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• Research: South Africans most active tweeters

  Young people tweeting from BlackBerrys and iPhones are driving the growth of Twitter in Africa, with South Africans by far the most vociferous, according to new research published Thursday.

• U.S. to young Kenyans: 'Yes Youth Can!'

  A U.S. government-backed program is telling young Kenyans "Yes Youth Can!" in a political program designed to improve leadership skills that carries overtones of President Obama's election message.

• First African woman to win Nobel Peace Prize dies

  Wangari Maathai, the first African woman recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, died after a long struggle with cancer, the environmental organization she founded said Monday. She was 71.

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  First African woman to win Nobel Peace Prize dies

  Wangari Maathai, the first female African recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, died after a long struggle with cancer, the environmental organization she founded said Monday. She was 71.

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  At least 75 dead in Kenya pipeline explosion

  A leaking gasoline pipeline in Nairobi, Kenya's capital, exploded on Monday, turning part of a slum into an inferno in which at least 75 people were killed and more than 100 hurt.

• Jill Biden visits refugee camp, requests help for starving Somalis

  Vice President Joseph R. Biden's wife visited an overcrowded refugee camp Monday to underscore U.S. concern for the famine in East Africa, as a U.S. official warned that hundreds of thousands of Somali children could die of hunger.

• Rights group warns of violence in Kenya's 2012 elections

  Three years ago, Kenya's top leaders pulled the country back from devastating post-election violence. Today, the country is peaceful, but human rights advocates say they worry that the country could explode again during next year's vote.

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  U.N. peacekeepers come under threat in Ivory Coast

  The United Nations declared Alassane Ouattara the winner of Ivory Coast's long-delayed presidential vote, but incumbent leader Laurent Gbagbo has refused to step aside now for more than a month. Mr. Gbagbo accuses the United Nations of failing to remain neutral, and the United Nations has ignored his demand for thousands of peacekeepers leave.

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  U.N. peacekeepers come under threat in Ivory Coast

  The United Nations declared Alassane Ouattara the winner of Ivory Coast's long-delayed presidential vote, but incumbent leader Laurent Gbagbo has refused to step aside now for more than a month. Mr. Gbagbo accuses the United Nations of failing to remain neutral, and the United Nations has ignored his demand for thousands of peacekeepers leave.

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  ICC prosecutor seeks Kenya charges

  The International Criminal Court's prosecutor named six Kenyan leaders Wednesday as the purported orchestrators of violence after the country's 2007 election that left more than 1,000 people dead.

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  Embassy Row

  Kenya risks a violent backlash worse than the political upheaval after the 2007 presidential election that left up to 1,500 dead, unless the East African nation adopts "significant reforms" that include ending the "culture of impunity" for top politicians like the president and prime minister, the U.S. ambassador in Nairobi warned in a confidential report earlier this year.

• Embassy Row

  Kenya's ambassador to the United States is defending his government's refusal to arrest the president of Sudan on war-crime charges when he visited Kenya for a celebration of the new constitution.

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  SMITH: Buying Kenya's pro-abortion constitution

  On August 27th, President Mwai Kibaki signed a new constitution for the Republic of Kenya that was approved in an August 4th national referendum. Mr. Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga said, "All Kenyans won on this matter." Unfortunately, there are compelling reasons to fear that may not be true.

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