South African writer Kente dies
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South African playwright Gibson Kente, who announced last year he was HIV positive, dies aged 72.
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Best-selling US novelist Sidney Sheldon dies in California aged 89 of complications from pneumonia.
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Nelson Mandela has led South Africa in mourning Adelaide Tambo, the widow of former African National Congress chief Oliver Tambo and herself a stalwart in the apartheid struggle.
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The only surviving son of former  South African President Nelson Mandela died on Thursday in  Johannesburg following an undisclosed illness, a hospital  official said.
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Sheik Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahayan, a Bedouin tribesman who became president of the federation known as the United Arab Emirates and one of the Arab world&#39;s leading statesmen, died yesterday.
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EL FASHER, Sudan, Sept. 6 -- A Sudanese newspaper editor who infuriated Muslim fundamentalists last year by printing an article that concerned questions about the parentage of the prophet Muhammad was found dead Wednesday in Khartoum, the capital.
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The leader of Senegal's richest and most powerful Islamic brotherhood dies in the city of Toube, aged 92.
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A British artist who made a career of depicting Africa's wildlife has been gored to death by a buffalo in Kenya, his family said.
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Planet Out - SUMMARY: Award-winning mystery writer Joseph Hansen, who created one of the first gay protagonists in the genre, died of heart failure on Nov. 24 after a long respiratory illness.
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One of Africa's most prominent literary icons, Chinua Achebe, has rejected a national honors award from his government in Nigeria in protest at the "dangerous" state of the country, newspapers reported on Sunday.
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Best-selling French novelist Francoise Sagan dies at the age of 69 after suffering heart and lung failure.
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Arts & entertainment: Chinua Achebe, 'the father of modern African literature', talks to Ed Pilkington about his years in exile from his beloved Nigeria.
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The murder created a South African icon. On Sept. 12, 1998, a crowd of young men fatally beat Gugu Dlamini, 36, in her village in rural KwaZulu-Natal province after she revealed that she carried HIV.
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Chadian Prime Minister Pascal Yoadimnadji died Friday at a Paris hospital following a brain hemorrhage, the African nation's ambassador to France said. He was 56.
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Prime Minister Pascal Yoadimnadji of Chad died early Friday in a Paris hospital after a brain haemorrhage, the ambassador of the impoverished north-central African state said.
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Chad's Prime Minister Pascal  Yoadimnadji died from a brain haemorrhage in Paris on Friday  after he was flown there for urgent treatment following a heart  attack. He was 56.
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Russian-born writer Henri Troyat, who moved to France as a child and became one of the most prolific, popular and respected writers of his adopted country, has died, a fellow writer said. He was 95.