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  South Africa gold mine: All 955 trapped workers brought to surface

  Reuters | Updated at 11:25am on February 02, 2018

  Sibanye-Stillwater said on Friday that all the miners who were trapped underground at its Beatrix gold mine in South Africa had been...

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  Tunisian government announces social reforms after week of unrest

  Agence France-Presse | Updated at 11:40am on January 14, 2018

  Tunisia's government on Saturday announced an increase in aid to the needy and improved health care as part of social reforms following a week of...

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  Donald Trump must apologise for comments: African Union

  BBC | Updated at 08:51am on January 13, 2018

  The organisation representing African countries has demanded that US president Donald Trump apologise after he reportedly called nations on the continent ‘shitholes’...

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  Protests hit Tunisia for 3rd night as PM warns of clampdown

  Reuters | Updated at 10:35am on January 11, 2018

  Tunisian demonstrators defied the threat of a security clampdown on Wednesday as they spilled onto the streets of the capital and at...

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  Gunmen kill 13 in Senegal's Casamance region

  Reuters | Updated at 09:20am on January 07, 2018

  Gunmen shot dead 13 people and wounded seven others on Saturday in the forest of Senegal's southern region of Casamance, the army said...

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  Suicide bomber kills 11 people in mosque attack in Nigeria

  Reuters | Updated at 04:52pm on January 03, 2018

  A suicide bomber killed 11 people on Wednesday in an attack on a mosque in northeast Nigeria, the epicentre of the conflict with...

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  30 dead in central Kenya bus crash

  Agence France-Presse | Updated at 01:43pm on December 31, 2017

  Thirty people were killed and 16 injured early Sunday morning in a head-on collision between a bus and a lorry on a road in central...

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  Liberia's Weah under pressure to deliver after election win

  Reuters | Updated at 09:40am on December 30, 2017

  Now that George Weah has emphatically won Liberia's presidency, an even more daunting task awaits: delivering tangible benefits to expectant supporters in the face of...

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  Liberians hail victory of former football star Weah in landmark vote

  Agence France-Presse | Updated at 06:07pm on December 29, 2017

  Liberians on Friday feted former football star George Weah’s presidential victory in the country’s first democratic transfer of power in...

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  ‘Enigmatic’ ex-wife of South Africa's Zuma vies for power

  Agence France-Presse | Updated at 11:24am on December 16, 2017

  Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, a front-runner in the race for South Africa's ruling party leadership, faces difficulty distancing herself from her tarnished ex-husband president Jacob Zuma...