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South Sudan accused former foe Sudan on Friday of holding 35,000 Southerners as "slaves," stalling talks to resolve a furious oil dispute as tensions remain high between the two neighbours.

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SOKOTO, Nigeria (AP) — An attempted rescue by British special forces and Nigerian troops of a British and an Italian hostage ended with a blood-splattered house and a dispute between two European nations.

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Zimbabwe's draft constitution could be completed within a week, including a clause limiting presidents to two terms in a nation ruled by Robert Mugabe for 32 years, a top official said Friday.

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A viral campaign to bring accused Ugandan war criminal Joseph Kony to justice has sparked a growing storm, with millions viewing an online video whose makers deny it oversimplifies the facts.

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BRAZZAVILLE, Republic of Congo (AP) — Coffinmakers on Friday hurried to build more than 200 identical caskets for the victims of last week's deadly explosion ahead of Sunday's state funeral, following a government request that the coffins be identical in both material and design in order to convey the national character of the loss.

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A Moroccan appeal court confirmed a death sentence Friday against the mastermind of the April 2011 Marrakesh bombing that killed 17 people, and handed a death sentence to one of the others convicted.

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Medicine is running short as hospitals struggle to treat some 1,300 people hurt in a string of powerful blasts at a munitions' dump that flattened hundreds of nearby homes in Brazzaville on Sunday.

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MAPUTO, Mozambique (AP) — About 300 armed men have gathered in a northern town in Mozambique, some for weeks, and they say they are awaiting orders from the country's main opposition leader to launch anti-government protests, state media reported Tuesday.

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The UN Security Council on Tuesday demanded that rival Sudan and South Sudan end border hostilities and head off moves to war.

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Senegal's constitutional court on Tuesday released the final tally of the first round of the presidential polls, ensuring a run-off between President Abdoulaye Wade and his ex-prime minister Macky Sall.

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Ethiopian rebels said Tuesday they had released two Germans held hostage since January 18 after a gunbattle that killed five other adventure tourists in the remote Afar desert region.

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War-torn Somalia has applied to join the East African Community, a five-member bloc with a single market allowing free trade and movement of citizens, the group's current chair Kenya said.

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BRAZZAVILLE, Republic of Congo (AP) — Morticians stacked bodies two to a tray at Brazzaville's main morgue Tuesday as the death toll rose to at least 236 from a conflagration at an armory that catapulted shells, rockets and other munitions into a densely populated area of the capital of the Republic of Congo.

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MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Turkish Airlines started flying into Somalia's war-torn capital Tuesday, becoming the first international company to fly passenger planes into Mogadishu in more than 20 years.

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South Africa's powerful Cosatu labour federation vowed Tuesday to rally more than 100,000 protesters against new toll roads around Johannesburg that have angered workers and businesses.

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Talks between Sudan and South Sudan resumed in the Ethiopian capital Tuesday to resolve a furious oil dispute as tensions remain high between the two nations.

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It is a sight the South Sudanese hoped had gone for good: twisted metal shards embedded in thigh-deep bomb craters left by an airstrike blamed on former foes in neighbouring Sudan.

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As naval forces tighten the noose around Somali pirates in the Indian Ocean, the idyllic Seychelles archipelago has been overrun with convicted brigands and is calling for international support.

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The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo headed by Prime Minister Adolphe Muzito has resigned more than three months after legislative elections, a spokesman said Tuesday.

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The first long-distance international commercial airliner in some two decades to fly to Somalia's war-torn capital landed on its maiden flight at Mogadishu airport Tuesday.