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Kenya holds its first presidential debate

A group of Kenyans watch the first face-to-face presidential debate ©AFP

Millions tune into televised debate between 8 candidates

Mamphela Ramphele speaks ©AFP Feb 11, 2013

Ramphele discreet on her ANC challenge

Speculation mounts over challenge to ruling party

Feb 10, 2013

Fresh clashes erupt in Malian town

Gao gun battles expose security gaps in recently recaptured zone

Feb 10, 2013

Food group denies tax avoidance in Zambia

ActionAid claims ABF subsidiary used tax havens

Feb 10, 2013

Three N Korean doctors killed in Nigeria

Attackers ransack apartment in northeast of country after slitting doctors’ throats

A soldier patrols near a burning road block outside the paratrooper camp, home of the former president's Red Beret presidential guard, in Bamako, Mali, Friday, Feb. 8, 2013. ©AP Feb 8, 2013

Malian troops fight mutinous paratroopers

Clash threatens to undermine French-led military operation

Feb 8, 2013

Unesco to rebuild wrecked Timbuktu tombs

Reconstruction of mausoleums expected to cost $4m-$5m

Feb 8, 2013

Health workers gunned down in Nigeria

No claim of responsibility for attacks on polio vaccine centres

From MARKETS Feb 7, 2013

Global inflows to Africa at two-year peak

Investors seek exposure to the region’s growth story

From MARKETS Feb 7, 2013

Investors start a new scramble for Africa

Frontier markets outperform mainstream counterparts this year

Global Insight Feb 7, 2013

African ‘barons’ seek firmer foundations

Time will tell whether new philanthropic groups are reliable

From COMPANIES Feb 7, 2013

Cutifani pans threat of SA mining review

Incoming Anglo chief calls move ‘out of order’

Feb 7, 2013

Nigerian opposition parties merge

Pressure mounts on president to rally support within ruling party

Feb 6, 2013

France sets March date to leave Mali

French and Chadian forces secure city of Kidal

From MIDDLE EAST & NORTH AFRICA Feb 6, 2013

Tunisian opposition leader assassinated

Killing of Chokri Belaid marks new level of political disorder

Editorial from COMMENT Feb 5, 2013

Africa’s Tora Bora

The toughest part of reuniting Mali is starting only now

Feb 5, 2013

Mali seeks new leader to combat old guard

Ruling elite blamed for leadership crisis and northern insurgency

Feb 4, 2013

Kenya flower farmers braced for poll threat

Spectre of election violence hangs over big export market

Feb 4, 2013

France strikes rebel camps in Mali’s north

Paris preparing to hand over Timbuktu to government forces

From EUROPE Feb 3, 2013

Nato chief warns on Europe’s gaps in Mali

Fogh Rasmussen calls for end to defence cuts

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