Los Angeles (CNN) -- The cities flattened by last week's earthquake look eerily similar to the decimated buildings Shigeko Sasamori saw after an atomic bomb was dropped on her hometown in 1945.

The floodwaters from the tsunami -- the waves of debris and bodies -- remind her of the rivers in Hiroshima, Japan, swamped with corpses.

And the struggle to contain radioactive emissions at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant makes Sasamori, 78, wonder if the crisis there will plague a new generation in Japan.

(CNN) -- They marched on Washington to reclaim civil rights.

They complained of voter intimidation at the polls.

They called for ethnic studies programs to promote racial pride.

They are, some say, the new face of racial oppression in this nation -- and their faces are white.

THIS week The Namibian newspaper reported a story about an alleged gang-rape of a 14-year-old girl by nine boys.The article says that a teacher reported the incident to the Police but that the parents were unhappy with this action as they had agreed to settle the matter through the traditional court.

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Direct personality clashes at the ANC's national general council (NGC) were avoided but found intense expression in policy disputes.

 ENVIRONMENT and Tourism Minister Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah says she wants Namibia to have a national policy on climate change that is meaningful to the country’s situation.

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