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2. Stoning - Wikipedia

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   Stoning, or lapidation, is a method of capital punishment where a group throws stones at a person until the subject dies from blunt trauma. It has been attested as a form of punishment for grave misdeeds since ancient times. Stoning appears to have been the standard method of capital punishment in ancient Israel [citation needed]. Its use is ...

3. Lynching of Deborah Yakubu - Wikipedia

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   Nigeria is roughly evenly divided into a largely Muslim north and a Christian south. Twelve of Nigeria's thirty-six states are Muslim-Majority with Sunni Islam as the predominant religion, and operate Sharia courts as well as irreligious customary courts.

4. Capital punishment by country - Wikipedia

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   Hanging, firing squad or stoning. Somalia is the only African state that carries out public executions. The Transitional Federal Government laws allowed for execution (in the limited area of the country it used to control) for murder, terrorism, treason, espionage, homosexuality, some military offences, blasphemy, apostasy and adultery. South ...

5. Honor killing - Wikipedia

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   In villages "back home", a man's sphere of control was broader, with a large support system. In our cities full of strangers, there is virtually no control over who one's family members sit, talk or work with. Alam argues that it is thus the attempt to regain control and the feelings of alienation that ultimately leads to an honor killing. [56]

6. Stoning of Aisha Ibrahim Duhulow - Wikipedia

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   The stoning of Aisha Ibrahim Duhulow was a public execution carried out by the Al-Shabaab militant group on 27 October 2008 in the southern port town of Kismayo, Somalia. Duhulow's father and aunt stated that she was a 13-year-old girl and that she had been arrested and stoned to death after trying to report that she had been raped.

7. African archaeology - Wikipedia

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   Abstract imagery, widened subsistence strategies, and other "modern" behaviors have been discovered from that period in Africa, especially South, North, and East Africa. The Blombos Cave site in South Africa, for example, is famous for rectangular slabs of ochre engraved with geometric designs. Using multiple dating techniques, the site was ...

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   Enjoy a classic game of Hearts and watch out for the Queen of Spades!

9. Fossatum Africae - Wikipedia

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   Fossatum Africae ("African ditch") is one or more linear defensive structures (sometimes called limes) claimed to extend over 750 km (470 mi) or more [1] in northern Africa constructed during the Roman Empire to defend and control the southern borders of the Empire in Africa. It is considered to be part of the greater frontier system in Roman ...