It would seem that the last remaining live rhino after the move to Tsavo has been attacked and killed by a lion. The first seven or eight probably died because they drank the water they found in Tsavo, which proved to be salty, and they weren't used to drinking salty water, and probably died due to poisoning or kidney failure .... post-mortems are on-going.
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Slum clearances:
A large area of Kibera, the biggest Nairobi slum housing anything from 250,000 to a million people, includes schools, shops and clinics. A new road is planned to go through that part of Nairobi, so the shanty housing has to go. People were given a few days to vacate their cardboard, wood and tin shacks, and go to ..... where ??
The following photo is not necessarily from that area, but it does show the differences in Africa between the poor and the wealthy ..........
(Both photos from Reuters news)
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