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This Is What Life Is Like When Your Daughter Is Kidnapped By Boko Haram
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DR Congo president can remain in office without a vote: court
The ruling came amid rising tensions over the government's failure to set a date for the country's next elections, originally due in November this year before Kabila's mandate ends.
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Six-Year-Old Boy Snatched By Leopard At South African Park
A leopard at a South African game reserve snatched a six-year-old boy and ran off with him.
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Kenya: Woman rescued after 6 days in collapsed building
A Kenyan woman was rescued Thursday after being trapped for six days in the rubble of a collapsed building.
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George Weah: Liberia's Football Hero Turned Politician
King George played for some of Europe’s best clubs and wants to lead the West African nation.
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Zimbabwe to sell wildlife in bid to tackle drought
The Zimbabwe Parks & Wildlife Management Authority, known as Zimparks, said that “in light of the drought… [the Authority] intends to destock its park estates through selling some of the wildlife,” in a statement reported by Reuters on Tuesday.
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Two-thirds of Nigerian states struggling to pay salaries: president Buhari
Nearly two-thirds of Nigeria's 36 states are struggling to pay civil servants' salaries despite receiving a government bailout, President Muhammadu Buhari's spokesman quoted him as saying on Thursday.
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Eleven shot dead in Cape Verde, including two Spanish citizens
Eleven men were shot dead in Cape Verde on Tuesday, including eight soldiers, a local civilian and two Spanish citizens, the minister of Internal Administration for the archipelago off the African coast said in a statement.
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A Major Breakthrough Brings The World’s Youngest Nation Closer To Peace
The peace deal was hanging by a thread until the opposition leader’s homecoming.
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Burundi general killed as ICC opens probe into atrocities
A top Tutsi general was gunned down in Burundi on Monday, the latest bloodshed in a year of violent political turmoil that has now prompted a preliminary probe by international prosecutors into a litany of atrocities.
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'King of Congolese rumba' Papa Wemba dies
Papa Wemba, one of Africa's greatest music stars, has died after collapsing on stage during a festival in the Ivory Coast, the concert organisers said Sunday.
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Papa Wemba, Africa's 'King of Rhumba Rock,' dies
Papa Wemba, one of Africa's most flamboyant and popular musicians, has died, according to a statement f-rom a music festival in Ivory Coast.
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Migrant crisis: Hundreds dead after capsize, say survivors
Hundreds of migrants drowned when their boat capsized in the Mediterranean, survivors have told the BBC - although there is no official confirmation.
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Tripoli holds its breath as new Libya government seeks unity
The grass is knee high in parts of Bab al-Aziziya, the sprawling compound in Tripoli f-rom which Colonel Muammar Gaddafi terrorised his own people.
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What’s Worse Than a Girl Being Kidnapped?
Babies died of “a fever.” Older children were “bitten by a snake.”
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The Other Girls Kidnapped By Boko Haram In The 2 Years Since #BringBackOurGirls
Over 200 girls were captured f-rom a Nigerian boarding school in April 2014. But the kidnapping spree didn’t stop there.
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