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  • Fighters in Nigeria attack school, kill 9 pupils

    MAIDUGURI, Nigeria -- Suspected Islamic militants have opened fire on students taking exams at a school in the country's troubled northeast, killing at least nine pupils in the latest violence to wrack the volatile region, witnesses said Tuesday. Bodies of the children in their school uniforms were brought to the local morgue, according to a hospital official who insisted on anonymity because he was not authorized to release the information to journalists. Monday's attack at Ansarudeen Private School in Maiduguri marked the second time in days that suspected radical fighters have attacked schools. The military reported that 13 people, including high school students and teachers, were killed Sunday night during a five-hour shootout when extremists attacked a boarding school in Damaturu, the state capital of Yobe state.(   06/19/2013 12:00 AM )

  • Mali and Tuareg rebels sign accord

    OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) -- Mali, which lost half its territory last year to a rebel invasion, signed an accord Tuesday with Tuareg separatists who still control the country's northernmost province, paving the way for the Malian military to return to the areas that remain under rebel control.(   06/18/2013 3:39 PM )

  • Report: Piracy in West Africa outstrips Somalia

    DAKAR, Senegal (AP) -- More ships and sailors fell prey to pirates off West Africa last year than off Somalia's coast, long the lair of pirates, according to a new report that highlights the risk posed by the rise in attacks on vessels in the Gulf of Guinea.(   06/18/2013 2:32 PM )

  • Fighters in Nigeria attack school, kill 9 pupils

    MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) -- Suspected Islamic militants have opened fire on students taking exams at a school in the country's troubled northeast, killing at least nine pupils in the latest violence to wrack the volatile region, witnesses said Tuesday.(   06/18/2013 2:11 PM )

  • Zimbabwe 'Cattle Bank' takes deposits that moo

    MARONDERA, Zimbabwe (AP) -- William Mukurazita's deposit at the bank has four legs and moos.(   06/18/2013 12:42 PM )

  • Egypt, Ethiopia agree to talks about Nile dam

    ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) -- Egypt and Ethiopia have agreed to start consultations aimed at resolving their conflict over Ethiopia's huge dam on the Blue Nile River, their foreign ministers said Tuesday.(   06/18/2013 12:19 PM )

  • 5 killed in Mozambique clashes

    MAPUTO, Mozambique (AP) -- Media in Mozambique say at least five government troops were killed and two others were wounded in fighting with alleged members of an opposition group.(   06/18/2013 5:16 AM )

  • Al-Jazeera crew detained in Niger is released

    DAKAR, Senegal (AP) -- A team of Al-Jazeera journalists was released late Monday after being detained for three days in eastern Niger, where they were held in a prison cell, according to a statement from the Qatar-owned network. (   06/17/2013 6:02 PM )

  • 16 Rwandan students seek asylum in Uganda over M23

    KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) -- Sixteen Rwandan students are seeking asylum in Uganda, saying they are the victims of harassment by security officials back home for refusing to join a Congolese rebel movement that allegedly recruits inside Rwandan territory. (   06/17/2013 1:50 PM )

  • Kenya police kill 2 labeled as terror suspects

    MOMBASA, Kenya (AP) -- An official in Kenya says that police shot and killed two men labeled by police as terror suspects. (   06/17/2013 11:57 AM )

  • Hundreds protest ICC delay for I. Coast's Gbagbo

    ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) -- About 300 people have protested over a delay on whether former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo will be put on trial at the International Criminal Court. (   06/17/2013 11:40 AM )

  • Mandela's wife thanks world for 'love, generosity'

    JOHANNESBURG (AP) -- In tweets, songs, telephone calls, cards and more, messages of love have come from across South Africa and the world for 94-year-old Nelson Mandela, giving the family comfort and hope as he remains hospitalized in serious condition with a lung infection, his wife said Monday. (   06/17/2013 11:32 AM )

  • Mandela praise singer recalls travels with him

    JOHANNESBURG (AP) -- Poet and traditional praise singer Zolani Mkiva spent 13 years traveling alongside Nelson Mandela and performing songs in honor of the now-hospitalized former South African president. (   06/17/2013 10:25 AM )

  • Nile dam politics: Egypt, Ethiopian officials meet

    ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) -- The foreign ministers of Egypt and Ethiopia met in Addis Ababa on Monday in hopes of defusing tensions over a huge dam Ethiopia is building on the Blue Nile River. (   06/17/2013 8:58 AM )

  • Zimbabwe electoral body seeks end to media bias

    HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) -- Zimbabwe's official electoral body says it will for the first time take disciplinary action against journalists for unfair reporting ahead of the nation's upcoming elections. (   06/17/2013 7:40 AM )