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Kenya just fine about Obama avoiding it on Africa trip

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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…

Suspected foreign fight...

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

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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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M23 rebels impose new leaders and taxes in controlled areas in Goma

GOMA - Officials in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo accuse a rebel force of replacing traditional leaders and extorting heavy taxes from the people, while peace talks take place in Uganda under a ceasefire. The rebel Movement of March 23 (M23) controls part of the Rutshuru region, a unstable territory rich in minerals and agricultural produce, which borders on Rwanda and Uganda. Both countries are accused by the United Nations of backing…
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Calm returns to Eritrea capital Asmara after coup attempt

Eritrea's government has said the capital Asmara is "calm" a day after armed mutineers seized the information ministry, with opposition sites saying the stand-off was settled. "All is calm today, as it was indeed yesterday," Yemane Gebremeskel, the director of Eritrean President Issaias Afeworki's office, said on Tuesday. A group of dissident Eritrean soldiers laid siege to the information ministry on Monday, forcing state media to announce a call for the release of political prisoners.…
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Suspected Coup d'etat in Eritrea, 'troops deployed' in Asmara

Reports from Eritrea say a group of about 200 soldiers have surrounded the ministry of information in the capital, Asmara. State TV has also reportedly been taken off air in what some have described as a coup attempt. The city is said to be calm with no shots having been fired. Eritrea's government has been criticised by human rights activists as one of the world's most repressive and closed countries. The websites of key Eritrean…
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Gunmen kill 4 in Garissa on Kenya-Somalia border

At least four people have been killed and six wounded after armed men attacked a restaurant in a Kenyan town on the border with Somalia, a local official has said. "Four people died on the spot, while six others were rushed to hospital," Garissa County Commissioner Mohamed Maalim told the AFP news agency. A motive and the identity of the attackers was not immediately known, he said. Speaking on condition of anonymity, a police officer…
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French national held by Somali Islamist gets death sentence

Somali militants linked to al Qaeda said on Wednesday they had sentenced a French agent to death several days after an attempt by French armed forces to rescue him failed.Al Shabaab said in a statement the decision to kill Denis Allex, held hostage in Somalia since 2009, was unanimous and followed three years of what it called "exhaustive attempts at negotiations" over his release."With the rescue attempt, France has voluntarily signed Allex's death warrant," the…
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Kenya's president rejects MPs' plan to triple their bonus

Kenya's president rejected on Saturday plans by members of parliament to triple their end-of-term bonuses and award themselves diplomatic passports, bodyguards for life and state funerals. In their last act before parliament closed for March 4 elections, Kenyan lawmakers, already among the best paid in the world, tried for a second time in a few months to increase their end-term bonus to 9.3 million shillings ($107,200) each. President Mwai Kibaki struck down their first attempt…
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2 French soldiers, 17 Shabaab men killed in failed rescue in somalia

Two French soldiers died and 17“terrorists” were killed in a failed bid to free a French hostage in southern Somalia from Islamists holding him since 2009, the French defence minister said Saturday. The overnight operation was launched by France’s elite DGSE secret service, Defence Minister Jean-YvesLe Drian said in a statement, adding that the raid was sparked by the “intransigence of the terrorists who have refused to negotiate for three and a half years and…
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Kenyan MPs vote huge severance pay package for themselves

NAIROBI — Kenyans are venting their anger over a late-night decision by the country's parliament to grant lawmakers lavish retirement benefits including a $100,000 bonus and other perks. An online campaign is underway to stop the president from signing the bill. In one of their last sessions of the year, members of the Kenyan parliament passed a retirement bill that would give each member a hefty bonus, body guards for life, private chauffeurs and a…
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Rift between Ugandan Yoweri Museveni and parliament widens

KAMPALA — The death of an opposition member of parliament in Uganda has sparked anger against the president, with several MPs accusing his government of murder. The dead woman's boyfriend has been charged with manslaughter, and an inquest is due to begin soon. Uganda’s parliament has been rocked by scandal, arrests and rumors of poisoning in recent weeks, as lawmakers argue over the death of 24 year-old opposition MP Cerinah Nebanda. The young woman’s boyfriend…
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Eight killed in renewed violence in Kenya Delta region

At least eight people have been killed in the latest tribal violence in Kenya's Tana Delta. Wednesday's fighting took place in the village of Nduru, near the country's southeastern coast. Fighting over land and water between the Pokomo and Orma communities in the area has been ongoing for the past few months. More than forty people were killed in December in the same region. Mwai Kibaki, the country's president, has ordered a judicial commission to…
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