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Chad says Libya not tackling 'mercenaries'

Idriss Deby, the president of Chad, has accused neighbouring Libya of not doing enough to stop Chadian "mercenaries" he says are being trained in western Libya.

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Gunmen surround Libya foreign ministry

LibyaGunmen have surrounded Libya's foreign ministry in the capital Tripoli to push demands that officials who had worked for deposed leader Muammar Gaddafi's government be banned from senior positions in the new administration.

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Sudan city stormed by Darfur rebel group

Rebels from Sudan's Darfur region have attacked a city in a neighbouring state, taking their fight closer to Khartoum.

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France begins Mali withdrawal in north

French Defence minister Jean-Yves Le Drian has arrived in the Malian city of Gao to address troops and officers along with their African counterparts.

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UN approves peacekeeping force for Mali

The UN Security Council has unanimously voted to authorise about 12,600 international troops and police to undertake a peacekeeping mission in Mali.

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France vows to punish Libya embassy attackers

France's foreign minister has condemned what he called a heinous attack on his country's embassy in the Libyan capital and said everything would be done to find the perpetrators.

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Another journalist killed in Somali capital

A Somali radio station editor says unidentified gunmen have shot dead a journalist in Mogadishu, the fifth to be killed in the country his year.

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Car bomb explodes at French embassy in Libya

Two guards were wounded in the attack, according to French officials [Photo: Twitter user @Eh4b10]France's embassy in Libya was hit by what appeared to be a car bomb on Tuesday, injuring two guards in the first such attack in the Libyan capital since the 2011 war that ousted Muammar Gaddafi.

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Ivory Coast holds local elections

Ivory Coast's citizens have voted for local officials in the first polls since post-election violence killed thousands of people two years ago.

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Nearly 200 killed in Nigeria violence

NigeriaFighting between Nigeria's military and the armed group Boko Haram has left at least 185 people dead in a fishing community in the nation's far northeast, officials said on Sunday.

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