Dance, music pay tribute to Guinea

Dance, music pay tribute to Guinea
DetNews.com - Detroit,MI,USA
... They're the 35 musicians and dancers of Les Ballets Africains, the national dance troupe of Guinea, the former French colony that's now an independent nation ...

Rebels in Chad suppressed for now, but could worse violence follow ...
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA
It might be tempting to dismiss this week's armed flare-up in Chad, a poor, land-locked country in northern Africa that was a French colony until 1960, as just ...
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FEATURE-Detente kindles tenuous hopes of Ivory Coast peace
Reuters AlertNet - London,England,UK
... to stay for another 12 months flanked by a new prime minister with extra powers to ensure disarmament and elections to bring peace to the former French colony. ...

Film explores history of Acadian deportation
Bangor Daily News - Bangor,ME,USA
... descent. The video takes viewers on tours of Ile St. Croix, the first French colony in North America near Calais, to St. Sauveur ...

Central Africa court refers ex-ruler to The Hague
Reuters AlertNet - London,England,UK
... Congo and mercenaries from Chad are accused of executing and raping civilians as they put down a coup attempt in the former French colony in October 2002. ...
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