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Vol.11 No.035 Wednesday MARCH 17, 2021.Cdr The French Version Inside QPR CODE: 797005 Down Load ew NewDawn N TRULDYa INDEPENDENTwn VOL.11 NO. 035 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 17, 2021 PRICE LD$40.00 Android App Election house a g P11e suffers arson attacks Some of the unexploded petrol bombs found. -Amidst electorial disputes a g Enough P11e is enough! -CPP rages to Samukai’s defense CPP Chair, Senator Nyonblee Karnga Lawrence WEDNESDAY MARCH 17 2021 www .thenewdawnliberia.com NEW DA WN 2 Continental News Mozambique militants 'beheading province.One mother, whose Another woman said her predominantly Muslim region of name was withheld to protect son had been killed by Cabo Delgado.A group with a children' her identity, said her eldest militants while she and her similar name has existed in id agency Save the other children. child had been beheaded near other three children had been Somalia for more than a C h i l d r e n s a y s More than 2,500 people have where she and her other forced to flee."After my 11- decade. It is affiliated to al- AIslamist militants been killed and 700,000 have children were hiding."That year-old son was killed, we Qaeda, unlike the Mozambican are beheading children as fled their homes since an night our village was attacked understood that it was no group which allied itself with young as 11 in Mozambique's Islamist insurgency began in and houses were burned," she longer safe to stay in my the rival IS movement in 2019. northern province of Cabo 2017. The militants have said."When it all started, I was village," she said."We fled to IS sees the insurgents as Delgado. pledged allegiance to the at home with my four my father's house in another being part of what it calls its One mother told the Islamic State (IS) group. children. We tried to escape village, but a few days later Central Africa Province. It agency she had had to watch In its report, Save the to the woods but they took my the attacks started there too." released images last year as her 12-year-old son was Children said it had spoken to eldest son and beheaded him. Chance Briggs, Save the showing fighters in Cabo killed in this way close to displaced families who reported We couldn't do anything Children's country director in Delgado with AK-47 rifles and where she was hiding with her gruesome scenes in the gas-rich because we would be killed Mozambique, said the reports rocket propelled grenades. too." of attacks on children "sicken This alarmed counter- us to our core"."Our staff have terrorism experts, as it been brought to tears when suggested that global jihadists hearing the stories of suffering were exploiting a local t o l d b y m o t h e r s i n insurgency for their own displacement camps," he gains.Some analysts believe the said.The United Nations insurgency's roots lay in socio- special rapporteur on extra- economic grievances, with judicial executions described many locals complaining that the militants' actions as "cruel they have benefited little from beyond words".The insurgents the province's ruby and gas are known locally as al- industries. Shabab, which means The In a video last year, one Youth in Arabic. This reflects militant leader said: "We occupy that it receives its support [the towns] to show that the m o s t l y f r o m y o u n g government of the day is unfair. unemployed people in the BBC Ghana grieves for group of This couple fled their village after their oldest son was beheaded by jihadists teenagers who died at sea Headteacher 'made pupil dig in poo for lost phone’ S o u t h A f r i c a n school as other pupils mocked b y t h e E a s t e r n C a p e headmaster has him afterwards. department pending further Abeen suspended The local education body action. over accusations he forced an told TimesLive it learned of the It is alleged he also 11-year-old boy to dig for a matter with "shame". encouraged other children to missing phone in a faeces- Pit latrines are common in help retrieve the phone, filled pit latrine. South Africa, where it was which is understood to have He is alleged to have estimated last. year that a sixth been accidentally dropped lowered the child by a rope of all schools still use them, into the staff pit toilet at the into the hole used for a toilet, despite their dangers.The beginning of March. promising him 200 rand ($14; headteacher in question at Local media say the £10).The boy's grandmother Luthuthu Junior Secondary alleged incident came to light says he now fears going to School is now being investigated when a local NGO that works to promote school attendance Mourners gathered at the mass funeral on Tuesdaty heard about the incident. mass funeral has Thursday because their body Petros Majola, from Khula been held