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☆ Mali’s PM fired after criticizing prolonged junta rule, state TV says
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-20 | by ( Story Reuters | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

BAMAKO, Mali Reuters —Mali’s Prime Minister Choguel Maiga has been fired, state television ORTM said on Wednesday of the civilian who criticized the ruling junta’s failure to organize elections within a promised 24-month transition back to democracy. “It’s all happening in total secrecy, without the prime minister’s knowledge,” Maiga told reporters on Saturday. His comments sparked tensions with the junta, forcing it to postpone a ministerial council meeting planned for Wednesday, a source close to Maiga told Reuters. Maiga had fervently defended Mali’s junta as West African neighbors and international allies criticized its military cooperation with Russian mercenaries and repeated election delays. Before being named prime minister in 2021, Maiga served as Mali’s commerce minister under former President Amadou Toumani Toure and as digital economy minister under former President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita.

Persons: Choguel Maiga, ORTM, Maiga, ” Maiga, Assimi Goïta, Amadou Toumani Toure, Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, Keita Organizations: Mali Reuters — Mali’s, Reuters, Russian Locations: BAMAKO, Mali, West

☆ Senegal votes for lawmakers in test for new president
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-17 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

A voter casts his ballot at a voting station in the fishing village of Ndayane on Nov. 17, 2024, during Senegal's parliamentary elections. Senegal headed to the polls on Sunday to vote in legislative elections that the president hopes will give his party a clear majority and the means to implement an ambitious agenda for reforms. The West African nation saw some of the worst political violence in recent history ahead of the presidential election in March. The new president, Bassirou Diomaye Faye, has promised to help, but his government is grappling with slower-than-projected growth and a worsening budget deficit. The main threat to his party Pastef's ambitions is the unexpected alliance of two opposition parties, including the Republic party (APR) headed by the former Prime Minister Macky Sall.

Persons: Bassirou Diomaye Faye, Macky Sall, Dakar's, Barthelemy Dias Organizations: Republic, Pastef Locations: Ndayane, Senegal

☆ Moo-ve over Moo Deng: New baby hippo 'Haggis' challenges for the cuteness crown
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-06 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Ap-Live-Blog-Byline-Image.Png | The Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

The Edinburgh Zoo launched a cuteness contest between Haggis, its newborn pygmy hippo, and Moo Deng, the adorable mini hippopotamus that became a viral sensation at a Thailand zoo this summer. Moo deng is a type of meatball that means “bouncy pork” in Thai. A two-month-old female pygmy hippo named "Moo Deng" at Khao Kheow Open Zoo in Chonburi, Thailand, on Sept. 16, 2024. “We were wrong to pit Haggis and Moo Deng against each other,” the zoo said in a later post. “There is space in this world for two beautiful pygmy hippo divas and we should celebrate them all.”

Persons: Haggis, Moo Deng, “ Moo Deng, deng, They’re, Moo deng, Deng, Athit Perawongmetha, Gloria, Otto, wee Haggis, “, Moo, ” Organizations: Edinburgh Zoo, Scottish, Zoo, Royal Zoological Society of Scotland Locations: Thailand, Scotland, Thai, Chonburi, Khao, West Africa

☆ Endangered pygmy hippo born in Scottish zoo
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-06 | by ( Lianne Kolirin | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Her name is as Scottish as it gets, but little Haggis is a long way from her natural home. The first 30 days of Haggis' life are "critical for her development," according to the zoo. RZSSSo the arrival of one of these endangered creatures at Edinburgh Zoo last month has been met with understandable excitement. “Haggis is doing really well so far and it is amazing to see her personality beginning to shine already,” Jonny Appleyard, hoofstock team leader at Edinburgh Zoo, said in a media statement posted online. Appleyard added: “While Thailand’s Moo Deng has become a viral global icon, it is important to remember that pygmy hippos are incredibly rare.

Persons: Haggis, Liberia –, Otto, Gloria, Amara, ” Jonny Appleyard, hoofstock, Moo Deng, Appleyard, Thailand’s Moo Deng Organizations: CNN, International Union for Conservation of, Edinburgh Zoo, London Zoo Locations: Scottish, West Africa, Liberia, Thailand, Thai, Edinburgh

☆ U.K. Conservative Party picks Kemi Badenoch as its new leader in wake of election defeat
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-02 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Ap-Live-Blog-Byline-Image.Png | The Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

Britain’s Conservative Party on Saturday elected Kemi Badenoch as its new leader as it tries to rebound from a crushing election defeat that ended 14 years in power. Badenoch defeated rival lawmaker Robert Jenrick in a vote of almost 100,000 members of the right-of-center party. Badenoch replaces former Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, who in July led the Conservatives to their worst election result since 1832. The Conservatives lost more than 200 seats, taking their tally down to 121. But the party also lost many voters to the winning party, Labour, and to the centrist Liberal Democrats, and some Conservatives worry that tacking right will lead the party away from public opinion.

