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Diamond millionaire hopes to rock Lesotho vote
Diamond millionaire hopes to rock Lesotho vote
by  AFP

Sitting at the desk of a grand office in Lesotho's capital of Maseru, Sam Matekane doesn't attempt to hide his ambition. He does not want to state his worth, but his affluence is on display at his office on the 6th floor of a building in the centre of Maseru, a sleepy city of 350,000 people.

21 inmates dead in separate Ecuador prison clashes
21 inmates dead in separate Ecuador prison clashes
by  AFP

Three days of bloody clashes between inmates in Ecuador have left 21 dead and 66 people, including five police officers, injured in the latest bout of gang violence in the country's notoriously brutal prisons, officials said Thursday. The injured included five police members.

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