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Nigeria minister admits bad communication on missing girls, vows safer schools
By Mick Krever, CNN
The Nigerian government did not adequately communicate with the press about the nearly 300 schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram, Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala admitted to CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Thursday.
“This is a very delicate situation with an unpredictable group. And I think that maybe this is one of the areas where we have not been able to communicate as well as we can.”
“The president has two daughters,” she said. “These children are our children. But we did not communicate that well.”
Critics say that far from just releasing bad information, the government released demonstrably false information.
Just days after the kidnapping in April, the Nigerian military announced that all but a handful of the girls had been released; that claim was soon disproved, and the girls are still missing.
“I don’t know how that happened,” Okonjo-Iweala said. “The issue now is not whether we are criticized or not criticized unfairly. I think we should forget about all that.”
Scientist who discovered Ebola: ‘This is unprecedented’
By Mick Krever, CNN
The scientist who discovered the Ebola virus said that a current outbreak of the deadly bug in West Africa, in which 467 people have died, is “unprecedented.”
“One, [this is] the first time in West Africa that we have such an outbreak,” Dr. Peter Piot told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour. “Secondly, it is the first time that three countries are involved. And thirdly it’s the first time that we have outbreaks in capitals, in capital cities.”
Doctors Without Borders warns that the outbreak in Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia is now “out of control.” The number of cases is still spiking since it was first observed around the beginning of this year.
“With this strain of Ebola, you’ve got like a ninety percent chance of dying. That’s spectacular by any standard – one of the most lethal viruses that exist.”
And the way victims die is far from pleasant.
“Ebola virus infection starts with something that looks like the flu – headache, fever, maybe diarrhoea. But then you can develop very fast bleeding that’s uncontrollable, and that’s how people die.”
Easy to fight
There is no cure for Ebola, but in theory the disease should be easy to fight, Piot said.
Beaten and shot in Syria
By Mick Krever, CNN
"I was marched up to him and I said to him - because I didn't have anything else to say - 'I thought we were friends.' And he pulled his pistol and shot me."
This is reporting in Syria.
With the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria threatening Baghdad and continuing its brutal fight in Syria, few people know the extremist groups of the region like Anthony Loyd, who has been on more than a dozen reporting trips to Syria since the war began.
On his latest such venture, in May, he was double-crossed by a man he considered his friend.
"This was a guy and his gang who I've known for over two years and stayed with on several occasions," Loyd told CNN's Christiane Amanpour on Tuesday.
Hakim, he said, was a midlevel commander in a small town - someone who had always treated him "with great decency and hospitality, as befitting a Muslim host in the Middle East."
Syria ‘a festering wound’ that fostered ISIS, says former Saudi intelligence chief
By Mick Krever, CNN
Syria, “a festering wound that collects the worst bacteria in the world,” is largely responsible for the strength of groups like ISIS, former Saudi intelligence chief Prince Turki al-Faisal told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Tuesday.
“My personal view is that the conflict in Syria particularly has been a main source of this growth in these terrorist activities.”
A day after the leader of ISIS declared an Islamic “caliphate,” the group is calling on Muslims around the world to unite around its “Islamic state.”
Saudi Arabia – Iraq’s neighbor and regional Sunni power – believes that will never happen, but is nonetheless sounding the alarm.
“It's a terrorist organization that has specialized in brutal killings,” al-Faisal said. “So it is a danger to the whole area and I think to the rest of the world.”
'Enough is enough,' says wife of former Morsy aide jailed in Egypt
By Henry Hullah
Sarah Attia moved to Toronto to offer her family security, after her husband – Khaled Al-Qazzaz – was imprisoned following the military takeover in Egypt almost a year ago. He vanished among many others close to the Morsy government.
Until recently, the international community has remained largely silent but a letter smuggled out of an Egyptian jail and published by the New York Times has enabled Al-Qazzaz to question the Egyptian military and the world.
Attia talked to Amanpour from Canada and told her that she is haunted by fears of what the article could mean for her husband.
"I've been waking up every day since this letter was published, really worrying what could happen to him next."
Though she now lives in fear, there came a point when Attia and her husband could no longer stay silent.
"We all reached a point where we said enough is enough - we can not sit down and do nothing anymore. Khaled has been behind bars in Egypt's worst prisons for almost a year now."
Sarah and Khaled have four young children. Amanpour asked what they think about why their father was imprisoned.
"They know that their father was doing a good thing," said Attia. "He used to tell them that I'm working on making Egypt a better place."
Graça’s grief: ‘There were times where I would wake up and I wouldn’t know what to do’
By Mick Krever, CNN
Graça Machel, in her first TV interview after six months of mourning for her late husband, Nelson Mandela, told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Monday that she still has not grappled with the full meaning of “this huge loss.”
“I have to tell you that there were times where I would wake up and I wouldn’t know what to do,” she said. “Somehow he would expect me to carry on.”
“During the time of his active live, we knew that people loved him. But it was beyond my imagination to see when he got sick, people who would send us messages, people who would write, people who would pray for him.”
When he died last December, after months of grave illness, Machel did not follow the outpouring of support from around the world.
“I was consumed with my sense of loss. But I have been told that for days, every single TV station, every single radio would be talking about him, celebrating his life.”
Who was Givrilo Princip, Archduke Ferdinand's assassin?
One hundred years to the day since the assassination that sparked World War I, historian Tim Butcher eloquently weaves the story of what happened on June 28, 1914.
He speaks with Christiane Amanpour from Sarajevo – the very city where the archduke was killed. Click above to watch.
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EXCLUSIVE: Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko
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Ukraine's new President Petro Poroshenko says he wants to change the country and stop corruption.
Part 3: Poroshenko is the 'Chocolate King'
Petro Poroshenko told CNN's Christiane Amanpour how his chocolate business got caught up in politics of Russia tensions.
By Mick Krever and Tom Cohen, CNN
Brussels, Belgium (CNN) - New Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko says peace is possible if Russian President Vladimir Putin is in the right mood.
"Sometimes, the position of Mr. Putin is quite pragmatic, sometimes it is very emotional," Poroshenko told CNN's Christiane Amanpour on Thursday in an exclusive interview, his first broadcast interview since taking over as Ukraine's leader on June 7. "I just try to find out the time when he is more pragmatic than emotional."
He said negotiations with Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine would continue on Friday, the day his unilaterally declared cease-fire expires and the day that he also will sign a cooperation agreement with the European Union that sparked the crisis in his country.
Cameron’s Euro woes
It's fair to say that the British Prime Minister David Cameron has had better weeks.
In an embarrassing airing of dirty laundry, leaked recordings of the Polish foreign minister revealed – with a string of expletives – that he believed Cameron had badly handled his EU policy.
Cameron’s strong stand against the appointment of Jean-Claude Junker is likely to leave him wrong-footed and isolated.
And to the jeers of a packed parliament Prime Minster Cameron had to apologize for ever appointing Andy Coulson as his director of communications after Coulson was convicted of phone-hacking in a sensational and costly trial in London.
James Blitz, leader writer at the Financial Times, spoke with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour about what it means for Cameron, and the UK.
What does soccer mean to Brazil?
For nearly two decades, photographer Christopher Pillitz has been documenting what soccer means to Brazil.
Click above to hear him talk about his work and photographs.
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