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  • Uganda leader's legacy at stake in general's case

    KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) -- Analysts in Uganda say an army general's concern that officials are at risk of assassination if they oppose President Yoweri Museveni's plan to have his son succeed him is controversial because it challenges the president's reputation as a moderate leader. (   05/21/2013 10:15 AM )

  • Fighting for 2nd day between army, rebels in Congo

    GOMA, Congo (AP) -- Fighting between the M23 rebels and the army continued for a second day Tuesday near Congo's eastern provincial capital of Goma, in clashes that have so far killed 20 people, all of them either soldiers or rebels, officials said. (   05/21/2013 10:15 AM )

  • South Africa: Winnie Mandela forced auction flops

    JOHANNESBURG (AP) -- An auction to pay off a debt of Nelson Mandela's ex-wife failed to take place because no one would open her home to the sheriff. (   05/21/2013 8:01 AM )

  • M23 rebels clash with soldiers in eastern Congo

    GOMA, Congo -- Clashes erupted Monday in eastern Congo between government troops and a rebel group believed to be backed by neighboring Rwanda, escalating to the use of mortars and rocket launchers in the first fighting between the groups since the M23 rebels overtook and later retreated from the provincial capital of Goma last year. Fears that the rebels will try to retake Goma have been mounting ever since the United Nations Security Council created an intervention brigade with a mandate to attack the armed group. The M23 called the creation of the brigade a ''declaration of war.'' Monday's fighting forced thousands of people to flee, leaving behind deserted villages. Hundreds sat near one barrier put up by a UN peacekeeping mission in Kanyaruchinya.(   05/21/2013 12:00 AM )

  • South Africa: Mandela name pulled into politics

    JOHANNESBURG (AP) -- Nelson Mandela, old and frail, lives in seclusion in his Johannesburg home. Beyond the high walls of the house, the fighting over his image and what he stood for has already begun. (   05/20/2013 1:39 PM )

  • M23 rebels clash with soldiers in eastern Congo

    GOMA, Congo (AP) -- Clashes erupted Monday in eastern Congo between government troops and a rebel group believed to be backed by neighboring Rwanda, escalating to the use of mortars and rocket launchers in the first fighting between the groups since the M23 rebels overtook and later retreated from the provincial capital of Goma last year. (   05/20/2013 12:44 PM )

  • Uganda police raid newspaper over general's letter

    KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) -- Ugandan police disabled an independent newspaper's printing press after forcibly entering its premises to look for evidence against an army general who recently questioned the president's alleged plan to have his son succeed him, witnesses said Monday. (   05/20/2013 12:39 PM )

  • Talks to resume with Mali government, Tuaregs

    OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) -- Talks will resume soon between the Malian government and an ethnic Tuareg rebel group whose influence has been growing in the country's north, Burkina Faso's foreign minister said Monday. (   05/20/2013 12:24 PM )

  • Rebels attack C. African Republic villages; 8 dead

    BANGUI, Central African Republic (AP) -- Suspected foreign fighters backing a rebel movement now in control of Central African Republic's government invaded a remote north-central village and killed six people, residents said. (   05/20/2013 11:04 AM )

  • 51 die in 2 South Sudan clashes; army retakes town

    JUBA, South Sudan (AP) -- Twenty-four people died in a battle between South Sudan's military and rebel fighters the government believes to be supported by neighboring Sudan, while a tribe-on-tribe cattle-raiding attack elsewhere in the country killed 27 people, officials said Monday. (   05/20/2013 9:04 AM )

  • Spokesman for Ansar Dine arrested in Mauritania

    NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania (AP) -- The man who acted as the spokesman for one of the three al-Qaida-linked groups occupying northern Mali turned himself in over the weekend to Mauritanian authorities on the border, an intelligence official briefed on the matter confirmed on Monday. (   05/20/2013 8:22 AM )

  • Nigeria military: 17 killed during offensive

    ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) -- Nigeria's military says its offensive against insurgents in the country's restive northeast has killed at least 14 suspected Islamic extremists and three soldiers. (   05/19/2013 2:34 PM )

  • 'Britain's Obama' urges ties with West Africa

    ACCRA, Ghana (AP) -- A rising star in Britain's Labour Party, described by some as the "British Barack Obama," Chuka Umunna urged the United Kingdom to more aggressively forge ties with West Africa's fast-growing economies. (   05/19/2013 12:59 PM )

  • Zimbabwe PM: We will end police, military abuse

    HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) -- Zimbabwe Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai said Sunday his party will end years of bias and abuse by the police, military and intelligence services and will make sure the services uphold the country's new constitution which demands impartiality in their duties. (   05/19/2013 12:55 PM )

  • Kenya police kill "terror couple"

    NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- Police shot dead a couple suspected to be terrorists after they threw four grenades, wounding five officers in an overnight stand-off, a police official said Sunday. (   05/19/2013 8:21 AM )