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  Seychelles to set up courts to fight piracy: UN

  The Indian Ocean island nation of the Seychelles is to set up UN-backed courts to prosecute...
  05/05/2010 18:34 GMT
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  Somali Islamists attack MSF clinic: witnesses

  Islamist insurgents raided Wednesday a health centre near the Somali capital Mogadishu run by...
  05/05/2010 18:32 GMT
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  'Twenty-six killed' in south Sudan tribal fighting

  Clashes over livestock between members of two large tribes killed 26 people in the south Sudan...
  05/05/2010 18:12 GMT
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• Yemen 'bans Arab conference on Darfur crisis'

  Yemen on Wednesday slapped a last-minute ban on a meeting of Arab parliamentarians to discuss the...
  05/05/2010 18:10 GMT
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• France admits military killed hostage in pirate shootout

  The French government Wednesday admitted responsibility for the death of a yachtsman shot by French...
  05/05/2010 17:22 GMT
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• South African bus crash kills 28 ahead of World Cup

  Transport officials in South Africa said they are confident about the safety of the country's roads...
  05/05/2010 17:04 GMT
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• Beshir party deputies implicated in 'Ponzi scheme'

  Two deputies from Sudanese President Omar al-Beshir's party orchestrated a "Ponzi scheme" that led...
  05/05/2010 15:18 GMT
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• Somali pirates seize Russian tanker

  Somali pirates seized control of an oil-laden Russian tanker in the Gulf of Aden early Wednesday,...
  05/05/2010 15:02 GMT
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• Boost intra-African trade to ride out economic storms

  African countries, bruised by the global financial crisis, must restructure their economies and...
  05/05/2010 14:48 GMT
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• DR.Congo soldiers convicted of journalist murder

  Two Congolese soldiers and a civilian have been sentenced to death by a military court for the...
  05/05/2010 14:47 GMT
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• Floods kill 54 in Angola

  Floods in Angola have killed more than 50 people and displaced more than 65,000 since the start of...
  05/05/2010 14:05 GMT
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• Report points to pilot error in Ethiopian jet crash

  A preliminary report on the crash of an Ethiopian airliner in Lebanon in which all 90 people on...
  05/05/2010 11:11 GMT
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• US envoy visits Sudan for first time since elections

  US envoy Scott Gration returned this week to Sudan, his first visit there since last month's...
  04/05/2010 21:31 GMT
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• Somali journalist shot dead

  The bullet-riddled and mutilated body of a Somali journalist was discovered in the capital...
  04/05/2010 19:32 GMT
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• New Zealand into Super Eights as more rain strikes

  New Zealand qualified for the second round Super Eights of the World Twenty20 with a seven-run...
  04/05/2010 17:55 GMT
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