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Opposition party politician murdered in the run up to Nigeria's elections

Unity government announced in the Ivory Coast

Africa reacts to the outbreak of war in Iraq with protests from Cape to Cairo

Notorious rebel Sam Bockarie shot dead in Liberia

Liberia celebrates as a ceasefire is agreed with rebel troops

Rebels battle with government troops on the outskirts of Monrovia

Fighting escalates as Liberian rebels advance on Monrovia

US President Bush visits five African countries in five days

President Charles Taylor goes into exile in Nigeria

Interim government set up in Liberia to conclude peace talks

Paul Kagami wins the Rwandan election - but was it free and fair?

Hard bargaining at World Trade talks in Mexico

A bloodless coup prompts change in Guinea-Bissau

Mauritanian elections ends - but the opposition claims massive fraud

Opposition claims of fraud mar the Mauritanian election

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni speaks out on rebel attacks

Commonwealth summit ends with row over Zimbabwe

What do people in Africa think of former Iraq leader Saddam Hussein?

Archbishop Michael Courtney shot dead in Burundi

Breakthrough in Sudanese peace talks as government and rebels share oil wealth

Sudanese flee bombings in west Darfur

Rumours of an attempted coup in Equatorial Guinea

A displaced people's camp comes under fire in Uganda

Over 25 people killed in Ivory Coast demonstrations over peace accord

Kenya's new draft constitution causes controversy

South Africa's Party of Liberation crushes rivals to win election

Growing international concern over the western Sudanese region of Darfur

Nigerian violence kills hundreds in the central town of Yelwa

Euphoria in Sudan as a peace agreement is finally signed

Another group has tried to topple the government in the Democratic Republic of Congo