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MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Gunmen from a radical Islamist group opened fire Tuesday night at a beer parlor in northeast Nigeria, killing eight people including four police officers as part of their ongoing sectarian battle against the oil-rich nation's government, authorities said.

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Gunmen killed eight people in north Nigeria on Tuesday and a mob torched an Islamic school in the south, as a fuel strike and growing religious tension rattled Africa's oil-rich giant.

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Experts mandated by a French inquiry to probe the 1994 downing of Rwandan leader Juvenal Habyarimana's jet have cleared now-President Paul Kagame's aides of involvement, their lawyer said Tuesday.

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A Tunisian man has died after setting himself on fire to protest unemployment, an official said Tuesday, a year after a fruit-seller's self-immolation sparked the Arab Spring.

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Guinea-Bissau's opposition rejected Tuesday the appointment of the National Assembly speaker as interim head of the chronically unstable state after the death of President Malam Bacai Sanha in Paris.

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A stampede broke out as thousands tried to enrol at a Johannesburg university Tuesday, killing one woman and injuring at least 22 people, university and police officials said.

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NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The security bulletins warning of an impending assault by terrorists are rising in intensity as Kenya's capital increases security measures in hopes of preventing what would be the first massive attack here since the 1998 U.S. Embassy bombing.

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Defence lawyers in the trial of ex-Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, his sons and seven former security officials will begin to present their cases from next Tuesday and have a month to wrap them up, the presiding judge said.

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New vehicle sales in South Africa grew almost 16 percent in 2011, but exports fell short of expectations, the National Association of Automobile Manufacturers (NAAMSA) said Tuesday.

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JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Women screamed, but the crowd of South Africans desperate for a chance to study kept pushing at the university gate. Tuesday's stampede killed a mother who had accompanied her son to an in-person application day at the Johannesburg campus, and two other people were seriously injured, officials said.

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Retired fisherman Sada Fall is upbeat. His two sons are returning from sea with a boatload of "gold", as he calls shark fins, whose value has near-obliterated the ocean's top predator in these seas.

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MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria's army says suspected members of a radical Muslim sect have killed two Christians in separate attacks despite an increased security presence in the area.

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Libya has received roughly $20 billion in assets that were held overseas by Moamer Kadhafi's regime and frozen during the conflict that ousted him, the foreign minister said on Tuesday.

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BISSAU, Guinea-Bissau (AP) — President Malam Bacai Sanha, who was elected in this tiny, coup-prone nation on Africa's western coast about two years ago after the previous leader was assassinated, died Monday in Paris after a lengthy hospitalization.

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Africa's longest-ruling leader, Equatorial Guinea's Teodoro Obiang Nguema, made an unannounced visit Monday to Zimbabwe, which had helped foil a coup bid against him, and pledged to boost ties.

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A group of experts mandated by a French inquiry to probe the 1994 downing of Rwandan leader Juvenal Habyarimana's jet is due to say Tuesday where the fatal ground-to-air missile was fired from.

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MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Authorities say a radical Muslim sect has killed a secret police officer in northeast Nigeria as part of its widening sectarian battle against the oil-rich nation's weak central government.

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France's RFI international radio network Monday was allowed to resume operations in the Democratic Republic of Congo after broadcasts were cut at the start of the year over its election coverage.

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Malawi's courts ground to a halt Monday as some 2,000 judicial workers began an indefinite strike over work conditions and higher pay, organisers said.