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Harare, Zimbabwe – In Kuwadzana, a high-density residential suburb in the Zimbabwean capital Harare, the day begins as early as 5 am for many of the working class, from vegetable sellers to Thomas Gundawo (last name changed on request), a 19-year-old bus conductor.
For loading a 7-seater vehicle after soliciting engers at the top of his voice at the bus stop, he gets ZWL$100 (US$0.45). By 8 am, he would have pocketed only $3, insufficient to buy food and either broncleer – a street drug mixture of cough syrup with alcohol and codeine – or dagga (marijuana).
So, he and his friends have resorted to a far cheaper alternative – adding water to the white residue found in used diapers and boiling it.
“After boiling, it forms a greyish substance and we drink the mixture,” Gundawo told Al Jazeera. “It’s semi-solid, it smells and tastes bad but we just drink. It helps us to get high [at] less cost.
“I need a little drink in the morning to have energy and confidence as I attract engers,” said the teenager who has been abusing drugs since his third year in high school – six years ago.
Since October 2018, the Zimbabwean economy has been on a free-fall characterised by high inflation and low investor confidence, leading to hyperinflation and high levels of unemployment as the local currency plummeted in value.
Data is not readily available in Zimbabwe but sources from the country’s ministry of higher and tertiary education told Al Jazeera that more than 25,000 students graduate annually from the country’s universities and other institutions of higher learning.
But unemployment is also prevalent and the pool of the jobless swells every year.
"As a lecturer, I have seen students coming to lectures high and some of them it that they are abusing it because of low morale,” she said. “The state is the first parent and it must look into it so that people’s needs are catered for.”
Amon Chinya, another youth, said depression led to him inhaling sodium polyacrylate with his friends in his back yard and open spaces in the neighbourhood.
“Because we are unemployed, and facing a lot of challenges, we sometimes drink to forget problems but alcohol cannot take us high,” the 25-year-old told Al Jazeera. “Therefore, we have opted for street drugs. But they are also getting expensive [so] we have resorted to cheap diapers.”

'Juice of Pampers’

Several drug s told Al Jazeera that sodium polyacrylate or waterlock is found in new and used diapers, as well as stain removers, bleach products and some detergents. It is the absorbent for blood on sanitary pads and urine on diapers and dissolves once boiled.

In street lingo, it is also known as “muto we ma Pampers” meaning “juice of Pampers” in the Shona language and referencing Pampers, a popular brand. Most youths prefer used diapers as, having been discarded, they are cheaper to find or procure.

“With the filthiness of most of the illegal solid waste dumping sites, we don’t always scavenge for the used ones,” said Gundawo. “Sometimes we have a local vendor who supplies us at the base. We don’t want to be seen buying diapers, it raises eyebrows.”

Mertha Mothema Nyamande, a Harare-based psychotherapist told news men that her findings concluded that “it is not particularly the substance in the diaper alone, but the gas released when the urine becomes mixed with atmospheric pressures.

“The mix-up creates the effect sought by drug addicts …the impact of the substance is numbing and more of a psychedelic [feel], and gives an out-of-body experience,” she added. “The cases are isolated, but it is mainly that people are not very open about this method. We see a lot of these guys on the streets. In the streets, it’s very common.

“Additionally, the addiction goes way beyond the psychoactive substances, into activities like gambling and work, which are equally damaging in of impact on relationships and health issues,” she said.

“The mix-up creates the effect sought by drug addicts …the impact of the substance is numbing and more of a psychedelic [feel], and gives an out-of-body experience,” she added. “The cases are isolated, but it is mainly that people are not very open about this method. We see a lot of these guys on the streets. In the streets, it’s very common.

“Additionally, the addiction goes way beyond the psychoactive substances, into activities like gambling and work, which are equally damaging in of impact on relationships and health issues,” she said.

https://zapiforum.com/question/zimbabwean-youths-find-cheap-highs-in-used-diapers-sanitary-pads/

