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- 2/22/2012: Somalia: child soldiers on the rise : Children as young as ten increasingly face horrific abuse in Somalia as the Islamist militant group Al-Shabaab has targeted them to replenish its diminishing ranks of fighters, according to a Human Rights Watch report .
 - 2/22/2012: Somalia militants lose key town : Ethiopian and Somali troops capture Baidoa, a strategic stronghold of al-Shabab Islamist militants, as the UN approves extra African Union troops for Somalia.
- 2/22/2012: VIDEO: Somalia militant base Baidoa captured : Ethiopian and Somali troops have taken a strategic stronghold of Islamist militants in south-western Somalia.
- 2/22/2012: Ghana to check coach's contract : Ghana's FA delays a decision on the future of coach Goran Stevanovic and says it will look into details of his contract.
- 2/22/2012: Recycled soap saving lives : What happens to the bar of soap you barely used the last time you checked into a hotel room? Most certainly it's gone to waste at the end of each day.
 - 2/22/2012: Ostrich industry hit by bird flu : For some 100 years, tourists have flocked Arenhold Hooper's ostrich family farm in Oudtshoorn, the South African city renowned as the ostrich capital of the world, to ride its long-legged, long-necked birds.
 - 2/22/2012: Key militant-held town falls to Somali forces : Ahead of a key international conference on beleaguered Somalia, transitional government forces, backed by Ethiopian allies, seized a key southern town that was once a strategic stronghold for Islamic militants.
 - 2/22/2012: Verdict on Mubarak set for 2 June : A trial verdict for Egyptian ex-President Hosni Mubarak, accused of ordering the killing of protesters in the revolution that ousted him, is set for 2 June.
- 2/22/2012: Kenyan teens lured to fight for Somali terrorists : A mom tells how her teen son living in a Kenyan slum was one of at least six persuaded to join al-Qaeda-linked Al Shabaab.
 - 2/22/2012: Nigeria rig 'may burn for months' : A gas-fuelled fire, with flames as high as 5m, may burn for months in waters off the Niger Delta in south-east Nigeria, a Chevron spokesperson tells the BBC.
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