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AP
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — TV news images are showing smoke pouring out of a building in downtown Nairobi after saying an explosion reportedly rattled the business district.

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AP
AFGOYE, Somalia (AP) — The farmers in Afgoye, a town on the outskirts of Mogadishu long controlled by Islamist militants, didn't even wait to clear away the bullet casings from last week's battles before filling up trucks with produce to drive into the capital.

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AFP
The death toll from a massive stampede that broke out in northeastern Zambia when 5,000 people jostled for casual work at a fishing factory has risen to nine, a local official said Tuesday.

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AFP
Somalia's Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab insurgents shrugged off recent strategic losses and growing military pressure Tuesday to launch an ambush on the president -- who escaped unhurt -- and fire on foreign warships.

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AFP
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan marked a year since his inauguration Tuesday with fresh pledges to eradicate the Islamist insurgency and corruption that have plagued his tenure so far.

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Press TV
Thousands of Egyptians have staged an anti-Ahmed Shafiq demonstration in Cairo and some protesters set fire to the Egyptian presidential candidate’s campaign headquarters in the capital.

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AP
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — An explosion ripped through a building full of small shops in downtown Nairobi, injuring at least 33 people, including a woman who blamed the blast on a "bearded man" who left behind a bag shortly before the detonation.

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AFP
Dozens of people were wounded Monday when what police think was a home-made bomb ripped through shops in central Nairobi, in what Prime Minister Raila Odinga branded a "terrorist" attack.

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AFP
Nelson Mandela will on Tuesday move back to his residence in his childhood village of Qunu, South African President Jacob Zuma said, adding that the elder statesman was in good health.

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AFP
Some 50 people have been arrested in the investigation into the attack on Mali's interim president Dioncounda Traore by protesters angry over the transition deal, the government announced Monday.

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AFP
Rwandan citizens have been recruited and trained to fight in support of army mutineers in neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo, according to a confidential UN report obtained by the BBC.

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AP
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Former South African President Nelson Mandela is leaving Johannesburg on Tuesday to take up residence in his eastern home village of Qunu, the country's current leader said Monday.

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AFP
South Sudan said its foe Sudan bombarded its territory Monday on the eve of talks to prevent a return to all-out war, but Khartoum rejected the charges and promised to pull out from a contested area.

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AFP
Sudan's army will begin pulling out of the contested region of Abyei from Tuesday, as demanded by the United Nations, the army spokesman said.

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AP
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — An explosion ripped through a building full of small shops in downtown Nairobi on Monday, wounding at least 28 people, officials said.

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AP
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — An explosion ripped through a building full of small shops in downtown Nairobi on Monday, wounding at least 16 people, the police commissioner said.

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AP
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — An apparent explosion ripped through a building full of small shops in downtown Nairobi on Monday, wounding an unknown number of people.

20120529
AP
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — TV news images are showing smoke pouring out of a building in downtown Nairobi after saying an explosion reportedly rattled the business district.

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AFP
The African economy should grow 4.5 percent this year after recovering from the impact of the 2009 global economic crisis and the 2011 North African revolts, experts predicted in a report Monday.

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AFP
An Al-Qaeda offshoot has seized a key arms depot in Mali, security sources said Sunday, deepening the crisis facing the country after rebels declared an independent Islamic state in the north.