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• Journalists Marie Colvin and Remi Ochlik ‘die in Homs’
• South Africa’s first R1 trillion budget
• Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak trial enters final day
• Suffering Swazis want change
• Britain to spend £20 million on new rapid reaction force for Somalia
• Youssou Ndour injured during Senegal rally
• Maputo palace back in the love business
• Trafficking in Mozambique
• Somalia’s al-Shabab ‘forced whole classes to fight’
• The Zulu king slams foreign nationals
• U.S.$50 Billion Exported Illegally From Africa Annually
• Maputo palace back in the love business
• Senior Congo diplomats claim asylum in UK
• What role for the diaspora in Somalia’s future?
• China detains hundreds of Tibetans who attended Dalai Lama lectures
• SA National Parks probed for corruption
• Botswana has no national football team
• Portuguese find the good life in Mozambique
• SA Minister to join mini-skirt march
• ANC sets its sights on the judiciary
• Gay Ugandans flee fearing for their lives
• Malawi anger at jailing of Mutharika critic Kasambara
• Thandi Sibisi: the new face of South African visual arts
• Texas oilman is at it again — now with Zuma
• Critic of Malawi’s Mutharika jailed
• ANCYL: ‘Hell no, we won’t go!’
• Nigeria jailbreak: Gunmen storm Kogi state prison
• Malawi: Africa’s ‘warm heart’ feels chill of creeping dictatorship
• South Africa eyes SKA telescope with bated breath
• Libya: Militias out of control, says Amnesty International
• Mandela loses face on our banknotes
• Kenya’s legal same-sex marriages
• Egypt’s constitution: it’s not really about the religious clauses
• The silent cost of child malnutrition in DRC
• Uganda: Govt raid on LGBT rights workshop is “outrageous harassment”
• African viewpoint: A year of great leaps forward?
• Lioness attack kills South Africa zoo keeper
• China bans foreign programmes from prime time television
• Nigerians living in poverty rise to nearly 61%
• Nelson Mandela pays tribute to Whitney Houston
• Mpumalanga is another Limpopo
• M&G fights to protect its sources from Bosasa
• Corruption: Zuma has his (Groundhog) day in court
• Zambia’s footballers return to heroes’ welcome
• Democracy is ending in the land where it began
• Anonymous hacks passwords of Syrian government officials
• Geldof’s Africa fund raises $200 million
• Julius Malema: the man who scarred South Africa
• Archaeologists strike gold in quest to find Queen of Sheba’s wealth
• Trafigura in South Sudan oil row
• An unexpected piece of heaven’ at SA rural hospital
• SA’s MTN in bed with Iran’s military
• Nationalising Africa’s mines
• Zulu singer claims he rose from the dead
• Ugandan parliament reintroduces gay rights bill
• South Africa says no to mines nationalization
• Democratic Republic of the Congo/South Sudan: 61 children reunited
  with their families
• Riots in Egypt lead to sackings
• UK’s foreign minister in Somalia
• Kabila wins majority of Congo MPs
• Nigeria arrests Boko Haram spokesman Abul Qaqa
• Lesbian killers in South Africa get 18-year jail terms
• Joburg blast: injuries rise to 23
• No comment on ANC nationalisation study
• Rhino strategies flood into Parliament
• Rwanda to raise fees for gorilla watching
• SA losing rhino poaching fight
• Wouter Basson to answer misconduct case
• ‘Juju’ clothing flying off shelves
• Corruption Watch wins backing of ANC
• Is Portugal the next Greece?
• Sudan and South Sudan leaders bid to defuse oil dispute
• COSATU – Attacking and Blaming Foreign Nationals Not the Answer!
