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Algeria's powerful military chief Ahmed Gaid Salah dies

Ahmed Gaid Salah pushed ahead with presidential elections despite an opposition boycott

One of the last veterans of the 1954-62 independence war against France still in power, Gen Salah died of a heart attack.

Plus Sudan has launched an investigation into crimes committed in the Darfur region under former President Omar al-Bashir, the state prosecutor says.

And in Zambia, the musician and known anti-government critic, PiLato has been detained by the police

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