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Obiang keeps tight rein on Equatorial Guinea
Equatorial Guinea President Teodoro Obiang Nguema is hard to avoid in the small African country’s island capital, Malabo.
Spectre of Libya dogs AU summit
African Union leaders opened a two-day summit on Thursday overshadowed by the conflict in Libya and an arrest warrant for Muammar Gaddafi.
Afghanistan fears election bloodshed
Afghanistan’s 17-million voters are set to go to the polls on Thursday with security forces on high alert against a threatened Taliban onslaught.
US helicopter crashes in Afghanistan, 10 soldiers killed
A United States helicopter involved in an anti-Taliban combat operation crashed in the mountains of eastern Afghanistan, killing all 10 US soldiers on board, the US military said…
Afghans follow cobblestone road away from drugs
In southern Helmand province, one of the main sources of the world’s opium and heroin, turbaned men fit stones into a cobbled road that is meant to lead them away from growing…