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The US ambassador to Libya has expressed confidence in the country’s new rulers as the American embassy reopened in the capital months after it closed down during the fight to oust Muammar Gaddafi.
Michael Sata, the populist leader of Zambia’s opposition, has been declared the country’s next president after a tense election marred by outbursts of violence that left two people dead.
The Ivory Coast's election is to continue in spite of the opposition party of former strongman Gbagbo pulling out of the electoral commission.
Several key supporters of fugitive Muammar Gaddafi have fled to Niger from the southern desert city of Sabha, captured by new regime forces.
Two people were killed in riots that erupted in Zambia's crucial copper-mining region, as anger boiled over at the slow pace of the vote count in this week's neck-and-neck presidential election.
A four-car pile-up has killed 15 people and injured 17 others in the west of Senegal, the country’s fire department says.
Malawi media mogul Gospel Kazako has had masked thugs torch two of his radio station's vehicles, after the president accused the station of fanning anti-government demonstrations.
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