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LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Human rights groups accuse Nigerian authorities of trumping up charges against a labor union leader and member in Nigeria's southeast.

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Pilot error and inexperience were behind the 2010 crash of an Ethiopian airliner in Lebanon in which all 90 people on board died, according to a report released on Tuesday by Lebanese authorities.

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ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Tuesday praised Ivory Coast's government for seeking justice and accountability for crimes committed after a disputed 2010 election sent the country spiraling into violence.

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An Algerian court on Monday sentenced a former Guantanamo Bay detainee to three years in jail for membership of an extremist group active overseas.

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ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — After an intense year of diplomacy sparked by revolution and repression across the Arab world, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is taking stock this week of an entirely separate democratic advance a half-continent away in West Africa.

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The African Union wants to turn the page in its ties with Libya's new rulers, the head of the AU's executive arm said on Monday on his first visit to the country since the ouster of Moamer Kadhafi.

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Rival Libyan fighters who clashed in towns south of Tripoli have settled their deadly dispute through a prisoner swap and agreed to a ceasefire, local officials said on Monday.

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UN peacekeepers must have unrestricted access within Sudan's troubled Darfur region, international monitors overseeing a peace deal for the area said on Monday.

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Africa saw good economic results in 2011 with average growth of between 5.5 percent and 6.0 percent, African Union (AU) Commission chairman Jean Ping said on a visit to Libya on Monday.

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Police used live bullets and tear gas to quell rioting between followers of Sierra Leone's ruling party and opposition where several people suffered stab wounds, police and witnesses said Monday.

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Egypt's military ruler Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi held talks with Libya's new rulers in Tripoli on Monday about security issues and the situation of Egyptian migrant workers in the country.

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US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in Ivory Coast Monday on her first visit there since a deadly crisis broke out following disputed 2010 polls.

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Zimbabwe on Monday opened a court inquest into the death of former army chief Solomon Mujuru, who was killed last year in a mysterious inferno, in a case that has roiled President Robert Mugabe's party.

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KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) — The trial against Rwanda's top opposition leader has been postponed again.

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MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — Liberia's president was sworn in Monday for a second term in a ceremony attended by her bitter rival, whose refusal to recognize her victory had threatened to undermine this country's fragile peace.

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HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Forensic investigations have found no evidence that explosives or inflammable liquids were used in the house-fire death of a powerful general whose family believes he may have been murdered, Zimbabwean state attorneys said Monday.

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Cape Verde has decided to rename its Praia International Airport after South Africa's former president Nelson Mandela, an icon for freedom in Africa, a government statement said Monday.

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When Sierra Leone's brutal civil war was declared over in January 2002, Britain's then-prime minister Tony Blair was welcomed as a hero for the role his troops played in pushing the rebels out of Freetown.

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Rival Libyan militias clashed on Sunday south of Tripoli, sources told AFP, raising fresh security concerns with the war-torn North African country still emerging from a bloody conflict.

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Almost one hundred people were killed in South Sudan’s troubled Jonglei state last week, with the government on Sunday reporting 13 more deaths as a cattle vendetta between two tribes grips the new nation.