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No murder charges for cops involved in Breonna Taylor death
The Louisville grand jury hearing the case of the death of Breonna Taylor has indicted only one of the officers involved in the shooting, Det. Brett Hankinson, on three counts of wanton endangerment in...
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Why do people believe the leader of Equatorial Guinea is a cannibal?
Equatorial Guinea‘s dictator Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo is in many ways, just like any other authoritarian leader prolonging his stay in power and maintaining an unchallengeable iron fist over...
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Liberia’s first ‘indigenous’ president was tortured on video and laid naked in state
After Charles Taylor was able to put together a militia dubbed the National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL) with the help of Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi in 1989, Liberian defense forces stood very...
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That time when Ghana, Guinea and Mali tried to become one nation
Although the dream of a United States of Africa has been situated in African intellectual history for nearly 100 years, the first substantial attempt to bring that dream to life was an ambitious project...
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Barbados removes Queen Elizabeth as head of state – symbolic nothingness?
In a move that will coincide with the 55th anniversary of its independence, the island of Barbados will be removing Queen Elizabeth II as its head of state, Prime Minister Mia Mottley announced on Tuesday....
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These gov’t officials in Nigeria dramatically became ill when they had to face hearings
Nigeria has a lot of political dramas to contribute to any continental discussion on how highly-placed and powerful people in the country curiously react to pressure from institutions or the people. It...
