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Tanzania

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Jan 2003Estimated number of women killed as witches in Tanzania each year: 500
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HelpAge International (London)

January 11, 2007U.S. air strikes in Somalia killed seven people. Somali officials believed the dead included Al Qaeda operative Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, reputed mastermind of the 1998 bombings of American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, but U.S. officials said they were still chasing him.
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Yahoo! News

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CBS News

May 23, 2005and a new kind of monkey was discovered in Tanzania. It communicates in honking barks rather than in whoop-gobbles.
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Washington Post

May 16, 2005People in Zanzibar were living in fear of a sexually rapacious, sodomy-prone goblin named Popo Bawa.
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Reuters

January 16, 2004 Tanzania banned the importation of used underwear.
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New York Times

July 4, 2003 Tanzania was cracking down on the human skin trade.
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BBC

November 20, 2001Seven thousand virgins in Tanzania got together and promised not to have sex until marriage.
March 6, 2001 Black rhinos were dying under mysterious circumstances in Tanzania.
November 7, 2000 Police in Zanzibar, Tanzania, opened fire on unarmed demonstrators who were protesting rigged elections.
September 12, 2000Six men in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, were arrested for cannibalism; the men dug up graves, ate human flesh, and made shoes out of human skin.

January 2010

THE CHURCH OF WARREN BUFFETT
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