• Nigerian death toll from Boko Haram attacks ‘nears 1,000′
• Syria rejects unity plan as bloody conflict rages on
• Chaotic Start to Egypt’s First Democratically Elected Parliament
• The Mozambican President’s extensive business empire exposed
• Man injured in Ethiopia tourist attack airlifted to Kenya
• Radioactive material stolen from Egyptian nuclear power station
• Hundreds of tourists stranded inside Kruger Park
• Hundreds of Limpopo families hit by floods
• ANC moves in on DA Cape turf
• South Africans choose armed response over police
• Mozambique tropical storm kills five
• Sudan police close two newspapers
• Egyptian frustration as tourists stay away
• Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi had chemical weapon cache
• Malawian women protest over ‘trouser attacks’
• Limpopo faces R2bn shortfall
• More than 5m going hungry in Niger
• SA ramps up campaign for Dlamini-Zuma to lead AU
• Malawian women to protest trouser-stripping gang
• From emergency aid to development aid: agencies are failing to connect
• Dangerous abortions ‘on the rise’ in Africa
• Charles Taylor ‘worked’ for CIA in Liberia
• Mozambique and SA’s Kruger park hit by deadly floods
• Tourists airlifted from flooded Kruger
• Magic fails to help Cameroon’s footballers
• The forgotten story of Zambia’s Jewish settlers
• Affordable broadband on cards for rural SA
• Tens of thousands of Africans died ‘as governments delayed’
• Wikipedia stages blackout to fight anti-piracy Bill
• The rot in SA cricket
• South Africa’s murder capital cities
• Nigerian terrorist ‘mastermind’ escapes police custody
• Arab artists flourishing as uprisings embolden a generation
• Mbeki: Beware the ‘false knowledge’ of Twitter
• Cape Town Table Mountain base-jumper could be prosecuted
• Ambulances not exempt from Chapman’s Peak toll
• Life on the ocean waves with Somali pirates – and it’s grim
• Thousands ‘forcibly relocated’ in Ethiopia, says HRW report
• SA church’s anti-atheist billboard banned by advertising watchdog
• Fake, dodgy drugs drive malaria crisis in Africa
• Nigeria protests called off after president introduces new subsidy
• Does Masunda deserve another term?
• DRC is torturing citizens refused asylum in the UK
• ‘In 10 years’ time, Ghana may not require any aid at all’
• ANC braces for Young Lions’ roar ahead of Juju appeal
• Chad expels UK Darfur aid envoy
• Malawian doctors – are there more in Manchester than Malawi?
• Egypt’s democracy is a sham
• Ivory Coast: Chocolate’s Child Slaves
• Nigeria fuel subsidy strike: Protests suspended
• Catholic bishops condemn DR Congo presidential poll
• Egypt declares national holiday to mark revolution’s first anniversary
• Malema calls for ‘reclaim ANC’ campaign
• Aurora’s Zuma must be held to account for mine debacle
• Khulubuse Zuma ordered to pay R10m
• South African weather forecasters who get it wrong face imprisonment
• Political prisoners walk free as Burma comes in from the cold
• SA Cheetah seized at Heathrow Airport by UK Border Agency
• Islamists seizes Kenyan officials
• Zambian minister offers to bungee-jump with Langworthy
• Hungry African leaders ‘had to buy own food’ at ANC celebrations
• Internet addiction affects the brain ‘like a drink or drug problem’
• Protesting youths on rampage in Nigerian north
• Flooding wreaks havoc across Eastern Cape
• Doomsday Clock moves one minute closer to midnight
• South Africa’s lethal scrum for university places
• Nigerian Islamist leader defends attacks on Christians
• Confiscated bushmeat ‘poses virus threat’
• The Netherlands to ban drug khat used by Somalis
• Nigeria sliding towards civil war: Soyinka
• Mbeki now ANCYL darling
• Zambia’s tourism minister bungee jumps from Vic Falls to reassure visitors
• Boko Haram kill eight as Nigerian beer parlour is targeted
• Three shot dead in attack on Christian village in Nigeria
• Load shedding looms: Eskom warns of rolling blackouts
• Alastair Smith on political tyranny: How to be a dictator
• Malawi court clerks strike over pay
• Nigeria fuel strike brings country to a halt
• The Arab spring’s Sudanese subplot is cause for concern
• SA universities produce wrong kind of graduates
• Mom killed, 17 injured at SA university stampede
• President of Guinea Bissau dies aged 65
• R54m luxury building on Chapman’s Peak Drive – Cape Times
• ANC: Golf for all?
