At last News from Nigeria!

We have been waiting so long for news of those school girls kidnapped by Boko Haram and today 21 were released, the parents were there and there! The name of the town was Chibok from where the girls  were taken. There are 190 girls still kept. The girls are among thousands of adults and children who had been abducted by Boko Haram.
Negotiation with the Nigerian government had been complicated by the splits within Boko Haram.
Isis with which this group is affiliated  with, they too have removed a couple of activists.
Since they have, they were an armed group and controlled a swath of land the size of Belgium at the start of 2015, but Nigeria's army has recaptured most of the territory, so what will happen next?

Who are those poaching the world's most endangered species?

I am horrified that so many animals are being poached

There is no telling that the Ivory from Elephants and the Tusks from the Rhino which are being decimated by the poachers. The general public are still buying merchandise from these animals not realising that this is just promoting the slaughter. Money speaks with Poaching, creatures that might be wiped out and the thought of losing these beautiful creatures, such as tigers although most of these creatures may never be seen by any of us.
These creatures are here at the moment and we are the stewards of the planet but if we let these animals disappear so that our grandchildren will not be able to see these wonderful animals and will we able to tell them that we were to greedy as a race that we have lost all these special part of this earth.   

Sad Sudan

What is going on in South Sudan? It is never talked about and hardly ever reported from. How do we know what is happening there? One brave lady came to talk to us about it at a meeting in the house. I kept asking her why did she go to South Sudan. She said that she was a teacher and with a friend who was HIV positive set up a school in Nimule near Juba. The two of them had started a school, they had encouraged the diaspora to stay and join the school. They had got 60 on the school role.
Rebecca is a very self effacing young lady and there were a great many people who had come out to see both of them and Rebecca was moved as she says "moved by the spirit" and talked to all the people and told them how they had been guided to start the school.
She had never spoken in public before but as I say she felt that they should know how it had all come about. A remarkable lady that moved us as we listen to her.

We were with a prayer on our lips of to keep her safe!