Advocates from the \", \"Foundation for Religious Freedom\", \" (FRF), a not-for-profit aimed at protecting religious freedom in Nigeria, which is representing Sharif-Aminu, told CNN he has also not been permitted access to legal advice to prepare an appeal against his conviction. \", \"The FRF says it has lodged an appeal on his behalf in Kano's high court, a common-law court with constitutional powers. \", \"\\\"The state laws he is accused of breaking are in gross conflict with the Nigerian constitution,\\\" said his counsel, Kola Alapinni. \", \"No Muslim will condone it. People hold Prophet Mohammed higher than their parents. \", \"Islamic cleric, Bashir Aliyu Umar\", \"Kano's State Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje told clerics in Kano that he would sign Sharif-Aminu's death warrant as soon as the singer had exhausted the appeals process, local media reports say. \", \"\\\"I assure you that immediately the Supreme Court affirms the judgment, I will sign it without any hesitation,\\\" Ganduje said, according to \", \"Nigeria's Daily Post newspaper\", \". CNN contacted a spokesman for Governor Ganduje several times for comment but did not receive a response. \", \"Islamic scholar and cleric Bashir Aliyu Umar, who is not connected to the case, but said he had read the transcript of the court proceedings, told CNN, \\\"No Muslim will condone it. People hold Prophet Mohammed higher than their parents, and when things like this happen, it will lead to a breakdown of peace because of mob action and attacks against the accused.\\\" \", \"When news of Sharif-Aminu's alleged crime broke earlier this year, protesters marched to his family home and destroyed it, prompting his father to flee to a neighboring town, his lawyers told CNN. Sharif-Aminu went into hiding, according to Amnesty and his lawyers, but in March he was arrested by the Hisbah Corps, the religious police force that enforces Sharia law in Kano state. \", \"'A travesty of justice'\", \"Human rights organization Amnesty International has described Sharif-Aminu's trial as a \\\"travesty of justice,\\\" and called on Kano state authorities to quash his conviction and death sentence. \", \"\\\"There are serious concerns about the fairness of his trial and the framing of the charges against him based on his Whatsapp messages,\\\" said Amnesty's Nigeria director Osai Ojigho. \\\"Furthermore, the imposition of the death penalty following an unfair trial violates the right to life,\\\" she added. \", \"The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has also condemned Sharif-Aminu's death sentence. 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The sentences were not carried out. \", \"In 2000, a Muslim man in the northern state of Zamfara had his hand amputated for stealing a cow. A year later, another man had his hand cut off after he was convicted of stealing bicycles, according to the same USCIRF research paper. \", \"A constitutional violation? \", \"In the eyes of many Nigerians, the adoption of Sharia law is a violation of the \", \"country's constitution\", \", because Article 10 guarantees religious freedom when it states that \\\"the Government of the Federation or of a State shall not adopt any religion as State Religion.\\\" \", \"\\\"This issue of blasphemy is incompatible with the Nigerian constitution,\\\" Leo Igwe, chair of the board of trustees for the Humanist Association of Nigeria, told CNN. \", \"\\\"We hope this case will help Nigeria confront the biggest constitutional challenge since independence. What should take precedence, Sharia law, or the Nigerian constitution?\\\" \", \"Governors of the northern states, where Sharia law is practiced, argue that it applies only to Muslims, and not to citizens of other faiths. The FRF says it is working on six other constitutional cases which will challenge what it sees as government interference in Nigerian citizens' right to religious freedom. \", \"US national shot dead in Pakistan courtroom during blasphemy trial\", \"One of these, on behalf of the Atheist Society of Nigeria (ASN), is against the state government of Akwa Ibom, in the country's southeast, for its involvement in the construction of an 8,500-seat worship center at its High Court. \", \"The ASN says millions of dollars in state funding have been spent on the center, which it says amounts to government interference in freedom of religion. \", \"\\\"The government has no business legislating on religions. 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It shows how they are recruited and trafficked overseas for commercial gain.\", \"Directed by award-winning Nigerian filmmaker, Kenneth Gyang, the film features Nollywood actors including Sharon Ooja, Omoni Oboli and Blossom Chukwujekwu. \", \"Mo Abudu, executive producer of \\\"Oloture,\\\" told CNN that the crime drama was inspired by the numerous cases of trafficking around the world and in Nigeria. \", \"Actors pose as sex workers on the set of Netflix original film, \\\"Oloture.\\\"\", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"Actors pose as sex workers on the set of Netflix original film, &quot;Oloture.&quot;\\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"Actors pose as sex workers on the set of Netflix original film, &quot;Oloture.&quot;\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/201007071906-restricted-04-human-trafficking-film-nigeria-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"\\\"There have been many reports around the world highlighting human trafficking and modern slavery. It has been in our faces. I dug and dug and did a bit more research, and when I came across the numbers and saw how much was made annually from human trafficking, I was totally shocked,\\\" she said. \", \"Human trafficking is a \", \"$150 billion global industry.\", \" And two-thirds of this figure is generated from sexual exploitation, according to a 2014 report by the International Labor Organization. \", \"Abudu -- who is also CEO of EbonyLife Films, which produced \\\"Oloture\\\" -- added that the film mirrored some real-life reports by journalists who had gone undercover to expose sex trafficking patterns in the country.\", \"One of them, she said, was a \", \"2014 report \", \"by journalist Tobore Ovuorie, in the Nigerian newspaper, Premium Times. \", \"\\\"Upon research, we found that many journalists had gone undercover to report on human trafficking. But the Premium Times article did spark our interest as some of it plays out in the film,\\\" Abudu said. \", \"Easy prey for traffickers\", \"Ovuorie, whose report was credited in \\\"Oloture,\\\" told CNN that women often get trafficked as a result of their need to make money abroad. \", \"Ovuorie said she met many women in the course of her reporting who wanted to get to Europe in hopes of better job opportunities that would earn them more money.\", \"UK joins forces with Nigeria to fight human trafficking\", \"\\\"People were motivated by greed, you know, the need to get rich. I spoke with the women I was supposed to be trafficked with, and many of them wanted better lives motivated by money. There was one girl who had never earned more than 50,000 naira (about $130) as salary since she graduated from university,\\\" she told CNN.\", \"Most of the women were fleeing harsh economic conditions and poverty, making them easy prey for traffickers, Ovuorie said.\", \"During Ovuorie's investigation, she said she \", \"posed as a sex worker\", \" on the streets of Lagos, looking to travel to Europe.\", \"Lead actor, Sharon Ooja, and Omowunmi Dada (right) pose on set of \\\"Oloture.\\\"\", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"Lead actor, Sharon Ooja, and Omowunmi Dada (right) pose on set of &quot;Oloture.&quot;\\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"Lead actor, Sharon Ooja, and Omowunmi Dada (right) pose on set of &quot;Oloture.&quot;\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/201007072041-restricted-05-human-trafficking-film-nigeria-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"Her plan worked. She was eventually linked with a trafficker who promised to get her to Italy. In partnership with ZAM Chronicles and Premium Times, she documented her experience. \", \"After a series of \\\"humiliating trainings\\\" and physical abuse, she said she was told she and other girls would receive a \", \"fake passport\", \" in preparation to be smuggled outside the country through the border in Benin in West Africa.\", \"She escaped at the border. \", \"Physical and sexual abuse \", \"Many women who are trafficked in Nigeria face sexual, physical and mental abuse, according to \", \"a 2019 report \", \"by Human Rights Watch. \", \"The rights group interviewed many women who said they were trafficked within and across national borders under life-threatening conditions as they were starved, raped and extorted. \", \"On some occasions, according to the report, they were forced into prostitution where they were made to have abortions and \", \"coerced to have sex \", \"with customers when they were sick, menstruating or pregnant. \", \"\\\"Oloture\\\" portrays some of these harsh realities as the lead character (played by Ooja) suffers sexual violence and physical abuse, including being whipped by one of her traffickers. \", \"It was important to depict the reality of sex trafficking so viewers can understand the experiences of women who are forced into the trade, Gyang, the director, told CNN.\", \"Director Kenneth Gyang works behind the scenes of film, \\\"Oloture.\\\"\", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"Director Kenneth Gyang works behind the scenes of film, &quot;Oloture.&quot;\\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"Director Kenneth Gyang works behind the scenes of film, &quot;Oloture.&quot;\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/201007071340-restricted-01-human-trafficking-film-nigeria-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"\\\"I wanted people to know that this is the reality of these ladies. People always want closure but life is not about a Hollywood ending; you can't always get a happy ending,\\\" he said.\", \"While directing the film, Gyang visited places with sex workers to get a better idea of how they live and work, he said.\", \"\\\"I actually went to places where we have sex workers in Lagos with one of the producers of the film. We wanted to really capture their lives so that we would be able to show it realistically in the movie. We talked to them, and some of the rooms we used in the movie were actually used previously by sex workers,\\\" he explained. \", \"'The most impactful movie we have ever done'\", \"The film was shot in 21 days towards the end of 2018, he said. Post-production was covered in 2019, and it was released Friday on Netflix.\", \"In just days, it has become the top watched movie in Nigeria and is among the \", \"top 10 watched movies in the world on Netflix. \", \"\\\"It's huge for me as a filmmaker that people have access to the film from all over the world. I want many people as possible to see it and have conversations about sex trafficking,\\\" Gyang said. \", \"The film is doing well in countries like Switzerland, Brazil, and South Africa because it is authentic and \\\"deals with the truth,\\\" Abudu said.\", \"\\\"EbonyLife has done seven movies. But this is the most impactful one we have ever done. And the most important,\\\" Abudu said. \", \"A smuggler's chilling warning\", \"The \", \"National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons\", \" (NAPTIP), the law enforcement agency in charge of combating human trafficking in Nigeria, wants the film to be made available to people in rural communities who don't have access to Netflix.\", \"\\\"I haven't seen the movie, but if it is trying to portray the ills and dangers of trafficking, then it's fine since that is going to raise awareness,\\\" Julie Okah-Donli, the director-general of the agency said. \", \"And while she is happy that \\\"Oloture\\\" is shining the light on human trafficking, she told CNN that women mostly targeted by traffickers may not get to watch it.\", \"\\\"The people watching it on Netflix all know what trafficking is. It needs to go to those girls in rural communities where traffickers go to bring them from. Those are the girls that the awareness should go to,\\\" Okah-Donli said. \", \"With more people partnering with NAPTIP and raising awareness of the dangers of trafficking, sex trafficking will be minimized in Nigeria, she said. \"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/23/africa/asequals-nigeria-rape-sexual-violence-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"She's on the frontline of a rape epidemic. The pandemic has made her work more dangerous\", \"description\": null, \"date\": \"2020-06-23T09:00:49Z\", \"author\": \"Bukola Adebayo\", \"text\": [\"CNN is committed to covering gender inequality wherever it occurs in the world. This story is part of As Equals, an ongoing series.\", \" \", \"Lagos, Nigeria --\", \" At the start of each day, Dr. Anita Kemi DaSilva-Ibru and her team put on gloves, facemasks and other personal protective equipment to see their patients.\", \"They're not treating people for Covid-19, but they are on the frontline of the pandemic, working at the Women at Risk International Foundation (WARIF), a rape crisis center in Lagos, Nigeria.\", \"Wearing protective gear is the new reality for crisis center workers, like DaSilva-Ibru.\", \"\\\"We change these kits each time we see a survivor as we are mindful of the risk of transmission of the virus between the survivor and us and the cross-contamination between a survivor and the next,\\\" she told CNN.\", \"US-trained gynecologist DaSilva-Ibru has spent most of her career treating hundreds of sexual violence victims but it was the growing scale of the crisis in Nigeria that prompted her to set up WARIF in 2016.\", \"Read More\", \"The clinic in Yaba, a suburb of Lagos, provides medical treatment, legal assistance therapy and space for rape victims and survivors of sexual abuse to get back on their feet.\", \"One in four Nigerian girls \", \"has been the victim of sexual violence, according to UN estimates but DaSilva-Ibru says the numbers are higher as many cases go unreported due to the stigma attached.\", \"In recent weeks, two high profile cases of gender-based violence have brought Nigerian women out onto the streets demanding change.\", \"Uwaila Vera Omozuwa, a 22-year-old microbiology student, was \", \"found half-naked in a pool of blood\", \" in a local church where she had gone to study after the Covid-19 lockdown left universities across the country shut. \", \"\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote {\\n position: relative;\\n color: #262626;\\n margin: 25px auto;\\n padding: 10px 0 14px 0;\\n width: 100%;\\n max-width: 660px;\\n border-left: 0;\\n text-align: center;\\n}\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote:before, .cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote:after {\\n position: absolute;\\n content: '';\\n width: 50px;\\n height: 2px;\\n left: 50%;\\n transform: translateX(-50%);\\n -webkit-transform: translateX(-50%);\\n background-color: #262626;\\n}\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote:before {\\n top: 0;\\n}\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote:after {\\n bottom: -2px;\\n}\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote {\\n position: relative;\\n margin: 0;\\n text-align: center;\\n font-size: 35px;\\n font-weight: 700;\\n word-spacing: -1px;\\n line-height: 1.15;\\n padding: 24px 10px 22px 10px;\\n margin-bottom: 24px;\\n}\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote-cite {\\n margin: 0;\\n text-align: center;\\n font-size: 12px;\\n font-weight: 200;\\n color: #262626;\\n line-height: 1.15;\\n padding: 0 10px;\\n display: inline-block;\\n}\\n@media only screen and (min-width: 768px)  {\\n .cnnix-golf__pullquote {\\n  margin: 50px auto;\\n }\\n .cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote {\\n  font-size: 35px;\\n }\\n} \\n\", \"\\n \", \"\\n \", \"\\\"Rape is an epidemic in this country.\\\"\", \"\\n \", \" Dr. Anita Kemi DaSilva-Ibru, Women at Risk International Foundation\", \"\\n \", \"Her family said her attackers raped her and the student died while being treated at the hospital. A few days later, another student, Barakat Bello, was allegedly raped and killed during a robbery at her home,\", \" according to human rights group Amnesty International.\", \"\\\"Rape is an epidemic in this country,\\\" DaSilva-Ibru told CNN.\", \"She says her work with survivors of sexual violence has become more critical during the outbreak, with restrictions to curb the virus from spreading fueling a surge in calls. \", \"It's a story echoed in other parts of the region, as authorities grapple with a growing number of Covid-19 cases and the impact restrictions are having on women.\", \"Related: A transport ban in Uganda means women are trapped at home with their abusers\", \"DaSilva-Ibru said she initially closed the center after authorities locked down the city in March, she had to reconsider the decision as the organization became inundated with SOS messages from sexual violence victims and their guardians.\", \"Staff operating the 24-hour helpline at the center also reported a 64% increase in calls during this period, according to DaSilva-Ibru. \", \"\\\"Our phones were ringing. Women were calling and desperately asking how we can help them, these were women in fear of their lives, as many have now been forced into quarantine with their abusers, in an already volatile environment,\\\" DaSilva-Ibru told CNN.\", \"For the center to re-open, DaSilva-Ibru said she had to source PPE, face masks and other protective gear personally and when that was not enough, the center launched an online appeal for funds from donors to buy the equipment at no cost to survivors, she said. \", \"\\\"We carry out forensic examinations on survivors and our frontline health workers who triage and examine patients are in close proximity to the survivors. As much as we need to carry out our duties, we also need to ensure our workers are adequately protected,\\\" DaSilva-Ibru told CNN.\", \"The challenges Ibru faces to keep the center open, doesn't compare to what sexual violence victims have experienced as a result of this pandemic, she said.\", \"DaSilva-Ibru recalls a woman who told staff at the center that her male friend had raped her in her home during the lockdown.\", \"Dr. Anita Kemi DaSilva-Ibru. \", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"Dr. Anita Kemi DaSilva-Ibru. \\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"Dr. Anita Kemi DaSilva-Ibru. \\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200618151608-02-dr-kemi-dasilva-ibru-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"\\\"The first day we re-opened, we attended to women who had walked many miles in spite of the mandatory lockdown to get to the center. These are women who had been terrorized in their homes,\\\" she added.\", \"\\\"She (a survivor) had repeatedly been calling (the center) to find out how she could get help. She feared she might have contracted HIV and wanted to be tested,\\\" Ibru said. \", \"Speaking to CNN, the woman, who didn't want to use her name to protect her identity, said a co-worker raped her after he came to her apartment unannounced in April. \", \"The young banker said she had previously rebuffed his attempts to visit, but on that Sunday afternoon in April, he showed up at her doorstep.\", \"\\\"He's a friend, not a stranger, so I opened the door for him. I was still asking him what was so urgent that made him leave his home. He said he wanted to check up on me and I told him he could have done that over the phone,\\\" she told CNN.\", \"But a few minutes into his visit, the conversation became uncomfortable between them.\", \"\\\"He kept coming towards me, and when I told him to stop, he put his hand over my mouth and pinned me on the floor,\\\" she said.\", \"She says he apologized after raping her and hurriedly left her house.\", \"The survivor told CNN she did not make a police complaint because she was worried about the stigma and strain that the rape might have on her parents.  \", \"A friend she confided in told her to reach out to the \", \"Lagos Domestic and Sexual Violence Response Team\", \" who put survivors in touch with treatment centers for help.\", \"After several calls to the centers on their website, she was referred to \", \"WARIF\", \".\", \"When she went to the clinic, she says staff ran some tests and placed her on Post Exposure Prophylaxis, a HIV prevention treatment for possible exposure.\", \"\\\"Sometimes I get really angry, and sometimes I feel numb,\\\" she said, reflecting on the assault.\", \"She says she was sick every night for 28 days because of the drugs.\", \"\\\"...even though the doctor prepared me for the side effect, it has not been easy,\\\" she told CNN. \", \"Gender-based violence is a problem in many countries, but the coronavirus pandemic has worsened the situation.\", \"The \", \"UN says\", \" the raft of measures deployed by governments to fight the pandemic have led to economic hardship, stress, and fear -- conditions that lead to violence against women and girls. \", \"Equality Now Regional Coordinator in Africa Judy Gitau told CNN that the wave of unemployment and school closures has put victims in a precarious situation.\", \"She recalls a similar situation in Sierra Leone \", \"during the 2014 Ebola outbreak\", \" when\", \" teenage pregnancies spiked\", \" in the country\", \"The government enforced strict stay-at-home orders that closed businesses and schools across the West African nation to curb the spread of the virus, she said.\", \"The restrictions made schoolgirls vulnerable to abuse as some were assaulted in their homes by relatives, and at the same time, a majority of girls from low-income families were coerced to exchange sex for money for food, Gitau said. \", \"\\\"Many of them wound up pregnant but the evidence became available when people were plugging back to life as they knew it as a normal society,\\\" she said.\", \"Gitau says authorities must know that perpetrators often take advantage of the strict measures to abuse victims without arousing much suspicion.\", \"As state resources are being re-focused to tackle the spread of coronavirus, law enforcement agencies should also respond quickly to reports of abuse and create shelters for victims in need of immediate rescue, she said.\", \"But placing women in shelters, especially in countries battling an outbreak, comes with the additional burden of proof, according to DaSilva-Ibru who said shelters in Lagos city are asking survivors to take coronavirus tests before they can be admitted to prevent infection in their facilities.\", \"\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote {\\n position: relative;\\n color: #262626;\\n margin: 25px auto;\\n padding: 10px 0 14px 0;\\n width: 100%;\\n max-width: 660px;\\n border-left: 0;\\n text-align: center;\\n}\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote:before, .cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote:after {\\n position: absolute;\\n content: '';\\n width: 50px;\\n height: 2px;\\n left: 50%;\\n transform: translateX(-50%);\\n -webkit-transform: translateX(-50%);\\n background-color: #262626;\\n}\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote:before {\\n top: 0;\\n}\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote:after {\\n bottom: -2px;\\n}\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote {\\n position: relative;\\n margin: 0;\\n text-align: center;\\n font-size: 35px;\\n font-weight: 700;\\n word-spacing: -1px;\\n line-height: 1.15;\\n padding: 24px 10px 22px 10px;\\n margin-bottom: 24px;\\n}\\n.cnnix-golf__pullquote-cite {\\n margin: 0;\\n text-align: center;\\n font-size: 12px;\\n font-weight: 200;\\n color: #262626;\\n line-height: 1.15;\\n padding: 0 10px;\\n display: inline-block;\\n}\\n@media only screen and (min-width: 768px)  {\\n .cnnix-golf__pullquote {\\n  margin: 50px auto;\\n }\\n .cnnix-golf__pullquote-quote {\\n  font-size: 35px;\\n }\\n} \\n\", \"\\n \", \"\\n \", \"\\\"Violence against women and girls is one of the most pervasive forms of a human rights violation and should be recognized by all countries.\\\"\", \"\\n \", \" Dr. Anita Kemi DaSilva-Ibru, Women at Risk International Foundation\", \"\\n \", \"Authorities in Lagos designated gender-based violence services essential in May as it eased lockdown into curfews to allow service providers to get to work more smoothly, DaSilva-Ibru said. \", \"The police force says it has now deployed more officers to its stations across the country to respond to the \\\"increasing challenges of sexual assaults and domestic/gender-based violence linked with the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic.\\\" And last week, governors across the country resolved to declare \", \"a state of emergency on rape\", \", according to the Nigerian Governor's Forum (NGF).\", \"Related: Nigerian women are taking to the streets in protests against rape and sexual violence\", \"It's the first time federal and state authorities are coming out with a united voice to condemn gender violence, DaSilva-Ibru said and it validates the outcry of women in the country and the scale of the problem in Nigeria, she added.\", \"\\\"Violence against women and girls is one of the most pervasive forms of a human rights violation and should be recognized by all countries,\\\" DaSilva-Ibru said.\", \"\\\"In Nigeria, it has become a national crisis that needs urgent attention. I am pleased that this has been recognized.\\\"\", \"\\n  window.cnnAsEqualsConfig = window.cnnAsEqualsConfig || {};\\n  window.cnnAsEqualsConfig.theme = 'black';\\n\", \"\\n\", \"Click here for more stories from the As Equals series.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/20/africa/nigeria-fashion-tiffany-amber-coronavirus-ppe-spc-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"Nigerian fashion label Tiffany Amber swaps couture for PPE\", \"description\": \"Company founder Folake Akindele Coker pivoted her fashion label into PPE production after she realized that a prolonged lockdown in Nigeria would impact consumer sales.\", \"date\": \"2020-07-21T01:21:46Z\", \"author\": \"Daniel Renjifo\", \"text\": [\" (CNN)\", \"These days, things look a little different when Folake Akindele Coker gets to her office. \\\"I arrive at 9am, all geared (up) for this invisible enemy,\\\" she says. The 45-year-old designer and founder of Nigerian fashion label Tiffany Amber now starts each day with a 10-minute safety talk for her production team, \\\"who at first did not seem to understand the gravity and the potential of being infected by the (Covid-19) virus.\\\"\", \"Coker founded \", \"Tiffany Amber\", \" in 1998, and it's now considered one of Nigeria's most influential fashion and lifestyle brands.\", \"In early March, the number of colorful prints and couture runway garments that normally littered the factory floor dissipated, and the company's sewing machines began stitching hospital scrubs, gowns, stretcher sheets and non-medical face masks. Less than a month after the pandemic reached Africa, Tiffany Amber's entire factory refocused to produce personal protective equipment (PPE), something Coker notes took immense pressure to turn around. \", \"The colorful garments of the Tiffany Amber fashion line, seen here during Arise Fashion week in 2019, have since been replaced in production by PPE to help during the pandemic.\", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"The colorful garments of the Tiffany Amber fashion line, seen here during Arise Fashion week in 2019, have since been replaced in production by PPE to help during the pandemic.\\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"Tiffany Amber Nigeria fashion runway\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200715102210-tiffany-amber-fashion-nigeria-restricted-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"To make the shift, Coker says the company first had to secure more than 15 tons of raw materials including approximately 90,000 yards of fabric, 300,000 yards of elastic, and almost a million yards of thread. All of this happened, she says, right before borders closed in Nigeria and prices spiked due to the unforeseen demand for materials.\", \"See more stories from Marketplace Africa\", \"Read More\", \"As of mid-July, the World Health Organization shows Nigeria as having\", \" more than 30,000\", \" total confirmed cases of coronavirus, the second-most on the continent behind South Africa.\", \"As Covid-19 cases rose and consumer spending fell, Coker saw an opportunity for her business to stay open -- and to help out. \\\"Our expertise in garment production helped facilitate this shift to bridge the gap in the supply of medical apparel,\\\" she tells CNN.\", \"A Tiffany Amber employee sorts ready-to-ship gowns for healthcare workers.\", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"A Tiffany Amber employee sorts ready-to-ship gowns for healthcare workers.\\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"A Tiffany Amber employee sorts ready-to-ship gowns for healthcare workers.\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200626121436-tiffany-amber-ppe-production-gowns-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"The push for PPE\", \"This pivot has been a trend in the private sector worldwide, as companies around the globe have \", \"switched gears to supply the growing demand for PPE\", \".\", \"According to the World Bank, Covid-19 has pushed sub-Saharan Africa into its \", \"first recession in 25 years\", \", greatly impacting the continent's biggest revenue drivers such as energy, agriculture and manufacturing. \", \"Read more: Across Africa, the pandemic reveals both inequality and innovation\", \"Globally, the \", \"luxury market is also expected to shrink \", \"as much as 35% this year, as consumer spending sharply declines mainly due to job loss, according to consulting firm Bain and Co.\", \"Tiffany Amber employees wearing masks, and making masks.\", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"Tiffany Amber employees wearing masks, and making masks.\\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"Tiffany Amber employees wearing masks, and making masks.\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200626120613-tiffany-amber-production-ppe-employees-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"Efforts to make and source \", \"PPE in Nigeria\", \" have primarily relied on private corporations\", \" \", \"working hand in hand with suppliers. In an attempt to stay solvent, Coker says Tiffany Amber is working with partners in the financial sector to fund and distribute the PPE products.\", \"By early June, she notes, the fashion label had made approximately 500,000 cloth masks, 20,000 sets of sheets and pillowcases, 10,000 scrubs, 15,000 patient gowns and close to 5,000 surgical gowns.\", \"Alcohol ban has South African distilleries pivoting to a new product\", \"In Tiffany Amber's case, shifting to PPE production has had an unlikely silver lining: job creation. Since March, Coker says her company has actually managed to grow from 100 employees to a staff of 300.\", \"At the time of writing, Coker does not anticipate returning to regular Tiffany Amber fashion production in the near future. But even as her company responds to the current reality, she keeps planning for when that day will come. \\\"One mind is thinking about tomorrow morning and the other mind is processing the next two years,\\\" says Coker. \\\"Subconsciously, I find myself drifting away, putting together the next Tiffany Amber collection.\\\"\", \"CNN's Lamide Akintobi contributed to this report\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/26/africa/gambia-migration-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"He almost died migrating to Europe. Now he is warning other Gambians about it\", \"description\": \"Mustapha Sallah and Youth Against Irregular Migration are raising awareness in The Gambia about the dangers of migrating to Europe through irregular means.\", \"date\": \"2020-08-26T14:16:23Z\", \"author\": \"Aisha Salaudeen\", \"text\": [\" (CNN)\", \"Mustapha Sallah was in trouble.\", \"He had hoped to be in Europe by now, pursuing his dreams of studying computer science and making a better life for himself.\", \"Instead, he was sitting in a Libyan detention center, having been detained in Tripoli by the Libyan Coast Guard.\", \"\\\"We were kept in rooms with little ventilation and no toilets. We would sit for days without taking baths. It was like hell,\\\" Sallah told CNN.\", \"He added that officers at the detention center often assaulted them by \\\"beating us for the slightest things like refusing to sleep.\\\"\", \"Read More\", \"It was January 2017, and the 25-year-old Gambian had taken a gamble, risking his life in search of a better one in Europe. But no one had warned him of the dangers ahead.\", \"If and when he got out of the detention center, he vowed to help others make a more informed decision.\", \"Migrating to Europe\", \"Sallah grew up in Serekunda, southwest of The Gambia's capital city, Banjul. He said he worked hard in school to earn a scholarship so that his mother could retire from her job selling vegetables in the market.\", \"In 2016, he thought he'd have that chance when he earned a scholarship to study computer science in Taiwan. \\\"But there was no Taiwan embassy in Gambia, so I had to go to the closest one in Abuja, Nigeria,\\\" he explained.\", \"After borrowing money from his sister to travel to Nigeria, he said he spent three months there before his visa application was denied. Three years earlier, then-president of The Gambia, Yahya Jammeh, had cut diplomatic ties with Taiwan for what he called \\\"national strategic interest.\\\"\", \"At least 58 people killed as boat carrying migrants sinks off Mauritania coast\", \"\\\"I didn't know what to do: stay in Nigeria, or go to any other African country. At the end of the day, I got the mind of migrating (to Europe) because I know several people who took the journey and made it there,\\\" Sallah explained.\", \"With a population of \", \"2.3 million people\", \", The Gambia is among the smallest countries in Africa. But despite its small size, migration is a fairly common practice and plays a key role in the country's economy.