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3 hrs ago | Houston Home-Journal

Security foils attack on gov't building in Nigeria

KADUNA, Nigeria -; Police say security officers have foiled an attack in central Nigeria after gunshots were heard near a government building.

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4 hrs ago | Madison Publishing

APNewsBreak: Sweden expels Rwandan diplomat accused of spying on exiles in Sweden

A source close to the Swedish government told The Associated Press the diplomat had engaged in "refugee espionage" and was sent back to Rwanda last week.

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Related Topix: Rwanda, World News, Paul Kagame

8 hrs ago | Cybercast News Service

Former head of Algeria's military dies

Gen. Mohammed Lamari, who led Algeria's military during a decade of civil war that crushed the nation's Islamic rebel groups, died Monday.

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Related Topix: World News, Algeria, Lamar, MS

12 hrs ago | The Asheville Citizen-Times

Pirates kill 2 in cargo ship attack near Nigeria

Pirates off Nigeria's coast attacked a cargo ship early Monday, shooting dead its captain and chief engineer in the increasingly dangerous waters for shippers, an official said.

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Related Topix: Piracy News, Benin, World News

13 hrs ago | Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Big rally in Somalia for al-Qaida-al-Shabab merger

Thousands of Somalis are gathering at a militant-organized demonstration on the outskirts of Mogadishu in support of the merger of the Somali militant group al-Shabab with al-Qaida . Al-Shabab spokesman Ali Mohamud Rage told those gathered at Monday's rally that al-Shabab is happy with its unification with al-Qaida, a merger announced last week by ... (more)

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17 hrs ago | Ghanamma.com

Not all tweets sweet on Nelson 'randelas'

Social networks were abuzz at the weekend over the decision to use Nelson Mandela's image on all bank notes.

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Related Topix: South Africa, World News

Sun Feb 12, 2012

Pretoria News

DA wants SA-Madagascar arms deal probe

Exiled president of Madagascar Marc Ravalomanana is told by an airline security official that the flight he is on is being turned back from Madagascar to South Africa, last month.

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Related Topix: Madagascar, World News, Marc Ravalomanana, Democratic Alliance (South Africa), Commercial Aircraft, Aircraft, ATR 42, ATR Aircraft

Fox News

Dad, son held in Africa after rapper skips concert duty

A New Jersey father and son were being held captive in a hotel in the southern African nation of Angola for 44 days and counting after New York City rapper Nas skipped out on a concert there.

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Related Topix: World News, Angola, Travel, Angola Travel, Life, Holidays, New Year's Day/Eve, Morristown, NJ

Deseret News

UN consultant shot dead in Egyptian capital

A United Nations freelance consultant was fatally shot in the head while driving through an upscale Cairo neighborhood on Sunday, Egyptian security officials said, as concerns persist over a security vacuum blamed on lax policing since the uprising that overthrew President Hosni Mubarak last year.

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Related Topix: World News, Egypt, Mohamed Hosni Mubarak

WHBF-TV Rock Island

Congo president adviser among 2 dead in jet crash

A transport minister says a senior adviser to Congo's president is among two killed after a private jet crashed while landing in Congo's city of Bukavu.

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Related Topix: World News, Congo, Air Accidents, Joseph Kabila

The Miami Herald

Mali beats Ghana 2-0 for 3rd place at African Cup

Mali beat 10-man Ghana 2-0 Saturday in the third-place match at the African Cup of Nations for its best finish since it lost the 1972 final.

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Related Topix: World News, Gabon

Ghanamma.com

'Mine nationalisation not ANC policy'

"Nationalisation is not the ANC or government policya Our policy is a mixed economy," Zuma told the business and diplomatic community in Cape Town less than 12 hours after his State of the Nation address.

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Related Topix: World News, South Africa, Agriculture, Science

Sat Feb 11, 2012

WTVR Richmond

Nigerian president's state votes amid tight security

Nigerians voted amid tight security in a governorship election on Saturday in President Goodluck Jonathan's restive and oil-rich home state of Bayelsa, where last week militants attacked a major oil pipeline.

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Gulf Times

Mali's April deadline to quell rebellion

Mali is determined to quell a heavily armed Tuareg rebellion in its north before an election scheduled for April, the defence minister said yesterday.

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Related Topix: Mali, World News, Muammar Gaddafi (Gadhafi), Amadou Toumani Toure

13WHAM

Two explosions strike northeast Nigeria city

Military spokesman Lt. Col. Hassan Ifijeh Mohammed said in a statement that the attacks took place Friday in Maiduguri, the spiritual home for the radical Islamist sect known as Boko Haram.

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Iol.co.za

New bank notes 'a fitting tribute'

Jacob Zuma holds a new South African bank note at the South African Reserve Bank in Pretoria.

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Related Topix: World News, South Africa, Mandela, Drama Movies

The Salinas Californian

Egypt's military warns of plots on eve of strike

Egypt's military rulers have warned that the country faces conspiracies that seek to topple the state and spread chaos, in a message intended to undermine activists who plan to mark the anniversary of President Hosni Mubarak's overthrow with anti-army protests.

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Related Topix: World News, Egypt, Mohamed Hosni Mubarak, Prison

New Vision

Sudan, S.Sudan sign security pact to defuse tensio..

Sudan and South Sudan on Friday signed a security agreement which aims to defuse tensions over oil payments which officials had warned could spark a war between the two countries.

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Related Topix: South Sudan, World News, Sudan, South Africa

Fri Feb 10, 2012

Click Orlando

At least 11 dead after Somali migrant boat capsizes

A boat carrying Somalis fleeing violence in their homeland capsized this week in the Gulf of Aden, leaving at least 11 people dead and another 34 missing, a U.N. agency said.

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Related Topix: Boat Disaster, Somalia, World News, Yemen, Middle East

WHBF-TV Rock Island

Al-Shabab, al-Qaida: Linkup of groups in decline?

Al-Qaida's decision to formally extend its terror franchise to what once was a nationalist movement in Somalia may only be a desperate joining of hands to prop up two militant groups that are both losing popular support and facing increasingly deadly military attacks, analysts said Friday.

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Related Topix: Somalia, World News, Asia, Afghanistan, Terrorism

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