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Tunisian protester killed in clash

One protester died and several others were injured when Tunisian Islamists defied a ban on their demonstration and clashed with police.

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Journalists face trial in Cairo

Egyptian Public Prosecutor Talaat Ibrahim has ordered journalists Magdy El Gilad and Alaa El-Ghatrify to stand trial for defamation.

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Nigeria steps up blitz on Boko Haram

Nigeria has offered an amnesty to Islamist militants who surrender amid a blitz on Boko Haram in the north of the country.

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File photo: Rebel General Ntaganda Bosco (2ndL) walks escorted by comrades on January 11, 2009 at his mountain base in Kabati, 40km north west of the provincial capital Goma.

DRC clashes claim at least 21 lives
May 16 2013 at 16:00

Violent clashes between rebels and government troops in the restive eastern Democratic Republic of Congo have left at least 21 people dead.

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File image - Congolese army (FARDC) soldiers sit in a military truck in Minova, some 45 km (28 miles) west of Goma. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic

At least 21 killed in DRC clashes
May 16 2013 at 15:54

Violent clashes between rebels and government troops in the restive eastern DR of Congo have left at least 21 people dead.

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Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi.

Morsi summons ministers over kidnappings
May 16 2013 at 15:53

President Mohamed called for crisis talks after gunmen kidnapped three policemen and four soldiers in the lawless Sinai peninsula.

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In a photo taken on November 2, 2012 and released by the AU-UN Information Support Team on November 3, Sheik Ahmed Madobe, commander of the pro-government Ras Kimboni Brigade and head of the executive committee of the interim adminstration in Kismayo.

Ex-warlord is 'president' of key region
May 16 2013 at 14:03

A warlord in southern Somalia's Jubaland region has declared himself "president" of the region, leaders said.

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US women face sentencing in terror case
May 16 2013 at 14:27

Two Minnesota women convicted of conspiring to send money to al-Shabab in Somalia are to be sentenced.

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A voter registration official inspects identity particulars at Lotshe Primary School in Bulawayo on May 7, 2013 during the mobile voter registration exercise.

‘Journalists will be casualties’
May 16 2013 at 14:09

As fresh presidential elections near, there is a gloomy sense Zimbabwean media is being thrust back into the firing line.

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A picture shows the closed gates of the Rafah border crossing with Egypt in the southern Gaza Strip on August 06, 2012. Egypt has closed its Rafah frontier crossing with the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip after five gunmen slew 16 Egyptian guards near the border with Israel. AFP PHOTO/SAID KHATIB

Security officers kidnapped in Egypt
May 16 2013 at 12:43

A group of militants have reportedly kidnapped seven Egyptian security officers in the Sinai Peninsula, near the borders with Israel.

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A rebel fighter from the Seleka coalition points his rifle at an image of ousted Central African President Fran�ois Bozize's wife, Monique Bozize, in one of Bozize's pillaged residences in Sassara, near Bossangoa, 300km north of Bangui, on April 6, 2013.

Sanction CAR rights abusers - UN
May 16 2013 at 10:50

The UN envoy to the Central African Republic has called for sanctions against rebels accused of severe rights violations.

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Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has declared a state of emergency in the nation's troubled north-east states of Yobe, Borno and Adamawa, where Islamic extremists now control some of the country's villages and towns.

Troops deployed in Nigeria’s hot zones
May 16 2013 at 10:38

Nigeria's military has confirmed a “massive” deployment of troops to the north after President Goodluck Jonathan’s declaration of a state of emergency in three regions.

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Libyan Interior Minister Ashur Shwayel (centre) gets ready to leave after a meeting with the Benghazi Civil Society regarding security concerns Benghazi.

Deadly Benghazi blast ‘an accident’
May 16 2013 at 10:12

Libyan ministers are considering the possibility that the explosion outside a hospital in Benghazi was not deliberate.

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