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☆ 29 children may be sentenced to death for protesting against cost-of-living crisis in Nigeria
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-02 | by ( Associated Press | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

ABUJA, Nigeria CNN —Twenty-nine children could be facing the death penalty in Nigeria after they were arraigned Friday for participating in a protest against the country’s record cost-of-living crisis. The death sentence was introduced in the 1970s in Nigeria, but there have been no executions in the country since 2016. “So taking minors before a federal high court is wrong, ab initio, except if the government is able to prove that the boys are all above 19 years,” Balogun said. “A country that has a duty to educate its children will decide to punish those children. Yemi Adamolekun, executive director of Enough is Enough, a civil society organization promoting good governance in Nigeria, said authorities have no business prosecuting children.

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☆ Rumble in the Jungle: The fight that defined a decade, 50 years on
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-30 | by ( Jamie Barton | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

CNN —In many ways, Muhammad Ali vs George Foreman in the Rumble in the Jungle didn’t start on this day 50 years ago at 4:30 a.m. local time (10:30 p.m. It would be another three years before he was permitted a license to fight, and another seven before the Rumble in Jungle offered him a chance to reclaim his title. UPI/Bettmann Archive/Getty Images“To me, it was like a charity fight,” Foreman later told the BBC. APZairean men are seen inside the stadium in Kinshasa on October 30, 1974, just before the Rumble in the Jungle. AFP via Getty ImagesA portrait of President of Zaire Mobutu Sese Seko is seen at the stadium in Kinshasa during the fight.

Persons: Muhammad Ali, George Foreman, Don King, Mobutu Sese Seko, Africa’s, ”, Thomas Hauser, Ali’s, Ali, Foreman, Cassius Clay –, Sonny Liston, John F, Kennedy, Hauser, Cassius Clay, “, Richard Nixon, ‘ Ali, bomaye ’ Ali, Mobutu, James Brown, BB, Bill Withers –, ” Ali, “ Ali, bomaye, ” Foreman, “ I’d, Joe Frazier, Ken Norton, Gene Kilroy, Big George ”, Floyd Mayweather, Manny Pacquiao, Zack Clayton, Zaire Mobutu Sese Seko, Tyson Fury, Oleksandr Usyk, we’ve, ‘, ” Hauser, Muhammad Ali couldn’t Organizations: CNN, Democratic, CNN Sport, Beatles, International Boxing Hall of Fame, Islam, US Armed Forces, Jungle, AFP, Getty, AP, Blacks, American Blacks, UPI, BBC, Stade du Locations: Zaire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, New York, Vietnam, Louisville, Kinshasa, Africa, Black, American, Mai, AFP, Saudi Arabia

☆ I survived stage 4 cancer as a new mom, but couldn't return to my job or have more kids. But I found a new, fulfilling career.
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-30 | by ( Kim Schewitz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

AdvertisementThis as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Ceinwen Giles, 48, co-CEO of Shine Cancer Support, who lives in London. Weeks after giving birth to my first child at 34, I was diagnosed with stage four cancer. Ceinwen GilesTreatment left a permanent markI don't think that there was any part of my life that wasn't affected by cancer. I didn't know anyone my age with cancerCeinwen Giles and Emma Willis founded Shine Cancer Support in 2012. She was diagnosed with breast cancer when she was 29 and was organizing coffees for younger adults with cancer.

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☆ Africa's film industry is ripe to boom. Idris Elba wants to be there for it.
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-27 | by ( Eve Crosbie | Nathan Rennolds | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Idris Elba has shared more on his plans to help build the entertainment industry in Africa. The Golden Globe winner has said he planned to build film studios in Ghana and Tanzania. A 2021 UNESCO report said that the film industry could help add $20 billion to Africa's combined GDP. "I would certainly consider settling down here; not even consider, it's going to happen," he continued, adding: "I'm going to live in Accra, I'm going to live in Freetown, I'm going to live in Zanzibar. Africa's film industry is growing rapidly, and certain major streaming successes, such as Netflix's Nigerian crime thriller "The Black Book," offer increasing optimism for the sector.

