But to many onlookers, withholding relief seems callous when a continent is suffering as much as Africa is.

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"This was a particularly callous murder where Grenfell put greater value on his acquisition of a car than the life of an innocent man simply protecting his own property that he had worked so hard for, " he said.

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But this is almost certainly a false hope as well as a callous policy.

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