as mentioned in The auction was advertised but not carried out on the site, but it took several days for Facebook to remove the post that first promoted the auction. After it was taken down, other posts "glorifying" the auction remained, said George Otim, country director for Plan International South Sudan. South Sudan has a deeply rooted cultural practice of paying dowries for brides, usually in the form of cows. It also has a long history of child marriage. While South Sudan's government condemns the practice of child marriage it says it can't regulate communities' cultural norms, especially in remote areas.
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Garden City mayor taking heat over controversial post on Facebook
– A Facebook post by an elected official in Garden City brings more heat on the small Missouri town. Garden City Mayor Daniel Cantrell has recently been in the news after laying off the city's entire police department. After we visited City Hall, the offensive Facebook post was deleted and replaced with this, "Fox 4 News is trolling my Facebook. "I don't agree with any discrimination against anybody," Garden City resident Dianne Linder said. Garden City resident Shawn Manning agrees.Community leaders, fans react to racist Facebook post about Coach Taggart
as informed in The man posted the picture on an FSU fan Facebook page following Saturday's lost to the University of Florida. The post is getting a huge response on social media and across the community. Holmes says he's amazed that someone feels comfortable expressing what he calls "racist animosity" on social media. For him to post something like that on social media was absolutely atrocious," said Commissioner Richardson. The social media post is now the focus of a criminal investigation.collected by :Roy Mark
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