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Map of South America, showing wildfires, active in the past 24 hours as of Aug 21, 23:30 GMT

Brazil's Bolsonaro blames Amazon fires on NGOs as Twitter erupts

Wildfires in the Amazon rainforest in northern Brazil have ignited a firestorm on social media, with President Jair Bolsonaro on Wednesday suggesting green groups started the blazes.Images of fires purportedly devouring sections of the world's largest rainforest have gone viral on Twitter. #PrayforAmazonas is the top trending hashtag in the world on Wednesday, with more than 249,000 tweets."No matter how successful we are, if our Earth dies, we all die," posted one Twitter user.
Ghana is looking to use the new connections it is forging to convince the descendants of slaves to resettle for good and help the country develop

Ghana draws African-American tourists with 'Year of Return'

US preacher Roxanne Caleb blinked away the tears as she emerged from a pitch-dark dungeon where African slaves were once held before being shipped across the Atlantic to America."I wasn't prepared for this. I'm heartbroken," she told AFP as she toured the Cape Coast slave fort on Ghana's ocean shore."My mind still can't wrap around the fact that a human being can treat another worse than a rat."

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