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Foreign ministers hold Vienna talks as Isis threat to Libya grows
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US judge hands light sentences to 4 Americans for staging bloody but failed coup d’état in Gambia
Four US citizens stood trial for sending armed men to overthrow a government and received prison terms of only up to one year. Had they attempted to have a regime change at home they would most likely have got life behind bars.
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U.S. Special Forces in Somalia firefight
No U.S. troops were wounded in what quickly turned into a firefight. Ugandan troops
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This Is What Life Is Like When Your Daughter Is Kidnapped By Boko Haram
When Boko Haram snatched 276 schoolgirls f-rom a school in Nigeria, their families led a global campaign to bring them back. Two years on, distraught relatives live in hope they will return, but also fear that they may have lost their daughters to the group’s brainwashing. Monica Mark reports f-rom Abuja for BuzzFeed News.
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DR Congo president can remain in office without a vote: court
The ruling came amid rising tensions over the government's failure to set a date for the country's next elections, originally due in November this year before Kabila's mandate ends.
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Six-Year-Old Boy Snatched By Leopard At South African Park
A leopard at a South African game reserve snatched a six-year-old boy and ran off with him.
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Kenya: Woman rescued after 6 days in collapsed building
A Kenyan woman was rescued Thursday after being trapped for six days in the rubble of a collapsed building.
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George Weah: Liberia's Football Hero Turned Politician
King George played for some of Europe’s best clubs and wants to lead the West African nation.
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Zimbabwe to sell wildlife in bid to tackle drought
The Zimbabwe Parks & Wildlife Management Authority, known as Zimparks, said that “in light of the drought… [the Authority] intends to destock its park estates through selling some of the wildlife,” in a statement reported by Reuters on Tuesday.
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Two-thirds of Nigerian states struggling to pay salaries: president Buhari
Nearly two-thirds of Nigeria's 36 states are struggling to pay civil servants' salaries despite receiving a government bailout, President Muhammadu Buhari's spokesman quoted him as saying on Thursday.
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Eleven shot dead in Cape Verde, including two Spanish citizens
Eleven men were shot dead in Cape Verde on Tuesday, including eight soldiers, a local civilian and two Spanish citizens, the minister of Internal Administration for the archipelago off the African coast said in a statement.
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A Major Breakthrough Brings The World’s Youngest Nation Closer To Peace
The peace deal was hanging by a thread until the opposition leader’s homecoming.
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Burundi general killed as ICC opens probe into atrocities
A top Tutsi general was gunned down in Burundi on Monday, the latest bloodshed in a year of violent political turmoil that has now prompted a preliminary probe by international prosecutors into a litany of atrocities.
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'King of Congolese rumba' Papa Wemba dies
Papa Wemba, one of Africa's greatest music stars, has died after collapsing on stage during a festival in the Ivory Coast, the concert organisers said Sunday.
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Papa Wemba, Africa's 'King of Rhumba Rock,' dies
Papa Wemba, one of Africa's most flamboyant and popular musicians, has died, according to a statement f-rom a music festival in Ivory Coast.
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Migrant crisis: Hundreds dead after capsize, say survivors
Hundreds of migrants drowned when their boat capsized in the Mediterranean, survivors have told the BBC - although there is no official confirmation.
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Tripoli holds its breath as new Libya government seeks unity
The grass is knee high in parts of Bab al-Aziziya, the sprawling compound in Tripoli f-rom which Colonel Muammar Gaddafi terrorised his own people.
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What’s Worse Than a Girl Being Kidnapped?
Babies died of “a fever.” Older children were “bitten by a snake.”
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The Other Girls Kidnapped By Boko Haram In The 2 Years Since #BringBackOurGirls
Over 200 girls were captured f-rom a Nigerian boarding school in April 2014. But the kidnapping spree didn’t stop there.
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