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» 08.04.2008 - MP's death shocks Senegal
» 02.04.2008 - Doubts cast on Egypt polls
» 14.03.2008 - Chad, Sudan sign peace deal
» 14.03.2008 - Wade damns Islamophobia
» 14.03.2008 - Islam prohibits terrorism
» 13.03.2008 - Genocide priest jailed for life
» 27.02.2008 - Activists petition Morocco
» 25.02.2008 - Senegalese homosexuals flee
» 21.02.2008 - Terrorist risks deportation
» 05.02.2008 - Uganda combats demons
» 05.02.2008 - Senegal gay arrest condemned
» 04.02.2008 - Tremors strike Great Lakes
» 31.01.2008 - Libyan detainee battles illness
» 23.01.2008 - Mass circumcision in Rwanda
» 23.01.2008 - Prayer meeting ends in clash
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» 10.01.2008 - Kenyan ministers take oath
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» 20.12.2007 - Sudan leader preaches peace
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» 20.12.2007 - Chief cleric backs hajj probe
» 11.12.2007 - Ghana to arrest hajj committee
» 19.11.2007 - Somalis launch public gay site
» 19.10.2007 - Cry for Ugandan gays
» 16.10.2007 - Africa's ARV treatment fails
» 08.10.2007 - Nigeria court bans satirical play
» 17.09.2007 - Kenya's Muslims oppose condoms
» 06.09.2007 - Somalis discuss emancipation
» 03.09.2007 - Ghana cleric draws sword at journalists
» 24.08.2007 - ‘Journalists are like prophets’
» 17.08.2007 - Death sentence awaits Libyan protesters
» 14.08.2007 - Somalia: UN urged to deploy troops
» 08.08.2007 - Moroccan weeklies in trouble for “disrespecting king”
» 07.06.2007 - Kenya police shoot 12 in sect violence
» 22.03.2007 - Another religious feud in Nigeria
» 07.03.2007 - Another Rwandan priest faces genocide charges
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» 19.02.2007 - Ban on hijab begins in Somalia
» 15.01.2007 - Ethiopia gears up for millennium party
» 15.01.2007 - Moroccan journalists fined for blaspheming jokes
» 11.01.2007 - Nigeria to hang preacher
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