• Mandela’s life story to be turned into TV drama
• Malema wants to see ‘white domestic workers’
• Zuma sacrifices bull at ANC centenary
• Prof Stephen Hawking too unwell to deliver own 70th birthday speech
• South Africa adrift
• Kenyan police close in on British woman connected to terror attacks
• Nigeria begins strikes over petrol prices
• Uganda: Kampala enforces litter ban
• Malawi: Lilongwe’s illegal vendors clash with police
• Nigeria church hit by deadly gun attack
• Iran clamps down on internet use
• ENRC pays $1.25bn to settle dispute over Congo mining deal
• 2012: outcome uncertain for Zuma and the ANC
• Gag order: Only Zuma can speak at Mangaung
• ANC plans party to celebrate 100 years
• Prosecutor wants death for Mubarak
• The man trying to train Africa’s future leaders
• South Sudan declares a disaster
• Ship guards need shoot to kill rules on Somali pirates
• MPs say Britain should use aid to press for good governance
• ANC to meet with Mandela’s grandson over polygamy, land-grabbing
• Land claim payout for 500 SA families
• ANC, ACDP lock horns over slaughtering
• South Africa takes over presidency of UN Security Council
• South Africa imports Romanian maize
• Libya calls on South Africa for assistance in reconstruction
• Deadly clash of militias in Libyan capital Tripoli
• A long journey to deliver precious medicine in eastern Congo
• Former Gaddafi colonel becomes Libyan army’s new chief of staff
• Nigeria: al-Qaeda-linked group gives Christians 3-day deadline
• ANC grows older but not wiser
• Angry Nigerians stop petrol stations from selling fuel
• Mubarak’s sons leave court following trial over killing of 800 protesters
• Coca-Cola accused of supporting Swaziland dictator King Mswati III
• Youssou N’Dour to run for Senegal presidency
• Nigeria fury as fuel prices double after subsidy ends
• UN warns South Sudanese to flee deadly ethnic vendetta
• ANC accused of airbrushing allies and rivals out of anti-apartheid struggle
• Médecins sans Frontières workers shot dead in Somalia
• Nigeria’s president declares state of emergency after Christmas attacks
• Congolese official attacked in French capital
• Durban the most costly city in South Africa
• SA faces a tough year
• Mandela grandson interdicted from marrying
• DR Congo police fire tear gas to stop rival leader’s ‘swearing-in’
• Portugal’s migrants hope for new life in old African colony
• Mystery space ball drops on Namibia
• How can we remain silent while Christians are being persecuted?
• Mandela daughter ordered to pay R62m to boxing promoter
• Juju won’t lead anti-Jacob Zuma dance
• Kim Jong-il death: ‘Nature mourns’ N Korea leader
• Rwandan rulers given life sentences for 1994 genocide
• Somali women defy danger to write basketball history
• DR Congo police ‘killed 24 civilians’ after elections
• Tanzania floods: Heavy rains inundate Dar es Salaam
• Judges refuse to free Gbagbo aides, wife
• Not the season for Pastor Zuma to be rubbishing religion
• Here’s to all SA’s heroes
• Fighting forces thousands to flee famine-ravaged Somalia
• Gauteng fuel supply remains tight, shortage widens
• Swedish journalists found guilty in Ethiopia
• Zuma’s Christianity comments ‘misinterpreted’
• Nigeria: The smallholder farmer who became a broadcast pioneer
• Has Zambia’s ‘King Cobra’ delivered on his 90-day promise?
