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• Somali Airport Is Attacked With U.N. Team on Premises << Fri, 10 Sep 2010 06:01:51 GMT >>
  Witnesses said a Toyota sedan exploded at Mogadishu’s main airport after it was stopped by a guard. Another carload of attackers, dressed in government military fatigues, arrived shortly after.
  
  

• U.S. Forces Take Ship From Somali Pirates << Fri, 10 Sep 2010 05:50:17 GMT >>
  The American Navy vessel USS Dubuque, left, and the hijacked cargo ship M/V Magellan Star on Thursday.

• New Schools in South Africa Serve the Underserved << Fri, 10 Sep 2010 22:07:30 GMT >>
  Gcobani Mndini, right, a former gang member, has become a talented science student at the Leap school in Cape Town.

• Prison Raid in Nigeria Releases Hundreds << Thu, 09 Sep 2010 05:01:35 GMT >>
  More than 700 inmates in the northern Nigeria city of Bauchi were freed Tuesday night in a daring raid on a prison where members of an Islamist sect were being held, authorities and witnesses said.
  
  

• H.I.V. Prevention Gel Hits Snag: Money << Sat, 04 Sep 2010 07:10:06 GMT >>
  Volunteers who took part in a trial of a microbicide listened to results in Vulindlela, Kwazulu-Natal Province, South Africa.

• In Somali Civil War, Both Sides Embrace Pirates << Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:13:24 GMT >>
  The government in Hobyo has asked pirates to ring off coastal villages and block out the Shabab.

• Academic Tackles Chaos of Elections in Nigeria << Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:46:20 GMT >>
  President Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria promoted a recent conference with posters in the Niger Delta, but his electoral plans — and Nigeria’s — are vague.

• U.N. Congo Report Offers New View on Genocide << Mon, 30 Aug 2010 20:12:11 GMT >>
  Rwandan refugees passed a body in a refugee camp in Congo in 1997. United Nations-administered camps housed roughly one million Hutu who had fled the genocide in Rwanda.

• Labor Unrest Empties South African Hospitals << Mon, 30 Aug 2010 22:13:07 GMT >>
  Empty beds in a ward at the King George V hospital in Durban, where most of the patients have been sent home as a result of the public service strike.

• Proposed Restrictions on the News Media Cause Alarm in South Africa << Tue, 24 Aug 2010 22:19:33 GMT >>
  A Johannesburg newspaper vendor. A bill in Parliament calls for imprisonment for those who disclose information declared in the “national interest.”

• Scheme Rattles Benin, an Anchor of Stability << Thu, 19 Aug 2010 15:12:17 GMT >>
  Victims of a Benin Ponzi scheme waited to be registered in Cotonou.

• In South Africa, a Push for Industrial Growth << Tue, 03 Aug 2010 05:54:27 GMT >>
  One of the Paramount Group’s armored vehicles.

• World Briefing | Africa: South Africa: Murder Rate Falls to Lowest Level Since Apartheid << Fri, 10 Sep 2010 06:01:51 GMT >>
  Long plagued by violent crime, South Africa saw its murder rate decline by 8.6 percent over the past year to its lowest level since the end of apartheid.
  
  

• World Briefing | Africa: Nigeria: President Ousts Officials << Thu, 09 Sep 2010 05:10:14 GMT >>
  President Goodluck Jonathan replaced the heads of the military and security services on Wednesday, consolidating his hold on power months before elections.
  
  

• World Briefing | Africa: South Africa: Fraud Charges Against Journalist Withdrawn << Wed, 08 Sep 2010 06:52:55 GMT >>
  Charges will be withdrawn against a journalist arrested for fraud just days after he co-authored an article that implicated South Africa’s police chief in a questionable property deal.
  
  

• World Briefing | Africa: Somalia: Desperate Civilians Flee Fighting in Mogadishu << Wed, 08 Sep 2010 06:49:36 GMT >>
  Fighting in the capital, Mogadishu, has killed more than 230 people and wounded at least 400 in the past two weeks.
  
  

• World Briefing | Africa: Niger: Presidential Vote Postponed for 2nd Time << Wed, 08 Sep 2010 06:53:49 GMT >>
  The presidential vote is being pushed back to Jan. 31, 2011, from Jan. 3, the country’s electoral commission said Tuesday.
  
  

• World Briefing | Africa: Mozambique: Government Reverses Major Increase in Price of Bread << Wed, 08 Sep 2010 06:55:16 GMT >>
  The government has decided to reverse a major increase in the price of bread that helped set off deadly riots last week in a nation where poverty is widespread.
  
  

• U.N. Officials Say 500 Were Victims of Congo Rapes << Wed, 08 Sep 2010 12:56:52 GMT >>
  Two officials told the Security Council that the number of reported victims in attacks last month had risen.
  
  

• South Africa Unions’ Strike Suspended << Tue, 07 Sep 2010 06:10:25 GMT >>
  South Africa’s trade unions suspended a three-week-old strike by hundreds of thousands of government workers.
  
  

• Desert Roads Lead to Discovery in Egypt << Wed, 08 Sep 2010 02:50:02 GMT >>
  

• 70 Die and 200 Are Feared Dead as 2 Boats Capsize on Congo Rivers << Mon, 06 Sep 2010 05:50:12 GMT >>
  One of the boats was running without lights and hit a rock, the other caught fire and overturned, according to survivors.
  
  

• Lockerbie Doubts Dramatized in Play << Fri, 13 Aug 2010 14:14:38 GMT >>
  Doubts about the guilt of Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, the former Libyan intelligence agent convicted of the the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland are being explored in stage in Edinburgh.
  
  

• Video of Naomi Campbell's 'Blood Diamond' Testimony << Thu, 05 Aug 2010 17:06:49 GMT >>
  Naomi Campbell appeared at the war crimes trial of Charles Taylor, the former president of Liberia, on Thursday to testify about a gift of rough diamonds. Her account clashed with that of Mia Farrow, who is expected to testify next week.
  
  

• Video of Uganda Bombing Aftermath and Survivors' Accounts << Mon, 12 Jul 2010 20:55:29 GMT >>
  Video from Kampala, Uganda, where at least 64 people were killed when bombs exploded Sunday in a synchronized attack on large gatherings of World Cup soccer fans watching the televised final on outdoor screens at a rugby club and an Ethiopian restaurant.
  
  

• S. Africa's Zuma Assures Media on Press Freedoms << Fri, 10 Sep 2010 14:29:07 GMT >>
  JOHANNESBURG (AP) -- International news agencies alarmed by South African proposals that could see reporters jailed should not fear freedoms are under attack, the president said Friday, adding that South Africa has one of the world's most progressive constitutions.
  
  

• Mauritania Lightning Strike Kills 4 at Wedding << Fri, 10 Sep 2010 13:49:06 GMT >>
  NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania (AP) -- A witness says a lightning strike has killed four people at a wedding in a village in Mauritania.
  
  

• S. Africa Official: 31 Injured in Train Collision << Fri, 10 Sep 2010 12:59:05 GMT >>
  JOHANNESBURG (AP) -- South African emergency officials say 31 people were injured when a passenger train crashed into a stationary goods train east of Johannesburg.
  
  

• Peace Corps Volunteer in Lesotho Killed << Fri, 10 Sep 2010 12:39:32 GMT >>
  JOHANNESBURG (AP) -- The U.S. Embassy in Lesotho says a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer in the southern African country was shot and killed in an apparent robbery attempt.
  
  

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