The body of Katoucha Niane, a supermodel originally from Guinea has been discovered by the banks of River Seine in Paris a month after she had gone missing. 
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A vile racist video made by four white South Africans has shocked South Africa. The video allegedly showed black workers at a South African university being tricked to eat food that the four had urinated on. 
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A Somali woman has been arrested in New Zealand over attempts to hijack a local flight from the town Blenheim to Christchurch on New Zealand’s south Island. 
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What on the surface seemed to be a mild cultural misunderstanding has blown into full blown international spat pitting the United Kingdom against Sudan and further deepening the distrust between the West and Islam.What on the surface seemed to be a mild cultural misunderstanding has blown into full blown International spat pitting the United Kingdom against Sudan and further deepening the distrust between the West and Islam. 
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54 year old British teacher arrested in Sudan on charges of “insults against faith and religion” after the class she teaches names a teddy bear Mohammed. 
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Kenyan helicopter pilot survives crash in remote forest and lives for seven days by drinking own urine and eating leaves and roots. 
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A leading African AIDS charity has warned that the actions of ‘Celebrity-philanthropists’ like Bono of U2 and Bob Geldof are hampering the fight to reduce poverty in Africa. 
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The former Prime Minister of Rhodesia Ian Smith has died in Cape Town, South Africa. Ian Smith led a racist regime that ruled Rhodesia, as Zimbabwe was then called from 1965 to 1980. 
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One the fathers of modern Nigerian literature Cyprian Ekwensi has passed away at the age of 86. The Nigerian Guardian reported he died in Enugu in eastern Nigeria following an undisclosed ailment. 
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Moroccans Othman El Gnanoui and Jamal Zougam were yesterday sentenced to a total of 85,786 years for their part in the Madrid bombing that killed 191 train commuters. 
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The Chadian authorities have arrested sixteen Europeans over what it alleges was an attempt to kidnap over 100 Chadian children. 
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American socialite and heiress Paris Hilton’s trip to Rwanda is postponed due to ‘restructuring’ 
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Former President of Mozambique wins the inaugural Mo Ibrahim prize for Achievement in African Leadership. 
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The government of Mali has announced that it is to remove the death penalty from its statute books. 
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Nine South African soldiers killed, fifteen injured as training exercise with anti-aircraft gun goes wrong. 
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Angola’s oil boom fuels a property boom as prices of commercial property soar with some prime locations more expensive than New York or Tokyo. 
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32000 trapped South African miners have been saved as two day rescue mission draws to an end. 
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Tunisian fishermen who rescued 44 migrants in the Mediterranean are to be put on trial by the Italian Government, sparking protests from Human Rights groups. 
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Tanzanian government to provide electricity to 25 per cent of Tanzanians by 2013. 
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The Government of Gabon has announced it is to abolish the death penalty. 
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