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Africa news: Impunity in C. African Republic must end: Amnesty

YoopyaJuly 15, 2014July 16, 2023

by YoopyaJuly 15, 2014July 16, 20230

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Fighters on both sides of the conflict in Central African Republic are living freely despite committing war crimes and some who...

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Europe: For Bastille Day, France commemorates World War I

YoopyaJuly 15, 2014July 16, 2023

by YoopyaJuly 15, 2014July 16, 20230

PARIS (AP) — Soldiers carrying the flags of 76 countries marched Monday down the Champs-Elysees in Paris, as France’s traditional Bastille Day military parade commemorated...

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South Africa: Nadine Gordimer, Nobel laureate, activist, dies

YoopyaJuly 15, 2014July 16, 2023

by YoopyaJuly 15, 2014July 16, 20230

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Nadine Gordimer was first a writer of fiction and a defender of creativity and expression. But as a white South African who...

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World: Giant African snails seized at Los Angeles airport

YoopyaJuly 15, 2014July 16, 2023

by YoopyaJuly 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...

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

YoopyaJuly 14, 2014July 16, 2023

by YoopyaJuly 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...

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

YoopyaJuly 14, 2014July 16, 2023

by YoopyaJuly 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...

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South Africa: Pistorius defense team closes case

YoopyaJuly 8, 2014July 16, 2023

by YoopyaJuly 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...

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Africa news: Senegal prime minister sacked after losing election

YoopyaJuly 5, 2014July 16, 2023

by YoopyaJuly 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,...

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

YoopyaJuly 5, 2014July 16, 2023

by YoopyaJuly 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,...

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

YoopyaJuly 4, 2014July 25, 2023

by YoopyaJuly 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...