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Western Sahara's pro-independence Polisario Front has launched an attack on the Guerguerat area on the border between Morocco and Mauritania.
Many people have been killed since clashes began on Monday. Scores too had been killed in the run up to the vote as protestors marched against Conde's bid for a third term.
Provisional results Friday showed Mohamed Bazoum as having garnered 1.4 million votes, only trailed by former president Mahamane Ousmane with 675,000
NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department is seeking to take over President Donald Trump's defense in a defamation... View Article
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Morocco's foreign ministry has said the continuing publication of 'offensive' cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad is an act of provocation.
By Victor Omondi On Thursday, President Donald Trump issued executive orders that would see the social media app TikTok and WeChat from operating in the United States within 45 days if their Chinese-owned parent companies don't sell them. Nevertheless, the orders don't indicate whether a certain amount of money should be sent to the U.S. […]
[Nation] The political tension between Wiper Democratic Movement party leader Kalonzo Musyoka and Deputy President William Ruto has escalated, with the former challenging the DP to undertake a lifestyle audit to trace the source of his wealth.
BY DANIEL COSTA-ROBERTS June 21, 2015 at 3:17 PM EDT Following the massacre in Charleston, South Carolina on Wednesday in which a gunman shot and killed nine people attending bible study at a historic black church, the Confederate battle flag — also called the rebel flag, the southern cross and the Dixie flag — has been the […]
Friends of the Earth accused France on Monday of planting a \"ticking climate bomb\" in Mozambique, where French oil giant Total is developing a mega-project to exploit natural gas.
\"For several years now, the entire arsenal of French economic diplomacy has been working to defend French interests in Mozambique,\" the NGO said, notably \"a myriad of French companies in the fossil fuel industry and adjacent sectors\".
The report, titled \"A windfall for the industry, a curse for the country: France thrusts Mozambique into the gas trap\", said $60 billion will be invested in vast underwater reserves that were discovered off the country's northern coast in the early 2010s.
The report noted that three gas projects currently under development \"could release as much as the equivalent of seven times France's annual greenhouse gas emissions, and 49 times Mozambique's current national annual emissions.\"
Friends of the Earth said \"French companies including private banks and energy companies like Total must immediately put an end to their involvement in gas projects in Mozambique.\"
HAVANA, Cuba (AP) - Cuban authorities ordered a strict 15-day lockdown of Havana yesterday seeking to stamp out the low-level but persistent spread of the novel coronavirus in the capital. Aggressive anti-virus measures including closing down air travel have virtually eliminated COVID-19 in Cuba with the exception of Havana, where cases have surged from a handful a day to dozens daily over the last month.
By Krista Larson The Associated Press Ivory Coast residents braced for more unrest Nov. 1 as election officials began releasing the first results from the country's presidential election and opponents of President Alassane Ouattara stepped up their criticism of his quest for a third term. Opposition leaders who boycotted the election have claimed that at […]
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At least 24 shacks were gutted, leaving about 33 families homeless when a fire ripped through Qolweni informal settlement in Plettenberg Bay.
WASHINGTON INFORMER — D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) imposed a citywide curfew from 6 p.m. Wednesday to 6 a.m. Thursday, prohibiting people, other than essential workers and members of the media, from driving, walking, loitering and conducting other activities in the streets. Metro also shut down service several hours early at 8 p.m. in response to the violence unfolding on the grounds of the U.S. Capitol.
News24 has appointed senior journalist Karyn Maughan, who joins the news team as specialist legal writer, focusing on in-depth court and legal reporting.
Former MSNBC host Chris Matthews was slammed on Twitter for praising what he called President Donald Trump’s “true presidential behavior”... View Article
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Gobo Fango was born in the Eastern Cape Colony in what is now South Africa around 1855, just before the beginning of the eighth of the nine Xhosa Wars (Cape Frontier Wars) against British and Boer settlers. Fango was a member of the Gcaleka tribe, a sub-group of the Xhosa peoples. These frontier wars brought poverty and privation to the Xhosa people forcing his starving mother to abandon him at the age of three, leaving him in the crotch of a tree where he was found by the sons of Henry and Ruth Talbot, English-speaking settlers on the Cape Frontier. They claimed him and raised him as an indentured servant. Two years later, in 1857, the Talbot family was baptized by Latter Day Saint (LDS) missionaries. Shortly afterwards the Talbots sold their belongings and made preparations for the migration to Utah Territory. On February 20, 1861, they boarded the ship Race Horse, bound for Boston, Massachusetts and from there took a train to Chicago, Illinois. Arriving in Chicago on the eve of the Civil War, abolitionists accused the Talbots of bringing a slave across the free states, forcing them to hide the six-year-old under a passenger’s skirts until the search ended.
The Talbot family continued west through Iowa and to Florence, Nebraska Territory and outfitted wagons for their remaining trek to Utah. They arrived in Salt Lake City on September 13, 1861 and eventually settled in Kaysville, Utah, where Fango worked as a farm laborer for the Talbots. Because he slept in a shed, his feet were frozen, forcing him to walk with a limp for the rest of his life.
When Fango was a teenager, the Talbots sold him to the Lewis Whitesides family even though he was officially freed at the age of seven when the U.S. Congress abolished slavery and indentured servitude in all U.S. territories including Utah. Fango was sold again (illegally) to Ruth Whitesides Hunter and brought to Grantsville where he helped with the family’s sheep herding. By the early 1880s he had settled in the Goose Creek Valley in Idaho Territory. By
Former Louisville star, Heisman Trophy winner and the league's reigning MVP, Lamar Jackson, has reportedly tested positive for COVID-19. Multiple... View Article
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The former "Grey's Anatomy" star reignited a feud that began years ago after Washington's controversial exit from the hit ABC show.
