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KANO, Nigeria–Nigerian voters have high hopes for this month’s elections, after two delays due to logistical hurdles resulted in the first round of the postponed polls finally getting off to a rocky start yesterday. Here are the words of a Nigerian citizen who expects more from the so-called democratic government than he has experienced in the 12 years since Nigeria abandoned military rule.
He also repeated his condemnation of the militant rocket fire from Gaza into Israel, and expressed serious concern with the Palestinian civilian casualties in Israeli military operations.
Here in Washington DC, they say my trash collection will stop if the Federal Government shuts down. That's infuriating. But it is all the more so if my trash is no longer collected because of a mistaken belief about what UNFPA is and what it does.
The Disaster Relief 2.0 Blog Series provides a public forum for people from both the humanitarian and volunteer and technical communities to discuss ideas in this report and the future of disaster relief.