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Somali Islamist militants attack hotel in Mogadishu (Updated)

June 25th, 20161217 Somalia's al Shabaab Islamist group launched a suicide bomb attack on a hotel in the centre of Mogadishu on Saturday before fighters stormed inside, police and...

World

Pistorius says murdered girlfriend would want him to go free - ITV

June 23rd, 20161018 By Pete Vernon Oscar Pistorius said that Reeva Steenkamp, the girlfriend he was convicted of murdering on Valentine's Day 2013, would want him to go free, in...

World

Boko Haram shoot dead 18 women at funeral in northern Nigeria

June 17th, 20161355 Boko Haram militants have shot dead 18 women at a funeral in Nigeria's northeast, rampaging through a village, setting houses on fire and shooting at random,...

World

Two Kenyans in gay sex case lose bid to outlaw anal examinations

June 16th, 20161248 Two men being prosecuted for having gay sex in Kenya lost their legal bid on Thursday to challenge the authorities' right to force suspects to have anal...

World

Pistorius walks on stumps in court in bid to avoid jail (Updated)

June 15th, 20161722 Oscar Pistorius shuffled through a Pretoria court without his prosthetic legs on Wednesday to show how vulnerable he is as the Paralympian seeks to avoid...

World

Pistorius must pay for his crime, Steenkamp's father tells court

June 14th, 20161208 Oscar Pistorius must pay for the crime of murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, which has devastated her family, her father told a South African court on...

World

South Africa's Pistorius "a broken man", psychologist tells sentencing hearing (Update 2)

June 13th, 20161646 Oscar Pistorius is a "broken" man who should not be jailed for the murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, a psychologist told a court in South Africa on...

World

Militants say kill 43 in attack on Ethiopian base in Somalia

June 9th, 20161080 Somalia's al Shabaab militant group said it rammed a suicide car bomb into an African Union military base, stormed inside and killed 43 Ethiopian soldiers on...

World

Suspected human trafficking kingpin extradited from Sudan to Italy

June 8th, 20161048 An Eritrean man suspected of running a human trafficking network that sent thousands of migrants to Europe, leaving many to die on the way, was extradited from...

World

Al Shabaab car bomber strikes hotel in Somali capital, at least 15 dead

June 2nd, 20161084 A suicide car bomber crashed into a gate outside a hotel frequented by lawmakers in the centre of the Somali capital of Mogadishu on Wednesday and the attack...

World

Five U.N. soldiers killed in central Mali attack

May 29th, 20161752 Five United Nations peacekeepers were killed and one other seriously injured in an ambush in central Mali on Sunday, the United Nations said. A convoy of...

World

South African state prosecutor to appeal order to reinstate Zuma corruption charges

May 23rd, 20161067 South Africa's Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan is not being investigated for espionage over his part in establishing a surveillance unit in the revenue service...

World

Second 'Chibok girl' rescued, says Nigerian army

May 20th, 20161452 A second girl who was among more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram in a raid on their school in the northeastern Nigerian town of Chibok more than...

World

Nigerian army going in to get Chibok girls, governor says (Update 2)

May 19th, 20161102 Nigeria will do what it can to rescue more than 200 Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram two years ago in the north-east, President Muhammadu Buhari said...

World

Nigerian schoolgirl rescued after two years as Boko Haram captive (Update 2)

May 18th, 20161403 A Nigerian teenager kidnapped by Boko Haram more than two years ago has been rescued, the first of more than 200 girls seized in a raid on their school in...

World

Female genital mutilation is a men's issue, say African activists

May 17th, 20161297 Female genital mutilation (FGM) will never end until men also throw their weight behind efforts to eradicate the potentially deadly practice, says Nigerian law...

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Sweden sentences man to life imprisonment for genocide in Rwanda (Updated)

May 16th, 2016953 A Swedish court sentenced on Monday a 61-year-old man to life in prison for genocide in Rwanda in 1994, the second such case brought by the Nordic country over...

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South African court allows silicosis class action suit against gold firms

May 13th, 20161054 South Africa's High Court on Friday gave the green light for a class action suit seeking damages from the gold mining sector on behalf of thousands of miners...

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Mosquito-repellent soap invention seeks to wash away Africa malaria threat

May 12th, 20161507 Two former students from Burkina Faso have designed a mosquito-repellent soap, which they hope could be a simple and affordable solution in the fight to end...

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Cameron calls Afghanistan and Nigeria 'fantastically corrupt'

May 10th, 20161520 By Guy Faulconbridge British Prime Minister David Cameron was caught on camera telling Queen Elizabeth on Tuesday that leaders of some "fantastically...

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