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Breaking News Fri, 13 Apr 2012
Malawi vice president Joyce Banda at Mudi House in Blantyre, Malawi.
Africa   Malawi   Photos   Politics   Wikipedia: Joyce Banda  
Malawi’s new president takes charge
In less than a week in office, Malawi's first woman president has fired the police chief, information minister and top state broadcaster and opened an investigation into the 2011 death of an activist ... (photo: Creative Commons) Independent online
A Somali inmate detained in an anti-piracy operation conducted by Seychelles Coast Guard, pauses as he works at the incarceration block in Montagne Posee near Victoria, Seychelles, Friday, March 2, 2012.
Libya   Photos   Pirates   Terrorism   Wikipedia: Piracy in Somalia  
Analyst says Somali pirates have new weapons from Libya
| CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - Somali pirates have acquired sophisticated weaponry, including mines and shoulder-held missile launchers from Libya, and are likely to use them in bolder attacks on shipping, a... (photo: AP / Gregorio Borgia) Daily Press
A statue of freedom in Bamako. Anti-government protests in 1991 led to a coup, a transitional government, and a new constitution. Future of Mali tourist attraction uncertain
When turban-swathed Tuareg rebels swept into Timbuktu last Sunday to plant the flag of their northern Mali homeland, they found very few tourists in the bars, hotels, museums, mosques and libraries of... (photo: Creative Commons / Rgaudin) Independent online
Attraction   Future   Mali   Photos   Tourism   Wikipedia: Mali  
Pagan Amum, left, head of a delegation from South Sudan, smiles during a photo opportunity with Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir in Khartoum, Sudan, Thursday, March 22, 2012. A high-level delegation of ministers from South Sudan has arrived in the Sudanese capital Khartoum to prepare for a key meeting between the presidents of the two countries. Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir and his South Sudan counterpart, Salva Kiir, are to meet on April 3. It would be the second time the two hold talks since South Sudan became independent last year, after decades of civil war. South Sudan accuses Sudan of new attack
| South Sudan's army spokesman has said Sudan has attacked a disputed oil-producing border region with warplanes and artillery. | Philip Aguer said Tuesday's clashes erupted when troops from Suda... (photo: AP / Abd Raouf) Al Jazeera
Africa   Conflict   Photos   Troops   Wikipedia: South Sudan  
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Coup leader Amadou Haya Sanogo, center, stands with Mali's parliamentary head Dioncounda Traore, right, at junta headquarters in Kati, outside Bamako, Mali Monday, April 9, 2012. Mali’s new president to take office on Thursday
Bamako - Mali's parliament speaker will be sworn in as interim president on Thursday, ending a brief period of military rule that saw Tuareg rebels and Islamists seize ha... (photo: AP / Harouna Traore) Independent online
Coup   Mali   Parliament   Photos   Wikipedia: 2012 Malian coup d'état  
Robert Mugabe, president of Zimbabwe Zimbabwe's Mugabe "well, on holiday" - officials
| HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwean officials on Tuesday dismissed reports that President Robert Mugabe was seriously ill in Singapore, saying he was well and on holiday ther... (photo: Public Domain / Martin H.) The Star
Cancer   Mugabe   Photos   Wikipedia: Robert Mugabe   Zimbabwe  
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe attends an Independence Day parade on the 50th anniversary of Senegal's Independence from colonial power France, in Dakar, Senegal Sunday, April 4, 2010. Mugabe health rumours ‘a lot of hogwash’
Zimbabwe on Tuesday dismissed reports that President Robert Mugabe was battling for life in a Singapore hospital as “a lot of hogwash”, after his absence forc... (photo: AP / Rebecca Blackwell) Independent online
Cancer   Mugabe   Photos   Wikipedia: Robert Mugabe   Zimbabwe  
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe arrives for the burial of a prominent member of his party, Misheck Chando, in Harare, Saturday, Oct. 31, 2009. Cancer-stricken Robert Mugabe is 'fighting for his life' in Singapore hospital
| Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe was said to be close to death tonight. | The 88-year-old, who is believed to be suffering from prostate cancer, flew to Singapore by p... (photo: AP / Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi) The Daily Mail
Cancer   Mugabe   Photos   Wikipedia: Robert Mugabe   Zimbabwe  
Egyptian Vice President Omar Suleiman, center, attends a meeting with Hossam Badrawy, secretary general of the ruling National Democratic Party, left, and Refaat al Saeed, leader of the opposition Tagammu party, in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, Feb. 6, 2011. Egypt's  largest opposition group, the Muslim Brotherhood, said it would begin talks Sunday with the government to try to end the country's political crisis but made clear it would insist on the immediate ouster of longtime authoritarian President Hosni Mubarak. Mubarak Ally’s Candidacy Carries Scent of Egypt’s Old Order
| CAIRO — Former President Hosni Mubarak’s intelligence chief and vice president filed papers in Egypt on Sunday declaring himself a presidential candidate. H... (photo: AP / Soliman Oteifi) The New York Times
Egypt   Election   Intelligence   Photos   Wikipedia: 2011 Egyptian revolution  
Culture Society
Compelling case for Iraq war crime tribunal
Sail away on the African Queen of movie fame
We Are All Levantines Now
Madonna Supports Malawi's New President
A statue of freedom in Bamako. Anti-government protests in 1991 led to a coup, a transitional government, and a new constitution.
