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Nigeria Assembly rejects gender equality law

Nigerian MP says he won't support a law seeking to establish gender equality because "it infringes with the provisions of the Qur'an" and asks for the word 'equal' to be removed.

Nigerian MPs cite religious grounds for rejecting a gender equality law proposal; A fund wins one hundred million dollars to support women-led business in sub-Saharan Africa. And Chuckie Taylor, the son of former Liberia president Charles Taylor serving 97 years in a federal US prison, says he's innocent.

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