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Two Dozen Baby Mountain Gorillas Born In Rwanda Are Named
Two dozen baby mountain gorillas are being named to celebrate World Gorilla Day amid ongoing efforts by conservationists to protect them from the coronavirus pandemic.
The infants were named as part of Kwita Izina, the annual mountain gorilla naming ceremony in Rwanda, where they were born.
The event is taking place virtually for the first time in its 16-year history due to the pandemic.
The honour of naming the tiny gorillas goes to the men and women who care for them in the Volcanoes National Park.
Clare Akamanzi, the Chief Executive Officer of the Rwanda Development Board, said: “This year’s Kwita Izina is special in that we have chosen to go back to our history and tradition to name our baby gorillas as it was done in the past, which is the people that spend a lot of time caring for these babies are the ones that are given the honour and privilege to name them."
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Italy Will Bounce Back
kinds of scenes you witness all the time in airports. Except this time, these people are wearing a mask, all of the shops around us in the departure lounge are shuttered and ours seems like the only flight out today, from this lonely Milan airport.This country feels like it's recovering from a national trauma -- a deep emotional and psychological pain. Italy is the soldier returning from war, not running from the train as fast as possible, but walking slowly and slightly unsteadily -- as though shell-shocked -- back into the light. When China’s outbreak was kept a mystery, and Iran was slow to reveal the truth, it was Italy that lived its nightmare in the spotlight. Italians found themselves at the center of a global pandemic, struggling to understand what was happening to them.COVID-19 struck at Italy’s soul because it took aim at the family and specifically at the elderly; at the parents and grandparents around whom family life revolves, and define in many ways what it means to be Italian. Not only did it take so many lives (the mayor of the town of hard-hit Bergamo has said the true number of dead may be fives times the number reported in his area) but in a country where every aspect of life is shared, isolation has been a cruel tonic. 
