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Posters of Gambian president Yaya Jammeh come down.

GAMBIA DECIDES

Africa’s long-serving strongmen are conspicuously silent on Gambia’s democratic ouster of its 22-year leader

Supporters of president-elect Adama Barrow celebrate Barrow's election victory in Banjul, Gambia, December 2, 2016

NEW BEGINNING

Gambia’s president-elect lays out his vision for a nation mired in fear and poverty

** FILE PHOTO ** A Soweto rugby club player, left, shakes hand with a player from Johannesburg's Enkuina team at Milo Park, Johannesburg, South Africa, in this Sunday, Aug. 26, 2007 file photo. The racial rows that have rocked rugby have faded to a whisper as the rainbow nation declares itself Proudly South African behind a team which, 13 years after the end of apartheid, remains overwhelmingly white. (AP Photo/Benedicte Kurzen, File)

RAINBOWISM

Can black and white South Africans really ever be friends?

IMITATION GAME

A fake US embassy operating in Ghana for the past decade has been shut down

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