Akbar's personal history are sketchy at the moment, published accounts indicate that he is a black Muslim convert.

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He says the man pointed to a woman in a black Muslim headscarf and identified her as his wife.

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In the case of Lundin, the company is apparently willing to retain interests in a country recently denounced by the U.S. Congress for genocidal attacks on its own Christian, animist and black Muslim populations.

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