PARIS - The European Union is being urged to become more militarily involved in Africa's Sahel region amid a possible drawdown of U.S. troops and a fast-growing Islamist insurgency.Fallout from escalating unrest in the arid scrubland edging the Sahara ...
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February 14, 2020 Web Desk
General
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JUBA , SOUTH SUDAN - South Sudan's President Salva Kiir has accused several foreign envoys of bias against his government, as the envoys try to help Kiir and the opposition strike a deal on the number of states in the country. The president wants to ke...
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February 14, 2020 Web Desk
Judicial, Legal-Judicial
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NAIROBI - Kenyan police killed 107 people last year, according to a report released Friday from a coalition of Kenyan human rights groups.Most of those killed were young men from slum areas, also called informal settlements."Sixty-nine percent of those...
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February 14, 2020 Web Desk
Health Services, Medical
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JOHANNESBURG - South African President Cyril Ramaphosa barely got out the first sentence of his annual State of the Nation Address before the inevitable happened: commotion in the gallery, led by the Economic Freedom Fighters.The far-left political par...
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February 13, 2020 Web Desk
General
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BLANTYRE, MALAWI - Protesters in Malawi have shut down offices of the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) in 10 districts in an attempt to force all commissioners to resign.The move comes 10 days after the Constitutional Court nullified last Mays preside...
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February 13, 2020 Web Desk
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