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Abdu Raheem with his mother Patricia Fitzpatrick: Raheem was shot in both legs in Libya

Abduraheem Duibi, an English teacher in Libya, was in a car with work colleagues when it was fired upon by local militia on Saturday, March 4th.

Mr Duibi is an Irish citizen who grew up in Dublin but moved with his family to Tripoli five years ago.

After the driver was shot, Mr Duibi ran away but was shot in both legs. Mr Duibi bled profusely on the ground for about 30 minutes before being brought to a local hospital for treatment.

Libyan hospitals are bereft of drugs and treatment options due to the instability in the country so Mr Duibis family transported him the next day across the border to Tunisia.

Surgeons in the hospital in Tunis operated to remove the bullets but his condition grew septic. His family was forced to buy his antibiotics due to the shortage of supplies in the hospital.

As his condition deteriorated, family and friends contacted the Departments consular services in Tunis and Dublin to seek help in having him medically evacuated. Officials told them it did not have a fund to pay for an air ambulance.

I talked to the consul in Tunisia, but she told me she could do nothing, said his father, Libyan businessman Khairi Duibi. I was shocked. If he were a German citizen, Im sure their government would have acted.

His mother, Patricia Fitzpatrick, said she was gobsmacked when the Department said it did not have a budget to help him get back to Ireland for treatment. You dont expect a thing like that to happen to your son. He was raised in Ireland, he worked in Dunnes Stores and paid taxes. We didnt have the money. Is a childs life not more important?

As he was medically unfit to travel by normal flight, friends began a crowdfunding campaign online to raise the 22,000 cost of an air ambulance transport.

With the air ambulance service insisting on payment in advance, 18 days were to pass before Mr Duibi was successfully brought to Ireland. He landed in Shannon, where an ambulance brought him to University Hospital Galway.

He was highly septic and about to die, and he had suffered an incredible amount of pain, said renowned vascular surgeon, Prof Sherif Sultan. You dont see the terror of war very often in Galway but the amount of psychological trauma suffered by this man was unbelievable.

The multidisciplinary medical team in Galway were forced to amputate Mr Duibis right foot to control the infection. Eventually, they succeeded in stabilising his condition and he is now recovering well.

Prof Sultan said the medical outcome would have been completely different if Mr Duibi had been medically evacuated from Tunis immediately. He would still have both legs today if that had happened.

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A new batch of Gambian backway boys from Libya, are expected to arrive in Banjul today, the Freedom Newspaper can reveal. The stranded Gambians migrants are returning home voluntarily. They have sleeping slums during their stay in Libya. Some were imprisoned.

The Gambian government is facilitating the airlifting of the backway boys in Libya. The Ministry of Interior, has been playing a pivotal role in ensuring that the migrants are reunited with their families.

The plane carrying the Gambian migrants is expected to land at the airport this evening. Our reporter on the ground said plans are afoot to receive the migrants at the airport by their families.

In another development, the Director of Public Prosecution at the Ministry of Justice, has returned to his native country, Nigeria. Mr. Bakum, contributed towards the jailing of Lawyer Ousainou Darboe co. He was assigned to oversee the prosecution of Darboe and co. He has since left the country.

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Abduraheem Duidi, from Crumlin, was shot in Tripoli and is receiving treatment at University Hospital Galway

A young Irish man who had a foot amputated after being shot in Libya has expressed his sadness at the Governments refusal to fund his medical evacuation from the region.

Abduraheem Duidi claims the Government was more concerned with saving on the cost of an air ambulance than with his life or the loss of his foot.

Mr Duidi, who grew up in Crumlin, Dublin, was shot in Tripoli on March 4th. The Department of Foreign Affairs, in accordance with its normal rules, refused to fund his medical evacuation. Almost three weeks passed before friends and family raised enough money to privately fund an air ambulance transport to Ireland.

Currently receiving treatment in University Hospital Galway, he is due to undergo a further operation on his surviving leg on Tuesday. He says he has been told he has a 20 per cent chance of losing it.

It is sad that you are Irish and there is no one from your Government to help you when something like this happens, Mr Duidi said, speaking to The Irish Times from his hospital bed. They told my parents we cant help you until you arrange the money. With them it was a problem with money, but they didnt see the risk of me losing my leg, or even my life.

Mr Duidi says he is still in enormous pain after being shot in both legs, and has suffered nightmares and depression.

On the morning of the attack, the 23-year-old English language teacher was in a car with a work colleague when they were stopped by a gang of armed men.