• Limpopo ANC want Zim style land grabs
• Malema shower head use amuses Zapiro
• Now for the gospel according to Zuma
• DR Congo elections open new wounds
• Africa in 2011: The year dictators fell
• Zuma: Christianity created orphans
• Few signs of ‘Arab Spring’ protests in Africa
• Egypt:10,000 march in protest at woman dragged half-naked through street
• Amnesty: Swedish journalists arrested in Ethiopia must be released immediately
• Kim Jong-il: ten things you never knew
• Libyan rebel leader sues Britain over rendition ordeal
• It’s OK to crucify Mbeki – but don’t be rude to Zuma
• DR Congo President Joseph Kabila begins second term
• Hillary Clinton says Egypt is failing its women
• Rand under pressure on North Korea risk
• SA police probe AP, Reuters over cameras on Mandela
• CoRMSA celebrates dignity, achievements of migrants in SA
• Despotism and democracy slug it out in Congo
• Juju ridicules ‘shower man’ Zuma
• Malema confirmed for Limpopo executive committee
• Tunisia remembers young man whose death began the Arab Spring
• Female protestor’s beating sparks Egypt outrage
• North Korea’s ‘Dear Leader’ Kim Jong-il dies aged 69
• Legal battle for Gaddafi London house
• DR Congo election: Supreme Court is a parody of justice
• South Africa: Zuma’s anti-corruption chief Heath quits
• Judge revokes mining rights for Zuma’s son
• Investigation into seized assets of Mubarak and Ben Ali begins
• Media outlets set up surveillance cameras outside Mandela’s home
• Tanzania offers good example of press self-regulation
• ANC spares Zuma Limpopo insults
• Injured war lensman returns to SA
• DR Congo election: Deaf anger at ban on texting
• Morocco bans EU fishing vessels amid Western Sahara row
• South Sudan set to showcase its foreign investment potential
• Zuma bodyguards clash with Cop17 protestors
• SA renewable energy sector to get new umbrella body
• SA Minister’s preferred mode of transport, a private jet
• Zuma pledges probe into 1986 Machel death
• Secrecy Bill: ANC investigates ‘defiant’ MPs
• Time Magazine: The Protester – Person of the Year 2011
• Only 360 very rich people pay tax in SA
• Al-Shabaab and Kenya’s army at war — on Twitter
• EU slams ‘deplorable’ DRC election results
• No free press in SA, says Dewani’s lawyer
• The Kalahari Bushmen are home again
• UN launches record $1.5bn appeal to combat Somalia crisis
• Residents beat up Juju’s men
• We have no famine, says Somalian prime minister
• Three Swiss men charged in Libya nuclear weapons case
• Cape Town beaches on shark alert after dead seal pups wash ashore
• SAA to start direct flights to Beijing
• Zuma does not have a plan, has never had one and, never will have one
• 2011 cabinet class earns bad reports, Zuma gets F
• Malaria killed 655,000 last year
• Women are the vulnerable HIV link
• Poor struggling with increased SA food prices
• Gambian President ready for ‘billion-year’ rule
• Malawi in trouble with the International Criminal Court
• China executes SA woman for drug smuggling
• Joseph Kabila defends DR Congo election
• Migration tensions down to politicians and media, says report
• Tutu ‘recovering well’ in hospital after surgery
• US, China and India agree to cut carbon emissions
• Charity carol concert attacked by Congo protesters
• Sudan’s Lost Boys: Our hopes for a new country
• Low turnout in Ivory Coast parliamentary elections
• Zambian President settles own bill, uses commuter omnibus
• Malawi to review homosexuality ban after US aid threat
• DR Congo election: Joseph Kabila ‘re-elected’
• SA’s crime intelligence unit ‘country’s biggest mafia’
• US firms shipped teargas to Egypt during crackdown
• Should the graffiti in Libya be erased?
