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Multiple suicide attacks on churches in northern Nigeria and subsequent rioting by Christian youths targeting Muslims killed at least 36 people on Sunday, officials said.Bomb blasts struck three churches in the northern Kaduna state in the space of an hour, the latest in a string of Sunday attacks that has threatened to ignite wider sectarian strife across the divided country.
A plane carrying 127 illegal immigrants took off for the South Sudan capital of Juba, in the first wave of expulsions of tens of thousands of Africans, the daily Maariv said on its website.The first charter flight left Ben Gurion airport near Tel Aviv overnight Monday carrying 127 men, women and children and was to arrive in Juba some four hours later, Maariv said.
Witnesses say police used tear gas to disperse some 20,000 protesters in the West African nation of Togo.
The body representing nations in western Africa has suspended Mali and has put a peacekeeping force on standby in the most direct threat yet to the junta that seized control in a military coup last week.
U.S. Senator John McCain (Republican-Arizona) delivered the following statement at a press conference in Cairo, Egypt, on February 20:
"I am Senator John McCain from Arizona, and it is a pleasure to return to Cairo. I am joined by four of my colleagues from the Senate -
vendredi, 17 février 2012 22:27
4 Chinese men accused of eating endangered Zimbabwe tortoises
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Four Chinese nationals have been arrested on cruelty charges after they cut up and ate rare tortoises, an animal protection group said Thursday.The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals said the men admitted to killing 40 of the Bell's hinged species, which are listed as endangered. Investigators found 40 skeletons, 13 live tortoises and tortoise meat when they raided a house in rural southern Zimbabwe, the group said.
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US President Barack Obama's grandmother, Mama Sarah Obama, sustained bruises during a road accident at Otonglo on the Kisumu-Busia highway at the weekend.The accident, which took place on Saturday around 9pm, is reported to have occurred after the driver lost control of the vehicle she was in while trying to overtake another.
Zambian corruption investigators on Friday arrested a former minister on theft charges and recorded a statement from ex-president Rupiah Banda's wife in another probe, an official said.The "investigative wings", a graft-busting unit set up by Banda's successor, Michael Sata, said Banda's mines minister Maxwell Mwale had been arrested and charged over the theft of 20 bicycles belonging to small-scale miners.
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