Kenya
Kenya urged to adopt marriage bill
afrol News, 15 December - The Kenya Law Review Commission has urged the government to adopt the draft Marriage Bill of 2007, under which couples will not have to pay dowry to get married if the Bill is passed by Parliament into law.
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Ghana
Ghanaian wins Caribbean & Commonwealth pageantry
afrol News, 25 April - A 20-year-old Ghanaian law student at the Univesity of Kent (Medway Towns), Shirley De Lawrence, has kept the title in West Africa by winning the 19th Miss Caribbean & Commonwealth contest, in succession to Uchenna Obika of Nigeria, at the Polish Centre in Hammersmith, West London.
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Liberia
Publisher escapes death trap
afrol News, 1 February - The publisher of Liberia's 'Independent Newspaper', Sam Dean, narrowly escaped a death trap on 30 January. Several attempts to lure Dean into an ambush had failed.
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Uganda
Cry for Ugandan gays
afrol News, 19 October - The rising homophobia by Ugandan officials and the media against the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people is believed to be undermining the East African country's HIV prevention.
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