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The leader of the coup-prone west African nation of Guinea-Bissau, Malam Bacai Sanha, died at the age of 64 Monday in a Paris hospital after a long illness, his office said.The leader of the coup-prone west African nation of Guinea-Bissau, Malam Bacai Sanha, died at the age of 64 Monday in a Paris hospital after a long illness, his office said.

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JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — Members of a South Sudanese tribe targeted in massive attacks late last month have killed 22 people and burned down three villages of the opposing tribe in new attacks, a state governor said Monday.

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Chad's main opposition parties announced Monday they had formed a broad alliance to challenge President Idriss Deby Itno's ruling party in the central African state's first local polls.

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Anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela's life story is to be turned into a six-part television mini-series co-created by his grandson, the producers behind the multinational project said Monday.

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Several hundred Tunisian journalists demonstrated in Tunis Monday to protest at the appointment of media bosses by the government, which they regard as a return to bad practices of the past.

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Renewed tribal clashes in South Sudan's troubled Jonglei state have killed at least 24 people, days after a cattle vendetta rattled the stability of the world's newest state, officials said Monday.

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Lawyers for victims' families in the trial of ousted president Hosni Mubarak charged that Egyptian police were ordered to use lethal fire against protesters in the revolt which brought him down.

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South African media criticised the ANC on Monday for celebrating its past at the expense of the present as the last merrymakers from the party's 100th anniversary celebrations headed home.

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African Union troops in Somalia's war-torn capital will investigate an attack on a mosque in which a cleric reportedly died and several civilians were wounded, it said in a statement.

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Nigeria braced for a nationwide strike on Monday over soaring fuel prices amid increasingly volatile protests and with security forces already under pressure over spiralling violence blamed on Islamists.

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Three people were killed and several injured during a stampede after police fired tear gas at a Sudanese Independence Day celebration on Sunday, an official said.

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Nigeria on Sunday braced for nationwide strikes over fuel prices while also seeking to stop a wave of attacks on Christians claimed by Islamists as anger mounted in Africa's most populous nation.

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Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan said Sunday unrest blamed on Islamist group Boko Haram was worse than the 1960s civil war, with sect sympathisers in the government and security agencies.

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ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria's president said Sunday that ongoing sectarian assaults by a radical Islamist sect are "even worse" than the country's 1960s civil war that saw 1 million people die — suggesting that the enemy this time could be lurking anywhere and everywhere.

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Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir on Sunday warned that Libya must be wary of the remnants of Moamer Kadhafi's regime, saying his country was "afraid" for the Libyan people.

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BLOEMFONTEIN, South Africa (AP) — Tens of thousands of chanting and dancing revelers waved the green and gold colors of the African National Congress as Africa's oldest liberation movement celebrated its 100th anniversary Sunday, though many South Africans say the party hasn't delivered on its promises since taking power in 1994.

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Youths in Kasserine, a town at the forefront of Tunisia's uprising a year ago, on Sunday heckled the men their revolution brought to power, radio reports and residents said.

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Algeria is to buy a 51-percent stake in mobile phone operator Djezzy, a government spokesman said on Sunday, after talks with the main shareholder in the group's Egyptian parent company.

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Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan said on Sunday that violence blamed on Islamist group Boko Haram was worse than the 1960s civil war, with sect sympathisers in government and security agencies.