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- Senegal: U.S. Legal Firm Helps Wade Fight for Third Term (allAfrica.com)
- Egypt: Days of Mourning Declared After Football Violence (allAfrica.com)
- Uganda: Journalist Shot By Police At Kizza Besigye Rally (RFI)
- Liberia: Taylor's Lawyers Apply to Reopen Case (CharlesTaylorTrial.org)
- Ethiopia: More Journalists Get Jail Time On Anti-Terrorism Charges (IFEX)
- Somalia: NUSOJ Outraged Over Live Radio Broadcast That Exposed Journalists to Danger (IFEX)
- South Africa: Men Who Killed Lesbian in Hate Crime Jailed (SAPA)
- Somalia: Sexual Violence Increases in Displaced Camps (IRIN)
- Senegal: 'No, Mr Wade You Don't Have the Right' (RNW Africa)
- South Africa: Thuli Madonsela and the Importance of Free Press (iMaverick)
- Mozambique: Fewer Than Half of AU Members Have Ratified Africa Court (AIM)
- Egypt: Bahrain Curbs Freedom of Expression With Trials (HRInfo)
- Liberia: Charles Taylor's Case to Re-Open? (New Dawn)
- Africa: Journalist's Murder Highlights Country's Notoriety As Most Dangerous Place in Africa for Media (IFEX)
- Egypt: Friction Between the Military, the People and Parliament (ISS)
- Senegal: Amnesty Calls on Wade to Rein in Security Forces (AI London)
- Cote d'Ivoire: Newspaper Editor Arrested for Publishing 'Confidential Information' (RSF)
- Uganda: How Abortion Happens Despite Law (RNW Africa)
- South Africa: Umlungu Mdala (iMaverick)
- Kenya: ICC Ruling Splits Kibaki's Coalition Wing (Nation)
- Kenya: Ruthless Slum Demolitions Should Be Declared Crime Against Humanity (Nation)
- Cote d'Ivoire: Human Rights Issues (U.S. Embassy Abidjan)
- Cote d'Ivoire: The Problem of Child Labor on Cocoa Plantations (U.S. Embassy Abidjan)
- Kenya: Ocampo Four Fight to Tear Apart Gang Theory (Nation)
- Kenya: Kibaki Holds Talks With UN Chief Over Somalia (Nation)
- Cote d'Ivoire: The Problem of Child Labor in the Cocoa Plantations (U.S. Embassy Abidjan)
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