Persons: Idris Elba, —, Luther, We've Organizations: Golden Globe, UNESCO, Service, BBC, Tanzania —, West African Studios, Research, CNN Locations: Africa, Ghana, Tanzania, Accra, I'm, Freetown, Zanzibar, Elba, London, Sierra Leonean, Ghanaian, Tanzanian, Nigerian

☆ Viral video of ripped-up Pennsylvania ballots is fake and Russian-made, intelligence agencies say
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-26 | by ( Zoë Richards | Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Brandy-Zadrozny-Circle-Byline-Template.Jpg | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +4 min

Russian actors "manufactured and amplified" a recent viral video that falsely showed a person tearing up ballots in Pennsylvania, the FBI and two other federal agencies said Friday. In the video, a person is seen destroying what are purported to be filled-out ballots in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. “The Bucks County District Attorney’s Office will not tolerate any voter suppression, intimidation, or fraud,” the statement added. Darren Linvill, co-director at Clemson University’s Media Forensics Hub, attributed the viral video to the Russian disinformation production team known to researchers as Storm-1516. The video’s quality and the use of actors who appear to have West African accents to pose as Black Americans were characteristic of the Russian campaign, Linvill said.

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ACCRA, Ghana — Illegal small-scale gold mining in Ghana has been linked with the destruction of the environment and illness. A protest in Accra, Ghana, demanding government action on illegal gold mining. Yaw Amoafo, who owns several small gold mines employing 20 to 30 people each, said public anger at galamsey mining has forced him to cease operations. He added that he feared the government would introduce a short-term ban on small-scale mining, like the one it implemented in 2017. Earlier this year it opened the government-backed Royal Ghana Gold Refinery, with the intent of getting it accredited by the LBMA.

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☆ Halloween could taste different this year thanks to soaring cocoa prices
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-20 | by ( Erika Tulfo | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

That’s because cocoa prices have more than doubled since the start of the year and have remained at record highs, according to Wells Fargo data shared with CNN. The surging prices have caused grief for confectioners during prime chocolate sales seasons like Valentine’s Day and Easter. The company’s president, Michele Buck, said in a call in August with analysts that cocoa prices are “not sustainable,” and pointed toward higher prices. Though hope is on the horizon, experts project cocoa prices will remain high until at least September 2025. A customer shops for Halloween candy at a Walmart Supercenter on October 16, 2024 in Austin, Texas.

Persons: it’s, ”, David Branch, Francis Kokoroko, Reuters El, Michele Buck, Hershey, Joseph , Missouri Nick Ingram, Sally Lyons Wyatt, Mars, Brandon Bell, ” Lyons Wyatt Organizations: CNN, Wells, Food Institute, Reuters, International Cocoa Organization, Hershey, Walmart, Getty, ’ Association, NCA, “ Locations: Wells Fargo, West Africa, Osino, Eastern Region, Ghana, St, Joseph , Missouri, Austin , Texas

☆ Stephen from 'Love Is Blind' is posting through his 'villain arc' after his scandal in the latest episodes
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-10 | by ( Palmer Haasch | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

AdvertisementStephen tells Monica early on that he cheated in a prior relationshipStephen on "Love Is Blind" season 7. On that same date, he also tells Monica that he recently learned he had West African ancestry, not Italian as he previously thought. When Monica tells him that she had seen texts from the day of their conversation, he says he didn't remember sending them. After Stephen tells Monica he'll leave, Monica asks him to send her the money she spent to front their expenses. After the episodes premiered, Stephen posted several memes on his Instagram story about entering a "villain arc" on the show.

Persons: Monica, Stephen, —, Leo, Brittany, he's, Netflix Stephen, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Trump's, Joe Biden, Netflix Monica, It's, Taylor, Stephen debrief, Monica he'll, shouldn't, Garrett, Stephen doesn't, we're Organizations: Netflix, Service, Honduran Locations: Mexico, Instagram

☆ Hurricane Milton isn't the end of our destructive storm season. There's likely more to come.
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-09 | by ( Jessica Orwig | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

AdvertisementThen hurricane season went quiet. There were no named storms between August 13 and September 3 — typically around when hurricane season is reaching its peak. CHANDAN KHANNA/Getty ImagesAt the start of the Atlantic hurricane season in June, NOAA predicted up to 13 hurricanes by the season's end. Joe Raedle/Getty ImagesThis year's unusual hurricane season may be a sign of things to come. AdvertisementRosencrans said that there's a large window for peak hurricane season, and the peak varies each year.