There were about 20 of them. One of them, out of his head on drugs, shot my friend, who was driving. Then he came running to me, he jumped on me, hit me and shot me in the legs.

At first I thought it was only the right leg. The only thing holding it on was skin. I felt all the blood coming out and I got real dizzy.

Mr Duidi pleaded with the men to take him to hospital, which they did after half an hour. However, no doctor was present. When his family arrived they found him another hospital where doctors performed emergency surgery. The following day he was taken to a hospital in Tunisia, where further operations were carried out.

Family and friends made contact with the Department in Dublin and Irelands consul in Tunisia, but were told there was no funding available for an air transport. Surgeons there recommended a double amputation but Mr Duidi declined in the hope of having his leg saved in Ireland.

He says he would have repaid any money the Department provided for transport. If I came to Ireland they would have got their money. That wasnt a problem. Yet the more it was delayed, the more I got infected.

When he got to Galway, the medical team had to amputate his right foot in order to stop the infection spreading to his vital organs. Vascular surgeon Prof Sherif Sultan says the outcome would have been completely different if Mr Duidi had been brought to him immediately after being shot.

Official advice on the Departments website advises people who need hospital treatment abroad to contact the nearest Irish embassy or consulate. The Department says it can contact family, help find English-speaking doctors and communicate with medical personnel, but it cannot pay hospital bills or other medical expenses.

Despite his traumatic experience over the past month, Mr Duidi is positive about the future. What happened, happened. I cant really change it. Ill put my artificial leg on and do my best to get back on my feet.

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A Black Lives Matter chapter inPhiladelphia has banned white people from attendingan event, claiming its a black only space.

According to the April Open Meeting event page on Facebook, the gathering, scheduled for April 15, is aimed at discussing future initiatives and projects of the movement in which only black people are allowed to participate. Please note that BLM Philly is a Black only space, claims the event description.

Some people supporting the movement but who happen to not be black have requested an explanation from the group. Is it just your meetings that are black only spaces? or are all activities this way? I want to support but dont want to overstep, tweeted Esther Greenwood.

Our meetings are black centered, replied official Black Lives Matter Philly account.

Popular activist on Twitter Sharika Soal, meanwhile, slammed the decision to exclude white people from the movement. She first tweeted: All Hispanic and Whites who support #BlacklivesMatter @BLMPhilly says you are not welcome at meetings and you cant attend, and added that this is messed up.

If you identify as a person of the African Diaspora You can attend our meetings and become a member. If not you can support us in other ways, BLM Philly tweeted back, insisting on not allowing white people supporting the movement to participate.

Soal then posted a picture of Martin Luther King marching for civil rights together with other white leaders, saying: Look very closely at this photo of MLK marching for black rights. As you can see white people are with him. So why is @BLMPhilly saying no?

He made that choice and we have made ours. White people can support us but they cannot attend our meetings, BLM Philly shot back, later adding that[Malcolm X] took our same stance. White people could not attend the meetings but could support his organization.

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Black Lives Matter activistsare launching a new initiative to shift the movements focus to state capitols, theAssociated Press reports.

People who wish to become more politically involved have the potential of greaterinfluence at the state level, according to organizers.

As the Associated Press notes, Republicans currently hold 33 governors offices, as well as majorities in 33 legislatures. They also have control over the governors office and legislature in 25 states, giving state Republicans more room to shape laws surrounding abortion, taxes, gun rights, and more.

OurStates.orgillustratesa trend of Democrats and left-leaning groups placing their eye onstatehouses.

From Associated Press:

Despite the movements national presence, it has not concentrated on engaging and resisting what state legislatures are doing to essentially implement the same agenda, said Sam Sinyangwe, a data scientist with the project. If we dont engage on the state level, many of the same rights were fighting to protect will be restricted at the local level anyway.

Users visiting the site can choose categories and click on states to learn more about pending legislation. It has a guide for influencing lawmakers, directing people to ask for in-person meetings, present specific demands and track the progress of legislation. The site also suggests conducting protests in lawmakers offices to apply pressure and get their attention.

Brian Robinson, Republican strategist and former assistant chief of staff for Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal, says Black Lives Matteractivists could make inroads with GOP lawmakers, depending onhow they go about it.

If the goals are partisan, hot-button issues, the outcome is going to be no political or policy progress,Robinson said. If Republicans are approached in a respectable manner on issues that could have bipartisan consensus, they can make headway, but theyve got to be civil.

He also noted that activists must be serious and have doable, incremental goals. If what they want to do is demonize Republican leaders theyll be ignored.

SOURCE: Associated Press

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