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Former U.S. President Barack Obama urged Kenya’s leaders on Monday to turn their backs on the divisive ethnic politics that have frequently spilled over into violence and to stamp down on corruption. Opening a school in his father’s home…
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US President Donald Trump says his face-to-face meeting in Helsinki with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin was "a good start". After two hours of closed-door talks the two leaders went into a working lunch with their senior advisers.…
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Many Kenyans consider Obama native to this country and bask in his success, despite the fact that Obama has never lived in Africa.
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Algeria has deported nearly 400 African migrants trying to reach Europe, sending them back over the Sahara desert into neighboring Niger, the U.N. migration agency (IOM) and Niger said on Sunday. The IOM and European Union are…
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Germany will take 50 of 450 migrants Italy helped to rescue from an overcrowded boat in the Mediterranean on Saturday, the German government said, following an Italian plea for EU states to share responsibility. France and Malta have…
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An apparent suicide attack close to a government ministry in the Afghan capital Kabul on Sunday killed at least seven people and wounded more than 15 as staff were leaving the office in the evening rush hour, officials said. The attack…
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The number of migrants allegedly being forced to cross the Sahara Desert on foot by Algeria has dropped significantly, a UN agency says. The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has dealt with about 10,000 people abandoned near…
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Donald Trump told Theresa May she should sue the EU rather than negotiate over Brexit, she has told the BBC. The US president said on Friday at a joint press conference he had given her a suggestion - but she had found it too "brutal".…
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US President Trump has said he has "low expectations" for his meeting with Russia's Vladimir Putin in Finland on Monday. But he told CBS News that "nothing bad" and "maybe some good" would come out of the encounter. He also said he…
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The president of Tanzania has called for prisoners to be made to work long hours, and to be punished if they are lazy. John Magufuli was speaking at the inauguration of a new prisons chief. Rights groups have accused him of growing…
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