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Yahoo! News: World - Africa
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World - Africa
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    UN reports over 500 rapes in eastern Congo (AP)
    Wed, 08 Sep 2010 01:01:48 GMT

     

    AP - The United Nations reported Tuesday that more than 500 systematic rapes were committed by armed combatants in eastern Congo since late July — more than double the number previously reported — and accepted partial responsibility for not protecting citizens.
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    Suspected Islamists attack prison in Nigeria: authorities (AFP)
    Tue, 07 Sep 2010 21:58:51 GMT

     

    A map locating Bauchi. Suspected members of an Islamist sect that launched an uprising last year attacked a prison in northern Nigeria on Tuesday, authorities said, while residents reported gunshots in the area.(AFP/Graphic/Francis Nallier)AFP - Suspected members of an Islamist sect that launched an uprising last year attacked a prison in northern Nigeria on Tuesday, officials said, sparking a fierce gun battle with authorities.


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    Death toll at Darfur camp rises to nine, U.N. says (Reuters)
    Tue, 07 Sep 2010 21:18:50 GMT

     

    Sudan's minerals minister Abdel Baqi al-Jailani speaks during an interview in Khartoum September 6, 2010. Sudan plans to more than double its gold output in two years partly to help make up for a possible fall in oil revenues if its crude-producing south chooses to secede in a looming referendum, the minerals minister said on Monday. To match Interview SUDAN-GOLD/ REUTERS/Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah (SUDAN - Tags: ENERGY HEADSHOT)Reuters - The death toll from weekend clashes at a refugee camp in Sudan's violence-torn Darfur region has risen to nine, the United Nations said on Tuesday.


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    Nigeria: Assault ends at prison holding extremists (AP)
    Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:39:29 GMT

     

    A map locating Bauchi. Suspected members of an Islamist sect that launched an uprising last year attacked a prison in northern Nigeria on Tuesday, authorities said, while residents reported gunshots in the area.(AFP/Graphic/Francis Nallier)AP - Gunmen launched a massive attack Tuesday night against a northern Nigerian prison holding suspected members of a radical Muslim sect, authorities said, apparently leaving some people dead and allowing some inmates to escape.


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    Nigerian presidential vote scheduled for January 22 (AFP)
    Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:11:19 GMT

     

    An empty ballot box is pictured in Ekulobia in Anambra State in February 2010. Nigeria will hold presidential elections on January 22, a spokesman for the national electoral commission said on Tuesday, after intense speculation over when the vote would go forward.(AFP/File/Pius Utomi Ekpei)AFP - Nigeria will hold its presidential ballot on January 22, officials said Tuesday, leaving little time to prepare in Africa's most populous nation, where elections have regularly been plagued by fraud.


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