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Warsaw, April 1 

American rapper 50 Cent greeted at Warsaw's Okecie airport. The musician spent five days in Warsaw. The visit was related to the promotion of handsets belonging to the brand.

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Two natural disasters in the Solomon Islands

Dramatic information come from affected by torrential rains Solomon Islands located in the Pacific Ocean. The floods killed there at least 16 people, 40 is considered to be missing, and nearly 50,000 were left homeless. 

She appeared there with the edges of the river flowing through the capital, Honiara. Were devastated entire neighborhoods. Initially, it was estimated that the element of destroyed houses 10,000 people, but after reaching emergency services to the periphery, it turned out that the temporary shelter is looking for more than 49,000 people. 

There is an urgent need for tents and tarpaulins. Their transportation makes it difficult closed the airport in Honiara. It had to be closed because the flood lifted the runway two houses. Yesterday, a few hours after the flood, just a few dozen kilometers from the Solomon Islands, there has been an earthquake. It had a holding strength 6 on the Richter scale, but caused no damage.

Cameroon: kidnapped two priests and a nun. Pope calls: they free them

Two priests from Italy and a nun from Canada has been abducted in the night from Friday to Saturday in Cameroon by a group of unidentified men - reported Vatican Radio . Italian media have speculated that the kidnapping stand Boko Haram Islamists . Francis Pope calls for release of abducted .

Vatican radio station announced that clergy and religious sister were abducted at night from their homes in the city of Maroua in northern Cameroon. Information about the abduction confirmed the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, according to which priests are Giampaolo Marta and Gianantonio Allegri . The identity of a Canadian nun was not disclosed.
Vatican press office confirmed that Pope Francis knows that from the early morning. He prays for them and wishes as soon as possible release. It is also in constant contact with the apostolic nunciature in the capital of Cameroon .

Surrounding the town of Maroua border with the northern territory of Nigeria, which is a special place of Islamic militants , Boko Haram in particular that since 2009, leads an armed struggle for the transformation of Nigeria or at least a part of the radical Islamic state .

Three months ago Boko Haram Islamists freed a young French priest Georges Vandenbeuscha , who last year was kidnapped in Cameroon near the border with Nigeria by Boko Haram and released after more than a month of captivity.

This is the storm from space

Storm over Kuwait 
American space agency NASA publishes extraordinary pictures not only of distant galaxies and the Earth as seen from space. Scientists have also recently took up the study of one of the most spectacular phenomena of our planet - the storms and accompanying lightning.

Saint-Louis - the capital destroyed by water

Saint-Louis, the capital of Senegal, is gradually undercut by the ocean. The progressive erosion of sea makes the city slowly disappearing under the water. Residents are trying to protect by the disaster, but the forecasts of scientists do not give them much chance of success.

Goree - a symbol of slavery exploitation

Off the coast of Senegal , a few kilometers from the capital , is the island of Goree . Given its picturesque location , it's hard to believe how tragic story is bound . As an erstwhile center of the slave trade today is a symbol of the exploitation of man by man.

The history of the island dates back to 1444 , when Portuguese sailors discovered her under the leadership of Denis Dias . It was then called Ilha de Palma. The first real trading settlement was established there through the Dutch, who renamed it to Goede ReeDe ( good port) - hence the present name of Goree . Since 1677, the island was under the authority of the French. It was here that he established the then governor of Senegal , Stanislas de Boufflers , who in 1785 moved to Goree his residence from St. Louis .

Base slave trade

Located on the island of Fort d ' Estrees from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century was the largest in Africa, the slave trade base , where they were imprisoned , sold , and then loaded onto ships and sent across the Atlantic to America. It was from this seemingly idyllic island representatives of the peoples of Africa set off on its voyage slave , called a "journey of no return" . The slave trade was one of the cornerstones of the economic organization of each colony .

Goree Island was officially attached to the Dakar in 1927 , and since September 1978 appears on the UNESCO World Heritage List . Was the place to visit world leaders and authorities , as Barack Obama , Bill Clinton and Pope John Paul II. Their intention was to honor the memory of millions of black slaves who were transported to the Americas on plantations White .

severe scarring

Currently, the island of Gorée is an important point on the tourist map of Senegal . Visitors are attracted mainly its historical aspect . The architecture of the island today is characterized by the contrast between the elegant old houses traffickers and gloomy districts inhabited by slaves at that time .

Despite the passage of so many years , the scars of the period of slavery in Africa are still keenly felt. Violations of the most basic human rights, breaking the population of its native land , torture and poniżeniom left their mark . However, the need for change and reform of economic development should involve a change also in the African mentality. Posited current failures in the old colonialism does not contribute to progress in various areas of life.