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BBC AFRICA
- Mandela 'stable after operation' February 25, 2012Former South Africa President Nelson Mandela is talking and stable after surgery for "a long-standing abdominal complaint", the BBC understands.
- Deadly blasts rock Nigerian city February 25, 2012A gun and bomb attack kills at least four people in the northern Nigerian city of Gombe, amid an upsurge in religious and ethnic violence.
- Somalia strike 'kills militants' February 24, 2012An air strike in al-Shabab-held southern Somalia kills four people, including three foreigners, eyewitnesses tell the BBC.
- Ivory Coast rivals hail ICC move February 24, 2012Rivals politicians in Ivory Coast welcome the International Criminal Court extending its investigation into abuses back to 2002.
- Ghana 'used witchcraft against each other' February 24, 2012Ghana's football coach blames their Cup of Nations disappointment on players casting "magic spells" on each other.
- 'First' Cameroon lesbian charges February 24, 2012Three women in Cameroon are charged with practising homosexuality, in what is believed to be the first such case in the country, a local reporter tells the BBC.
- Mali fighting 'displaces 130,000' February 24, 2012Nearly 130,000 people have been displaced by fighting between Tuareg rebels and government forces since mid-January in Mali, the UN warns.
- Nigerian school targeted in fire February 23, 2012A Nigerian school is set alight - the second non-religious school in the Islamist militant stronghold of Maiduguri to be targeted this week.
- Italy chided over Africa migrants February 23, 2012The European Court of Human Rights says Italy violated the rights of Eritrean and Somali migrants by sending them back to Libya.
- Tanzanians riot over 'witchcraft' February 23, 2012Four Tanzanian police officers are detained after a deadly protest over women allegedly killed to obtain body parts for witchcraft use.