• DR Congo election: Mediation effort to avert violence
• SA: Bold move as Vavi gets top IDC post
• Nigeria hustles anti-gay law through Parliament
• Mexico ‘foils Saadi Gaddafi plot’
• SA Info Bill now in hands of rural citizens
• Journalists in prison reach 15-year high
• Atos boss Thierry Breton defends his internal email ban at work
• Hillary Clinton declares ‘gay rights are human rights’
• Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood claims wins in run-off votes
• Dalai Lama visa: SA Home Affairs did consider China reaction
• ‘Zuma purging opponents’
• Egypt leads Twitter’s top hashtags of 2011
• Congo election results delayed 48 hours
• Zumas’ unpaid flat bills
• 20 000 kids working in Mali mines
• SA Minister blew R3600 a day on cars
• Controversy over Dow’s Olympic sponsorship
• Rwandan editor shot dead in Uganda
• DR Congo election: Joseph Kabila ahead of Tshisekedi
• Two SA provinces near economic collapse 
• Fear and loathing and Jackie Selebi
• Egyptian election blow as judge admits turnout was only 52 per cent
• DRC protesters, police clash in Johannesburg
• South African lesbians face abuse
• Gbagbo makes first International Criminal Court appearance
• High court not convinced of Selebi’s mysterious sickness
• Under Pet-Hating Dictator, a Hard Life for Man’s Best Friend
• SA police commissioner ‘too sick to go to jail’
• Funny Africa video review
• Gambia woman to be new ICC chief prosecutor
• ICC seeks Sudan defence minister arrest over Darfur
• SA Minister ups domestics’ wages
• Zuma must learn even he is not above constitution
• Top judges lash out at ‘cavalier’ Zuma 
• Selebi takes appeal decision ‘badly’
• Malema: It is a material world
• South Africa’s justice system in turmoil
• South African court annuls Zuma prosecutor
• Amnesty calls on Ethiopia, Tanzania & Zambia to bring George W. Bush to Justice
• R8 000 for spilling drink on Zuma
• Foreign Office asked Oxford to admit Gaddafi son as student
• World Aids Day: SA pioneer decries cut in global funding
• DR Congo election hailed a success by African observers
• Gbagbo supporters pull out of elections in protest at ICC handover
• Somali pirates jailed for French kidnapping
• A year of African cinema
• Rolling Stone magazine launches in SA
• Zuma to launch new HIV plan amid global funding crisis
• Bin Laden bread a hit for Malawi bakers
• China pulls out of aid partnership
• Table Mountain to turn red for Aids Day
• IT experts ‘milk’ SA state department
• Is South Africa’s Aids plan working?
• DR Congo’s Vital Kamerhe leads calls to annul vote
• Ivory Coast: Gbagbo faces murder and rape charges
• Gaddafi’s daughter urges the overthrow of Libya’s government
• Egypt: Tahrir Square violence marrs closing of polls
• Security for DA man after ANC bribery claims
• Nigeria urged to halt bill banning same-sex relationships
• Nigerian Senate votes for draconian anti-gay law
• Ivory Coast’s Laurent Gbagbo ‘issued with ICC warrant’
• ANC plot to bribe DA councillors
• Rwanda demands end to tied aid
• African migrants suffer after Gaddafi’s fall
• DRC: Rape by soldiers lessens, but rape by relatives increases
• Sudan to expel ambassador after Kenya’s Bashir warrant
• World Aids Day: the disease that changed the world
• HIV/Aids: a timeline of the disease and its mutations
• Famine caused by a lack of democracy
• Uganda: Why LRA remains strong
• Senegal’s N’dour to stop singing, enter politics
• Uganda: nomads face an attack on their way of life
• Egypt vote: The weird and wonderful party logos
• Queues as Egypt votes in first post-Mubarak elections
• Sudan’s Omar al-Bashir: Kenya issues arrest warrant