Showing posts with label Africa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Africa. Show all posts

Friday, February 28, 2014

Spectacular meteor shone brightly over Kenya, then explodes; house burned


 

AFRICA. The Rift Valley in Kenya © Mendosa.com - The comet was spotted across Bomet, Kericho, Nakuru. Residents run for their dear lives. Residents of Kericho said that it dropped some burning debris on its way and set a house on fire. MORE - NAIROBI EXPOSED, 2014.

While calm appears restored in most parts of the Rift Valley that were left shell-shocked on Thursday night following the explosion of an astronomical body, the identity of the phenomenon is still shrouded in mysteryMORE - SCOTT NET,  2014.

RELATED LINK
Feb 24, 2014
Weird Meteorite Destroys House at Sri Lanka 
[http://brazilweirdnews.blogspot.com.br/2014/02/weird-meteorite-destroys-house-in-sri.html]

SOURCES
LANGAT, Antony. Spectacular meteor shone brightly over Kenya, then explodes; house burned.
SCOTT NET, 28/02/2014
[http://www.sott.net/article/274781-Spectacular-meteor-shone-brightly-over-Kenya-then-explodes-house-burned]
Comet spotted across Bomet, Kericho, Nakuru, residents run for their dear lives
NAIROBI EXPOSED, 28/02/2014
[http://www.nairobiexposed.com/2014/02/28/comet-spotted-spotted-across-bomet-kericho-nakuru-residents-run-dear-lives/]

Thursday, August 15, 2013

LET'S REMEMBER - The Giant Piranha of Congo



DALY MAIL/UK, 21 October 2010
JAMES, Richard. 
British fisherman grapples with ferocious 'giant piranha'... which has been known to eat Crocodiles

REPUBLIC OF CONGO/África. British angler Jeremy Wade, 52-year-old (2010), captured an exemplar of the called "goliath tigerfish", that has a ferocious-looking, like a giant piranha -  during a fishing expedition along Congo River - Africa. 

Thursday, September 13, 2012

The Baby-horse of Nigeria



Baby-horse. The photo above is real and was obtained by one of the journalists who visited the church, according information of The Nation Online/Nigeria. 

Foto: Osagie Otabor./The Nation Online

[http://www.thenationonlineng.net/2011/news-update/61099-woman-gives-birth-to-horse-in-edo-church.html]


NIGERIA. According to the sources this news happened Tuesday, September 11 (2012), in Benin city, Edo state capital - Nigeria, Africa. A woman gave birth to a horse during a prayer meeting - called "Prophecy Programmes" - within an evangelical church - reported the supervisor of the Ministry of Mondial Liberation, the evangelist minister Iyamu Silva.

Although the local medical community be perplexed and denying vehemently the veracity and the possibility of a clinical fact of this type to happen, the Church presents its witnesses.

A nurse, Veronica Egiebor, and two women who provided aid to the (alleged) parturient told how it happened:  

The minister approached the woman and asked if she was pregnant. She confirmed. Then he said that the baby she was carrying was not normal and asked, "You want to go to a doctor and expel what are you carrying? Because it's not a baby, or you want to happen here?" People in the congregation started shouting "Yes".

The pastor asked to four women to donate their mantles to form a canopy around the pregnant. The men turn back. The pastor poured the anointing oil and a sachet of water on the woman and asked everyone to pray. 

He said that the parturition would start. She was balancing her body. Then she grabbed the leg of someone. She pressed and pushed harder. Something fell and she fell. When we removed the mantles everyone see what was expelled.

I've never seen this kind of thing in my life before. People called goat but it looked like a horse with a long neck and long ears ... The minister told that nobody should touch in the creature because it was demonic. Everyone ran in the confusion and some persons carried the woman though.

Iyamu Silva said: This is not strange to us. During prayers, we perceived that the woman was bleeding. I I saw that something was blocking her uterus. Yesterday ... (Tuesday, 09/11/2012) she came to my office asking for prayers. I think she was not from here (Benin City) because she said that will call her mother in her village.

The medical director of the Central Hospital in Benin City, consultant gynecologist Dr. Jerry Uwaifo does not admits the case and said that is clinically (or biologically) impossible for a woman to conceive and give birth to an animal. 