Harare, Zimbabwe – In Kuwadzana, a high-density residential suburb in the Zimbabwean capital Harare, the day begins as early as 5 am for many of the working class, from vegetable sellers to Thomas Gundawo (last name changed on request), a 19-year-old bus conductor.
For loading a 7-seater vehicle after soliciting engers at the top of his voice at the bus stop, he gets ZWL$100 (US$0.45). By 8 am, he would have pocketed only $3, insufficient to buy food and either broncleer – a street drug mixture of cough syrup with alcohol and codeine – or dagga (marijuana).
So, he and his friends have resorted to a far cheaper alternative – adding water to the white residue found in used diapers and boiling it.
“After boiling, it forms a greyish substance and we drink the mixture,” Gundawo told Al Jazeera. “It’s semi-solid, it smells and tastes bad but we just drink. It helps us to get high [at] less cost.
“I need a little drink in the morning to have energy and confidence as I attract engers,” said the teenager who has been abusing drugs since his third year in high school – six years ago.
Since October 2018, the Zimbabwean economy has been on a free-fall characterised by high inflation and low investor confidence, leading to hyperinflation and high levels of unemployment as the local currency plummeted in value.
Data is not readily available in Zimbabwe but sources from the country’s ministry of higher and tertiary education told Al Jazeera that more than 25,000 students graduate annually from the country’s universities and other institutions of higher learning.
But unemployment is also prevalent and the pool of the jobless swells every year.
"As a lecturer, I have seen students coming to lectures high and some of them it that they are abusing it because of low morale,” she said. “The state is the first parent and it must look into it so that people’s needs are catered for.”
Amon Chinya, another youth, said depression led to him inhaling sodium polyacrylate with his friends in his back yard and open spaces in the neighbourhood.
“Because we are unemployed, and facing a lot of challenges, we sometimes drink to forget problems but alcohol cannot take us high,” the 25-year-old told Al Jazeera. “Therefore, we have opted for street drugs. But they are also getting expensive [so] we have resorted to cheap diapers.”

'Juice of Pampers’

Several drug s told Al Jazeera that sodium polyacrylate or waterlock is found in new and used diapers, as well as stain removers, bleach products and some detergents. It is the absorbent for blood on sanitary pads and urine on diapers and dissolves once boiled.

In street lingo, it is also known as “muto we ma Pampers” meaning “juice of Pampers” in the Shona language and referencing Pampers, a popular brand. Most youths prefer used diapers as, having been discarded, they are cheaper to find or procure.

“With the filthiness of most of the illegal solid waste dumping sites, we don’t always scavenge for the used ones,” said Gundawo. “Sometimes we have a local vendor who supplies us at the base. We don’t want to be seen buying diapers, it raises eyebrows.”

Mertha Mothema Nyamande, a Harare-based psychotherapist told news men that her findings concluded that “it is not particularly the substance in the diaper alone, but the gas released when the urine becomes mixed with atmospheric pressures.

“The mix-up creates the effect sought by drug addicts …the impact of the substance is numbing and more of a psychedelic [feel], and gives an out-of-body experience,” she added. “The cases are isolated, but it is mainly that people are not very open about this method. We see a lot of these guys on the streets. In the streets, it’s very common.

“Additionally, the addiction goes way beyond the psychoactive substances, into activities like gambling and work, which are equally damaging in of impact on relationships and health issues,” she said.

“The mix-up creates the effect sought by drug addicts …the impact of the substance is numbing and more of a psychedelic [feel], and gives an out-of-body experience,” she added. “The cases are isolated, but it is mainly that people are not very open about this method. We see a lot of these guys on the streets. In the streets, it’s very common.

“Additionally, the addiction goes way beyond the psychoactive substances, into activities like gambling and work, which are equally damaging in of impact on relationships and health issues,” she said.

https://zapiforum.com/question/zimbabwean-youths-find-cheap-highs-in-used-diapers-sanitary-pads/

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said last month that “the prospect of nuclear conflict, once unthinkable, is now back within the realm of possibility.”

Here is how Russia’s chain of command would work in the event of a nuclear weapon launch
Who decides to launch Russian nuclear weapons?

A 2020 document called “Basic Principles of State Policy of the Russian Federation on Nuclear Deterrence” says the Russian president takes the decision to use nuclear weapons.

A small briefcase, known as the Cheget, is kept close to the president at all times, linking him to the command and control network of Russia’s strategic nuclear forces.

The Cheget does not contain a nuclear launch button but rather transmits launch orders to the central military command – the General Staff.

If Putin gives the nuclear order, what happens?

The Russian General Staff has access to the launch codes and has two methods of launching nuclear warheads.

It can send authorisation codes to individual weapons commanders, who then execute the launch procedures.

