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Just weeks before a global ban was lifted on Marange diamonds in Zimbabwe, an outpouring of mourners clogged the usually sleepy streets of Mutare in the eastern mining region.

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The walls of the former Shebab base in Baidoa, Somalia, are littered with rudimentary drawings of machine guns and tanks, a note reading "Fear God, don't write on these walls" and a sketch of an Al-Qaeda flag, homage to the rebel group's international allies.

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Huge explosions rocked a munitions depot in the Republic of Congo's capital Brazzaville Sunday, killing at least 100 people and leaving hundreds of others injured, the government said.

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BRAZZAVILLE, Republic of Congo (AP) — Blasts rocked the capital of the Republic of Congo on Sunday, after a weapons depot caught fire, officials said, killing at least 206 people and pinning countless others underneath collapsed buildings, including a church.

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An irate mob lit bonfires and marched through the Nigerian city of Kano to protest the alleged shooting to death of a motorcyclist on Sunday by troops deployed to counter Boko Haram Islamists.

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Stunned residents of Congo's capital surveyed damage caused by deadly blasts at a weapons depot Sunday that levelled homes, destroyed military barracks and blew out windows in a neighbouring city.

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The Nigerian armed militant group MEND which last week claimed the killing of four marine policemen in the the oil-rich Niger Delta said Sunday it was at "war" with the nation's security agents.

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BRAZZAVILLE, Republic of Congo (AP) — A morgue in the capital of the Republic of Congo has taken in 136 bodies of those killed in blasts caused by an arms depot fire in the capital.

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BRAZZAVILLE, Republic of Congo (AP) — Blasts rocked the capital of the Republic of Congo Sunday morning, shaking houses in Brazzaville and echoing across the Congo River to the capital of the neighboring country.

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BRAZZAVILLE, Republic of Congo (AP) — Blasts rocked the capital of the Republic of Congo Sunday morning after a weapons depot caught fire, officials said, killing and wounding unknown numbers of people and forcing 2,000 to flee their homes.

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Some 3,000 cases of typhoid have been reported in Zimbabwe's capital of Harare since the first case was detected in a working-class suburb in January, state media reported on Sunday.

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(Reuters) - A senior Egyptian politician spoke out on Saturday against "flagrant interference" behind Cairo's decision to lift a travel ban on American pro-democracy activists accused of receiving illegal funds, echoing growing anger over the move.

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Fifty people travelling to a weekly market were killed and 27 others injured when the lorry they were travelling in crashed in eastern Guinea on Saturday, a government statement said.

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Libyan Islamists and independents on Saturday formed a new political party, electing as its leader a Muslim Brotherhood member who was a political prisoner under the regime of dead dictator Moamer Kadhafi.

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The provocative leader of South Africa's ruling party's youth league vowed Saturday to stay in the party, despite his expulsion this week.

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(Reuters) - The United States on Saturday reaffirmed its backing for Egypt's efforts to get a $3.2 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund, despite the recent diplomatic standoff between Washington and Cairo over American pro-democracy activists.

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Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir danced on Saturday with his defence minister at a rally for paramilitary troops two days after the International Criminal Court issued a warrant for the latter's arrest.

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Sudan should not strip ethnic southerners of their Sudanese citizenship if they are unable or unwilling to become citizens of newly independent South Sudan, Human Rights Watch said on Saturday.

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A car bomb exploded on Saturday near a military base housing Burundian soldiers from an African Union peacekeeping force in the Somali capital Mogadishu, killing the driver, police said.

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Nigeria's Arik Air said it will resume daily flights to Johannesburg Saturday, 24 hours after suspending them in protest over South Africa's refusal to let in 125 Nigerians on health grounds.