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☆ Customers noticed Whole Foods skimped out on its Berry Chantilly Cake. It quickly changed course
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-07 | by ( Ramishah Maruf | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

New York CNN —Fans of Whole Foods’ iconic Berry Chantilly Cake have been up in arms on social media over the past few weeks. Berry Chantilly fans say they were victims of skimpflation, a member of the shrinkflation and inflation family. Whole Foods customers were quick to catch on, and by Friday, the company announced it had reversed its changes. “Based on feedback from our customers, we will reintroduce single slices of the Berry Chantilly Cake that are the same as the classic our customers know and love,” a Whole Foods spokesperson told CNN on Friday. The cake slices will be back to their previous version by next week, the company said.

Persons: Berry, It’s, ”, Berry Chantilly, they’re, “, ” Joseph Balagtas, Edgar Dworsky, ” Dworsky, Dworsky, Blommer, Balagtas, ” Balagtas Organizations: New, New York CNN, Foods, Purdue University, CNN, Louis Federal Reserve, Consumer, “ Manufacturers, St, Reuters, Companies Locations: New York, West Africa, North America

CNN —Up to 600 people were shot dead in a matter of hours by al Qaeda-linked militants in an August attack on a town in Burkina Faso, according to a French government security assessment that nearly doubles the death toll cited in earlier reports. A series of coups across Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger led to the departure of French and American forces. The Russian mercenaries summoned by the juntas to bolster their grip have instead left a vacuum in which jihadists have thrived, says the assessment, given to CNN by a French security official. A view of the town of Barsalogho, Burkina Faso, where up to 600 people were killed by al Qaeda-linked militants in an August attack, according to a French government security assessment. CNN has reviewed videos of the alleged cannibalism that seem to show Burkina Faso soldiers dismembering and holding up body parts of apparent dead jihadists.

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☆ Next solar eclipse: When and where to view the celestial event
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-03 | by ( Jackie Wattles | Ashley Strickland | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

The silvery orb is near or at the farthest point in its orbit from our planet, so it can’t completely block the sun as it does during a total solar eclipse. Another annular solar eclipse will arrive on February 17, 2026. Finally, a total solar eclipse — such as the one that drew millions of spectators across North America last April — will once again grace the skies on August 12, 2026. To witness any of these solar eclipse events, be sure to use certified eclipse glasses or a handheld solar viewer to shield your eyes from the sun’s harmful rays and observe the event safely. But don’t look through any optical device — camera lens, telescope, binoculars — while wearing eclipse glasses or using a handheld solar viewer, according to NASA.

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☆ Around 48 migrants missing, nine found dead, after boat sinks off Canary Islands
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-29 | by ( ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

Nine people, one of them a child, have been confirmed as dead after their boat sank in the early hours of Saturday morning, emergency and rescue services said. “After what happened yesterday and if the forecast for the arrival of the migrant boats happens, then it will be the biggest humanitarian crisis to happen to the Canary Islands in 30 years,” Candelaria Delgado of the Canary Islands government, told reporters on Sunday. Three of those rescued suffered from hypothermia and dehydration, rescue services said on Sunday. As hopes of finding more survivors diminished, police installed a morgue on El Hierro, authorities said. Three other boats reached the Canary Islands during the night, carrying 208 migrants.

Persons: El, Frontex, ” Candelaria Delgado Organizations: Spain Reuters — Patrol, Rescuers, Spanish coastguard, Reuters, Channel, Canary Locations: El Hierro, Spain, Africa, Canary, Spanish, Mali, Mauritania, Senegal, West Africa, Turkey, Greece, Britain, Lanzarote

A hurricane watch and warnings of storm surges up to 15 feet high were issued Tuesday for almost all of Florida's western coastline as a potential tropical storm moves across the Caribbean Sea and towards the Gulf Coast. The hurricane watch extends from Indian Pass in north-west Florida near Panama City, down to Englewood, and includes Tampa Bay. Hurricane and tropical storm watches are now in effect for the entire western coast of the Sunshine State. A hurricane watch means that hurricane conditions are possible, and is typically issued 48 hours before the anticipated onslaught of tropical-storm-force winds and conditions. Outside of the U.S., a hurricane watch is also in effect for parts of eastern Mexico from Cabo Catoche to Tulum and Pinar del Río in Cuba.

