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| Djibouti Politics | Economy - Development | Society | Gender - Women | Health | Human rights Djibouti female genital cutting linked to poverty afrol News - Djiboutian authorities have been asked to conquer poverty and ignorance if they want their country to "win the struggle against the age-old Female Genital Mutilation or Cutting (FGM/C). |
| Sudan Politics | Society | Human rights Sudan opposition leader freed afrol News - Sudanese Islamist opposition leader of Popular Congress Party has been released after he was arrested and interrogated for some hours about his connection with a rebel group that attacked the capital Khartoum. |
| Sudan Politics | Society | Human rights UN scribe condemns Darfur attacks afrol News - The United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon has condemned the Sudanese government's recent bombardments on a market, school and water installations in North Darfur. |
| Somalia Politics | Society | Human rights | Gender - Women | Media Somalia's celebrated woman presenter escapes murder afrol News - A celebrated woman TV presenter of Puntland's privately-owned Eastern Television Network (ETN) on 4 May escaped murder attempts on her life. |
| Somalia | Ethiopia Politics | Society | Human rights Ethiopia troops "slit throats" afrol News - A new report published by Amnesty International has accused Ethiopian troops of increasingly committing "throat-slitting executions" in Somalia. |
| Somalia Politics | Society | Human rights Rebels fear Puntland, Ethiopia secret pact afrol News - Authorities in Somalia's semi-autonomous state of Puntland have been warned to "bear sole responsibility for the consequences" of entering into a "secret agreement with the Ethiopian regime to transfer private citizens from Ogaden and any ONLF (Ogaden National Liberation Front) officials who enter Puntland to Ethiopian security officials." |
Politics | Economy - Development | Society | Human rights Equatorial Guinean leader tops Africa's media predators afrol News - President Teodoro Obiang Nguema of the oil-rich "Kuwait of Africa" has topped the Paris-based Reporters sans frontières (RSF) list of press predators in Africa. |
Economy - Development | Politics | Society New AU chief takes office afrol News - Dr. Jean Ping has officially replaced Alpha Oumar Konaré as the Chairman of the African Union Commission, the executive arm of the continental body. |
| Sudan Politics | Society | Human rights | Gender - Women ICC cries for Sudan arrests afrol News - Sudanese government has been blamed for its reluctance to hand over its indicted citizens to the International Criminal Court [ICC] in The Hague. |
Politics | Economy - Development | Agriculture - Nutrition | Environment - Nature Sahel nations lose 1.7m ha land afrol News - On average each year, Sahelian countries lost 1.7 million hectares of arable land to desertification, environmental experts told journalists. |
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