There is also a back-up system, known as Perimetr, which allows the General Staff to initiate the launch of land-based missiles directly, bying all the immediate command posts.

https://zapiforum.com/question/the-chain-of-command-for-a-potential-russian-nuclear-strike/

The 2020 doctrine presents four scenarios that might justify the use of Russian nuclear weapons:

– the use of nuclear weapons or weapons of mass destruction against Russia or its allies;
– data showing the launch of ballistic missiles aimed at Russia or its allies;

– an attack on critical government or military sites that would undermine the ability of Russia’s nuclear forces to respond to threats;

– the use of conventional weapons against Russia “when the very existence of the state is in jeopardy”.


https://zapiforum.com/question/conditions-for-russia-to-use-nuclear-weapons/

Pretty in a purple skirt and looking blissfully happy, this is Sasha Obama pictured with boyfriend Clifton Powell Jr., 24 – two days after her mom Michelle let slip she was dating.

DailyMail.com can reveal her new man is the son of Ray actor Clifton Powell, 66, and a former college basketball star who now works as a commercial director creating content for Nike and Peloton.

He was also close friends with Ian Alexander Jr.– the only son of Powell’s Ray co-star Regina King who tragically took his own life in January aged just 25.

The couple are believed to have gotten together after Sasha, 20, moved to LA last August after dropping her studies at the University of Michigan and switching to a course at USC.

Both Sasha and her sister Malia, 23, are now based on the West Coast with the older Obama sibling taking a job as a script writer for Donald Glover’s new Amazon project after graduating from Harvard last year.

On Tuesday, former First Lady Michelle gave an update on her daughters during an appearance on the Ellen Show – telling the host: ‘They loved the Jonas Brothers. Now they are bringing grown men home.
https://zapiforum.com/question/sasha-obamas-new-boyfriend-is-revealed-as-the-24-year-old-son-of-hollywood-actor-clifton-powell/

Randy100:

Neutrality requires that he doesn't come out to rub it on their faces. There are ways to talk when you are neutral.

if he rubs it on there face what will happen?

Chicastle:


If dem drop visa of the others on the right cardinal point I guess you did choose what you see on left because nah there the koko Dey

you guys should forget the western visa and say the truth. Why are countries called sovereign states?
Do we need to be dependent on the west for Survival?

nnamdi640:
Don't mind them. Making joke with people better than them. Saudi, a country that sponsor terrorism and later act as if they are innocent. If they have sense, they would have use that energy and resources to send messages to their fellow muslims in the world about the danger of harbouring terrorists.

the crown prince was caught on camera with nnamdi kanu and Emma powerful the terrorists of eastern Nigeria.

The number of coronavirus cases and deaths in Africa have dropped to their lowest levels since the pandemic began, marking the longest decline yet seen in the disease, according to the World Health Organization.

In a statement on Thursday, the U.N. health agency said COVID-19 infections due to the Omicron surge had “tanked” from a peak of more than 308,000 weekly cases to fewer than 20,000 last week. Cases and deaths fell by 29 percent and 37 percent respectively in the last week; deaths decreased to 239 from the previous week.

“This low level of infection has not been seen since April 2020 in the early stages of the pandemic in Africa,” WHO said, noting that no country in the region is currently seeing an increase in COVID-19 cases.

https://zapiforum.com/question/who-covid-cases-deaths-in-africa-drop-to-lowest-levels-yet/

The National Council of State has okayed the national population census for April 2023 after the general elections.

Director-General of National Population Commission (NPC), Nasir Isa-Kwarra, disclosed this to State House Correspondents after a meeting of the Council of State presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday

Isa-Kwarra also said the NPC would be conducting a pilot census from June 2022 after political parties must have concluded their pre-general elections activities.

The NPC boss, who recalled the last census exercise held in 2006, disclosed that the commission will deploy high technology for the exercise.

He said through census data is generated for planning, noting that the data currently being used are mere projections and obsolete.

Isa-Kwarra said: “It is very crucial because I have highlighted that the census is a very important exercise for the nation.

“Because through census we generate the data that we use for policy making, for planning, for development, by the three tiers of government, and the private sector, they all need this.

https://zapiforum.com/question/census-council-of-state-okays-april-2023-for-national-census/

The head of the World Health Organisation (WHO) says the world does not give equal attention to emergencies affecting black and white people.

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said only a fraction of the help given to Ukraine was given to other humanitarian crises.

Assisting Ukraine is “very important” because it “impacts the whole world”, he said.

