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Ethiopia hands lengthy prison terms to Muslim activists

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ADDIS ABABA | BY AARON MAASHO | Mon 3 Aug 2015 | REUTERS An Ethiopian court sentenced 17 Muslim activists on Monday to prison sentences ranging from seven to 22 years on charges they plotted to create an Islamic state in the majority Christian country. A journalist for a Muslim newspaper was also sentenced for conspiring with the activists, the court in Addis Ababa … [Read more...] about Ethiopia hands lengthy prison terms to Muslim activists

She Owes Her Activism To A Brave Mom, The ADA And Chocolate Cake

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JOSEPH SHAPIRO, 31 JULY 2015, NPR To Haben Girma's grandmother, back in East Africa, it "seemed like magic." Her granddaughter, born deaf and blind, is a graduate of Harvard Law School and works as a civil rights attorney. It's easy to understand why the grandmother feels that way. Years before, she had tried to find a school in Eritrea for Girma's older brother, who … [Read more...] about She Owes Her Activism To A Brave Mom, The ADA And Chocolate Cake

Ebola vaccine 100 percent effective in Guinea trials

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2015-07-31, FRANCE24 The world is on the verge of being able to protect humans against Ebola, the World Health Organization said on Friday, as a trial in Guinea found a vaccine to have been 100 percent effective. Initial results from the trial, which tested Merck and NewLink Genetics’ VSV-ZEBOV vaccine on some 4,000 people who had been in close contact with a confirmed Ebola … [Read more...] about Ebola vaccine 100 percent effective in Guinea trials

Zimbabwe calls for extradition of Cecil the lion’s killer

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HARARE | BY MACDONALD DZIRUTWE | Fri 31 Jul 2015 |REUTERS The American dentist who killed Cecil the lion was a "foreign poacher" who paid for an illegal hunt and he should be extradited to Zimbabwe to face justice, environment minister Oppah Muchinguri said on Friday. In Harare's first official comments since Cecil's killing grabbed world headlines this week, … [Read more...] about Zimbabwe calls for extradition of Cecil the lion’s killer