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New York Post - Sat Nov 28, 6:50 pm ET
NAIROBI, Kenya — The mistaken belief that albino body parts have magical powers has driven thousands of Africa's albinos into hiding, fearful of losing their lives and limbs to unscrupulous dealers who can make up to $75,000 selling a complete dismem...
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The Patriot-News - Sat Nov 28, 5:59 pm ET
Adopting two children from Kenya was the first connection that Jean Corey, a professor of English at Messiah College, had to the poverty-stricken nation.
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MSNBC - Sat Nov 28, 12:08 pm ET
The mistaken belief that albino body parts have magical powers has displaced or driven thousands of albinos in East Africa into hiding, the Red Cross says.
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KWQC-TV 6 Davenport - Sat Nov 28, 11:22 am ET
The mistaken belief that albino body parts have magical powers has driven thousands of Africa's albinos into hiding, fearful of losing their lives and limbs to unscrupulous dealers who can make up to $75,000 selling a...
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Columbia Daily Tribune - Sat Nov 28, 10:03 am ET
Columbia College volleyball player Maria Omondi was named College Division Academic All-American of the Year by the College Sports Information Directors of America.
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Bluffton Today - Sat Nov 28, 7:55 am ET
Birth Leah and Michael Dubs announce the birth of a daughter. Sarah Namayanja Dubs was born at 1:08 p.m. Nov. 19 at Hilton Head Hospital. She was 20 ½ inches long and weighed 7 pounds, 12 ounces..
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Reuters via Yahoo! News - Sat Nov 28, 7:54 am ET
Rebels suspected of links to al Qaeda seized a Somali town near the Kenyan border on Saturday, sending civilians fleeing toward the neighboring country.
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The Phoenix - Sat Nov 28, 6:39 am ET
"How can a nation be great if its bread tastes like Kleenex."
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The Morning Call - Sat Nov 28, 3:55 am ET
History tells us that the earliest Pilgrim fathers were engaged in a quest for asylum. So was Prophet Muhammad of Islam centuries earlier when he was forced to migrate from Mecca, where he was persecuted, to the city of Medina. This migration is called Hijrah.
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Asheville Citizen-Times - Sat Nov 28, 12:23 am ET
HENDERSONVILLE — E-mail information about faith-based events and what's going on at your place of worship at least two weeks in advance of the event to Features Editor Bruce Steele at bsteele@citizen-times.com . Items are published one-eightdays in advance, in Saturday's Mountains section, space permitting.
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Richmond Times-Dispatch - Sat Nov 28, 12:17 am ET
KOURE, Niger—A crisp African dawn is breaking overhead, and Zibo Mounkaila is on the back of a pickup truck bounding across a sparse landscape of rocky orange soil. The tallest animals on earth are here, the guide says, somewhere amid the scant green bush on one side and the thatched dome villages on the other. A hundred years ago, West Africa’s last giraffes numbered in the thousands, and their ...
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The Idaho Statesman - Fri Nov 27, 11:09 pm ET
For a young boy growing up in Kangundo, Kenya, Chapati - tasty fried wheat bread - was Christmas . My family, like many others, could afford it only on Christmas . This Christmas , many Kenyan children and their parents will not have anything to eat.
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AP via Yahoo! Sports - Fri Nov 27, 3:11 pm ET
AB de Villiers smashed 121 off 85 balls as South Africa piled up 354-6 and crushed England by 112 runs in the third one-day international at Newlands on Friday. South Africa responded to its seven-wicket defeat at Centurion last Sunday by equaling the highest total in a ODI at Newlands. The Proteas hit 354-3 against Kenya eight seasons ago.
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Worldwide Faith News - Fri Nov 27, 2:19 pm ET
Posted On : November 27, 2009 12:38 PM | Posted By : Admin ACO Related Categories: ACO ACNS: http://www.anglicancommunion.org/acns/news.cfm/2009/11/27/ACNS4671 Following the resolution passed at ACC-14 (14.05) 'The Bible in the Life of the Church' a Steering Group has been appointed to take the work forward.
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Converge! Network Digest - Fri Nov 27, 1:47 pm ET
Zain Outsource Mobile Operations in East Africa to NSN Zain has agreed to outsource its mobile network operations in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda to Nokia Siemens Networks. The operator currently serves over 9 million customers across these three countries.