Syria Crises......Food aid 'cannot reach a million people'

The United Nations gave a statement, that about One million Syrians are going hungry and helpless due to the 22-month civil conflict in the country.

The UN estimates that around four million Syrians need humanitarian aid

The World Food Program (WFP) says it is helping 1.5 million Syrians, but continued fighting and an inability to use the port of Tartus to deliver food mean many people are not receiving aid.

Opposition forces have been making considerable gains in recent weeks, but their efforts to take control of areas around major cities including Damascus have met with stiff resistance and increasingly destructive air strikes.

On Monday, the New York Times reported that Israeli intelligence indicated Syrian troops were mixing chemicals - suspected to be the deadly nerve gas sarin - at two storage sites, and filling dozens of 500-pound (225kg) bombs that could be loaded on airplanes.

The reports in late November prompted a flurry of international statements warning the Assad regime against using chemical weapons on his own people.

This unfortunate situation should be redressed as soon as possible, both parties need to have a re-think on their actions. For if pa-adventure they succeed in wiping out the people, whom they claim to "have their best interest at heart", I AsK...... WHOM WILL THEY THEN GOVERN?

IMAGES OF SOME OF SYRIA CRISES CASUALTIES

                                                   

  

  

  

  

It might take a few years to Re-Build a destroyed nation; but how many years will it take to Re-Place human beings killed or maimed during Wars?

Hillary Clinton resumes work today

 





The US Secretary of State, Mrs. Hillary Clinton, goes back to work today (Monday 7 January) after almost one month sick leave due to an intestinal viral infection followed by a brain concussion which caused a blood clot for which she had been hospitalized.

The US Department of State issued a statement in which it said that Secretary Mrs. Clinton is expected to meet with senior State Department officials today in Washington and to hold other meetings later on Tuesday and Wednesday followed by meetings with US Ambassadors in Ireland and South Africa as well as Afghani President Hamid Karzai on Thursday at the US Department of State.

B.C Tsunami warning cancelled!

Tsunami warnings and advisories along Coast of British Columbia, following a strong earthquake off SouthEastern Alaska has been cancelled.

The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake had a preliminary reading of 7.5 and struck at 12:50 a.m. local time, about 102 kilometres west of Craig, Alaska and some 300 kilometres west-northwest of Prince Rupert, B.C.

The Alaska Tsunami Warning Center had issued tsunami warnings for the southern coast of southern Alaska, stretching for 765 kilometres to the northern tip of Vancouver Island — but the centre cancelled the warnings a few hours later.

CBC meteorologist Joanna Wagstaffe said a small tsunami wave was generated off Port Alexander, Alaska. In addition, at least two strong aftershocks measuring 4.5 and 4.7 were reported after the initial quake.

"But there are dozens of smaller aftershocks occurring," Wagstaffe said.

"Woke me up from a dead sleep," said one woman describing the initial quake on her Twitter feed from Haida Gwaii, formerly the Queen Charlottetown Islands in B.C., which was hit by a 7.7-magnitude quake last October.

Before the early Saturday tsunami warning was cancelled, B.C.'s emergency notification centre said a tsunami could impact low-lying coastal areas in northern and central areas.

When a tsunami warning is issued, people are advised to move to higher ground.

Shortly after the quake struck, a tsunami advisory was issued for the outer west coast of Vancouver Island from Cape Scott to Cape Renfrew and in the Juan de Fuca Strait from Jordan River to Greater Victoria, but Julianne McCaffrey of Emergency Management B.C. told CBC News that advisory was later cancelled.

An advisory means strong currents are likely and people should stay away from the shore.

Officials in Craig reported on the city's Twitter feed they are "standing down" from the tsunami warning. But they warned people "may experience aftershocks over the next several days."

Fire razes Properties, Strands thousands in Tasmania

                    
                               

The Forcett blaze on the Tasman Peninsula East of Hobart has claimed properties and left thousands of people isolated overnight. 

Police said 600 people, many of them visitors to the area, were likely to spend a second night at convict ruins.

There were 2000 people at a temporary refuge in Nubeena and another 100 at the Dunalley Hotel.

The road into the peninsula, the Arthur Highway, has been closed since Friday.

The Forcett fire that has already devastated the Tasman Peninsula in the state's south-east has moved in two directions - to the south towards Eaglehawk Neck and to the east towards Marion Bay.

The alert for the north-west Montumana blaze has been upgraded to emergency level while a watch-and-act alert is in place for Mathinna in the northeast.

A 10,000 hectare fire at Lake Repulse is still uncontrolled, but has remained relatively steady through the day.

It's emerged that 100 buildings - including the school and a sawmill - in the settlement of Dunalley were destroyed by the Forcett fire at the weekend.

A camper is expected to be prosecuted for starting the Lake Repulse fire.

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Hillary Clinton expected to make "full recovery"

According to a statement released by her doctors at New York Presbyterian Hospital in New York City,
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is expected to make a "full recovery".

                          

 The clot in the vein is situated in the space between the brain and the skull behind the right ear," her doctors, Dr. Lisa Bardack and Dr. Gigi El-Bayoumi, said in a statement. "It did not result in a stroke, or neurological damage." The doctors further said that there is the need to monitor how she responds to her medications, which include blood thinners, before she is released.

Meanwhile her husband, U.S former President, Bill Clinton, and daughter Chelsea visited her on Monday, and a number of senior aides remain inside the hospital with her

Nollywood Actress, Bisi Komolafe Passes on!

Another tragedy has just hit Nollywood, one of the finest actresses, Bisi Komolafe is said to have died yesterday night at UCH, Ibadan. 


                     

                                                                                            


The actress passed away in an unknown circumstance few hours to the new year. She was known for the major roles she played in Igboro Ti Daru and Eja Tutu.  

   


She took the Yoruba movie industry by storm. Coming from Odunfa Caucus, a group headed by Yinka Quadri and Taiwo Hassan popularly called Ogogo, it took little or no time for Bisi to shoot to limelight.

May her soul rest in peace. Amen