Nigerian Authorities Launch Campaign Against Open Defecation
ABUJA - Baba Awolu reports for work at 5 a.m. each day at a local toilet and washroom facility he owns in the Jahi district of Abuja. The facility, known …
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Two African Airlines Threaten to Terminate Service to Juba
JUBA - Ethiopian Airlines and Kenyan Airlines are threatening to halt service to Juba International Airport because too many customers' bags are being stolen.
After a Friday council of ministers …
Read MoreNorth Korea Says It Doesn’t Want to Talk to US
UNITED NATIONS - North Korea said Monday that while it views the U.S. decision to postpone joint military drills with South Korea as "positive," the adoption of a U.N. resolution …
Read MoreSouth African asylum-seekers held on trespassing charges
PRETORIA, South African police detained more than 180 foreign nationals for storming the UN refugee agency in Pretoria, where they had been staging a sit-in protest, police said.
Hundreds of …
Read MoreAnger As Policeman Charged with Murder of Aboriginal Australian Teenager
SYDNEY - There have been protests around Australia after the alleged murder in police custody of an Aboriginal man by a police officer in the Northern Territory.
Kumanjayi Walker, 19, …
Read MoreBurkina Faso Army: 32 ‘Terrorists’ Killed in Two Operations
OUAGADOUGOU - The Burkina Faso army said on Sunday it had killed 32 "terrorists" in two operations in the north of the country after an attack on a patrol.
One …
Read MoreBenin Activist Brings Health Kits to Haiti’s Poor
French Beninese writer and activist Kemi Seba is in Haiti this weekend on a humanitarian mission.
Seba traveled to the Caribbean nation to show support for the PetroChallenger anti-corruption movement …
Read MoreDemocrat Reelected as Louisiana Governor in Trump Country
BATON ROUGE, LA. - Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards has stunned Republicans again, narrowly winning a second term Saturday as the Deep South's only Democratic governor and handing Donald Trump …
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