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Father Reunites With Son After Intercontinental Custody Battle

Eugene Pothy (pictured) of East Orange, N.J., was finally reunited with his 10-year-old son, Philippe-Emmanuel, on Tuesday, after the boy’s mother, Judith Any-Grah, sent him to relatives in the the Ivory Coast for eight years, according to the NY Daily News.

For Pothy, finally reuniting with his only son was a long time coming. Any-Grah and her family

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Jan 18, 2012 at 12:24 am

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Police: Nigeria Bomb Suspect Arrested, Escapes

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — The suspected mastermind of the Christmas Day bombing of a Catholic church in Nigeria escaped custody after being arrested in the country’s capital, police acknowledged Tuesday – an embarrassment for a nation struggling to contain increasingly bloody sectarian attacks by a radical Islamist sect.

Authorities said Kabiru Sokoto planned

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Dec 22, 2011 at 8:18 am

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Black Mayors Travel To Africa To Build Alliances

African American mayors from across the country have traveled to Africa for the The 2011 World Summit of Mayors Leadership Conference in Dakar, Senegal.

The summit will feature mayors from Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean. The mayors will discus ways to build alliances and trade ideas.

The Huffington Post reports:

The goal: to build alliances with local leaders from across the planet and exchange a world of ideas and information that they hope

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Oct 5, 2011 at 2:43 pm

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Shocking! Hormonal Contraception Doubles Risk Of HIV Infection

Hormonal contraception may increase the chances of transmitting HIV between sex partners, according to a new study conducted in Africa.

Researchers from the University of Washington in Seattle conducted a study on 3,790 women in Kenya, Botswana, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia. They found that the women using hormonal contraceptives were twice as likely to become infected with HIV.

The risk was increased among those using injectable and oral contraceptives.

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Sep 12, 2011 at 6:17 pm

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Pipeline Fire Kills Dozens In Kenyan Slum

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) Joseph Mwangi hoped and prayed his children had escaped the inferno caused when a leaking gasoline pipeline exploded on Monday, sending flames racing through a Nairobi slum and killing at least 75 people.

Then he saw two small blackened bodies in the wreckage of his home.

“Those were my children,” he sobbed, collapsing in anguish amid the charred corrugated iron sheets and twisted metal.

Mwangi had been feeding his cow when the

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Aug 9, 2011 at 11:26 am

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Bob Marley Song Re-Released To Fight Famine In East Africa

A song recorded by Bob Marley has been re-released to highlight the famine that is going on in East Africa.

A video has been created for the song “High Tide or Low Tide” by acclaimed director, Kevin Macdonald ,and the song is available to download on iTunes to raise money for Save The Children’s East Africa Appeal.

Several celebrities have pledged to support the song and the

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Jul 15, 2011 at 6:07 pm

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Conn. Woman Walking Africa To Raise Millions For Water

A Manchester, Conn. woman is preparing to embark on an ambitious adventure, trekking 7,000 miles across the continent of Africa.

Amy Russell hopes to average 20 miles per day, six days a week to raise money for clean drinking water for people in underdeveloped countries.

Russell’s organization, Walk4Water is sponsoring the effort in the hopes that she will raise upward of $8 million dollars for wells, filtration systems and other water-related projects.

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Jun 9, 2011 at 3:47 pm

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Oil Found In Ghana Could Make It Second Biggest Oil Producer In The World

Oil has been found in Ghana, enough to turn the African country into one of the biggest players in natural resources along side Saudi Arabia and the USA. GBC reports:

Today marked an important day in the annals of Ghana as it pours its first barrels of oil from the Jubilee wells. Ghana is said to posses about 1.8 billion barrels of crude oil in the Jubilee fields alone making it

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