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  • Duke University speaks after ending scholarship for Black students

    Duke Chapel, West Campus, Duke University, Durham, NC. Photo: Wikimedia Commons/ Warren LeMay By Face2Face Africa Duke University has ended its full-ride scholarship program for Black students

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  • EU approved $116.9m to improve security in Somalia

    File Photo/Somali Times The European Union approved $74.4 million for the cost of transferring the security responsibility of the African Union forces that will leave Somalia at the end of this

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President Ruto announces death of Kenya military chief Francis Ogolla

Former Chief of Defence Forces the late General Francis Ogolla By The East African Kenya’s Chief of Defence Forces (CDF) Francis Ogolla is dead, President William Ruto has confirmed.

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The Somali election that almost certainly won’t happen

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Somalia and Kenya agreed to restore diplomatic relations

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The federal budget deficit is ballooning on President Donald Trump’s watch and few in Washington seem to care. And even if they did, the political dynamics that enabled bipartisan deficit-cutting

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