http:// www.newindianexpress. com/world/2018/jan/17/un-needs-over-usd-15-billion-for-dr-congo-with-country-at-breaking-point-1756861.html

GENEVA: The United Nations this year will seek more than $1.5 billion to respond to the worsening humanitarian crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), an official said Tuesday, warning the country was at a "breaking point".

"The size of the crisis in the Congo is really challenging our collective ability to respond", said the UN migration agency's chief envoy to the country, Jean-Philippe Chauzy.

The African giant has been plagued by near-relentless instability since independence from Belgium in 1960.

Evem so, "no-one was expecting the humanitarian crisis to expand to such an extent last year," Chauzy told reporters in Geneva.

The total humanitarian appeal for 2018 is $1.68 billion (1.37 billion euros), more than double the amount requested last year, he added.

South Africa news https:// www. timeslive.co.za/news/south-africa/2018-01-17-breaking-gauteng-head-of-mental-health-manamela-resigns/

Just a day after the suspended HOD of the Gauteng department of health resigned‚ the suspended director of mental health‚ Dr Makgabo Manamela‚ has also resigned.

This was confirmed by a senior official in the department on Wednesday.

“Yes‚ she has resigned. That is all I can say‚” said the senior official.

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https:// www.yahoo. com/news/former-cia-agent-charged-keeping-230647030.html

A former CIA agent who may be connected to the mysterious killings of American operatives in China has been arrested after being caught with notebooks containing the classified names and phone numbers of CIA agents, and the locations of secret facilities.

The Justice Department announced on Tuesday that Jerry Chun Shing Lee had been collared Monday night—almost six years after FBI agents said they “found two small books containing handwritten notes that contained classified information" when they searched hotel rooms of the former officer.

Court documents show that Lee has long been of intense interest to the FBI. A naturalized U.S. citizen who had been living in Hong Kong, Lee moved to Virginia in 2012—and agents got a warrant to search his hotel room. That's where they allegedly found the notebooks, one a 49-page datebook, and the other a 21-page address book.