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Nigeria army kills 12 suspected Islamists in flashpoint cityKano, Nigeria (AFP) Feb 13, 2012 Nigeria's army has killed 12 suspected fighters from the Boko Haram Islamists during a raid in the northeastern city of Maiduguri, the group's base, a military spokesman told AFP on Monday. Spokesman Hassan Mohammed of the Joint Task Force said there was a shootout in the city late Sunday between soldiers and "gunmen suspected to be members of Boko Haram... in the encounter 12 members of Boko Haram were killed." Residents said that raid came in response to a Boko Haram attack against the milita ... read more |
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 Inter-ethnic fighting displaces 40,000 in Kenya More than 40,000 people have fled clashes between two northern Kenyan tribes over access to water and pasture, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies said Friday. ... more | .. |
 Mali army tries to fend off Tuareg rebels as crisis grows Mali's army launched airstrikes Thursday to halt the advance of Tuareg rebels amid calls for a ceasefire and as clashes sent thousands fleeing to neighbouring countries, military sources said. ... more | .. |
 Chinese, Russian arms fuel Darfur abuse: Amnesty Chinese-made bullets and aircraft bought from Russia are used to commit rights violations in Sudan's Darfur under an ineffective UN arms embargo, Amnesty International said on Thursday. ... more | .. |
 Hong Kong to restrict foreign homebuyers from 2013 US judge OKs partial settlement in e-book case Nordic-Baltic states seek more cooperation Outside View: Jobs outlook grim Empire-style computers? Frenchman takes PCs to lap of luxury Google-Microsoft field smartphones to take on iPhone 5 EU businesses urge China's new leaders to speed reforms |
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Explosion rocks military barracks in northern Nigeria Two blasts rocked a northern Nigerian city Tuesday, including one targeting a military barracks, but the number of casualties was not immediately clear, officials said. ... more | .. |
 S.Africa's strike-hit Kruger Park to hire retired rangers South Africa's Kruger National Park is recruiting retired game rangers to replace its striking ranger force, a spokesman said Tuesday, amid a rhino poaching crisis that has hit record scale. ... more | .. |
 Liberia Nobel Laureate Gbowee launches peace foundation Joint Nobel Peace Prize winner Leymah Gbowee on Monday launched a peace foundation in her country Liberia aimed at lifting young girls out of social squalor and giving them life skills. ... more | .. |
 UN says 30,000 fled recent Sudan fighting About 30,000 people have fled recent fighting in Sudan's South Kordofan state, the UN said on Friday after rebels captured 29 Chinese workers in the same area. ... more |
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 New study shows millions risk losing lands in Africa New studies released in London suggest that the frenzied sell-off of forests and other prime lands to buyers hungry for the developing world's natural resources risk sparking widespread civil unrest ... more | .. |
 Mali instals new defence minister after Tuareg raids Malian President Amadou Toumani Toure Thursday swapped his defence and security ministers after a series of Tuareg rebel raids and warned against attacks on civilian members of the nomadic tribe. ... more | .. |
 Tuareg rebels take Mali town after army pullout Mali's Tuareg rebels took over the northern town of Menaka Wednesday after the government forces stationed there pulled out overnight, officials and witnesses said. ... more | .. |
 Sudan army frees 14 'kidnapped' Chinese: report The Sudanese military has freed 14 Chinese workers "kidnapped" by rebels in the country's South Kordofan state, the official SUNA news agency reported on Monday. ... more |
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 African Union unveils Chinese-built headquarters The African Union inaugurated Saturday its new high-rise headquarters in the Ethiopian capital, built and donated by China at a cost of $200 million. ... more | .. |
 New AU headquarters marks strong China-Africa ties Towering above the Ethiopian capital, cloaked in urban smog, the new Chinese-built African Union headquarters in Addis Ababa is a bold symbol of China's rapidly changing role in Africa. ... more | .. |
 US Navy SEALs prove their mettle again First they took out Osama bin Laden. Now the US Navy SEALs have earned their "special forces" designation once again by conducting a daring, pinpoint rescue of two aid workers held hostage for three months in Somalia. ... more | .. |
