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Friday, February fourteenth, the   UN says at least 22 people have been killed in a village in the Northwest region of Cameroon. Over half of those killed were children. No one has claimed responsibility for Friday’s incident but the opposition parties blame the killing on the government.

iOS 9.3 update makes older iPhones crash

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Apple's new software for iPhones and iPads has left some older models unusable. The update - released last week - brings with it a raft of new features and improvements. But for owners of the iPad 2 and some other devices, it left their tablets and phones completely unusable.

Road accident along Mbanga highway claims 15 lives

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A road accident along the Mbanga highway on Saturday claimed 15 lives.  Officials of the Ministry of Transport say a commercial bus belonging to Menoua travel agency and a truck coming from Douala collided at Djongo – some few kilometers from Njombe killing 15 and injuring 20 others. 

Impact of China's flat demand on oil prices

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As the Brent front-month futures contract stabilizes either side of the $40 per barrel level, and WTI lurks within that range too, a comment by the International Energy Agency that the “oil price may have bottomed out” has triggered a lot of market interest. In its monthly oil forecast for March, the IEA, which advises on energy policy matters of industrialized nations, noted that non-OPEC oil production would fall by 750,000 barrels per day (bpd) in 2016, compared with its previous estimate of 600,000 bpd

Cameroonian company gets its power from natural gas engines

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The city of Douala handles most of Cameroon's major exports, such as oil, cocoa and coffee, timber, metals and fruits. Cameroon's unstable electric grid causes local outages, resulting in unplanned downtime and reduced production levels for factories.   Cameroon's SCTB decided to switch from diesel engines to GE's gas-fired reciprocating engines to prove the feasibility of natural gas-fueled generation in Cameroon .

Pope Francis addresses terror attacks in Easter mass

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Pope Francis urged the world in his Easter message on Sunday to use the "weapons of love" to combat the evil of "blind and brutal violence," following the attacks in Brussels. After a week of somber religious events commemorating Jesus' death, Francis said an Easter Sunday Mass under tight security for tens of thousands of people in a sun-drenched St. Peter's Square.

Prince William to attend ex-girlfriend wedding over Easter with Kate

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Prince William won't be spending Easter weekend with his wife, Kate Middleton, or their two kids, Prince George and Princess Charlotte . Instead, he'll be attending the wedding of his ex-girlfriend and longtime friend, Jecca Craig, who is saying "I Do" to Jonathan Baillie at her family's Lewa Wildlife Conservancy in Isiolo, Kenya, on Saturday, a source confirmed to ET.

Western Japan plane crash killed four

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A small plane with four people on board crashed to the ground at a western Japanese airport on Saturday, leaving all four dead, an official and local media said. Television footage showed the front and back of the fuselage as severely damaged, with the wing tips broken, and the crashed aircraft near a runway at Yao airport in Osaka.