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"Even the alternatives that people clung to for survival have disappeared," it said, referring to "ambaz", a residue of peanuts after oil has been extracted, which is normally fed to animals.

"People started shouting. I was up to my neck in water. I clung to a piece of wood and prayed," Mpambi remembered.

Once youth sports returned, I clung to the routine and banality that came with it.

For all his personal failings, Bill Clinton has always clung to the promise of forgiveness and the process of atonement.

The incident happened after federal agents tried taking the woman's husband into custody as she and her daughter clung on to him, CBS News, the BBC's US partner, reported.