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LEWISTON, Maine (AP) — Fellows from 18 African nations are set to visit Lewiston and meet with Somali migrants. The Sun Journal reports (http://bit.ly/2eM4v2l ) that 25 beneficiaries of the Mandela Washington Fellowships for Young African Leaders are booked to come full circle a month and a half in Maine with the Wednesday visit. The partnership program is a piece of the Young African Leaders Initiative propelled by previous President Barack Obama. The Immigrant Resource Center of Maine's illustrative Fatima Hussein says that nearby Somali foreigners will examine touching base in the focal Maine people group 17 years back as an uprooted people and building group. People in general is welcome to a Wednesday evening gathering at Lewiston Public Library. The 25 people in the administration and open administration program work in fields, for example, natural life preservation, environmental change, emotional well-being and water inquire about. Copyright 2017 The Associated Press. All r...

The U.N. peacekeeping mission in Central African Republic says two Moroccan peacekeepers have been killed in a southeastern town where another Moroccan was killed Sunday. An announcement says the two peacekeepers were murdered by speculated against Balaka state army while another peacekeeper was harmed. They had been restocking water for the town's philanthropic needs when they were assaulted. Many individuals have been killed in Central African Republic and approximately 100,000 dislodged in the previous two months. Partisan brutality that started in 2013 has moved into the devastated nation's focal and southeastern locales, inciting notices of a national clash thundering back to life. In Bangassou alone, more than 150 individuals have kicked the bucket in battling amongst state armies and U.N. peacekeeping powers. The U.N. says nine peacekeepers have been murdered in benefit this year.

A youthful South African Afrikaner kid plays by a painted divider perusing "Welcome in Orania" in Afrikaans. (CNN)Orania is frequently depicted as a relic of politically-sanctioned racial segregation. The country town in South Africa's Northern Cape area was built up in 1991, in no time before the fall of the politically-sanctioned racial segregation administration, and it has been only possessed by white Afrikaners from that point forward. Representatives say there is no racial separation in Orania, however the foundational basic to safeguard Afrikaner culture successfully precludes racial assorted variety. In one regard, be that as it may, the disputable group is forward-looking. Orania is going to dispatch its own particular advanced cash. Ora convention The town of around 1,300 individuals as of now utilizes a nearby money, the ora, which is printed by Orania's own particular load of business and disseminated through its national bank. Ora notes are in fact vouche...

WASHINGTON — With Vice President Mike Pence making a tie-breaking choice, Republicans pushed ahead on social insurance change Tuesday as the Senate effectively opening civil argument on the issue. Yet, only six hours after the fact, Republicans confronted their first thrashing in that procedure, neglecting to pass a measure that they've been chipping away at that would have incompletely revoked and supplanted Obamacare. The vote prior in the day was a noteworthy triumph for Republicans, who have attempted to discover 50 votes to get this far, however the last item is probably going to miss the mark regarding the Republicans' seven-year guarantee to dispose of the Affordable Care Act. It took the probability of a thinned down definite bill with a specific end goal to get enough "yes" votes to simply open verbal confrontation. President Donald Trump praised the Senate's vote Tuesday night in Youngstown, Ohio, saying at a rally that America is currently "one bit...

New off an effective Senate human services vote, President Trump took his triumph lap in a truly Democratic, staunchly common laborers Ohio city, where he consoled a huge number of his supporters that he'd follow through on his guarantee to rescind and supplant Obamacare. "We're currently one bit nearer to freeing our residents from this Obamacare bad dream, and conveying incredible human services for the American individuals," Trump said the previous evening amid an unruly rally at the Covelli Center in Youngstown, Ohio, a union-overwhelming enclave that has since a long time ago helped Democrats. "It is considerably simpler to act presidential than what we are doing here today around evening time, trust me," Trump said. "Except for the late, incredible Abraham Lincoln, I can be more presidential than any president that is ever held this office." Also, however his initial a half year in office has been generally tumultuous, Trump told the group th...