Ghana’s governing party said that it would seek to delay voting scheduled for Friday in a rural constituency because its supporters were being intimidated.

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As people in Mogadishu, Somalia, watched the first convoy of trucks head toward the Ethiopian border on Friday, many said they feared what would happen next.

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Criminals believed to be linked to witch doctors killed an 8-year-old albino boy in eastern Burundi and took two of his arms and a leg, a rights group and an official said Friday.

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John Atta Mills of the opposition National Democratic Congress party narrowly won a runoff vote for the presidency of Ghana, electoral officials announced Saturday.

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President Robert Mugabe has started preparations to form a new government, firing a dozen ministers from his party to clear the way for a new cabinet, state news media reported Saturday.

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Mrs. Suzman befriended the imprisoned Nelson Mandela and offered an often lonely voice for change among South Africa’s white minority.

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The Ebola virus, which causes a deadly hemorrhagic fever, has surfaced for the second time in less than two years in south-central Congo.

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The move to take over the stations, which were unoccupied, raised fears that the Ethiopians’ departure would set off a violent scramble for control among Islamist groups.

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A sustained Israeli operation in Gaza would sharply raise public pressure to do more to help the Palestinians there.

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A high court judge postponed an application for the release of a human rights campaigner and 31 other activists in Zimbabwe.

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