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Bar'wani won the Lindi Town constituency seat as a candidate for the opposition Civic United Front.
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Salum Khalfani Bar'wani won a seat in the southern part of the country last week.
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Bar'wani said he will work to abolish the stereotypes associated with the condition.
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Mr Bar'wani said he was grateful to the constituents in Lindi Urban, in the remote south-east of the country, for electing him.
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Later in the day, a vehicle carrying security forces allegedly opened fire on a group of protesters in the Zoonimar area, killing Mohammad Altaf Wani, police said.
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But local media quoted eyewitnesses as saying that Mr Wani and his uncle were on their way to work when they were allegedly shot at by the security forces.
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Even though Wani and her brother no longer live in Haiti (he is in Paris, France), she said her mother was determined to make sure they were proud of their homeland.
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Her daughter, Wani Thelusmon Coriolan, said in Haiti children bear only their father's surname, but her mother insisted on keeping her maiden name and making sure her two children shared it, too.
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