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A court in Nairobi has issued a warrant requiring that President Kibaki's government arrest and hand over Sudan leader Omar al Bashir to the International Criminal Court should he ever set foot in Kenya again. Justice Nicholas Ombija of the High Court granted the orders following an application by the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) Kenya Chapter.
Nigeria: Senate Outlaws Same-Sex Marriage - Offenders to Get 10-Year J...
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The Nigerian Senate today passed a Bill prohibiting same-sex marriage. Termed Same-Sex Prohibition Bill, it stipulates a 10-year jail term for offenders. Announcing the passage of the Bill, Senate president David mark said that marriage between same sexes is alien to the Nigerian tradition and against all religious morals.
Parents of conjoined twins in Cameroon plead for help; They are so new...
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Together, they weigh 9.7 pounds. They are two baby girls born in a miraculous delivery in this impoverished Cameroon village. They both have arms and legs but they are joined at the chest and abdomen. The parents desperately search for a way to separate their newborns. Even in sophisticated hospitals, the operation is risky. But here, in Cameroon, so many forces act against them.
Obama orders U.S. troops to help chase down African 'army' l...
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President Barack Obama is sending about 100 U.S. troops to Africa to help hunt down the leaders of the notoriously violent Lord's Resistance Army in and around Uganda. "I have authorized a small number of combat-equipped U.S. forces to deploy to central Africa to provide assistance to regional forces that are working toward the removal of Joseph Kony from the battlefield," Obama said in letter sent Friday to House Speaker John Boehner and Daniel Inouye, the president pro tempore of the Senate. Kony is the head of the Lord's Resistance Army.
Nigerian police have questioned two students after a video of an alleged gang rape in what appeared to be a university hostel was posted on the Internet, causing widespread outrage. The video, no longer available online, clearly showed the face of the assaulted woman, pleading with her assailants to stop.
Many schools across the country were on Tuesday shut down by a teachers' strike called to pressure the government to recruit an additional 28,000 teachers.The strike does not affect private schools. In Nairobi, the Kenya National Union of Teachers said the strike would continue until their demands are met.
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Nigeria: We Have N50 Million, Cars for Fresh Bombings - Boko Haram
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The end of the crisis in Jos, the Plateau State capital, may not be in sight anytime soon, if the security alert issued by the military joint task force in the state is anything to go by.According to the security alert, which was reportedly sent to the Defence Headquarters in Abuja, a secret meeting was said to have been held in a village on the outskirts of Jos
The world's earliest sophisticated stone tools have been found near Lake Turkana in northwest Kenya. The teardrop-shaped hand-axes date to about 1.76 million years ago, and would have been used for a range of tasks from chopping wood to cutting up meat.They would have been so useful in fact that scientists describe them as the "Swiss army knife" of the Stone Age.
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