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 Candidates quit SLeone election
| Freetown - Sierra Leone's electoral commission revealed on Tuesday that a significant number of candidates for upcoming local elections had withdrawn, complaining of harassment. | With only five day... (photo: WN / John Sahid) News24
Africa Commission Election Freetown Photos Sierra Leone |
 Nigeria pushes talks to halt oil attacks
| LAGOS, Nigeria (CNN) -- Leaders in a volatile region of Nigeria have agreed to participate in government-backed talks intended to stop attacks on the country's oil industry, a government spokesman s... (photo: AP/George Osodi, File) CNN
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 Delta leaders agree to Nigeria oil crisis summit
| ABUJA: Leaders in the restive Niger Delta have agreed to government-backed talks aimed at halting attacks t... (photo: AP / George Osodi) The Times Of India
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 Helping girls best way to keep a lid on conflict
| Can you imagine your eight-year-old daughter engaged in battle with a gun? In wartime girls are drawn into violence in many ways. They can be forced from their homes, s... (photo: WN/Koffi Amedome) Sydney Morning Herald
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 Ivorian rebels prepare offensive against dissidents
| ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Rebel forces who support Ivory Coast's peace process prepared a counter-offensive on Sunday to take back control of two towns in the western cocoa b... (photo: AP/Ben Curtis) The Boston Globe
Abidjan Africa Dissidents Ivory Coast Photos Politics Rebels |
 The value of nuclear arms; Eurocrats and Europeans; Senegal's progress
| The value of nuclear arms | James Carroll's comparison of nuclear weapons to chemical weapons isn't realistic ("Proving nuclear realists wrong," Views, June 24). Many c... (photo: Public Domain / ) International Herald Tribune
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 Polio on the rise in Nigeria
| Kano - Officials in northern Nigeria's most populuous state have said they are worried by a sharp rise in the number of cases of the paralysing disease poliomyelitis. |... (photo: AP / Schalk van Zuydam) News24
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