Camilla Mills
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Global News Podcast
Ukraine: 'Moscow bombs boarding school'
Residents in parts of South Kivu are starting to flee to neighbouring countries as the M23 rebels are now advancing towards the provincial capital of Bukavu. The fighters, as we understand it, are about 100 kilometres away and apparently many people are starting to stock up on essentials and food.
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Ukraine: 'Moscow bombs boarding school'
These are really similar scenes to what we saw just a few days ago in Goma when the fighters captured that major city. Now, reportedly, the DRC army has set up a defensive line between Goma and Bukavu and hundreds of civilians are starting to come forward and volunteer to try and defend the city. The M23 rebels have also threatened to continue this offensive towards the capital, which is Kinshasa.
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Ukraine: 'Moscow bombs boarding school'
Analysts are saying that this could be unlikely because that's about 2,500 kilometres away and on the other side of the country.
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Ukraine: 'Moscow bombs boarding school'
Well, the fall of Goma has really rattled the continent and it's prompted huge reaction also from the international community. Their fears of a humanitarian crisis and warnings that this conflict could seep into the wider region.
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Ukraine: 'Moscow bombs boarding school'
As we just heard, the Burundian president has urged the international community to intervene and try and restrain Rwanda to prevent this war from spreading into the Great Lakes. Burundi has about 10,000 soldiers in the DRC at the moment, and Uganda's army is saying that it's going to adopt what it's calling an active defence measure.
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Ukraine: 'Moscow bombs boarding school'
Now, the effort to end the DRC conflict has really ramped up in the last few days. We've seen leaders from the Southern African Development Community asking for an immediate joint summit with their East African counterparts. The DRC, just to put this into context, is the second largest country in Africa. It's about two-thirds the size of Western Europe and borders nine countries.
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Ukraine: 'Moscow bombs boarding school'
So the risk of this really escalating is huge.
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The Happy Pod: The professionals and tradespeople cleaning up Ghana
According to officials in Zimbabwe, eight-year-old Tino Tenda, he wandered away from his home in Kariba and found himself all of a sudden in this national park up in the north of the country in Kariba. So there's just a wealth of wildlife there. It's very thick, dense bush. You also have Lake Kariba, which is the biggest man-made lake in the world. and it is infested with crocodiles.
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The Happy Pod: The professionals and tradespeople cleaning up Ghana
So he had a lot to fend himself against. So he wandered off and found himself trying to survive in the wild. For the days that he was there, apparently, he slept on rocky mounds to avoid nighttime predators. And in the day, he went foraging for wild fruit. And then he also dug mounds in the dry riverbed to try and find water.
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The Happy Pod: The professionals and tradespeople cleaning up Ghana
Yeah, so growing up in that kind of community, so it's called the Nyami Nyamis, the local community up there, you would have to have these survival skills. You live in the bush and you have to know how to live alongside this wildlife. So he would have grown up learning all of this and it would just be second nature to him, literally. Yeah.
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The Happy Pod: The professionals and tradespeople cleaning up Ghana
Yeah, so he would have had to contend with buffalo, which are incredibly dangerous, probably the most dangerous animals that he would have come across, lions and also elephants. We're not even thinking then about the snakes and the spiders and all of the other things. I mean, he was literally living in amongst the wild.
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The Happy Pod: The professionals and tradespeople cleaning up Ghana
No, I think everyone there is pretty amazed that he was able to do this at the age of eight. Apparently he had heard rangers in the region and he tried to run after their truck and they drove off. And he then went back into the bushes and they came back along the same route and they saw his little human footprints and they were able to find him.
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The Happy Pod: The professionals and tradespeople cleaning up Ghana
And the rangers said that after five days living in the wild, they don't actually think he would have survived for another day. So it's amazing that they found him then.