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Benghazi gunmen assassinate Libyan intelligence chief
Gunmen shot and killed Libya\'s intelligence chief in charge of the country\'s eastern sector in an attack Thursday in the city of ...Nigeria government announces reward for information on missing schoolgirls
Nigerian authorities offered a 50 million naira ($300,000) reward on Wednesday to anyone who could give information leading to the rescue of ...South Africans vote in general election
Voting has begun in South Africa\'s fifth general election since apartheid ended two decades ago, and the first in which the generation ...Suspected Boko Haram gunmen kidnap 8 more girls in Nigeria
Suspected Boko Haram gunmen have kidnapped eight girls aged between 12 and 15 from a village near one of their strongholds in ...WHO declares polio global health emergency
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday declared the international spread of wild polio virus in 2014 a public health crisis and ...Nigerian president orders renewed efforts to free kidnapped girls
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan on Sunday ordered a stepped-up drive to free 223 schoolgirls whose abduction by suspected Islamists has ignited a ...Massive explosion kills seven in Somali capital
At least seven people including a prominent Somali official have been killed in a bomb attack by al-Shabab fighters in the capital ...World marks Press Freedom Day
Saturday is World Press Freedom Day, an annual observance established by the United Nations in 1993 to support freedom of expression.Olympic Capitalism: Bread and Circuses Without the Bread
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Labor and trade unions across much of the world organize demonstrations to mark International Workers\' Day on May 1.