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Kenya Aids clinic stacked with retrovirals
Kenyan health officials are launching a controversial drive to get one million people tested for HIV/Aids.
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The UK government urges tourists not to visit Timbuktu because of the threat of attack by al-Qaeda's North African wing.
The 2010 World Cup logo
The South African government hopes to combat crime at the 2010 football World Cup by setting up special courts.
Millions get yellow fever vaccine
The largest ever mass immunisation against yellow fever starts in West Africa, targeting 12 million people.
Ugandan oil fields sold on
Heritage Oil agrees to sell its stakes in two Ugandan oil fields to Italy's Eni for $1.5bn (£903.2m).
Algeria clears ex-Guantanamo men
Two Algerian men formerly held by the US in Guantanamo Bay are acquitted of terror charges at a trial on their return home.
Egypt leader enters football row
Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak steps into a row with Algeria following violence over World Cup football matches.
Al-Shabab 'captures Somali town'
Somali Islamist group al-Shabab says it has taken control of a key southern town without resistance from rival militants.
Angola head urges action on graft
Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos has called for a crackdown on
government corruption.
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Gunners crowned Zim champions
Gunners FC have won the Zimbabwean league in only their second season in top flight with one game to spare
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Kone out for Sevilla
Ivorian striker Arouna Kone will miss Sevilla's Champions League game on Tuesday after his daughter had an accident.
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Zambia thrash North Korea
Zambia beat World-Cup-bound North Korea 4-1 in an international friendly in Lusaka
Chateau Maroc
Morocco's wine growers sniff success abroad
Enabling rhythms
Congo band shines despite disability and poverty
Dangerous seas
Can EU's taskforce defeat pirates off Somalia coast?
Militants' grip
US Somali youths recruited by homeland radicals
Family affair
Is North Africa succumbing to dynastic rule?
Four on Hajj killed by swine flu
Four people, three of them Africans, die of swine flu on this year's annual pilgrimage to Mecca, reports say.
Abacha son 'must pay $350m'
A Swiss court orders the seizure of $350m in assets from the son of Nigeria's ex-ruler Sani Abacha after a 10-year investigation.
'Many flee' Congo fishing clashes
More than 50,000 people flee DR Congo amid deadly ethnic clashes over fishing rights in the north-west, the UN says.
Yacht pair plead for ransom talks
A British couple kidnapped by Somali pirates say via video footage that they fear they may be killed within a week.
East Africa in historic trade pact
East African leaders sign a common market trade agreement, allowing the free movement of people and goods.
EU gives Nigeria $1bn 'for peace'
Europe signs a $1bn deal with Nigeria, aimed at tackling corruption and promoting peace in the troubled Niger Delta.
UN condemns SA vineyard attacks
The UN condemns violent attacks against Zimbabweans seeking work in South African vineyards, which has left many homeless.
Botswana beefs up its exports
How Botswana is putting more meat on its beef industry
Hard choices in Malawi
Should food or education be Malawi's priority?
Rebels Inc in DR Congo
Is a feared militia based in DR Congo run from Europe?
Super-jumbo flights to seat 840
Budget flights using the world's largest aircraft are planned, carrying up to 840 people on each flight.
Congo gold 'still funding' rebels
A senior UN official tells the BBC sanctions breaking is still rife in DR Congo, with rebels using smuggled gold to fund arms.
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