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Africa's rapid urbanization can drive industrialization, says new UN report

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Overlooking the central market at closing time in Kumasi, the largest and one of the...

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UNHCR Statement: Australia must prevent looming humanitarian emergency in Papua New Guinea

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An asylum-seeker enters the ‘Regional Processing Centre’ on Manus Island, Papua New Guinea. Refugee centres here have prompted...

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US Military Investigating Deaths of Soldiers in Niger Ambush

U.S. Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis said Thursday the military is investigating the deaths of four American soldiers in Niger earlier this month at the hands of Islamic jihadists.

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All EU countries must take their fair share of asylum seekers

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The first countries of arrival would no longer automatically be responsible for the asylum seekers

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