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  PUDEMO leader says the government has refused to adhere to fundamental rights of the people to vote in a level playing field Read more...

 

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  A spokesman for the Northern Elders Forum says the group’s lawyers are gathering evidence of alleged government human rights violations Read more...
   

• Nigeria to Free All Female Islamist Suspects
  Release of several Islamist suspects, including women hoped to contribute to peace with Boko Haram extremists Read more...
   

• Emergency Response Grows in Chad
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• Mugabe Signs New Zimbabwe Constitution Into Law
  
  African nation moves step closer to holding new elections, which longtime president says must be peaceful Read more...
   

• Seven Egyptian Hostages Freed in Sinai
  The release around dawn Wednesday came after hours of intense negotiations between Egyptian intelligence and tribal leaders in the Sinai Read more...
   

• DRC: Shelling Kills Civilians in Goma
  Third day of fighting between government army, rebels in results in several civilian deaths a day prior to UN Secretary General Ban's visit Read more...
   

• New Hope for Better Internet Access in Africa
  Tech company plans to offer wireless router that can function in difficult environments  Read more...
   

• Lebanese Farmland Firm to Invest up to $800 Million in Sudan
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• UN: AIDS Deaths Down, Treatment Up in Africa
  Number of Africans who receive anti-retroviral drugs rose from less than 1 million in 2005 to more than 7 million last year  Read more...
   

• UN Works to Contain Disease Epidemics in Two African Countries
  Measles in Central African Republic and cholera in Niger devastate at risk communities Read more...
   

• 'Barbaric' slaying may be terror attack
  
  A man thought to be a serving British soldier was killed in a frenzied attack on a London street Wednesday. The gruesome attack is being treated as a suspected act of terrorism. FULL STORY | PHOTOS | ANALYSIS  
   

• Ahmadinejad aide banned from presidential race
  Tehran (CNN) -- Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will challenge the disqualification of his top aide from next month's presidential election, Iran's state-run Press TV reported Wednesday. Read more...
   

• Gaza boy's death: Who to believe?
  Jerusalem (CNN) -- As Jamal al-Durrah washes his son Mohammad's tombstone in a Gaza graveyard, he fears that the boy's spirit rests uneasy. Read more...
   

• Sean Penn calls for American's release, irks Bolivian minister
  (CNN) -- Actor Sean Penn, a friend of Bolivian President Evo Morales, nonetheless angered the South American country's government after his call for the release of a U.S. businessman who has been imprisoned since 2011. Read more...
   

• Swedish capital shaken by 3 nights of rioting
  (CNN) -- Rioting has broken out for the past three nights in Sweden's capital, Stockholm, with scores of cars set alight and violent clashes between police and youths. Read more...
   

• Lawmaker: Some suspects ID'd in Benghazi attack
  The U.S. government has identified "a certain number of people" believed involved in the Benghazi, Libya, attack, a senior Republican lawmaker told CNN on Tuesday. Read more...
   

• 30 years after HIV’s discovery, scientists optimistic about AIDS cure for some sufferers
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