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Saturday, March 10, 2012

Anti-Kony video campaign draws criticism in Uganda

Associated Press
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — The wildly successful viral video campaign to raise global awareness of a brutal Central Africa rebel leader is attracting criticism from Ugandans, some who said Friday that the 30-minute video misrepresents the complicated history of Africa's longest-running conflict.
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Saturday, March 10, 2012

Broncos' Carter takes charity trip to Africa

by Jeff Latzke
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — When he decided as a senior in high school to start his own charitable foundation, Denver Broncos safety Quinton Carter never dreamed he'd be able to help so many people.
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Friday, March 9, 2012

Web star born: Kony video gets millions of views

Associated Press
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — If Joseph Kony lived in relative anonymity before this week, he's an Internet star now.
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Monday, January 23, 2012

Apartheid's black-on-black divide slower to heal

by Donna Bryson
BELA BELA, South Africa (AP) — The shantytown called Vingerkraal seems trapped in South Africa's apartheid past. Tin shacks resemble those hurriedly built by blacks evicted from white territory. Women and children are left on their own for most of the year by men working in faraway cities. Poverty lies tucked between game resorts.
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Monday, January 16, 2012

Survey: Most Haiti text donors have given since

by Barbara Ortutay
NEW YORK (AP) — The massive earthquake that devastated Haiti two years ago prompted an outpouring of charitable donations and propelled a new way of giving — through text messages — into the public eye.
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Thursday, January 12, 2012

South Africa: Joy, sadness as Mandela's party turns 100

Associated Press
BLOEMFONTEIN, South Africa (AP) — Tens of thousands of chanting and dancing revelers waved the green and gold colors of the African National Congress as Africa's oldest liberation movement celebrated its 100th anniversary Sunday, though many South Africans say the party hasn't delivered on its promises since taking power in 1994.
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Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Christmas attacks in Nigeria by sect kill 39

by Jon Gambrell
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Terror attacks across Nigeria by a radical Muslim sect killed at least 39 people, with the majority dying on the steps of a Catholic church after celebrating Christmas Mass as blood pooled in dust from a massive explosion.
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Monday, December 19, 2011

Kim Jong Il, a Cold War-era leader in modern times

Associated Press
PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — Even as the world changed around him, North Korean leader Kim Jong Il remained firmly in control, ruling absolutely at home and keeping the rest of the world on edge through a nuclear weapons program.
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Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Farrakhan, Winfrey visit Haiti on separate trips

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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan started a five-day trip to Haiti on Sunday, arriving just ahead of fellow Chicagoan Oprah Winfrey as they make separate trips to the poor Caribbean country.
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Tuesday, December 13, 2011

3 women accept Nobel Peace Prize

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OSLO, Norway (AP) — Three women who fought injustice, dictatorship and sexual violence in Liberia and Yemen accepted the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize on Saturday, calling on repressed women worldwide to rise up against male supremacy.
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