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All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/i/2176 world World - Africa en-us Tue, 14 Feb 2012 18:26:27 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/i/2176 http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/th/main_142c.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/africa/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20120214/wl_nm/us_egypt_usa nm/20120214/us_egypt_usa Reuters world Tue, 14 Feb 2012 18:26:27 GMT Reuters - State-run newspapers splashed accusations of a U.S. plan to spread "anarchy" in Egypt, escalating a dispute that Washington said on Tuesday must be resolved to ensure their continued military cooperation. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/africa/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20120214/ap_on_re_us/us_us_egypt ap/20120214/us_us_egypt AP us Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:56:45 GMT AP - The nation's top military leader said Tuesday that he pleaded with Egypt's ruling generals to resolve the crisis with Washington over the crackdown on American nonprofit groups that promote democracy in the Middle East, warning that the simmering dispute threatens billions in U.S. aid and the relationship between the two nations. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/africa/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20120214/ap_on_re_af/af_nigeria_violence ap/20120214/af_nigeria_violence AP world Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:45:02 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/africa/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20120214/ap_on_re_af/af_nigeria_violence"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20120130/capt.779f3eb5db014182963bc281a455952a-779f3eb5db014182963bc281a455952a-0.jpg?x=130&y=85&q=85&sig=0uZzNBE2oHMNTFHeGhuPTg--" align="left" height="85" width="130" alt="Supporters of Maj. Hamza Al-Mustapha carry placards during his court verdict in Lagos, Nigeria, Monday, Jan. 30, 2012. A judge in Nigeria has sentenced a former dictator's right-hand man to death over the killing of a politician's wife. Judge Mojisola Dada at Lagos' High Court on Monday ruled that Maj. Al-Mustapha should be hanged. He was accused of orchestrating the 1996 machine-gun killing of the wife of Moshood Abiola, a flamboyant businessman widely believed to be have won an annulled 1993 presidential election. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)" border="0" /></a>AP - A bomb disposal officer was killed trying to defuse a bomb just minutes after another blast in a flashpoint central Nigeria city previously hit by a feared Islamist sect, police said Tuesday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/africa/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20120214/ap_on_re_af/af_nigeria_violence"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20120130/capt.779f3eb5db014182963bc281a455952a-779f3eb5db014182963bc281a455952a-0.jpg?x=130&y=85&q=85&sig=0uZzNBE2oHMNTFHeGhuPTg--" align="left" height="85" width="130" alt="photo" title="Supporters of Maj. Hamza Al-Mustapha carry placards during his court verdict in Lagos, Nigeria, Monday, Jan. 30, 2012. A judge in Nigeria has sentenced a former dictator's right-hand man to death over the killing of a politician's wife. Judge Mojisola Dada at Lagos' High Court on Monday ruled that Maj. Al-Mustapha should be hanged. He was accused of orchestrating the 1996 machine-gun killing of the wife of Moshood Abiola, a flamboyant businessman widely believed to be have won an annulled 1993 presidential election. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/africa/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20120214/ap_on_bi_ge/af_west_africa_piracy ap/20120214/af_west_africa_piracy AP business Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:25:34 GMT AP - The waters off West Africa's coast are now a constant danger for those shipping goods and crude oil in the region, analysts said Tuesday, a day after pirates killed two sailors near Nigeria's coast. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/africa/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20120214/ap_on_re_eu/south_sudan ap/20120214/south_sudan AP world Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:52:55 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/africa/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20120214/ap_on_re_eu/south_sudan"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20120209/capt.66d93da5eeb0443f94a10f5bc593ec85-66d93da5eeb0443f94a10f5bc593ec85-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=z.ZA.u4FzRjWNBNj4ZND6g--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="In this photo taken Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2012 and released by the United Nations African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID), security forces try to hold a crowd back as people try to get a better view during a rally to mark the launch the temporary headquarters of the Darfur Regional Authority (DRA) at El Negaa Stadium, El Fasher, North