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☆ Residents ransack chimpanzee centre in Guinea after animal kills infant
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-21 | by ( Story Reuters | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

Conakry, Guinea Reuters —People living near a chimpanzee research center in Guinea attacked the facility on Friday after a woman said one of the animals had killed her infant, the center’s managers said. Eyewitnesses said the crowd was reacting to the news that the mutilated body of an infant had been found 3 km (1.9 miles) from the Nimba Mountains Nature Reserve, listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The research center said it had recorded six chimpanzee attacks on humans within the reserve since the start of the year. There are just seven left in Guinea’s Bossou forest, which forms part of the Nimba Mountains Nature Reserve, and is close to subsistence farming communities of the Nzerekore Region. The Nimba Mountains are also home to one of Guinea’s largest iron ore reserves, which has raised concern among environmentalists about the impact of mining on chimpanzees.

Persons: Seny Zogba, Alidjiou Sylla Organizations: Guinea Reuters —, UNESCO, Heritage, Reuters, International Union for Conservation of Nature, Reserve Locations: Conakry, Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, West Africa, Guinea’s, Nzerekore Region

☆ It started with an informal pick-up game. Now, this organized soccer club is a lifeline for many asylum-seekers
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-21 | by ( Zoe Sottile | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +13 min

But the Newcomers Football Club, an impromptu team made up of asylum-seekers, has helped provide him with a joy that erases his stress. And they were looking for a place to play soccer – an almost universal cornerstone of their daily routines back home. Leonard had never worked with refugees or asylum-seekers before, and he had never played soccer. In the months since, the ad-hoc project has ballooned from an informal pick-up game to an organized club that competes with other New York teams, joining forces with another similar project started by co-organizer Avram Kline. The mixed practices help Newcomers FC members meet new people and practice their English, Leonard says.

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☆ Angola nearly lost its national animal to poaching. Here’s how a team of dedicated conservationists fought to bring it back
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-19 | by ( Michelle Cohan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

CNN —With its long, ridged horns and muscular build, the giant sable antelope is a majestic sight — and a rare one at that. The disappearance of the giant sableThe giant sable antelope was first discovered in the early 20th century and went on to become Angola’s national animal. However, due to their striking horns, the antelopes soon became a target for poachers, says renowned Angolan conservationist Pedro Vaz Pinto. A heard of female giant sable antelopes, pictured here in Cangandala National Park, wear GPS collars to monitor their whereabouts. Going forward, he believes management, funding, and training are necessary to continue restoring the giant sable population.

Persons: Pedro Vaz Pinto, Fundação, ”, Vaz Pinto, Bruce Buttery, ” Vaz Pinto, “, CNN “, Vladimir Russo, ” Russo, that.They Organizations: CNN, Initiative, Cangandala, Conservation, Kissama Foundation Locations: Angola, Africa, Angolan, Portugal, Luando, Cangandala

☆ The vaccines you need to know about before you travel
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-17 | by ( Lisa Kjellsson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

Norlys Perez/ReutersUntil recently, there wasn’t a widely available dengue vaccine for travelers. But according to Dr. Nicky Longley, consultant in infectious diseases and travel medicine at The Hospital for Tropical Diseases (HTD) at University College London Hospitals, dengue vaccination is not quite the silver bullet travelers had hoped for. One traveler who welcomes the arrival of the new Qdenga vaccine is UK-based travel writer Chris Dwyer. Which vaccines do you need? Adults are advised to keep a record of their immunizations and when they need to be boosted.

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☆ I celebrated my 40th birthday twice — first with family, then with friends. I'm so happy I kept them separate.
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-17 | by ( Emma Morrell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

You can opt-out at any time by visiting our Preferences page or by clicking "unsubscribe" at the bottom of the email. download the appSign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. Still, though, I wanted to celebrate with friends and family. My family's trip to Namibia in 2019, booked with Namibia Tours and Safaris, cost $5,000, excluding flights. We found our restaurant tucked down a back street behind the Musée du Louvre, basking in the luminous evening light.

Persons: —, waterslides, Emma Morrell, Coeur Organizations: Service, Business, Namibia Tours, Tuileries Locations: Africa, Namibia, Paris, France, Saint, Germain, En, Laye, Lights, Montmartre, Jardin, Europe

☆ Moo Deng: Baby pygmy hippo is Thailand’s latest online sensation. But her keeper is worried about her fame
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-14 | by ( Kocha Olarn | Chris Lau | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

Moo Deng gives her handler a good chew on the knee. One person poured water [on her] while another threw a shell onto Moo Deng when she lay on the floor,” he said. While she continues to draw admirers in person, Moo Deng has found her biggest stardom online. “This will be the time Moo Deng will be energetic as the keeper will splash the water around,” he said. Another good time would be in the afternoon when the keeper feeds her mother, as Moo Deng follows her around.

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