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Young children in rural Uganda are forced to work to sustain their families as grandparents who used to rely on their children now have nowhere else to turn. Read more »
Sibusiso Vilane made history in 2008 by being the first black African to walk to the South Pole. His new challenge is to reach the North Pole, a trek he begins this month. Africa's campaign to reform international multilateral institutions is receiving a boost by the candidacy of Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, right, to head the World Bank.
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Homemade Bulldozer Battleship Joins Libya Fight | Fox News
Onto a battlefield littered with bizarre homemade weaponry, Libya's ruling militia fighters have rolled out their weirdest contraption yet: a concrete and steel behemoth that's a cross between a bulldozer and a battleship. The towering monster, which appeared Wednesday in Sirte to help capture Muammar Qaddafi's home town, has a battleship's pointed prow and portholes along its sides with steel covers that can be pulled down. Clad in concrete sandwiched between steel plates, it is painted in the colors of the new national flag -- red, green and black.
In his bid for the Democratic nomination for governor, Walter Dalton talks little about himself.
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