Former colonial soldiers in Mozambique hope for pensions Paulo Salazar served on a Portuguese warship during Mozambique's long liberation war, leaving him stranded on the wrong side of history. ... more |
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 Nigeria police fire tear gas at Lagos protest Nigerian police fired tear gas Thursday in Lagos at hundreds of protestors marching against the authorities' security crackdown in the aftermath of a week-long strike over fuel prices. ... more | .. |
 Ethiopia: Thousands driven out in land grab Human rights activists say tens of thousands of people in western Ethiopia are being driven off fertile ancestral lands so the government can lease or sell large tracts of farmland for commercial agriculture to investors, including foreign governments. ... more | .. |
 Sudan rebels say key govt outpost taken Rebels in Sudan's South Kordofan have captured a key government outpost near the state capital, a rebel spokesman said, but the country's armed forces denied even being in the area. ... more | .. |
 Somalia: rebels and regional powers in the conflict Somalia's Islamist Shebab insurgents face increasing pressure from regional armies and government forces, with almost every Horn of Africa nation drawn into the two-decade-long conflict. ... more |
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S. Africa slams Security Council over Libya crisis South Africa's President Jacob Zuma on Thursday slammed the UN Security Council's handling of last year's Libya crisis and demanded the institution take greater account of African views in handling conflict. ... more | .. |
S.African rangers kill poachers in Kruger park Authorities have killed two suspected poachers, arrested two others and found 11 rhino carcasses in the same area of South Africa's Kruger National Park in one week, a spokesman said Thursday. ... more | .. |
Adrenaline rush with a township view at Soweto's towers Poupienah Makgatho drove 100 kilometres (65 miles) from Pretoria to help his terrified wife to overcome her fear of heights - by bungee jumping off the iconic cooling towers that dominate Soweto's skyline. ... more | .. |
Kenyan jets kill '60 or more' Somali Islamist insurgents Kenyan fighter jets killed at least 60 Islamist Shebab insurgents in southern Somalia in the latest assault by regional countries to heap pressure on the extremist rebels, officials said Saturday. ... more |
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 Boko Haram and U.S. plans in Africa Oil-rich Nigeria is gripped by an escalating uprising by Islamist militants that has triggered massacres of Christians, including a Christmas Day suicide bombing blitz, which the federal government seems unable to contain. ... more | .. |
French experts to report on pre-genocide Rwanda plane attack A group of experts mandated by a French inquiry to probe the 1994 downing of Rwandan leader Juvenal Habyarimana's jet is due to say Tuesday where the fatal ground-to-air missile was fired from. ... more | .. |
$80 mn Chinese loan to Cape Verde for social housing China will extend a $80-million loan to Cape Verde for social housing as well as to build a sports stadium and revamp the presidential palace, the African island nation's news agency said Thursday. ... more | .. |
 G.Bissau to retire 400 troops under military reform About 400 troops will retire from Guinea Bissau's army this month under military sector reforms in the coup-prone country, Prime Minister Carlos Gomes Junior said Wednesday. ... more |
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 Fears Nigerian emergency decree will lead to military abuses A state of emergency declared in Nigeria in areas hit by attacks blamed on Islamist group Boko Haram has sparked concerns that the military will use the measure as legal cover to carry out further abuses. ... more | .. |
Coup scare points to power struggle in G.Bissau A clash between military units in Guinea-Bissau exposed the tangled affairs of this unstable nation where a powerful army and state are intertwined and cocaine cartels have deep roots. ... more | .. |
25 held over Bissau 'coup plot', weapons cache seized Twenty-five renegade soldiers involved in an apparent coup plot in Guinea-Bissau are being detained in the capital and at an air base north of Bissau, an AFP reporter said, after the army uncovered a large cache of weapons. ... more | .. |
Guinea Bissau says coup-plotter executed Guinea-Bissau's government has said that its security forces executed a police officer earlier this week as he turned himself in over his role in what the regime describes as a coup bid. ... more |
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