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Breaking News Wed, 22 Feb 2012
Defected Libyan soldiers and volunteers load weapons onto a truck on the outskirts of the eastern town of Brega, Libya, Thursday, March 3, 2011. Mutinous army units in pickup trucks armed with machine-guns and rocket launchers deployed around the strategic oil installation at Brega Thursday, securing the site after the opposition repelled an attempt by loyalists of Moammar Gadhafi to retake the port in rebel-held east Libya.
Court   Libya   Photos   War   Wikipedia: Libyan civil war  
Libya court orders civil trial for Gaddafi "loyalists"
| BENGHAZI (Reuters) - A Libyan military court ruled on Wednesday that 50 people accused of fighting for Muammar Gaddafi and helping a mass jail break by alleged supporters of the deposed leader shoul... (photo: AP / Tara Todras-Whitehill) Daily Press
Former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, center, arrives at the airport in Dakar, Senegal Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012. Obasanjo arrived in Senegal on Tuesday to try to mediate a solution to the country's political impasse, less than a week before a contentious presidential election takes place. In the hour before his arrival, police once again fired tear gas to disperse demonstrators as they took to the streets and set fire to tires in a show of anger over the candidacy of the country's 85-year-old leader Abdoulaye Wade.
Africa   Nigeria   Photos   Politics   Wikipedia: Senegal  
Nigeria’s former president to meet with Senegal’s opposition candidates
| DAKAR, Senegal — Former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, who is in Senegal to observe and help mediate a solution to this weekend’s contentious election, is meeting opposition candi... (photo: AP / Tanya Bindra) The Washington Post
Egypt's former President Hosni Mubarak arrives by gurney to court in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, Jan. 28, 2012 Egypt's Mubarak declines chance to address court
| CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's ousted President Hosni Mubarak has turned down the chance to address the court on the last session before the verdict in his seven-month trial. | He is accused of complicity i... (photo: AP / Mohammed al-Law) The Guardian
Court   Egypt   Photos   Politics  
File - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks at a town hall discussion in Dushanbe, Tajikistan Saturday Oct 22, 2011. Clinton heads abroad to push Syria diplomacy
| WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is trying to ramp up diplomatic efforts against Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime on a trip to North Africa this week, as some count... (photo: AP / Kevin Lamarque) Springfield News-Sun
Photos   Politics   Syria   Washington  
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An unidentified woman lays clothes out to dry on an oil pipeline running through the Okrika neighborhood of Port Harcourt in Nigeria's oil-rich delta region, in this Oct. 7 2006 file photo. Oil prices dropped nearly $2 a barrel, Tuesday, May 29, 2007 on hopes that the inauguration of a new president in OPEC member Nigeria would contribute to a stable supply from the Niger Delta region Nigeria losing 150 000 barrels of oil per day
Abuja - Oil companies in Nigeria are battling against a rising theft that is costing them an estimated 150 000 barrels of crude each day, an oil major official said on Tu... (photo: AP / Sunday Alamba, file) Independent online
Abuja   Africa   Business   Photos  
File - In this photo of Tuesday Aug. 9, 2011 released by the African Union-United Nations Information Support Team, Ugandan soldiers serving with the African Union Mission in Somalia, AMISOM, patrol through the deserted streets of Bakara Market in central Mogadishu. 'Somalia should be enjoying its own Arab Spring'
London - Somalia should be enjoying an Arab Spring of its own but its Al-Shebab insurgents are fomenting jihad both in and out of the country, British Prime Minister Davi... (photo: AP / AU-UN IST/ Stuart Price) Independent online
Africa   Peace   Photos   Somalia   Wikipedia: Somali Civil War  
Robert Mugabe, president of Zimbabwe Gyrations of a geriatric: Robert Mugabe at 88
Our infuriating neighbour, who cunningly clings to his cushy job after 32 years, despite losing the elections he violently subverted in 2008, has vowed to lead his Zanu-P... (photo: Public Domain / Martin H.) Independent online
Elections   Photos   Politics   Wikipedia: Robert Mugabe   Zimbabwe  
This video image taken from Egyptian State Television shows 83-year-old former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak laying on a hospital bed inside a cage of mesh and iron bars in a Cairo courtroom Wednesday Aug. 3, 2011, as his historic trial began on charges of corruption and ordering the killing of protesters during the uprising that ousted him from office. The scene, shown live on Egypt's state TV, was Egyptians' first look at their former president since Feb. 10, the day before his fall when he gave a defiant speech refusing to resign. Defense to make final pitch in Hosni Mubarak's trial
February 22, 2012 -- Updated 0905 GMT (1705 HKT) Egypt's Hosni Mubarak is on trial on charges of corruption and ordering the deaths of hundreds of protesters. | Cairo (CN... (photo: AP / Egyptian State TV) CNN
Corruption   Egypt   Photos   Trial   Wikipedia: Hosni Mubarak  
