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Kenya just fine about Obama avoiding it on Africa trip

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 Kenya said Tuesday it ...

Nigerian military task force say more than 200 Boko Haram captured

Nigerian military task force say mo…

Nearly a week after Nig...

Talks to resume with Mali government, Tuaregs

Talks to resume with Mali governmen…

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Militiamen attack gas complex in western Libya

Militiamen attack gas complex in we…

A Libyan gas company of...

Rebels attack Central African Republic villages; 8 dead

Rebels attack Central African Repub…

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ActionAid Nigeria refutes NOI Polls report on one-dollar-a-day poverty threshold

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M23 rebels clash with soldiers in east Congo

M23 rebels clash with soldiers in e…

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Rwanda's Paul Kagame denounces UN force in DR Congo

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'Britain's Obama' Chuka Umunna urges British ties with West Africa

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 Nassarawa Crisis: Genesis and the way forward

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Kenya just fine about Obama avoiding it on Africa trip

 Kenya said Tuesday it was "fine" with US President Barack Obama avoiding the country on an Africa tour next month, rejecting reports it was due to upcoming crimes against humanity trials of its leaders. Obama will leave on a first African tour in late June, visiting Senegal, Tanzania and South Africa, but his itinerary bypasses Kenya, where his father was born. "America, just like Kenya, is an independent country and its president has the democratic…
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Somali PM to face confidence vote in Parliament

Somalia's prime minister is expected to face a vote of confidence next week, lawmakers said on Friday, and backers of the challenge said they were frustrated with the pace of political reform. Prime Minister Abdi Farah Shirdon Saaid heads a fledgling government Western capitals say is the best the strifetorn country has had for decades, determined to improve security, impose the rule of law and end corruption. A vote against the prime minister could threaten…
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Sudanese foreign minister to visit Juba South Sudan on Friday

Sudan's Foreign Minister Ali Ahmed Karti will visit South Sudan on Friday, state media said, the first high-level meeting between the neighbors since Khartoum accused Juba of supporting rebels who launched a major attack three weeks ago. Both African countries agrees in March to restart crucial cross-border oil flows and end tensions that has existed since the south seceded in 2011. But despite this thaw, Sudan accused South Sudan on Saturday of supporting a rebel…
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Kenya want UN to scrap ICC case against President Kenyatta and VP Ruto

Kenya is making a new push to terminate proceedings at the Hague against President Uhuru Kenyatta and his deputy, William Ruto. Kenyan officials have sent a strongly-worded letter to the U.N. Security Council, asking it to petition the International Criminal Court (ICC) to drop the cases. Kenyatta and Ruto face trial at the ICC on charges of crimes against humanity for their alleged roles in Kenya's 2007-2008 post-election violence, in which more than 1,100 people…
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Ugandan Army general questions Museveni succession plan

A military general is accusing Uganda's president of trying to ensure his son replaces him as the country's leader, the first top military official to raise concerns about President Yoweri Museveni's succession after nearly three decades in power. David Sejusa, one of Uganda's six generals, said in a recent letter to the head of the internal security service that he wants an investigation into allegations that those opposed to Museveni's son as a future leader…
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Catholic church in Tanzania hit by deadly explosion

An explosion at a crowded church in the northern Tanzanian city of Arusha has killed at least one person and injured more than 50. Police say they believe Sunday's blast was caused by a bomb, and that a suspect has been arrested. The explosion occurred at the official opening of the new Roman Catholic church in the suburb of Olasiti. The Vatican's ambassador to Tanzania and the archbishop of Arusha were attending, but were not…
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Car bomber kills 7 in Mogadishu Somali capital

Seven people were killed Sunday morning when a suicide bomber attempted to ram a car laden with explosives into a military convoy escorting a four-member Qatari delegation, an official said. Gen. Garad Nor Abdulle, a senior police official said the members of the Qatari delegation who were being escorted in the interior minister's convey were unharmed and safely reached their hotel. Abdulle said the interior minister was not in the convoy. Mohamed Abdi, an officer…
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Eleven Sudanese traders killed by gunmen in South Sudan

Eleven Sudanese traders were shot dead in an ambush by armed gangsters as they crossed into neighbouring South Sudan, a South Sudan military official said Thursday. "There were three lorries and they fell into an ambush. Two were driven to the bush, as one, which had technical problems, was left behind. They went and killed all 11 drivers", South Sudan's military spokesman Philip Aguer told AFP. The killed traders were crossing the border at Khorachier,…
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Over 100 dead, rescuers trapped in Darfur goldmine disaster

Around 100 miners are estimated to have died inside a collapsed gold mine in Sudan's Darfur region and nine rescuers trying to free them are now trapped, a miner said on Friday. "Nine of the rescue team disappeared when the land collapsed around them Thursday," said the miner, who had visited the scene and asked to remain anonymous. On Monday the unlicensed desert gold mine began to collapse in Jebel Amir district, more than 200…
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60 persons killed in Darfur gold mine collapse

Dozens of people have been killed in a gold mine collapse in Sudan's Darfur region, said the chief of the district where fighting over gold in January led to the region's worst unrest in years. "The number of people who died is more than 60," Haroun al-Hassan, the local commissioner in Jebel Amir, North Darfur, said on Thursday. He added that rescue operations were still taking place after Monday's accident. "I cannot give exact figures…
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