Togolese president Eyadema dies
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Africa's longest serving ruler, Togo's President Gnassingbe Eyadema, has died, the government says.
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Abu Dhabi: United Arab Emirates President and founding father Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahayan died on Tuesday, his office announced.
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The African Union denounces the appointment of a son of Togo's President Eyadema to succeed his late father.
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Sir Edmund Hillary, who gained worldwide fame after he and guide Tenzing Norgay became the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest, has died, according to New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark.
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LOME, Togo -- The president of Togo, Africa's longest-ruling leader, died yesterday as he was being brought to Europe to be treated for a heart attack, officials said. His son was named the new leader.
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United Arab Emirates President and ruler of Abu Dhabi Sheik Zayed bin Sultan al-Nayhan died Tuesday, official television reports. He was 86.
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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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Former South African president Nelson Mandela announced that his eldest son, Makgatho Mandela, 54, died of AIDS Thursday morning at a Johannesburg hospital.
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Togo's government frees some 500 prisoners, after they were pardoned by President Eyadema.
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World figures condemn the succession of President Eyadema's son after his father's death.
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The head of Greece's powerful Orthodox Church, Archbishop Christodoulos, died of cancer on Monday at the age of 69.
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New Zealand's Sir Edmund Hillary, who along with Nepalese Sherpa Tenzing Norgay became the first to conquer Mount Everest, has died, Prime Minister Helen Clark said on Friday.
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A doctor helping organise Afghan elections died on Monday along with four other civilians when an explosion tore through their vehicle, police said.
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The first post-independence African leader to peacefully hand over power, Somalia's first President Adan Abdulle Osman, has died aged 99, the interim Somali government said on Saturday.
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ATHENS, Greece - The Patriarch of Alexandria, the spiritual leader of all Orthodox Christians in Africa, died yesterday when a helicopter taking him and fellow churchmen to a monastic enclave in northern Greece crashed into the sea, government and church
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - The United Arab Emirates president has died in Dubai after a long illness. He was 86. Sheik Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan had been the absolute ruler of the country, which is the
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TOGO LOME -- Security forces used tear gas and batons to scatter hundreds of opposition demonstrators yesterday, and tension heightened between Togo and its neighbors over what West African and other leaders call a Togolese military coup. Five West African leaders summoned Togo's authorities to talks in Niger today, calling for sanctions if the new leader, Faure Gnassingbe, did not ...