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Thousands of residents in the Sierra Leonean capital Freetown trooped to a landfill site on Saturday to dig up rejected chickens imported from Brazil and buried by health authorities.

The chickens were imported from Brazil on July 12 by a businessman, but were rendered unfit for human consumption by the country’s health services. The carcasses were then buried at a landfill site in Freetown.  

The country’s health ministry said it fears food poisoning and contamination as thousands of people besieged the site to recover some of the carcasses.

Clashes ensued prompting the police to use tear gas and rubber bullets to try to prevent people from carrying the chickens covered with mud and buried in the middle of “human waste, household garbage and industrial waste water”.

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President Barack Obama has repeatedly expressed his unwavering endorsement of his former rival and likely Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, but it turns out that support isn't echoed by his half-brother Malik Obama, the New York Post revealed in an interview. Instead, he said he wants to "Make America Great Again."

The president's older half-brother is a longtime Democrat, but he says he'll cast his vote in November for Donald Trump, the billionaire-turned Republican presidential nominee.

"I like Donald Trump because he speaks from the heart," Malik Obama told The Post from his home in the rural village of Kogelo. "Make America Great Again is a great slogan. I would like to meet him."

Though Obama resides in Kenya, he remains a resident of Maryland, where he used to work as an accountant, according to public records. Reasons for his change in party affiliation, he cites, include FBI Director James Comey's recent decision not to prosecute Secretary Clinton for the mishandling of her private email server as well as his brother's "disappointing" intervention in Libya that led to the death of Muammar Qaddafi in 2011 -- a "close friend" of Malik Obama.

On behalf of the Secretary's email misuse, he told The Post, "she should have known better as the custodian of classified information." And, he continued, "I still feel that getting rid of Gaddafi didn't make things any better in Libya."

However, there's one more explanation for his newly pledged allegiance to the "party of Lincoln" - same sex marriage, a hot-button issue seemingly embedded into the social fabric of the Republican party.

"I feel like a Republican now because they don't stand for same-sex marriage, and that appeals to me," he said.

Malik Obama is a self-proclaimed polygamist who at the age of 52 married a 19-year-old.

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The Director General of the Autonomous Port of Douala (PAD), Emmanuel Etoundi Oyono, died Sunday in Paris (France) following an illness at the age of 65, according to AFP

The last public appearance of Emmanuel Etoundi Oyono dates back to March 22, 2016. Visibly emaciated, he had taken part in the awarding of the ISO 9001 certification ceremony at the Port of Douala  in the presence of Edgard Alain Mebe Ngo'o, Cameroon's minister of Transportation.

Mr Etoundi had been sick for a while and was out of the Job-side for quit some time, on 11 December 2015, the Board of Directors of the Port of Douala (PAD) had met and had appointed Charles Michaux Moukoko Njoh  to the post of interim CEO on interim basis with the primary mission to contribute to the improvement, coordination and harmonization of services activities and equipment that place among the most stressed in the sub-region.

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Countries from the Lake Chad region have been enjoined to double efforts to save the dwindling water body that is aggravating environmental degradation and migration in the region and consequently impacting on the social and economic wellbeing of the population.

Representatives of member countries of the Lake Chad Basin  Commission, LCBC, Nigeria, Cameroon, Niger, and Chad, attending the  6th Africa Water Week in Dar es Salam on July 19, 2016, agreed on the need to multiply strategies towards saving the lake.

“ Countries from the lake Chad need to coordinate their multiple efforts, bringing in new stimulating perspectives to save this important lake on which the livelihood of millions of people hinges,” said Mana Boubakari, technical director of the Lake Chad Basin Commission at a side event on ground water management in the lake Chad basin.

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Kenya on Saturday morning deported Congolese musician Koffi Olomide to Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, after he was arrested on Friday night and held behind bars.

Kenya’s police chief, Joseph Boinnet ordered airport police to take action against Olomide after a video went viral on social media showing how he (Olomide) assaulted a female dancer.

Olomide was flown back to his home country on a Kenya Airways flight that left the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) at 11:35am Kenya time. He had spent the night in the JKIA police cell.

The 59-year-old singer, who was scheduled to hold a concert in Nairobi, was arrested in front of television cameras outside the premises of a television station where he was granting an interview.

With his deportation, Olomide would not be able to perform at a show that was scheduled for Saturday at the Bomas of Kenya.

Despite being caught on camera kicking the dancer, Olomide denied the claim and insisted that he was protecting his crew from an unspecified person who was threatening their security.

In August 2012, the singer was slapped with a three-month suspended prison sentence in Kinshasa for assaulting his producer.

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Famous Congolese singer Koffi Olomide has been arrested on Friday night in Kenya’s capital Nairobi after he was caught on camera in the afternoon kicking one of his dancers on arrival at the airport.

The 59-year-old singer, who was scheduled to hold a concert in Nairobi, was arrested in front of television cameras outside the premises of a television station where he was granting an interview.

On an amateur video widely circulating with a lot of comments on social media networks in Kenya, the singer is seen just outside one of the terminals of the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi attacking one of his dancers.

He kicked her in the stomach as she tried to block his leg with her hands in the clear view of two Kenyan policemen, prompting one to intervene.

In the evening, the National Commission on Gender and Equality issued a statement calling on the Inspector General of the Kenyan police to investigate the issue immediately.

The singer was taken to the airport police station and awaits charges, a police source told AFP.

In August 2012, the singer was slapped with a three months suspended prison sentence in Kinshasa for assaulting his producer.

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