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AFP
President Jacob Zuma on Sunday celebrated his ruling ANC's achievement of leading South Africa into all-race freedom at a mass rally for the party's 100th anniversary.

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AP
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Police say gunmen who are suspected members of a radical Muslim sect have killed three people on an attack on a tea shop in northeast Nigeria.

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AFP
The head of Nigeria's Christians has warned that attacks on the faithful that have killed more than 80 people suggest "religious cleansing" and compared it to the run-up to the 1960s civil war.

20120109
AFP
A once reluctant United States is reaching out to the Muslim Brotherhood in a nod to Egypt's new political reality, but concerns linger about the group's attitude toward minorities, women and the peace treaty with Israel.

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Reuters
(Reuters) - President Goodluck Jonathan pleaded with Nigerians on Saturday to support the removal of fuel subsidies and pledged to cut government salaries, in an effort to prevent a nationwide strike planned for Monday.

2012018
AP
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — A radical Muslim sect attacked a church worship service in Nigeria's northeast during assaults that killed at least 15 people, authorities said Saturday, as Christians vowed to defend themselves from the group's widening sectarian fight against the country's government.

2012018
AFP
African leaders hailed South Africa's ruling ANC in centenary celebrations for the continent's oldest liberation movement which inspired regional struggles for freedom.

2012018
AP
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — For decades, Nigerians have expected low gasoline prices, one of the few perks seen by residents of an oil-rich nation where corruption siphons billions. Now, that long-cherished benefit has ended, more than doubling prices and fueling a planned nationwide strike by angry labor unions.

2012018
AP
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — Authorities in Ivory Coast have unearthed human remains that may be those of a French-Canadian journalist who disappeared in 2004, a government official and a media watchdog group said Saturday.

2012018
AFP
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria's president has announced has cut travel and some salaries in the oil-rich country's executive branch ahead of a planned nationwide strike over spiraling fuel costs.

2012018
AFP
Doctors Without Borders has resumed emergency operations in South Sudan's troubled Jonglei state to help thousands displaced by a recent bloody explosion of ethnic violence, a statement said Saturday.

2012018
AFP
Ivory Coast's former president Laurent Gbagbo will get legal aid while his financial status is assessed, the International Criminal Court (ICC) said Saturday.

2012018
AP
JUBA, Sudan (AP) — Aid groups are mounting a "major emergency operation" in rural South Sudan after tribe-on-tribe violence sent tens of thousands of people fleeing and killed an unknown number of people, the U.N. said Saturday.

2012018
AP
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenyan authorities said Saturday that they had thwarted attempted attacks by an al-Qaida-linked Somali militant group over Christmas and the New Year, as Britain warned its citizens over looming terror threats in Kenya.

2012018
AP
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — For decades, Nigerians have expected low gasoline prices, one of the few perks seen by residents of an oil-rich nation where corruption siphons billions. Now, that long-cherished benefit has ended, more than doubling prices and fueling a planned nationwide strike by angry labor unions.

2012018
AP
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — The leader of Nigeria's main umbrella group for Christians says its members will defend themselves as attacks by a radical Muslim sect continue.

2012018
AFP
Key facts on the shadowy Islamist group known as Boko Haram, blamed for increasingly deadly and sophisticated attacks including the gunning down of some 30 Christians this week in Nigeria -- Africa's most populous nation and largest oil producer:

2012018
AFP
Egypt's Coptic Christians celebrated Christmas on Saturday amid tight security, looking over their shoulders at the violence they have suffered in recent years and ahead, as Islamists emerge as the dominant force in the new parliament.

2012018
AFP
IMF chief Christine Lagarde praised South Africa's "impressive" economic performance on Saturday, but again warned that the European debt crisis posed a risk to Africa's largest economy.

2012018
AFP
Moamer Kadhafi caused great suffering among the Sudanese people, Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir said on Saturday on his first visit to Libya since Kadhafi was overthrown and killed.