But Tigray province in Ethiopia, Yemen, Afghanistan or Syria are not receiving the same attention, he said.

“I don’t know if the world really gives equal attention to black and white lives,” Mr Tedros told a news conference.

“I need to be blunt and honest that the world is not treating the human race the same way. Some are more equal than others. And when I say this, it pains me. Because I see it. Very difficult to accept but it’s happening,” he added.

Tedros, who is from Tigray, said the United Nations had determined that 100 trucks per day of life-saving humanitarian supplies were needed for the Ethiopian region.

War broke out in Tigray between the TPLF – a group that dominated Ethiopian politics for nearly three decades – and the government in November 2020 following months of simmering tension.

The fighting has seen thousands killed – including civilians – while millions are in desperate need of humanitarian aid, with the federal government accused of hampering relief efforts.

All warring parties have allegedly carried out extrajudicial killings and used sexual violence.

https://zapiforum.com/question/black-and-white-lives-receive-unequal-attention-who-chief-says/

At least 50 people have been killed and dozens abducted by gunmen in Plateau state in central Nigeria, residents and a community leader said on Monday.

It is the latest in a spate of attacks by armed gangs in central and northern parts of Africa’s most populous nation.

“This is again very sad and we strongly condemn it. The security (forces) should ensure the immediate rescue of all abducted persons,” said Jonathan Ishaku, spokesman for Plateau Elders’ Forum

He said at least 50 were dead and 70 people, including women and children, were kidnapped from nine villages late on Sunday afternoon. A spokesman for the state governor, Simon Lalong, said “many people were killed, with houses and properties destroyed”. He did not give a death toll.
Such attacks are not common in Plateau. But the state shares a border with the northwestern Kaduna state, where suspected bandits – a loose term for gangs of outlaws carrying out robberies and kidnappings – blew up train tracks, killed eight people and kidnapped dozens last month.

Fifteen soldiers were last week killed by gunmen who attacked a Kaduna army base.

Telephone service is patchy in most of Nigeria’s rural areas, making it difficult for villagers to seek immediate help from security forces, who are stretched fighting armed groups like Boko Haram and the Islamic State West African Province (ISWAP) in the northeast.

Isahya Solomon from Kukawa, one of the villages that was attacked, said when he heard shooting he fled with his family in a car and returned at night after the gunmen had left.
His house and several others had been torched while shops were looted and villagers were retrieving bodies of relatives, he told Reuters by phone on Monday from Jos, Plateau state’s capital city.

“In our community … 38 persons were killed. Many of our houses were burnt to ashes, many shops were looted,” said Solomon.

https://zapiforum.com/question/nigeria-gunmen-attack-kills-at-least-50-in-plateau-state/

Crucialgem:
Allahu akbar, travel through the world and see the signs and wonders of Allah, which of the favor of Allah do we want to deny. Alhamdullilah ala hidayatul islam

fabi ayi allayi rabiku mathu kazibam

Ashirioluwa:


Your proposed action doesn’t make sense morally or legally. The ownership of the item has changed from you to your friend therefore you can’t collect it back because you are no more the owner of the item in question.

My cousin bought a car for my nephew but now he is trying to get everything back because of small misunderstanding and family amebo

[quote author=Leshyne post=111699496]It's a gift. Once a gal asked for loan n a gave her,she later wanted a scam relationship so I can forget the little loan,I refused. Note that I had spent more than the loan but when things went wry I demanded for the loan and she paid.
[/quoteMy cousin bought a car for my nephew but now he is trying to get everything back because of small misunderstanding and family Amebo.

Truvelisback:
Why? What happened?

My cousin bought a car for my nephew but now he is trying to get everything back because of small misunderstanding

court in Burkina Faso on April 6, 2022 handed down a life term to former president Blaise Compaore over the 1987 assassination of revolutionary leader Thomas Sankara, following a six-month trial [File: Sia Kambou/AFP]

Published On 6 Apr 20226 Apr 2022

Updated:
39 minutes ago

A Burkinabe court has sentenced former President Blaise Compaoré to life imprisonment for the murder of his predecessor, the revered Thomas Sankara.

The long-awaited verdict on Wednesday brought to close a six-month trial about the murder of Sankara, who was assassinated during a coup led by his friend and comrade-in-arms Compaoré on October 15, 1987.

Military prosecutors in Burkina Faso’s capital, Ouagadougou, had requested a 30-year sentence for Compaoré, who was being tried alongside 13 others.

