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Libya : No decision yet on Gaddafi son's trial: Int'l Criminal
on 2012/1/24 9:04:23
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THE HAGUE/TRIPOLI (Reuters) - The International Criminal Court said on Monday it has not decided whether Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, son of the overthrown Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, should be tried in Libya, contradicting earlier comments by a Libyan minister.
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Libya : Gaddafi supporters seize control of Libyan town
on 2012/1/24 9:03:56
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TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Supporters of ousted Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi seized control of the town of Bani Walid on Monday after clashes with a militia loyal to the new government in which four people were killed, witnesses told Reuters.
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Nigeria : Nigerian police find bomb-filled cars in Kano
on 2012/1/24 9:03:36
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KANO/MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Nigerian police said they found cars and vans filled with explosives in the northern city of Kano on Monday, three days after Islamist sect Boko Haram carried out a deadly attack there.
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South Africa : S.Africa's Malema makes last stand with ANC appeal
on 2012/1/24 9:03:19
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - An appeal that will determine the future of South African political rebel Julius Malema started on Monday, giving the firebrand a last chance to retain his influential position in the ruling African National Congress (ANC).
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Egypt : Egypt's Islamist-led parliament meets, rivalries on display
on 2012/1/24 9:02:54
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CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's first free parliament in six decades got to work on Monday with Islamists holding by far the most seats and opponents comparing their grip on the chamber to that enjoyed by the now defunct party of deposed President Hosni Mubarak.
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Nigeria : Nigerian police say four Boko Haram members killed
on 2012/1/24 9:02:30
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MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Nigerian police said on Monday they shot dead four members of the Islamist sect Boko Haram in the northeast city of Maiduguri and recovered explosive materials stored in a car, two days after the sect carried out its most deadly attacks.
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Senegal : Would-be presidents court Senegal's holy kingmakers
on 2012/1/24 9:02:05
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TOUBA, Senegal (Reuters) - It is not everyday that Senegal's octogenarian president Abdoulaye Wade lets the television cameras into his bedroom.
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Afran : Boko haram kill over 178 in Nigeria's Kano
on 2012/1/24 9:01:32
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KANO (Reuters) - Gun and bomb attacks by Islamist insurgents in the northern Nigerian city of Kano last week killed at least 178 people, a hospital doctor said on Sunday, underscoring the challenge President Goodluck Jonathan faces to prevent his country sliding further into chaos.
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Nigeria : Nigeria president says arrests made over deadly attacks
on 2012/1/23 11:14:57
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Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan said Sunday that arrests have been made over a wave of attacks in the city of Kano that killed at least 166 people and vowed to hunt down the backers of Islamist group Boko Haram.
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North of Africa : Morocco, Tunisia in 2004 final repeat
on 2012/1/23 11:13:59
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Morocco and Tunisia both have something to prove when they face off on day three of the Africa Cup of Nations here on Monday.
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Nigeria : Death toll in Nigeria attack rises, stuns leader
on 2012/1/23 11:13:03
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KANO, Nigeria (AP) — People in this north Nigeria city once wore surgical masks to block the dust swirling through its sprawling neighborhoods, but swarming children hawked the masks for pennies apiece Sunday to block the stench of death at a hospital overflowing with the dead following a coordinated attack by a radical Islamist sect.
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Somalia : Somali pirates 'behind kidnap of foreign hostage'
on 2012/1/23 11:11:56
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Pirates are behind the kidnapping of a foreign hostage in central Somalia, a local official said Sunday, with witnesses reporting he had been whisked off to an inaccessible jungle base.
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Nigeria : At least 150 killed in Nigeria Kano attacks
on 2012/1/23 11:10:49
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KANO, Nigeria (AP) — More than 150 people were killed in a series of coordinated attacks by a radical Islamist sect in north Nigeria's largest city, according to an internal Red Cross document seen Sunday by an Associated Press reporter.
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Côte d'Ivoire : Drogba saves Ivory Coast blushes
on 2012/1/23 11:09:49
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Africa Cup of Nations favourites Ivory Coast won a tense Group B opener against Sudan here on Sunday, Didier Drogba earning the star-studded Elephants a 1-0 win.
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Madagascar : Madagascar feared 'troubles' from ex-president's activists
on 2012/1/23 11:08:37
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Madagascar's authorities wanted a plane carrying former leader Marc Ravalomanana to land away from the capital so he could be arrested without trouble from his supporters, officials said.
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Madagascar : Madagascar: Coup leader wants to fly rival home
on 2012/1/23 11:07:40
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ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar (AP) — After blocking an attempt by Madagascar's exiled president to fly to the Indian Ocean island, the man who ousted him says he wants to send a plane to South Africa to pick up Marc Ravalomanana and bring him home to be arrested.
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Algeria : Algeria demands death sentence for top Qaeda boss
on 2012/1/23 11:06:36
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Algerian prosecutors on Sunday requested the death sentence for Mokhtar Belmokhtar, a top leader in Al-Qaeda's north African branch, and another person in a trial on the deaths of two Algerian soldiers.
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Kenya : Kenya awaits ICC decision on prosecutions for 6
on 2012/1/23 11:05:36
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NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenyans on Sunday nervously awaited a decision by the International Criminal Court on whether the court will prosecute six influential Kenyans accused of helping to orchestrate violence that killed more than 1,000 people following disputed elections in 2007.
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Libya : Libya ruling council deputy head quits after protests
on 2012/1/23 11:04:31
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The deputy head of Libya's National Transitional Council resigned on Sunday after angry protests, as the ruling body faced its first serious challenge since the ouster of Moamer Kadhafi.
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Algeria : Algeria begins trying top Qaeda boss
on 2012/1/23 11:03:33
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An Algerian court on Sunday began trying Mokhtar Belmokhtar, a top leader in Al-Qaeda's north African branch, in absentia for the deaths of two Algerian soldiers.
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