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Prosecutors called on for South Africa's "Blade Runner" Oscar Pistorius to be convicted of murder and sent back to jail for shooting his girlfriend.
Saadi Gaddafi faces charges of murdering a football player and other crimes before the 2011 revolution that ended his father's rule.
Al Shabaab, which has frequently launched attacks in Mogadishu in its bid to topple the current government, said it was behind the assault on the Sahafi hotel where government officials and lawmakers stay.
A militant group affiliated to Islamic State in Egypt claimed responsibility for the downing of a Russian passenger plane that crashed in Egypt's Sinai peninsula on Saturday, the group said in a statement circulated by supporters on Twitter.
Rescuers plucked more than a thousand migrants from overcrowded boats near Libya on Wednesday morning, Italy's coast guard said.
The presidential election is seen as crucial to turning the page on a decade-long political crisis and a civil war in 2011 in the African nation.
Oscar Pistorius will be released on parole on Oct. 20, about a year after he was sentenced to five years for killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.
Two people were killed and 23 others injured as the bridge, which is still under construction, collapsed on a main motorway in Johannesburg on Wednesday, according to the rescue team on the scene.
Tunisia's National Dialogue Quartet won the Nobel Peace Prize for "its decisive contribution to the building of a pluralistic democracy in Tunisia."
Kenya's Ministry of Health fears that the onset of El-Niño rains may trigger an outbreak of malaria and other communicable diseases.
Artemisinin has played a key role in combating malaria in Angola though the disease remained the largest killer in the African country, a leading Chinese physician said Monday.
China-Africa Project Hope, which plans to build 1,000 primary schools in Africa, has completed the first 23, Lu Junqing, chairman of the project, announced at a news conference on Tuesday in Nairobi.
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