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Boko Haram releases hostage family unharmed
Friday 19 April 2013
A French family, – including four young children – taken hostage on the Cameroon-Nigeria border two months ago, has been released unharmed.
The end of polio by 2018 – unless the funding dries up
Thursday 11 April 2013
More than 400 eminent scientists from 80 countries around the world have announced their backing for an ambitious global plan to eradicate polio, a disease that once paralysed and killed millions.
Mali presents François Hollande with a new camel after the first one was eaten by the family caring for it
Wednesday 10 April 2013
There was, finally, some good news for President François Hollande today.
France begins troop withdrawal ahead of UN peacekeeping mission in Mali
Tuesday 09 April 2013
France has started withdrawing its troops from Mali after an operation to help local forces push back an offensive by Islamist rebels, an army spokesman said.
Justice for Ruth Berry Peal, who was forcibly mutilated in Liberia, but still no ban on FGM
Monday 08 April 2013
Over 58% of women have already undergone FGM in Liberia, where the powerful Sande secret society continues to carry it out on young girls
Alan Pardew reveals harsh half-time team talk for Newcastle striker Papiss Cisse
Monday 08 April 2013
Striker went on to score the winner against Fulham
The Weekend's Viewing: Given that one plutocrat a day is dying, I would have thought the killings might have prompted the deployment of the Swedish army
Monday 08 April 2013
Arne Dahl: The Blinded Man, Sat, BBC4 // Nick Hewer: Countdown to Freetown, Sun, Channel 4
Twelve police officers 'missing' in Nigeria
Sunday 07 April 2013
Militants in Nigeria's oil-rich southern delta ambushed a group of police officers as they sat stranded in a boat in the region's winding creeks, leaving at least 12 “missing” in the most serious attack in months in a region vital to the country's finances,.
Yaya Toure signs £45m contract to stay at Manchester City
Thursday 04 April 2013
Ivory Coast international has committed his future to the reigning Premier League champions
'Loose cannon' Peter Odemwingie urged to 'calm down'
Tuesday 02 April 2013
West Brom striker tried to force a move away from the club
Fred Marafono: Soldier who served in the SAS and fought the rebels in Sierra Leone
Tuesday 02 April 2013
Fred Marafono, SAS Squadron Sergeant Major and lion-hearted warrior, spent almost his entire adult life practising his superb military skills. He had the distinction of being selected for the best three times over: in 1964 he was one of the first Fijians to pass selection for the SAS; after extensive service, in 1985 he was asked by David Stirling, founder of the Special Air Service, to join the private security company he was starting up; and in 1995 he was recruited by Simon Mann for the élite South African private combat company, Executive Outcomes, to fight against rebel forces in Sierra Leone's vicious blood diamond wars.
Al-Qa’ida extremists attack Timbuktu
Sunday 31 March 2013
The ancient city of Timbuktu in Mali has been hit by a prolonged battle between Islamic extremists and the Malian and French armies.
Album: Bombino, Nomad (Nonesuch)
Saturday 30 March 2013
Even though the production by Black Keys man Dan Auerbach is way too cavernous and bootleg live-sounding for my tastes, this album should satisfy anyone needing a dry blast of desert rock while waiting for the next album from Tinariwen.
Boyd Tonkin: Behind the hype and glamour, African writers still share Achebe's vision
Friday 29 March 2013
The Week in Books
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Man and woman arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to murder victim of Woolwich machete attack, named as Drummer Lee Rigby
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'Sickening, deluded and unforgivable': Horrific attack brings terror to London’s streets
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Grace Dent: I’m not sure how these people can avoid being called ‘bigots’. And the more ‘civilised’, the worse they are
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Woolwich murder: They killed, then they performed - these men should be starved of our attention
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Woolwich attack: The EDL will seek to exploit this evil crime for their own evil ends
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