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/ 19 January 2012
Kenya is nervously awaiting an ICC ruling on whether to try six officials, including two presidential contenders, over deadly 2007-2008 poll unrest.
Rwanda President Paul Kagame secured another seven-year term on Wednesday after being declared landslide winner of the country’s election.
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/ 2 February 2010
Senegal’s president urged African leaders on Monday to join forces in the fight against al-Qaeda’s North African branch.
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/ 1 February 2010
African Union (AU) heads of state focused on rising tensions in oil-rich, secessionist southern Sudan on Monday.
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/ 31 January 2010
UN chief Ban Ki-Moon on Sunday criticised power-grabs in Africa as Libya’s Moammar Gadaffi reluctantly handed over the presidency of the AU.
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/ 19 February 2007
Three Croatians have become the latest foreigners to be kidnapped at gunpoint in Nigeria’s oil capital of Port Harcourt, industry sources said on Monday. Gunmen abducted the three late on Sunday, reportedly as they were out drinking in the city now notorious for the dozens of foreigners who have been seized in recent months.