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Report: DSK And Wife Of 20 Years Split

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CLOSER, VOICI(France) REUTERS

PARIS - Disgraced former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn and his wife, prominent French journalist Anne Sinclair, have split after 20 years of marriage, a source close to DSK has told Reuters.

The French edition of the weekly magazine Closer first reported the news in its online edition, adding that Sinclair, who currently runs the French version of the Huffington Post, and had publicly stood by her husband through the past year of humiliating accusations, had thrown Strauss-Kahn out of their home in central Paris.

Strauss-Kahn, known as DSK, and a former frontrunner for the French presidency, is currently enmeshed in a civil lawsuit filed by the New York hotel maid who accused him of sexual assault in May 2011. DSK was arrested and jailed for the incident, but prosecutors eventually dropped the charges for lack of evidence. He is also currently facing probes in France to establish whether he was involved in prostitution rings in northern France,

A few hours earlier, Closer had already made headlines by claiming that France's former French First Lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy was pregnant again at the age of 44. Although Nicolas Sarkozy's wife hasn't reacted to the report, her entourage has denied the news, the French weekly tabloid Voici reports.

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The Unique Role Of African Americans In Building A New U.S.-Africa Alliance

Recent allegations by the U.S. ambassador to South Africa that the African nation gave ammunition and weapons to Russia in December 2022, amid Russia’s war on Ukraine, illustrate the complexity of U.S.-Africa relations.

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A group of teenagers lead American tourists through a government-funded housing development in Capetown, South Africa.

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Even as South Africa investigates those claims, the Biden administration is trying to strengthen ties with the African Union, a continental member organization, and 49 of Africa’s 54 countries, including South Africa, on geopolitical and commercial issues.

The only African countries the U.S. is not courting are four that were suspended from the African Union, and Eritrea, a country with which the United States doesn’t have a formal relationship.

The U.S. is making this grand African play as it competes with China to influence the continent’s future. And while this particular U.S.-China contest is relatively new, U.S. involvement in Africa is not.

The way the U.S. has been involved on the continent, though, has changed over time, depending on the era, U.S. interests and a particular African nation’s needs. In 1822, for example, the U.S. began to send freeborn African Americans and emancipated former enslaved African Americans to Africa, where they settled the colony that would eventually become Liberia. That settlement was originally governed by white Americans.

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