He said: A woman can give birth to a deformed child but not to an animal. Why they don't brought the woman and the creature to the hospital for they be examined?


The pastor replied that doctors can not investigate the case without the consent of the husband or of the fact protagonist. The woman's identity was not revealed.

About the allegations that the case was wrought by the Church to attract more members, Silva challenged anyone to make contestations and added: 

Every story has two sides. The truth is that God is working. Signs and wonders are normal things in this church. Nobody can predict what God can do. Silva also informed that the woman said that will make contact and that would be at the church for the day of Thanksgiving.

The general superintendent of the Church, Prince John Ogbovoh said: The baby-horse was exposed for awhile for people could see it but then was destroyed (how it should be done with the things of the devil) because when the news began to spread, the thing became embarrassing.

What this editor thinks? Thinks nothing... only, maybe... that...  anything is wrong with the eye of the creature, something that not seems organic... The journalists were not close enough to check this? Or the need to sell news generates myopia? In anyway, these are strange days... Let's meditate...

SOURCES 
Pony birth claim triggers controversy.
PMNews/NIGERIA, published in 13/09/2012.
[http://pmnewsnigeria.com/2012/09/13/pony-birth-claim-triggers-controversy/]
OLISAH, Uchechukwu. How woman was delivered of a horse. Nurse, pastor give accounts.
TRIBUNE/NIGERIA, published in 13/09/2012.
[http://tribune.com.ng/index.php/front-page-news/47548-how-woman-was-delivered-of-a-horse-nurse-pastor-give-accounts]

THIS NEWS IN PORTUGUESE
http://sofadasala-noticias.blogspot.com.br/2012/09/o-bebe-cavalo-da-nigeria.html

Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Swaziland - The Dance of the Virgins For the King


The virgins of Swaziland. Dancing to get a place of queen aside the king. 
In YOUTUBE [http://youtu.be/bOSC4GMQzYA]


AFRICA. SWAZILAND. At the small kingdom of Swaziland (17,364 km2), situated in the south of African continent, in august, more than 80 thousands of young women, allegedly virgins, danced half naked, only wearing short skirts and breasts on display to impress the called Ngwenyama (title of king) - King Mswati III, nicknamed "the Lion". It is the Umhlanga or Baile de la Caña (something like The Dance of Bamboo Stick).

The ritual is performed at the royal residence, in Ludzidzini Royal Village. In this time of year, during this party, the king chooses one of these women to be his new bride and future wife - aside of the others - that he already has. They are twelve - currently (2012). 

The other wives - they also observe the dancers - the girls candidates to be the wife of each year. Indeed, everyone sees this ceremony because it become a tourist attraction of the country and videos of the annual performances are available on Youtube.

Besides the possibility of becoming queen, young women dance to show their pride in still be virgins. It is a statement of virginity.


The king: he is needing a diet... urgent...

Mswati III, born in april 18 of 1968 - four hours before the country to get independence from Britain - succeeded his father Sobhuza II in 1986. Initially, it was named after Makhosetive. He already had 13 wives but one of them was caught betraying him with the Minister of Justice and both were arrested.


Swaziland is a kingdom very poor. Two-thirds of his subjects, a population of just over one million of inhabitants, are fed by international aid; 34% of the active population is unemployed and more than half live on less than a dollar a day. And - even - Swaziland is considered the African country with the highest percentage of people with AIDS, about 39%.


TRADITION

Nobody knows when or how the tradition of this ceremony began. It has been realized by hundreds of years and is a heritage of the culture of Zulu nation (a nation of african natives). The party is not only for the king choose a new bride. 

But, is much more that this. In truth, in its origins, the Umhlanga is in honor to the mother-Queen of the Swaziland also called the great Elephanta or Indovuzaki. At Swaziland, while the king rules the administration, the politics, the Mother-Queen is the spiritual chief of the kingdom.

To be a mother-Queen, the wifes, among the all of them have to reunite certain conditions. She can't belong to the royal family regnant and has to have only one son. This woman, that will be always a wife of the precedent king, is choosed to be the mother Queen by decision of the royal family and never by another system.

