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    Nigeria’s president on Thursday ousted the Central Bank governor who exposed billions of missing petrodollars, a move critics say is a warning to whistleblowers in the run-up to a hotly contested presidential election in Africa’s biggest oil producer....

    At an Israeli safe house, Ethiopian women sold into slavery team up with a photographer to tell their stories. Over the past 10 years, hundreds of Eritrean and Ethiopian migrants have been kidnapped and sold into slavery in the Sinai desert, where they have been...

    Muhammed Sillah concedes he broke rules but says months behind bars unjust — and adds he’d be a target back home.   Muhammed Sillah has been locked up for nine months.   The former student at Mohawk College in Hamilton has trouble understanding why.  ...

      Veteran Ted Ligety produced yet another flawless run to clinch the giant slalom at the Sochi Games on Wednesday, becoming the first American man to win two Olympic gold medals in Alpine skiing. The 29-year-old, who finished atop the leaderboard in Torino...

    A small but growing elite of super-wealthy Kenyans are putting the country top on the continent’s rich list, a new report shows. The super-rich are dollar millionaires, some of them many times over, and control about half of the country’s wealth. And the group is...

    Joseph Yobo’s in laws are extremely angry with him because he is yet to marry their daughter traditionally, according to Yes Magazine. Yobo’s wife, Adaeze, is from Iru-Owelle Village in Awka Etiti, Idemili South  local government area of Anambra State....

    Facebook is buying huge messaging app WhatsApp  for $12 billion in stock and $4 billion in cash. Facebook set aside another $3 billion in restricted stock units to  be granted to WhatsApp’s founders and employees that will vest over the next  four years. WhatsApp...

    About 200 sub-Saharan migrants stormed a barbed-wire border fence early in the morning Monday along Spain’s northwest African enclave of Melilla, with about 50 getting through, Spain’s Interior Ministry office in the city said. Eight migrants were...

      At least one person was killed and six others injured in Guinea’s capital Conakry on Tuesday when protests against frequent power cuts turned violent and the offices of a Brazilian construction firm were attacked, witnesses said. The protests come as...

    KRASNAYA POLYANA, Russia — When Michael Phelps would stand on the blocks in an Olympic final and do that thing he did, wrapping his arms around and around and making that whap-whap-whap sound, was there really any doubt in his mind — or anyone’s watching — what was...