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MAIDUGURI, Nigeria, 17 September 2015 – The Dalori camp, just outside the north-east Nigerian city of Maiduguri, is teeming with an estimated 15,000 people who have been displaced by violent conflict in the area.In a camp in north-eastern Nigeria for people displaced by violence, a teacher’s dedication helps children learn and to overcome the trauma they have experienced.
**Photo: Almigdad Mojalli/IRIN | The Yemenia Airline in the Yemeni capital Sana’a is booked up for weeks ahead
The ticket office in Sana’a is crowded with people, bustling to get to the front of the queue. These are Yemen’s upper- and middle- classes, jostling for a spot on the next plane out of the country.
There is only one commercial route open: a once-daily flight to the Jordanian capital Amman. If you book today, the earliest you’ll be able to leave will be in six weeks.
By Uri Avnery*
19 September 2015
IN THE early 1950s, I published a story by my friend, Miko Almaz. At the time, the new State of Israel was in dire straits, its leaders did not know how to pay for next month’s food.
Uri Avnery
Someone remembered that in a remote part of Africa there was a small community of Jews, who owned all the diamond mines and were immensely rich.
The government chose their most effective money-raiser and sent him there.
The man realized that the fate of the state was resting on his shoulders. He assembled the local Jews and gave them The Speech.
About the pioneers who left everything behind to go to Palestine and make the desert bloom, about their back-breaking labor, about their lofty socialist ideals.
When he was finished, there was not a dry eye in the room. Returning to his hotel, he knew that he had given the speech of his life.
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