Not are all the wives choosed during the Umhlanga. The first two wives are elected by national counselors and must to be of determined clans: one, of the Matsebula; another - of the Motsa clan. These wives have special ritual functions and their sons never will be the heirs of the crown


THE QUEENS

A politically active woman who represents the kingdom brightly in intercional scenario. Los Angeles, USA - 2009. Getty Photos IN HUFFINGTON POST, 19/05/2012. 

[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/19/inkhosikati-lambikiza-swaziland-first-lady- _n_1529955.html?1337522107&ref=style#slide=998403]. 

LOOK - The list of Swaziland Queens 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_of_succession_to_the_Swazi_throne]


The list of wives of the king Mswati III of Swaziland is very interesting. Contrary to what one might think seeing the girls in the dance of the virgins they are not simpletons women and even less - wild natives. 

At least two of them are formed in higher education, in university courses: LaMatsebula, ritual wife, has degree in Psychology. LaMbikiza, born June 16, 1969 as Sibonelo Mngomezulu, is lawyer and is active member in the Swazi Royal Initiative to Combat AIDS (RICA).

LaMotsa, the other ritual wife is Goodwill Ambassador of United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) since 1996. LaNgangaza, born Carol Dlamini, is patron of the world organization "Hospice at Home" previously led by Diana, Princess of Wales.


SOURCES
Miles de vírgenes en Suazilandia bailan para convertirse en «prometidas» del Rey.
ABC/Spain, published in 03/09/2012.
[http://www.abc.es/20120903/internacional/abci-baile-mujeres-virgenes-suazilandia-201209031501.html]
MATEUS FERREIRA, Leonor. Virgens dançam para conquistar Rei Mswati III.
Diario de Noticias/Pt, published in 03/09/2012.
[http://www.dn.pt/inicio/globo/interior.aspx?content_id=2749958&seccao=%C1frica&page=1] 
Rei da Swazilândia cumpre ritual para escolher a 14ª esposa.
TPA-SAPO/Pt, published in 04/09/2012.
[http://tpa.sapo.ao/noticias/internacional/rei-da-swazilandia-cumpre-ritual-para-escolher-a-14-esposa]

Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Something is rotten in Humanity kingdom

research of horror and comments: Lygia Cabús
WARNING: IF YOU ARE hypochondriac, DO NOT READ

Fear. The world has fear and if hasn't, is on the way ... to the panic. Tens of chemical devastating drugs, dehumanizing are devouring lives in urban centers around the world. Whole nations on their knees destroyed by natural disasters. Mountains of dead animals without explanation.

Parricides, matricides, fratricides, cannibalism. Mysterious illnesses. Unexplained - lights, heavenly bodies, strange in the skies. The Sun in fury. The earth convulsed. Wanted: someone is killing humanity. Nobody knows where they hide the conspirators. They can be humans; no humans; or humans who left to be humans. Horror. The culprit - may be very close, everywhere. May be easy to see, just stop and look, ... in the mirror.


Ojuru - Uganda, Alfred Ojara notes of informations about the patients who he treats. He is a healer. Uses traditional methods to fight the merciless diseases that that is killing children across Africa, especially Central Africa. Against this mysterious disease, he prescribes an elixir of vine's root. Meanwhile, the government, who steals the money from international donors to combat the disease, are investigating the healer criminally, to prosecute him in court and put him in jail. PHOTO: Philippa Croome.




UGANDA, AFRICA. In Ojuru and in many other parts of the country (and in the whole Central Africa), a debilitating and fatal disease, that doctors can not cure, are haunting the people that, desperate, seek salvation with traditional healers.

This mysterious disease was detected some years ago and, since then, its incidence increases without solution. Few or nothing is known about their nature.

It affects only children, attacks the brain and nervous system. Before killing, it interrupts the growth, causes mental retardation, epilepsy, seizures. Are already thousands - children languishing slowly in different regions of central Africa. In Uganda, 200 have died since January this year (2012).

Despite the significant help of the called first world countries, that send medical teams, researchers, medicine and money, nothing get to fight this disease so far (June 2012).

