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A police officer walks past an engine block of last Friday suicide bomber's vehicle by the wall of the state police headquarters in Kano, Nigeria, on Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2012. The radical Islamist group Boko Haram were responsible for the attack.
Islam   Nigeria   Photos   Politics   Wikipedia: Boko Haram  
 BBC News 
Nigeria's Boko Haram: Will dialogue end the insurgency?
Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan has challenged the Islamist militant group Boko Haram to come forward and state their demands as a basis for dialogue. | His remarks came nearly a week after the ... (photo: AP / Sunday Alamba)
India Village Woman making food on the roadside at Kolkata in Eastern India City
India   Photos   Politics   Poverty   Wikipedia: Poverty in India  
 Al Jazeera 
Will India's poor remain hungry?
| - As India's proposed new Food Security Act hovers in political limbo, the nation remains hungry. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh made headlines in early January when he labelled the fact that 44 per ... (photo: WN / Bhaskar Mallick)
 Louis Michel, Member of the EC in charge of Development and Humanitarian Aid, receives Youssou N´Dour, Senegalese singer and Goodwill Ambassador for the UN and the Unicef . ula1  Breitbart 
Youssou Ndour applies for 2012 election
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) - Pop star Youssou Ndour, one of Africa's most famous musicians, submitted his application late Wednesday to be a candidate in the Feb. 26 presidential election. | Reporters waited... (photo: European Community)
Election   Photos   Senegal   Singer   Wikipedia: Youssou N'Dour  
Ivory Coast President, Alassane Ouattara, reviews the honor guard upon his arrival at Orly airport, south of Paris, for his first state visit in France, Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012.  All Africa 
President Ouattara to Sign Military Accord On Paris Visit
RFI (Paris)-Côte d'Ivoire's President Alassane Ouattara starts a three-day visit to France on Wednesday. The trip, during which he will sign a security accord with Paris, is seen as marking the end o... (photo: AP / Bertramd Langlois)
France   Ivory Coast   Photos   Politics   Wikipedia: Alassane Ouattara  
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Lake Volta, Ghana. Ghana Business News
Tourism Authority to market Ghana through music
| The Western Regional Office of the Ghana Tourism Authority (GTA) is promoting itself through the use of music to market the nation to the International Community. | Mr ... (photo: Creative Commons / Jurgen)
Economy   Ghana   Market   Photos   Tourism   Wikipedia: Ghana  
A victim of Friday's bomb blast and gun attacks lies in Murtala Muhammad specialist hospital in Kano, Nigeria Saturday, Jan. 21, 2012. The Los Angeles Times
Nigeria stunned by Kano attacks that killed more than 150
Reporting from Kano, Nigeria, and Johannesburg,— | A militant Islamic group whose almost daily attacks have put Nigerians on edge left the country stunned Saturday ... (photo: AP / Salisu Rabiu)
Bombings   Nigeria   Photos   Terrorism   Wikipedia: January 2012 Nigeria attacks  
 Marc Ravalomanana, President of Madagascar.ula1 The New York Times
Ousted Leader Is Thwarted in a Return to Madagascar
| JOHANNESBURG — A commercial airliner carrying the ousted president of Madagascar back to that country’s capital was turned around midflight, after governmen... (photo: European Community, 2006 )
Johannesburg   Madagascar   Photos   President   Wikipedia: 2006 Malagasy coup d'état attempt  
A victim of Friday's bomb blast and gun attacks lies in Murtala Muhammad specialist hospital in Kano, Nigeria Saturday, Jan. 21, 2012. Newsday
Death toll in Nigeria attack rises to 143
| -- The number of people killed by a coordinated attack by a radical Islamist sect in north Nigeria's largest city is at least 143, a hospital official said Saturday, re... (photo: AP / Salisu Rabiu)
Boko Haram   Nigeria   Photos   Terrorism   Wikipedia: Boko Haram  
Former Liberian President Charles Taylor argues with a photographer as he awaits the start of the prosecution's closing arguments during his trial at the U.N.-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone in Leidschendam February 8, 2011. Al Jazeera
Accused war criminal Taylor 'worked with CIA'
| He stands accused of funding rebels who hacked the arms off small children, smuggling blood diamonds, keeping sex slaves and torturing his opponents, but former Liberia... (photo: AP / Jerry Lampen)
