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Letter from Africa
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Improvement in South African matric results, but concerns over quality

JOHANNESBURG – South Africa has recorded its highest high-school pass rate since achieving democracy 20 years ago, but concerns over the value of the diploma owing to the relatively low pass requirements and the daunting job prospects of graduates have dampened the good news.

Baltimore’s First African-American Police Commissioner Dies At 86

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — The first African-American police commissioner in Baltimore City has died. Bishop Robinson was 86.

Robinson joined the city police department in 1952, rising all the way up to commissioner in 1984.

In Tel Aviv's Little Africa, Israeli shop-owners shrug at the African migrant protests

The Neve Shaanan pedestrian walkway in south Tel Aviv hummed at a somewhat muted pace at noon on Tuesday, the third day of a nationwide strike by the African asylum seekers community.

Nearly a million flee violence in Central African Republic

(CNN) -- As the violence in the Central African Republic reaches unprecedented levels, aid organizations say the number of internally displaced people edges toward a million, further hampering humanitarian relief efforts.

World's Youngest MPs

Laurin Liu, MP 

(traditional Chinese: 劉舒雲; simplified Chinese: 刘舒云; Jyutping: Lau Syu Wan, born November 13, 1990) is a Canadianpolitician who was elected to the House of Commons of Canada in the 2011 federal election. She represents the electoral district of Rivière-des-Mille-Îles as a member of the New Democratic Party. She is the youngest female Member of Parliament in Canadian history.

She was one of five candidates, alongside Mylène Freeman, Matthew Dubé, Charmaine Borg and Jamie Nicholls, who were McGill Universitystudents when elected in the 2011 election following the NDP's unexpected mid-campaign surge in Quebec

Pierre-Luc Dusseault
(born May 31, 1991) is a Canadian politician who was elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 2011 federal election at the age of 19, becoming the youngest Member of Parliament in the country's history.

Laurin Liu

Laurin Liu, MP (traditional Chinese: 劉舒雲; simplified Chinese: 刘舒云; Jyutping: Lau Syu Wan, born November 13, 1990) is a Canadianpolitician who was elected to the House of Commons of Canada in the 2011 federal election. She represents the electoral district of Rivière-des-Mille-Îles as a member of the New Democratic Party. She is the youngest female Member of Parliament in Canadian history.

She was one of five candidates, alongside Mylène Freeman, Matthew Dubé, Charmaine Borg and Jamie Nicholls, who were McGill Universitystudents when elected in the 2011 election following the NDP's unexpected mid-campaign surge in Quebec. At the time of her election, she was pursuing a double major in History and Cultural Studies. She was active on campus as a board member of CKUT radio, a representative to the CKUT Programming Committee, an employee of McGill university's undergraduate student union, and a staff member of the McGill Daily.