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4 years, 5 months ago
(AP) ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast — French forces killed 33 Islamic extremists in central Mali on Saturday, French President Emmanuel Macron announced during a three-day trip to West Africa that has been dominated by the growing threat posed by jihadist groups. Macron ...
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6 years, 3 months ago
(AP) CAIRO — Five opposition figures, including a 2012 presidential candidate and two top campaign aides for now-arrested presidential hopeful Sami Annan, called on Sunday for a boycott of the March vote, saying it has lost all credibility. In a statement, ...
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6 years, 6 months ago
(AP) HARARE, Zimbabwe — Zimbabwe's ruling party Central Committee fired longtime President Robert Mugabe as party leader Sunday, saying that if he doesn't resign as the country's president by noon Monday they will begin impeachment proceedings when Parliament resumes the following ...
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6 years, 6 months ago
(AP) CAIRO — Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, for the second time in as many days, has delivered a stern warning to Ethiopia over a dam it is building after the two countries along with Sudan failed to approve a study on ...
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6 years, 7 months ago
(AP) ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — Six people are known to have died from gas explosions at Atomic Junction, near the Legon suburb in northwest Accra, Ghana National Fire Service spokesman Billy Anaglatey said Sunday. "As we speak, six people are dead ...
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6 years, 7 months ago
(AP) CASABLANCA, Morocco — Hundreds of people from around Morocco are protesting in the nation's economic capital, Casablanca, to demand freedom for jailed activists. The Sunday demonstration was the latest of numerous protests demanding the liberation of activists from the city ...
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6 years, 8 months ago
(AP) JOHANNESBURG — South Africa's ruling African National Congress is fending off fresh crises as the bitter fight for control of the former liberation party grows before President Jacob Zuma steps down as party leader in December. A racially divisive public ...
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6 years, 9 months ago
(AP) NAIROBI, Kenya — Kenyan police shot and killed two people during riots by opposition supporters after President Uhuru Kenyatta was declared the winner in elections overshadowed by fraud allegations, authorities said Saturday, while a father said his 9-year-old daughter was ...
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6 years, 10 months ago
(AP) DAKAR, Senegal — Witnesses said at least eight people have died and more than 50 were injured after a stadium wall collapse and stampede at a soccer match in the Senegalese capital. Those present said fighting broke out late Saturday ...
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6 years, 10 months ago
(AP) KINSHASA, Congo — Five Congo park rangers have been found dead and an American journalist has been found in good condition in the Okapi Wildlife Reserve after going missing during a militia attack, a local official said Sunday. "The American ...
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6 years, 10 months ago
(AP) KINSHASA, Congo — A Congolese rights group says rebels in the country's eastern Ituri province have kidnapped an American journalist along with 11 Congolese security guards after attacking a security station near a local nature reserve. The Center for Studies ...
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6 years, 10 months ago
(AP) HURGHADA, Egypt— Germany on Saturday confirmed that two German tourists were killed in a knife attack at a hotel in the popular Egyptian Red Sea resort of Hurghada. The assailant, Egypt said, was a 28-year-old university graduate from the Nile ...
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6 years, 10 months ago
(AP) JOHANNESBURG — The smoking image of a grasshopper was burned into the South African grassland, as alert firefighters stood by. Last month's work of performance art was born from the idea of promoting controlled burning as beneficial for South Africa's ...
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7 years ago
(AP) MINYA, Egypt— Egypt's antiquities ministry says it has found a necropolis with at least 17 mummies near the southern city of Minya, the first such find in the area. The discovery was made in the village of Tuna al-Gabal, a ...
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7 years ago
(AP) NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The Italian-born author and conservationist Kuki Gallmann was shot at her Kenyan ranch and airlifted for treatment after herders invaded in search of pasture to save their animals from drought, officials said Sunday. Gallmann, known for ...
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