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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  
 Jakarta Globe 
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  
Top Stories
 Louis Michel, Member of the EC in charge of Development and Humanitarian Aid, receives Youssou N´Dour, Senegalese singer and Goodwill Ambassador for the UN and the Unicef . ula1 Breitbart
Youssou Ndour applies for 2012 election
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) - Pop star Youssou Ndour, one of Africa's most famous musicians, submitted his application late Wednesday to be a candidate in the Feb. 26 presidentia... (photo: European Community)
Election   Photos   Senegal   Singer   Wikipedia: Youssou N'Dour  
Ivory Coast President, Alassane Ouattara, reviews the honor guard upon his arrival at Orly airport, south of Paris, for his first state visit in France, Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012. All Africa
President Ouattara to Sign Military Accord On Paris Visit
RFI (Paris)-Côte d'Ivoire's President Alassane Ouattara starts a three-day visit to France on Wednesday. The trip, during which he will sign a security accord with Paris... (photo: AP / Bertramd Langlois)
France   Ivory Coast   Photos   Politics   Wikipedia: Alassane Ouattara  
Lake Volta, Ghana. Ghana Business News
Tourism Authority to market Ghana through music
| The Western Regional Office of the Ghana Tourism Authority (GTA) is promoting itself through the use of music to market the nation to the International Community. | Mr ... (photo: Creative Commons / Jurgen)
Economy   Ghana   Market   Photos   Tourism   Wikipedia: Ghana  
A victim of Friday's bomb blast and gun attacks lies in Murtala Muhammad specialist hospital in Kano, Nigeria Saturday, Jan. 21, 2012. The Los Angeles Times
Nigeria stunned by Kano attacks that killed more than 150
Reporting from Kano, Nigeria, and Johannesburg,— | A militant Islamic group whose almost daily attacks have put Nigerians on edge left the country stunned Saturday ... (photo: AP / Salisu Rabiu)
Bombings   Nigeria   Photos   Terrorism   Wikipedia: January 2012 Nigeria attacks  
A victim of Friday's bomb blast and gun attacks lies in Murtala Muhammad specialist hospital in Kano, Nigeria Saturday, Jan. 21, 2012. Newsday
Death toll in Nigeria attack rises to 143
| -- The number of people killed by a coordinated attack by a radical Islamist sect in north Nigeria's largest city is at least 143, a hospital official said Saturday, re... (photo: AP / Salisu Rabiu)
Boko Haram   Nigeria   Photos   Terrorism   Wikipedia: Boko Haram  
Former Liberian President Charles Taylor argues with a photographer as he awaits the start of the prosecution's closing arguments during his trial at the U.N.-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone in Leidschendam February 8, 2011. Al Jazeera
Accused war criminal Taylor 'worked with CIA'
| He stands accused of funding rebels who hacked the arms off small children, smuggling blood diamonds, keeping sex slaves and torturing his opponents, but former Liberia... (photo: AP / Jerry Lampen)
CIA   Liberia   Photos   War Crime   Wikipedia: Charles Taylor (Liberia)  
In this Monday, May 10, 2010 file photo, Malian special forces drill to face off an ambush as an unidentified U.S. Special Forces soldier gives instructions from a Malian truck in Kita, Mali, during a joint training exercise. A new Tuareg rebel group, whose members include former pro-Gadhafi fighters, say Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2012, that they have launched a second day of attacks in northern Mali towns. Joy Online
Dozens of Tuareg rebels dead in Mali clash, says army
Forty-five Tuareg rebels have been killed in two days of fierce clashes with Mali's government troops, the country's military says. | It says that two soldiers also died ... (photo: AP / Alfred de Montesquiou)
Africa   Mali   Photos   Tuareg   Wikipedia: Mali  
Tuareg clansmen are silhouetted as they herd cattle in the land between Koygma and Timbuktu, in northern Mali in this March 1997 file photo. Tuareg rebels in Niger's northern desert said Wednesday that they have agreed to release a Chinese uranium worker taken hostage last week, and are only waiting for Red Cross workers to take him in. The Australian
Mali troops, rebels clash leaves 47 dead
| TWO days of fierce clashes between the Malian army and Tuareg rebels have killed 47 people - 45 rebels and two soldiers, the west African country's defence ministr... (photo: AP / Jerome Delay, File)
Mali   Photos   Rebels   West Africa   Wikipedia: Tuareg Rebellion  
Media & News Education
- Senegal Court Says President Can Run Again
- Locanda del Lago features monthly "Bite of the Beast&qu
- Poll ruling sparks street clashes in Senegal
- Gabon and Tunisia Advance
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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- Nigeria sect leader threatens school bombings
- Locanda del Lago features monthly "Bite of the Beast&qu
- Teachers In Greater Accra Threaten Strike
- Ghana could increase GDP by 2-3% per year – RBSC
Former Liberian President Charles Taylor argues with a photographer as he awaits the start of the prosecution's closing arguments during his trial at the U.N.-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone in Leidschendam February 8, 2011.
Accused war criminal Taylor 'worked with CIA'
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Health Economy & Business
- Rival Sudans fail to resolve oil row
- As Nations Line Up Against Syrian Government, Russia Sides F
- Senegal Court Says President Can Run Again
- Gabon and Tunisia Advance
Somali refugee children share a meal inside a tent in Dollo Ado, Ethiopia.  Fleeing drought and famine in their home country, thousands of Somalis have taken up residence across the border in Dollo Ado
One million children in Sahel at risk, UNICEF warns
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- US Embassy: US citizen kidnapped in Nigeria freed
- IFC Partners with Advans S.A. to Set Up Microfinance Bank in
- The Cocoa Comeback
- Ouattara Calls for French Investment
Lake Volta, Ghana.
Tourism Authority to market Ghana through music
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Society Sport
- Rival Sudans fail to resolve oil row
- Robert Fisk: The present stands no chance against the past
- As Nations Line Up Against Syrian Government, Russia Sides F
- Senegal Court Says President Can Run Again
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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- Gabon and Tunisia Advance
- Gabon 3 Morocco 2: Mbanangoye stunner sends co-hosts into la
- Gabon Into Quarters After Remarkable Morocco Win
- Co-Hosts Seal Quarterfinal Spot With Last Minute Goal
Equatorial Guinea captain in action against Libya during the CAF African Nations Cup soccer tournament first match.
Equatorial Guinea upset Senegal
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