Obama arrives in Pretoria, protesters burn US flags

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Hundreds of people have held a demonstration in the South African executive capital Pretoria to protest against Washington’s “oppressive” policies on the eve of a visit by US President Barack Obama to the African country.

On Friday, about 1,000 trade unionists, Muslim activists and South African Communist Party members gathered just few blocks away from the Medi-Clinic Heart Hospital in Pretoria where Nelson Mandela is critically ill. 

The protesters marched towards the US Embassy, shouting slogans denouncing Obama’s foreign policy as "arrogant and oppressive". They also burnt US flags. 

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Billionaire Couple Mysteriously Burn To Death In Onitsha

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The commercial city of Onitsha, Anambra State was thrown into heavy pandemonium on Saturday, when a billionaire couple, who just returned home from abroad, were consumed in an inferno that broke out in the commercial city.

The unfortunate incident occurred in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Boniface Ndubuisi, a house that is located at number 2, Arinze Lane, off Okolo Street, American Quarters, Onitsha, Anambra State .

The couple who just returned from abroad were badly burnt, and were seen clung to each other in the bathroom of the building.

Gunmen ‘burn churches, border posts’ in Borno

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KANO – Suspected members of the Islamist extremist group Boko Haram set fire to churches and border posts in northeastern Nigeria on Sunday, residents said, but it was not immediately known if there were casualties. Around 50 gunmen in cars and on motorcycles carried out the attacks on three churches and border posts with neighbouring Cameroon, opening fire on police and chanting Allahu Akbar, (God is Greatest), residents said.