of my waking life was spent here. We would start work at 5am and work all day. We would work by moonlight and often not finish until midnight. I would go home and sleep and then do it again."

When work finished in July 2010, Sengasenga and his team had used 1,165 bags of cement, laid more than 300 metres of water pipes and built a dam, constructed a 16-metre forebay to control the flow of water, erected transmission cables and, with the help of Practical Action, built a base station with a generator, turbine and other technical essentials.

Electricity from the plant now provides light in almost 40 homes in the village, which is 30km from Mutare, south-east Zimbabwe. It has transformed the village from a forgotten outpost toJudging by the Korean Central News Agency's website, almost no news occurred prior to Oct. 1, 2013.

The North Korean state-run news organization has deleted 95% of its digital archive, including all but seven of its articles that predate Oct. 1. The purge comes just days after KCNA announced the execution of Jang Song Thaek, Kim Jong Un's uncle, believed to be the second-most powerful man in the country.

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More than 35,000 articles from September and earlier have suddenly gone missing, according to NK News, a privately-owned site based in Washington, D.C.

A screenshot of the site capture by the Internet Archive shows more than 20,000 articles listed in March — 2,006 pages with 10 article listings per page.