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South African Man Shares Bhutta With Underprivileged Girls, Wins Hearts Online
In the clip, a man is seen standing beside a cart belonging to a vendor selling bhutta along with his friend.
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Last Known Speaker Fights To Save South African Indigenous Language
When she was a girl in South Africa's Northern Cape, Katrina Esau stopped speaking her mother tongue, N|uu, after being mocked by other people and told it was an "ugly language".
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Woman Who Drove Into Girl For Being Mexican Hit Black Child The Same Day, Cops Say
A woman accused of driving into a teenage girl because she believed she was Mexican had struck another child with her car less than an hour earlier, Iowa authorities say.
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African Practice Of Ironing Breasts Of Young Girls Spreads In UK: Report
An African practice of "ironing" a girl's chest with a hot stone to delay breast formation is spreading in the UK to "protect" young girls from unwanted male attention, sexual harassment and rape, a media reported.
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Kenyan Girls to Fly to Google HQ After Inventing App to End FGM
The five teenagers, aged 15 to 17, are the only Africans selected to take part in this year's international Technovation competition.
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After Everest, 23-Year-Old Indian Woman Summits Kilimanjaro Peak
A Satara-based girl has successfully climbed up the highest peak in African sub-continent -- Kilimanjaro on September 29.
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South Africa School Allegedly Asks Black Girls To Not Wear 'Afro' Hairstyles
A South African school was Monday accused of racism for allegedly telling black girls to straighten wear their hair and not wear 'afro' hairstyles.
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Michelle Obama Urges Liberian Girls To Stay In school
US First Lady Michelle Obama urged girls in Liberia on Monday to fight to stay in school, as she visited the west African country where the vast majority drop out due to financial pressures.
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'Forced Sex With Dog': Central African Republic Girls Report Abuse By UN Peacekeepers
More than 100 girls and women have come forward with new sexual abuse accusations against international peacekeepers in Central African Republic, the UN said on Thursday, calling allegations that a French military commander forced three girls to have sex with a dog "shocking to the core."
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Karnataka Home Minister Contradicts Tanzanian Student, Says She Wasn't Stripped
Battling outrage over the mob attack on a young Tanzanian woman in Bengaluru on Sunday night, the Karnataka government today denied that she was stripped and paraded and said it was "definitely not a race attack".
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'Child Brides' Suffer, but African Union Seeks to End Custom
Lucia Felix, a 15-year-old Mozambican girl, dreams of returning to her village school but instead she must prepare for motherhood after she was chosen for an arranged marriage and became pregnant.
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Forced Marriages, Too Many Babies Quash Hope for Niger's Girls
Fifteen-year-old Ousseina's dream of becoming a nurse is already over. "For me, school's finished," said the frail teenager who sells eggs by a roadstop in the southern Niger town of Maradi.
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United States Says to Spend $300 Million to Fight HIV in Africa
The Obama administration said on Saturday it was allotting an additional $300 million to the effort to reduce HIV infection among girls and young women in 10 sub-Saharan African countries.
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UN Probes Sexual Abuse by Peacekeeper in Central African Republic
The UN's peacekeeping force in Central African Republic (MINUSCA) said on Thursday it has begun a probe into claims that one of its peacekeepers sexually abused an underaged girl.
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Jonty Rhodes Blessed With Baby Girl, Names Her India Jeanne
Former South African cricketer Jonty and wife Melanie have named their daughter India Jeanne Rhodes.
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South African Man Shares Bhutta With Underprivileged Girls, Wins Hearts Online
In the clip, a man is seen standing beside a cart belonging to a vendor selling bhutta along with his friend.
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Last Known Speaker Fights To Save South African Indigenous Language
When she was a girl in South Africa's Northern Cape, Katrina Esau stopped speaking her mother tongue, N|uu, after being mocked by other people and told it was an "ugly language".
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Woman Who Drove Into Girl For Being Mexican Hit Black Child The Same Day, Cops Say
A woman accused of driving into a teenage girl because she believed she was Mexican had struck another child with her car less than an hour earlier, Iowa authorities say.
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African Practice Of Ironing Breasts Of Young Girls Spreads In UK: Report
An African practice of "ironing" a girl's chest with a hot stone to delay breast formation is spreading in the UK to "protect" young girls from unwanted male attention, sexual harassment and rape, a media reported.
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Kenyan Girls to Fly to Google HQ After Inventing App to End FGM
The five teenagers, aged 15 to 17, are the only Africans selected to take part in this year's international Technovation competition.
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After Everest, 23-Year-Old Indian Woman Summits Kilimanjaro Peak
A Satara-based girl has successfully climbed up the highest peak in African sub-continent -- Kilimanjaro on September 29.
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South Africa School Allegedly Asks Black Girls To Not Wear 'Afro' Hairstyles
A South African school was Monday accused of racism for allegedly telling black girls to straighten wear their hair and not wear 'afro' hairstyles.
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Michelle Obama Urges Liberian Girls To Stay In school
US First Lady Michelle Obama urged girls in Liberia on Monday to fight to stay in school, as she visited the west African country where the vast majority drop out due to financial pressures.
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'Forced Sex With Dog': Central African Republic Girls Report Abuse By UN Peacekeepers
More than 100 girls and women have come forward with new sexual abuse accusations against international peacekeepers in Central African Republic, the UN said on Thursday, calling allegations that a French military commander forced three girls to have sex with a dog "shocking to the core."
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Karnataka Home Minister Contradicts Tanzanian Student, Says She Wasn't Stripped
Battling outrage over the mob attack on a young Tanzanian woman in Bengaluru on Sunday night, the Karnataka government today denied that she was stripped and paraded and said it was "definitely not a race attack".
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'Child Brides' Suffer, but African Union Seeks to End Custom
Lucia Felix, a 15-year-old Mozambican girl, dreams of returning to her village school but instead she must prepare for motherhood after she was chosen for an arranged marriage and became pregnant.
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Forced Marriages, Too Many Babies Quash Hope for Niger's Girls
Fifteen-year-old Ousseina's dream of becoming a nurse is already over. "For me, school's finished," said the frail teenager who sells eggs by a roadstop in the southern Niger town of Maradi.
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United States Says to Spend $300 Million to Fight HIV in Africa
The Obama administration said on Saturday it was allotting an additional $300 million to the effort to reduce HIV infection among girls and young women in 10 sub-Saharan African countries.
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UN Probes Sexual Abuse by Peacekeeper in Central African Republic
The UN's peacekeeping force in Central African Republic (MINUSCA) said on Thursday it has begun a probe into claims that one of its peacekeepers sexually abused an underaged girl.
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Jonty Rhodes Blessed With Baby Girl, Names Her India Jeanne
Former South African cricketer Jonty and wife Melanie have named their daughter India Jeanne Rhodes.
