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NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Voice of America says it is investigating reports that a correspondent in Ethiopia's capital has been detained by authorities.

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African leaders met in South Africa on Friday to discuss ways of drawing in the diaspora to help advance the world's poorest continent.

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BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — The two rebel groups that seized control of the northern half of Mali announced Saturday that they have agreed to fuse their movements and work together to create an independent Islamic state on the territory they occupy, a signatory to the agreement said.

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Former Guinea-Bissau armed forces chief Jose Zamora Induta has fled to a neighbouring country following the coup in his troubled country last month, officials said on Saturday.

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Several thousand people protested across the poor west African country of Burkina Faso on Saturday to denounce a steep spike in the prices of basic food items and petrol.

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Dozens of opposition lawmakers walked out of the first session of Algeria's new parliament Saturday, condemning alleged fraud in this month's elections.

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Gunmen killed a Muslim cleric and a retired prison guard on Saturday in northeastern Nigeria, residents and a medic said, amid a wave of such killings blamed on Islamist group Boko Haram.

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The prime minister of Mali's transition government arrived in Abidjan Saturday for talks with West African bloc head Alassane Ouattara, the president of Ivory Coast, on the Malian crisis.

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A Voice of America (VOA) reporter and a translator detained while covering a protest in the Ethiopian capital were released from jail on Saturday, VOA said.

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GOUDOUDE DIOBE, Senegal (AP) — It's 10 a.m., and the 2-year-old is still waiting for breakfast. Aliou Seyni Diallo collapses to his knees in tears and plops his forehead down on the dirt outside his family's hut.

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African leaders met in South Africa on Friday to discuss ways of drawing in the diaspora to help advance the world's poorest continent.

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Mauritanian police fired teargas to break up a fresh opposition protest Friday calling for President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz to step down, leaving many injured and at least five under arrest.

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African observers Friday called for peace on the eve of Lesotho's hotly contested general elections, while praising the tiny country for a campaign period free of major violence.

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Sudanese government troops have clashed with rebels on the home turf of insurgent leader Malik Agar, both sides said on Friday.

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MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — African Union and Somali troops seized a town on the outskirts of Mogadishu on Friday from Islamist militants after three days of fighting, marking the biggest victory over al-Shabab since the pro-government forces took control of the capital last August.

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African Union and Somali troops have captured the strategic town of Afgoye from Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab insurgents without major resistance, declaring a military breakthrough, officials said Friday.

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UN rights chief Navi Pillay on Friday urged the West to suspend sanctions against Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe and his close aides to give the country a chance to implement much needed reforms.

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JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — Leaders of a minority community said South Sudan troops shot and killed a teenager on Friday while he was fishing, linking the death to the military's disarmament campaign in a conflict-torn state.

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NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Human rights officials accused the Kenyan police Friday of eliminating suspected terrorists after armed men dragged a terror suspect out of a car. He was the third terror suspect to be abducted since April.

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NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Rights officials are accusing the Kenyan government of running an official campaign to eliminate suspected terrorists following the disappearance of a terror suspect this week — the third disappearance this year.