Darfur, Sudan. The establishment of the DRA is part of the Doha Document for Peace in Darfur, signed by the Government of Sudan and the Liberation and Justice Movement. (AP Photo/UNAMID, Albert Gonzalez Farran)" border="0" /></a>AP - A half-million South Sudanese people living in Sudan will have the choice to go home after a new deal was struck between the two countries, but a fast-approaching deadline leaves little time to make the difficult journey, an international migrant agency said Monday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/africa/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20120214/ap_on_re_eu/south_sudan"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20120209/capt.66d93da5eeb0443f94a10f5bc593ec85-66d93da5eeb0443f94a10f5bc593ec85-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=z.ZA.u4FzRjWNBNj4ZND6g--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="In this photo taken Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2012 and released by the United Nations African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID), security forces try to hold a crowd back as people try to get a better view during a rally to mark the launch the temporary headquarters of the Darfur Regional Authority (DRA) at El Negaa Stadium, El Fasher, North Darfur, Sudan. The establishment of the DRA is part of the Doha Document for Peace in Darfur, signed by the Government of Sudan and the Liberation and Justice Movement. (AP Photo/UNAMID, Albert Gonzalez Farran)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/africa/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20120214/ap_on_re_af/af_south_africa_lion_attack ap/20120214/af_south_africa_lion_attack AP world Tue, 14 Feb 2012 14:20:32 GMT AP - A lioness sprung at the throat of a zoo worker on a rural conservation farm and killed him, apparently because security gates were left open, the Johannesburg Zoo said Tuesday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/africa/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20120214/ap_on_re_af/af_zimbabwe_valentine_s_day_march ap/20120214/af_zimbabwe_valentine_s_day_march AP world Tue, 14 Feb 2012 13:35:48 GMT AP - Zimbabwean police have disrupted a Valentine's Day march aimed at promoting peace and love between foes in the troubled southern African nation. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/africa/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20120213/ap_on_re_af/af_nigeria_clinton ap/20120213/af_nigeria_clinton AP world Mon, 13 Feb 2012 22:53:01 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/africa/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20120213/ap_on_re_af/af_nigeria_clinton"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20120213/capt.584350ad569e4daba50bccb85c136273-584350ad569e4daba50bccb85c136273-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=nSpy4WnASg5phXMezWAFuw--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Former U.S. President Bill Clinton speaks during an annual ThisDay awards ceremony in Lagos, Nigeria, Monday, Feb. 13, 2012. Former U.S. President Bill Clinton says poverty is fueling the religious violence tearing at Nigeria. In a speech Monday, Clinton acknowledged he was 'really worried' about the security problems now plaguing the nation, which includes increasingly violent attacks by a radical Islamist sect known as Boko Haram. Boko Haram is based in and has launched attacks across the nation's impoverished Muslim north. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)" border="0" /></a>AP - Former U.S. President Bill Clinton warned Monday that the rampant poverty that plagues oil-rich Nigeria &mdash; felt most acutely in its Muslim north &mdash; is fueling the religious violence now tearing at the nation.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/africa/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20120213/ap_on_re_af/af_nigeria_clinton"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20120213/capt.584350ad569e4daba50bccb85c136273-584350ad569e4daba50bccb85c136273-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=nSpy4WnASg5phXMezWAFuw--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="Former U.S. President Bill Clinton speaks during an annual ThisDay awards ceremony in Lagos, Nigeria, Monday, Feb. 13, 2012. Former U.S. President Bill Clinton says poverty is fueling the religious violence tearing at Nigeria. In a speech Monday, Clinton acknowledged he was 'really worried' about the security problems now plaguing the nation, which includes increasingly violent attacks by a radical Islamist sect known as Boko Haram. Boko Haram is based in and has launched attacks across the nation's impoverished Muslim north. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/africa/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20120213/ap_on_re_us/us_stuck_in_libya ap/20120213/us_stuck_in_libya AP us Mon, 13 Feb 2012 22:21:15 GMT AP - An official from a Muslim civil rights group says two Libyan-Americans from Oregon who were denied re-entry to the United States from Libya will be returning home, although one man's return has been delayed. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/africa/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20120213/wl_nm/us_nigeria_bomber nm/20120213/us_nigeria_bomber Reuters world Mon, 13 Feb 2012 20:16:46 GMT Reuters - Nigerian Islamist sect Boko Haram said Monday it killed 12 soldiers in an attack in the northeast town of Maiduguri but security forces denied any of its officers had been killed and said it shot dead sect members. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/africa/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20120213/ap_on_re_af/af_nigeria_storm ap/20120213/af_nigeria_storm AP world Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:36:41 GMT AP - Hurricane-strength winds and rain tore through the islands of Nigeria's commercial capital on Monday, killing at least one person and downing trees across major roadways. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/africa/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20120213/ap_on_re_af/af_africa_lra_fight ap/20120213/af_africa_lra_fight AP world Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:30:37 GMT AP - Women and children abducted by the Lord's Resistance Army guerrilla group are suffering from hunger because the wanted band of fighters has stopped stealing food from villages to avoid being detected by a military manhunt, Ugandan military officials said Monday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/africa/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20120213/wl_nm/us_nigeria_poverty nm/20120213/us_nigeria_poverty Reuters world Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:15:53 GMT Reuters - Poverty in Nigeria is rising with almost 100 million people living on less than $1 a day, despite strong growth in Africa's second largest economy, data showed on Monday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/africa/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20120212/wl_nm/us_nigeria_oil_vote nm/20120212/us_nigeria_oil_vote Reuters world Sun, 12 Feb 2012 22:12:08 GMT Reuters - Nigeria's ruling party candidate has been elected governor of President Goodluck Jonathan's home state, election officials said on Sunday, ending months of political uncertainty over who is in charge of the oil-producing state. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/africa/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20120212/wl_nm/us_congo_democratic_crash nm/20120212/us_congo_democratic_crash Reuters world Sun, 12 Feb 2012 21:47:55 GMT Reuters - Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila's chief adviser was killed and his finance minister injured in an airplane crash near the eastern town of Bukavu on Sunday, government officials said. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/africa/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20120212/wl_nm/us_egypt_violence_inquiry nm/20120212/us_egypt_violence_inquiry Reuters world Sun, 12 Feb 2012 20:31:41 GMT Reuters - An Egyptian parliamentary inquiry into the deaths of 74 people in a soccer stadium disaster has found both fans and lax security to blame for the worst incident of its kind in the country's history, the legislator leading it said on Sunday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/africa/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20120212/wl_nm/us_egypt_usa_tantawi nm/20120212/us_egypt_usa_tantawi Reuters world Sun, 12 Feb 2012 18:45:09 GMT Reuters - Egypt's military ruler stressed the importance of good ties with the United States in a meeting with the government on Sunday, a message that could signal an attempt to ease a crisis triggered by an Egyptian probe targeting American democracy activists. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/africa/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20120212/wl_nm/us_libya_jalil nm/20120212/us_libya_jalil Reuters world Sun, 12 Feb 2012 17:43:01 GMT Reuters - Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, son and one-time heir apparent of toppled Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, will be moved to a Tripoli prison within two months and then face trial, the chairman of Libya's National Transitional Council (NTC) said on Sunday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/africa/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20120212/ap_on_re_af/af_congo_plane_crash ap/20120212/af_congo_plane_crash AP world Sun, 12 Feb 2012 16:08:29 GMT AP - A senior presidential adviser was among two killed after a private jet crashed while landing in Congo's eastern city of Bukavu, a transport minister said Sunday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/africa/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20120212/ts_nm/us_egypt_reporter nm/20120212/us_egypt_reporter Reuters topstories Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:33:30 GMT Reuters - Egyptian authorities have detained an Australian journalist and an American student on suspicion they had distributed cash to workers and incited them to take part in a strike demanding an end to army rule, the state news agency said.