CIA   Liberia   Photos   War Crime   Wikipedia: Charles Taylor (Liberia)  
In this Monday, May 10, 2010 file photo, Malian special forces drill to face off an ambush as an unidentified U.S. Special Forces soldier gives instructions from a Malian truck in Kita, Mali, during a joint training exercise. A new Tuareg rebel group, whose members include former pro-Gadhafi fighters, say Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2012, that they have launched a second day of attacks in northern Mali towns. Joy Online
Dozens of Tuareg rebels dead in Mali clash, says army
Forty-five Tuareg rebels have been killed in two days of fierce clashes with Mali's government troops, the country's military says. | It says that two soldiers also died ... (photo: AP / Alfred de Montesquiou)
Africa   Mali   Photos   Tuareg   Wikipedia: Mali  
Politics Terrorism
- Failed Mutiny Highlights the Schism in Papua New Guinea
- One man's hero is another's charlatan
- Must Ensure Secure Space for Political Participation - UN Ex
- Couple facing deportation to Cameroon released after campaig
A police officer walks past an engine block of last Friday suicide bomber's vehicle by the wall of the state police headquarters in Kano, Nigeria, on Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2012. The radical Islamist group Boko Haram were responsible for the attack.
Nigeria's Boko Haram: Will dialogue end the insurgency?
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- One million children in Sahel at risk, UNICEF warns
- Islam and the West Through the Eyes of Two Women
- One million children in Sahel at risk, UNICEF warns
- Nigeria on edge as Islamist group extends campaign of violen
In this Dec. 14, 2011 file photo, veteran leader Sir Michael Somare, second right, attends a press conference after claiming to have been reinstated as Papua New Guinea's prime minister in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea.
Papua New Guinea rebel soldiers demand return of former PM
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Business & Economy Energy & Industry
- Ouattara Calls for French Investment
- US Embassy: US citizen kidnapped in Nigeria freed
- US Embassy: US citizen kidnapped in Nigeria freed
- Nigeria on edge as Islamist group extends campaign of violen
Lake Volta, Ghana.
Tourism Authority to market Ghana through music
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- US Embassy: US citizen kidnapped in Nigeria freed
- US Embassy: US citizen kidnapped in Nigeria freed
- US Embassy: US citizen kidnapped in Nigeria freed
- US Embassy: US citizen kidnapped in Nigeria freed
President Ernest Bai Koroma takes the presidential salute during Sierra Leone Independence Day.
Africa begins to rise above aid
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Health Society & Culture
- Failed Mutiny Highlights the Schism in Papua New Guinea
- US Embassy: US citizen kidnapped in Nigeria freed
- Cholera Fight Receives Nine Million Dollars Boost From UN Fu
- Cholera fight in DR Congo receives $9 million boost from UN
India Village Woman making food on the roadside at Kolkata in Eastern India City
Will India's poor remain hungry?
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- Failed Mutiny Highlights the Schism in Papua New Guinea
- One man's hero is another's charlatan
- Imprisoned West Bank woman tells of abuse
- West takes Internet freedom for granted: Google boss
France soccer captain Patrice Evra, left, with teammate Bacary Sagna,
Patrice Evra has come a long way from Marsala to Manchester via Monaco
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Science & InfoTech Sports
- West takes Internet freedom for granted: Google boss
- West takes Internet freedom for granted: Google boss
- Association Urges SPDC to Provide Relief for Victims of Oil
- Leader of radical Islamist sect threatens Nigeria president
India Village Woman making food on the roadside at Kolkata in Eastern India City
Will India's poor remain hungry?
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- Caution pays off for Ivory Coast
- John Paintsil: It's Do Or Die Against Mali At 2012 AFCON
- Ghana’s John Paintsil: It’s do or die against Mali at 20
- Coach Lito Vidigal Believes in Qualification
France soccer captain Patrice Evra, left, with teammate Bacary Sagna,
Patrice Evra has come a long way from Marsala to Manchester via Monaco
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