\", \"According to the International Organization for Migration (IOM), overseas remittances for an average of 90,000 Gambians who live abroad make up \", \"more than 20% of the country's GDP\", \". \", \"48% of Gambians\", \" live in poverty, and many people find themselves looking outside the country for opportunities to improve their lives. \", \"But some people leave the country without proper documentation or without crossing an official border point. Between 2014 and 2018, the IOM estimates \", \"more than 35,000 \", \"Gambians reached Europe through \\\"irregular means.\\\"\", \"\\\"There's a tradition of mobility in Gambia. It's a long history of people using migration as a means of life, and of getting their income. Many of the returnees we have worked with claim they took the journey for economic reasons,\\\" Etienne Micallef, the IOM's program manager in The Gambia told CNN.\", \"\\\"They have the perception that if they migrate with the final destination as Europe, they will get a much better income to sustain themselves and their families back home,\\\" he added. \", \"How the Kenyan consulate in Lebanon became feared by the women it was meant to help\", \"But it comes at a high risk. Globally, at least \", \"33,687 migrant deaths and disappearances\", \" were recorded between January 2014 and October 2019, according to IOM -- with nearly half occurring on the route between Northern Africa and Italy. \", \"Sallah, who said he wanted an education that would allow him to find a job to support his family, reiterated that no one warned him how incredibly dangerous the journey would be.\", \"After his visa to study in Taiwan was rejected, he said he got on a bus heading north to Agadez, a city in Niger. \\\"I didn't even know the area -- I just kept asking people around what the best or possible way to reach Niger was.\\\"\", \"From there, he managed to travel to Libya. \\\"You have to pay smugglers who drive pickup trucks to put you at the back of their trucks to get to Libya and then to Europe. I spent a month with my cousin in Libya before heading in another pickup truck for Tripoli,\\\" he told CNN.\", \"His journey to Tripoli was treacherous, he said, telling CNN he was detained and extorted multiple times by armed bandits. \", \"Sallah said he was close to death from starvation and even witnessed a gun battle between armed bandits and smugglers: \\\"The man that was smuggling us told us that if we want to stay in Tripoli, we must get used to gunshots,\\\" he said. \", \"But it all came to an abrupt halt in January 2017, when he was arrested by the Libyan Coast Guard in Tripoli.\", \" Detention Center\", \"Libya is a primary transit point along the central Mediterranean route. People who get stuck there are often detained by the Libyan Coast Guard, responsible for patrolling coastal waters to prevent smuggling and trafficking.  \", \"Sallah said he was kept in a detention center in Tripoli with migrants from different West African countries for nearly four months under poor conditions.\", \"Migrants describe being tortured and raped on perilous journey to Libya\", \"There are\", \" 11 detention centers\", \" for migrants run by the U.N.-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) in Libya. Some \", \"2,362\", \" detainees are held at these facilities on any given day, according to the Global Detention Project. \", \"Human Rights Watch\", \" (HRW) and \", \"Amnesty International\", \" have criticized the conditions at these detention centers; both groups signed onto a statement released in April that urged EU member states and institutions to review their policy on migrants and cooperation with Libya. \", \"The policy, the statement says, has allowed for the \", \"\\\"arbitrary detention and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment\\\"\", \" of migrants and refugees.\", \"While in detention, Sallah met a fellow Gambian who suggested they set up the non-profit organization \", \"Youth Against Irregular Migration\", \" (YAIM) to warn others back home about the risks of irregular migration.\", \"\\\"I went around the detention center gathering details of all the Gambians I could find,\\\" estimating he registered 171 people to join the organization. \\\"We agreed that if we made it out of there, we would start an association to make people aware of how problematic the journey to Europe is,\\\" he said.\", \"Youth Against Irregular Migration\", \"In April 2017, as part of its mandate to return and reintegrate migrants stranded or detained in their transit countries, IOM facilitated the return of Sallah and many others within the detention center back to The Gambia. \", \"That same year, IOM received funding from the EU worth\", \" 3.9 million euros\", \" (about $4.6 million) over the course of three years, to expand its operations in The Gambia.\", \"Since then, according to Micallef, IOM has repatriated more than 5,000 people to the West African nation.\", \"He added that when returnees arrive at the airport or land border, they are met by IOM staff who arrange for temporary shelter, counseling, and medical support for those who need it.\", \"Weeks after returning to The Gambia, Sallah said he met with some members of YAIM who signed up in the detention center. \", \"\\\"We met almost every week after arriving in Gambia,\\\" he explained. \\\"It was difficult for us financially at the start but many of us had the support of our families.\\\"\", \"YAIM members speak to community members about the dangers of irregular migration.\", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"YAIM members speak to community members about the dangers of irregular migration.\\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"YAIM members speak to community members about the dangers of irregular migration.\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200819175004-03-gambia-migration-intl-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"He added that even though many of them struggled to make a living at the start and had to pick up menial jobs around town to survive, being around other members gave them a renewed sense of hope.\", \"Being safe at home, he said, was a better option than the dangerous journey to Europe.\", \"\\\"We bonded by sharing our stories with each other as a way to work through the trauma,\\\" Sallah said. \\\"We made sure to be there for each other.\\\"\", \"Community awareness\", \"Through YAIM, the returnees began campaigns around irregular migration in The Gambia, warning others about the perils of journeying to Europe. \", \"Tombong Kuyateh, a returnee and YAIM member, told CNN that the association visits schools to share experiences with students who may be thinking about migrating.\", \"\\\"We share our personal stories with them. We show them examples of victims who were injured or affected during the journey to prevent them from experiencing the same,\\\" he said.\", \"The 27-year-old added that a lot of people listen to them because they have first-hand experience of what it's like to attempt that trip.\", \"Members of YAIM take to the streets of Banjul, The Gambia, during one of their public campaigns.\", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"Members of YAIM take to the streets of Banjul, The Gambia, during one of their public campaigns.\\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"Members of YAIM take to the streets of Banjul, The Gambia, during one of their public campaigns.\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200819175001-04-gambia-migration-intl-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"By crowdfunding and partnering with local and international groups for support, YAIM is also able to visit small communities across the country for campaigns against irregular migration, Kuyateh said.\", \"Miko Alazas, the IOM communications officer based in The Gambia, told CNN that the organization sometimes partners with returnee associations like YAIM to get people access to the right information, in order to make better migration-related choices.\", \"\\\"We work a lot with returnees because many of them are passionate about sharing their experiences in terms of exploitation and abuse -- so they are at the forefront of a lot of campaigns to raise awareness on irregular migration,\\\" he said.\", \"Now 29, Sallah travels around his home country, visiting radio stations and communities to talk about his harrowing experience. He believes in the power of storytelling to educate others about migration.\", \"\\\"I always tell them about the difficulties,\\\" he said. \\\"Some people lost their lives on the journey. I was part of those who ended up in detention. 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I looked fine physically, but it started to affect me mentally. I could go a day without being able to construct sentences, and I was a research analyst at the time which meant I had to write daily reports but I couldn't,\\\" she said. \", \"After expressing her suicidal thoughts to a friend, she was encouraged to see a psychiatrist at a psychiatric hospital in Lagos, one of Nigeria's largest cities. \", \"She was diagnosed with Bipolar and post traumatic stress disorder with mild psychosis. \\\"I poured out my heart, got some tests done and eventually got a diagnosis.\\\"\", \"Creating awareness \", \"Two months after Ojeifo's diagnosis, she said she decided to turn her difficult experiences around. She started to create awareness on the far-reaching impacts of mental health in Nigeria. \", \"In April 2016, she created\", \" She Writes Woman\", \", a non-profit organization focused on providing mental health support for those who may need it in the west African nation. \", \"There is minimal mental health awareness and there are not enough mental health professionals in Nigeria. \", \"In a country of more than \", \"200 million\", \" people, there are only 250 practicing psychiatrists, according to the\", \" Association of Psychiatrists of Nigeria. \", \"Ojeifo told CNN that She Writes Woman started as a blog but she realized she could do more with it, \\\"At first, I was just using it as an outlet to share my experiences and that of other women,\\\" she explained. \", \"Eventually, it morphed into a support community for people with mental health conditions. \", \"The 28-year-old got trained as a mental health coach so that she could start a helpline to talk to people experiencing overwhelming mental health symptoms.\", \"\\\"From sharing stories on the blog and social media, She Writes Woman blew up into a helpline which was run by me for a while, and then to a support group for people in vulnerable conditions,\\\" she said. \", \"24-hour mental health helpline\", \"She Writes Woman provides a\", \" 24-hour mental health helpline\", \" for anyone within Nigeria.\", \"The helpline serves as a first point of contact for people in distress or those who just want to talk about their mental health and symptoms. \", \"\\\"People call the helpline to get what we call a first-aid treatment. On the call you don't get immediate professional counseling, what happens is you get a first response communication where someone listens to you and what you have to say,\\\" Ojeifo explained.\", \"She added that after the first responders, callers can be referred to mental health professionals for therapy or a diagnosis if needed, \\\"depending on what the issue is we que people in to either a therapist or a psychiatrist.\\\"\", \"Data on mental health in Nigeria is hard to find, but according to a 2016 report in the Annals of Nigerian Medicine journal, an estimated\", \" 20-30% \", \"of the country's population is suffering from mental disorders.\", \"And in 2017, a World Health Organization report found that Nigerians have the highest incidences of depression in Africa, with \", \"more than 7 million people \", \"in the country suffering from depression.\", \"Despite the numbers, there is an absence of \", \"effective mental health legislation\", \" setting standards for psychiatric treatment or encouraging mental health awareness in the country. \", \"In February, following deliberations by legislators to pass a proposed mental health bill, Ojeifo became the first person to testify before the Nigerian parliament on the rights of persons with mental health conditions in the country.\", \"var id = '//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js'.replace(/\\\\s+/g, '');!!document.getElementById(id) || (function makeEmbedScript(d, id) {var js,fjs;js = d.createElement('script');js.id = id;js.charset = 'utf-8';js.setAttribute('async', '');js.src = '//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js';fjs = d.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];window.WM.UserConsent.addScriptElement(js, [\\\"vendor\\\",\\\"measure-ads\\\"], fjs);}(document, id));\", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" View this post on Instagram\", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \"We are so proud of our founder @hauwa_ojeifo for the great milestone achieved today. . She graciously spoke before the Senate at the public hearing of the #mentalhealth bill earlier today on behalf of all persons living with mental health conditions. . If you were there, you'd have been so proud. Word on the street is that this is the first time a person with a mental health condition is speaking before the Senate. . Go Hauwa!!\\ud83d\\udc83\\ud83c\\udffd . Want to know more about the mental health bill? Check out our stories to make your suggestions.\", \" \", \"A post shared by \", \" SWW | Mental Health in Nigeria\", \" (@shewriteswoman) on \", \"Feb 17, 2020 at 10:46am PST\", \"\\n\", \"The bill has yet to be implemented. \", \"To close the mental health gap in Nigeria, Ojeifo's organization also offers a support group for women and girls called \", \"Safe Place\", \" in six Nigerian states. \", \"\\\"Safe Space provides a community of shared experiences for women and girls. It provides a space for women to connect and share their experiences on whatever topic, to be there for one another and understand that they are not alone in their journeys,\\\" she explained, estimating that there have been over 50 meetings of the support group since the inception of the organization.\", \"In the beginning, Ojeifo, a former investment banker,  self-funded the organization. \", \"But now, with donations and grants from organizations such as One Young World, Airtel Nigeria and Disability Rights Advocacy Fund, it is able to expand and carry out more activities in Nigeria's mental health space.\", \"In 2018, the activist received a\", \" Queen's Young Leaders Award\", \" in in recognition of her work with the 24-hour mental health helpline and Safe Space support group. \", \"Changemaker Award Winner \", \"On Tuesday, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation named Ojeifo as its\", \" Changemaker Award winner for 2020\", \" for her work with She Writes Woman. \", \"The Changemaker Award is one of the Goalkeepers Global Goals Awards pushed yearly by the foundation. It celebrates individuals who have inspired change from a position of leadership or using their personal experience. \", \"In a statement released Tuesday, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation said it recognized the activist for her work in promoting\", \" Gender Equality\", \", the fifth global goal for sustainable development prescribed by the United Nations. \", \"These Africans are among the world's 100 most influential people, according to Time magazine\", \"Ojeifo said that she was in \\\"disbelief\\\" when she first received the email alerting her that she was a recipient of the award. \", \"\\\"It was so unexpected and it came as a surprise because I was not expecting it. It's like an added validation to the work She Writes Woman does,\\\" she said. \", \"\\\"During one of the meetings with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation I asked them how I was selected because I was just so blown away. I was told that it was because I had used my personal experience to build hope for people and to drive change,\\\" she added. \", \"Through the 2020 Changemaker Award, Ojeifo is hoping to gather a network that will help amplify the work She Writes Woman does even more. \", \"\\\"The Changemaker award means I am part of this network that is dedicated to amplifying my cause and giving me visibility,\\\" she said.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/18/africa/kenyan-comic-sensation-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"This chip-eating Kenyan comic is keeping Africans entertained on social media \", \"description\": \"Kenyan teenager, Elsa Majimbo is making viral monolgues on social media \", \"date\": \"2020-08-18T11:06:18Z\", \"author\": \"Aisha Salaudeen\", \"text\": [\" (CNN)\", \"Elsa Majimbo is taking over social media by providing comic relief on Instagram and Twitter amid the \", \"Covid-19 pandemic\", \". \", \"The Kenyan comic, whose relatable monologues often go viral, films from her home in Nairobi, the country's capital city. \", \"Majimbo first went viral after posting a video in March when initial restrictions such as intermittent lockdowns, border controls, and closure of schools and restaurants were\", \" imposed by the Kenyan government\", \" to curb the spread of Covid-19.\", \"In the video, the 19-year-old talked about being in isolation at the time and wanting to be left alone.\", \"var id = '//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js'.replace(/\\\\s+/g, '');!!document.getElementById(id) || (function makeEmbedScript(d, id) {var js,fjs;js = d.createElement('script');js.id = id;js.charset = 'utf-8';js.setAttribute('async', '');js.src = '//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js';fjs = d.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];window.WM.UserConsent.addScriptElement(js, [\\\"vendor\\\",\\\"measure-ads\\\"], fjs);}(document, id));\", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" View this post on Instagram\", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \"'Sending love,sending hugs,sending kisses'. Kama Hautumi Mpesa don't waste my time\", \" \", \"A post shared by \", \" Elsa Mpho Majimbo\", \" (@majimb.o) on \", \"Mar 30, 2020 at 10:20am PDT\", \"\\n\", \"\\\"Ever since corona started, we've all been in isolation, and I like, miss no one,\\\" she said, laughing and eating potato-based crunchy chips\", \" in the video\", \". \", \"Read More\", \"\\\"Why am I missing you? There is no reason for me to miss you... do I pay your rent? Do I provide food for you? Why are you missing me?\\\" she added, still laughing. \", \"The quirky humor in the video earned Majimbo many reshares and more than 250,000 views from users across the continent, including South Africa, Kenya and Nigeria. \", \"She told CNN she did not expect the video to get as much attention as it did, but many people related to it. \", \"Gentlemen, start your wheelbarrows! Meet the Nigerian kids ingeniously remaking famous videos with household objects\", \"\\\"It was the time we had just gotten to lockdown, and everyone was telling me they missed me, and I literally like being away from people, so I thought to myself, 'Let me make a video about that,'\\\" she said. \", \"\\\"I did not expect all the attention, but it happened, and I am glad it did.\\\"\", \"Since going viral, Majimbo has made more videos combining dry humor and criticism around the subject matters she decides to film about. \", \"Many of the videos have more than 250,000 views on Instagram and an average of 50,000 views on Twitter.  \", \"Some of the videos have also been featured on American owned cable channel, \", \"Comedy Central\", \". \", \"Eating crunchy chips \", \"Majimbo often incorporates eating crunchy chips, which has become one of her signature moves, to emphasize her points in her monologues.\", \"\\\"In the first video that trended, I ate chips. A lot of people seemed to like it. There were a lot of comments asking me to do it again. So, I was like, OK whatever, and I did it again,\\\" she told CNN. \", \"The comic sensation additionally wears tiny dark sunglasses as a prop in her videos. Just like crunching on chips, the '90s shades are for emphasizing on points made in her skits, she said. \", \"var id = '//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js'.replace(/\\\\s+/g, '');!!document.getElementById(id) || (function makeEmbedScript(d, id) {var js,fjs;js = d.createElement('script');js.id = id;js.charset = 'utf-8';js.setAttribute('async', '');js.src = '//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js';fjs = d.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];window.WM.UserConsent.addScriptElement(js, [\\\"vendor\\\",\\\"measure-ads\\\"], fjs);}(document, id));\", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" View this post on Instagram\", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \"If I pay for the app I own the abs\", \" \", \"A post shared by \", \" Elsa Mpho Majimbo\", \" (@majimb.o) on \", \"Jun 11, 2020 at 10:10am PDT\", \"\\n\", \"\\\"How do I manage to be this hot? The key to being hot is Photoshop,\\\" she said in \", \"one of her videos\", \" titled \\\"If I pay for the app, I own the abs.\\\"\", \"In the video, Majimbo joked about using Photoshop to look good in pictures, \\\"Why get a six-pack in five months when you can get them in five minutes?\\\" she added, putting on the sunglasses to make her point. \", \"Her videos have received support from \", \"celebrities \", \"like actor Lupita Nyongo and current Miss Universe, Zozibini Tunzi. \", \"Majimbo, who records all her monologues using her iPhone 6, said she does not write her lines down before filming, instead she simply \\\"goes with the flow.\\\"\", \"\\\"The thing I like the most about my videos is that they come to me so easily and so naturally. I could just be sitting and feel like making a video about something, and I do it. Anything that comes to my mind, I record,\\\" she said. \", \"\\\"If I don't have any lines to record. I don't even bother, I just skip it and say no video today,\\\" she added. \", \"'I've been able to find myself in a way I hadn't before'\", \"Since becoming an internet sensation, Majimbo said she partnered with brands such as Canadian cosmetics manufacturer, MAC cosmetics, to create content aimed at promoting their products in fun ways. \", \"The teenager, who is currently a journalism student at Strathmore University in Nairobi, is thinking about a completely different career.\", \"According to her, she is taking the time to explore different and newer options, particularly in entertainment, \\\"I think the career I wanted before is not what I want now. A lot of things have changed, I've been able to find myself in a way I hadn't before.\\\" \", \"She added that she is looking into acting roles and having her own comedy show. \", \"This Nigerian comic is getting a lot of love on TikTok with the 'Don't Leave Me' challenge\", \"But regardless of the career part Majimbo takes, she is already influencing social media users in Africa. \", \"She has been given a South African name \\\"Mpho\\\" by her fans in the country. The name means \\\"gift\\\" in Tswana language spoken in Southern Africa, Botswana, Namibia and Zimbabwe. \", \"Majimbo says she will continue to make relatable and funny monologues but will not be limited to them.\", \"\\\"I don't like setting expectations for my future plans because I don't want to be limited. I am open to exploring and becoming many things in the future.\\\"\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/16/africa/amnesty-mozambique-video-killing-investigation-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"Amnesty International calls for investigation into video showing execution of woman in Mozambique\", \"description\": \"Amnesty International has called for an immediate investigation into the apparent extrajudicial killing of a woman in Mozambique that was shared widely in a horrifying video on social media earlier this week. \", \"date\": \"2020-09-16T17:31:35Z\", \"author\": \"David McKenzie, Brent Swails and Vasco Cotovio\", \"text\": [\" (CNN)\", \"Amnesty International has called for an immediate investigation into the apparent extrajudicial killing of a woman in Mozambique that was shared widely in a horrifying video on social media earlier this week. \", \"In the nearly two-minute-long video, men wearing military uniforms are seen chasing down a naked woman, surrounding and verbally harassing her along a rural road. One of the men repeatedly beats her with a stick before another man shoots her at close range. \", \" \", \"She is then repeatedly shot by the men while lying on the road before one of the men shouts \\\"Stop, stop, enough, it's done.\\\" \", \" \", \"Read More\", \"The video ends as the men turn and walk away, with one of them announcing, \\\"They've killed the al-Shabaab,\\\" the local name given to the growing insurgency in the far north of the country. \", \"It has no known links to the Somali terrorist group of the same name. The uniformed man looks directly into camera and raises his two fingers before the recording stops. \", \" \", \"\\\"The horrendous video is yet another gruesome example of the gross human rights violations taking place in Cabo Delgado by the Mozambican forces,\\\" said Deprose Muchena, Amnesty International's Director for East and Southern Africa.\", \"A young boy was killed by a police stray bullet during a coronavirus curfew. Now his parents want answers\", \" \", \"In its own analysis of the video, the human rights group says that the men were wearing the uniform of the Mozambican military. Amnesty says four different gunmen shot the woman a total of 36 times with AK-47s and PKM-style machine guns. Its investigation concluded that the incident took place near Awasse in the country's northernmost province Cabo Delgado. \", \" \", \"\\\"The incident is consistent with our recent findings of appalling human rights violations and crimes under international law happening in the area,\\\" said Muchena. \", \" \", \"CNN could not independently the authenticity of the video, the date and location it was filmed, nor the identity of the gunmen. \", \" \", \"Mozambique's Minister of Interior Amade Miquidade denied the accusations of atrocities, though did not address the video specifically, on national television Tuesday, saying that insurgents frequently wear army uniforms. \", \" \", \"\\\"When they want to produce their propaganda against the security and defense forces, against the Mozambican state, they remove those signs/characters that identify them and make videos to promote an image of atrocity practiced by those who defend the people,\\\" he said. \", \"Ammonium nitrate that exploded in Beirut bought for mining, Mozambican firm says \", \" \", \"Cabo Delgado is home to a $60 billion natural gas development that is heavily guarded by Mozambican military and private security. \", \" \", \"Loosely aligned with ISIS, the insurgents have undertaken increasingly sophisticated attacks in recent months, overrunning large parts of Mocimba de Praia, a strategic port north of the regional capital Pemba in August. Unlike in previous attacks, government forces have struggled to fully retake the territory. \", \" \", \"The insurgents have been accused by the government and human rights groups of their own violent abuses -- including beheadings, looting, and indiscriminate killing of civilians. \", \" \", \"And the interior minister highlighted those alleged abuses on Tuesday. \", \" \", \"\\\"Once more, our country continues to be the object of aggression by the terrorists, namely in the province of Cabo Delgado, where they've enforced cruel, inhuman, atrocious acts against our population,\\\" said Miquidade.\", \" \", \"Security analysts and human rights workers say that insurgents operating in the area do sometimes wear Mozambican military uniforms. But the uniformed men in the video showing the woman's killing speak Portuguese, generally more common to Mozambicans from the South. \", \"CNN's David McKenzie and Brent Swails reported from Johannesburg and Vasco Cotovio reported from London.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/07/africa/africa-engineering-prize-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"A 26-year-old is first woman to win Royal Academy of Engineering's Africa Prize for innovation\", \"description\": \"A 26-year-old has become the first woman to win the prestigious Royal Academy of Engineering's Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation.\\n\\n\", \"date\": \"2020-09-07T13:54:59Z\", \"author\": \"Aisha Salaudeen\", \"text\": [\" (CNN)\", \"A 26-year-old from Ivory Coast has won the 2020 Royal Academy of Engineering's Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation.\", \"Charlette N'Guessan is the \", \"first woman to win the award\", \", which could revolutionize cyber security and help curb identity fraud on the continent. \", \"N'Guessan and her team won the \\u00a325,000 award (about $33,000) for BACE API, a digital verification system that uses Artificial Intelligence and facial recognition to verify the identities of Africans remotely and in real time.\", \"BACE API works by matching the live photo of a user to the image on their documents such as passports or ID card, N'Guessan said. \", \"For websites and online applications that have BACE API integrated in them, users will be verified via their webcam to establish their  identity. \", \"Read More\", \"\\\"For the person trying to submit their application, we ask them to switch on their camera to make sure the person behind the camera is real, and not a robot. \", \"\\\"We are able to capture the face of the person live and match their image with the one on the existing document the person submitted,\\\" she explained. \", \"BACE API verifies users identities in real time using their phone camera or webcam\", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"BACE API verifies users identities in real time using their phone camera or webcam\\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"BACE API verifies users identities in real time using their phone camera or webcam\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200904115946-restricted-03-africa-engineering-prize-intl-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"BACE API can be integrated into already existing applications and systems for identity verification and is targeted at mostly financial institutions on the continent, N'Guessan told CNN. \", \"N'Guessan and her team won the Africa Prize for Innovation in a virtual award ceremony on September 3 where the Africa Prize judges and a live audience voted in their favor, the Royal Academy of Engineering said in\", \" a statement\", \". \", \"\\\"We are very proud to have Charlette N'Guessan and her team win this award,\\\" said Rebecca Enonchong, an entrepreneur from Cameroon entrepreneur and Africa Prize judge in the statement. \", \"\\\"It is essential to have technologies like facial recognition based on African communities, and we are confident their innovative technology will have far reaching benefits for the continent.\\\"\", \"BACE API matches a user's live photo with the image on their official documents to verify their identity. \", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"BACE API matches a user&#39;s live photo with the image on their official documents to verify their identity. \\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"BACE API matches a user&#39;s live photo with the image on their official documents to verify their identity. \\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200904115800-restricted-02-africa-engineering-prize-intl-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"Curbing identity fraud\", \"N'Guessan, who is the CEO and co-founder of Ghana-based software company, \", \"BACE Group\", \", told CNN that the idea came about while she was studying at the \", \"Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology\", \" (MEST) in Accra, Ghana's capital city. \", \"While there, she worked with a team of four and it was during one of their research projects in 2018 they decided to create BACE API, and later a software company. \", \"\\\"We ... talked to tech entrepreneurs. That's when we noticed that there is a huge problem with cyber security with online services and businesses,\\\" she said.\", \"N'Guessan said their research found that many financial institutions in the west African country deal with identity fraud, estimating that they spend up to $400 million dollars yearly to identify their customers. \", \"\\\"We decided to make our contribution as software engineers and data scientists by building a solution that can be useful for this market,\\\" N'Guessan added. \", \"Before the winner was announced on September 3, N'Guessan and other entrepreneurs shortlisted for the Africa Prize received eight months of training from experts across the world and her team was paired with an AI specialist who helped with improvements to their system. \", \" An African woman in tech\", \"N'Guessan's interest in technology started at a young age. Growing up in Ivory Coast, west Africa, she was encouraged to focus on science and technology subjects by her father, a mathematics professor.  \", \"\\\"He inspired my choice for studying STEM. I was actually really good in science-related courses. After high school, I went on to study software engineering at university,\\\" she said. \", \"Now running her own technology company, she told CNN that winning the Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation has helped to boost her confidence as a CEO leading a technical team of men.\", \"The Academy was founded in 1976 and has been running the award to reward engineering innovation in Africa since 2014. \", \"Globally, the technology industry is growing, but women led startups are in short supply with\", \" only 22%\", \" founded by at least one woman, according to a report in Disrupt Africa.