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ALL EYES ON TUNISIA AFTER LEADER IS OUSTED

Aug. 1, 2016 (GIN) – Tunisia, the birthplace of the Arab Spring uprisings in 2011, has now fired its own prime minister with a ...

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YOUNG AFRICAN LEADERS WIND UP U.S. TOUR, MEET OBAMA

Aug. 1, 2016 (GIN) – With media attention glued to the salacious details of the U.S. election, a signature program of President Obama is ...

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PARTY OF MANDELA HEARS CALLS FOR CHANGE

Aug. 1, 2016 (GIN) – This week’s municipal polls will reveal the depth of disenchantment with the historic African National Congress. Massive unemployment, failing ...

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KENYAN LAWYERS WALK OUT OVER EXTRAJUDICIAL KILLINGS

July 5, 2016 (GIN) – Four police officers have been arrested in the torture/murder of a noted Kenyan human rights lawyer and two other ...

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NEW OPPOSITION IN ZIMBABWE LAUNCHES CAMPAIGN

June 27, 2016 (GIN) – Zimbabwe‘s former vice president, Joice Mujuru, was the headliner at a rally this week in Matabeleland in one of ...

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PROBE SOUGHT FOR GAMBIAN ACTIVIST FOUND DEAD IN JAIL

June 27, 2016 (GIN) – A leading opposition figure in the Gambia has been found dead in a jail cell shortly after his arrest ...

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BILLIONAIRE SKIPS JAIL AFTER SENEGAL LEADER’S PARDON

June 27, 2016 (GIN) – Karim Wade, son of ex-president Abdoulaye Wade, has been pardoned and freed from jail by the current Senegalese president, ...

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BREXIT – WHAT DOES IT MEAN FOR AFRICA?

June 27, 2016 (GIN) – Writing on the blogpost This Is Africa, Malawi journalist Levi Kabwato tackled the much-reported story of “Brexit” – the ...

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APARTHEID-ERA VICTIMS SUFFER DEFEAT IN U.S. COURT

June 27, 2016 (GIN) – Efforts by South African victims of racist apartheid to obtain justice suffered a new defeat in the U.S. Supreme ...

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NEW BOOK ASKS ‘WHAT IF THERE WERE NO WHITES?’

Dec. 21 (GIN) – South African newspaper editor Ferial Haffajee’s new book has a sensational title for a deadly serious issue. “What If There ...