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North West teen arrested in connection with teacher's rape, murder | News24

A teenager has been arrested outside Vryburg in North West in connection with the murder of 56-year-old teacher Beauty Siamisang.

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Jean-Bédel Bokassa , also called Bokassa I (born Feb. 22, 1921, Bobangui, Moyen-Congo, French Equatorial Africa [now in the Central African Republic]—died Nov. 3, 1996, Bangui, C.A.R.), African military leader who was president of the Central African Republic (1966–76) and self-styled emperor of

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Sentamu, John (1949- )

In 2005, John Tucker Mugabi Sentamu was installed as the Anglican Church’s Archbishop of York. Sentamu was born on June 10, 1949, the sixth of 13 children of Rev. John and Ruth Walakira in a village outside Kampala, Uganda. Taught by British missionaries and expatriates who encouraged his

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Beah, Ishmael (1980– )

Ishmael Beah is a Sierra Leonean author and human rights activist who rose to fame with his personal history, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Solider. Beah was born on November 23, 1980, in Mattru Jong, Bonthe District, Sierra Leone, in West Africa. The Sierra Leone Civil War started in March

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South Africa: With Enough Support, People Can Grow Their Own Food

The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted how impoverished people and the working class suffer when food prices rise and jobs disappear, prompting a renewed interest in working the

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Ida B’s Pulitzer was late but right on time –

Exactly 136 to the day after Ida B. Wells was thrown off a Chesapeake and Ohio railroad train, she was awarded a Pulitzer Prize special citation for her “outstanding and courageous reporting on the horrific and vicious violence against African Americans in the era of

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While many Americans are familiar with the song, The Yellow Rose of Texas, few know the story of Emily West, the African American woman who was the inspiration for its creation. In the excerpt below from a longer article that first appeared in 1996, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Sudan, in northeast Africa, measures about one-fourth the size of the United States. Its neighbors are Chad and the Central African Republic on the west, Egypt and Libya on the north, Ethiopia and Eritrea on the east, and South Sudan, Kenya, Uganda, and Democratic Republic of the Congo on the

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Malick Sidibé , (born c. 1935, Soloba, French Sudan [now Mali]—died April 14, 2016, Bamako, Mali), Malian photographer who created mainly black-and-white images that revealed the gradual Westernization of Mali as it made the transition from colony to independent

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(2007) Senator Barack Obama “Voting Rights March Commemoration Speech”

Here today, I must begin because at the Unity breakfast this morning I was saving for last and the list was so long I left him out after that introduction. So I’m going to start by saying how much I appreciate the friendship and the support and the outstanding work that he does each and every

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Kinshasa, Congo (1881-- )

Kinshasa is the capital and largest city in the Democratic Republic of Congo. It is the third largest city in Africa after Cairo and Lagos and the second largest French-speaking city in the world other than Paris, France. Formerly known as Leopoldville, it was founded and named by Henry Morton

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Zephaniah, Benjamin (1958 - )

Benjamin Zephaniah, poet, playwright, novelist and activist, was born on April 15, 1958, the first of eight children, in Birmingham, England. Zephaniah grew up in Wandsworth until the age of nine when his mother, a Jamaican nurse, fled his father, a postman from Barbados. Leaving behind his twin

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Burkina Faso: Credibly Investigate Apparent Executions

Nairobi — Burkina Faso authorities should credibly and independently investigate alleged extrajudicial executions of 12 men detained by gendarmes on May 11, 2020 during a counterterrorism operation near the eastern town of Fada N'Gourma, Human Rights Watch said

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Scottsboro Boys Falsely Accused

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Namibia: Arrest Warrants for Community Members Cancelled

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Yamoussoukro, Cote d’Ivoire (1909- )

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The Combahee River Collective Statement (1977)

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(1952) Charlotta Bass, “Acceptance Speech for Vice Presidential Candidate of the Progressive Party”

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Ashes Instead of Soap: Inside Zimbabwe’s COVID-19 Fight – Free Press of Jacksonville

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(1963) Martin Luther King, Jr., “Letter From a Birmingham Jail”

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American woman dies in plane crash trying to deliver Covid-19 tests to Indonesian village

An American pilot died when her plane malfunctioned while she was on her way to deliver Covid-19 rapid test kits to a remote Indonesian village, officials

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Rwanda: We'll Get You All - UN Prosecutor Tells Genocide Suspects Still At Large

Serge Brammertz, Chief Prosecutor of the Residual Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals (RMICT), has told The New Times that his team of investigators has good leads and continues to tirelessly hunt for seven other Rwandan Genocide fugitives indicted by the UN court years ago

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Bonetta, Sarah Forbes (1843-1880)

Sarah Forbes Bonetta, a princess of the Egbado clan of the Yoruba people, is best known as the goddaughter of Queen Victoria of Great Britain. Bonetta was born in 1843 in what is now southwest Nigeria. Her parents names are unknown as are the names of her siblings who were all killed in the 1847

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