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Al-Qaeda's North Africa wing has confirmed that its Algerian chief Abdelmalek Droukdel is dead, according to SITE, the US watchdog for extremist
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Djibouti
Djibouti lies in northeast Africa on the Gulf of Aden at the southern entrance to the Red Sea. It borders Ethiopia, Eritrea, and Somalia. The country, the size of Massachusetts, is mainly a stony desert, with scattered plateaus and
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FBI says Texas naval base shooting is 'terrorism-related'
A shooting at a Texas naval air station that wounded a sailor and left the gunman dead early Thursday was being investigated as “terrorism-related,” the FBI said, but divulged few details as to
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(2017) New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu's Address on the Removal of Confederate Monuments in New Orleans
On May 19, 2017, New Orleans, Louisiana Mayor Mitch Landrieu addressed an audience in his city as a backdrop and explanation of the city’s recent decision to remove statutes of General Robert E. Lee and other Confederate military and political leaders from public squares in New Orleans.  His speech
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30th March 1965: American civil rights campaigner Martin Luther King (1929 – 1968) and his wife Coretta Scott King lead a black voting rights march from Selma, Alabama, to the state capital in
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Sudan to pay for ’98 embassy attacks – US court
The US Supreme Court on Monday ruled that Sudan must pay hundreds of millions of dollars in punitive damages to some victims of the 1998 attacks on US embassies in Nairobi, Kenya and Dar es Salaam in
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North Africa: France Confirms Death of North Africa's Al-Qaeda Head
French Minister of the Armed Forces Florence Parly confirmed on Friday that France and its military partners had killed Abdelmalek Droukdal, the North African head of the terror
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Southern African Leaders Meet on Mozambique's Deteriorating Security
At the day-long meeting in Harare, leaders of Zambia, Botswana, Zimbabwe and Mozambique said they had discussed the COVID-19 pandemic and the security situation in southern Africa, including Lesotho, where Prime Minister Thomas Thabane resigned this week after months of pressure over his alleged
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Tunisia-UNDP - Will to Diversify Cooperation in Economic and Social Rights Field
Tunis/Tunisia — Minister of Human Rights, Relations with Constitutional Authorities and Civil Society Ayachi Hammami expressed, on Wednesday, the Ministry's willingness to strengthen cooperation with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Tunisia to include other areas related to the
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Africa: COVID-19 - a Threat to Peace Efforts in Africa
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Cameroon: Journalist's Death in Custody Shines Light On Cameroon's War On Media and Sparks Protests
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Don’t confuse the struggle of African Americans with that of the Palestinians | Opinion
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Uganda: Tumwesigye - Uganda's Tourism Could Be Back On Its Feet By Yearend
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Bubba Wallace's mother says noose is not his first racist NASCAR incident
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The Suez Crisis: Key in the Decolonization of Africa
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Rwanda: Over 1,300 Complete Basic Police Course At Gishari
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Charged with crime of Karen-ing 'Amy Cooper Inspired' law backed by Gov. Cuomo
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