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Tripoli-based govt retakes more areas of Libya’s capital – reports
Libya’s internationally recognized government retook parts of southern Tripoli on Friday from the eastern-based Libyan National Army (LNA) of Khalifa Haftar. His 13-month campaign to seize the capital is now under ever-greater pressure, Reuters said.
Nigerian President Buhari denies death and body double rumours.
Nelson Mandela drew inspirations from Castro!
Luvo Manyonga: Former long jump world champion fined for public drinking. The 29-year-old, who was banned from athletics for 18 months after testing positive for the drug in 2012, has been fined for public drinking and contravening South Africa's strict lockdown restrictions.
Boko Haram: from Islamist sect to armed insurgency
Boko Haram started out as an Islamist group railing against corrupt officials in northeast Nigeria but its decade-long insurgency has now devastated the region.
Sudan crisis: Protest leaders demand end of 'deep state'
Organisers of mass protests in Sudan have told the BBC they want the full dismantling of the "deep state" left behind by ousted leader Omar al-Bashir.
Muslim Brotherhood Leader Life Sentence Upheld Badie, 74, was convicted for his role in violence that broke out in the Suez Canal city of Ismailia days after military coup.
Central African Republic is rich in resources... Despite bountiful gold, diamonds, uranium, the Central African Republic has been mired in civil war and the legacy of colonization.
Nigeria: Insurgency & Elections. The race is the tightest in Nigerian civil rule. The main parties politicise the insurgency. For the moment the government seems more concerned with winning election than with forming and financing a coherent anti-insurgency strategy.
Somalia and the Shabab. Somalia’s new president, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, has asked the Kenyans not to treat Kismayo as their fief. If his request is heeded and an administration that includes people from a range of clans is set up, the Shabab really might fizzle out. If not, clan warlords, the bane of Somalia for decades, may again come to the fore, with support trickling back to the Shabab (Full Story )
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