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September 9, 2010

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Car bomb, gunmen attack Mogadishu airport: 7 dead

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — A suicide car bomber and gunmen attacked the front gate to Mogadishu's seaside airport on Thursday,…

New Zulu-English dictionary 1st update in 40 years

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Oxford's new Zulu-English dictionary is the first update in four decades for one of South Africa's most widely…

South African murder rate drops by 8.6 percent

PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — Police say South Africa's murder rate, one of the highest in the world, has dropped by 8.6 percent.

Senegal prostitutes look forward to Ramadan's end

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Wearing white to symbolize purity, worshippers throughout this African capital gathered to pray on one of the…

9 Portuguese tourists killed in Morocco bus crash

RABAT, Morocco (AP) — Morocco's state news agency says nine Portuguese tourists have been killed when their bus overturned in northern…

Sect's prison attack raises new fears in Nigeria

BAUCHI, Nigeria (AP) — A radical Muslim sect used assault rifles to launch a coordinated sunset raid on a prison in northern Nigeria,…

Pirates hijack cargo ship in the Gulf of Aden

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The European Union's anti-piracy force says Somali pirates have hijacked a cargo ship carrying ballast in the…

Swaziland activists march, 2 leaders arrested

MBABANE, Swaziland (AP) — Two leading activists in Swaziland were briefly detained Wednesday during a pro-democracy march in the…

Nigeria's president announces new security leaders

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria's president has appointed new leaders for the nation's military and security services.

UN chief in Rwanda over threatened Sudan pullout

KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) — U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon met with Rwanda's president Wednesday after he threatened to withdraw…

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