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In this Friday, Aug. 24, 2012 file photo, then Acting Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn walks to pay his respects at the coffin of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, after signing a condolences book at the national palace in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Ethiopia's parliament swore in new prime minister Hailemariam Desalegn Friday, Sept. 21, 2012 in the U.S. ally's first peaceful change of power in modern history, sparking hope for change in a nation that's largely a one-party state with a poor human rights record. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)

Hopes abound as Ethiopia takes new prime minister

Kirubel Tadesse, Associated Press

 

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Ethiopia’s parliament swore in a new prime minister on Friday in the U.S. ally’s first peaceful change of

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Rev Jesse Jackson attends a candlelight vigil at the childhood home of Michael Jackson on August 29, 2012 in Gary, Indiana. (Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

Rev. Jesse Jackson secures release of US prisoners in Gambia

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Rev. Jesse Jackson added to his long list of diplomatic accomplishments this week by securing the release of two Americans who had been imprisoned in Gambia for decades...
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Some of the Morehouse Higher Life Foundation international student scholars (wearing the burgundy t-shirts) at the CNN Center in Atlanta. Courtesy of Morehouse College

Zimbabwe businessman spends millions to send Africans to HBCU

Kunbi Tinuoye
theGRIO REPORT - The telecom tycoon has committed $6.4 million in scholarship dollars to send 40 African freshmen to Morehouse, over a four-year period....
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QUNU, SOUTH AFRICA - MAY 30 (SOUTH AFRICA OUT): Former South African president Nelson Mandela (L) receives the African Nation Congress' centenary torch from their chairwoman Baleka Mbete at his home on May 30, 2012 in Qunu, South Africa. The original torch was lit during the party's 100th birthday celebrations earlier this year, before a replica was presented to Mandela at his home, where he with celebrate his 94th birthday next month.  (Photo by Daily Dispatch/Gallo Images/Getty Images)

Mandela's daughter Zindzi promotes road safety

David Mac Dougall, Associated Press
JOHANNESBURG (AP) - When Nelson Mandela's great-granddaughter was killed in a June 2010 car crash, her tragic death cast a shadow over the start of the FIFA World Cup, and kept the former president and Nobel Prize winner away from the opening events...
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In this Saturday, Aug. 25, 2012 photo, female opposition leader Isabelle Ameganvi calls on Togo's women to observe a one-week sex strike beginning Monday, in Lome, Togo. The female wing of a civil rights group is urging women in Togo to stage a week-long sex strike to demand the resignation of the country's president.(AP Photo/ Erick Kaglan)

Togo women push sex strike to unseat president

Ebow Godwin and Kudjo Kaglan, Associated Press
LOME, Togo (AP) - The female wing of a civil rights group is urging women in Togo to stage a week-long sex strike to demand the resignation of the country's president...
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Gambia president vows to execute death row inmates

Associated Press
BANJUL, Gambia (AP) - Gambia's president says he has vowed to start executing by mid-September all of the country's inmates who had been sentenced to the death penalty as part of efforts to curb the rising crime rate...
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The accused Chris Mahlungu (C) arrives at court ahead of the first day of the murder trial of the white supremacist Afrikaner Resistance Movement leader (AWB) Eugene Terre'Blanche at the Ventersdorp Magistrate courthouse on May 3, 2011.  (AFP PHOTO / STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN)

South African gets life for killing white supremacist

Emoke Bebiak, Associated Press
JOHANNESBURG (AP) - A black farmworker was sentenced to life in prison Wednesday for the brutal murder of South African white supremacist leader Eugene Terreblanche in a case that has been a source of racial tension in the city of Ventersdorp...
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Samia Yusuf Omar of Somalia competes in the Women's 200m Heats held at the National Stadium on Day 11 of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games on August 19, 2008 in Beijing, China. (Photo by Stu Forster/Getty Images)

Somali Olympic runner drowns off Libya coast

Associated Press
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) - An official says one of Somalia's best female athletes drowned after the small boat she was riding in capsized off the Libyan coast during an attempted crossing to Italy for training a month ago...
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Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi speaks during the 20th World Economic Forum on Africa at Mlimanin City Conference Centre in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Meles died Monday, Aug. 20, 2012 following weeks of illness, Ethiopian State media reported. He was 57. (AP Photo/Khalfan Said, File)

Ethiopian leader Meles Zenawi dies

Jason Straziuso
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) - Meles Zenawi, Ethiopia's long-time ruler and a major U.S. counter-terrorism ally who is credited with economic gains but blamed for human rights abuses...
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Play about gay man staged in Uganda

Rodney Muhumuza, Associated Press
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) - A play that revolves around the turbulent life of a gay man in Uganda is being staged in the East African nation, where three years ago a parliamentarian wrote a bill seeking the death penalty for homosexuals...
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