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>Calls mounted Monday for US action to help find and free more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped last month by Islamist militants, amid growing outrage and fears over their fate.

>The magnitude of the terror threat facing Kenya was exposed on Saturday after it emerged that the US ambassador had requested extra security and will reduce the size of staff working at the embassy.

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US Marines, Tanzanian Rangers train to fight trafficking
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US Marines training Tanzanian rangers. Fifteen U.S. Marines and Sailors assigned to Theater Security Cooperation Team-Six, Special-Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force Crisis Response-Africa, conducted small unit tactics training with more than 40 ...

Selous Game Reserve, TANZANIA.  Ambassador Mark Childress observed on Monday a training of 50 Park Rangers by a team of U.S. Marines and Sailors.  This month long training is aimed at helping the Rangers combat illicit trafficking across the reserve.  The Marines and Sailors are from Special-Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force Crisis Response-Africa and are helping to develop small unit tactics, patrolling techniques, night operations, and logistical capabilities to increase the Rangers’...

On March 27 2015 , U.S. Marines presenting a token of appreciation to the Selous Park Rangers. The U.S marines conducted a one month training with the Rangers, specific topics included weapons handling and safety, combat marksmanship, patrol movement formations, react to contact drills, first aid, mission planning, land navigation, vehicle maintenance, and fundamentals of offensive operations. On March 27, 2015. U.S. Chargé d’Affaires, Virginia Blaser, with U.S Marines and Selous Park...

>Assaults on albinos have been in the media spotlight for the past seven years, yet the only thing we know for sure is this:  They are attacked, mutilated and killed for their body parts--presumably for use in witchcraft concoctions. The people behind these inhuman and callous acts remain unknown even though investigators have arrested, interrogated and prosecuted many people reportedly hired to attack albinos.

Bitterly disappointing. These two words best describe the national senior cricket team’s performance in this year’s ICC Africa Twenty20 Division 1 championship in South Africa.