World Tour: Storm cleanup in the Philippines

MARY REICHARD, HOST: Coming up next on The World and Everything in It: WORLD Tour, with our reporter in Africa, Onize Ohikere.

ONIZE OHIKERE, REPORTER: Somalia twin bombings— Today’s World Tour starts in Somalia, where people are still reeling from a weekend terror attack killed at least 120 people.

NATS: [Rubble clearing]

Two cars loaded with explosives went off minutes apart near a busy intersection in the capital of Mogadishu.

Insurgents then fired guns at the education ministry. Nearly 300 people were injured. The attack is the deadliest since a truck bomb went off at the same intersection five years ago.

Mohamed Jama was among the injured.

JAMA: [Speaking Somali]

He says here he lost consciousness before waking up to see smoke and fire. Somalis are donating blood as rescuers continue to search for missing people.

The al-Qaeda-linked extremist group al-Shabaab claimed responsibility. The group has stepped up attacks since a government crackdown began in August.

Philippines Storm Nalgae— We head over to the Philippines, where communities are trying to recover from the aftermath of a deadly storm.

NATS: [Rescuers working]

Rescue workers used long timbers to wade through thick mud as they searched for bodies.

More than 100 people have died since Tropical Storm Nalgae battered the Philippines. More than half of the victims are from the southern island of Mindanao where landslides inundated villages.

Survivors this week began shoveling mud out of their homes and stores.

The state weather forecaster warned that another tropical storm was heading towards the Philippines as Nalgae moved on across the South China Sea.

Lebanon vacuum— Next, to Lebanon.

AUDIO: [Supporters, cheers]

Lebanese President Michel Aoun vacated the presidential palace to the cheers and music of supporters.

Aoun formally ended his six-year tenure on Monday without a successor.

Parliament has held four sessions since late September to elect a president, but no candidate could score the required two-thirds majority vote.

A caretaker government now leads the country. Aoun warned of weeks of constitutional chaos ahead.

Opponents blame Aoun for the country’s economic crisis rooted in decades of mismanagement and corruption.

Niger schools — We wrap up today back in Africa.

NATS: [Teacher speaking to students]

Dozens of children sit attentively at wooden desks inside a classroom in southwestern Niger. They lift up little blackboards to show their answers written in chalk to the teacher.

The cluster school in the town of Ouallam has allowed hundreds of children displaced by violence to return to classrooms. Adamou Dari is the director of the Ouallam Cluster school.

DARI: [Speaking French]

He says here the students also receive psychosocial support. Jihadist violence has closed nearly 900 schools across Niger.

NATS: [Children playing]

That’s it for this week’s World Tour. Reporting for WORLD, I’m Onize Ohikere in Abuja, Nigeria.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: Coming up next on The World and Everything in It: WORLD Tour, with our reporter in Africa, Onize Ohikere.

ONIZE OHIKERE, REPORTER: Somalia twin bombings— Today’s World Tour starts in Somalia, where people are still reeling from a weekend terror attack killed at least 120 people.

NATS: [Rubble clearing]

Two cars loaded with explosives went off minutes apart near a busy intersection in the capital of Mogadishu.

Insurgents then fired guns at the education ministry. Nearly 300 people were injured. The attack is the deadliest since a truck bomb went off at the same intersection five years ago.

Mohamed Jama was among the injured.

JAMA: [Speaking Somali]

He says here he lost consciousness before waking up to see smoke and fire. Somalis are donating blood as rescuers continue to search for missing people.

The al-Qaeda-linked extremist group al-Shabaab claimed responsibility. The group has stepped up attacks since a government crackdown began in August.

Philippines Storm Nalgae— We head over to the Philippines, where communities are trying to recover from the aftermath of a deadly storm.

NATS: [Rescuers working]

Rescue workers used long timbers to wade through thick mud as they searched for bodies.

More than 100 people have died since Tropical Storm Nalgae battered the Philippines. More than half of the victims are from the southern island of Mindanao where landslides inundated villages.

Survivors this week began shoveling mud out of their homes and stores.

The state weather forecaster warned that another tropical storm was heading towards the Philippines as Nalgae moved on across the South China Sea.

Lebanon vacuum— Next, to Lebanon.

AUDIO: [Supporters, cheers]

Lebanese President Michel Aoun vacated the presidential palace to the cheers and music of supporters.

Aoun formally ended his six-year tenure on Monday without a successor.

Parliament has held four sessions since late September to elect a president, but no candidate could score the required two-thirds majority vote.

A caretaker government now leads the country. Aoun warned of weeks of constitutional chaos ahead.

Opponents blame Aoun for the country’s economic crisis rooted in decades of mismanagement and corruption.

Niger schools — We wrap up today back in Africa.

NATS: [Teacher speaking to students]

Dozens of children sit attentively at wooden desks inside a classroom in southwestern Niger. They lift up little blackboards to show their answers written in chalk to the teacher.

The cluster school in the town of Ouallam has allowed hundreds of children displaced by violence to return to classrooms. Adamou Dari is the director of the Ouallam Cluster school.

DARI: [Speaking French]

He says here the students also receive psychosocial support. Jihadist violence has closed nearly 900 schools across Niger.

NATS: [Children playing]

That’s it for this week’s World Tour. Reporting for WORLD, I’m Onize Ohikere in Abuja, Nigeria.

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