Amputations continue in Al-Shabaab's Somalia
 
Al-Shabaab is using severe punishment to enforce order
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MPs oppose Somali draft constitution
 
Over 100 Mogadishu legislators reject proposed law
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Bashir visit: Kenya on charm offensive
 
Nairobi acts to avert paying the prize for hosting wanted president
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Ghana on spot over crop smuggling
 
A third of imported rice tonnage enters West African state illegally
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AU explains position on Bashir's arrest warrant
 
AU urges ICC to give peace process a chance first
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Rwanda backs Bashir trip
 
Kigali joins AU in defence of Kenya's decision not to arrest Sudanese
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Kenya to host food talks
 
Regional delegates to discuss food security
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South Africa ups wage offer in bid to stop strike
 
Unions expected to vote on whether to accept the new offer of 7.5 per cent
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Embattled Somali President sends out SOS
 
Besieged government calls for support as reports show four AU peacekeepers
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Zuma sends ministers back to negotiating table
 
South Africa President calls for speedy end to debilitating strike as workers
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Exiled Madagascar leader gets hard labour
 
Marc Ravalomanana sentenced to prison life term in absentia for February 2009
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Supporter of Nigeria President kidnapped
 
The man is the organiser of a group which supports Goodluck Jonathan's
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Rwanda threatens UN over DR Congo 'genocide' report
 
Rwandan and Congolese troops accused of killing Hutu refugees
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Kenya reborn as 20-year dream comes true
 
Kenya ushers in the second republic, 47 years after independence
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Artiste raises voice from prison
 
Lapiro begs for solidarity and music
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Mutharika accuses media of lying over food shortage
 
Says he doesn't care if media publish pictures of cows, hyenas or dogs
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Revealed: The story behind mass DR Congo rapes
 
Rebels fingered in latest attack said to be regular trading partners with the
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Gaddafi's son eyes Harare's energy sector
 
Said al-Muammar Gaddafi shows interest in reviving stalled dam project
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South African soldiers now threaten to strike
 
South Africa deployed military doctors, nurses and soldiers to hospitals
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SA turns to soldiers as strike bites
 
Military veterans offer to help government hospitals as public workers picket
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Six Somali MPs killed in deadly Al-Shabaab attack
 
Militant group claims responsibility for deadly attack that claimed 32 lives
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Southern Sudan faces currency crisis
 
Currency switch from US dollars to local currency will hurt the South's
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Rwanda arrests brother of runaway general
 
Lt Col Rugigana Ngabo being held on undefined charges of 'individual criminal
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American awaits extradition from Nigeria for bribery
 
The businessman was found guilty in the US of seeking a Nigerian contract
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Zuma back in China
 
China has become South Africa's biggest trading partner
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Egypt in big hunt for stolen Van Gogh painting
 
The $55 million work was stolen in broad daylight at an unsecured Cairo
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Somalia MPs killed in hotel raid
 
An eyewitness who was in the hotel said he saw eight dead bodies, including
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Three presidents to inaugurate railway
 
Chipata-Mchinji project was conceived in 1982 as a bilateral venture between
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South Africa strikers defy court injunction
 
The government on Saturday obtained an injunction against the strike
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State picks up key ruling against striking SA workers
 
Government granted an injunction that requires staff in vital services such
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Niger food hoarders 'worsening situation''
 
Charity says speculative buyers also to blame in West African country's worst
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SA diplomat beats up colleague, suspended
 
Altercation occurred at South Africa's Harare embassy, says minister
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Benin's Boni Yayi finds himself in a muddle
 
President accused of involvement in Ponzi scheme, country's lawmakers seek to
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Girl, 9, allegedly raped by 17 men in Zimbabwe
 
Traditional healers in Zimbabwe mislead men into believing that having sex
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Mandela aide resigns over Campbell diamonds
 
Ractliffe apologises for causing "possible reputational risk" to Mandela's
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Albino seller faces 17 years in jail
 
Court hands speedy sentence to Kenyan national who tried to sell his friend
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Zambia seizes 32 illegal Somali immigrants
 
Zambia Revenue Authority officials find 32 Somali nationals in a
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South African workers begin major strike
 
Some 1 million are expected to take part in the 'indefinite' industrial
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Rwanda genocide fugitives alleged to hiding in Zimbabwe
 
But Harare denies allegations that wanted genocide suspect is living within
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Climate meeting opens in Harare
 
Weather specialists from SADC to come up with a forecast for the 2010/11
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Corruption in Mali's health ministry
 
A critical donor report provokes arrests
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South Africa's media reject proposed regulation
 
Media organisations say proposed regulations would hamper investigative work
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Controversial ex-military man to run for Nigeria's presidency
 
Ibrahim Babangida announces candidacy, seeks to dispel negatives associated
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Cholera outbreak claims 87 lives in Nigeria
 
Some 1,315 others infected as rainy season worsens situation in villages
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