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African Leaders 'Shocked' by Trump's Description of Africa
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Botswana summons the US ambassador to express its displeasure over President Trump's vulgar jibe against African nations, calling his remark 'an insult'.
Plus a Somali-Norwegian teenager is named Person of the Year in her Norwegian city.
And it was 'love at first message' for a Nigerian couple, who got married less than a week after a Facebook post.
(Image: Botswana's Foreign Affairs Minister Pelonomi Venson-Moitoi. Credit: Getty Images)
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