\", \"This 9-year-old has built more than 30 mobile games\", \"Data specific to Africa is hard to come by but some studies suggest that \", \"only 9% of startups\", \" on the continent have women founders. \", \"N'Guessan says she hopes that her achievement will motivate more women to consider careers in tech. \", \"\\\"I will be happy if people are inspired by my story, being the first woman to win the Africa Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation and by my work as a woman in tech,\\\" she said. \"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/16/africa/blasphemy-nigeria-boy-sentenced-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"Outrage as Nigeria sentences 13-year-old boy to 10 years in prison for blasphemy\", \"description\": \"Child rights agency UNICEF has condemned the sentencing of a 13-year-old boy to 10 years in prison for blasphemy in northern Nigeria. \", \"date\": \"2020-09-16T14:09:33Z\", \"author\": \"Stephanie Busari and Eoin McSweeney\", \"text\": [\" (CNN)\", \"Child rights agency UNICEF has condemned the sentencing of a 13-year-old boy to 10 years in prison for blasphemy in northern Nigeria. \", \"Omar Farouq was convicted in a Sharia court in Kano State in northwest Nigeria after he was accused of using foul language toward Allah in an argument with a friend. \", \"He was sentenced on August 10 by the same court that recently sentenced a studio assistant Yahaya Sharif-Aminu to death for blaspheming Prophet Mohammed, according to lawyers. \", \"Farouq's punishment is in violation of the African Charter of the Rights and Welfare of a Child and the Nigerian constitution, said his counsel Kola Alapinni, who told CNN they filed an appeal on his behalf on September 7. \", \"Farouq was tried as an adult because he has attained puberty and has full responsibility under Islamic law. \", \"Read More\", \"Alapinni told CNN he or other lawyers working on the case have not been granted access to Farouq by authorities in Kano State. \", \"He said he found out about Farouq's case by chance when working on the case of Sharif-Aminu, who was sentenced to death for blasphemy at the Kano Upper Sharia Court. \", \"\\\"We found out they were convicted on the same day, by the same judge, in the same court, for blasphemy and we found out no one was talking about Omar, so we had to move quickly to file an appeal for him,\\\" he said. \", \"\\\"Blasphemy is not recognized by Nigerian law. It is inconsistent with the constitution of Nigeria.\\\"\", \" \", \" .m-infographic--1600276717888 { background: url(//cdn.cnn.com/cnn/.e/interactive/html5-video-media/2020/09/16/20201609_kano_state_map_375px.jpg) no-repeat 0 0 transparent; margin-bottom: 30px; padding-top: 111.4513981358189%; width: 100%; -moz-background-size: cover; -o-background-size: cover; -webkit-background-size: cover; background-size: cover; } @media (min-width: 640px) { .m-infographic--1600276717888{ background-image: url(//cdn.cnn.com/cnn/.e/interactive/html5-video-media/2020/09/16/20201609_kano_state_map_780px.jpg); padding-top: 84.2948717948718%; } } @media (min-width: 1120px) { .m-infographic--1600276717888{ background-image: url(//cdn.cnn.com/cnn/.e/interactive/html5-video-media/2020/09/16/20201609_kano_state_map_780px.jpg); padding-top: 84.2948717948718%; } } \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \" \", \"The lawyer said Farouq's mother had fled to a neighboring town after mobs descended on their home following his arrest. \", \"\\\"Everyone here is scared to speak and living under fear of reprisal attacks,\\\" he said. \", \"UNICEF Wednesday issued a statement \\\"expressing deep concern\\\" about the sentencing. \", \"\\\"The sentencing of this child -- 13-year-old Omar Farouq -- to 10 years in prison with menial labour is wrong,\\\" said Peter Hawkins, UNICEF representative in Nigeria. \\\"It also negates all core underlying principles of child rights and child justice that Nigeria -- and by implication, Kano State -- has signed on to.\\\" \", \"Kano State, like most predominantly Muslim states in Nigeria, practices Sharia law alongside secular law. \", \"Islam Fast Facts\", \"CNN contacted a spokesman for the Kano State governor for comment but had not heard back before publication. \", \"UNICEF has called on the Nigerian government and the Kano State government to urgently review the case and reverse the sentence, the organization said in a statement. \", \"\\\"This case further underlines the urgent need to accelerate the enactment of the Kano State Child Protection Bill so as to ensure that all children under 18, including Omar Farouq are protected -- and that all children in Kano are treated in accordance with child rights standards,\\\" Hawkins said.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/18/africa/disney-partners-with-nollywood/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"Disney partners with Nollywood to bring American movies to English-speaking West Africa\", \"description\": \"FilmOne Entertainment is now the sole distributor of Disney titles in English speaking West Africa\", \"date\": \"2020-09-18T12:02:13Z\", \"author\": \"Aisha Salaudeen\", \"text\": [\"Lagos, Nigeria (CNN)\", \"Disney, is joining forces with a Nigerian production and distribution company to market some of the American entertainment conglomerate's new releases such as \\\"Mulan\\\" in English-speaking West Africa.\", \"The deal makes FilmOne Entertainment the sole distributors of Disney-owned films in Nigeria, Ghana, and Liberia. \", \"\\\"It is a major career highlight, that we're able to get the world's biggest movie studio as a partner,\\\" Moses Babatope, a director at FilmOne, told CNN. \", \"Bollywood and Nollywood collide in a tale of a big fat Indian-Nigerian wedding\", \"FilmOne Entertainment has been at the forefront of growing Nigeria's cinema culture and has built cinemas across the country, including IMAX screens.\", \"The firm has also distributed and produced \", \"Nigerian box office hits \", \"such as \\\"The Wedding Party,\\\" and \\\"New Money.'\\\"\", \"Read More\", \"\\\"What the deal means is that we are exclusive marketers and distributors of Disney titles in the English-speaking West African countries that have studio licensed cinemas. We will distribute the films to all those cinemas in the territory,\\\" he explained. \", \"The agreement, which commenced this month, covers titles from all Disney studio divisions including Pixar, Marvel Studios, Walt Disney Pictures, and Blue Sky pictures. \", \"\\\"With their in-depth knowledge of the region and expertise in bringing theatrical releases to fans, we are thrilled to welcome FilmOne as our distribution partner for this territory,\\\" Disney Africa's country manager, Christine Service said in a statement. \", \"Bigger opportunities\", \"Film analysts in the country say this deal may convince investors and film producers to look further into the African movie industry. \", \"\\\"This deal is huge because it means that Disney is paying attention. Their presence can open doors for movie collaborations,\\\" said Shola Thompson, a Nigeria-based film consultant.\", \"Thompson added that distributing Disney movies is a pathway to getting the best content to cinemas, which can improve the cinema-going culture in the region as well as increase their potential earnings.\", \"As a result of restrictions following the Covid-19 pandemic, many cinemas in West Africa are not operating at full capacity. But FilmOne Entertainment says it is working on improving the cinema experience as a way of encouraging people to show up when all restrictions have been lifted.\", \"Netflix partners with Nigerian filmmaker in new major deal \", \"\\\"We will let people know that they enjoy films better when they watch with other people. To say that the experience out of home is very different,\\\" Babatope said. \", \"\\\"We will communicate that cinemas are safe in our communications to audiences. We will document what the cinemas are doing regarding incorporating safety procedures,\\\" he added. \", \"Disney's deal is not the first time a multinational entertainment company is partnering with film companies in West Africa.\", \"In 2019, FilmOne Entertainment signed a deal with Chinese media giant Huahua to co-produce the first \", \"major China-Nigeria film. \", \"In the same year, French Media giant,\", \" Canal+ acquired leading Nollywood film studio, ROK film studios\", \" to create more hours of Nigerian content for its French-speaking audience.\", \"Independence key to collaboration\", \"Thompson who is also a film analyst says the growing influence of entertainment companies like Disney on the continent may create room for greater Hollywood influence in Africa, without a corresponding influence of African film content in Hollywood.\", \"\\\"We need to be a bit careful to make sure we don't lose creative control of our stories. With more multinationals looking into Africa for partnerships, we don't want to find ourselves stuck with them dictating what we start to produce,\\\" he said. \", \"\\\"At the same time, we can still be glad that they are paying attention as that means growth for our film industry,\\\" he added. \", \"As FilmOne Entertainment prepares to start distributing Disney content, Babatope says the partnership is an opportunity that can lead to future collaborations involving largely African content. \", \"\\\"It's true that a lot of the content we will be distributing are from other parts of the world but if we are able to demonstrate that we are accountable and transparent, then there will be room to attract future investments involving content from this region.\\\"\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/23/africa/china-ethiopia-test-kits-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"China's BGI wins 1.5 million coronavirus test kit order from Ethiopia\", \"description\": \"Ethiopia has agreed to purchase 1.5 million coronavirus testing kits that will be manufactured at a factory in the African country that has been newly built by China's BGI Group, China's state media agency Xinhua said late on Tuesday.\", \"date\": \"2020-09-23T11:22:20Z\", \"author\": \"Story by Reuters\", \"text\": [\"Beijing \", \"Ethiopia has agreed to purchase 1.5 million coronavirus testing kits that will be manufactured at a factory in the African country that has been newly built by China's BGI Group, China's state media agency Xinhua said late on Tuesday.\", \"The BGI factory, the first coronavirus test production facility in Ethiopia that opened earlier this month, is designed to be able to make 6-8 million tests in a year and can expand the annual capacity to up to 10 million in accordance with local demand, Xinhua reported.\", \"BGI, which makes genome sequencing and medical devices, is hoping to use its footprint in Ethiopia in expanding its supplies to other African countries, Xinhua quoted a BGI official as saying in a separate report on Wednesday.\", \"BGI did not immediately respond to a request for comment.\", \"BGI Group's unit BGI Genomics had said it supplied over 35 million coronavirus testing kits overseas and built 58 labs in 18 countries as of June 30.\", \"Read More\", \"The Ethiopia factory could be later converted to make test kits for HIV, malaria and tuberculosis once the Covid-19 pandemic ends, Xinhua said.\", \"Ethiopia, one of the countries that has the most new daily infections on average in Africa, has reported 69,709 infections and 1,108 coronavirus-related deaths since the pandemic began.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/29/health/who-rapid-test-kits-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"WHO announces Covid-19 rapid tests for low and middle income countries\", \"description\": \"The World Health Organization has announced an agreement to make rapid Covid-19 tests available to lower and middle-income countries across the world.\", \"date\": \"2020-09-29T14:08:02Z\", \"author\": \"Amanda Watts \", \"text\": [\" (CNN)\", \"The World Health Organization has announced an agreement to make rapid Covid-19 tests available to lower and middle-income countries across the world.\", \"Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO director-general said, \\\"a substantial proportion of these rapid tests - 120 million - will be made available to low and middle-income countries. These tests provide reliable results in approximately 15 to 30 minutes, rather than hours or days, at a lower price, with less sophisticated equipment.\\\" \", \" \", \"Tedros said during a Monday news conference that these \\\"vital\\\" tests will help expand testing in remote areas, \\\"that do not have lab facilities or enough trained health workers to carry out PCR tests.\\\" \", \" \", \"Read More\", \"He added: \\\"High-quality rapid tests show us where the virus is hiding, which is key to quickly tracing and isolating contacts and breaking the chains of transmission. The tests are a critical tool for governments as they look to reopen economies and ultimately save both lives and livelihoods.\\\"\", \"Coronavirus has killed 1 million people worldwide. Experts fear the toll may double before a vaccine is ready\", \"The first orders are expected already to be placed this week and it will be rolled out in up to 20 countries in Africa starting in October. \", \"Peter Sands, executive director of the Global Fund said the tests are hugely valuable as a complement to PCR tests but warned that they are not \\\"a silver bullet.\\\" \", \" \", \"\\\"Although they're a bit less accurate - they're much faster, cheaper, and don't require a lab,\\\" he explained. \\\"Being able to deploy quality antigen RDTs, rapid diagnostic tests, will be a significant step forward in enabling countries to contain and combat Covid-19,\\\" Sands added. \", \"The PCR test is the most widespread and most accurate diagnostic test for determining whether someone is currently infected with coronavirus.  However, the tests requires specialized supplies, expensive instruments, and the expertise of trained lab technicians. which has led to shortages and a testing gap globally. \", \"Read related: \", \"https://edition.cnn.com/2020/04/28/us/coronavirus-testing-pcr-antigen-antibody/index.html\", \"This $5 rapid test is a potential game-changer in Covid testing\", \" \", \"Sands said these tests will help low and middle-income countries to \\\"close the dramatic gap in testing between rich and poor countries.\\\" \", \" \", \"\\\"Right now, high-income countries are conducting 292 tests per day per 100,000 people. For upper-middle-income countries, that number is 77. For lower-middle-income countries, 61, and from low-income countries, 14,\\\" Sands said, though he did not expand on where that data originates. \", \" \", \"Dr. John Nkengasong, director of the Africa CDC, welcomed the development as it would allow \\\"healthcare workers to quickly isolate cases and treat them while tracing their contacts to cut the transmission chain.\\\"\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/29/africa/togo-female-prime-minister-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"Togo names first female Prime Minister\", \"description\": \"President's former chief-of-staff Victoire Tomegah Dogbe, 60, has become the first female prime minister of Togo, a tiny West African nation of about eight million people.\", \"date\": \"2020-09-29T18:09:26Z\", \"author\": \"Orji Sunday\", \"text\": [\" (CNN)\", \"Togo's President Faure Gnassingbe has appointed the country's first female prime minister.\", \"Victoire Tomegah Dogbe, 60, became the first female prime minister of the tiny West African nation of about eight million people.\", \" \", \"Dogbe, whose appointment was confirmed by President Faure Gnassingbe on Monday, replaces Komi Selom Klassou, who resigned as prime minister on Friday, a position he held since 2015.\", \" \", \"Read More\", \"Dogbe is well known and respected in Togo, having served in several positions under Gnassingbe's government in the past decade, including working as his chief-of-staff, director of the cabinet of the President of the Republic and more recently as Minister for youth and grassroots development, according to local media reports.\", \"Ethiopia appoints its first female president \", \" \", \"Prior to joining politics, she worked with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) according to information from the agency. \", \" \", \"Her appointment comes after an expected cabinet reshuffle, which was delayed by the country's fight against coronavirus pandemic, following the controversial re-election of Gnassingbe, \", \"who has ruled Togo since 2005\", \". \", \"He took power from his father who, before his death,  ruled Togo for 38 years, dating back to a 1967 coup. \", \"Despite a \", \"series of protests between 2017 -- 2019\", \" calling for an end to a single family rule in Togo, Gnassingbe forced a constitutional reform in 2019 that allowed him to run for an election which he won easily in February 2020. His current tenure runs till 2025.  \", \"Faure must go: How one Togolese woman is risking her life to end the 50-year Gnassingb\\u00e9 dynasty\", \"The 56-year-old leader has seen growing opposition, following slowed economic growth, accusations of electoral fraud, \", \"corruption and human rights violations.\", \" \", \"Dogbe's has vast experience in governance and administration which is well positioned to help the country achieve a long-expected economic boom which has eluded the country since independence in 1960.\", \" \", \"Dogbe has been deeply involved in the country's fight against youth unemployment and poverty, introducing reforms that have been praised as a local success in her country, according to \", \"Togo-First, an online publication\", \" in the country. \", \" \", \"As the parliament awaits Dogbe's policy plan, observers are keen to see what economic difference her reforms can make in a country where half its population live below the poverty line, according to a \", \"2014 report by the International Monetary Fund\", \". \"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/30/africa/zimbabwe-elephant-disease-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"Zimbabwe suspects bacterial disease behind elephant deaths\", \"description\": \"Zimbabwe suspects a bacterial disease called hemorrhagic septicemia is behind the recent deaths of more than 30 elephants but is doing further tests to make sure, the parks authority said.\", \"date\": \"2020-09-30T14:48:29Z\", \"author\": \"Story by Reuters\", \"text\": [\"Zimbabwe suspects a bacterial disease called hemorrhagic septicemia is behind the recent deaths of more than 30 elephants but is doing further tests to make sure, the parks authority said.\", \"The elephant deaths, which began in late August, come soon after hundreds of elephants died in neighboring Botswana in mysterious circumstances.\", \"Officials in Botswana were initially at a loss to explain the elephant deaths there but have since blamed toxins produced by another type of bacterium.\", \"Toxins in water blamed for deaths of hundreds of elephants in Botswana \", \"Experts say Botswana and Zimbabwe could be home to roughly half of the continent's 400,000 elephants, often targeted by poachers.\", \"Elephants in Botswana and parts of Zimbabwe are at historically high levels, but elsewhere on the continent -- especially in forested areas -- many populations are severely depleted, said Chris Thouless, head of research at Save the Elephants.\", \"Read More\", \"\\\"Higher populations equal greater risk from infectious diseases,\\\" Thouless told Reuters, adding that climate change could put pressure on elephant populations as water supplies diminish and temperatures rise, potentially increasing the probability of pathogen outbreaks.\", \"Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority Director-General Fulton Mangwanya told a parliamentary committee on Monday that so far 34 dead elephants had been counted.\", \"\\\"It is unlikely that this disease alone will have any serious overall impact on the survival of the elephant population,\\\" he said. \\\"The northwest regions of Zimbabwe have an over-abundance of elephants and this outbreak of disease is probably a manifestation of that ... particularly in the hot, dry season elephants are stressed by competition for water and food resources.\\\"\", \"Postmortems on some of the dead elephants showed inflamed livers and other organs, Mangwanya said. The elephants were found lying on their stomachs, suggesting a sudden death.\", \"Vernon Booth, a Zimbabwe-based wildlife management consultant, told Reuters it was difficult to put a number on Zimbabwe's current elephant population. He estimated it could be close to 90,000, up from 82,000 in 2014 when the last national survey was conducted, assuming that roughly 2,000-3,000 have died each year from all causes.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/30/politics/esper-africa-trip/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"US Defense Secretary visits Africa for first time seeking to push back on Russia and China\", \"description\": \"US Secretary of Defense Mark Esper made his first visit to Africa Wednesday, a trip aimed in part at pushing back on Russian and Chinese influence in the region.\", \"date\": \"2020-09-30T16:14:06Z\", \"author\": \"Ryan Browne\", \"text\": [\"Malta (CNN)\", \"US Secretary of Defense \", \"Mark Esper \", \"made his first visit to Africa Wednesday, a trip aimed in part at pushing back on Russian and Chinese influence in the region.\", \"Esper arrived in Tunisia to meet with top officials, including the country's president, Kais Saied, and to lay a wreath and give a speech at a World War II cemetery to honor US service members who fell during the North African campaign.\", \"The trip was not announced until after Esper departed the country.\", \"Tunisia which has been touted as the sole democratic success story to come out of the 2011 \\\"Arab Spring,\\\" was designated \\\"a major-non NATO ally of the United States\\\" in 2015 and has partnered with the US on counterterrorism efforts aimed at ISIS-linked groups.\", \"As Trump refuses to commit to a peaceful transition, Pentagon stresses it will play no role in the election\", \"During a meeting at the Tunisian Defense Ministry, Esper and his counterpart signed a \\\"ten-year Roadmap of Defense Cooperation.\\\"\", \"Read More\", \"\\\"The United States will continue to deepen our alliances and partnerships across the continent, including with Tunisia, where your democratic government and sovereignty have made much of our work in the region possible,\\\" Esper said during his speech at the North Africa American cemetery and memorial in Carthage.\", \"\\\"We look forward to expanding this relationship to help Tunisia protect its maritime ports and land borders, deter terrorism, and keep the corrosive efforts of autocratic regimes out of your country,\\\" he added.\", \"The US has worked to help Tunisia secure its border with Libya which has been beset by civil war and recently deployed 40 American military advisers to the country, part of a the Army's Security Force Assistance Brigade, in order to aid Tunisia's fight against terrorist groups which have carried out high profile attacks in the country since 2011.\", \"The US is also Tunisia's largest supplier of weapons, providing nearly 50% of all arms imports from 2015 to 2019 according to the Center for International Policy and in February the Trump Administration approved the sale of four AT-6C Wolverine light attack aircraft to Tunisia, an arms package estimated to cost $325.8 million.\", \"While in North Africa, Esper is seeking to push back on Russian and Chinese activity in the region, according to defense officials.\", \"\\\"Today, our strategic competitors China and Russia continue to intimidate and coerce their neighbors while expanding their authoritarian influence worldwide, including on this continent,\\\" Esper said.\", \"The US has accused China of seeking to expand its influence in the region via predatory loans and the US military has accused Moscow of deploying Russian mercenaries and fighter jets to bolster Libyan Gen. Khalifa Haftar, the commander of the self-styled Libyan National Army, one of the belligerents in that country's civil war.\", \"China is doubling down on its territorial claims and that's causing conflict across Asia\", \"\\\"Together we continue to counter the malign, coercive, and predatory behavior of Beijing and Moscow, meant to undermine African institutions, erode national sovereignty, create instability, and exploit resources throughout the region,\\\" Esper said.\", \"Esper also visited the island republic of Malta Tuesday, becoming the first US defense secretary to visit there since President Richard Nixon's Secretary of Defense Mel Laird visited in 1970, just six years after the country became independent of the UK.\", \"While in Malta, Esper on Wednesday met with the country's Prime Minister Robert Abela and President George Vella.\", \"While Malta's military is small, totaling some 2,000 personnel, it sits in a strategic location off the coast of North Africa and possesses a significant port and was until the 1970s was the site of a major UK Royal Navy installation.\", \"A senior defense official told CNN that Esper planned to discuss maritime security with Maltese officials, a major issue given the country's proximity to shipping and smuggling lanes connecting Europe to North Africa. \"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/01/world/covid-girls-child-marriage-intl/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"Half a million more girls are at risk of child marriage in 2020 because of Covid-19, charity warns\", \"description\": \"The pandemic has put 500,000 more girls at risk of being forced into child marriage this year, reversing 25 years of progress that saw child marriage rates decline, according to a new report by the charity Save the Children.\", \"date\": \"2020-10-01T12:59:25Z\", \"author\": \"Tara John\", \"text\": [\"London (CNN)\", \"The pandemic has put 500,000 more girls at risk of being forced into child marriage this year, reversing \", \"25 years of progress\", \" that saw child marriage rates decline, according to a new report by the charity Save the Children.\", \"Before the global outbreak, 12 million girls married each year, now the charity warns that up to 2.5 million more girls could be at risk of \", \"child marriage\", \" over the next five years.  \", \"How saying 'I do' can help millions of girls to say 'I don't'\", \"With up to 117 million children estimated to fall into poverty in 2020, many will face pressure to work and help provide for their families.\", \"\\\"The pandemic means more families are being pushed into poverty, forcing many girls to work to support their families, to go without food, to become the main caregivers for sick family members, and to drop out of school -- with far less of a chance than boys of ever returning,\\\" Inger Ashing, CEO of Save the Children International, \", \"said in a press release\", \".\", \"The pandemic led to school closures and \\\"experience during the Ebola outbreak suggests many girls will never return\\\" to class due \\\"to increasing pressure to work, risk of child marriage, bans on pregnant girls attending school, and lost contact with education,\\\" the charity wrote.\", \"Read More\", \"A girl gets married every 2 seconds somewhere in the world\", \"This year, 191,200 girls in South Asia will be disproportionately affected by the risk of increased child marriage, the report says. It is followed by West and Central Africa, where 90,000 girls are at risk of child marriage, Latin America and the Caribbean (73,400), and Europe and Central Asia (37,200).  \", \"Girls affected by humanitarian crises, such as wars, floods and earthquakes, face the greatest risk of child marriage, the report notes. Before the pandemic, data showed child marriage was increasing among refugee populations. In Lebanon, child marriage among Syrian refugee girls rose by 7% between 2017 and 2018.\", \"\\\"Every year, around 12 million girls are married, 2 million before their 15th birthday,\\\" Ashing said. \\\"Half a million more girls are now at risk of this gender-based violence this year alone -- and these only are the ones we know about. We believe this is the tip of the iceberg.\\\"\"]}\n][\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/12/politics/trump-health-coronavirus/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"Trump's doctor says the President has tested negative on consecutive days\", \"description\": \"White House physician Sean Conley said Monday President Donald Trump has tested negative for Covid-19 on consecutive days, as the President heads to a crowded campaign rally in Florida.\", \"date\": \"2020-10-12T21:43:29Z\", \"author\": \"Betsy Klein\", \"text\": [\" (CNN)\", \"White House physician Sean Conley said Monday \", \"President Donald Trump\", \" has tested negative for Covid-19 on consecutive days, as the President heads to a crowded campaign rally in Florida.\", \"\\\"In response to your inquiry regarding the President's most recent COVID-19 tests, I can share with you that he has tested NEGATIVE, on consecutive days, using the Abbott BinaxNOW antigen card,\\\" \", \"Conley wrote\", \", noting that those tests were taken \\\"in context with additional clinical and laboratory data.\\\" \", \"That additional data, Conley said, included \\\"viral load, subgenomic RNA and PCR cycle threshold measurements, as well as ongoing assessment of viral culture data.\\\" \", \"PCR suggests a polymerase chain reaction test, which looks for any evidence of the virus, although Conley did not say clearly what type of test was run.\", \"It is also unclear on which consecutive days Trump tested negative -- and the Abbott BinaxNOW test might not be completely accurate. It's only been validated in people within the first seven days of symptom onset. Trump, who first announced he tested positive on Thursday, October 1, is more than 10 days out, and the US Food and Drug Administration has said it does not know how accurate the test is at that point. \", \"Read More\", \"The White House still has not revealed the last time Trump tested negative prior to his positive diagnosis, offering varying justifications for withholding that information.\", \"Trump is \\\"not infectious to others,\\\" Conley added.\", \"The doctor's assessment came moments after the President was seen boarding Air Force One without a mask on his way to Sanford, Florida, where he will rally a large group of supporters, many of whom are not wearing masks. The campaign is conducting temperature checks and handing out masks and hand sanitizer, though there is no social distancing. \", \"Earlier Monday, Trump campaign manager Bill Stepien, back to work at campaign headquarters after his own Covid-19 diagnosis, was asked during a briefing call whether the President would be able to hold rallies with the same stamina as he has in the past. Trump's signature \\\"Make America Great Again\\\" rallies often span well over an hour, some as long as 90 minutes. \", \"\\\"I've spoken with the President very single day since he entered Walter Reed. He is strong, he is energetic, he is raring to go. I think his campaign calendar reflects his health and well-being and enthusiasm to get back on the trail,\\\" Stepien told reporters, adding that Trump's return will be a \\\"big shot in the arm for the campaign.\\\"\", \"Senior adviser Jason Miller added that Trump is \\\"on my case for not having enough rallies\\\" and should be expected to be \\\"out there, at least in the short term, two to three events a day,\\\" which will increase as Election Day approaches.\", \"Conley deemed Trump clear to return to an \\\"active schedule\\\" in a Saturday memo after testing revealed \\\"he is no longer considered a transmission risk to others.\\\"\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/12/us/indigenous-peoples-day-2020-states-trnd/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"These states are ditching Columbus Day to observe Indigenous Peoples' Day instead\", \"description\": \"Here's a list of states that have chosen to change Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples' Day, as well as some places that don't observe the holiday at all.\", \"date\": \"2020-10-12T11:45:10Z\", \"author\": \"Scottie Andrew and AJ Willingham\", \"text\": [\" (CNN)\", \"Columbus Day has been a political lightning rod for states, cities and municipalities around the US for years now. Some have decided to do something about it. \", \"Virginia \", \"is the latest state to officially observe \\\"Indigenous Peoples' Day\\\" instead, a holiday to recognize the native populations that were displaced and decimated after Christopher Columbus and other European explorers reached the continent. \", \"Technically\", \", Columbus Day is a federal holiday\", \", which means it is recognized by the US government and thus brings the closure of non-essential government offices, and, usually, places like post offices and banks. \", \"But states and local governments can choose not to observe a federal holiday. And, as is the case \", \"with a growing number of places\", \", change the name and intent of the October holiday altogether. \", \"Not listed here are more than \", \"130 cities\", \" that have ditched Columbus Day for Indigenous Peoples Day -- and the list grows yearly.\", \"Read More\", \"States that officially celebrate Indigenous Peoples' Day \", \"Alaska\", \": Observes Indigenous Peoples' Day \", \"as of 2017\", \"Gov. Bill Walker signed observances of the holiday in 2015 and 2016 before making the switch official in 2017.\", \"Hawaii:\", \" \", \"Observes Discoverers' Day\", \" in place of Columbus Day\", \"Maine: \", \"Observes Indigenous Peoples' Day \", \"as of 2019 \", \"New Mexico: \", \"Observes Indigenous Peoples' Day \", \"as of 2019\", \"Oregon:\", \" Observes Indigenous Peoples Day \", \"as of 2017\", \"South Dakota: \", \"Observes Native American Day\", \" as of 1990\", \"Vermont: \", \"Observes Indigenous Peoples' Day \", \"as of 2019\", \"States and DC that observe Indigenous Peoples Day via proclamations\", \"Iowa:\", \" Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds made a proclamation in 2018\", \" designating Columbus Day as Indigenous Peoples' Day\", \".\", \"Louisiana: \", \"The Pelican State doesn't recognize Columbus Day. Gov. John Bel Edwards declared October 14, 2019, the state's first\", \" Indigenous Peoples' Day\", \" but hasn't issued a 2020 proclamation yet.\", \"Michigan:\", \" On October 14, 2019, \", \"Gov. Gretchen Whitmer declared the day to be Indigenous Peoples' Day\", \" \\\"to uplift our country's indigenous roots, history, and contributions.\\\"\", \"Minnesota\", \": In 2019, Gov. Tim Walz signed a \", \"proclamation\", \" declaring the second Monday in October Indigenous Peoples' Day. The state is home to 11 Tribal Nations.\", \"North Carolina:\", \" \", \"Gov. Roy Cooper has made yearly proclamations \", \"designating the second Monday in October as Indigenous Peoples' Day.\", \"Virginia\", \": In 2020, Gov. Ralph Northam \", \"declared\", \" Monday the first Indigenous Peoples' Day in Virginia, calling it an \\\"important step in creating an inclusive, honest Commonwealth.