for 13 was badly decomposed. Community Development Ateenagers whose Two teenagers survived the Project, posted a video that bodies were found off the incident. has gone viral, describing the coast of Ghana just over a It’s a tragedy on a scale the incident in Xhosa, saying the week ago.Twenty teenagers fishing community in Apam has hunt for the phone went on for are believed never to have never witnessed. an hour.After students had r e t u r n e d a f t e r g o i n g Ghana’s coastline is used buckets to remove some swimming off Apam beach in notoriously dangerous because of the waste, Mr Majola is southern Ghana.Seven bodies rip currents in the Gulf of quoted as saying that boy was have not been found. Guinea are very strong, but then lowered in until he was Twelve out of the 13 this tragedy is a stark reminder "knee-deep in the faeces". children were buried on for authorities to reconsider "He used his own hands to Tuesday, as one of the safety measures along the search for the phone, with teenagers was buried on coast. BBC faeces going even above his hands and to his elbow." efforts. ordeal.In 2018, the government According to News24, The boy's grandmother, pledged to get rid of all pit The government has pledged to get rid when the phone was not who has not been named, told latrines in state schools within of all pit latrines in state schools found, the headmaster gave local media that her grandson two years after a five-year-old the child 50 rand for his felt ashamed after his pupil drowned in one. BBC WEDNESDAY MARCH 17 2021 www .thenewdawnliberia.com NEW DA WN 3 Editorial Commentary By Giulio Boccaletti Attack on NEC is an attack on democracy Climate Constitutionalism ONDON – In January, the Netherlands success in transforming one of the poorest regions MONDAY'S (MARCH 15) PETROL bomb attacks on the hosted a digital Climate Adaptation of the US, the TVA faced such strong opposition Summit where representatives of from those who saw it as federal overreach that headquarters of the National Elections in Monrovia is a L governments from around the world discussed no project of its kind has been replicated in the clear declaration of war on democracy in Liberia, and their post-pandemic recovery plans. To take US. Indeed, the response to the TVA sowed the should be condemned by all who subscribes to rule of law advantage of remarkably cheap public finance, seeds of an anti-infrastructure, anti-dam and pluralistic democratic practices. They happened at a many emphasized state-directed investments in movement that swept the world in the second half time when the nation just came from midterm senatorial green infrastructure to promote climate of the twentieth century. election held in December 2020. adaptation and stimulate the economy. Without a shared understanding of where POLICE ARE CARRYING on investigation but we believe Given the increasing evidence that unavoidable individual rights end and collective responsibility strongly that these attacks were carried out with motives. shifts in the climate system are already begins, any systematic transformation of the Whatever those motives are, they do not serve the underway, this focus on adaptation should be landscape will be an uphill battle, whatever the common good of the country. Liberians should not forget applauded. But the constitutional implications intent. Climate-adaption projects cannot become of increased state interventionism should not be a staple of public policy if they are merely that political violence in any form such as the one against underestimated. Any time a state promises to technocratic in nature. Rather, they must embody the National Elections Commission sends out wrong wield power on a society-wide scale – in this a new contract between the state and its citizens. messages with far-reaching consequences. It must be case, to climate-proof the entire economy – the There must be a constitutional arrangement that condemned by all peace-loving Liberians irrespective of sources and scope of its legitimacy will be hotly defines the risks a society is willing to endure, and sides. debated. that sets a threshold for taking collective action against intolerable threats. WHAT WOULD LEAD a group or individuals to launch petrol In many countries’ courts, they already are. In bombs against the electoral house without any reason? Let 2015, Urgenda, a nongovernmental Because modern constitutionalism developed those actors be told in no uncertain terms that violence organization, sued the Dutch government on the alongside smallpox and yellow fever crises, public would not give them what they did not get or cannot get at grounds that it had failed to protect the Dutch health offers a helpful analogy for how such the ballot box.
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