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An Orthodox Jewish assailant stabbed and wounded six participants in the annual Gay Pride march in Jerusalem on Thursday, police said. Yishai Shlissel spent 10 years in jail for a similar attack...
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A renewed sense of urgency to get things done characterised last Friday's inter-state council meeting of ministers from Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, Tanzania and DR Congo as they discussed how to make...
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United States President Barack Obama is the most admired foreign leader in Africa because he has ancestral roots in our continent. This is partly the reason his ill-informed and stereotypical...
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After looking at recent photographs of Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza's bodyguards, it came as no surprise to me when officials of his government began blaming Rwanda for their country's...
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Bujumbura, Burundi: Gunmen shot dead a general who was a close ally of Burundi's President Pierre Nkurunziza in the country's capital on Sunday, the presidency and witnesses said, heightening...
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Wazayuni makatili wa israel wamemchoma moto akiwa hai hadi kufa mtoto wa kipalestina hadi kufa. Wayahudi hao makatili wamevamia vijiji vya wapalestina huko west bank na kuchoma nyumba moto za...
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Saudi ambassador offers condolences to the family amid reports that relatives of the al-Qaida leader were among four killed in Hampshire crash The sister and stepmother of the former al-Qaida...
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Rwandan parliament's move to amend the constitution to allow President Paul Kagame to run for third term started Wednesday at the Supreme Court. Rwandan Parliament in mid July voted to support...
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Ahead of President Obama's visit to Kenya, the Global Times, a tabloid newspaper published by Chinese state-run People's Daily, ran this cartoon. Under the title "Homecoming," it shows Obama in...
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Yesterday at HK's Lai Chi Kok Reception Centre (= remand prison) I was very sad to see two new Nigerian drug mules. Lately there seems to be two or more new Nigerians every week. Each will get a...
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President Obama jabbed at the power structures of Africa on Tuesday by calling for long-entrenched leaders to step down, using off-the-cuff remarks about his own political standing and his stature...
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I am pleased to carry this guest blog by Linda Melvern, who has written extensively about the 1994 Rwandan genocide and acted as a consultant to the prosecution team at the International Criminal...
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"Tough love" has been a theme of President Obama's visit to East Africa. The moments where he really came alive on this trip were not just when he talked of his love for Africa, but also when he...
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Statue of Satan unveiled at Satanic temple A Satanic organization unveiled a controversial bronze Baphomet sculpture in Detroit just before midnight on Saturday, after trying in vain to have it...
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The death of the Taliban's supreme commander, Mullah Mohammad Omar, has been confirmed by Pakistani authorities to Afghan government officials, according to media reports. The leader of the...
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Sio Uonevu huu ? ===== Tanzanians torch Malawian with petrol: Banda is battling for his life at Mzuzu Central hospital A group of sawyers from Tanzania, popularly known as Swahili, on Monday...
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Brian William new boss ( MSNBC) .Alsharpton and Hayes to be cancelled too.MSNBC cable news will have a new name soon .Rachel Maddow alionekana jengo la CNN .Source Mediabistro Tv newser and Fox news
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Lake Kivu is one of the African Great Lakes that lies on the border between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo and is in the Albertine Rift, the western branch of the East African...
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The Change Readiness Index (CRI) ranks 127 countries, both developed and developing, by assessing their ability to manage change and cultivate opportunity. This map provides a world-level view of...
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An Egyptian court has adjourned the long-running retrial of three Al Jazeera journalists for the ninth time, with the next hearing scheduled for August 2. Australian Peter Greste, Egyptian Baher...
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