Africa
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Consitutional court says it retallied votes but could not recount them because all ballots were burned immediately after counting
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Number of drownings in the Mediterranean in 2016 now expected to easily surpass last year’s record figure of 3,771
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Guardian Africa network No DRC leader gives up power peacefully, so why would Joseph Kabila?
Vava TampaSigns that the president wants to remain in office are unsurprising in a country where coups are more common than elections -
Groups vow to oust Joseph Kabila, who seems to have adopted a strategy of ‘glissement’, or indefinite delay, over promised elections
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Egyptian authorities arrest four suspected traffickers after overloaded boat carrying hundreds of migrants goes down
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Professors say late civil rights leader was racist and considered Indians to be ‘infinitely superior’ to black Africans
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Violence erupts in Johannesburg as Wits University students march in protest at annnouncement of 8% rise in tuition fees
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Unrest erupted at a Johannesburg university three days ago after government announced an 8% rise in fees
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Perth man Geoff Freind, who was on a five-week preaching circuit, was bashed while walking between a hotel and shopping centre
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Several students injured in latest unrest at University of the Witwatersrand following announcement over fees increase
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Letters: By ignoring the state-sponsored violence in countries such as Sudan our leaders seek a sticking plaster rather than a cure
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International community urged to prepare for further volatility due to increasing financial vulnerabilty of developing nations
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Theresa May uses UN speech to outline plans to return Somali refugees and stop people trying to cross Mediterranean
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Letters: The appalling working conditions in the factories of China producing the iPhone are mirrored in the African mines where major phone manufacturers source their minerals
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The three were abducted at gunpoint on the highway between Ghat and Ubari, while three North Koreans kidnapped by Isis have been freed by Libyan forces
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Uganda’s inequalities are laid bare as MPs are awarded extravagant allowances while the country’s failing infrastructure remains desperately underfunded
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The abduction of the men, reportedly Ghat airport workers, follow those of four Italians in July last year
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