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Rescue efforts continue days after the Mexico earthquake first hit the city. The earthquake left 250 people dead and thousands homeless. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office has released this statement: "On Tuesday 19 September 2017 there was an earthquake of magnitude 7.1 near Puebla, Mexico – approximately 140km south-east of Mexico City. Damage has been severe."
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Read the guardian publication written this date in 1897 --->. 120 years ago on Wednesday 15 September 1897 His Majesty Oba Overami was awoken at the dead of night at 4 a.m. to be taken to Calabar on the protectorate Yacht Ivy on exile. Consul General Moor after annexing Benin Kingdom into the British Empire banished the king from his country for life.
Read the full transcript here ---> Read about the major players in the colonisation of Benin Kingdom by the British here ---> Hurricane Irma continues to cause destruction in parts of USA coast.
Read the tracker here ---> Hurricane Irma ---> NASA: What are hurricanes ---> Thursday 9 September 1897: In the consular court at Benin City, Consul General Moor banishes Oba Overami from his country for life.
Tuesday 7 September 1897: Consul-General Sir Ralph Moor makes a public declaration that: "Overami is no longer king of this country. The only king in this country is the Whiteman." Benin is now a British colony.
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www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/09/04/north-korea-nuclear-ballistic-missile-south-korea-live-latest1/ Oba Overami gives testimony in the Trial of the King and Chiefs of Benin indicted with murdering Acting Consul Phillips and six other white men.
Consul General Moor acquits Oba Overami of the charge but dethrones him and relegates him to the position of an ordinary chief of villages to be allocated if and when he can prove himself capable of such responsibility. Read the full trial transcript here ---> Heavy floods in America, Sierra Leone and South Asia have caused untold misery to millions of people and left many dead.
South Asia: 40 million people are affected with 1,200 dead. Read the break down of the figures on the web link below: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/aug/30/mumbai-paralysed-by-floods-as-india-and-region-hit-by-worst-monsoon-rains-in-years Sierra Leone: Mudslides have left over 500 people dead and many made homeless. Read Facebook comments on the link below. Facebook appeal North America: Floods across America continues. President Trump asks congress for over 6 billion dollars to help the floods victims. See the flood list and timeline on the link below: America flood list This day in 1897 the trial of Oba Overami and his chiefs begin in Benin City. They have been indicted with the murder of Acting Consul General Phillips and six other white men. Consul General Ralph Moor is the presiding judge for the British and is representing the British Government.
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