School dropout rate rising as drought boosts hunger in Zimbabwe

Students walk to school in Zimbabwe's capital HarareBy Marko Phiri LUPANE, Zimbabwe (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – When Thabiso Dube isn’t helping his mother at home, the scrawny 8-year-old is working alongside her, doing odd jobs in exchange for food. “We haven’t had enough (food) for a long time. Over the past five years, Zimbabwe’s two Matebeleland provinces and the country’s Midlands have been suffering from a disastrous mix of erratic rainfall, flash floods and long dry spells.

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Oklahoma woman who plowed into homecoming crowd was not drunk -court papers

Adacia Avery Chambers is pictured in this booking photo provided by the Stillwater Police departmentBy Lenzy Krehbiel-Burton TULSA, Okla. (Reuters) – A woman accused of killing four people and injuring dozens more at Oklahoma State University&;s Oct. 24 homecoming parade had a blood alcohol content below the minimum level to be considered legally intoxicated, court papers showed. According to a brief filed on Thursday with the Payne County District Court by defense attorney Tony Coleman, a blood draw conducted on the day of the accident showed that 25-year-old Adacia Chambers had a blood alcohol content of 0.01 percent. Due to a gag order, officials with the police department in Stillwater, Oklahoma, said on Friday they could not comment specifically on the case or the accuracy of the brief&039;s contents.

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New case of Ebola found in Liberia: U.N. official

The Ebola virus treatment center where four people are currently being treated is seen in PaynesvilleA new case of Ebola has been found in Liberia, a country declared free of the disease on Sept. 3, a senior United Nations official said on Friday. The case represents a setback for Liberia, which has seen more than 10,600 cases and 4,808 Ebola deaths since it was first announced in March, 2014, according to U.N. World Health Organization figures. The virus has killed about 11,300 people in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia, but Sierra Leone was declared free of the virus on Nov. 7 and Guinea has begun its countdown to the end of the virus.

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