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Tunisia to have first woman PM
Tunisia's president has asked Najla Bouden to form a new government.
Tunisia's president has asked Najla Bouden to form a new government; but why is everyone cautious about calling her the first female prime minister?
Plus, police in Nigeria have killed at least 11 members of a banned Shia sect in Abuja.
Also, nearly twenty years after the end of Liberia's civil war, people are still dealing with the mental and physical scars.
(Image: Tunisia's newly-appointed Prime Minister, Najla Bouden Romdhane, at the Carthage Presidential Palace in Tunis. Credit: EPA)
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