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World: Giant African snails seized at Los Angeles airport

YoopyaJul 15, 2014July 16, 20230

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Inspectors at Los Angeles International Airport seized an unusually slimy package — 67 live giant African snails that are a popular

Africa news: Ebola crisis in West Africa deepens; 500+ dead

YoopyaJul 14, 2014July 16, 20230

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Deep in the forests of southern Guinea, the first victims fell ill with high fevers. People assumed it was the perennial

World news: Activist Malala in Nigeria: Bring Back Our Girls

YoopyaJul 14, 2014July 16, 20230

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Pakistani education activist Malala Yousafzai is celebrating her 17th birthday in Nigeria and meeting with the parents of some 219 girls

South Africa: Pistorius defense team closes case

YoopyaJul 8, 2014July 16, 20230

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The defense team for Oscar Pistorius closed its case in the athlete’s murder trial on Tuesday, bringing a legal case that has

Africa news: Senegal prime minister sacked after losing election

YoopyaJul 5, 2014July 16, 20230

(Reuters) – Senegalese President Macky Sall sacked Prime Minister Aminata Toure on Friday after she failed to win a seat at local elections on Sunday,

Africa: In Africa, a Cube and a Parachute test consumer demand

YoopyaJul 5, 2014July 16, 20230

(Reuters) – Tucked in a corner of a Guinness brewery in a run-down part of Ghana’s capital, flanked by industrial silos and crates of bottles,

Africa: Rebel leader Kony “hibernates,”evades jungle hunt

YoopyaJul 4, 2014July 25, 20230

NZACKO, Central African Republic (AP) — The African troops hoped the latest defector from the Lord’s Resistance Army rebel group would have fresh insight into

World cup: Ghana to have formal agreements for player bonuses

YoopyaJul 3, 2014July 16, 20230

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Ghana is planning to take pre-emptive action for the next World Cup to avoid off-the-field problems over bonus payments. The

Nigeria: Nigeria arrests businessman in connection with girls’ abductions

YoopyaJul 2, 2014July 16, 20230

(Reuters) – Nigerian troops have arrested a businessman suspected of being at the head of a Boko Haram intelligence network that helped plan the abduction

Africa: Conflict minerals law starts working despite poor industry response

YoopyaJul 1, 2014July 16, 20230

(Reuters) – A U.S. law on conflict minerals is curbing African warlords’ presence around mines in Congo, campaigners say, but its full impact remains unclear,