Future of Mali tourist attraction uncertain
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Building Egypt civil society on sound footing
African nations pay the price of
Salafist jihadists seeking more power in Egypt and Gaza
Some secrets must be kept – and no one needs to apolog
A woman, center, holds up a banner reading in French, "No to fraud", during a protest against the moderate Islamic party Ennahda in Tunis, Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2011. A moderate, once-banned Islamist party in Tunisia was on track Tuesday to win the largest number of seats in the first elections prompted by the Arab Spring uprisings, according to partial results. (AP Photo/Benjamin Girette)
Tunisia Cracks Down Again on Protesters Defying a Ban
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Women AIDS
Lost boys: What became of Liberia's child soldiers?
How police rescued women from illegal orphanage homes in Akw
Maid in Lebanon: Ethiopian and Lebanese Reactions to the Dea
Pregnant woman falls into manhole
Malawi vice president Joyce Banda at Mudi House in Blantyre, Malawi.
Malawi’s new president takes charge
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Madonna: I’m happy Joyce Banda is Malawi’s leade
Madonna: I'm happy Joyce Banda is Malawi's leader
Madonna: 'I'm so glad' Joyce Banda is Malawi'
Madonna: I'm happy Joyce Banda is Malawi's leader
	New UN partnership seeks to advance HIV/AIDS response across Africa
New UN partnership seeks to advance HIV/AIDS response across Africa
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Human Rights Defence
Lost boys: What became of Liberia's child soldiers?
The war on terror is corrupting all it touches
Maid in Lebanon: Ethiopian and Lebanese Reactions to the Dea
Malawi's new president takes charge with energy
Malawi vice president Joyce Banda at Mudi House in Blantyre, Malawi.
Malawi’s new president takes charge
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The war on terror is corrupting all it touches
Iran, six powers, set for nuclear talks
Mali's foundering success story
Compelling case for Iraq war crime tribunal
A Somali inmate detained in an anti-piracy operation conducted by Seychelles Coast Guard, pauses as he works at the incarceration block in Montagne Posee near Victoria, Seychelles, Friday, March 2, 2012.
Analyst says Somali pirates have new weapons from Libya
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Politics Sports
Guinea-Bissau coup leaders say PM, president, army chief dep
The war on terror is corrupting all it touches
Egyptian Islamists protest against Mubarak regime candidates
Sulaiman slams Brotherhood over actions
Secretary general of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement, and Chief Negotiator of southern Sudan Pagan Amum speaks during a press conference in Nairobi Kenya, Friday April 13, 2012.
Sudan's armed forces advancing on Heglig town
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Mutai hopes Boston can fuel Olympic bid
Eight Basic Schools Set To Battle For Honours At 2012 Milo J
Tunisian Basketball Final
Semenya eyes ticket to London Olympics
David Lekuta Rudisha of Kenya celebrates after he won the Men's 800 meters during the ISTAF Athletics Meeting in Berlin, Sunday, Aug. 22, 2010
Rudisha plans only three races before London Games
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