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Senegalese President Macky Sall arrived in Gambia Sunday for a one-day working visit on his first official trip since taking office.

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It was one of Guinea-Bissau's busiest roads, but the avenue leading to the home of ousted prime minister Carlos Gomes Junior is deserted as residents fearful of the junta that seized power in a coup stay away.

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The youth wing of South Africa's ANC on Sunday insisted suspended Julius Malema continue as their leader, in open defiance against an order from the parent body.

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Campaigning began on Sunday for elections in Algeria next month seen as a test of reforms designed to avert the kind of discontent that led to a string of revolutions elsewhere in the region.

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South African President Jacob Zuma will marry his fourth wife next weekend, his spokesman confirmed on Sunday.

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French energy group Total has shut down a gas plant in southern Nigeria because of a techical fault during a drilling operation at an oil facility, the company said on its website.

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Abdelbaset Ali Mohmet al-Megrahi, the Libyan convicted of the 1988 Lockerbie plane bombing, was unconscious and in critical condition in hospital on Sunday, a close relative said.

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Authorities seized assets of a nephew of President Jacob Zuma to cover debts to a security company that guarded now-liquidated gold mines he co-owned with a grandson of Nelson Mandela, a newspaper reported on Sunday.

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BISSAU, Guinea-Bissau (AP) — Soldiers on Saturday arrested protesters demanding the release of Guinea-Bissau's leading candidate in elections halted by mutinous troops, who claimed he was trying to assassinate top military leaders of this coup-prone West African nation.

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Fears were growing Saturday for members of the government toppled by a coup in Guinea Bissau, as opposition leaders considered terms the junta had offered them for joining a "unity" government.

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A Sudanese air raid on a border city in South Sudan killed five civilians Saturday, a local official said, as Juba's army said it was still in control of the disputed oil hub of Heglig.

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West African mediator Blaise Compaore opened talks Saturday with the military junta that briefly seized power in Mali last month and Malian politicians trying to navigate a way out of the crisis.

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An opposition party in the Democratic Republic of Congo has dismissed 33 of its members for serving in parliament, even though the party chief had already declared their election void.

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Tunisia opened Saturday a national conference calling for justice for the victims of the Ben Ali regime, with its leaders saying that scores must be settled for reconciliation to begin.

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Al-Qaeda's north African branch has sent a video of two French nationals abducted in Mali last November to the authorities in Burkina Faso, which was viewed by AFP on Saturday.

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BISSAU, Guinea-Bissau (AP) — Soldiers have arrested the prime minister of this tiny nation known for transiting cocaine to Europe, a military spokesman said Friday, the latest instability to roil a coup-prone West African country where no leader in nearly 40 years has finished his time in office.

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Congolese President Joseph Kabila's suggestion that he might arrest war crimes suspect Bosco Ntaganda was a positive sign, but the arrest should be carried out immediately, Human Rights Watch said Friday.

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Islamists were out on the streets of Cairo in a show of force Friday to demand members of ousted president Hosni Mubarak's regime be barred from politics, in a standoff with Egypt's ruling military.

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Algeria buried its first post-independence president Ahmed Ben Bella, hailed as an anti-colonial hero and the father of the nation, in a sombre and rain-drenched ceremony on Friday.

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Nigeria's president signed off Friday on a $31 billion budget for 2012 in Africa's largest crude producer amid concern it has not done enough to guard against a possible future slide in oil prices.