\\\" The state is home to 11 native tribes.\", \"Wisconsin: \", \"Gov. Tony Evers \", \"established Indigenous Peoples' Day via an executive order\", \" days before the observance in 2019. \", \"Washington, DC: \", \"The DC Council \", \"voted to replace Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples' Day\", \" a few days before the 2019 observance. \", \"States that celebrate both holidays\", \"Alabama\", \": The state celebrates both Columbus Day and \", \"American Indian Heritage Day\", \".\", \"Oklahoma\", \": In 2019, the \", \"state voted to move Native American Day\", \" to the same day as Columbus Day so the two could be celebrated concurrently. \"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/12/politics/ballot-returns-pennsylvania-voting-election-2020/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"Democrats have cast more than three-quarters of Pennsylvania early ballots so far\", \"description\": \"Democrats are far outpacing Republicans in ballots cast so far in Pennsylvania, a battleground state that President Donald Trump won by less than one percentage point in 2016. \", \"date\": \"2020-10-12T18:43:55Z\", \"author\": \"Ethan Cohen and Liz Stark\", \"text\": [\" (CNN)\", \"Democrats are far outpacing Republicans in ballots cast so far in Pennsylvania, a battleground state that \", \"President Donald Trump\", \" won by less than one percentage point in 2016. \", \"More on Voting\", \"CNN's Election 101\", \"Voter registration, explained\", \"How to track your mail-in ballot\", \"How to stay safe when voting in person\", \"What are poll watchers?\", \"Your questions about voting, answered\", \"All the info you need to make your voice heard\", \"Democrats are responsible for 76% of the ballots cast so far in the state, despite making up roughly 47% of registered voters. Meanwhile, Republicans make up almost 39% of registered voters in Pennsylvania but have only cast 16% of the ballots so far.\", \"With 22 days until Election Day, Democrats also lead Republicans in pre-election voting in eight more key states that could decide the next president. \", \"This detailed pre-election voting information comes from Catalist, a company that provides data, analytics and other services to Democrats, academics and nonprofit issue-advocacy organizations and is giving new insights into who is voting before November. Catalist analyzed almost 8 million ballots cast in 31 states so far. \", \"The returns represent a small fraction of the expected number of ballots to be cast in 2020, as Trump and Hillary Clinton received about 130 million votes combined four years ago.    \", \"Read More\", \"Visit CNN's Election Center for full coverage of the 2020 race.\", \"In those competitively rated states with party data available, Democratic voters represent a greater share of pre-Election Day voting than Republicans, as early and mail voting have surged amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Although that is not predictive of the ultimate outcome of any race, the data reflects polling that shows Republicans strongly prefer voting in-person on Election Day rather than early. \", \"In almost all of those key states, Democratic voters also make up a larger share of those who have cast ballots so far this year than they did at this point in the 2016 cycle. \", \"In fact, in Florida and North Carolina, Republican voters actually led in ballots cast at this point four years ago. But now, Democrats hold a 22-point lead over Republicans in the share of ballots cast in Florida and a 33-point lead in North Carolina. \", \"Catalist's voting information also provide insights into the racial composition of early voters this cycle. \", \"White voters currently comprise a majority of the early ballots cast in each of \", \"CNN's most competitive states\", \" where data by race is available. In almost all of those key states, however, White voters make up a smaller share of the ballots cast now than they did at this time four years ago. \", \"\\n\", \"\\nif(!window.pym){(function(b,c){var d=document.createElement(\\\"script\\\");d.type=\\\"text/javascript\\\",d.readyState?d.onreadystatechange=function(){(\\\"loaded\\\"===d.readyState||\\\"complete\\\"===d.readyState)&&(d.onreadystatechange=null,c())}:d.onload=function(){c()},d.src=b,document.getElementsByTagName(\\\"head\\\")[0].appendChild(d)})(\\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnn/.e/interactive/js/lib/vendor/pym/pym.v1.min.js\\\",function(){new pym.Parent(\\\"responsive-embed-20201012-early-ballots-cast-2016-vs-2020\\\",\\\"//ix.cnn.io/dailygraphics/graphics/20201012-early-ballots-cast-2016-vs-2020/index.html\\\",{title:\\\"CNN Graphic\\\"})})}else var responsiveEmbed=new pym.Parent(\\\"responsive-embed-20201012-early-ballots-cast-2016-vs-2020\\\",\\\"//ix.cnn.io/dailygraphics/graphics/20201012-early-ballots-cast-2016-vs-2020/index.html\\\",{title:\\\"CNN Graphic\\\"});\\n\", \"Here is a deeper look at these trends in some key states.\", \"Florida\", \"Florida voters have returned about 2.5 times as many ballots as at this time in 2016. \", \"Black and Hispanic voters in the Sunshine State comprise slightly greater shares of ballots cast so far compared to this point four years ago. Black voters currently account for 11% of those ballots, up from 8% in 2016, and Hispanic voters represent 12% of ballots cast, up from 10% then.\", \"White voters still account for the vast majority of pre-Election Day ballots in Florida, but their share is down compared to at this point in 2016. They comprised about 80% of advance votes four years ago but about 73% now. \", \"According to exit polls, White voters made up 62% of Florida's electorate in 2016, so it's possible they could be overrepresented in the early vote breakdown compared to what Florida's total pool of voters will look like in November. \", \"Georgia\", \"Voters in the Peach State have also more than doubled their ballot returns compared to this time in 2016. \", \"Of CNN's most competitive states with race data available, Georgia currently has the smallest share of ballots cast by White voters. Georgia also has the largest share of ballots cast by Black voters, a key Democratic voting bloc, among those key states. \", \"Black voters have cast a greater share of pre-Election Day votes this cycle compared to this point in 2016, representing over 35% of those early ballots now, up from 29% four years ago. White voters have cast a smaller share of ballots ahead of the election, dropping from 68% in 2016 to 58% currently. \", \"North Carolina \", \"Ballot returns in North Carolina are more than 9 times larger than this point in 2016. \", \"Black voters make up a larger share of those who have already cast ballots than they did at this point four years ago. 17% of ballots cast have come from Black voters, compared to just 9% at this point four years ago.\", \"Meanwhile, White voters' share of the ballots cast has dropped roughly 10 percentage points -- from 86% four years ago at this time to 76% now.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/12/business/bank-overdraft-fees-biden/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"Banks make billions on overdraft fees. Biden could end that\", \"description\": \"The banking industry's $11 billion overdraft-fee gravy train could get derailed if Joe Biden wins the White House.\", \"date\": \"2020-10-12T19:11:38Z\", \"author\": \"Matt Egan Business\", \"text\": [\"New York (CNN Business)\", \"The banking industry's $11 billion overdraft-fee gravy train could get derailed if Joe Biden wins the White House.\", \"Wall Street analysts are warning that \", \"Biden-appointed regulators\", \" could crack down on \", \"overdraft fees\", \", which critics say \", \"unfairly punish society's most vulnerable. \", \"\\\"Overdraft fees are one of the biggest risks to the banking industry under a Biden presidency,\\\" said Nathan Dean, senior analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence. \", \"Even if the \", \"US Senate remains under GOP control\", \", a Biden administration may take aim at overdraft fees through new rules from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. \", \"\\\"There will be real pressure from progressives to get tough on banks. This is the easiest way to do that,\\\" said Dean. \", \"Read More\", \"Cowen Washington Research Group warned clients last week that a Biden win will likely result in restrictions on how often banks can charge overdraft fees and other limitations. \", \"\\\"If Donald Trump wins, we see no risk to overdraft fees,\\\" Jaret Seiberg, policy analyst at Cowen, wrote in the note to clients. \", \"Biden has not explicitly promised to take action on overdraft fees. And the Biden campaign did not respond to a request for comment. But if he wins the election and pushes to eliminate overdraft fees, it would serve as another example of how a win for Democrats in November could hurt banks. Not only is there the specter of more regulation, but Biden has called for unwinding Trump's corporate tax cuts. \", \"Biden's proposed tax plan, which would need to get through Congress, could lead to a \", \"combined $7 billion increase in corporate taxes annually \", \"for the top 10 US banks alone, according to S&P Market Intelligence. \", \"9% of accounts pay 79% of overdraft fees\", \"Each year, banks haul in more than $11 billion worth of overdraft and related fees when customer accounts go negative, according to FDIC stats on banks with more than $1 billion of assets. \", \"These fees represent about 5% of non-interest income at banks, according to Cowen. And that doesn't include the overdraft fees collected by thousands of small banks and credit unions -- a total that likely rivals or even exceeds the $11 billion from bigger banks. \", \"JPMorgan Chase\", \" \", \"(\", \"JPM\", \")\", \" alone brought in $2.1 billion of income last year from overdraft and insufficient funds fees, according to the Center for Responsible Lending, a nonprofit that pushes for policies aimed at curbing predatory lending. \", \"Wells Fargo\", \" \", \"(\", \"WFC\", \")\", \" and \", \"Bank of America\", \" \", \"(\", \"BAC\", \")\", \" collected an additional $1.7 billion and $1.6 billion of overdraft fees, respectively. At \", \"TD Bank\", \" \", \"(\", \"TD\", \")\", \", overdraft fees represented about one-third of the lender's non-interest income, according to CRL. \", \"While overdraft fees pad the bottom lines of banks, they can burden customers, especially lower-income households.\", \"Why Biden won't ban fracking -- and why Trump wants you to think he will\", \"Consider that just 9% of all accounts pay for a staggering 79% of all overdraft and non-sufficient fund fees, according to a 2017 report by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. \", \"And these \\\"frequent overdrafters\\\" tend to have lower credit scores and be more \\\"credit constrained\\\" than other bank customers, the CFPB report said. \", \"\\\"The most vulnerable customers are getting absolutely hammered,\\\" said Rebecca Born\\u00e9, senior policy counsel at the Center for Responsible Lending.\", \"'Unreasonable practices'\", \"Minorities pay a disproportionate share of overdraft fees. African-Americans and Hispanics each represented 19% of those who paid three or more overdraft-related fees in 2014, even though they only represented 12% and 17% of the US population as a whole, according to a \", \"2016 report by the Pew Charitable Trusts\", \". \", \"The Center for Responsible Lending cited a laundry list of \\\"unreasonable\\\" common practices, including high fees (typically $35/per overdraft transaction), multiple fees per day, sustained fees until accounts are brought back into balance and \\\"often manipulative\\\" practices involving deposit clearing.\", \"In 2009, when Biden served as Barack Obama's vice president, \", \"regulators announced rules\", \" that prevent banks from charging consumers overdraft fees on ATMs and debit card transactions -- unless consumers opt in to overdraft services. \", \"Customer complaints \", \"Still, overdraft fees are among the most complained-about bank practices at the CFPB, the financial watchdog created by the 2010 Dodd-Frank law. \", \"\\\"I have been charged overdraft fees for overdraft fees!\\\" a Wells Fargo customer from New Jersey \", \"complained to the CFPB last month\", \", according to the agency's online complaint database. \\\"Looks like Wells Fargo is back at it -- robbing people blind.\\\"  \", \"A Truist Bank customer from Florida cited a medical hardship caused by the pandemic. \", \"Biden wants to undo Trump's tax cuts. Wall Street is backing him anyway\", \"\\\"My partner lost his job due to Covid,\\\" the customer said. \\\"As a result of the change in income my account was over drafted and subsequently closed.\\\"\", \"Mike Townsend, a spokesman at the American Bankers Association, said that banks offer customers multiple tools to prevent overdrawing their accounts, including text alerts about low balances and online account monitoring. \", \"\\\"As always, banks are committed to ensuring their customers are able to understand and make informed choices about their overdraft options,\\\" Townsend said in a statement. \", \"How regulators could crack down\", \"If Biden wins the White House, he would likely move swiftly to replace CFPB Director Kathy Kraninger with a Democrat who would be more sympathetic to calls to crack down on bank fees.\", \"Trump's lead over Biden on the economy has vanished\", \"\\\"The CFPB has teeth, no matter who the director is,\\\" Born\\u00e9 said. \\\"It's long overdue to do something about abusive overdraft practices.\\\"\", \"Cowen thinks Biden-appointed regulators are likely to take several steps, including preventing banks from charging more than one overdraft fee per day, requiring lenders to process transactions in a way that minimizes overdraft fees and making banks waive overdraft fees if a customer is waiting for a deposit to clear. There is also talk of forcing banks to lower the amount of the fee, especially for relatively small overdrafts. \", \"Democrats in Congress have also proposed giving customers the flexibility to overpay overdrafts over time, instead of the very next deposit. \", \"\\\"This is to avoid trapping a consumer in a negative cycle,\\\" Cowen's Seiberg said, \\\"where the repaying of a prior overdraft triggers a new overdraft.\\\" \"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2013/01/21/us/winona-ryder-fast-facts/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"Winona Ryder Fast Facts\", \"description\": \"Read CNN's Fast Facts about the life of Winona Ryder, an Oscar-nominated actress. \", \"date\": \"2013-01-21T17:52:29Z\", \"author\": \"CNN Editorial Research\", \"text\": [\" (CNN)\", \"Here's a look at the life of Oscar-nominated actress Winona Ryder. \", \"Personal\", \"Birth date:\", \" October 29, 1971\", \"Birth place:\", \" Winona, Minnesota\", \"Birth name:\", \" Winona Laura Horowitz\", \"Read More\", \"Father:\", \" Michael Horowitz, rare books dealer    \", \"Mother:\", \" Cynthia (Istas) Horowitz\", \"Other Facts\", \"She has been nominated for an \", \"Academy Award\", \" two times: Once for \\\"The Age of Innocence\\\" and once for \\\"Little Women.\\\" \", \"Ryder received a \", \"Grammy\", \" nomination for her spoken recording of \\\"Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl.\\\"\", \"Timeline\", \"1986 -\", \" Makes her film debut in \\\"Lucas.\\\"\", \"October 6, 2000\", \" - \", \"Receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. \", \"December 12, 2001\", \" -\", \" Is arrested at the Beverly Hills Saks Fifth Avenue, charged with four felony counts and is released on $20,000 bail.\", \"June 14, 2002\", \" -\", \" At her arraignment, Ryder enters a not guilty plea\", \"October 16, 2002\", \" -\", \" Drug charges against Ryder are dismissed.\", \"October 24 2002\", \" - \", \"Ryder's trial begins. \", \"November 6, 2002 - \", \"The jury reaches a verdict after five hours of deliberation. Ryder is found not guilty of burglary, guilty of vandalism and guilty of grand theft.    \", \"December 6, 2002 - \", \"Ryder is sentenced to\", \" three years probation,\", \" psychological and drug counseling, 480 hours of community service and $10,000 in fines and restitution. \", \"June 18, 2004 - \", \"A judge reduces the charges against Ryder from felonies to misdemeanors as she has completed 480 hours of community service at the City of Hope Cancer Center. \", \"2016-present -\", \" \", \"Stars in Netflix's series \", \"\\\"Stranger Things.\\\"\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/12/perspectives/land-olakes-beth-ford-farmers/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"Land O'Lakes CEO: How businesses can help America's struggling farmers\", \"description\": \"It is vital to the families who own and operate more than 95% of America's farms to be connected. Farmers now have access to digital tools, like dashboards, to help them decide where to plant and fertilize, which fields have the best yields and which animals are thriving. \", \"date\": \"2020-10-12T18:52:08Z\", \"author\": \"Opinion by Beth Ford for CNN Business Perspectives\", \"text\": [\"Beth Ford is president and CEO of Land O'Lakes. The opinions expressed in this commentary are her own. \", \"\\n\", \"\\n    .leftside-floating-image {\\n        width:100%;\\n        display:block;\\n        margin:0 auto 1.5rem;\\n    }\\n    @media screen and (min-width: 200px) {\\n        .leftside-floating-image {\\n            float:left;\\n            width:50%;\\n            max-width: 200px;\\n            display:block;\\n            margin:0 1.5rem 1rem 0;\\n        }\\n    }\\n\", \"\\n\", \"\\n        \", \"\\n\", \"\\n\", \"America's farmers are hopeful, but struggling. \", \"This spring, massive supply chain and distribution disruptions caused by the shutdowns, combined with stockpiling by worried shoppers, decimated grocery stocks. Restaurants closed, leaving farmers and ranchers without a market for their livestock and crops. Then, this summer, wildfires, drought and severe storms impacted production of corn, peanuts, cotton and much more across the country.  \", \"Now, however, America's farmers face the added stress of trying to get their kids access to online school and their grandparents to the virtual doctor. But when your internet signal is weak, do you utilize what limited bandwidth you have for the tools that operate your farm or for your child to finish her math assignment? Or do neither of those things happen so grandma can see the doctor online? When you don't have reliable and fast digital connectivity, none of it happens. \", \"It is vital to the families who own and operate more than 95% of \", \"America's farms\", \" to be connected. Farmers now have access to digital tools, like dashboards, to help them decide where to plant and fertilize, which fields have the best yields and which animals are thriving. And yet, one in four don't have any \", \"internet access\", \". \", \"High-speed internet is the electricity of our generation. Americans who don't have reliable access to the internet feel it when they are acting as teachers in their homes or trying to help their kids keep up with their studies. Roughly 16 million \", \"K-12 students\", \" and 400,000 public school teachers lack reliable access to the internet required for learning. They feel it when they need to go to the doctor, as telemedicine visits during the pandemic reach an all-time high and patients seek to avoid exposure at health care facilities. They feel it when they are trying to steward the land wisely as their parents did.\", \"Read More\", \"At Land O'Lakes, our farmer-owned coop does business in all 50 states, touching 10,000 rural communities and half the harvested acres in the nation, and like the farmers who own us, we are hopeful and resilient, even in these circumstances. We follow their lead by reaching out to partners like Microsoft, Polaris, Tractor Supply Company, Business Roundtable and Mayo Clinic, and together we are addressing the problem of connectivity. \", \"America needs a stimulus package now. Here are 3 things it should include\", \"We launched the \", \"American Connection Project\", \", which joined together over 110 major organizations to advocate to close the digital divide and to turn on nearly 2,300 free public Wi-Fi locations in 48 states across the country. Up to 40 families come to most of these sites every day, staying for an average of 90 minutes as they pull up, stay in their cars, maintain social distancing and access Wi-Fi for telehealth appointments or distance learning assignments. \", \"We welcome other companies and organizations to join the project. Each business that signs on brings unique assets and strengths to the effort. Many partners are turning on Wi-Fi at their locations, supplying hardware, connecting telehealth providers and much more.   \", \"Together, we are advocating for three key principles: robust federal funding for broadband infrastructure, improved broadband connectivity mapping and better coordination of federal and state agencies to deploy funding. \", \"We must help as many people as we can as quickly as we can. Human connection was as necessary to our grandparents as it is to our children. Electricity brought them together and forward. Digital connectivity can do the same. Today, let's celebrate the farmers who are essential to the nation's food supply and economic recovery and recognize not only what we have to gain, but what we cannot lose.  \"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2015/03/30/us/nba-finals-fast-facts/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"NBA Finals Fast Facts\", \"description\": \"Read CNN's Fast Facts about the NBA Finals and learn more about the championship for the National Basketball Association.\", \"date\": \"2015-03-30T15:50:33Z\", \"author\": \"CNN Editorial Research\", \"text\": [\" (CNN)\", \"Here's some background information about the NBA Finals. The NBA Finals follow the league's regular season. \", \"2020 Finals\", \"October 11, 2020 - \", \"Finals - \", \"The Los Angeles Lakers defeat the Miami Heat 106-93\", \" in Game 6 of the NBA Finals, winning the series 4-2.\", \"September 27, 2020 - \", \"Eastern Conference Finals - The Miami Heat defeat the Boston Celtics with a series win, 4-2.\", \"September 26, 2020 - \", \"Western Conference Finals - The Los Angeles Lakers defeat the Denver Nuggets with a series win, 4-1.\", \"2019 Finals\", \"June 13, 2019 -\", \" Finals - The Toronto Raptors defeat the Golden State Warriors with a series win, 4-2.\", \"May 25, 2019 -\", \" Eastern Conference Finals - The Toronto Raptors defeat the Milwaukee Bucks with a series win, 4-2.  \", \"May 20, 2019 -\", \" Western Conference Finals - The Golden State Warriors defeat the Portland Trail Blazers with a series win, 4-0. \", \"Read More\", \"Other Facts\", \"The Finals champion is the first of two competing teams to win the best of seven games.\", \"Of the 30 NBA teams that compete during the regular season, 16 teams, eight in the Eastern Conference and eight in the Western Conference, participate in the post-season playoffs leading up to the Finals. All playoff series are also the best of seven games.\", \"The Finals championship is between one Eastern and one Western Conference team. \", \"The winner receives the \", \"Larry O'Brien Championship Trophy\", \", which was named after the former NBA commissioner in 1984.\", \"The Boston Celtics and the Lakers are tied for most league titles, at 17. The Lakers have 12 wins in Los Angeles and 5 in Minneapolis.\", \"Timeline\", \"1947 - \", \"In the Basketball Association of America (BAA), the Philadelphia Warriors beat the Chicago Stags in the first finals, 4-1. \", \"August 1949 - \", \"National Basketball League (NBL) teams join the BAA, to become the National Basketball Association (NBA). \", \"April 23, 1950 - \", \"In the first official NBA Finals, the Minneapolis Lakers beat the Syracuse Nationals, 4-2. \", \"1956 - \", \"Bob Pettit with the St. Louis Hawks becomes the NBA's first MVP, but Philadelphia Warriors beat the Ft. Wayne Pistons, 4-1.\", \"1959-1966 -\", \" Boston wins the NBA Finals Championship for eight consecutive years. \", \"1993 - \", \"The Chicago Bulls are the first team to win a \\\"three-peat,\\\" or three consecutive championships, since the Celtics in the 1960s. \", \"June 5, 2014 -\", \" In Game 1 of the Finals in San Antonio between the Spurs and the Miami Heat, \", \"an electrical failure in the arena causes the air conditioning to fail, and the indoor temperature reaches above 90 degrees\", \". The Spurs go on to beat the Heat in the series, 4-1. \", \"June 13, 2019 - \", \"The Toronto Raptors win Canada's first NBA Championship, \", \"defeating the Golden state Warriors in the series, 4-2. The Raptors are also the first team, outside the United States, to win an NBA title.\", \"March 11, 2020 -\", \" After a Utah Jazz player tests positive for \", \"Covid-19\", \", the NBA suspends the remainder of the season \\\"until further notice\\\" due to the global pandemic. \", \"June 26, 2020 - \", \"The league announces the season will resume July 30. \"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/12/politics/judges-reject-voter-fraud-claims/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"Judges across the country cast doubt on voter fraud claims pushed by Republicans and Trump campaign\", \"description\": \"Judges across the country are rejecting arguments made by President Donald Trump's campaign and Republican leaders claiming voter fraud.\", \"date\": \"2020-10-12T19:03:02Z\", \"author\": \"Cat Gloria and Hannah Rabinowitz\", \"text\": [\"Washington (CNN)\", \"Judges across the country are rejecting arguments made by \", \"President Donald Trump's\", \" campaign and Republican leaders claiming voter fraud.\", \"For months, \", \"Trump's unsubstantiated claims\", \" have formed the centerpiece of his assault on the integrity of the election. At one point he claimed in May that \\\"there is NO WAY (ZERO!) that Mail-In Ballots will be anything less than substantially fraudulent.\\\" But a series of blistering decisions from federal judges appointed by presidents of both parties has made clear that such arguments are often baseless and difficult, if not impossible, to back up in court.\", \"Election 101\", \"The weeks leading up to Election Day have seen a series of setbacks for the Trump-led effort, including in several swing states that could play significant roles in deciding the next president.\", \"Montana\", \"District Judge Dana Christensen referred to the Trump campaign's argument as \\\"fiction\\\" in a case challenging Democratic Gov. Steve Bullock's decision to allow counties to use an all-mail system for voting this year.\", \"Read More\", \"\\\"This case requires the Court to separate fact from fiction,\\\" Christensen \", \"wrote\", \" in late September, adding, \\\"Central to some of the (Trump campaign's) claims is the contention that the upcoming election, both nationally and in Montana, will fall prey to widespread voter fraud. The evidence suggests, however, that this allegation, specifically in Montana, is a fiction.\\\"\", \"Christensen ruled against the Trump campaign and Republican leaders, rejecting the effort to block the new directive. \", \"Speaking specifically about mail-in ballots, Christensen said they \\\"present no significant risk of fraud.\\\"\", \"Ohio\", \"A federal judge blocked an \", \"order\", \" from Ohio's secretary of state that aimed to limit the number of ballot drop boxes to one per county and claimed this was an effort to reduce voter fraud.\", \"In his ruling\", \", Judge Dan Polster said the order by Republican Secretary of State Frank LaRose put a burden on counties with more people, creating a \\\"very serious and looming problem\\\" that could jeopardize the right to vote.\", \"Visit CNN's Election Center for full coverage of the 2020 race\", \"Regarding claims of increased voter fraud, Polster said that \\\"no evidence was introduced at the hearing to support the conclusory reference to fraud in the brief.\\\"\", \"The judge denied LaRose's request to stay his decision, writing, \\\"As stated above, we are in the middle of the worst pandemic in a century coupled with reasonable concern over the ability of the U.S. Postal Service to handle what will undoubtedly be the largest number of absentee voters in Ohio's history. The Secretary has not advanced any legitimate reason to prohibit a county board of elections from utilizing off-side drop boxes and/or off-site delivery of ballots to staff.\\\"\", \"New Jersey\", \"The Trump campaign and Republican groups jointly asked the court to overturn a state order allowing the election to be conducted primarily through voting by mail. District Judge Michael A. Shipp \", \"rejected\", \" the request in early October, \", \"writing\", \" that it's \\\"foreseeable that an injunction on the eve of the by-mail election could prompt such confusion or distrust that voters opt to avoid the mail system altogether and cast provisional ballots in person.\\\"\", \"More on Voting\", \"CNN's Election 101\", \"Voter registration, explained\", \"How to track your mail-in ballot\", \"How to stay safe when voting in person\", \"What are poll watchers?\", \"Your questions about voting, answered\", \"Shipp added that the outcome would \\\"needlessly force voters and poll workers into close proximity,\\\" and \\\"defeat the purpose of the vote-by-mail election.\\\"\", \"Nevada\", \"A federal judge in Nevada \", \"dismissed\", \" a lawsuit by Trump's campaign claiming increased mail-in ballots would lead to voter fraud as a \\\"speculative and 'generalized grievance.' \\\" \", \"District Judge James C. Mahan said the campaign lacked standing because it failed to identify a specific harm that Republican voters would incur.\", \"\\\"Ultimately, as plaintiffs concede, they hold 'policy disagreements' with proponents of [the law],\\\" wrote Mahan. \\\"Although they purport to allege constitutional harms that go beyond these policy disagreements, and this juncture, plaintiffs' allegations remain just that.\\\"\", \"The campaign \", \"alleged\", \" without evidence that a new law ordering mail-in ballots to be sent to all registered voters for the upcoming election, regardless of whether they had been requested, would lead to increased voter fraud and would disproportionately affect GOP voters by confusing them, creating a disincentive to vote.\", \"Louisiana\", \"In response to the Louisiana Republican secretary of state's effort to undo absentee and early voting expansions from the primary, District Judge Shelly D. Dick wrote that he didn't have \\\"a scintilla of evidence of fraud associated with voting by mail in Louisiana.\\\"\", \"\\\"Strikingly absent is even a hint of fraud in the July and August primaries, where expanded mail voting was available to voters with COVID-19 comorbidities, caretakers, and others,\\\" Dick \", \"wrote\", \" in September.\", \"View 2020 presidential election polling\", \"Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin had argued that tightening the rules would \\\"prevent\\\" voter fraud. \", \"Dick blocked the request and ordered 10 days of early voting for the upcoming election.  \", \"Pennsylvania\", \"Trump's federal lawsuit against Pennsylvania over the use of drop boxes, poll watching and the security of voting processes was shut down by a US district judge in August.\", \"\\\"The problem with this theory of harm is that it is speculative, and thus Plaintiffs' injury is not 'concrete' -- a critical element to have standing in federal court,\\\" \", \"wrote \", \"Judge Nicholas Ranjan, who was appointed by Trump. \\\"While Plaintiffs may not need to prove actual voter fraud, they must at least prove that such fraud is 'certainly impending.' They haven't met that burden. At most, they have pieced together a sequence of uncertain assumptions.\\\"\", \"Illinois\", \"A federal judge last month rejected the Cook County Republican Party's claim that the state's expanded vote-by-mail program would result in fraud.\", \"The Cook County Republican Party \", \"alleged\", \" in its lawsuit that the measure, signed into law by Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker, was \\\"a partisan voting scheme that is designed to harvest Democratic ballots, dilute Republican ballots, and, if the election still doesn't turn out the way he wants it, to generate enough Democratic ballots after election day to sway the result,\\\" the Chicago Sun-Times reported.\", \"Judge Robert M. Dow rejected the claim, \", \"writing\", \" in his opinion that it amounted to \\\"legislative policy disagreements and unsupported speculation about potential criminal conduct.\\\"\", \"\\\"The Election Code does not permit just anyone to return the voter's ballot,\\\" Dow wrote. \\\"And it certainly does not permit anyone to systematically collect but fail to submit Republican ballots.\\\"\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/12/us/joe-morgan-death/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"Joe Morgan, Hall of Fame second baseman for Cincinnati's Big Red Machine, dies at 77\", \"description\": \"Hall of Famer Joe Morgan, part of Cincinnati's Big Red Machine and one of the best second basemen to don a glove, has died, the Reds said in a statement. He celebrated his 77th birthday last month.\", \"date\": \"2020-10-12T17:47:39Z\", \"author\": \"Eliott C. McLaughlin\", \"text\": [\" (CNN)\", \"Hall of Famer Joe Morgan, part of Cincinnati's Big Red Machine and one of the best second basemen to don a glove, has died, the Reds said in a statement. He celebrated his 77th birthday last month. \", \"According to the San Francisco Giants\", \", where he also played, the two-time World Series champ died Sunday at his home in Danville, California, a 30-minute drive east of the Oakland high school where he played as a teen. \", \"\\\"The Reds family is heartbroken. Joe was a giant in the game and was adored by the fans in this city,\\\" \", \"team CEO Bob Castellini said\", \". \\\"As a cornerstone on one of the greatest teams in baseball history, his contributions to this franchise will live forever.