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Veteran politicians regard national elections as monumental, epoch-changing events, often reaching into history for parallels such as power struggles in the Yoruba kingdoms or Shakespeare’s history plays. This time they are not exaggerating, judging by the build up to the Nigerian elections due next February. … Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/tar-home/~3/0F7QDpleKJk/nigerias-game-of-thrones.html

South African gender activists have criticised moves by prosecutors to appeal the homicide conviction and sentence handed to parlaympian Oscar Pistorius. … Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/tar-home/~3/YD_bi6UXtZg/pistorius-conviction-appeal-a-waste-of-taxpayers-money.html

CONAKRY/LIBERIA, Oct 27 (Reuters) – High school teacher Fanta Oulen Camara spent two weeks in March fighting for her life against the deadly Ebola virus but her darkest days came after she was cured of the disease and returned to her home in Guinea. Source: http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/reuters/AfricaNigeriaNews/~3/FW1RtCtTLsI/idAFL5N0SM55120141028

NAIROBI, Oct 28 (Reuters) – – The following company announcements, scheduled economic indicators, debt and currency market moves and political events may affect African markets on Tuesday. – – – – – EVENTS: BOTSWANA-Bank of Botswana may announce its latest decision on benchmark lending rate. SOUTH AFRICA – South Africa’s Treasury auctions 2.35 billion rand […]

The petition of the day is: Martel v. Lujan 14-132 Issue: Whether this Court has “clearly established,” within the meaning of 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)(1), that where a state appellate court concludes certain pretrial statements should have been excluded from the prosecution’s case under Miranda v. Arizona, the court’s harmless error analysis must ignore the […]

Oct 27 (Reuters) – The deadliest outbreak on record of the Ebola virus has prompted some countries to respond with travel bans, in an attempt to curb the spread of the deadly virus. Source: http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/reuters/AfricaNigeriaNews/~3/q9ffTKyXWjw/idAFL2N0SI39M20141028

Over the weekend, Justice Thomas, Justice Alito, and Justice Sotomayor participated in an extraordinary joint interview at their alma mater, Yale Law School. Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/abovethelaw/~3/zprnAEGE-k0/story01.htm

* After being temporarily suspended as part of “Porngate” for trafficking in “highly demeaning portrayals of members of various segments of the population, including women, elderly persons, and uniformed school girls,” Seamus McCaffrey retires from the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. [Philadelphia Daily News] * A group of women lawyers in Miami has called for NBC to […]

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) reached a $16 million deal with a Utah bank recently, settling charges that the financial institution engaged in unfair and deceptive acts and practices. Merrick Bank violated Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Act in the marketing and servicing of its credit card add-on products, the regulator […]

CONAKRY/LIBERIA, Oct 27 (Reuters) – High school teacher Fanta Oulen Camara spent two weeks in March fighting for her life against the deadly Ebola virus but her darkest days came after she was cured of the disease and returned to her home in Guinea. Source: http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/reuters/AfricaNigeriaNews/~3/GEA6YrlEpT0/idAFL5N0SM2GE20141027