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The exiled brother-in-law of ousted Tunisian strongman Zine el Abidine Ben Ali regrets his role in the dictatorship and is prepared to face justice at home, news reports said Friday, quoting an open letter.

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The main militant group in Nigeria's oil-producing region claimed in a statement on Friday to have attacked installations belonging to Italian firm ENI.

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Zimbabwe will suffer a one million tonne maize deficit due to drought, after nearly half of the national crop now coming up for harvest has failed, state media said Friday.

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BISSAU, Guinea-Bissau (AP) — An unidentified military commander said Friday that soldiers who attacked the prime minister's home don't want to take power in Guinea-Bissau, claiming they intervened to halt foreign aggression in the tiny coup-prone African nation.

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KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Unlike in most of Africa, soccer is not the top sport at the Rev. John Foundation School in Uganda's capital. Instead, a fairly foreign American game is No. 1 and catching on quickly.

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BISSAU, Guinea-Bissau (AP) — The fate of Guinea-Bissau's civilian leaders was unknown early Friday after overnight attacks by soldiers who hurled grenades at the prime minister's home and sealed off the downtown area of the capital.

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Guinea-Bissau troops staged a coup attempt late Thursday, attacking the prime minister's residence and taking over ruling party headquarters and the national radio station.

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An interim president took over from Mali's coup leaders Thursday, threatening "total war" against Tuareg and Islamist rebels who seized half the country after the putsch three weeks ago.

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BISSAU, Guinea-Bissau (AP) — Mortar rounds could be heard Thursday in the capital of the small, coup-prone nation of Guinea-Bissau as the military sealed off the city's downtown area and lobbed grenades at the prime minister's home, according to a diplomat and a military official.

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The leaders of Sudan and South Sudan accused each other on Thursday of wanting war, with each denying the other's charge, as Sudanese war planes bombed a bridge in the South after days of fighting in a contested border region.

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BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Mali's president penned a resignation letter from his hiding place and sent an emissary to deliver it to the country's new leaders Sunday after he was forced underground in last month's coup, an official said.

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Troops in the Democratic Republic of Congo closed in on a former rebel colonel Sunday and were trying to disarm him, a military official said.

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Twenty-two people were killed and 31 others were injured in central Nigeria's Benue state when their church building caved in on them during Easter vigil, a government spokesman said Sunday.

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BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Residents in Mali attempting to flee the northern city of Gao, occupied for the past week by rival rebel factions, said they saw Islamist fighters cut the throat of a gunman, who is assumed to belong to the secular rebel group.

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LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — A car bomb exploded along a busy roadway Sunday morning in a central Nigeria city, killing at least 38 people in the latest attack on a region beset by religious, ethnic and political violence, an official said.

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An Al-Qaeda dissident group on Sunday claimed it was behind the kidnap of seven Algerian diplomats in a town in northern Mali last week.

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They have spent decades in Sudan and have worked side-by-side but now, faced with the choice of staying or going back to South Sudan, two preachers plan to go their separate ways.

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Malawi's new President Joyce Banda won praise on Sunday for keeping a young democracy on track, but southern Africa's first woman leader must now put the brakes on an economic and diplomatic nosedive.

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Libyan leaders in Misrata could be held legally accountable by the International Criminal Court for crimes committed by militias under their command, Human Rights Watch warned on Sunday.

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Uncertainty and confusion faced an estimated half a million ethnic South Sudanese on Sunday, the deadline for them to leave Sudan or formalise their status in the country.