\\\"\", \"MLB Commissioner Robert Manfred called Morgan \\\"a symbol of all around excellence\\\" and said he one of the game's best-ever \\\"five-tool players,\\\" meaning he excelled at hitting, hitting hard, running, fielding and throwing. \", \"The 10-time All-Star was inducted into the Reds' Hall of Fame in 1987 and into the National Baseball Hall of Fame three years later. He also served as vice chairman of the Hall's board of directors from 2000 until his death. \", \"Read More\", \"Eight seasons, eight All-Star honors\", \"Though he played for numerous teams, including the Giants, Houston Astros, Philadelphia Phillies and Oakland As, he is best known for his time alongside Hall of Fame catcher Johnny Bench and \\\"Hit King\\\" Pete Rose in Cincinnati. \", \"Because of its dominance in the 1970s, the team was nicknamed the Big Red Machine. The Reds won the National League West in five of Morgan's eight seasons with the squad and went on to snare World Series titles in 1975 and 1976. Morgan was named National League MVP in both seasons. \", \"The Reds \", \"retired his No. 8 jersey\", \" in 1998. \", \"Dubbed \\\"Little Joe\\\" because of his 5-foot-7 stature, he had surprising power for his size and regularly got extra bases, recording 449 doubles and 96 triples to go along with 268 home runs.\", \"He tallied \", \"more than 2,500 hits in his 22-year career\", \" and was known as a clutch hitter, a reputation he secured when \", \"he knocked in Ken Griffey to win \", \"Game 7 of the 1975 World Series. \", \"Morgan went on to become a baseball announcer following his 22-year playing career.\", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"Morgan went on to become a baseball announcer following his 22-year playing career.\\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"In this Wednesday, April 7, 2010, file photo, Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame second baseman Joe Morgan acknowledges the crowd after throwing out a ceremonial first pitch prior to the Reds&#39; baseball game against the St. Louis Cardinals, in Cincinnati.\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/201012133034-02-joe-morgan-obit-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"\\\"Joe Morgan did not strike fear into opposing pitchers -- until he made contact,\\\" \", \"a Hall of Fame remembrance says\", \". \\\"After working the count into what usually became a line drive or a base on balls, Morgan took over the game. And once on base, few ever negotiated 90 feet any better.\\\"\", \"There was no part of his game that wasn't well honed. His keen eye led pitchers to walk him 1,865 times -- more than any player aside from feared sluggers Barry Bonds, Rickey Henderson, Babe Ruth and Ted Williams -- and he was so fleet of foot that he stole 689 bases (placing him 11th all time) with \", \"an almost 81% success rate\", \".\", \"Among Morgan's many honors were eight straight All-Star seasons from 1972 to 1979, his entire career with the Reds. His reliable fielding also earned him five straight Gold Glove Awards, all with the Reds. He began serving as a special adviser to the team in 2010.\", \"An accomplished announcer\", \"Following his playing career, Morgan went into broadcasting and not only called games for three of his former teams -- the Reds, Giants and As -- but also served as a national announcer for ABC, NBC and ESPN. He called three World Series, numerous playoff games, the 1989 College World Series championship and the 2006 Little League World Series championship. \", \"Morgan also advised Manfred, and the commissioner always welcomed his perspective, he said. \", \"\\\"He was a true gentleman who cared about our game and the values for which it stands,\\\" Manfred said. \\\"On behalf of Major League Baseball, I extend my deepest sympathy to Joe's wife Theresa, his family, his many friends across our sport, the fans of Cincinnati and everywhere his 22-year career took him, and all those who admired perhaps the finest second baseman who ever lived.\\\"\", \"The Houston Astros -- where Morgan began his career in 1963, when the team was known as the Houston Colt .45s -- mourned his passing as a \\\"huge loss\\\" for the sport. \", \"Morgan speaks during the 2013 Hall of Fame ceremonies in Cooperstown, New York. \", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"Morgan speaks during the 2013 Hall of Fame ceremonies in Cooperstown, New York. \\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"In this July 28, 2013, file photo, Baseball Hall of Famer Joe Morgan speaks during ceremonies in Cooperstown, N.Y.\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/201012133148-03-joe-morgan-obit-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"\\\"Joe Morgan was a true superstar in every sense of the word. In the early part of his career, he was one of our first stars, a cornerstone for the Houston Colt .45s and Astros, and a significant reason for the success of the franchise. His contributions will never be forgotten,\\\" the Astros' statement said. \", \"He and pitching ace Nolan Ryan were \", \"among 16 inaugural inductees\", \" into the team's Hall of Fame last year. \", \"Morgan is regularly mentioned among Jackie Robinson, Rogers Hornsby and Eddie Collins in the debate over who was the best to ever play in the middle of the diamond.\", \"The Bonham, Texas, native is the latest of baseball's Hall of Famers to die in recent weeks. The New York Yankees' Whitey Ford \", \"died at 91 earlier this month\", \". St. Louis lost two of its most revered Cardinals when \", \"Lou Brock\", \" and \", \"Bob Gibson\", \" died a month apart from each other. They were 81 and 84, respectively. New York Mets hurler \", \"Tom Seaver\", \" died August 31 at 75. \", \"CNN's Kevin Dotson contributed to this report. \"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/12/politics/barrett-supreme-court-hearing-day-one/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"Democrats argue Barrett threatens Obamacare at confirmation hearing while GOP touts her abilities\", \"description\": \"With Election Day just weeks away, a bitterly divided Senate on Monday will launch the confirmation hearing of Judge Amy Coney Barrett, President Donald Trump's choice to fill the seat of the late liberal icon, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.\", \"date\": \"2020-10-12T08:03:19Z\", \"author\": \"Clare Foran and Ariane de Vogue\", \"text\": [\" (CNN)\", \"Partisan battle lines were clearly drawn on Monday when the confirmation hearing of \", \"Judge Amy Coney Barrett\", \", President Donald Trump's choice to fill the seat of the late liberal icon, \", \"Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg\", \", got underway in a bitterly divided Senate with Election Day just weeks away.\", \"Sharply divergent narratives emerged in opening speeches as Republican senators praised Barrett's judicial qualifications in glowing terms and emphasized her capability as a working mom, while Democrats warned that health care protections and the Affordable Care Act are at stake, and will be under threat, if the confirmation succeeds.  \", \"The hearing already appears on track to be a firestorm as Republicans push forward with almost unprecedented speed and Democrats look for ways to draw out the process for the lifetime appointment. Meanwhile, across the street at the Supreme Court, the remaining eight justices, who have just begun a new term, find themselves, and the court, once again in an unwelcome political spotlight. \", \" Photos:\", \" \", \"Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett\", \"Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett is sworn in for her confirmation hearing on Monday, October 12.\", \"Hide Caption\", \" 1 of 33\", \" Photos:\", \" \", \"Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett\", \"Barrett stands to be sworn in.\", \"Hide Caption\", \" 2 of 33\", \" Photos:\", \" \", \"Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett\", \"\\\"I have been nominated to fill Justice Ginsburg's seat, but no one will ever take her place,\\\" \", \"Barrett said in her opening statement.\", \" \\\"I will be forever grateful for the path she marked and the life she led.\\\"\", \"Hide Caption\", \" 3 of 33\", \" Photos:\", \" \", \"Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett\", \"Barrett's opening statement focused on how her mentor, the late Justice Antonin Scalia, \", \"influenced her career\", \" and the opportunity to be nominated to the Supreme Court. \\\"His judicial philosophy was straightforward: A judge must apply the law as written, not as the judge wishes it were,\\\" she said. \\\"Sometimes that approach meant reaching results that he did not like. But as he put it in one of his best known opinions, that is what it means to say we have a government of laws, not of men.\\\"\", \"Hide Caption\", \" 4 of 33\", \" Photos:\", \" \", \"Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett\", \"US Sen. Dick Durbin, a Democrat from Illinois, makes his opening statement on October 12. Democrats have argued that Republicans should not be pushing ahead with the nomination, referencing how Senate Republicans blocked consideration of Merrick Garland after his nomination by former President Obama in 2016.\", \"Hide Caption\", \" 5 of 33\", \" Photos:\", \" \", \"Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett\", \"US Sen. Kamala Harris, the Democratic vice presidential nominee, \", \"speaks via video conference.\", \"Hide Caption\", \" 6 of 33\", \" Photos:\", \" \", \"Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett\", \"US Sen. Cory Booker, a Democrat from New Jersey, speaks during the hearing. Behind him were photographs of people who would be impacted by the elimination of the Affordable Care Act.\", \"Hide Caption\", \" 7 of 33\", \" Photos:\", \" \", \"Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett\", \"Barrett's husband, Jesse, sits at right along with some of the family's seven children.\", \"Hide Caption\", \" 8 of 33\", \" Photos:\", \" \", \"Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett\", \"US Sen. Mike Lee, a Republican from Utah, holds up a copy of the US Constitution while speaking on October 12. Lee\", \" tested positive for the coronavirus\", \" shortly after attending Barrett's nomination ceremony on September 26. He has been cleared by his physician to attend the hearings, he said.\", \"Hide Caption\", \" 9 of 33\", \" Photos:\", \" \", \"Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett\", \"US Sen. Mazie Hirono, a Democrat from Hawaii, wears a face mask depicting the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.\", \"Hide Caption\", \" 10 of 33\", \" Photos:\", \" \", \"Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett\", \"Barrett leaves during a short break on October 12.\", \"Hide Caption\", \" 11 of 33\", \" Photos:\", \" \", \"Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett\", \"US Sen. John Cornyn, a Republican from Texas, looks through his notes.\", \"Hide Caption\", \" 12 of 33\", \" Photos:\", \" \", \"Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett\", \"US Sen. Chuck Grassley, a Republican from Iowa, makes his opening statement.\", \"Hide Caption\", \" 13 of 33\", \" Photos:\", \" \", \"Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett\", \"Barrett arrives for her confirmation hearing on October 12.\", \"Hide Caption\", \" 14 of 33\", \" Photos:\", \" \", \"Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett\", \"Lee, second from left, talks with US Sen. Lindsey Graham, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, on October 12.\", \"Hide Caption\", \" 15 of 33\", \" Photos:\", \" \", \"Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett\", \"Barrett wears a mask as she arrives at the Hart Senate Office Building on October 12. \", \"Barrett kept her mask on\", \" as she listened to senators kick off the hearing.\", \"Hide Caption\", \" 16 of 33\", \" Photos:\", \" \", \"Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett\", \"Graham talks with US Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the most senior Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, before the start of Barrett's hearing.\", \"Hide Caption\", \" 17 of 33\", \" Photos:\", \" \", \"Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett\", \"People show their support for Barrett in front of the Supreme Court on October 12.\", \"Hide Caption\", \" 18 of 33\", \" Photos:\", \" \", \"Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett\", \"Barrett's desk is set up before she appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee on October 12.\", \"Hide Caption\", \" 19 of 33\", \" Photos:\", \" \", \"Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett\", \"Barrett's children arrive for her hearing on October 12.\", \"Hide Caption\", \" 20 of 33\", \" Photos:\", \" \", \"Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett\", \"Barrett arrives for her hearing.\", \"Hide Caption\", \" 21 of 33\", \" Photos:\", \" \", \"Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett\", \"A room in the Hart Senate Office Building is set up on Friday, October 9, ahead of Barrett's confirmation hearings.\", \"Hide Caption\", \" 22 of 33\", \" Photos:\", \" \", \"Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett\", \"From left, US Reps. Veronica Escobar, Jackie Speier, Norma Torres, Deb Haaland, Sheila Jackson Lee, Katherine Clark and Jan Schakowsky, along with members of the Democratic Women's Caucus, deliver a letter to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's office on October 2. They were calling for the nomination process to be stopped until after the presidential inauguration.\", \"Hide Caption\", \" 23 of 33\", \" Photos:\", \" \", \"Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett\", \"Barrett meets with a senator on October 1.\", \"Hide Caption\", \" 24 of 33\", \" Photos:\", \" \", \"Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett\", \"Barrett meets with McConnell on September 29. McConnell called Barrett \\\"exceedingly well-qualified\\\" and an \\\"exceptionally impressive jurist,\\\" and he has vowed that there will be \", \"a quick confirmation vote.\", \"Hide Caption\", \" 25 of 33\", \" Photos:\", \" \", \"Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett\", \"Barrett and Vice President Mike Pence arrive at the Capitol for her meetings with senators on September 29. The Supreme Court is seen behind them.\", \"Hide Caption\", \" 26 of 33\", \" Photos:\", \" \", \"Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett\", \"US Sen. Mike Lee and his wife, Sharon, chat with Barrett during \", \"a private reception inside the White House\", \" after Barrett's nomination ceremony on September 26. Lee later tested positive for the coronavirus.\", \"Hide Caption\", \" 27 of 33\", \" Photos:\", \" \", \"Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett\", \"US Sen. Thom Tillis, who also later tested positive for coronavirus, talks to Barrett during \", \"the White House reception\", \" on September 26. At left, President Trump and first lady Melania Trump talk with US Sen. Kelly Loeffler.\", \"Hide Caption\", \" 28 of 33\", \" Photos:\", \" \", \"Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett\", \"Barrett smiles as Trump introduces her as his Supreme Court nominee on September 26.\", \"Hide Caption\", \" 29 of 33\", \" Photos:\", \" \", \"Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett\", \"Barrett approaches the podium during the Rose Garden event on September 26. At least 12 people who attended the event \\u2014 including President Trump \\u2014 have since \", \"tested positive for coronavirus.\", \"Hide Caption\", \" 30 of 33\", \" Photos:\", \" \", \"Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett\", \"Barrett and her family walk into the Rose Garden for the nomination ceremony.\", \"Hide Caption\", \" 31 of 33\", \" Photos:\", \" \", \"Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett\", \"Barrett and her family meet with the President and first lady in the Oval Office on September 26.\", \"Hide Caption\", \" 32 of 33\", \" Photos:\", \" \", \"Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett\", \"Conservative women who support Barrett's nomination pray while touching the Supreme Court's doors on September 26. Another woman lies on the ground nearby, mourning the death of \", \"Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.\", \"Hide Caption\", \" 33 of 33\", \"/* global CNN */'use strict';jQuery(document).ready(function () {var galleryAdSlide = new CNN.AdSlide('el__gallery', false, CNN.contentModel.singletonFile);});\", \"One after another, Republicans used their time at the hearing to highlight Barrett's qualifications to be appointed to the high court.\", \"Senate Judiciary Chairman Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican, described Barrett as \\\"in a category of excellence,\\\" saying that she is \\\"highly respected,\\\" and \\\"widely-admired for her integrity.\\\" \", \"Read More\", \"Republican Sen. John Cornyn of Texas, who like Graham is up for reelection this cycle, told Barrett during the hearing, that \\\"folks with widely different judicial philosophies agree that you are brilliant, respectful, kind.\\\" \", \"Cornyn also indicated that his constituents have expressed admiration at how Barrett balances her career with taking care of her family. \", \"\\\"Judge, there's a question that comes up in my discussions with my constituents that's really more basic and more personal: They want to know how you do it? How do you and your husband manage two full-time, professional careers and at the same time take care of your large family?\\\" Cornyn said, adding, \\\"I bet there are many young women, like my own two daughters, who marvel at the balance you've achieved between your personal and professional life.\\\" \", \"Amy Coney Barrett's confirmation hearing: Day 1\", \"Democrats, in contrast, were united in warning that Barrett's confirmation stands to jeopardize health care access and protections -- a central part of the strategy they have so far employed in fighting the nomination.  \", \"Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California, the committee's top Democrat, argued that \\\"the stakes are extraordinarily high\\\" in the fight over the vacancy, adding, \\\"most importantly, healthcare coverage for millions of Americans is at stake with this nomination.\\\"\", \"Democrats framed the issue in personal terms, sharing concerns from constituents and, in some cases, opening up about their own health conditions. \", \"Sen. Patrick Leahy, a Vermont Democrat, said that his constituents are deeply concerned over what the confirmation could mean. \", \"\\\"They're scared, Judge Barrett. They're scared that your confirmation would rip from them the very health care protections that millions of Americans have fought to maintain, and which Congress has repeatedly rejected eliminating,\\\" he said. \", \"Leahy went on to say, \\\"They're scared that the clock will be turned back to a time when women had no right to control their own bodies and when it was acceptable to discriminate against women in the workplace. They're scared that at a time when we're facing the perilous impacts of climate change, bedrock environmental protections are going to be eviscerated, and they're scared that your confirmation will result in the rolling back of voting rights, workers' rights, and the rights of the LGBTQ community to equal treatment.\\\"\", \"Democratic Sen. Mazie Hirono of Hawaii opened up about her own battle with cancer. \", \"\\\"Access to health care saved my life,\\\" Hirono said, adding that a diagnosis of kidney cancer \\\"came as a total shock.\\\"\", \"\\\"Serious illness can hit anyone unexpectedly - it did for me, and when it does, no one should have to worry about whether they can afford care that might save their life,\\\" she said. \", \"'This is going to be a long, contentious week'\", \"In a preview of the bitter battle ahead, Graham warned, \\\"this is going to be a long, contentious week, I would just ask one thing of the committee: to the extent possible, let's make it respectful, let's make it challenging, let's remember the world is watching.\\\" \", \"The chairman acknowledged that the rapid confirmation timeline taking place in an election year, but defended the process. \", \"\\\"There's nothing unconstitutional about this process. This is a vacancy that has occurred through the tragic loss of a great woman and we're going to fill that vacancy with another great woman. The bottom line here is that the Senate is doing its duty constitutionally,\\\" he said.  \", \"Feinstein agreed with Graham's sentiment that the hearing should be respectful, saying that Democrats \\\"feel the same way.\\\" \", \"Feinstein, however, argued that Republicans should not be pushing ahead with the nomination, referencing how Senate Republicans blocked consideration of Merrick Garland after his nomination by former President Obama.  \", \"\\\"I believe we should not be moving forward on this nomination, not until the election has ended and the next president has taken office,\\\" she said. \", \"Sen. Mike Lee, a Republican from Utah who tested positive for coronavirus at the beginning of the month, attended the hearing in person. \\\"Senator Lee is back,\\\" Graham noted at the start of the hearing, saying that he has been cleared by his physician and welcoming him back. \", \"Lee delivered his opening statement while in the committee room without wearing a mask. On Twitter, he \", \"posted a letter\", \" from the congressional attending physician stating that he has \\\"met criteria to end COVID-19 isolation.\\\" \", \"The hearings will serve as a touchstone for the bases of both parties, highlighting the potential of a hard-right turn that could last for decades in areas such as abortion, religious liberty, LGBTQ rights and the Second Amendment, distracting voters from the realities of Covid-19 and leaving liberals to contemplate new tools, including adding seats to the Supreme Court, to staunch their wounds. \", \"Barrett, who sat through contentious hearings just three years ago for her seat on the 7th US Circuit Court of Appeals, delivered her opening statement at the end of the first day after being sworn in.  \", \"\\\"The policy decisions and value judgments of government must be made by the political branches elected by and accountable to the people,\\\" Barrett told senators, adding, \\\"That is the approach that I have strived to follow as a judge on the 7th circuit.\\\" \", \"Her straightforward statement reflects a conservative legal philosophy shared by her mentor, the late Justice Antonin Scalia, and others who believe that courts can't sweep in to solve all of society's woes. She makes clear that she believes some issues are better handled by the political branches, which mirrors what conservative justices said in dissent when the high court cleared the way for same-sex marriage nationwide in 2015.\", \"Nodding to the divisive Kavanaugh hearings, Barrett admitted to some trepidation about accepting the nomination. \\\"The confirmation process -- and the work of serving on the Court if confirmed -- requires sacrifices, particularly from my family,\\\" the mother of seven said. \", \"She also pointed out in her statement that she would bring diversity to the court, in part because every current justice attended an Ivy League school. A graduate of the University of Notre Dame, she would also be the first mother with school-age children to serve on the bench. \", \"Mindful that she is vying for the seat of Ginsburg -- a feminist icon -- Barrett praised the late justice for \\\"the path she marked and the life she led.\\\" Left unsaid was the fact that the two women are ideological opposites. \", \"She ended her statement with a flourish -- highlighting her faith and the fact that she believes in the \\\"power of prayer\\\" and has been uplifted to hear that so many people are \\\"praying for me.\\\" \", \"A nominee's opening statement often sets the tone for the start of the hearing. Following Barrett's statement, the committee adjourned until Tuesday for when the grilling is expected to begin. \", \"Voting rights\", \"Before even reaching substantive constitutional questions, Democrats are expected to ask Barrett whether she will recuse herself from any election-related litigation that reaches the high court. Although it's a long shot, it is always possible the Supreme Court will once again be called upon to decide the election. \", \"\\\"I think this will end up at the Supreme Court,\\\" Trump said at a recent White House event. \\\"And I think it's very important that we have nine justices.\\\"\", \"Barrett is likely to avoid the question, but if she is confirmed \", \"it will be her own choice\", \" whether to recuse. \", \"Affordable Care Act\", \"Democrats during Monday's hearing turned the \", \"focus on the Affordable Care Act\", \". A week after Election Day, the justices will hear the most important case of the term and decide whether to invalidate the entire law. The decision could strip millions of their health care during a pandemic. Critics of Barrett will point to \", \"some of her previous writings\", \", before she took the bench, where she expressed skepticism about the reasoning Chief Justice John Roberts used back in 2012 to uphold the law under the taxing power. \", \"\\\"Chief Justice Roberts pushed the Affordable Care Act beyond its plausible meaning to save the statute,\\\" she wrote. \\\"He construed the penalty imposed on those without health insurance as a tax, which permitted him to sustain the statute as a valid exercise of the taxing power. \", \"\\\"Had he treated the payment as the statute did -- as a penalty -- he would have had to invalidate the statute as lying beyond Congress's commerce power,\\\" she said. The challenge before the court now is different, but it rests in part on Roberts' original opinion. \", \"Roe v. Wade\", \"Democrats will also seize on positions Barrett took before she was a judge, on \", \"Roe v. Wade\", \" -- the 1973 landmark decision legalizing abortion. Unlike other recent nominees, there is a significant paper trail detailing Barrett's views on abortion, and Roe, as a law professor at the University of Notre Dame.  \", \"She signed a petition, for example, with other faculty, for a paid advertisement reaffirming the school's commitment \\\"to the right to life\\\" and criticizing Roe. \\\"In the 40 years since the infamous Roe v. Wade decision over 55 million unborn children have been killed by abortions,\\\" the ad reads. \", \"In 2006, she added her name to a list of \\\"citizens of Michiana\\\" who signed a \\\"right to life ad\\\" sponsored by a group that opposes abortion that appeared in the South Bend Tribune. The ad from the Saint Joseph County Right to Life calls for putting \\\"an end to the barbaric legacy of Roe v. Wade and restor(ing) laws that protect the lives of unborn children.\\\" \", \"Late Friday night, Barrett released a supplement to her Senate questionnaire, including the ad and outlining previously undisclosed talks she gave in 2013 to anti-abortion students groups after \", \"CNN's KFile reported their existence\", \". \", \"In 2016, before taking the bench, she said, \\\"I don't think the core case -- Roe's core holding that, you know, women have a right to an abortion -- I don't think that would change,\\\" she said. \\\"But I think the question of whether people can get very late-term abortions, how many restrictions can be put on clinics -- I think that would change.\\\"\", \"At her 2017 Senate confirmation hearing for a seat on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, she was pressed on whether her own personal convictions would impact how she applies the law. \\\"If there is ever a conflict between a judge's personal conviction and that judge's duty under the rule of law, that it is never, ever permissible for that judge to follow their personal convictions in the decision of the case rather than what the law requires,\\\" she said. \", \"Her critics point to two opinions from her time as a judge. In both she voted to rehear cases where a smaller panel of judges ruled against abortion restrictions. That desire to take another look at the laws leads her critics to believe she would have voted to uphold those restrictions.\", \"Barrett also voted with the majority in an opinion upholding a \\\"bubble zone\\\" ordinance in Chicago, which bars abortion opponents from approaching someone within 8 feet in the vicinity of a clinic if the purpose is to engage in protest. Her critics note, however, that even though she voted in favor of supporters of abortion rights, the opinion makes clear the lower court was bound by Supreme Court precedent. \", \"Second Amendment\", \"Last term, four conservative justices urged the court to take up a Second Amendment case, yet by the end of the term they had declined to do so. That suggests there wasn't the necessary five votes. Now, if Barrett is nominated, she could be that vote. \", \"In one decision, Kanter v. Barr, she dissented when her colleagues upheld a law barring convicted felons from possessing a firearm. The language she used in the opinion tracked closely with language used by conservative Justice Clarence Thomas. Like Thomas, Barrett suggested that lower courts are thumbing their nose at Supreme Court precedent to uphold gun restrictions treating the Second Amendment like a \\\"second class right.\\\" \", \"In the upcoming hearings Sen. Richard Blumenthal, a Democrat, has vowed to make her views \\\"front and center\\\" to show how \\\"Judge Barrett's extremist, hard-right views of the Second Amendment will do real harm to real lives in real ways.\\\" \", \"Same-sex marriage\", \"Barrett does not have a robust record on same-sex marriage, but in a 2016 speech at Jacksonville University made while she was still a law professor, she laid out both sides of the debate. \", \"She framed it as a  \\\"who decides\\\" question. That is very similar to how Roberts framed the issue when he dissented in the landmark 2015 case Obergefell v. Hodges, which cleared the way for same-sex marriage nationwide. \", \"He said the issue would have been better handled by the political branches. Speaking broadly, Barrett was asked about the future of the court in the speech and she seemed to align herself with Roberts' thinking. \\\"The 'who decides' question,\\\" she said, \\\"is really important to me -- I worry a lot about that 'who decides' question, about our decisions, and my voice being taken away.\\\" \", \"Immigration\", \"Many of Barrett's critics fear that on the bench she will greenlight Trump's policies if he wins another term. In one immigration-related case, she dissented when her colleagues temporarily blocked a Trump administration rule that puts green card holders at a disadvantage if they access public services. \", \"This story has been updated with additional developments Monday.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/11/tech/apple-october-iphone-event/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"What to expect from Apple's iPhone event\", \"description\": \"Apple is finally set to announce new iPhones, after weeks of delays and pandemic-related disruptions.\", \"date\": \"2020-10-11T13:43:14Z\", \"author\": \"Rishi Iyengar and Kaya Yurieff Business\", \"text\": [\" (CNN Business)\", \"Apple is finally set to announce\", \" \", \"new iPhones, after weeks of delays and pandemic-related disruptions.\", \"Invitations for an \", \"October 13 event\", \" featured the phrase \\\"Hi, Speed,\\\" hinting at a long-rumored upgrade that would allow the iPhone to connect to the new 5G wireless network that's currently being rolled out by carriers in the United States and abroad. (The festivities start at 1pm ET and you can watch it live \", \"here\", \" and follow along in real-time on CNN Business.)\", \"Though still nascent, 5G promises to deliver much faster connection speeds when it's fully deployed. Beyond phones, It will pave the way \", \"for more connected devices\", \": Advances like self-driving cars, virtual reality, smart city technologies and networked robots could be powered by the new network. \", \"Apple\", \" \", \"(\", \"AAPL\", \")\", \" is somewhat late to the 5G phone game. Its new phone will join a growing list of options from \", \"Google\", \" \", \"(\", \"GOOGL\", \")\", \", \", \"Motorola\", \" \", \"(\", \"MSI\", \")\", \", \", \"Samsung\", \" \", \"(\", \"SSNLF\", \")\", \", Huawei, LG and others.\", \"But the iPhone may be able to hold its own given its loyal fan base, and some analysts expect the 5G iPhone to generate a \\\"supercycle\\\" of device upgrades, potentially prompting more people than usual to buy the new device. And the fact that 5G networks \", \"aren't completely ubiquitous yet\", \" means there's still room to grow.\", \"Read More\", \"What's in the iPhone 12? Wall Street analysts give us their predictions\", \"Only 13% of smartphones sold in the first half of 2020 had 5G capabilities, and only 6% of customers would rank 5G as a primary factor in their next smartphone purchase, according to Ben Stanton, an analyst at research firm Canalys.\", \"\\\"Apple is not too late to 5G, as smartphones with 5G have not yet seen mass adoption,\\\" Stanton told CNN Business. \\\"Part of the reason for this is that the killer use-case for 5G on mobile has not yet emerged.\\\"\", \"Four new iPhones\", \"Apple may give its users more choices than usual with its latest smartphone lineup. The company is gearing up to launch four new iPhone models on Tuesday, ranging in size from 5.4 inches to 6.7 inches, according to analysts and \", \"multiple\", \" news \", \"reports\", \". \", \"Apple has stuck to a \", \"three model lineup\", \" for iPhone launches in recent years, with one basic model and two pricier models with more cameras and better displays. But this time around, a fourth, more basic model with a smaller display \\u2014 the name \\\"iPhone 12 mini\\\" \", \"has surfaced\", \" in rumors \\u2014 could help Apple target more price-conscious consumers, though it's unclear how it would compete with \", \"the low-cost iPhone SE\", \".\", \"\\\"Apple has made a serious effort to make its hardware more price-competitive over the last 12 months,\\\" Stanton said. \\\"But Apple's great challenge is that it needs to find a way to become more price-competitive without diluting its premium brand image.\\\"\", \"The top end of the new iPhone range could also provide a big draw, with its rumored 6.7-inch display that's even larger than the 6.5-inch iPhone 11 Pro Max.