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In another global powerhouse, Russia, former Prime Minister Pyotr Stolypin was assassinated in 1911 in Kiev. (1912) in Madrid, president of France Paul Doumer (1932) in Paris, prime minister of Italy Benito Mussolini (1945) in Giulino di Mezzegra, prime minister of Iran Abdolhossein Hazhir (1949) in Tehran, president of Syria Sami al-Hinnawi (1950) in Beirut, president of Romania Nicolae Ceaușescu (1989) în Târgoviște. They are among other renowned world leaders murdered despite the ...

A photo archive reveals John F Kennedy's efforts to court African leaders in the post-colonial era.

  In our series of letters from African journalists, Sierra Leonean-Gambian writer Ade Daramy mines an archive of photos featuring US President John F Kennedy, who set the template for US relations with Africa. Before Kennedy became president in 1961, his country had made little attempt to understand the rapid changes that Africa was undergoing. By the time he was assassinated in 1963, the picture had radically changed. In his short time in office, Kennedy had received at the White House eithe...

If these embers will not turn into ashes If these embers will remain so - so we pray for. If these embers will not turn into ashes - so we wish Creation will remain static, nothing dies, nothing born The born die, the dead reborn. Or Born one day, one day we go. Gone today is John - the Jerry John we know. The brave Rawlings. If these embers will not turn into ashes, Rawlings should remain. The hot embers that test Democracy through the crucible, Now ashes; white, pale, black and cold...

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