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Afrikaners protest capital city name change
May 21 2005 11:56PM (CT)
PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) - Several hundred people, most of them white, demonstrated Saturday to protest a proposal to change the capital's name from Pretoria, the name given to it by white settlers, to Tshwane, as the site was once known to its original African inhabitants.
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Rival Ethiopian parties claim victories
May 21 2005 10:29PM (CT)
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) - Western diplomats appealed Saturday for calm in Ethiopia, where both the ruling and opposition parties were claiming victory and accusing their rivals of vote-rigging as provisional results trickled in Saturday.
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Dropped murder charges spurs Kenya protest
May 21 2005 5:59PM (CT)
NAROK, Kenya (AP) - Hundreds of Maasai blocked a main road to one of Kenya's most famous game reserves on Saturday, protesting a decision to drop murder charges against the grandson of one of the country's first white settlers.
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