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by Frank McCoy onNovember 1, 2011
The East African country sees infotech as the key to moving up, but terror threatens those plans.
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April 13, 2011
Morgan Freeman narrates a new documentary about two women who raise orphaned wild animals so they don't become extinct.
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September 13, 2010
Has anyone of Gingrich’s status ever said, simply, “Barack Obama is not normal”?
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by Nsenga Burton onAugust 27, 2010
A system of checks and balances is still in place.
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January 5, 2010
Ebony's Eunice Johnson dies, Kenya ousts Jamaican cleric, France resists university quotas.
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by Dayo Olopade onDecember 26, 2009
The latest botched act of terrorism raises important questions about U.S. competence in guarding against terror, and yet another American effort to build an important relationship with a fragile, unstable country.
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August 5, 2009
Instead, she is continuing the administration's tour of Africa's trouble areas...
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July 28, 2009
Concerned with the country's heavy fighting, The Secretary of State wants to see what's really good...
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by Wole Soyinka onJuly 14, 2009
The Nobel Laureate dissects the message the president's trip to Ghana should send to the corrupt and failing states of Africa.
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by Dayo Olopade onJuly 9, 2009
Barack Obama's first presidential trip to Sub-Saharan Africa will focus on the good guys—but we couldn't resist calling out the bad. Your guide to the Ghana trip, and the company Obama should be keeping abroad.
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