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Tuesday, 11 August 2015

Library For All breaks down barriers to knowledge in developing world

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Katherine Stephans  is partnerships and communications manager for Library For All , a winner of the 2015  Knight News Challenge on...

Ukraine Pastor Sunday Adelaja, Blames Nigeria's Corruption On Religion

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A Nigerian-born pastor in Ukraine has blamed Nigerian churches and religious leaders for the West African country’s widespread corruption...

President Buhari "Nigeria is not Rich"

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Nigeria was falsely considered a rich country when, in reality, it lacks economic development, security and social services, Nigerian Pre...
Saturday, 8 August 2015

Why Obama doesn’t understand the lust for power of our African leaders By Patience Akumu

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 Barack Obama delivers a speech to members of the African Union in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on 28 July. Photograph: Guardian.  E ven befor...

President Buhari Approves Amnesty For Boko Haram

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Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has reportedly approved amnesty for members of the Boko Haram terrorist group, a Nigerian news outlet...

Blogger, Niloy Chottopadhay Hacked To Death in Bangladesh.

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Photo The body of Niladri Chaterjee was carried from his home in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on Friday.   Credit AP Suspected militants posi...
Friday, 7 August 2015

Photos: Saif al-Islam Gaddafi: the prophet of his own doom

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Saif al-Islam Gaddafi on trial via video link-up in June 2014. He has not been seen in public since Photograph: The Guardian ...

Video shows Moammar Gaddafi’s son Saadi being beaten by Libyan prison guards

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YouTube screenshot Throughout the nine-minute long video, the 42-year-old sits hunched and blindfolded as he listens to the screams of...

Central African Republic: Over a thousand people still searching for loved ones

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ICRC staff and Central African Red Cross volunteers work together to register the tracing requests of people separated from their familie...
Thursday, 6 August 2015

Massacre at Sinjar: Has the World Forgotten the Yazidi? By Mark Hetfield

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It has been a very bad year ...

Tanzanian reality TV show ‘Mama Shujaa wa Shakula’ is ‘Survivor’ meets ‘Big Brother’ for women farmers

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  Mama Shujaa wa Shakula , the Tanzanian reality TV show starring women farmers, is kicking off its fourth season on African television t...

Do Nigerians really drink as much champagne as the French?

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A sales attendant shows a bottle of champagne to a customer at a roadside shop in Lagos. Photograph: Getty Images Wh...

'In the name of God, kill her! She has burned the Quran!' - The Killing of Farkhunda By Zarghuna Kargar

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 Women carrying the coffin of Farkhunda. Farkhunda’s mother Bibi Hajera says as she weeps: “That day, everything was normal, she left f...

Photos: Bobbi Kristina Brown's funeral

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 An attendee holds up the funeral program at the funeral of Bobbi Kristina Brown at the St. James United Methodist Church. The 22-year-o...

Divorce party invitation trends on Twitter: #IAMADIVORCEE

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  We started seeing reports of them in the media late 2013. Most people reason  that we celebrate marriages and birthdays why not celebrat...