The book includes the signature of the Emperor of Ethiopia Haile Selassie

BBC News – December 14, 2008.

A rare visitors’ book signed by former Emperor of Ethiopia Haile Selassie could sell for up to £1,500 at auction.

The book from the Haile Selassie School in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, is to be sold in a JP Humbert auction in Towcester, Northamptonshire, on Thursday.

Auctioneer Jonathan Humbert said the book « came from a private vendor in Northamptonshire » who acquired it from a headmaster of the school.

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BBC – October 27, 2008.

A Moroccan schoolboy, aged 18, has been jailed for insulting the king, after replacing the monarch’s name with that of his favourite football club.

He altered the phrase « God, The Nation, The King » on the school blackboard to read « God, The Nation, Barcelona ».

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AFP – October 24, 2008.

MBABANE — Top UN envoy Haile Menkerios was set Thursday to discuss the political crisis in Zimbabwe with Swaziland’s king, who currently heads an African security body, a foreign ministry spokesman said.

The talks come just three days after King Mswati III led a failed effort by African leaders to rescue a faltering power-sharing deal in Zimbabwe.

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