Fiacre Vidjingninou
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/ 25 May 2006

Benin: 35 burned alive in petrol-tanker blaze

At least 35 people were burned alive and dozens injured overnight in northern Benin when a fuel truck burst into flames while they were stealing petrol, official sources said on Thursday. ”We took 80 people into hospital, of whom 12 died. At the scene, 23 charred bodies have been counted,” Boniface Sambieni, director of the hospital in the nearby town of Tanguieta, told Agence France-Presse.

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/ 6 December 2005

Aids destroys dream of life in the big city

Two years after escaping her African village to find an exciting new life in the big city, Monique lies shrunken, pale and feverish on her hospital death bed, gripped by a killer virus and by denial: ”I’m not a prostitute. I can’t have Aids.” Beside her lies her six-month-old son. Without expensive treatment he won’t long survive her.