In this Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010 photo, Senegalese pop star Youssou Ndour gestures during the launch of his television station, TFM, in Dakar, Senegal. Senegal's Youssou Ndour injured during rally: spokesman
| AFP - Senegalese music icon and opposition activist Youssou Ndour was injured in the leg after being hit by a projectile at the scene of a banned rally in Dakar, his en... (photo: AP / Rebecca Blackwell) France24
Elections   Photos   Protests   Senegal   Wikipedia: Youssou N'Dour  
The Secretary General meets with Olusegun Obasanjo, Special Envoy on the Great Lakes region African envoy in Senegal to defuse tension
| Former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo has arrived in Senegal to mediate the country's political standoff, while police once again fired tear gas to disperse prote... (photo: UN / Eskinder Debebe) Al Jazeera
Elections   Photos   President   Senegal   Wikipedia: Olusegun Obasanjo  
In this image made from video provided NTA via APTN, and taken Saturday, Dec. 25, 2010, patients are seen in hospital beds following violence in Jos, Nigeria. Dozens of people were killed over the holiday weekend in attacks across Nigeria, including 32 that died in central Nigeria in a series of bomb blasts in the worst violence to hit the region in months. At least 14 civilians killed in attack in Nigeria market
SHARE | AND | DISCUSSTweet MAIDUGURI: At least 14 civilians died in a market in northeast Nigeria during an attack by a radical Islamist sect, and in the security crackdo... (photo: AP / NTA via APTN) The Times Of India
Boko Haram   Islamist   Nigeria   Photos   Wikipedia: Boko Haram  
Politics Business & Economy
Nigeria's uneasy equations
The politics of charity
UN votes to increase force in Somalia
UN votes to increase force in Somalia
Former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, center, arrives at the airport in Dakar, Senegal Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012. Obasanjo arrived in Senegal on Tuesday to try to mediate a solution to the country's political impasse, less than a week before a contentious presidential election takes place. In the hour before his arrival, police once again fired tear gas to disperse demonstrators as they took to the streets and set fire to tires in a show of anger over the candidacy of the country's 85-year-old leader Abdoulaye Wade.
Nigeria’s former president to meet with Senegal’s opposition candidates
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Libya is template for releasing oil stocks in 2012: Kemp
Number of Phones Hits Over 95 Million - NCC
Japan Promises Further Investments
'Debt Forbearance for Brokers Still On Course'
An unidentified woman lays clothes out to dry on an oil pipeline running through the Okrika neighborhood of Port Harcourt in Nigeria's oil-rich delta region, in this Oct. 7 2006 file photo. Oil prices dropped nearly $2 a barrel, Tuesday, May 29, 2007 on hopes that the inauguration of a new president in OPEC member Nigeria would contribute to a stable supply from the Niger Delta region
Nigeria losing 150 000 barrels of oil per day
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Education Health
Do Justice to Teachers, Students
Big Spend On Education
HIV Testing Programme for Universities Launched
INAD Prioritises Training in Demining
Save the Children starts school meals for Somali refugees
Save the Children starts school meals for Somali refugees
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IFC, UK Initiative to Bolster Health Public-Private Partners
McCain urges Libyan militias to join national army
Youth in Agriculture Statement at 2012 Farmers' Forum
PHOTO: Accra Aca Boy Is Dying
Robert Mugabe, president of Zimbabwe
Gyrations of a geriatric: Robert Mugabe at 88
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Environment Human Rights
Baby Lions Play In Ukutula South African Park (VIDEO)
Nigerian journalist wins UNEP Young Environmental Journalist
Rain-Displaced Need Urgent Aid
ENVIRONMENT: South Africa to introduce carbon tax
File - A young Saharawi boy outside his tent in occupied Western Sahara.
WSRW report reveals massive agri-industry in occupied Western Sahara
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The politics of charity
Are They Really Religious?
While London watches, Zimbabwe slips further into the abyss
Somalia: a bullet-riddled history
The Secretary General meets with Olusegun Obasanjo, Special Envoy on the Great Lakes region
African envoy in Senegal to defuse tension
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Sport Agriculture
Rugby: Age-old rivalries alive and kicking in South Africa
India keep winning in field hockey, South Africa in final
South Africa thrashes India
South Africa wins a thriller
New Zealand's Martin Guptill takes a run on the way to 122 not out against the West Indies in their fourth one day international cricket match at Eden Park in Auckland, New Zealand, Saturday, Jan. 10, 2009.** NEW ZEALAND OUT **
New Zealand v South Africa
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Farmers - 'Come to Our Aid'
Youth in Agriculture Statement at 2012 Farmers' Forum
Hermetic bags save African crop, but not how experts once th
Alleged Killers Of British/American Missionary Case Adjourne
KENYA: Hundreds displaced by fresh clashes in Isiolo
KENYA: Hundreds displaced by fresh clashes in Isiolo
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