\", \"\\\"In particular we are seeing Apple and its Asian suppliers anticipate stepped-up demand for the larger 6.7-inch model which is raising the overall iPhone 12 expectations heading into this 'once in a decade' potential launch,\\\" Wedbush analyst Dan Ives wrote in an investor note last week. \", \"Apple takes on Peloton with Fitness+ service\", \"Wedbush estimates that 350 million of the 950 million iPhones globally could be due for an upgrade, which could lead to an \\\"unprecedented\\\" cycle.\", \"The last major iPhone \\\"super cycle\\\" of upgrades happened in 2014 with the iPhone 6, said Daniel Morgan, VP and senior portfolio manager at Synovus. \\\"Since 2014, the newest iPhone launches have felt more like ripples [as] opposed to a wave.\\\" \", \"iPhone sales \", \"have slumped\", \" in recent years as people wait longer to switch out older models, though Apple \", \"staged somewhat of a recovery\", \" in 2020 with the iPhone 11.\", \"Eyes on the price\", \"Apple's pricing strategy for the new iPhone lineup will likely be one of the biggest talking points. In recent years, the company's battle with Samsung for premium smartphone users has \", \"led to exorbitant prices\", \" that would have been unthinkable for previous devices. \", \"Apple's current top-of-the-line model, the iPhone 11 Pro Max, starts at $1,099 and the Samsung Galaxy S20+ 5G costs $1,199 \\u2014 though Samsung has also released foldable smartphones \", \"costing as much as $2,000\", \". \", \"Both companies have released lower-cost models of their flagship smartphones in recent months. And other rivals such as OnePlus and Google appear to have all but \", \"stopped competing in the fight\", \" for the high-end smartphone market. \", \"Apple could use the 5G features to justify a slightly higher price point for the iPhone 12, but the fact that it is expected to release four iPhone variants rather than the three could mean a more affordable offering is in the works as well.\", \"One more thing?\", \"When it comes to Apple events, it's rarely just about the phones. \", \"The company has previously used its pre-holiday launch event to roll out upgrades to its iPads, smart watches and increasingly popular services such as Apple TV+ \\u2014 though it did much of that already in an\", \" event last month\", \". \", \"That hasn't stopped the rumor mill from speculating about updates on other products, including \", \"augmented reality glasses\", \", a new \", \"HomePod smart speaker\", \" and even \", \"over-the-ear \", \"wireless headphones. \", \"Canalys' Stanton also mentioned the possibility Apple would announce  \\\"AirTags,\\\" a \", \"rumored new product\", \" consisting of Bluetooth-enabled tiles to help track misplaced valuables.\", \"\\\"One thing that is certain, is that Apple will again showcase the best-practice for virtual events, and set a standard for the industry to follow,\\\" he added.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/12/health/mental-health-second-wave-coronavirus-wellness/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"A 'second wave' of mental health devastation due to Covid-19 is imminent, experts say\", \"description\": \"There is mounting evidence accumulating that the pandemic could lead to rising rates of mental health and substance use disorders, according to a Monday article in the medical journal JAMA.\", \"date\": \"2020-10-12T18:25:32Z\", \"author\": \"Naomi Thomas and Sam Romano\", \"text\": [\" (CNN)\", \"While the world struggles to manage the initial waves of death and disruption caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, there is mounting evidence accumulating that \\\"a second wave\\\" linked to rising rates of mental health and substance use disorders could be building, \", \"according to an article published Monday in the medical journal JAMA\", \".\", \"\\\"A second wave of devastation is imminent, attributable to mental health consequences of Covid-19,\\\" wrote authors Dr. Naomi Simon, Dr. Glenn Saxe and Dr. Charles Marmar, all from New York University's Grossman School of Medicine.\", \"\\\"The magnitude of this second wave is likely to overwhelm the already frayed mental health system, leading to access problems, particularly for the most vulnerable persons.\\\"\", \"READ MORE: People of color face significant barriers to mental health services\", \"This second mental health wave, the researchers suggested, will bring further challenges, such as increased deaths from suicide and drug overdoses, and will have a disproportionate effect on the same groups that the first wave did: Black and Hispanic people, older adults, lower socioeconomic groups and health care workers.\", \"Read More\", \"\\\"This magnitude of death over a short period of time\", \" \", \"is an international tragedy on a historic scale,\\\" the authors said. \\\"This interpersonal loss is compounded by societal disruption.\\\"\", \"Of central concern, the authors\", \" \", \"wrote, is \\\"the transformation of normal grief and distress into prolonged grief and major depressive disorder and symptoms of posttraumatic health disorder.\\\"\", \"A grief that lasts longer\", \"Prolonged grief, which affects approximately 10% of bereaved people, is characterized by at least six months of intense longing, preoccupation or both, with the deceased; emotional pain; loneliness; difficulty reengaging in life; avoidance; feeling life is meaningless; and increased suicide risk. These conditions can also become chronic with additional comorbidities, such as substance use disorders, the authors said.\", \"Are the kids all right? Supporting your teen's mental health through Covid-19\", \"The 10% affected by prolonged grief is likely an underestimate for grief related to deaths from Covid-19, and each death leaves approximately nine family members bereaved, the authors said. This means there are a projected 2 million bereaved individuals in the US and \\\"thus, the effect of Covid-19 deaths on mental health will be profound.\\\"\", \"Of particular concern for the authors is the psychological risks for health care and other essential workers. \\\"Supporting the mental health of these and other essential workforce is critical to readiness for managing recurrent waves of the pandemic,\\\" the authors said.\", \"Covid-19 is already affecting mental health\", \"The pandemic \", \"has already brought with it a mental health crisis\", \", according to data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.\", \" And a new report\", \" found that Americans are experiencing more coronavirus-related mental health issues than people in other countries. \", \"The CDC survey data reported that nearly 41% of respondents are struggling with mental health issues stemming from the pandemic. The issues are related to the pandemic and to the measures set up to contain it, including stay-at-home orders and social distancing. \", \"Overcoming Depression: Facts and Resources\", \"The American Psychological Association provides the following resources:\", \"Racism and depression: A real link\", \"How to find a therapist in your area\", \"Therapists of color\", \"Covid-19 psychological impact\", \"The color of Covid-19 database\", \"Nearly 41% of respondents reported one or more behavioral or mental health conditions, including substance use, symptoms of depression or suicidal thoughts. \", \"The number of Americans reporting anxiety symptoms is \", \"three times the number at this same time last year\", \", according to the CDC, and\", \" several studies\", \" have shown that the pandemic has hit Black people and other people of color the hardest.\", \"The pandemic has \", \"also taken its toll on caregivers\", \", according to the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association. The national analysis of at least 6.7 million caregivers insured by the association found that 26% of unpaid caregivers trying to balance work and family due to Covid-19 are feeling more stress and have poorer physical health than before the pandemic. \", \"Get CNN Health's weekly newsletter \", \"Sign up here to get \", \"The Results Are In with Dr. Sanjay Gupta\", \" every Tuesday from the CNN Health team.\", \"The NYU authors suggest the solution will require increased funding for mental health; widespread screening to identify those who are at highest risk; primary care physicians and mental health professionals who are trained in treating people with prolonged grief, depression, traumatic stress and substance abuse; and a diligent focus on families and communities, creatively restoring the approaches they have used to manage loss and tragedy over generations.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/12/politics/democrats-health-care-supreme-court-hearing/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"How Democrats stayed on message and defended Obamacare in Monday's hearing\", \"description\": \"Senate Democrats were united in driving home one message in the opening day of Amy Coney Barrett's confirmation hearing: President Donald Trump's nominee could threaten the future of the Affordable Care Act. \", \"date\": \"2020-10-12T19:20:44Z\", \"author\": \"Lauren Fox\", \"text\": [\" (CNN)\", \"Senate Democrats were united in driving home one message in the opening day of \", \"Amy Coney Barrett's confirmation hearing\", \": President Donald Trump's nominee could threaten the future of the Affordable Care Act. \", \"In a series of statements Monday, Democrats stuck to a script that was crafted by members of leadership and Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden weeks ago, a message that Democrats hope will win them political support at the polls even if it cannot keep Barrett off the bench. \", \"The Supreme Court hears a challenge from GOP-led states and the Trump administration to Obamacare one week after Election Day. \", \"\\\"Republicans finally realized the ACA is too popular to repeal in Congress, so now they are trying to bypass the will of voters and have the Supreme Court do their dirty work,\\\" \", \"Democratic vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris said\", \". \\\"If Republicans succeed in striking down the ACA, insurance companies will be able to deny coverage to children with serious conditions.\\\"\", \"Every single Democrat on the committee brought with them a photograph and a story of at least one constituent for whom the Affordable Care Act had made a difference. \", \"Read More\", \"Democrats argue Barrett threatens Obamacare at confirmation hearing while GOP touts her abilities\", \"\\\"Children like Myka,\\\" Harris said -- speaking about an 11-year-old Southern California girl who Harris showed in a photo next to her. \", \"Sen. Cory Booker, a Democrat from New Jersey, talked about constituents \\\"Merritt and Michelle.\\\"\", \"\\\"They know what a future without the ACA looks like. It looks like 130 million Americans with pre-existing conditions -- from cancer survivors to people with disabilities -- being charged more or denied coverage completely. It looks like 20 million people losing their access to potentially life-saving care in the middle of a pandemic that has killed over 214,000 Americans,\\\" Booker said.  \", \"\\\"In New Jersey, where we've lost over 16,000 people to Covid-19, 595,000 people would lose their coverage without the ACA,\\\" he added. \\\"For millions of Americans, a future without the ACA looks like being forced to sell your house if you want to afford your health care, it looks like not having access to a doctor when you're sick, it looks like having to choose between paying for groceries and paying for medicine.\\\"\", \"Kamala Harris, the tenacious former prosecutor, faces a complicated role as she questions Barrett\", \"Sen. Patrick Leahy, a Democrat from Vermont, said people in his state are afraid of what Barrett's confirmation could mean for health care. \", \"\\\"They're scared, Judge Barrett. They're scared that your confirmation would rip from them the very health care protections that millions of Americans have fought to maintain, and which Congress has repeatedly rejected eliminating,\\\" Leahy said.\", \"'Pretty surprising, huh?'\", \"An aide to the committee told CNN that after multiple member-level discussions, members of the committee agreed that not only health care, but the personal stories of people across the country would be the most effective strategy for day one. \", \"\\\"Senators knew from the beginning they wanted to make this as tangible to people as possible, focusing on the what's at stake message and the real-life effects of a Justice Barrett's decisions. That goal and subsequent member conversations led to the decision to use the personal stories,\\\" a Democratic aide on the committee said. \", \"Asked after the hearing about the Democrats staying on message, Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin responded: \\\"Pretty surprising, huh?\\\"\", \"Sen. Richard Blumenthal said it wasn't difficult to decide to emphasize health care.\", \"\\\"It's something we're all hearing. My Republican colleagues are hearing it too,\\\" the Connecticut Democrat said. \\\"It's such a powerful message because it's rooted in the real world and what we're hearing and seeing when we go home. I don't think it took deep thought or strategizing for us to say, you know the American people really are scared about this pandemic and they want action.\\\"\", \"Those discussions also came after Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Biden spoke shortly after Barrett was nominated and decided focusing on health care was the best strategy, according to sources familiar with the discussions.\", \"John Roberts faces a new round of legacy-defining turmoil\", \"For Democrats, the confirmation hearing for Barrett offers little opportunity to stop her nomination. Republicans have already shown they already have the support they need to push Barrett's nomination through committee and on the Senate floor. But, the fact the Supreme Court will hear a case on the future of the Affordable Care Act the week after the election gave Democrats an opportunity to further highlight their campaign message.  \", \"\\\"Serious illness can hit anyone unexpectedly -- it did for me, and when it does, no one should have to worry about whether they can afford care that might save their life,\\\" said Sen. Mazie Hirono of Hawaii.\", \"Meanwhile, Republican senators mostly stayed on their message backing Barrett, emphasizing her experience as an appeals court judge and criticizing previous Democratic comments about her Catholicism, and didn't hit back at the Democrats' health care speeches, something Trump noticed.\", \"During the hearing, \", \"the President tweeted\", \": \\\"Republicans must state loudly and clearly that WE are going to provide much better Healthcare at a much lower cost. Get the word out! Will always protect pre-existing conditions!!!\\\"\", \"CNN's Ted Barrett, Clare Foran, Manu Raju and Jasmine Wright contributed to this report.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/12/politics/amy-coney-barrett-hearing-takeaways-monday/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"5 takeaways from Monday's Senate hearing on Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett\", \"description\": \"The first day of confirmation hearings for President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett featured plenty of fiery speeches -- many of them aimed at next month's presidential election rather than the nominee herself.\", \"date\": \"2020-10-12T19:54:03Z\", \"author\": \"Jeremy Herb\", \"text\": [\" (CNN)\", \"The first day of confirmation hearings for President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee\", \" Amy Coney Barrett\", \" featured plenty of fiery speeches -- many of them aimed at next month's presidential election rather than the nominee herself.\", \"Democrats focused more on the Affordable Care Act, and Trump's backing of a lawsuit that would invalidate the law -- a hearing scheduled for November 10. Republicans defended the decision to confirm Barrett so close to the election and sought to preempt any questions about her Catholic faith, mainly by criticizing Democratic comments from 2017.\", \"In fact, viewers might be forgiven if they forgot at times that this was a Supreme Court confirmation rather than a political convention.\", \"Here are five takeaways from day one of the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings:\", \"It's all over but the politicking\", \"Read More\", \"Judiciary Chairman Lindsey Graham acknowledged the elephant in the room at the outset of a four-day confirmation hearing process: Nobody's mind on the committee is going to be changed by what transpires in the Senate hearing room.\", \"Democrats argue Barrett threatens Obamacare at confirmation hearing while GOP touts her abilities\", \"\\\"This is probably not about persuading each other, unless something really dramatic happens,\\\" Graham said. \\\"All Republicans will vote yes, and all Democrats will vote no.\\\"\", \"As a result, both sides have a clear eye to the election three weeks away as they debate the Supreme Court nominee -- and as they will question Barrett over the next two days.\", \"Four Republicans on the committee, including Graham, are up for reelection next month. \", \"And Sen. Kamala Harris of California \", \"is the Democratic vice-presidential nominee.\", \"Democrats put their clear focus on the threat Obamacare faces when a Republican-led, and Trump-backed, case to strike it down goes before the Supreme Court just a week after the election. The message that health care was at risk for millions of Americans was one that helped Democrats win over voters during the 2018 election and take back the House.\", \"Republicans, meanwhile, went after Democrats for attacks on Barrett, and in particular her faith -- while frequently citing the bitter 2018 fight over \", \"Justice Brett Kavanaugh's\", \" confirmation, which helped Republicans in several 2018 Senate contests in red states.\", \"\\\"We all watched the hearings for Justice Kavanaugh,\\\" said Republican Sen. John Kennedy of Louisiana. \\\"It was a freak show. It looked like the Cantina Bar scene out of Star Wars.\\\" \", \"Dems make a personal pitch to protect health care\", \"Democrats showed a united front and an organized, perhaps surprising, message with posters scattered across their half of the dais showing the faces of people who relied on the Affordable Care Act for their health care.\", \"A Democratic committee aide said the decision to use personal stories stemmed from an effort to to make Barrett's confirmation as tangible to people as possible that focused on \\\"the real-life effects of a Justice Barrett's decisions.\\\"\", \"Kamala Harris, the tenacious former prosecutor, faces a complicated role as she questions Barrett\", \"Democrats feel the health care angle, stressing Trump's efforts and the impact of gutting Obamacare, is a clear political winner. Democratic leaders, including presidential nominee Joe Biden, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer agreed on the strategy, according to sources familiar with the discussions.\", \"\\\"They are trying to get a justice onto the Court in time to ensure they can strip away the protections in the Affordable Care Act,\\\" Harris said of Republicans. \\\"If they succeed, it will result in millions of people losing access to health care at the worst possible time in the middle of a pandemic.\\\"\", \"Democrats also used their health care argument to hit Trump on the Covid-19 pandemic, another key Democratic message heading into the November election. Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota made a personal appeal after her husband tested positive for coronavirus earlier this year.\", \"\\\"He ended up in the hospital for a week on oxygen with severe pneumonia, and months after he got it, I find out the President knew it was airborne but he didn't tell us,\\\" Klobuchar said.\", \"Asked about the Democrats' unity after the hearing, Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin responded: \\\"It's a bit surprising yeah?\\\"\", \"Republicans look for openings to discuss religion\", \"Republicans in their opening statements criticized Democrats for previous questions about Barrett's Catholic faith and for stories about her association with the Christian group People of Praise. \", \"\\\"There are places where this committee has acted like it's the job of the committee to delve into people's religious communities. That's nuts,\\\" said Sen. Ben Sasse, a Nebraska Republican.\", \"American Bar Association rates Amy Coney Barrett as 'well qualified'\", \"At Monday's hearing, however, it was only the Republicans, not Democrats, discussing religion. Barrett also nodded to her religion in her opening statement, saying she believes in the power of prayer.\", \"Still, Republicans had plenty of fodder from past hearings to knock Democrats over, including Barrett's 2017 confirmation hearing for the federal appeals court, such as when the panel's top Democrat, Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California, said, \\\"the dogma lives loudly within you.\\\"\", \"Sen. Josh Hawley, a Missouri Republican, accused Democrats of a \\\"pattern and practice of religious bigotry.\\\" \", \"The criticisms tied to faith were more about the two days of questions to follow than the opening day speeches, as Democrats are likely to press Barrett on Roe v. Wade and other abortion cases.\", \"Hawley criticized Sen. Chris Coons, a Delaware Democrat, for saying a previous Supreme Court case, \", \"Griswold v. Connecticut\", \", which allowed married couples the right to obtain and use contraception, was in danger of being struck down.\", \"Hawley claimed that the reference was \\\"another hit at Judge Barrett's religious faith, referring to Catholic doctrinal beliefs.\\\" But it's a case that has been raised repeatedly at judicial confirmation hearings.\", \"Covid looms over hearing \", \"Three Republican senators have tested positive for coronavirus over the past two weeks, throwing into doubt what appeared to be a sure-thing confirmation. \", \"That danger for Republicans appears to have passed, for now, but the coronavirus threat still loomed over the hearing, as two of the Republicans who tested positive are on the Judiciary Committee.\", \"What Amy Coney Barrett could mean for Obamacare\", \"One of those senators, Thom Tillis of North Carolina, spoke remotely at Monday's hearing. He has said he expects to be there in person on Tuesday. The other senator who tested positive, Mike Lee of Utah, appeared in person on Monday, saying he had been cleared by his doctor to attend.\", \"Democrats attacked Graham for moving forward with the hearing despite the positive tests -- and not requiring tests for all senators on the panel.\", \"\\\"This hearing itself is a microcosm of Trump's dangerous ineptitude in dealing with the Covid pandemic,\\\" charged Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, a Rhode Island Democrat.\", \"Graham defended the hearing, saying that strict health protocols were being followed, arguing he was going to work to do his job just like millions of Americans. The setting meant no members of the public could attend, a break from normal confirmation hearings, and senators were spread out across the cavernous hearing room.\", \"The pandemic-era hearing also meant one other notable distention: Barrett was wearing a black mask throughout the senators' opening statements. Other Supreme Court nominees have needed to keep a straight face while they are often attacked, but Barrett's expressions were masked.\", \"Barrett emphasizes experience with Scalia\", \"Monday's hearing ended with\", \" Barrett's own opening statement\", \", where she discussed clerking for the late Justice Antonin Scalia and what her background would bring to the court, including that she would be the first mother of school-aged children to be a justice and the only sitting justice who didn't graduate from Harvard or Yale Law School.\", \"Barrett generally discussed her legal philosophy, which reflects that of Scalia, her mentor and a conservative anchor of the high court for years. \\\"The policy decisions and value judgments of government must be made by the political branches elected by and accountable to the people,\\\" Barrett said.\", \"Barrett's confirmation could lead to the Supreme Court taking rare action on gun rights\", \"She also touched on the discussion surrounding her religion at the conclusion of her statement. \\\"I believe in the power of prayer, and it has been uplifting to hear that so many people are praying for me,\\\" Barrett said.\", \"Monday's hearing was a day of scripted rhetoric with speeches from senators and the nominee. The real action begins Tuesday with questions.\", \"Senators will each get a half-hour to question Barrett on Tuesday and Wednesday, with Republicans and Democrats alternating turns. Then they will get another 20 minutes for a second round. With 22 senators on the panel, both days will go into the evening, representing Barrett's toughest test before her confirmation to the high court.\", \"CNN's Lauren Fox, Clare Foran and Manu Raju contributed to this report.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/12/opinions/court-packing-isnt-extreme-barrett-supreme-court-hearing-hemmer/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"Why history shows 'court packing' isn't extreme\", \"description\": \"Historian Nicole Hemmer says court packing \\u2014 as both a phrase and a historical precedent dating back to FDR and John Adams \\u2014 obscures more than it reveals about the current debate over the size of the Supreme Court. She argues that history isn't an excuse to ignore the unique conditions of today's looming crisis over court expansion and reform.\", \"date\": \"2020-10-12T19:53:09Z\", \"author\": \"Opinion by Nicole Hemmer\", \"text\": [\"Nicole Hemmer is an associate research scholar at Columbia University with the Obama Presidency Oral History Project and the author of \\\"\", \"Messengers of the Right: Conservative Media and the Transformation of American Politics\", \".\\\" She co-hosts the history podcast \\\"\", \"Past Present\", \"\\\" and \\\"\", \"This Day in Esoteric Political History\", \".\\\" The views expressed in this commentary are solely those of the author. View more \", \"opinion\", \" articles on CNN. \", \" (CNN)\", \"At the presidential and vice presidential debates, Donald Trump and Mike Pence asked their opponents the same question: Will you pack the courts?  \", \"Nicole Hemmer\", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"Nicole Hemmer\\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"Nicole Hemmer\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200807161116-01-nicole-hemmer-headshot-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"The symmetry of their approach shows they believe a focus on \\\"court packing\\\" could turn their ailing campaign around. And they got a quick assist from media outlets who began hammering the Biden campaign about the issue.  \", \"But \\\"court packing\\\" \\u2014 as both a phrase and a historical precedent \\u2014 obscures more than it reveals about the current debate over the size of the Supreme Court. That's because the parallel to President Franklin Roosevelt's efforts to change the court's size don't fit the current situation, and the broader history of court expansion bolsters the case for expanding the court now. \", \"Expansion of the court rests in the hands of Congress, a right it has exercised \", \"several times \", \"in the nation's history. Rather than being \\\"\", \"illicit\", \"\\\" or \\\"\", \"tyranny\", \",\\\" as conservative critics have charged, it is an ordinary power of Congress granted by the Constitution. Over the course of the 19th century, the court fluctuated from five to 10 members, ultimately settling at nine. In many cases, the changes reflected fluctuations in the number of federal court districts. When districts were added or removed, the number of seats on the court \", \"changed with them.\", \" (For the record, there are currently 13 federal districts.)\", \"Mixed in with these relatively neutral changes were more politically motivated ones. 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Hear his stance in 1983\", \"Replay\", \"More Videos ...\", \"MUST WATCH\", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"https://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"VideoObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"Biden has been silent on this campaign issue. Hear his stance in 1983\\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has avoided taking a stance on the issue of adding seats to the Supreme Court since the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg spurred a contentious nomination process. Biden&#39;s deputy campaign manager discusses the issue with CNN&#39;s &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.cnn.com/profiles/jake-tapper-profile&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Jake Tapper&lt;/a&gt;. \\\",\\\"thumbnailURL\\\": \\\"https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/201011095836-biden-supreme-court-packing-tapper-sotu-vpx-00000529-large-169.jpg\\\",\\\"image\\\": \\\"https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/201011095836-biden-supreme-court-packing-tapper-sotu-vpx-00000529-large-169.jpg\\\",\\\"duration\\\": \\\"PT3M27S\\\",\\\"uploadDate\\\": \\\"2020-10-12T08:45:17Z\\\",\\\"contentUrl\\\": \\\"https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2020/10/11/biden-supreme-court-packing-tapper-sotu-vpx.cnn\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2020/10/11/biden-supreme-court-packing-tapper-sotu-vpx.cnn\\\",\\\"embedUrl\\\": \\\"https://fave.api.cnn.io/v1/fav/?video=politics/2020/10/11/biden-supreme-court-packing-tapper-sotu-vpx.cnn&customer=cnn&edition=domestic&env=prod\\\"}\", \"Biden has been silent on this campaign issue. Hear his stance in 1983\", \" \", \"03:26\", \"What's really driving the renewed interest in court expansion is something else: the politicized change in the size of the court has already happened. It occurred in 2016, when a Republican-controlled Senate allowed the court to shrink to eight justices. Not only did the Senate fail to fulfill its constitutional duty to vote on the president's nominee, some Senate Republicans were prepared to keep the court at eight if Hillary Clinton won the 2016 election. Sen. Ted Cruz and the late Sen. John McCain both \", \"floated that possibility\", \" in October 2016, with Cruz \", \"musing\", \", \\\"There is certainly long historical precedent for a Supreme Court with fewer justices.\\\" \", \"The refusal to even hold a hearing for a presidential nominee was more than a norm violation \\u2014 it was an abdication of constitutional responsibility. And because it was one that worked out well for Republicans, there has been no reckoning. \", \"Until now. The Biden campaign has not yet weighed in on expanding the court, but there is a groundswell of support for it from Democrats who believe it is the only way to remedy what happened in 2016. That makes a more accurate precedent for the court-expansion debate not the 1937 attempt, but 1802, when Congress returned the court to six seats after Adams attempted to take a seat from Jefferson and pack the lower courts with his allies. \", \"Get our free weekly newsletter\", \"Sign up for CNN Opinion's new \", \"newsletter.\", \"Join us on \", \"Twitter \", \"and \", \"Facebook\", \"These historical precedents help put the current debate in a more accurate context than blanket condemnations of \\\"court packing.\\\" But they should not be thought of as straightjackets constraining the bounds of debate. Historical precedent can serve as a guide to how people have considered these issues in the past, but they are not an excuse to ignore the unique conditions of the current crisis: The Republicans' smash-and-grab approach to judicial nominations threatens the independence and legitimacy of the judiciary and weakens the rule of law. \", \"Should Democrats win the election, they will have to fix this, too. That likely means court expansion, but also a raft of judicial reforms ranging from Supreme Court term limits to narrowing its jurisdiction. It likely means coming to terms with a reality most Americans have never really confronted: The court has never been apolitical, and even with reforms, there will be fights over its composition and power \\u2014 fights Democrats must be willing to take up. \"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/11/us/trayvon-martin-street-named-miami-trnd/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"Miami street to be named after Trayvon Martin\", \"description\": \"The street in front of the Miami high school that Trayvon Martin attended before his life was abruptly ended will be renamed Trayvon Martin Avenue.\", \"date\": \"2020-10-11T19:29:33Z\", \"author\": \"Kelly Murray\", \"text\": [\" (CNN)\", \"The street in front of the Miami\", \" \", \"high school that \", \"Trayvon Martin\", \" attended before his life was abruptly ended will be renamed Trayvon Martin Avenue.\", \"Miami-Dade County\", \" commissioners approved the resolution this week to designate a portion of NE 16th Avenue after the 17-year-old, who was shot and killed in 2012.\", \"The Black teen's death at the hands of George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer, \\\"raised America's consciousness and pierced its conscience,\\\" according to Martin family attorney Benjamin Crump, who was quoted in the government \", \"memorandum\", \" to rename the road.\", \"Trayvon Martin supporters  block traffic as they march through Union Square during a \\\"Million Hoodie March\\\" in Manhattan on March 21, 2012 in New York City. \", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"Trayvon Martin supporters  block traffic as they march through Union Square during a &quot;Million Hoodie March&quot; in Manhattan on March 21, 2012 in New York City. \\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"Trayvon Martin supporters  block traffic as they march through Union Square during a &quot;Million Hoodie March&quot; in Manhattan on March 21, 2012 in New York City. \\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/120322111514-million-hoodie-march-07-story-top.jpg\\\"}\", \"While visiting his father in Sanford, Florida, in \", \"February 2012\", \", Martin was returning home from a convenience store when he found himself being followed by Zimmerman.\", \"Zimmerman called 911 to report a \\\"a suspicious person\\\" in the neighborhood. Moments later, neighbors reported hearing gunfire. Zimmerman acknowledged that he shot Martin and claimed he acted in self defense.