Two other main suspects were also handed life imprisonment sentences. They are Gilbert Diendéré, one of the leaders of the 1987 putsch and leader of the 2015 coup, as well as Hyacinthe Kafando, leader of Compaoré’s guards at the time.

Compaoré, who was unseated in a 2014 uprising, fled to neighbouring Cote d’Ivoire where he was given citizenship. He was tried in absentia, like Kafando unlike Diendéré who is in custody.

A pan-Africanist leader who had taken power in 1983, Sankara was killed aged 37 along with 12 other government officials. Compaoré became his successor, ruling until his 2014 ouster.
https://zapiforum.com/question/thomas-sankara-life-sentence-for-burkinabe-ex-leader-compaore-for-sankara-murder/

Good evening everyone,
Can i retrieve a gift i gave someone? Is there any legal justification for that?

Below is a list of the Top 10 most expensive African cities for expats to live in.

N’Djamena – Chad – Global rank: 13th
Lagos – Nigeria – Global rank: 19th
Libreville – Gabon – Global rank: 20th
Abidjan – Côte d’Ivoire – Global rank: 24th
Bangui – Central African Republic – Global rank: 30th
Brazzaville – Congo – Global rank: 38th
Kinshasha – Democratic Republic of Congo – Global rank: 40th
Yaounde – Cameroon – Global rank: 49th
Dakar – Senegal – Global rank: 56th
Douala – Cameroon –
https://zapiforum.com/question/below-is-a-list-of-the-top-10-most-expensive-african-cities-for-expats-to-live-in-ndjamena-chad-global-rank-13th-lagos-nigeria-global-rank-19th-libreville-gabon-global-rank-20/

Totilopussylick:
Where do cultist go to after they died

They will first visit Okorofo and odim in hell before the main journey.

Russia has the largest reserves of natural gas followed by Iran and Qatar. Together, the three countries ed for half of the world’s natural gas reserves in 2020.

Russia has proven reserves of about 48,938 bcm, Iran of 34,077 bcm, and Qatar of 23,831 bcm.


Which countries export the most natural gas?
Unlike the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), there is not a multinational organisation for major gas exporters that adjusts supply to balance the market.

However, the Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF) exists as an 11-member organisation comprising Algeria, Bolivia, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Iran, Libya, Nigeria, Qatar, Russia, Trinidad and Tobago and Venezuela.
Angola, Azerbaijan, Iraq, Malaysia, Mozambique, Norway, Peru and the United Arab Emirates have the status of observer .

More than 80 percent of global exports in gas is tied to 10 major exporters. In 2020, the 10 largest gas exporters in the world were Russia (199,928 mcm), United States (149,538 mcm), Qatar (143,700 mcm), Norway (112,951 mcm), Australia (102,562 mcm), Canada (70,932 mcm), (50,092 mcm), Netherlands (39,976 mcm), Algeria (34,459 mcm) and Nigeria (35,586 mcm).
https://zapiforum.com/question/natural-gas-nigeria-and-algeria-among-top-10-producing-countries/

Thinkfree:
can you tell us how much you spend on betting in 30 days?

I have never spent more than 7k month before.

can you tell us how much you spend on betting in 30 days?

Datboredberry:
Bruh... I've never had sex, slut-shame your mother... She has obviously left a sour taste in your mouth...

Begging of bet odds isn't a hustle... Except for lazy, unintelligent beggers who literally have nothing to offer... The confirmed losers at the very bottom...

you don't need to reply him just go through other comments and choose best. The truth is that its easy to ask for money from friends.

Datboredberry:
I'm curious... How do you do it?


Help a Nairalander out... I need more answers

first thing to ask yourself,

Does he/she have the amount you want?

If he/she can give such amount without breaking their bank?

If your answers are yes, ma'am tell him/her that you need money and what you want to use the money for.

Don't behave like my babe that asked me to give her money that she wants to use it to buy something and should ask her about what she wants to buy.

KIL
Bamuda triangle
Danfodio

ahmEenu:
Have u ever thought another hostel in the whole country might bear ramat Wtf

i never said ramat but icsa/Ramat

ahmEenu:
Have u ever thought another hostel in the whole country might bear ramat Wtf

icsa/ramat is one and its in abu zaria

Oladapo3971:

Ramat
Federal poly ede

icsa/Ramat is ABU Zaria male hostel.