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Youssou N'Dour & Campino performing at the "Deine Stimme Gegen Armut" (Your Voice Against Poverty) concert in Rostock, Germany on June 7th, 2007.
Photos   Politics   Protesters   Senegal   Wikipedia: Senegalese presidential election, 2012  
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Senegal court says Wade can run for third presidential term
Protesters in Senegal clashed with police late Friday after a court approved President Abdoulaye Wade to seek a highly disputed third term, but barred music icon Youssou Ndour from running. | Anti-Wad... (photo: Creative Commons)
Children gather around a burntout police truck following an overnight attack at Sheka Police station in Kano, Nigeria, on Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012.
Nigeria   Photos   Politics   Terrorism   Wikipedia: Boko Haram  
 Gulf News 
Nigeria faces an existential threat
| London: Nigeria is up against a hydra-headed monster in the Boko Haram sect that claimed responsibility for last Friday's devastating attacks on the city of Kano. | The group began its existenc... (photo: AP / Sunday Alamba)
 Senegal President Abdoulaye Wade, waves at his supporters during a rally in Dakar, Senegal, Friday, Feb. 23, 2007. Wade, who spent three decades in the country´s opposition and ran four times for president before winning in a landslide in 2000, say  Dayton Daily News 
Senegal's president cleared to run for 3rd term
| DAKAR, Senegal — Senegal's highest court ruled Friday that the country's increasingly frail, 85-year-old president could run for a third term in next month's election, a deep blow to the count... (photo: AP/Schalk van Zuydam)
Elections   Photos   Politics   Senegal   Wikipedia: Senegalese presidential election, 2012  
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.  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)
Islam   Nigeria   Photos   Politics   Wikipedia: Boko Haram  
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A Libyan rebel carrying a parachute flare shell left behind by pro-Gadhafi forces, walks by a rebels pickup truck armed with a rocket launcher with a pre Gadhafi flag and Arabic that reads "February 17th, Free Libya" at the western gate of Ajdabiya, Libya Wednesday, April 13, 2011. The Star
Arms from Libya could reach Boko Haram, al Qaeda - U.N.
| UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The Libyan civil war may have given militant groups in Africa's Sahel region like Boko Haram and al Qaeda access to large weapons caches, acc... (photo: AP / Nasser Nasser)
Al Qaeda   Arms   Libya   Photos   Wikipedia: Aftermath of the 2011 Libyan civil war  
Nigeria President,Goodluck Jonathan, visits the site of the police headquarters bombed by a suicide bomber in Kano, Nigeria, Sunday, Jan. 22, 2012. Al Jazeera
Jonathan urges Boko Haram to state demands
| Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has challenged Boko Haram to identify themselves and state clearly their demands as a basis for talks. | "If they clearly identify ... (photo: AP / Sunday Alamba)
Boko Haram   Nigeria   Photos   Violence   Wikipedia: Boko Haram  
Equatorial Guinea captain in action against Libya during the CAF African Nations Cup soccer tournament first match. Taipei Times
Equatorial Guinea upset Senegal
| Equatorial Guinea grabbed the headlines on Day 5 of the Africa Cup of Nations with a stunning defeat of Senegal to become the first team into the quarter-finals. | This... (photo: WN / John Sahid)
Africa   Photos   Senegal   Soccer   Wikipedia: Africa Cup of Nations  
A crowd watches the independence ceremony of South Sudan from a tree in a field in Juba, South Sudan, on July 9, 2011. France24
South Sudan: ethnic tensions threaten Africa's newest nation
We take a closer look at the violence rocking a newly independent South Sudan. We then drive through the streets of Abidjan as authorities seek to restore order to Ivory ... (photo: AP / Andrew Burton)
Ethnic   Photos   Politics   South Sudan   Wikipedia: Politics of South Sudan  
Protestors react after receiving the news of the departure of Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh from Sanaa to Oman in Sanaa, Yemen, Jan. 22, 2012 Al Jazeera
Many killed in Yemen clashes
| At least 22 people are reported to have been killed in clashes in a province under rebel control in rugged northern Yemen. | A source close to rebel group known as Hout... (photo: AP / Hani Mohammed)
Death   Photos   Protests   Wikipedia: 20112012 Yemeni uprising   Yemen  
Etihad Airways Airbus A340-500 taking off from London Heath row Airport.The A340-500 was introduced as the world's longest-range commercial airliner. Your Middle East
UAE's Etihad buys two Airbus A330 freighters
| Abu Dhabi-owned carrier Etihad Airways said on Thursday it has ordered two more Airbus A330-200Fs in a deal worth $423 million at list prices. | "We are strongly commit... (photo: Creative Commons / Arpingstone)
Aerospace   Cargo   Photos   Transport   Wikipedia: Etihad Airways  
India Village Woman making food on the roadside at Kolkata in Eastern India City 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 ... (photo: WN / Bhaskar Mallick)
India   Photos   Politics   Poverty   Wikipedia: Poverty in India  
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World tourism body pledges support for March carnival
| The secretary general of the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) has pledged support for the Indian Ocean Vanilla Islands carnival in Seychelles this comi... (photo: Creative Commons / Clifden)
Photos   Seychelles   Tourism   UN   Wikipedia: Tourism in Seychelles  
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File - Historian Howard Zinn lecturing at the Monona Terrace in Madison, Wisconsin, May 2, 2009.
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- Ethiopia: Troops Will Remain in Somalia Until Reinforcements
- Rival Sudans fail to resolve oil row
- Senegal Court Says President Can Run Again
- Poll ruling sparks street clashes in Senegal
Nigeria President,Goodluck Jonathan, visits the site of the police headquarters bombed by a suicide bomber in Kano, Nigeria, Sunday, Jan. 22, 2012.
Jonathan urges Boko Haram to state demands
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Politics Business
- Rival Sudans fail to resolve oil row
- US Embassy: US citizen kidnapped in Nigeria freed
- Senegal Court Says President Can Run Again
- Poll ruling sparks street clashes in Senegal
Youssou N'Dour & Campino performing at the "Deine Stimme Gegen Armut" (Your Voice Against Poverty) concert in Rostock, Germany on June 7th, 2007.
Senegal court says Wade can run for third presidential term
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- US Embassy: US citizen kidnapped in Nigeria freed
- US Embassy: US citizen kidnapped in Nigeria freed
- IFC Partners with Advans S.A. to Set Up Microfinance Bank in
- Artists: SoundExchange Has Free Money For You, No Nigerian P
India Village Woman making food on the roadside at Kolkata in Eastern India City
Will India's poor remain hungry?
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Culture & Religion AIDS
- Nigeria faces an existential threat
- One man's hero is another's charlatan
- Changes in Kabul Classrooms
- Panicked Catholics Flee Violence
Children gather around a burntout police truck following an overnight attack at Sheka Police station in Kano, Nigeria, on Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012.
Nigeria faces an existential threat
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- HIV-Related Deaths Slow Economy
- David Kato: A Hero of Hope
- South African policy shift on HIV likely to see fall in deat
- Gates pledges $750m for AIDS fund at Davos
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