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20 October 2011 Last updated at 09:19 ET

Muammar Gaddafi killed in Libya

Col Muammar Gaddafi is killed after an assault on Sirte, the acting PM says, as images of his body are aired.


Kenyan soldiers talk as they prepare to advance near Liboi in Somalia, on 18 October 2011, near Kenya's border town with SomaliaKenya to target Nairobi al-Shabab

Kenya announces that it will launch a major security operation in its capital to flush out sympathisers of the Somali Islamist group, al-Shabab.

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Taking on Uganda's LRA rebels

Seven years ago Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni thought that the war against the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) would be over in months - that has not been the case. Now more countries are stepping in. Will they succeed?

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