Saturday, March 05, 2016
Manchester City kept their title hopes alive by scoring four second-half goals to thump Aston Villa
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Bobbi Kristina Brown's cause of death revealed
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Whitney Houston's daughter died as a result of immersion in water and drug intoxication, medical records show.
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Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe: Foreign companies 'stole diamonds'
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Zimbabwean
President Robert Mugabe has accused foreign mining companies of
stealing the country's wealth, after an announcement that the government
will take control of all diamond mines.
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Sudan Islamist opposition leader Turabi dies aged 84
Hassan al-Turabi,
the Sudanese opposition leader who helped bring President Omar al-Bashir
to power, has died at 84 in the capital Khartoum.
A hospital source told AFP news agency he had suffered a heart attack.Mr Turabi was a key ally of Mr Bashir when he took power in a coup in 1989 but they fell out a decade later.
He was one of the most divisive figures in the country's turbulent history, says the BBC's former Sudan correspondent, James Copnall.
For the first decade of Mr Bashir's rule, Mr Turabi was the de facto leader of the country, and his influence spread beyond Sudan's borders.
His death was announced by state TV, which described him as a "well-known Islamic thinker", and was confirmed by his party.
Karate attack
During his years of ascendancy, he promoted a radical version of Islamism, with sharia, or Islamic, law applied strictly,Osama bin Laden accepted an invitation to live in Sudan, and the civil war against the largely non-Muslim southern Sudanese was intensified.
The Sudanese security services were accused of numerous human rights abuses against dissidents. Large numbers of Sudanese fled the country.
One, a Karate black belt, attacked Mr Turabi in the Canadian capital Ottawa in 1992, leaving him in a coma, but Mr Turabi survived.
In 1999, he lost a power struggle with Mr Bashir and subsequently founded an opposition party but spent much of the next decade in prison.
In March 2014, the two men had their first public meeting in years, with Mr Turabi visiting President Bashir at his guest house.
Born in Kassala in eastern Sudan, the son of a local
imam, Mr Turabi moved to Khartoum to study law before completing his
studies in London and Paris.
He joined Sudan's Muslim Brotherhood and rose to national prominence in the 1964 revolution which overthrew General Ibrahim Abboud.
A widely read man with a high-pitched giggle, Mr Turabi was famous for his comprehensive - some would say rambling - interviews, our correspondent says.
Mr Turabi advocated the rights of women and democracy within Islam, and saw himself as a moderate reformer - but he presided over perhaps the most brutal period in Sudan's history, James Copnall adds.
He joined Sudan's Muslim Brotherhood and rose to national prominence in the 1964 revolution which overthrew General Ibrahim Abboud.
A widely read man with a high-pitched giggle, Mr Turabi was famous for his comprehensive - some would say rambling - interviews, our correspondent says.
Mr Turabi advocated the rights of women and democracy within Islam, and saw himself as a moderate reformer - but he presided over perhaps the most brutal period in Sudan's history, James Copnall adds.
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Nigeria's Boko Haram 'cattle markets' shut down
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NIGERIA
Four
cattle markets in northern Nigeria, where stolen animals were allegedly
being sold to finance the Boko Haram Islamist insurgency, have been
shut down.
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Mujuru: 'Mugabe is a living spirit'
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KIMATAIFA
Zimbabwe
Ex-vice president Joice Mujuru says Zimbabwe is lucky to have Mugabe.
Yet in an exclusive interview with DW's Privilege Musvanhiri, she said
that she thinks Mugabe should have groomed a successor.
What inspired the formation of your political party Zimbabwe People First?
Joice Mujuru: People First felt that people's aspirations were not being realized because of how the rule of law was being flattened.
Joice Mujuru: People First felt that people's aspirations were not being realized because of how the rule of law was being flattened.
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NEW VIDEO: Nameless (@namelesskenya) and Nyashinski – LETIGO (Official Music Video)
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AF envoys meet in Dar derby
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Yanga's Simon Msuva (left) and Shomari Kapombe of Azam FC in action
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Kanye West Reveals 2 Chainz & Lil Wayne's 'ColleGrove' Project Release Date
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Thundercat on How Kendrick Lamar's New Project 'Completes the Sentence' of 'To Pimp a Butterfly'
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Taylor Swift & Justin Bieber Lead Radio Disney Music Awards Nominations
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South Sudan should embrace challenge as a development catalyst
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TPDF bids farewell to 16 generals
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KITAIFA
About 16 high-ranking officers of the Tanzania People’s Defence Forces (TPDF) retired yesterday in a colourful ceremony held at Twalipo Administrative Unit (TAU), on the outskirts of Dar es Salaam.
The ceremony was attended by Chief of Defence Forces, Gen Davis
Mwamunyange and other top level commanders.
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