President of Togo dies; son steps in
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LOME, Togo -- The president of Togo, Africa's longest-ruling leader, died yesterday as he was being brought to Europe to be treated for a heart attack, officials said. His son was named the new leader.
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Yasser Arafat's brother has died of cancer  in Egypt, a relative said on Wednesday, less than three weeks  after the Palestinian president died of a mysterious illness.
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Togo's parliament hastily amended the constitution Sunday to put a legal veneer on the military's appointment of Faure Gnassingbe to replace his deceased father as president, voiding the need for new elections until 2008.
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World leaders condemned Togo's army on  Sunday for suspending the West African nation's constitution  and installing a new president following the death of  Gnassingbe Eyadema, who was Africa's longest serving ruler at  38 years.
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When Gnassingbe Eyadema seized power in Togo in 1967, it was the era of the Big Man in Africa. Like many leaders of his generation, Eyadema ruthlessly crushed opposition forces, nurtured a cult of personality, then clung to power decade after decade, growing rich as his tiny West African nation stayed poor.
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Leaders from various parts of the world have started arriving in the Egyptian capital Cairo to pay their last respects to the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, who died on Thursday morning.
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The son of Chad's president was found dead with a head wound Monday in the basement of his apartment building in a Paris suburb, and authorities were treating the case as a murder investigation, judicial officials said.
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The first post-independence African leader to peacefully hand over power, Somalia's first President Adan Abdulle Osman, has died aged 99, the interim Somali government said on Saturday.
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Togo's army clashed with protesters in the  capital Lome on Saturday, killing at least three people, while  West African officials told a government delegation to restore  constitutional rule or face sanctions.
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African leaders have expressed their sadness at the death of the Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat. South Africa&#39;s President Thabo Mbeki said Mr Arafat&#39;s life was defined by unflinching sacrifice for his cause.
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Former South African president Nelson Mandela reveals that his son Makgatho has died of Aids.
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The president of the United Arab Emirates, who helped forge a federation from seven Persian Gulf states and ruled it since its creation, has died, Abu Dhabi TV said.
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The sporting community in Abu Dhabi yesterday mourned the death of the President, His Highness Shaikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, a pioneer in promoting and setting up
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JOHANNESBURG -- Former president Nelson Mandela announced yesterday that his eldest son died of AIDS-related complications, saying the only way to fight the disease's stigma was to speak openly about it.
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Chadian Prime Minister Pascal Yoadimnadji died Friday at a Paris hospital following a brain hemorrhage, the African nation's ambassador to France said. He was 56.
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Togo's armed forces said Faure Gnassingbe,  the son of former president Gnassingbe Eyadema, would assume  power in the West African country following the death of his  father earlier on Saturday.
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FIFA began investigations on Monday into the death of four people and injuries to eight in a stadium crush after Togo&#39;s World Cup qualifier against Mali.