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| | 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 . | | more |
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| | 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. | | more |
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| | VIDEO: Somalia militant base Baidoa captured | | Ethiopian and Somali troops have taken a strategic stronghold of Islamist militants in south-western Somalia. | | more |
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| | 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. | | more |
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| | 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. | | more |
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| | 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. | | more |
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| | 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. | | more |
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| | 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. | | more |
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| | 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. | | more |
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| | 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. | | more |
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