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At least 75 killed in fighting in Somali capital
Sat, 13 Mar 2010 15:48:08 EST
At least 75 people have been killed in clashes in the Somali capital of Mogadishu since fighting broke out earlier this week between government forces and Al-Shabaab rebels, medical sources and a witness said Saturday.
Plane crashes in mock rescue exercise
Sat, 13 Mar 2010 11:19:54 EST
A plane in Nigeria carrying more than 30 emergency workers has crashed in what was supposed to be a mock rescue exercise, police said Saturday.
Nigerian violence fed by ethnic, economic issues, ex-president says
Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:22:59 EST
Former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo insisted Wednesday that this week's explosion of violence that claimed at least 200 lives is not driven by religious tensions between Christians and Muslims -- but by ethnic, social, and economic problems.
Death toll rises as violence rocks Somali capital
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:48:01 EST
Heavy fighting flared in the Somali capital Thursday, a day after a battle between government forces and Al-Shabaab rebels left 29 dead and scores injured.
Rocking out with 'Africa's best new band'
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:02:07 EST
South Africa has a rich musical heritage, but Johannesburg-based indie rockers BLK JKS are creating a new sound all of their own.
Explainer: What's behind slaughter in Nigeria?
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:09:45 EST
Gangs of machete-wielding Muslims have been blamed for the weekend slaughter of hundreds of Christian villagers in Nigeria, but analysts say it would be wrong to assume the conflict was rooted in religion.
Nigeria urged to bring killing mobs to justice
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:24:03 EST
Nigeria on Tuesday faced international calls to bring to justice killer mobs armed with guns and knives who massacred hundreds of villagers in the country's rural heartland.
Pirates seize Norwegian tanker off Malagasy coast
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:42:14 EST
Pirates have hijacked a Norwegian tanker off the coast of Madagascar and are steering the ship toward Somalia, the ship's owner said.
French warship team destroys pirate boats
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:38:55 EST
Twenty-eight suspected pirates were taken into custody Friday by the European Union Naval Force after a handful of failed attacks on fishing vessels in the Indian Ocean, the EU mission said.
Attack on Nigerian town kills hundreds
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 07:23:17 EST
The death toll from weekend violence in central Nigeria climbed to more than 200 Monday after members of a machete-wielding Muslim group attacked a mostly Christian town south of the city of Jos, officials said.

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 Word of the day 

Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for March 13, 2010 is:

acronym • \AK-ruh-nim\  • noun
: a word formed from the beginning letter or letters of each or most of the parts of a compound term; also : an abbreviation formed from initial letters

Example sentence:
The new committee spent a fair amount of time choosing a name that would lend itself to an appealing acronym.

Did you know?
"Acronym" was created by combining "acr-" ("beginning") with "-onym," ("name" or "word"). You may recognize "-onym" in other familiar English words such as "pseudonym" and "synonym." English speakers borrowed "-onym" directly from the Greek (it derives from "onyma," the Greek word for "name"). "Acr-" is also from Greek, but it made a side trip through Middle French on its way to English. When "acronym" first entered English, some usage commentators decreed that it should refer to combinations of initial letters that were pronounced as if they were whole words (such as "radar" or "scuba"), differentiated from an "initialism," which is spoken by pronouncing the component letters (as "FBI" and "CEO"). These days, however, that distinction is largely lost, and "acronym" is a common label for both types of abbreviation.

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