\", \"Read More\", \"Zimmerman was ultimately acquitted in the case, and in December 2019 he sued Martin's parents and others for \", \"$100 million\", \", claiming there was a conspiracy to frame him.\", \"College student Jajuan Kelley covers his mouth with a Skittles wrapper as he stands in a crowd of thousands rallying at the Georgia State Capitol in Atlanta in memory of Trayvon Martin in March 2012.\", \"{\\\"@context\\\": \\\"http://schema.org\\\",\\\"@type\\\": \\\"ImageObject\\\",\\\"name\\\": \\\"College student Jajuan Kelley covers his mouth with a Skittles wrapper as he stands in a crowd of thousands rallying at the Georgia State Capitol in Atlanta in memory of Trayvon Martin in March 2012.\\\",\\\"description\\\": \\\"College student Jajuan Kelley covers his mouth with a Skittles wrapper as he stands in a crowd of thousands rallying at the Georgia State Capitol in Atlanta in memory of Trayvon Martin in March 2012.\\\",\\\"url\\\": \\\"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/151223131422-02-black-lives-matter-large-169.jpg\\\"}\", \"According to the memorandum, the fatal shooting \\\"elicited national conversations about race relations, racial profiling, gun rights, stand your ground laws, and was a catalyst that set nationwide demands for social justice in motion.\\\"\", \"Zimmerman's acquittal in the shooting death prompted the social media hashtag #BlackLivesMatter and later shifted into a social justice movement against police brutality and racially-motivated violence around the world, the memorandum notes.\", \"A typical teen\", \"Family and friends described Martin as a peaceful, laid back and positive person, the memorandum notes.\", \"Martin had been planning to stay close to home and attend college at either the University of Miami or Florida A&M University to pursue a career that would allow him to fly or work with aircraft, it says.\", \"The Miami street's new name is expected to go into effect this week.\"]},\n{\"url\": \"https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/08/politics/evanina-trump-election-lies-exploited/index.html\", \"source\": \"CNN\", \"title\": \"US counterintelligence chief says foreign adversaries are exploiting Trump's lies to influence election\", \"description\": \"The top US intelligence official on election security says that foreign adversaries are exploiting lies by President Donald Trump in their campaigns to influence the 2020 election. \", \"date\": \"2020-10-08T13:35:14Z\", \"author\": \"Alex Marquardt\", \"text\": [\"Washington (CNN)\", \"The top US intelligence official on election security says that foreign adversaries are exploiting lies by President Donald Trump in their campaigns to influence the 2020 election. \", \"Bill Evanina, the Director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center, agreed when asked by \", \"Hearst Television \", \"that foreign powers are using the numerous exaggerated and false claims Trump has made about mail-in voting, voting multiple times and 2020 being the most fraudulent election in history.\", \"Evanina was asked about a list of false claims about mail-in voting and voter fraud that the President has made, which the interviewer, Mark Albert, called \\\"false statements.\\\" Evanina did not directly address the truthfulness of Trump's claims but did say they're being amplified by foreign adversaries\", \"\\\"If they see a reference made by the President of the United States, a prominent US Senator, a business person, someone who America looks at as a voice of reason, and they believe it suits their interests, they will amplify that by a thousand to make sure that the most amount of people see it,\\\" Evanina said.\", \"Mail-in voting is a favorite target of Trump's, who has \", \"routinely spread false information\", \" on the way many Americans plan to vote during the pandemic.\", \"Read More\", \"Trump says he likes Putin. US intelligence says Russia is attacking American democracy.\", \"Evanina made clear that he has not seen any intelligence that foreign countries are \\\"manipulating or attempting to manipulate any mail by vote systems or processes.\\\" They are, however, using the issue as a wedge \\\"to exacerbate these conversations we're having.\\\"\", \"National security officials charged with securing the election have been evasive about the threat posed by Trump's regular spreading of disinformation, focusing instead on that same threat from overseas. But Evanina's comments appear to mark the first time an intelligence leader has publicly stated that the President's lies about the election are being used by America's enemies.  \", \"FBI director \", \"Christopher Wray provoked Trump's anger \", \"last month when he stated Russia is \\\"very actively\\\" working to \\\"denigrate\\\" Trump's opponent former Vice President Joe Biden. Wray was re-iterating the intelligence community's assessment that Russia is working against Biden, while China would rather see Trump not be re-elected. \", \"Free speech, Evanina says, is both what makes the US great and its biggest vulnerability. Even conspiracy theories which, Evanina says, are \\\"a symptom of having an awesome democracy.\\\"\", \"Asked repeatedly about the truthfulness of what Trump has said, Evanina was evasive. \", \"State officials brace for conflict after Trump tells supporters to 'go into the polls and watch'\", \"\\\"The hard part we have in democracy is identifying truisms. You know who is the truth police, who is not the truth police. How is it are we able to say this person said that, this person is false?\\\" Evanina asked. \\\"It gets really complicated when we as Americans have to draw lines as to what's believable, not believable. And who determines what's true and what's not.\\\" \", \"In the lengthy interview, Evanina repeatedly voiced his support for bipartisan congressional investigations, the intelligence agencies and institutions like DHS and the FBI. He said the Mueller report and the recent Senate Intelligence committee investigation into ties between the Trump campaign and Russia role in the 2016 election were not hoaxes.\", \"\\\"They were great reports done by a lot of great people going back to 2017,\\\" Evanina said. \\\"Again, I think everyone wants to juxtapose investigations and capabilities and statements against the President. And I just think that's probably not healthy for America to do that.\\\"\", \"Evanina also said he's never been told to withhold intel or change findings and that he'd quit if that happened. \\\"If I believed it to be not true or not worth the value, absolutely I would quit that day.\\\"\", \"This story has been updated with more details from Evanina's interview.\"]}\n]"
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    "path": "03_03_e/news_scraper/news_scraper/spiders/yahoo.py",
    "content": "# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-\nimport json\nfrom news_scraper.items import NewsArticle\nfrom scrapy.spiders import CrawlSpider, Rule\nfrom scrapy.linkextractors import LinkExtractor\n\nclass YahooSpider(CrawlSpider):\n    name = 'yahoo'\n    allowed_domains = ['news.yahoo.com']\n    start_urls = ['http://news.yahoo.com/']\n    rules = [Rule(LinkExtractor(allow=r'\\/[a-zA-Z\\-]+-[0-9]+.html'), callback='parse_item', follow=True)]\n\n    def parse_item(self, response):\n        article = NewsArticle()\n        article['url'] = response.url\n        article['source'] = 'Yahoo News'\n\n        \n        jsonData = json.loads(response.xpath('//article[@role=\"article\"]/script[@type=\"application/ld+json\"]/text()').get())\n\n        article['title'] = jsonData['headline']\n        article['description'] = jsonData['description']\n        article['date'] = jsonData['datePublished']\n        article['author'] = jsonData['author']['name']\n        article['text'] = response.xpath('//div[@class=\"caas-body\"]/p/text()').getall()\n        return article\n"
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    "path": "03_03_e/news_scraper/scrapy.cfg",
    "content": "# Automatically created by: scrapy startproject\n#\n# For more information about the [deploy] section see:\n# https://scrapyd.readthedocs.io/en/latest/deploy.html\n\n[settings]\ndefault = news_scraper.settings\n\n[deploy]\n#url = http://localhost:6800/\nproject = news_scraper\n"
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    "path": "03_04/news_scraper/news_scraper/__init__.py",
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    "path": "03_04/news_scraper/news_scraper/items.py",
    "content": "# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-\n\n# Define here the models for your scraped items\n#\n# See documentation in:\n# https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/items.html\n\nimport scrapy\n\n\nclass NewsArticle(scrapy.Item):\n    url = scrapy.Field()\n    source = scrapy.Field()\n    title = scrapy.Field()\n    description = scrapy.Field()\n    date = scrapy.Field()\n    author = scrapy.Field()\n    text = scrapy.Field()\n"
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    "path": "03_04/news_scraper/news_scraper/middlewares.py",
    "content": "# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-\n\n# Define here the models for your spider middleware\n#\n# See documentation in:\n# https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/spider-middleware.html\n\nfrom scrapy import signals\n\n\nclass NewsScraperSpiderMiddleware:\n    # Not all methods need to be defined. If a method is not defined,\n    # scrapy acts as if the spider middleware does not modify the\n    # passed objects.\n\n    @classmethod\n    def from_crawler(cls, crawler):\n        # This method is used by Scrapy to create your spiders.\n        s = cls()\n        crawler.signals.connect(s.spider_opened, signal=signals.spider_opened)\n        return s\n\n    def process_spider_input(self, response, spider):\n        # Called for each response that goes through the spider\n        # middleware and into the spider.\n\n        # Should return None or raise an exception.\n        return None\n\n    def process_spider_output(self, response, result, spider):\n        # Called with the results returned from the Spider, after\n        # it has processed the response.\n\n        # Must return an iterable of Request, dict or Item objects.\n        for i in result:\n            yield i\n\n    def process_spider_exception(self, response, exception, spider):\n        # Called when a spider or process_spider_input() method\n        # (from other spider middleware) raises an exception.\n\n        # Should return either None or an iterable of Request, dict\n        # or Item objects.\n        pass\n\n    def process_start_requests(self, start_requests, spider):\n        # Called with the start requests of the spider, and works\n        # similarly to the process_spider_output() method, except\n        # that it doesn’t have a response associated.\n\n        # Must return only requests (not items).\n        for r in start_requests:\n            yield r\n\n    def spider_opened(self, spider):\n        spider.logger.info('Spider opened: %s' % spider.name)\n\n\nclass NewsScraperDownloaderMiddleware:\n    # Not all methods need to be defined. If a method is not defined,\n    # scrapy acts as if the downloader middleware does not modify the\n    # passed objects.\n\n    @classmethod\n    def from_crawler(cls, crawler):\n        # This method is used by Scrapy to create your spiders.\n        s = cls()\n        crawler.signals.connect(s.spider_opened, signal=signals.spider_opened)\n        return s\n\n    def process_request(self, request, spider):\n        # Called for each request that goes through the downloader\n        # middleware.\n\n        # Must either:\n        # - return None: continue processing this request\n        # - or return a Response object\n        # - or return a Request object\n        # - or raise IgnoreRequest: process_exception() methods of\n        #   installed downloader middleware will be called\n        return None\n\n    def process_response(self, request, response, spider):\n        # Called with the response returned from the downloader.\n\n        # Must either;\n        # - return a Response object\n        # - return a Request object\n        # - or raise IgnoreRequest\n        return response\n\n    def process_exception(self, request, exception, spider):\n        # Called when a download handler or a process_request()\n        # (from other downloader middleware) raises an exception.\n\n        # Must either:\n        # - return None: continue processing this exception\n        # - return a Response object: stops process_exception() chain\n        # - return a Request object: stops process_exception() chain\n        pass\n\n    def spider_opened(self, spider):\n        spider.logger.info('Spider opened: %s' % spider.name)\n"
  },
  {
    "path": "03_04/news_scraper/news_scraper/pipelines.py",
    "content": "# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-\n\n# Define your item pipelines here\n#\n# Don't forget to add your pipeline to the ITEM_PIPELINES setting\n# See: https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/item-pipeline.html\n\n\nclass NewsScraperPipeline:\n    def process_item(self, item, spider):\n        item.author = item.author.replace(', CNN', '')\n        # item.text = \n        return item\n"
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  {
    "path": "03_04/news_scraper/news_scraper/settings.py",
    "content": "# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-\n\n# Scrapy settings for news_scraper project\n#\n# For simplicity, this file contains only settings considered important or\n# commonly used. You can find more settings consulting the documentation:\n#\n#     https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/settings.html\n#     https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/downloader-middleware.html\n#     https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/spider-middleware.html\n\nBOT_NAME = 'news_scraper'\n\nSPIDER_MODULES = ['news_scraper.spiders']\nNEWSPIDER_MODULE = 'news_scraper.spiders'\n\n\n# Crawl responsibly by identifying yourself (and your website) on the user-agent\n#USER_AGENT = 'news_scraper (+http://www.yourdomain.com)'\n\n# Obey robots.txt rules\nROBOTSTXT_OBEY = False\n\n# Configure maximum concurrent requests performed by Scrapy (default: 16)\n#CONCURRENT_REQUESTS = 32\n\n# Configure a delay for requests for the same website (default: 0)\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/settings.html#download-delay\n# See also autothrottle settings and docs\n#DOWNLOAD_DELAY = 3\n# The download delay setting will honor only one of:\n#CONCURRENT_REQUESTS_PER_DOMAIN = 16\n#CONCURRENT_REQUESTS_PER_IP = 16\n\n# Disable cookies (enabled by default)\n#COOKIES_ENABLED = False\n\n# Disable Telnet Console (enabled by default)\n#TELNETCONSOLE_ENABLED = False\n\n# Override the default request headers:\n#DEFAULT_REQUEST_HEADERS = {\n#   'Accept': 'text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8',\n#   'Accept-Language': 'en',\n#}\n\n# Enable or disable spider middlewares\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/spider-middleware.html\n#SPIDER_MIDDLEWARES = {\n#    'news_scraper.middlewares.NewsScraperSpiderMiddleware': 543,\n#}\n\n# Enable or disable downloader middlewares\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/downloader-middleware.html\n#DOWNLOADER_MIDDLEWARES = {\n#    'news_scraper.middlewares.NewsScraperDownloaderMiddleware': 543,\n#}\n\n# Enable or disable extensions\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/extensions.html\n#EXTENSIONS = {\n#    'scrapy.extensions.telnet.TelnetConsole': None,\n#}\n\n# Configure item pipelines\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/item-pipeline.html\n#ITEM_PIPELINES = {\n#    'news_scraper.pipelines.NewsScraperPipeline': 300,\n#}\n\n# Enable and configure the AutoThrottle extension (disabled by default)\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/autothrottle.html\n#AUTOTHROTTLE_ENABLED = True\n# The initial download delay\n#AUTOTHROTTLE_START_DELAY = 5\n# The maximum download delay to be set in case of high latencies\n#AUTOTHROTTLE_MAX_DELAY = 60\n# The average number of requests Scrapy should be sending in parallel to\n# each remote server\n#AUTOTHROTTLE_TARGET_CONCURRENCY = 1.0\n# Enable showing throttling stats for every response received:\n#AUTOTHROTTLE_DEBUG = False\n\n# Enable and configure HTTP caching (disabled by default)\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/downloader-middleware.html#httpcache-middleware-settings\n#HTTPCACHE_ENABLED = True\n#HTTPCACHE_EXPIRATION_SECS = 0\n#HTTPCACHE_DIR = 'httpcache'\n#HTTPCACHE_IGNORE_HTTP_CODES = []\n#HTTPCACHE_STORAGE = 'scrapy.extensions.httpcache.FilesystemCacheStorage'\n"
  },
  {
    "path": "03_04/news_scraper/news_scraper/spiders/__init__.py",
    "content": "# This package will contain the spiders of your Scrapy project\n#\n# Please refer to the documentation for information on how to create and manage\n# your spiders.\n"
  },
  {
    "path": "03_04/news_scraper/news_scraper/spiders/cnn.py",
    "content": "# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-\nfrom scrapy.spiders import CrawlSpider, Rule\nfrom scrapy.linkextractors import LinkExtractor\nfrom news_scraper.items import NewsArticle\n\ndef generate_start_urls():\n        years = ['2011', '2012', '2013', '2014', '2015', '2016', '2017', '2018', '2019', '2020']\n        months = ['01', '02', '03', '04', '05', '06', '07', '08', '09', '10', '11', '12']\n        return ['https://www.cnn.com/sitemaps/article-{}-{}.xml'.format(year, month) for year in years for month in months]\n\nclass CnnSpider(CrawlSpider):\n    name = 'cnn'\n    allowed_domains = ['cnn.com']\n    start_urls = generate_start_urls()\n    \n    def parse(self, response):\n        return {'url': response.url, 'count': response.text.count('<url>')}\n\n"
  },
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    "path": "03_04/news_scraper/scrapy.cfg",
    "content": "# Automatically created by: scrapy startproject\n#\n# For more information about the [deploy] section see:\n# https://scrapyd.readthedocs.io/en/latest/deploy.html\n\n[settings]\ndefault = news_scraper.settings\n\n[deploy]\n#url = http://localhost:6800/\nproject = news_scraper\n"
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    "path": "03_05/news_scraper/news_scraper/__init__.py",
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    "path": "03_05/news_scraper/news_scraper/items.py",
    "content": "# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-\n\n# Define here the models for your scraped items\n#\n# See documentation in:\n# https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/items.html\n\nimport scrapy\n\n\nclass NewsArticle(scrapy.Item):\n    url = scrapy.Field()\n    source = scrapy.Field()\n    title = scrapy.Field()\n    description = scrapy.Field()\n    date = scrapy.Field()\n    author = scrapy.Field()\n    text = scrapy.Field()\n"
  },
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    "path": "03_05/news_scraper/news_scraper/middlewares.py",
    "content": "# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-\n\n# Define here the models for your spider middleware\n#\n# See documentation in:\n# https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/spider-middleware.html\n\nfrom scrapy import signals\n\n\nclass NewsScraperSpiderMiddleware:\n    # Not all methods need to be defined. If a method is not defined,\n    # scrapy acts as if the spider middleware does not modify the\n    # passed objects.\n\n    @classmethod\n    def from_crawler(cls, crawler):\n        # This method is used by Scrapy to create your spiders.\n        s = cls()\n        crawler.signals.connect(s.spider_opened, signal=signals.spider_opened)\n        return s\n\n    def process_spider_input(self, response, spider):\n        # Called for each response that goes through the spider\n        # middleware and into the spider.\n\n        # Should return None or raise an exception.\n        return None\n\n    def process_spider_output(self, response, result, spider):\n        # Called with the results returned from the Spider, after\n        # it has processed the response.\n\n        # Must return an iterable of Request, dict or Item objects.\n        for i in result:\n            yield i\n\n    def process_spider_exception(self, response, exception, spider):\n        # Called when a spider or process_spider_input() method\n        # (from other spider middleware) raises an exception.\n\n        # Should return either None or an iterable of Request, dict\n        # or Item objects.\n        pass\n\n    def process_start_requests(self, start_requests, spider):\n        # Called with the start requests of the spider, and works\n        # similarly to the process_spider_output() method, except\n        # that it doesn’t have a response associated.\n\n        # Must return only requests (not items).\n        for r in start_requests:\n            yield r\n\n    def spider_opened(self, spider):\n        spider.logger.info('Spider opened: %s' % spider.name)\n\n\nclass NewsScraperDownloaderMiddleware:\n    # Not all methods need to be defined. If a method is not defined,\n    # scrapy acts as if the downloader middleware does not modify the\n    # passed objects.\n\n    @classmethod\n    def from_crawler(cls, crawler):\n        # This method is used by Scrapy to create your spiders.\n        s = cls()\n        crawler.signals.connect(s.spider_opened, signal=signals.spider_opened)\n        return s\n\n    def process_request(self, request, spider):\n        # Called for each request that goes through the downloader\n        # middleware.\n\n        # Must either:\n        # - return None: continue processing this request\n        # - or return a Response object\n        # - or return a Request object\n        # - or raise IgnoreRequest: process_exception() methods of\n        #   installed downloader middleware will be called\n        return None\n\n    def process_response(self, request, response, spider):\n        # Called with the response returned from the downloader.\n\n        # Must either;\n        # - return a Response object\n        # - return a Request object\n        # - or raise IgnoreRequest\n        return response\n\n    def process_exception(self, request, exception, spider):\n        # Called when a download handler or a process_request()\n        # (from other downloader middleware) raises an exception.\n\n        # Must either:\n        # - return None: continue processing this exception\n        # - return a Response object: stops process_exception() chain\n        # - return a Request object: stops process_exception() chain\n        pass\n\n    def spider_opened(self, spider):\n        spider.logger.info('Spider opened: %s' % spider.name)\n"
  },
  {
    "path": "03_05/news_scraper/news_scraper/pipelines.py",
    "content": "# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-\n\n# Define your item pipelines here\n#\n# Don't forget to add your pipeline to the ITEM_PIPELINES setting\n# See: https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/item-pipeline.html\n\n\nclass NewsScraperPipeline:\n    def process_item(self, item, spider):\n        item.author = item.author.replace(', CNN', '')\n        # item.text = \n        return item\n"
  },
  {
    "path": "03_05/news_scraper/news_scraper/settings.py",
    "content": "# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-\n\n# Scrapy settings for news_scraper project\n#\n# For simplicity, this file contains only settings considered important or\n# commonly used. You can find more settings consulting the documentation:\n#\n#     https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/settings.html\n#     https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/downloader-middleware.html\n#     https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/spider-middleware.html\n\nBOT_NAME = 'news_scraper'\n\nSPIDER_MODULES = ['news_scraper.spiders']\nNEWSPIDER_MODULE = 'news_scraper.spiders'\n\n\n# Crawl responsibly by identifying yourself (and your website) on the user-agent\n#USER_AGENT = 'news_scraper (+http://www.yourdomain.com)'\n\n# Obey robots.txt rules\nROBOTSTXT_OBEY = False\n\n# Configure maximum concurrent requests performed by Scrapy (default: 16)\n#CONCURRENT_REQUESTS = 32\n\n# Configure a delay for requests for the same website (default: 0)\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/settings.html#download-delay\n# See also autothrottle settings and docs\n#DOWNLOAD_DELAY = 3\n# The download delay setting will honor only one of:\n#CONCURRENT_REQUESTS_PER_DOMAIN = 16\n#CONCURRENT_REQUESTS_PER_IP = 16\n\n# Disable cookies (enabled by default)\n#COOKIES_ENABLED = False\n\n# Disable Telnet Console (enabled by default)\n#TELNETCONSOLE_ENABLED = False\n\n# Override the default request headers:\n#DEFAULT_REQUEST_HEADERS = {\n#   'Accept': 'text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8',\n#   'Accept-Language': 'en',\n#}\n\n# Enable or disable spider middlewares\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/spider-middleware.html\n#SPIDER_MIDDLEWARES = {\n#    'news_scraper.middlewares.NewsScraperSpiderMiddleware': 543,\n#}\n\n# Enable or disable downloader middlewares\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/downloader-middleware.html\n#DOWNLOADER_MIDDLEWARES = {\n#    'news_scraper.middlewares.NewsScraperDownloaderMiddleware': 543,\n#}\n\n# Enable or disable extensions\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/extensions.html\n#EXTENSIONS = {\n#    'scrapy.extensions.telnet.TelnetConsole': None,\n#}\n\n# Configure item pipelines\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/item-pipeline.html\n#ITEM_PIPELINES = {\n#    'news_scraper.pipelines.NewsScraperPipeline': 300,\n#}\n\n# Enable and configure the AutoThrottle extension (disabled by default)\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/autothrottle.html\n#AUTOTHROTTLE_ENABLED = True\n# The initial download delay\n#AUTOTHROTTLE_START_DELAY = 5\n# The maximum download delay to be set in case of high latencies\n#AUTOTHROTTLE_MAX_DELAY = 60\n# The average number of requests Scrapy should be sending in parallel to\n# each remote server\n#AUTOTHROTTLE_TARGET_CONCURRENCY = 1.0\n# Enable showing throttling stats for every response received:\n#AUTOTHROTTLE_DEBUG = False\n\n# Enable and configure HTTP caching (disabled by default)\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/downloader-middleware.html#httpcache-middleware-settings\n#HTTPCACHE_ENABLED = True\n#HTTPCACHE_EXPIRATION_SECS = 0\n#HTTPCACHE_DIR = 'httpcache'\n#HTTPCACHE_IGNORE_HTTP_CODES = []\n#HTTPCACHE_STORAGE = 'scrapy.extensions.httpcache.FilesystemCacheStorage'\n"
  },
  {
    "path": "03_05/news_scraper/news_scraper/spiders/__init__.py",
    "content": "# This package will contain the spiders of your Scrapy project\n#\n# Please refer to the documentation for information on how to create and manage\n# your spiders.\n"
  },
  {
    "path": "03_05/news_scraper/news_scraper/spiders/cnn.py",
    "content": "# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-\nfrom scrapy.spiders import CrawlSpider, Rule\nfrom scrapy.linkextractors import LinkExtractor\nfrom news_scraper.items import NewsArticle\n\ndef generate_start_urls():\n        years = ['2011', '2012', '2013', '2014', '2015', '2016', '2017', '2018', '2019', '2020']\n        months = ['01', '02', '03', '04', '05', '06', '07', '08', '09', '10', '11', '12']\n        return ['https://www.cnn.com/sitemaps/article-{}-{}.xml'.format(year, month) for year in years for month in months]\n\nclass CnnSpider(CrawlSpider):\n    name = 'cnn'\n    allowed_domains = ['cnn.com']\n    start_urls = generate_start_urls()\n    \n    def parse(self, response):\n        return {'url': response.url, 'count': response.text.count('<url>')}\n\n"
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    "path": "03_05/news_scraper/scrapy.cfg",
    "content": "# Automatically created by: scrapy startproject\n#\n# For more information about the [deploy] section see:\n# https://scrapyd.readthedocs.io/en/latest/deploy.html\n\n[settings]\ndefault = news_scraper.settings\n\n[deploy]\n#url = http://localhost:6800/\nproject = news_scraper\n"
  },
  {
    "path": "04_01_b/profiles/profiles/__init__.py",
    "content": ""
  },
  {
    "path": "04_01_b/profiles/profiles/items.py",
    "content": "# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-\n\n# Define here the models for your scraped items\n#\n# See documentation in:\n# https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/items.html\n\nimport scrapy\n\n\nclass ProfilesItem(scrapy.Item):\n    # define the fields for your item here like:\n    # name = scrapy.Field()\n    pass\n"
  },
  {
    "path": "04_01_b/profiles/profiles/middlewares.py",
    "content": "# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-\n\n# Define here the models for your spider middleware\n#\n# See documentation in:\n# https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/spider-middleware.html\n\nfrom scrapy import signals\n\n\nclass ProfilesSpiderMiddleware:\n    # Not all methods need to be defined. If a method is not defined,\n    # scrapy acts as if the spider middleware does not modify the\n    # passed objects.\n\n    @classmethod\n    def from_crawler(cls, crawler):\n        # This method is used by Scrapy to create your spiders.\n        s = cls()\n        crawler.signals.connect(s.spider_opened, signal=signals.spider_opened)\n        return s\n\n    def process_spider_input(self, response, spider):\n        # Called for each response that goes through the spider\n        # middleware and into the spider.\n\n        # Should return None or raise an exception.\n        return None\n\n    def process_spider_output(self, response, result, spider):\n        # Called with the results returned from the Spider, after\n        # it has processed the response.\n\n        # Must return an iterable of Request, dict or Item objects.\n        for i in result:\n            yield i\n\n    def process_spider_exception(self, response, exception, spider):\n        # Called when a spider or process_spider_input() method\n        # (from other spider middleware) raises an exception.\n\n        # Should return either None or an iterable of Request, dict\n        # or Item objects.\n        pass\n\n    def process_start_requests(self, start_requests, spider):\n        # Called with the start requests of the spider, and works\n        # similarly to the process_spider_output() method, except\n        # that it doesn’t have a response associated.\n\n        # Must return only requests (not items).\n        for r in start_requests:\n            yield r\n\n    def spider_opened(self, spider):\n        spider.logger.info('Spider opened: %s' % spider.name)\n\n\nclass ProfilesDownloaderMiddleware:\n    # Not all methods need to be defined. If a method is not defined,\n    # scrapy acts as if the downloader middleware does not modify the\n    # passed objects.\n\n    @classmethod\n    def from_crawler(cls, crawler):\n        # This method is used by Scrapy to create your spiders.\n        s = cls()\n        crawler.signals.connect(s.spider_opened, signal=signals.spider_opened)\n        return s\n\n    def process_request(self, request, spider):\n        # Called for each request that goes through the downloader\n        # middleware.\n\n        # Must either:\n        # - return None: continue processing this request\n        # - or return a Response object\n        # - or return a Request object\n        # - or raise IgnoreRequest: process_exception() methods of\n        #   installed downloader middleware will be called\n        return None\n\n    def process_response(self, request, response, spider):\n        # Called with the response returned from the downloader.\n\n        # Must either;\n        # - return a Response object\n        # - return a Request object\n        # - or raise IgnoreRequest\n        return response\n\n    def process_exception(self, request, exception, spider):\n        # Called when a download handler or a process_request()\n        # (from other downloader middleware) raises an exception.\n\n        # Must either:\n        # - return None: continue processing this exception\n        # - return a Response object: stops process_exception() chain\n        # - return a Request object: stops process_exception() chain\n        pass\n\n    def spider_opened(self, spider):\n        spider.logger.info('Spider opened: %s' % spider.name)\n"
  },
  {
    "path": "04_01_b/profiles/profiles/pipelines.py",
    "content": "# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-\n\n# Define your item pipelines here\n#\n# Don't forget to add your pipeline to the ITEM_PIPELINES setting\n# See: https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/item-pipeline.html\n\n\nclass ProfilesPipeline:\n    def process_item(self, item, spider):\n        return item\n"
  },
  {
    "path": "04_01_b/profiles/profiles/settings.py",
