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The trial of a king: Ancient royal ritual in Cameroon promotes peace

Brazil’s Lula undergoes surgery for brain hemorrhage

Ghana opposition leader Mahama officially wins election

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New Syria PM says all religious groups’ rights ‘guaranteed’

Syria’s ‘slaughterhouse’ Sednaya prison: families’ desperate search for the missing

184 killed in Haiti capital violence over weekend: UN

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Politics Gwarube caught between a rock and a hard place over Bela Act implementation

South Africa New GNU ministers, deputy ministers to cost SA taxpayers more than R200m

South Africa Water crisis: Concerns raised over Rand Water’s 86-hour planned repairs in Joburg

Betway PSL Sundowns chairman Motsepe explains Mngqithi sacking

News ‘Keep us in your prayers’: Family speak on Senzo Meyiwa murder trial lawyer Thulani Mngomezulu’s death

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