The money, in particular, undergoes a process of corrupt diversion cruel. Recently, $ 200,000 were sent to a Regional Hospital. only $ 4,000 arrived at the establishment. Furthermore, treatment centers, where medical care and medicines are available, are difficult to access for those in need, who lives in villages located in rural areas.

If the disease agent is a mystery, the auxiliaries of death, who steal the money and that, criminally - are doing nothing to implement an assistance strategy for patients, these are well known: they are comfortably installed in the administrative offices of the government of Uganda (and countries of Central Africa).



OTHER AFRICAN COUNTRIES - THE TRULY ZOMBIES

But the incidence of this strange disease that kills children, aged between 5 and 15 years, is not confined to Uganda. Other cases and - possibly the same agent might be causing these deaths, were also recorded in Sudan and Tanzania, for example.

On March 27 (2012) the Daily Mail publishe the headline: Africa's walking dead: Mystery of horrific 'nodding' disease That turns children into zombies.

The term "nodding" - "Head Pending" or "Oscillating Head" is due to a notable symptoms of this ill: the head of the sick, pends - falling over the chin and stays oscillating, involuntarily, a sign that the nervous system is seriously affected. Moreover, the children stay confused, indifferent to everything; they are awake but unconscious.

Begin to turn around themselves. Some stay lost wandering through the savanna, aimlessly. Then, this children enter a state of profound lethargy, a sleep without end. They become mere shells of people that they were before. And many close their eyes, to not open them nevermore and this seems to be the fate of all the victims. This can last for years to death final.

The condition is aggravated because these African children are, in overwhelmingly majority, extremely poor and malnourished. Once sick, become easy trapped of any common infection. Further, when they lose consciousness, many suffer serious or fatal accidents such as drowning or fall into the bonfires.

Parents of children report that crises began without any logical reason. Seem to begin when the children eat different foods, or even when the weather changes.

Because of the horrific vision of the state in which the children stay, their zombie aspect, without hope of a cure, many parents are simply abandoning their children. They can not stand looking at them.
Because of the horrific vision of the state in which the children stay, their zombie aspect, without hope of a cure, many parents are simply abandoning their children. Don't can more look at them.



INDIA, BIHAR state. Over the past 15 days, between late May and the first 10 days of June, a mysterious disease has killed 73 children only in the city of Muzaffarpur while other cases are recorded in Gaya (district and city) and in the Bihar state capital, Patna city.

More than a hundred are between life and death in hospitals. With symptoms similar to acute encephalitis, however, this disease is another, not yet diagnosed by doctors, as was confirmed the Minister of Health, Ashwani Kumar Choubey and by the Secretary of Health, Amarjti Sinha.



VIETNAM. At Vietnam, the "curse" appeared between April and December 2011. And it was not annihilated. Is in the headlines even today (June, 2012). Defined as a dermatological infection, a skin disease, however, it can kill.

Although the first visible symptom be manifested in the skin, with disease progression, kidneys are affected and - ultimately - can occur to multiple organs failure. It can be overcome if has a diagnosed early but, once established, the disease is almost incurable and deathly.

As in other cases, the cause is unknown and only recently (June 2012) have been speculated a possibility of a poisoning by dioxin, caused by a chemical product, still unknown but carcinogen - that may be present in air, in the soil, food, phyto-therapeutic remedies (medicines made to plant-based) and also in pesticides used to combat agricultural pests. However - this hypothesis, so far (june, 2012), wasn't confirmed.



And... No. The photo above is not of a north-american laboratory. It is a laboratory of an Eastern European country, located in Brno, Czech Republic. The date is June 1, 2012. In the image, dr. Pavel Alexa and his assistant, Gabriela Glocknerova are analizing a sample of cucumber in a test of molecular biology. They are working to try to stem the current outbreak of E. Coli that already killed 16 people and infected 1,500 in Europe. Photo: Petr David Josek.


Finally, this strange outbreak of "mysterious illnesses" - is happening not only at underdeveloped countries and / or in poor communities but also at developed countries.

USA. Amid the media fever surrounding the cannibals Americans, citzens of the United States, are watching, perplexed to a multiplication of cases of severe infection and in some cases - deaths, caused by an agent that until recently was not more a concern in the universe of contemporary medicine, especially in developed countries. The bacterium E. Coli. (Escherichia coli).

