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Two young Moroccan men have been jailed by a court in Temara for four months for being homosexuals, one of their lawyers says.
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A suspected al-Shabaab militant has been killed while trying to plant a bomb in a busy district of the Somali capital, police say.
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Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir on Sunday ordered land and river border crossings with South Sudan reopened, official media said.
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AU troops alongside Somali forces seized the formerly Islamist-held town of Wanla Weyn, the latest loss for the Al-Qaeda linked Shabaab fighters.
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Armed Islamists in northern Mali have attacked a vehicle and killed two civilians, a witness and local official says.
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Friday, 05 October 2012
05 October 2012, 09:23
Libya's elected PM Mustafa Abu Shagur has come under fire over his government team, after angry demonstrators barged into parliament in protest at the line-up.
05 October 2012, 10:49
A bomb at an outdoor bar in a remote part of eastern Nigeria killed at least one person and wounded 11.
05 October 2012, 12:11
An 11-metre yacht dubbed the Dutch "abortion boat", which was due to provide free treatment to women in Morocco, has been escorted from Moroccan waters.
05 October 2012, 14:08
At least 130 attacks on press freedom have taken place in Tunisia this year, with 84 cases of direct physical attacks on journalists, media rights group says.
05 October 2012, 16:01
South African police shot and killed a striking miner when they used tear gas and rubber bullets to break up a crowd of demonstrators, miners said.
Thursday, 04 October 2012
04 October 2012, 08:10
Nigerian police said they had arrested many suspects following a massacre at a student housing area that left at least 40 people dead.
04 October 2012, 09:58
The International Criminal Court's first convict, Congolese warlord Thomas Lubanga, appealed his 14-year sentence for using children in his rebel army
04 October 2012, 09:58
Radical Islamists have killed three Libyan policemen in a raid on their checkpoint near a coastal town east of second city Benghazi.
04 October 2012, 09:58
Malawi President Joyce Banda confirmed that her government will sell the controversial presidential jet in addition to her 30% salary cut.
04 October 2012, 09:58
A spate of wildcat miners' strikes spread to Africa's top iron ore producer, escalating the labour unrest that has become a major headache.
04 October 2012, 10:02
Zimbabwe's high court has granted President Robert Mugabe’s wish to postpone by-elections until next year.
04 October 2012, 10:02
Radical Islamists in northern Mali have executed a man who had been accused of killing someone, a punishment that was witnessed by about 600 people.
04 October 2012, 11:15
Morocco's government says the Dutch "abortion boat", due to arrive in the first such trip to a Muslim country, is not authorised to act.
04 October 2012, 12:12
A Rwandan man accused of masterminding the murder of 2,000 people in the 1994 genocide led a militia that made victims dig their graves then killed them, witnesses said.
04 October 2012, 14:53
A team of EU observers has flown into Sierra Leone's capital Freetown to monitor upcoming elections.
04 October 2012, 15:25
An Egyptian court has sentenced an associate of ousted president Hosni Mubarak's son Gamal to seven years in jail for money-laundering.
Wednesday, 03 October 2012
03 October 2012, 08:44
A Moroccan appeal court has upheld the conviction of a dual Belgian-Moroccan national for terrorism charges that include plotting to train militants in Algeria.
03 October 2012, 11:56
Three months in office, Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi has sought to "reshape" diplomacy, while trying to attract foreign investment.
03 October 2012, 12:23
Cash trapped Zimbabwe's electoral commission says it needs $104m to organise a referendum on a new constitution.
03 October 2012, 15:04
A man who worked as a janitor at a US mosque directed young Somali expatriates back to their war-torn homeland to fight.