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NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — An American reconnaissance plane crashed 6 miles (10 kilometers) from the only U.S. base in Africa, killing four service members on board, after returning from a mission in support of the war in Afghanistan, the military said Monday.

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Eritrea, often accused of supporting Islamist rebels in Somalia, on Monday criticised foreign interference in the war-torn country, ahead of an upcoming peace conference in Britain.

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Egypt says it is working "diligently" to resolve a bitter row with Washington over alleged illicit funding of NGOs for which American and other activists are due to stand trial, US Senator John McCain said on Monday.

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Several people were killed Monday when suspected Nigerian Islamists opened fire and set off bombs at a market in the northeastern city of Maiduguri, witnesses and the military said.

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France said Monday it had recalled its ambassador to Rwanda after authorities in Kigali refused to accept Paris's choice of a new envoy.

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A miner was killed in clashes with police at the strike-hit Impala Platinum mine in South Africa, the second death since violence broke out last week, police said on Monday.

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Algeria has uncovered a large cache of weapons believed to originate from Libya, including dozens of shoulder-launched missiles that can be used to shoot down airliners, newspapers said Monday.

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Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe on Sunday vowed to reject a draft constitution that does not reflect views gathered during a public outreach campaign marred by violence and intimidation.

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DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Protesters demanding the departure of Senegal's aging president on Sunday seized control of a three-block stretch in the heart of the capital, erecting barricades and lobbing rocks at police as demonstrations intensified just days before a contentious presidential poll.

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Somalia's disparate leaders have agreed on the basic structure of a new parliament and government to replace the fragile transitional body that has failed to bring peace to the war-torn country.

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SULEJA, Nigeria (AP) — A car exploded outside a church in the middle of a worship service Sunday near Nigeria's capital, wounding five people and sparking new fears of violence from a radical Islamist sect, authorities said.

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DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Senegal's state-owned news agency has reported two more people have been killed in protests including a demonstrator in the regional capital of Kaolack and a young man hit by a rock in a suburb of the capital.

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Sudan's Islamist opposition leader Hassan al-Turabi, who is seeking a "popular revolution" in the country, on Sunday accused government intelligence agents of bugging his offices.

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South Africa will deploy hundreds more soldiers to its borders to crack down on international syndicates blamed for a surge in rhino poaching, Justice Minister Jeff Radebe said Sunday.

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Senegalese riot police fired volleys of tear gas and rubber bullets at stone-throwing demonstrators after prayers at a mosque in Dakar Sunday, in fresh violence a week ahead of presidential elections.

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Hundreds of demonstrators Sunday marked the first anniversary of a reform movement, born of last year's Arab Spring, amid calls for more democracy in the Moroccan kingdom.

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South Sudan slashed non-salary government spending by half, weeks after halting the oil production that forms 98 percent of its budget in a bitter row with former foes in north Sudan, officials said Sunday.

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Sudan mourned on Sunday the death of musical icon Mohammed Wardi, a former prisoner who spent years in self-imposed exile but who died on home soil after seeing his beloved nation divided.

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DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Protesters demanding the departure of Senegal's aging president on Sunday seized control of a three-block stretch in the heart of the capital, erecting barricades and lobbing rocks at police just days before a contentious presidential poll.

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Egypt's first presidential elections since a popular uprising ousted veteran leader Hosni Mubarak a year ago will be held in the first week of June, officials were quoted as saying on Sunday.