Africa

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Official assurances about the improving health of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, hospitalised in France in April, have failed to convince many Algerians, as analysts warn that hiding such details is harder than it was.

Read more: Algerian president's health still questioned

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Nigeria has relaxed a curfew in parts of the northeast where its troops are mounting their biggest offensive yet against fighters from the group Boko Haram.

Read more: Nigeria eases curfew in northeast

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Talks will resume soon between the Malian government and an ethnic Tuareg rebel group whose influence has been growing in the country's north, Burkina Faso's foreign minister says.

Read more: Mali government to resume talks with Tuaregs

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Police in Uganda have forcibly entered the offices of a semi-independent newspaper to search for evidence against an army general who questioned the president's alleged plan to have his son succeed him.

Read more: Police raid Ugandan newspaper office

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Congolese soldiers have clashed with rebel fighters for the first time in nearly six months near the city of Goma, just days before Ban Ki-moon, UN secretary-general, is due to visit the eastern city.

Read more: Rebels and army clash in DR Congo's Goma

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At least 29 people have been killed after cattle raiders from a South Sudanese minority group opened fire on members of another minority in a village in Upper Nile state, according to a local official.

Read more: Deaths reported in South Sudan cattle raids

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In Tunisia police have fired tear gas to disperse hundreds supporters of the group Ansar al-Sharia who defied a government ban.

Read more: Salafist group clashes with police in Tunisia

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Nigerian soldiers have blocked roads out of a key northeastern city to deprive Boko Haram fighters of supplies in remote towns they control, the army has said.

Read more: Nigerian army blockades Boko Haram base

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The Horn of Africa has been ravaged by war and famine for decades, and now one of Somalia's regions, hopes to become an independent state.

Read more: Somaliland waits for worldwide recognition

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The Tunisian government has banned a Salafist group from holding its annual congress, according to the interior ministry.

Read more: Tunisia bans Salafist group's meeting