The first reports appeared in April (2012). Since then six states are already being affected: Alabama, California, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Tennessee.

The common species of bacteria is called E. coli O157: H7 but this variety which is spreading in the country is different: it is the E. coli O145, as reported by the CDC - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of the United States.

Until now, the source of infection was not determined by the health authorities. Patients are being interviewed with the objective of find some circumstance as a link of connection between the infected, as the consumption of some particular food, for example.

The manifestations of the disease occur between two to seven days after infection, usually orally. Patients have diarrhea, often with blood loss and abdominal cramps. In general, the organism itself fights the disease and annihilates the problem in a week.

However, in severe cases, which have always been considered rare, a thing of poor countries, the illness evolves to the so-called hemolytic uremic syndrome, a type of renal insufficiency (kidney) that can cause the death, especially in the elderly, and especially in children under 5 years, most frequent victims of this type of disease. As happened with a little girl, a baby, 21 months old, in New Orleans: she died.


It is a fact that the fields of war are not the same. There aren't battles, no more. Nor explosions, bombs, machine guns. These things are no longer needed. The war can be in any place. No one else need swords or bombs to kill. Just an invisible agent, microscopic, planted in the right places, it is enough to exterminate. It's easy to kill. The silent genocide may be happening now, without anybody to note.


SOURCES
KRON, Josh. Desperate Ugandans Seek Makeshift Healers as Mysterious Illness Strikes Young.
NYTimes, published in 08/06/2012.
[http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2012/jun/09/tp-mysterious-disease-haunts-uganda/]
73 innocent kids die due to ‘mysterious’ disease in Bihar in 15 days 73 innocent kids die due to ‘mysterious’ disease in Bihar in 15 days.
HEALTH INDIA, published in 09/06/2012.
[http://health.india.com/news/73-innocent-kids-die-due-to-mysterious-disease-in-bihar-in-15-days/]
HILLS, Suzannah. Africa's walking dead: Mystery of horrific 'nodding' disease that turns children into zombies.
DAILY MAIL, published in 27/06/2012.
[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2120903/Mystery-nodding-disease-turning-children-zombies-Uganda.html]
Vietnam seeks foreign help to beat mystery skin disease.
BBC/English, published in 21/004/2012.
[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-17799053]
Dioxin may cause bizarre skin disease: experts.
INFO-VN/Vietnam, published in 10/06/2012.
[http://en.www.info.vn/life-and-laws/health-and-medicine/59932-dioxin-may-cause-bizarre-skin-disease-experts.html]
WEISE, Elizabeth. E. coli outbreak sickens 14 in six states.
USA TODAY, published in 11/06/2012.
[http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/story/2012-06-08/e-coli-outbreak-0145/55467840/1]
The nasty form of E. coli hitting Europe points out gaps in the U.S. food safety system that raise concern that similar outbreaks might happen here. PHYS.ORG/AP, published in 02/06/2012. [http://phys.org/news/2011-06-coli-outbreak-gaps-food.html]

Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Monstrous creatures live in African forests


AFRICA. A great mystery is haunting tropical forests of Africa. Local hunters reported seeing a group of animals - that are being called monsters - devouring elephants and crocodiles. 


These animals, that already have been seen by more than ten hunters are appearing more frequently since the month of December 2011, and were identified like the mythical creature known like Mokele-mbebe (which means "one who stops the flow of rivers" in the Lingala language).

According to the testimonies of those who have seen the creature, he looks a lot like a dinosaur - having a long body, tall, with about 11 meters high, a single horn and grayish brown color. Everything indicates that the these great animals live in the forests, in caves near Congo river.

At those place some archaeologists and biologists spotted a large number of mammoth bones and remains of animals such as elephants and crocodiles.But until now, no hunter or specialist managed to shoot the animal, but only the footprints he left near the caves. Each footprint has around 90 cm of diameter.

Roy Mackal, retired biologist from the University of Chicago there are many years, has dedicated his time to hunt these mysterious creatures in the forests of Congo.

He has seek the monsters since 1980 but never managed to sighting them, like occur with the natives. It's like a hunt for the Loch Ness monster. It gives a feeling that we are still living in the Prehistoric Era, he says.