    "content": "# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-\n\n# Scrapy settings for profiles project\n#\n# For simplicity, this file contains only settings considered important or\n# commonly used. You can find more settings consulting the documentation:\n#\n#     https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/settings.html\n#     https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/downloader-middleware.html\n#     https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/spider-middleware.html\n\nBOT_NAME = 'profiles'\n\nSPIDER_MODULES = ['profiles.spiders']\nNEWSPIDER_MODULE = 'profiles.spiders'\n\n\n# Crawl responsibly by identifying yourself (and your website) on the user-agent\n#USER_AGENT = 'profiles (+http://www.yourdomain.com)'\n\n# Obey robots.txt rules\nROBOTSTXT_OBEY = True\n\n# Configure maximum concurrent requests performed by Scrapy (default: 16)\n#CONCURRENT_REQUESTS = 32\n\n# Configure a delay for requests for the same website (default: 0)\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/settings.html#download-delay\n# See also autothrottle settings and docs\n#DOWNLOAD_DELAY = 3\n# The download delay setting will honor only one of:\n#CONCURRENT_REQUESTS_PER_DOMAIN = 16\n#CONCURRENT_REQUESTS_PER_IP = 16\n\n# Disable cookies (enabled by default)\n#COOKIES_ENABLED = False\n\n# Disable Telnet Console (enabled by default)\n#TELNETCONSOLE_ENABLED = False\n\n# Override the default request headers:\n#DEFAULT_REQUEST_HEADERS = {\n#   'Accept': 'text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8',\n#   'Accept-Language': 'en',\n#}\n\n# Enable or disable spider middlewares\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/spider-middleware.html\n#SPIDER_MIDDLEWARES = {\n#    'profiles.middlewares.ProfilesSpiderMiddleware': 543,\n#}\n\n# Enable or disable downloader middlewares\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/downloader-middleware.html\n#DOWNLOADER_MIDDLEWARES = {\n#    'profiles.middlewares.ProfilesDownloaderMiddleware': 543,\n#}\n\n# Enable or disable extensions\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/extensions.html\n#EXTENSIONS = {\n#    'scrapy.extensions.telnet.TelnetConsole': None,\n#}\n\n# Configure item pipelines\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/item-pipeline.html\n#ITEM_PIPELINES = {\n#    'profiles.pipelines.ProfilesPipeline': 300,\n#}\n\n# Enable and configure the AutoThrottle extension (disabled by default)\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/autothrottle.html\n#AUTOTHROTTLE_ENABLED = True\n# The initial download delay\n#AUTOTHROTTLE_START_DELAY = 5\n# The maximum download delay to be set in case of high latencies\n#AUTOTHROTTLE_MAX_DELAY = 60\n# The average number of requests Scrapy should be sending in parallel to\n# each remote server\n#AUTOTHROTTLE_TARGET_CONCURRENCY = 1.0\n# Enable showing throttling stats for every response received:\n#AUTOTHROTTLE_DEBUG = False\n\n# Enable and configure HTTP caching (disabled by default)\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/downloader-middleware.html#httpcache-middleware-settings\n#HTTPCACHE_ENABLED = True\n#HTTPCACHE_EXPIRATION_SECS = 0\n#HTTPCACHE_DIR = 'httpcache'\n#HTTPCACHE_IGNORE_HTTP_CODES = []\n#HTTPCACHE_STORAGE = 'scrapy.extensions.httpcache.FilesystemCacheStorage'\n"
  },
  {
    "path": "04_01_b/profiles/profiles/spiders/__init__.py",
    "content": "# This package will contain the spiders of your Scrapy project\n#\n# Please refer to the documentation for information on how to create and manage\n# your spiders.\n"
  },
  {
    "path": "04_01_b/profiles/profiles/spiders/pythonscraping.py",
    "content": "# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-\nimport scrapy\n\n\nclass PythonscrapingSpider(scrapy.Spider):\n    name = 'pythonscraping'\n    allowed_domains = ['pythonscraping.com']\n    start_urls = ['http://pythonscraping.com/linkedin/cookies/profile.php']\n\n\n    def parse(self, response):\n        return { 'text': response.xpath('//body/text()').get() }\n"
  },
  {
    "path": "04_01_b/profiles/scrapy.cfg",
    "content": "# Automatically created by: scrapy startproject\n#\n# For more information about the [deploy] section see:\n# https://scrapyd.readthedocs.io/en/latest/deploy.html\n\n[settings]\ndefault = profiles.settings\n\n[deploy]\n#url = http://localhost:6800/\nproject = profiles\n"
  },
  {
    "path": "04_01_e/profiles/profiles/__init__.py",
    "content": ""
  },
  {
    "path": "04_01_e/profiles/profiles/items.py",
    "content": "# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-\n\n# Define here the models for your scraped items\n#\n# See documentation in:\n# https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/items.html\n\nimport scrapy\n\n\nclass ProfilesItem(scrapy.Item):\n    # define the fields for your item here like:\n    # name = scrapy.Field()\n    pass\n"
  },
  {
    "path": "04_01_e/profiles/profiles/middlewares.py",
    "content": "# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-\n\n# Define here the models for your spider middleware\n#\n# See documentation in:\n# https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/spider-middleware.html\n\nfrom scrapy import signals\n\n\nclass ProfilesSpiderMiddleware:\n    # Not all methods need to be defined. If a method is not defined,\n    # scrapy acts as if the spider middleware does not modify the\n    # passed objects.\n\n    @classmethod\n    def from_crawler(cls, crawler):\n        # This method is used by Scrapy to create your spiders.\n        s = cls()\n        crawler.signals.connect(s.spider_opened, signal=signals.spider_opened)\n        return s\n\n    def process_spider_input(self, response, spider):\n        # Called for each response that goes through the spider\n        # middleware and into the spider.\n\n        # Should return None or raise an exception.\n        return None\n\n    def process_spider_output(self, response, result, spider):\n        # Called with the results returned from the Spider, after\n        # it has processed the response.\n\n        # Must return an iterable of Request, dict or Item objects.\n        for i in result:\n            yield i\n\n    def process_spider_exception(self, response, exception, spider):\n        # Called when a spider or process_spider_input() method\n        # (from other spider middleware) raises an exception.\n\n        # Should return either None or an iterable of Request, dict\n        # or Item objects.\n        pass\n\n    def process_start_requests(self, start_requests, spider):\n        # Called with the start requests of the spider, and works\n        # similarly to the process_spider_output() method, except\n        # that it doesn’t have a response associated.\n\n        # Must return only requests (not items).\n        for r in start_requests:\n            yield r\n\n    def spider_opened(self, spider):\n        spider.logger.info('Spider opened: %s' % spider.name)\n\n\nclass ProfilesDownloaderMiddleware:\n    # Not all methods need to be defined. If a method is not defined,\n    # scrapy acts as if the downloader middleware does not modify the\n    # passed objects.\n\n    @classmethod\n    def from_crawler(cls, crawler):\n        # This method is used by Scrapy to create your spiders.\n        s = cls()\n        crawler.signals.connect(s.spider_opened, signal=signals.spider_opened)\n        return s\n\n    def process_request(self, request, spider):\n        # Called for each request that goes through the downloader\n        # middleware.\n\n        # Must either:\n        # - return None: continue processing this request\n        # - or return a Response object\n        # - or return a Request object\n        # - or raise IgnoreRequest: process_exception() methods of\n        #   installed downloader middleware will be called\n        return None\n\n    def process_response(self, request, response, spider):\n        # Called with the response returned from the downloader.\n\n        # Must either;\n        # - return a Response object\n        # - return a Request object\n        # - or raise IgnoreRequest\n        return response\n\n    def process_exception(self, request, exception, spider):\n        # Called when a download handler or a process_request()\n        # (from other downloader middleware) raises an exception.\n\n        # Must either:\n        # - return None: continue processing this exception\n        # - return a Response object: stops process_exception() chain\n        # - return a Request object: stops process_exception() chain\n        pass\n\n    def spider_opened(self, spider):\n        spider.logger.info('Spider opened: %s' % spider.name)\n"
  },
  {
    "path": "04_01_e/profiles/profiles/pipelines.py",
    "content": "# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-\n\n# Define your item pipelines here\n#\n# Don't forget to add your pipeline to the ITEM_PIPELINES setting\n# See: https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/item-pipeline.html\n\n\nclass ProfilesPipeline:\n    def process_item(self, item, spider):\n        return item\n"
  },
  {
    "path": "04_01_e/profiles/profiles/settings.py",
    "content": "# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-\n\n# Scrapy settings for profiles project\n#\n# For simplicity, this file contains only settings considered important or\n# commonly used. You can find more settings consulting the documentation:\n#\n#     https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/settings.html\n#     https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/downloader-middleware.html\n#     https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/spider-middleware.html\n\nBOT_NAME = 'profiles'\n\nSPIDER_MODULES = ['profiles.spiders']\nNEWSPIDER_MODULE = 'profiles.spiders'\n\n\n# Crawl responsibly by identifying yourself (and your website) on the user-agent\n#USER_AGENT = 'profiles (+http://www.yourdomain.com)'\n\n# Obey robots.txt rules\nROBOTSTXT_OBEY = True\n\n# Configure maximum concurrent requests performed by Scrapy (default: 16)\n#CONCURRENT_REQUESTS = 32\n\n# Configure a delay for requests for the same website (default: 0)\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/settings.html#download-delay\n# See also autothrottle settings and docs\n#DOWNLOAD_DELAY = 3\n# The download delay setting will honor only one of:\n#CONCURRENT_REQUESTS_PER_DOMAIN = 16\n#CONCURRENT_REQUESTS_PER_IP = 16\n\n# Disable cookies (enabled by default)\n#COOKIES_ENABLED = False\n\n# Disable Telnet Console (enabled by default)\n#TELNETCONSOLE_ENABLED = False\n\n# Override the default request headers:\n#DEFAULT_REQUEST_HEADERS = {\n#   'Accept': 'text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8',\n#   'Accept-Language': 'en',\n#}\n\n# Enable or disable spider middlewares\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/spider-middleware.html\n#SPIDER_MIDDLEWARES = {\n#    'profiles.middlewares.ProfilesSpiderMiddleware': 543,\n#}\n\n# Enable or disable downloader middlewares\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/downloader-middleware.html\n#DOWNLOADER_MIDDLEWARES = {\n#    'profiles.middlewares.ProfilesDownloaderMiddleware': 543,\n#}\n\n# Enable or disable extensions\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/extensions.html\n#EXTENSIONS = {\n#    'scrapy.extensions.telnet.TelnetConsole': None,\n#}\n\n# Configure item pipelines\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/item-pipeline.html\n#ITEM_PIPELINES = {\n#    'profiles.pipelines.ProfilesPipeline': 300,\n#}\n\n# Enable and configure the AutoThrottle extension (disabled by default)\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/autothrottle.html\n#AUTOTHROTTLE_ENABLED = True\n# The initial download delay\n#AUTOTHROTTLE_START_DELAY = 5\n# The maximum download delay to be set in case of high latencies\n#AUTOTHROTTLE_MAX_DELAY = 60\n# The average number of requests Scrapy should be sending in parallel to\n# each remote server\n#AUTOTHROTTLE_TARGET_CONCURRENCY = 1.0\n# Enable showing throttling stats for every response received:\n#AUTOTHROTTLE_DEBUG = False\n\n# Enable and configure HTTP caching (disabled by default)\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/downloader-middleware.html#httpcache-middleware-settings\n#HTTPCACHE_ENABLED = True\n#HTTPCACHE_EXPIRATION_SECS = 0\n#HTTPCACHE_DIR = 'httpcache'\n#HTTPCACHE_IGNORE_HTTP_CODES = []\n#HTTPCACHE_STORAGE = 'scrapy.extensions.httpcache.FilesystemCacheStorage'\n"
  },
  {
    "path": "04_01_e/profiles/profiles/spiders/__init__.py",
    "content": "# This package will contain the spiders of your Scrapy project\n#\n# Please refer to the documentation for information on how to create and manage\n# your spiders.\n"
  },
  {
    "path": "04_01_e/profiles/profiles/spiders/pythonscraping.py",
    "content": "# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-\nimport scrapy\n\n\nclass PythonscrapingSpider(scrapy.Spider):\n    name = 'pythonscraping'\n    allowed_domains = ['pythonscraping.com']\n    start_urls = ['http://pythonscraping.com/linkedin/cookies/profile.php']\n\n\n    def make_requests_from_url(self, url):\n        request = super(PythonscrapingSpider, self).make_requests_from_url(url)\n        request.cookies['username'] = 'Ryan!!!'\n        request.cookies['loggedin'] = 1\n        return request\n\n    def parse(self, response):\n        return { 'text': response.xpath('//body/text()').get() }\n"
  },
  {
    "path": "04_01_e/profiles/scrapy.cfg",
    "content": "# Automatically created by: scrapy startproject\n#\n# For more information about the [deploy] section see:\n# https://scrapyd.readthedocs.io/en/latest/deploy.html\n\n[settings]\ndefault = profiles.settings\n\n[deploy]\n#url = http://localhost:6800/\nproject = profiles\n"
  },
  {
    "path": "04_02_b/locations/locations/__init__.py",
    "content": ""
  },
  {
    "path": "04_02_b/locations/locations/items.py",
    "content": "# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-\n\n# Define here the models for your scraped items\n#\n# See documentation in:\n# https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/items.html\n\nimport scrapy\n\n\nclass LocationsItem(scrapy.Item):\n    # define the fields for your item here like:\n    # name = scrapy.Field()\n    pass\n"
  },
  {
    "path": "04_02_b/locations/locations/middlewares.py",
    "content": "# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-\n\n# Define here the models for your spider middleware\n#\n# See documentation in:\n# https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/spider-middleware.html\n\nfrom scrapy import signals\n\n\nclass LocationsSpiderMiddleware:\n    # Not all methods need to be defined. If a method is not defined,\n    # scrapy acts as if the spider middleware does not modify the\n    # passed objects.\n\n    @classmethod\n    def from_crawler(cls, crawler):\n        # This method is used by Scrapy to create your spiders.\n        s = cls()\n        crawler.signals.connect(s.spider_opened, signal=signals.spider_opened)\n        return s\n\n    def process_spider_input(self, response, spider):\n        # Called for each response that goes through the spider\n        # middleware and into the spider.\n\n        # Should return None or raise an exception.\n        return None\n\n    def process_spider_output(self, response, result, spider):\n        # Called with the results returned from the Spider, after\n        # it has processed the response.\n\n        # Must return an iterable of Request, dict or Item objects.\n        for i in result:\n            yield i\n\n    def process_spider_exception(self, response, exception, spider):\n        # Called when a spider or process_spider_input() method\n        # (from other spider middleware) raises an exception.\n\n        # Should return either None or an iterable of Request, dict\n        # or Item objects.\n        pass\n\n    def process_start_requests(self, start_requests, spider):\n        # Called with the start requests of the spider, and works\n        # similarly to the process_spider_output() method, except\n        # that it doesn’t have a response associated.\n\n        # Must return only requests (not items).\n        for r in start_requests:\n            yield r\n\n    def spider_opened(self, spider):\n        spider.logger.info('Spider opened: %s' % spider.name)\n\n\nclass LocationsDownloaderMiddleware:\n    # Not all methods need to be defined. If a method is not defined,\n    # scrapy acts as if the downloader middleware does not modify the\n    # passed objects.\n\n    @classmethod\n    def from_crawler(cls, crawler):\n        # This method is used by Scrapy to create your spiders.\n        s = cls()\n        crawler.signals.connect(s.spider_opened, signal=signals.spider_opened)\n        return s\n\n    def process_request(self, request, spider):\n        # Called for each request that goes through the downloader\n        # middleware.\n\n        # Must either:\n        # - return None: continue processing this request\n        # - or return a Response object\n        # - or return a Request object\n        # - or raise IgnoreRequest: process_exception() methods of\n        #   installed downloader middleware will be called\n        return None\n\n    def process_response(self, request, response, spider):\n        # Called with the response returned from the downloader.\n\n        # Must either;\n        # - return a Response object\n        # - return a Request object\n        # - or raise IgnoreRequest\n        return response\n\n    def process_exception(self, request, exception, spider):\n        # Called when a download handler or a process_request()\n        # (from other downloader middleware) raises an exception.\n\n        # Must either:\n        # - return None: continue processing this exception\n        # - return a Response object: stops process_exception() chain\n        # - return a Request object: stops process_exception() chain\n        pass\n\n    def spider_opened(self, spider):\n        spider.logger.info('Spider opened: %s' % spider.name)\n"
  },
  {
    "path": "04_02_b/locations/locations/pipelines.py",
    "content": "# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-\n\n# Define your item pipelines here\n#\n# Don't forget to add your pipeline to the ITEM_PIPELINES setting\n# See: https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/item-pipeline.html\n\n\nclass LocationsPipeline:\n    def process_item(self, item, spider):\n        return item\n"
  },
  {
    "path": "04_02_b/locations/locations/settings.py",
    "content": "# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-\nimport os\n\nSELENIUM_DRIVER_NAME = 'chrome'\nSELENIUM_DRIVER_EXECUTABLE_PATH = '/Users/rspecht/chromedriver'\nSELENIUM_DRIVER_ARGUMENTS=[]\n#SELENIUM_DRIVER_ARGUMENTS=['-headless']  # '--headless' if using chrome instead of firefox\n\n# Scrapy settings for locations project\n#\n# For simplicity, this file contains only settings considered important or\n# commonly used. You can find more settings consulting the documentation:\n#\n#     https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/settings.html\n#     https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/downloader-middleware.html\n#     https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/spider-middleware.html\n\nBOT_NAME = 'locations'\n\nSPIDER_MODULES = ['locations.spiders']\nNEWSPIDER_MODULE = 'locations.spiders'\n\n\n# Crawl responsibly by identifying yourself (and your website) on the user-agent\n#USER_AGENT = 'locations (+http://www.yourdomain.com)'\n\n# Obey robots.txt rules\nROBOTSTXT_OBEY = True\n\n# Configure maximum concurrent requests performed by Scrapy (default: 16)\n#CONCURRENT_REQUESTS = 32\n\n# Configure a delay for requests for the same website (default: 0)\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/settings.html#download-delay\n# See also autothrottle settings and docs\n#DOWNLOAD_DELAY = 3\n# The download delay setting will honor only one of:\n#CONCURRENT_REQUESTS_PER_DOMAIN = 16\n#CONCURRENT_REQUESTS_PER_IP = 16\n\n# Disable cookies (enabled by default)\n#COOKIES_ENABLED = False\n\n# Disable Telnet Console (enabled by default)\n#TELNETCONSOLE_ENABLED = False\n\n# Override the default request headers:\n#DEFAULT_REQUEST_HEADERS = {\n#   'Accept': 'text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8',\n#   'Accept-Language': 'en',\n#}\n\n# Enable or disable spider middlewares\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/spider-middleware.html\n#SPIDER_MIDDLEWARES = {\n#    'locations.middlewares.LocationsSpiderMiddleware': 543,\n#}\n\n# Enable or disable downloader middlewares\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/downloader-middleware.html\nDOWNLOADER_MIDDLEWARES = {\n    'scrapy_selenium.SeleniumMiddleware': 800\n}\n\n# Enable or disable extensions\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/extensions.html\n#EXTENSIONS = {\n#    'scrapy.extensions.telnet.TelnetConsole': None,\n#}\n\n# Configure item pipelines\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/item-pipeline.html\n#ITEM_PIPELINES = {\n#    'locations.pipelines.LocationsPipeline': 300,\n#}\n\n# Enable and configure the AutoThrottle extension (disabled by default)\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/autothrottle.html\n#AUTOTHROTTLE_ENABLED = True\n# The initial download delay\n#AUTOTHROTTLE_START_DELAY = 5\n# The maximum download delay to be set in case of high latencies\n#AUTOTHROTTLE_MAX_DELAY = 60\n# The average number of requests Scrapy should be sending in parallel to\n# each remote server\n#AUTOTHROTTLE_TARGET_CONCURRENCY = 1.0\n# Enable showing throttling stats for every response received:\n#AUTOTHROTTLE_DEBUG = False\n\n# Enable and configure HTTP caching (disabled by default)\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/downloader-middleware.html#httpcache-middleware-settings\n#HTTPCACHE_ENABLED = True\n#HTTPCACHE_EXPIRATION_SECS = 0\n#HTTPCACHE_DIR = 'httpcache'\n#HTTPCACHE_IGNORE_HTTP_CODES = []\n#HTTPCACHE_STORAGE = 'scrapy.extensions.httpcache.FilesystemCacheStorage'\n"
  },
  {
    "path": "04_02_b/locations/locations/spiders/__init__.py",
    "content": "# This package will contain the spiders of your Scrapy project\n#\n# Please refer to the documentation for information on how to create and manage\n# your spiders.\n"
  },
  {
    "path": "04_02_b/locations/locations/spiders/dunkin.py",
    "content": "# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-\nimport scrapy\n\nclass DunkinSpider(scrapy.Spider):\n    name = 'dunkin'\n    allowed_domains = ['dunkindonuts.com']\n    start_urls = ['https://www.dunkindonuts.com/en/locations?location=02155']\n\n    def parse(self, response):\n        return { 'addresses': response.xpath('//div[@class=\"store-item__address--line1\"]/text()').getall() }\n"
  },
  {
    "path": "04_02_b/locations/scrapy.cfg",
    "content": "# Automatically created by: scrapy startproject\n#\n# For more information about the [deploy] section see:\n# https://scrapyd.readthedocs.io/en/latest/deploy.html\n\n[settings]\ndefault = locations.settings\n\n[deploy]\n#url = http://localhost:6800/\nproject = locations\n"
  },
  {
    "path": "04_02_e/locations/locations/__init__.py",
    "content": ""
  },
  {
    "path": "04_02_e/locations/locations/items.py",
    "content": "# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-\n\n# Define here the models for your scraped items\n#\n# See documentation in:\n# https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/items.html\n\nimport scrapy\n\n\nclass LocationsItem(scrapy.Item):\n    # define the fields for your item here like:\n    # name = scrapy.Field()\n    pass\n"
  },
  {
    "path": "04_02_e/locations/locations/middlewares.py",
    "content": "# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-\n\n# Define here the models for your spider middleware\n#\n# See documentation in:\n# https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/spider-middleware.html\n\nfrom scrapy import signals\n\n\nclass LocationsSpiderMiddleware:\n    # Not all methods need to be defined. If a method is not defined,\n    # scrapy acts as if the spider middleware does not modify the\n    # passed objects.\n\n    @classmethod\n    def from_crawler(cls, crawler):\n        # This method is used by Scrapy to create your spiders.\n        s = cls()\n        crawler.signals.connect(s.spider_opened, signal=signals.spider_opened)\n        return s\n\n    def process_spider_input(self, response, spider):\n        # Called for each response that goes through the spider\n        # middleware and into the spider.\n\n        # Should return None or raise an exception.\n        return None\n\n    def process_spider_output(self, response, result, spider):\n        # Called with the results returned from the Spider, after\n        # it has processed the response.\n\n        # Must return an iterable of Request, dict or Item objects.\n        for i in result:\n            yield i\n\n    def process_spider_exception(self, response, exception, spider):\n        # Called when a spider or process_spider_input() method\n        # (from other spider middleware) raises an exception.\n\n        # Should return either None or an iterable of Request, dict\n        # or Item objects.\n        pass\n\n    def process_start_requests(self, start_requests, spider):\n        # Called with the start requests of the spider, and works\n        # similarly to the process_spider_output() method, except\n        # that it doesn’t have a response associated.\n\n        # Must return only requests (not items).\n        for r in start_requests:\n            yield r\n\n    def spider_opened(self, spider):\n        spider.logger.info('Spider opened: %s' % spider.name)\n\n\nclass LocationsDownloaderMiddleware:\n    # Not all methods need to be defined. If a method is not defined,\n    # scrapy acts as if the downloader middleware does not modify the\n    # passed objects.\n\n    @classmethod\n    def from_crawler(cls, crawler):\n        # This method is used by Scrapy to create your spiders.\n        s = cls()\n        crawler.signals.connect(s.spider_opened, signal=signals.spider_opened)\n        return s\n\n    def process_request(self, request, spider):\n        # Called for each request that goes through the downloader\n        # middleware.\n\n        # Must either:\n        # - return None: continue processing this request\n        # - or return a Response object\n        # - or return a Request object\n        # - or raise IgnoreRequest: process_exception() methods of\n        #   installed downloader middleware will be called\n        return None\n\n    def process_response(self, request, response, spider):\n        # Called with the response returned from the downloader.\n\n        # Must either;\n        # - return a Response object\n        # - return a Request object\n        # - or raise IgnoreRequest\n        return response\n\n    def process_exception(self, request, exception, spider):\n        # Called when a download handler or a process_request()\n        # (from other downloader middleware) raises an exception.\n\n        # Must either:\n        # - return None: continue processing this exception\n        # - return a Response object: stops process_exception() chain\n        # - return a Request object: stops process_exception() chain\n        pass\n\n    def spider_opened(self, spider):\n        spider.logger.info('Spider opened: %s' % spider.name)\n"
  },
  {
    "path": "04_02_e/locations/locations/pipelines.py",
    "content": "# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-\n\n# Define your item pipelines here\n#\n# Don't forget to add your pipeline to the ITEM_PIPELINES setting\n# See: https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/item-pipeline.html\n\n\nclass LocationsPipeline:\n    def process_item(self, item, spider):\n        return item\n"
  },
  {
    "path": "04_02_e/locations/locations/settings.py",
    "content": "# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-\nSELENIUM_DRIVER_NAME = 'chrome'\nSELENIUM_DRIVER_EXECUTABLE_PATH = '/Users/rmitchell/chromedriver'\nSELENIUM_DRIVER_ARGUMENTS=[]\n#SELENIUM_DRIVER_ARGUMENTS=['-headless']  # '--headless' if using chrome instead of firefox\n\n# Scrapy settings for locations project\n#\n# For simplicity, this file contains only settings considered important or\n# commonly used. You can find more settings consulting the documentation:\n#\n#     https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/settings.html\n#     https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/downloader-middleware.html\n#     https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/spider-middleware.html\n\nBOT_NAME = 'locations'\n\nSPIDER_MODULES = ['locations.spiders']\nNEWSPIDER_MODULE = 'locations.spiders'\n\n\n# Crawl responsibly by identifying yourself (and your website) on the user-agent\n#USER_AGENT = 'locations (+http://www.yourdomain.com)'\n\n# Obey robots.txt rules\nROBOTSTXT_OBEY = True\n\n# Configure maximum concurrent requests performed by Scrapy (default: 16)\n#CONCURRENT_REQUESTS = 32\n\n# Configure a delay for requests for the same website (default: 0)\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/settings.html#download-delay\n# See also autothrottle settings and docs\n#DOWNLOAD_DELAY = 3\n# The download delay setting will honor only one of:\n#CONCURRENT_REQUESTS_PER_DOMAIN = 16\n#CONCURRENT_REQUESTS_PER_IP = 16\n\n# Disable cookies (enabled by default)\n#COOKIES_ENABLED = False\n\n# Disable Telnet Console (enabled by default)\n#TELNETCONSOLE_ENABLED = False\n\n# Override the default request headers:\n#DEFAULT_REQUEST_HEADERS = {\n#   'Accept': 'text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8',\n#   'Accept-Language': 'en',\n#}\n\n# Enable or disable spider middlewares\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/spider-middleware.html\n#SPIDER_MIDDLEWARES = {\n#    'locations.middlewares.LocationsSpiderMiddleware': 543,\n#}\n\n# Enable or disable downloader middlewares\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/downloader-middleware.html\nDOWNLOADER_MIDDLEWARES = {\n    'scrapy_selenium.SeleniumMiddleware': 800\n}\n\n# Enable or disable extensions\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/extensions.html\n#EXTENSIONS = {\n#    'scrapy.extensions.telnet.TelnetConsole': None,\n#}\n\n# Configure item pipelines\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/item-pipeline.html\n#ITEM_PIPELINES = {\n#    'locations.pipelines.LocationsPipeline': 300,\n#}\n\n# Enable and configure the AutoThrottle extension (disabled by default)\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/autothrottle.html\n#AUTOTHROTTLE_ENABLED = True\n# The initial download delay\n#AUTOTHROTTLE_START_DELAY = 5\n# The maximum download delay to be set in case of high latencies\n#AUTOTHROTTLE_MAX_DELAY = 60\n# The average number of requests Scrapy should be sending in parallel to\n# each remote server\n#AUTOTHROTTLE_TARGET_CONCURRENCY = 1.0\n# Enable showing throttling stats for every response received:\n#AUTOTHROTTLE_DEBUG = False\n\n# Enable and configure HTTP caching (disabled by default)\n# See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/downloader-middleware.html#httpcache-middleware-settings\n#HTTPCACHE_ENABLED = True\n#HTTPCACHE_EXPIRATION_SECS = 0\n#HTTPCACHE_DIR = 'httpcache'\n#HTTPCACHE_IGNORE_HTTP_CODES = []\n#HTTPCACHE_STORAGE = 'scrapy.extensions.httpcache.FilesystemCacheStorage'\n"
  },
  {
    "path": "04_02_e/locations/locations/spiders/__init__.py",
    "content": "# This package will contain the spiders of your Scrapy project\n#\n# Please refer to the documentation for information on how to create and manage\n# your spiders.\n"
  },
  {
    "path": "04_02_e/locations/locations/spiders/dunkin.py",
    "content": "# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-\nimport scrapy\nimport time\nfrom scrapy_selenium import SeleniumRequest\n\ndef wait(driver):\n    time.sleep(1)\n    return True\n\nclass DunkinSpider(scrapy.Spider):\n    name = 'dunkin'\n    allowed_domains = ['dunkindonuts.com']\n    start_urls = ['https://www.dunkindonuts.com/en/locations?location=02155']\n\n\n    def make_requests_from_url(self, url):\n        return SeleniumRequest(url=url, wait_time=10, wait_until=wait)\n\n    def parse(self, response):\n        return { 'addresses': response.xpath('//div[@class=\"store-item__address--line1\"]/text()').getall() }\n"
  },
  {
    "path": "04_02_e/locations/scrapy.cfg",
    "content": "# Automatically created by: scrapy startproject\n#\n# For more information about the [deploy] section see:\n# https://scrapyd.readthedocs.io/en/latest/deploy.html\n\n[settings]\ndefault = locations.settings\n\n[deploy]\n#url = http://localhost:6800/\nproject = locations\n"
  },
  {
    "path": "CONTRIBUTING.md",
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    "content": "# Web Scraping with Python\nThis is the repository for the LinkedIn Learning course Web Scraping with Python. The full course is available from [LinkedIn Learning][lil-course-url].\n\n![Web Scraping with Python][lil-thumbnail-url] \nInstructor Ryan Mitchell teaches the practice of web scraping using the Python programming language. Ryan helps you understand how a human browsing the web is different from a web scraper. She introduces the Chrome developer tools and how to use them to examine network calls. Ryan shows you how to install Scrapy with pip and how to write some \"Hello, World\" code to scrape a simple web page. She covers how to use the Scrapy LinkExtractor to find internal links on a web page, then demonstrates how to configure Scrapy and the ItemPipeline to write data to various file formats. Ryan walks you through best practices for organizing your projects, writing reusable parsers, and future-proofing your spiders. She explains how APIs work and how they can be used to retrieve data directly. Ryan explores headers and cookies, then goes into browser automation and how to integrate Selenium with Scrapy. In conclusion, she offers ideas to continue your studies in computer science and think creatively about automation.\n\n## Instructions\nThis repository has branches for each of the videos in the course. You can use the branch pop up menu in github to switch to a specific branch and take a look at the course at that stage, or you can add `/tree/BRANCH_NAME` to the URL to go to the branch you want to access.\n\n## Branches\nAll files for the course are available in the Main branch. Additionally, files are available in branches, which are structured to correspond to the videos in the course. The naming convention is `CHAPTER#_MOVIE#`. As an example, the branch named `02_03` corresponds to the second chapter and the third video in that chapter. \nSome branches will have a beginning and an end state. These are marked with the letters `b` for \"beginning\" and `e` for \"end\". The `b` branch contains the code as it is at the beginning of the movie. The `e` branch contains the code as it is at the end of the movie. The `main` branch holds the final state of the code when in the course.\n\nWhen switching from one exercise files branch to the next after making changes to the files, you may get this message:\n\n   \terror:  Your local changes to the following files would be overwritten by checkout:        [files]\n    \tPlease commit your changes or stash them before you switch branches.\n    \tAborting\n\nTo resolve this issue:\n\t\n   \tAdd changes to git using this command: git add .\n\tCommit changes using this command: git commit -m \"some message\"\n\n\n## Installing\n1. Clone this repository into your local machine using the terminal (Mac), CMD (Windows), or a GUI tool like SourceTree.\n\n\n### Instructor\n\n**Ryan Mitchell Specht**\n\n_Senior Software Engineer at GLG_\n\nCheck out my instructor page on [LinkedIn Learning](https://www.linkedin.com/learning/instructors/ryan-mitchell-specht?u=104).\n\n[lil-course-url]: https://www.linkedin.com/learning/web-scraping-with-python\n[lil-thumbnail-url]: https://cdn.lynda.com/course/2848331/2848331-1607698087639-16x9.jpg\n"
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