Twin Bombings Hit a Cafe in Somalia
By MOHAMMED IBRAHIM
The explosions, one by a suicide bomber and the other a car bomb, occurred by a restaurant in Baidoa, south of Mogadishu, that is popular journalists and government officials.
The explosions, one by a suicide bomber and the other a car bomb, occurred by a restaurant in Baidoa, south of Mogadishu, that is popular journalists and government officials.
The decision to end the case appeared to represent both a triumph for President Uhuru Kenyatta and a display of the difficulties involved in prosecuting leaders.
With speeches and celebrations, the country held a day of remembrance, seeking to rediscover the message of its moral touchstone.
In issuing the crowd-control order, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf argued that large concentrations of people at election rallies were precisely the situations that could spawn new infections.
As a young game warden in South Africa, Mr. Player devised a plan to capture rhinos and ship them to other reserves, parks and game farms throughout Africa, and zoos and safari parks around the world.
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Doctors Without Borders, which responded early to the outbreak in West Africa, said local doctors, nurses and charity workers were still carrying an inordinate burden.
While health officials are making headway against the Ebola epidemic in neighboring Liberia, the disease is still rampant here, despite a big international push.
Murderous rampages by Muslims and Christians have swept the north for decades.
Islamism or secularism is a false dichotomy. The real choice is between despotism and freedom.
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More than a week after militants killed scores of people in the Westgate mall in Nairobi, Kenya, investigators sought clues to the attack. These are among the first pictures to emerge from inside the mall since the investigation began.
Mr. Mandela’s quest for freedom in South Africa’s system of white rule took him from the court of tribal royalty to the liberation underground to a prison cell to the presidency.
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