Mackal said that, all those who have seen the Mokele-Mbebe, they stood shocked. We were navigating the river when we saw Mokele-mbebe. He started chasing us and left the river, Like a woman, a native that said to the scientist: We came out running or the creature could kill us.

Some experts say that many africans confuse the appearances of the animal with legend and spiritual myths, but the creature seems to even be real, since their footprints have been found.

To Mackal, who spends his days searching for new species in Africa, the existence of the Mokele-mbebe is a true. I do believe that this animal still exists and lives in the forests of Africa. Currently, he said, there are more than 50 expeditions all over the region in search of evidences of the existence of this animal or, even, em search of an encounter with it . I would be very proud of discovering the Mokele-mbebe to 86 years old, I live for this.

SOURCE: Caçadores africanos vêem monstro na floresta.
Globo Rural, published IN 28/04/2012.
[http://revistagloborural.globo.com/Revista/Common/0,,EMI303937-18071,00-CACADORES+AFRICANOS+VEEM+MONSTRO+NA+FLORESTA.html]



Friday, January 7, 2011

School closed for cause of a haunting



D'Jambi – traditional ritual, but payment is even in euro


ÁFRICA, São Tomé and Príncipe – At final of the last year (2010) throughout the month of December, the Guadalupe Secondary School was closed due to disturbances caused by a haunting. Guadalupe is located for 12 km from the capital, the Sao Tome city.

The soul in torment has attacked 14 students in addition to employees. The classes became impractical. Para resolver o problema, pais de alunos querem contratar um feiticeiro porém não têm dinheiro para os honorários do bruxo. O ritual encomendado, chamado "Jambi", custa 15 milhões de "dobras" ou cerca de 610 euros.

D'Jambi is a magic ritual connected to mysticism, whose goal is to heal the sick and soothe the spirits of antepassados. This ritual is performed by a master healer and his assistant. It is a kind of white magic mixed with Christianism in order to heal people or places that are bewitched and evil eye cases in general.


SOURCE: Escola de São Tomé fechada há quatro semanas por causa de «mau espírito»
IN Diário IOL – published in 12/25/2010
[http://diario.iol.pt/acredite-se-quiser/espirito-acredite-curandeiro-escola-tvi24-sao-tome-e-principe/1221291-4088.html]


Sunday, May 30, 2010

The Curse of the Magaia ghosts



MOÇAMBIQUE, Angola Press — At Maputo, capital of the country, in the Secondary School Quisse Mavota is happening a strange phenomenon: an epidemic of fainting of students. All the victims are girls. Only in a week were more than twenty faintings. Rumors speak of ghosts. The school was built upon cemetery for a family aristocratic of a clan of the region.

They were the Magaia. But a ritual asking permission to the dead was not performed. The school was built in 2006. Just at this epoch, there was an outbreak of faintings during the months of June and July. Now, the incident is happening again. Nobody knows exactly what is waking the spirits.

Julieta Bata, 17 years old, one of the girls that fainted tells what happened to her: she was in the classroom when she heard a noise, like someone screaming and saying things. Then, she felt herself a little sick and left the classroom. First, felt shortness of breath and after it was like someone was pulling her legs. She lost consciousness and she does not remember anything else.

Psychologists and psychiatrists think that the explanation for the faintings is a collective hysteria the sociologists don't found no reason that could have triggered such a phenomenon of this nature. However, the Association of Traditional Doctors of Mozambique has no doubt that the problem is a curse. The spokesman of that institution said that all that is happening is due to a "claim of the spirits" and the blame is of the authorities who that ignore the traditions: "We must respect the places where we know there were bones. We are Africans, we have other logical".

To cancel the curse, a traditional doctor will have to make the purification of the school: For now they are just suffering faints, but the girls may start to die.


SOURCE
Onda de desmaios ameaça alunas de uma escola nos arredores de Maputo
IN Angola Press — published in 05/10/2010
[http://www.portalangop.co.ao/motix/pt_pt/noticias/africa/2010/4/20/Onda-desmaios-ameaca-alunas-uma-escola-nos-arredores-Maputo,e97d2cde-88e3-4f37-8d94-b53064b9c9df.html]