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Crowds gather at the Farchana camp
Darfuris 'face election hurdles'
The UN peacekeeping chief warns that people in the conflict-hit Darfur region may be left out of next year's elections in Sudan.
Darfur rebels free Sudan troops
Timeline: Sudan
Sudan - A Nation Divided

People carry an injured person after a stampede at a football stadium in in Abijdjan, Ivory Coast ( 29 March 2009) Ivorian jailed for match stampede
An Ivory Coast football official who printed fake tickets is sentenced to six months in jail over a deadly stadium stampede.

Locator US outcry over Liberia rape girl
Offers of help pour in for an eight-year-old Liberian girl disowned by her family in Arizona, after being raped.

FEATURES, VIEWS, ANALYSIS
Stone Town, Zanzibar, BBC file photo Hidden wounds
Zanzibar's painful past lies beneath surface
Kenya Wildlife Service wardens with ivory ornaments displayed at Nairobi National Park, Saturday July 18, 2009. (AP Photo/Khalil Senosi) In pictures
Ivory finds and township stars in Africa's week
A beach in Lome. Image from the Republic of Togo website www.republicoftogo.com Leaving Lagos
Nigerian tells of venturing along West African coast

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Nigeria militants release crew
Ivory Coast fined for stampede

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William Kamkwamba's windmill (TED/Tom Rielly) Wind of change
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Kenyans excited as undersea cable brings fast internet
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