![[Ghana] The boys at this soccer academy in Ghana learn not only ball skills and match tactics, but also how to protect themselves from HIV. They then reach out to their peers, passing on safe sex messages and dispelling the myths surrounding the disease.](https://assets.thenewhumanitarian.org/s3fs-public/styles/responsive_large_2x/public/images/20051215.jpg.webp?itok=BJkDbqnU "Les matchs de football sont d'excellentes occasions pour parler aux jeunes de leur santé")
The Angolan rebel group UNITA accused the government on Wednesday of practicing a “form of genocide” for its financial and political benefit, Lusa reported. “The increase in the number of displaced people is a premeditated act by the government to obtain political and financial dividends,” UNITA´s secretary-general Paulo Lukamba “Gato” alleged. He charged that Luanda was applying “a form of genocide” and “scorched-earth policy” to “force (rural) populations to urban areas” under government control. “The international community should know that its (humanitarian) aid serves to feed the government’s armed forces and to fill black markets, benefiting the regime’s hierarchy, which re-routes donated aid for personal enrichment,” Gato said. Angolan estimates that it would need more than US $200 million in humanitarian aid next year was a “humiliating crime”, he added, given that oil-rich Angola pumps that sum in crude “every eight days”.
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