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Mandela legacy battered by South Africa’s troubles

The News International 04 Dec 2023
SOWETO, South Africa. Soweto´s Vilakazi Street is packed each day with tourists and hawkers outside the home of Nelson Mandela that has been meticulously kept even as the democracy pioneer´s legacy has become rundown in the decade since his death ... Street crime and murders have also ...
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TODAY IN HISTORY

Waco Tribune-Herald 03 Dec 2023
Two charged after infant found dead Lions avenge district loss to Lorena in regional final romp Bosqueville's Zander steps down after 15-year run leading Bulldogs Marlin's 'Big Dogs' in the trenches starring in playoff run Aranda to return for fifth season as Baylor football coach in 2024 Waco seeks developer for 15th Street housing.
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Exhibition explores how the Victorians are being reimagined in contemporary art

The Conversation 01 Dec 2023
They may have overseen the largest empire in the world has ever seen, but activists including Henry Sylvester Williams and Alice Kinloch also founded the Africa Association and fought for the civil rights of colonised people from the streets of London – the heart of the empire.
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Kevin Sinfield says he has

The Daily Mail 30 Nov 2023
The marathon man is just warming up ... And the even better news? Sinfield is not ready to toss away his trainers anytime soon ... Pictured ... So while England’s players would have had their feet up following that agonising one-point defeat to South Africa, Sinfield was back out pounding the streets of Saddleworth when he returned home ... But he insists ... .
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Filmmakers in Bruce Peninsula 'accidentally' discover 128-year-old shipwreck

Auburnpub dot com 30 Nov 2023
This summer, the Bruce Peninsula filmmakers accidentally discovered what’s believed to be the wreck of the “Africa,” a steamship that sunk in October of 1895 while carrying coal from the United States to Owen Sound across Lake Huron ... Eleven people perished on the Africa when it sank ... This place was named after the captain of the Africa, Hans Larsen.
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Security expert warns parents about alarming rate of kidnappings in South Africa, urges vigilance

Independent online (SA) 29 Nov 2023
Stick to streets they know and never take short cuts through quiet areas or empty parking lots and never walk with cellphones and iPads in full view ... “This may sound like something out of a movie, but kidnappings are real and rife in South Africa.
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UK PM Rishi Sunak refers to his Punjabi heritage in Gurpurab message

Hindustan Times 27 Nov 2023
“Sixty years after my Naniji boarded a plane in East Africa, on a warm sunny evening in October, her great-granddaughters, my kids, played in the street outside our home, painted rangoli on the doorstep, lit sparklers and diyas; had fun like so many other families on Diwali. Except the street was Downing Street, and the door was the door to No.
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Curfew set in Sierra Leone after shootouts

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette 27 Nov 2023
West Africa's regional economic bloc ... Nearly 60% of Sierra Leone's population is facing poverty, with the youth unemployment rate being one of the highest in West Africa.    CORRECTS DATE - The streets of Freetown, Sierra Leone, are empty Sunday, Nov, 26, 2023.
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Nothing to see here! Cover-up claims as Arizona border patrol sector that saw record 15,300 illegal...

The Daily Mail 27 Nov 2023
Senegalese migrants are amongst the thousands of others that have been turned away from processing facilities and let out onto the streets to fend for themselves. Lines of thousands of migrants from parts of Africa and Mexico are seen pouring onto the streets of Tucson after being turned away from CBP holding facilities.
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Sierra Leone Declares Nationwide Curfew After Gunmen Attack Main Military Barracks in Freetown

Voa News 26 Nov 2023
Videos online, that went viral, reportedly showed soldiers patrolling Freetwon's empty streets and captured the loud blasts of gunshots. West Africa's regional economic bloc of ECOWAS — of which Sierra Leone is a member — described the incident as a plot “to acquire arms and disturb the peace and constitutional order” in the country.
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Sierra Leone declares nationwide curfew after gunmen attack main military barracks in the capital

Jamaica Observer 26 Nov 2023
Videos online, that went viral, reportedly showed soldiers patrolling Freetwon's empty streets and captured the loud blasts of gunshots. West Africa's regional economic bloc of ECOWAS — of which Sioerra Leon is a member — described the incident as a plot "to acquire arms and disturb the peace and constitutional order" in the country.
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Sierra Leone declares nationwide curfew after gunmen attack military barracks in the capital

Corsicana Daily Sun 26 Nov 2023
Videos online, that went viral, reportedly showed soldiers patrolling Freetwon's empty streets and captured the loud blasts of gunshots. West Africa's regional economic bloc of ECOWAS — of which Sioerra Leon is a member — described the incident as a plot “to acquire arms and disturb the peace and constitutional order” in the country.
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I didn’t fit in Wales, but found my sense of place by understanding its history, and my own

The Observer 26 Nov 2023
Yet my upbringing was interspersed with spells in Africa and, interestingly, Tessa never came with me ... And there, in the 1800s, just along the road from our Llandudno home, a missionary college full of Black boys from the Congo and across Africa quietly getting on with their studies, talking and walking those same seaside streets.
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Tory row over Rwanda flights as new Home Secretary is slapped down by No10 and ...

The Daily Mail 26 Nov 2023
James Cleverly is at the center of a growing Tory row over Rwanda deportation flights today after he downplayed the importance of the immigration plan. Downing Street said it was 'committed' to resurrecting the plan to send Channel boat arrivals to east Africa after the new Home Secretary urged people not to 'fixate' on it ... A No 10 source said ... .
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