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Somalia’s al Shabaab says it did not kidnap Briton
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somali Islamist rebel group al Shabaab said on Wednesday it was not behind…
Angola army says 17 killed in air crash
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Seventeen people were killed when an Angolan military aircraft crashed at an airport…
Pirates hijack vessel with 23 crew off Benin
COTONOU, Benin (Reuters) - Armed men hijacked a Cyprus-flagged fuel tanker with 23 crew off the…
Suspected Islamists kill four at bar in northern Nigeria
Gunmen killed four people at a bar in the troubled northern Nigerian city of Maiduguri…
Gadhafi’s son, 3 generals in Niger ask for asylum
NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — A son of Moammar Gadhafi and three of his generals were…
Somalia briefly detains Turkish aid workers
MOGADISHU (Reuters)- Somali security forces briefly detained two Turkish aid workers on Tuesday after they…
Sudan’s Bashir names first Darfur vice president
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan's President on Tuesday appointed his first vice president from the Darfur region…
Kenya cabinet proposes 2012 election delay
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya's cabinet on Tuesday proposed delaying next year's elections by four months, a…
Kenya rescuers search for bodies after deadly fire
Rescue teams on Tuesday searched through the smoking ashes of a Kenyan slum razed when…