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SPECIAL TREATMENT FOR WHITES LED TO MARIKANA BLOODBATH, INQUIRY TOLD

Aug. 18 (GIN) – A commission hearing testimony on last year’s deadly miners’ strike, heard that white employees at the Lonmin mine got preferential ...

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LIBERIANS REBEL AS GOVERNMENT PUTS EBOLA CLINIC IN CROWDED SLUM

Aug. 18 (GIN) – An Ebola isolation center was overrun by Liberians in the capital city Monrovia over the weekend, as fear and confusion ...

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RIGHTS GROUP DEMANDS U.S. END SUPPORT FOR KENYA’S ANTI-TERROR GROUP

Aug. 18 (GIN) – A U.S. and U.K.-funded anti-terrorism unit has carried out a series of killings and “enforced disappearances” during its fight against ...

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MILITARY WIVES DEMAND END TO DEPLOYMENTS AGAINST BOKO HARAM

Aug. 11 (GIN) – Wives of military soldiers say they are fed up with government’s top brass sending under-equipped foot soldiers to fight the ...

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UGANDAN GAYS REJOICE AS COURT REJECTS OPPRESSIVE LAW

Aug. 11 (GIN) – At a gay pride rally on the shores of Lake Victoria, over 100 members of Uganda’s oppressed sexual minority led ...

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SPREAD OF EBOLA LINKED TO TWO-YEAR OLD

Aug. 11 (GIN) – If researchers are correct, a two year old in southeastern Guinea, who died last year with Ebola symptoms, was the ...

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AFRICAN WRITERS RIP U.S. SUMMIT, ASKING ‘FOR WHOSE BENEFIT?’

Aug. 11 (GIN) – Charles Onyango-Obbo of The East African, a Kenyan daily, joined a growing number of writers and scholars questioning the aims ...