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It has been weeks since miner Sembo Sesay found a diamond in this eastern Sierra Leone town, whose soil was once littered with the stones that fuelled one of Africa's bloodiest wars.

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Sudan says it is ready to pull its soldiers out of the contested Abyei region, former US president Jimmy Carter said after meeting Sudanese leader Omar al-Bashir on Sunday.

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The last batches of a 600-strong west African military force charged with restoring stability in Guinea-Bissau after an April coup arrived on Sunday in the unstable west African nation.

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Egypt's presidential election frontrunners were vying for deals with rival candidates Sunday in a bid to appease a polarised nation that will choose between an Islamist and a Mubarak-era minister in a June runoff.

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The Tunisian justice ministry has sacked 81 magistrates over suspicions of graft and their links to the ousted regime of president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.

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Lesotho looked set for its first coalition government after closely fought general elections this weekend, with partial returns Sunday showing that no party would likely win a majority.

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Two separate grenade attacks wounded at least eight people in northeastern Kenya, the latest in a series of blasts in the restive region bordering war-torn Somalia, police said Sunday.

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South Africa's freshly reinstated police spy boss was suspended again over fresh allegations in an ongoing love triangle murder inquest, a newspaper reported Sunday.

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Ethiopian athletics legend Haile Gebrselassie failed to qualify for the London Olympics here on Sunday as he could only finish seventh in the 10,000 metres.

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Tens of thousands of Moroccans took to the streets of Casablanca on Sunday in the largest opposition protest since an Islamist-led government took office, reflecting mounting tensions over unemployment and other social woes.

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Gunmen shot dead three card players in the northern Nigerian city of Kano, which has been rocked by deadly attacks blamed on Islamist group Boko Haram in recent months, police said Sunday.

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Hardline Islamists, who have been running rampage in Tunisian towns, torching police stations and attacking bars, have sparked an outcry against the authorities for their lax attitude in stemming the violence.

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BISSAU, Guinea-Bissau (AP) — Campaign banners from an election that was violently interrupted still hang in the main thoroughfare of this steamy capital, a reminder that a stable government is far from the country's grasp.

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Rescuers have recovered the bodies of 10 illegal diamond miners who were killed in a disused mine tunnel earlier in the week in the Northern Cape province, officials said.

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Police on Tanzania's archipelago of Zanzibar appealed for calm Sunday after violent clashes with protesters calling for the independence of the islands left several injured.

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A Cairo criminal court on Sunday sentenced ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak's former chief of staff to seven years in jail on corruption charges, a judicial source told AFP.

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Police on Tanzania's archipelago of Zanzibar appealed for calm Sunday after violent clashes with protesters calling for the independence of the islands left several injured.

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Egypt's presidential election frontrunners were vying for deals with rival candidates Sunday in a bid to appease a polarised nation that will choose between an Islamist and a Mubarak-era minister in a June run-off.

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Lesotho's one million voters went to the polls Saturday in a tight general election where bitter personal rivalries among the three main party leaders have overshadowed worries about jobs and poverty.

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DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — The ex-president of Senegal won praise from around the world earlier this year when he gracefully conceded defeat, even picking up the phone to congratulate his longtime rival, a move that momentarily erased the memories of a violent election season.