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Tuesday June 29 2021
In South Sudan just 27 percent of the country’s population of 11.2 million people can read and write, according to the World Bank. It is worse for women and girls with just two in every 10 considered literate. PHOTO | AFP
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Dhieu Akech, Deng’s elder brother, also dropped out of school last year. “We do not have good schools and when we get sick, we don’t have good hospitals. But, we have parents who try every day to get us something to eat, he said.
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When Deng Akech was three, South Sudan descended into civil war, just two years after gaining independence from Sudan. Now 10, Deng should be at school and gearing for the country’s independence celebrations on July 9. Instead, he is making bricks for a living together with his mother and two brothers.
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March 11th 2021 at 00:00:00 GMT +0300
Residents of Mukinyai Village by the sides of a deep pool at a quarry where three children aged 15 and below from one family drowned in on December 12, 2020. [Photo: Kennedy Gachuhi, Standard]
Human beings blast their way into the earth’s crust to look for minerals with an aim of making a fortune and living comfortable lives.
But sometimes, the earth is not too friendly to those who seek its precious resources. Instances of mines collapsing and burying treasure hunters inside them are not rare.
Other times, the miners, after hitting the jackpot, leave gaping holes that become death-traps, where people plunge to their deaths - sometimes willingly, sometimes accidentally.
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