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/ 11 February 2012
Sudan and South Sudan signed a security agreement which aims to defuse tensions over oil payments which officials had warned could spark a war.
The World Bank’s vice-president for Africa says states should enhance inter-continental trade to fight off the impact of the eurozone crisis.
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/ 18 January 2012
Four people, including two foreign tourists, have been kidnapped by gunmen, after an attack on a group in Ethopia’s Afar region.
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/ 29 October 2011
Kenya will end its campaign against the al-Shabaab rebels in Somalia when it is satisfied it has stripped the group of its capacity to attack.
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/ 25 October 2011
Two grenade blasts killed one and wounded more than 20 in Nairobi, apparently in retaliation for Kenya’s hunt for al-Shabaab insurgents in Somalia.
SA has bemoaned the suicide bomb attack that killed 70 people in Mogadishu, while Somalia’s Prime Minister urged aid workers not to stay away.
Across the Horn of Africa, a fierce drought is forcing more than 10-million people to rely on emergency food aid, up from a forecast of six-million.
Rasheed Hassan had to walk out on his son when he fled war in his native Somalia to go to neighbouring Ethiopia.
Libya wants the African Union to invoke a mutual defence pact to deal with Western air strikes that seek to "punish Africa … and colonise it again".
Côte d’Ivoire presidential claimant Allasane Ouattara rejected on Friday an African Union call to share power with defeated president Laurent Gbagbo.