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Suspected Boko Haram raid kills at least 10 in Cameroon village

Daily Dispatch October 30, 2017

Suspected Boko Haram militants killed at least 10 villagers in northern Cameroon on Sunday night in what army and local officials said was revenge for attacks by Cameroon’s army. Cameroon’s semi-arid Far North region has been a target of Boko Haram suicide bombings and raids for eight years as

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Six dead as Israel blows up tunnel from Gaza

Daily Dispatch October 30, 2017

Six Palestinians were killed Monday as Israel blew up what it said was a tunnel stretching from the Gaza Strip into its territory, a rare case of such an incident since a devastating 2014 war. Ashraf al-Qudra, spokesman for the Hamas-led Gazan health ministry, confirmed six men had been killed. One of the men came […]

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Mugabe bans foreign NGOs from Zimbabwe’s elections

Daily Dispatch October 26, 2017

President Robert Mugabe has banned the west-funded Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) from observing the 2018 elections. This is not the first time that the country has barred Western organisations from observing elections, accusing them of harbouring sinister intentions to promote regime change. “We don’t need them. We are saying no. We are going to have elections […]

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CLOONEY DONATES $1M TO COMBAT CORRUPTION IN AFRICA

Daily Dispatch October 26, 2017

Famous Hollywood actor, George Clooney has donated the sum of $1million to according to him combat war crimes and corruption in Africa. The Clooney Foundation for Justice on Wednesday announced the gift to the Sentry, an investigative initiative that Clooney co-founded to uncover the financial networks behind conflicts in Africa. In a statement, Clooney said the […]

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Myanmar seizes $4.6m crystal meth

Daily Dispatch October 26, 2017

Myanmar said Thursday it had seized $4.6 million worth of crystal methamphetamine in the heart of the drug-producing ‘Golden Triangle’ zone that showers narcotics across the region. The remote area — which covers Shan State, Laos and northern Thailand — churns out huge quantities of opium and meth that are smuggled across porous borders to […]

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BREAKING: Catalan leader warns crisis will worsen if Spain removes powers

Daily Dispatch October 26, 2017

Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont warned Thursday that a crisis over an independence drive by Catalonia’s separatists would escalate if Spain goes ahead with plans to take over the wealthy’s region’s powers. “To solve that the government has called an extraordinary serious situation, it will create an even more serious extraordinary situation by seizing Catalonia’s