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Krista Larson, bureau chief, West Africa, Dakar, for being first to report that Gambian leader Yahya Jammeh had left the country for Equatorial Guinea, ending a 22-year reign of fear and a post-election political standoff that threatened to provoke a regional military intervention. https://www.beloitdailynews.com/article/20170121/AP…

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JAN. 27, 2017

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