New peril for West Africa's giants
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SOURGOUROU, Niger -- Perched among the top branches of an acacia tree, Hassan Abdoulaye scanned the horizon for the tallest animal on earth. But spotting members of the last wild giraffe herd in West Africa is never easy. They blend in well.
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German legend Franz Beckenbauer says South Africa's World Cup organisers are facing serious problems.
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West African leaders meet in Nigeria on Sunday to discuss a deepening crisis in Ivory Coast, one of the region's former economic powerhouses where a week of unrest has caused some 5,000 expatriates to flee.
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Three of Africa's big crises -- strife in Ivory Coast, fighting in Congo and the humanitarian emergency in Sudan's Darfur -- provide a daunting agenda for an African Union summit that began Monday in Gabon.
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Morocco take on Namibia in Group A while in Group B Nigeria face Ivory Coast and Benin meet Mali.
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Burned, looted shops dot the commercial capital. European airlines have suspended flights. And only a few ships remain in what was one of West Africa&#39;s busiest ports.
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SAIDIA, Morocco  - Ecologists say a tragedy is unfolding in north Africa where construction firms are moving in on some of the last unspoilt stretches of Mediterranean coastline in the search for profits.
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Nairobi, once a favorite playground for Westerners in Africa, is spinning out of control.
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The African nation's last rain forests are in danger from both agricultural developers and locals who believe its plants hold pharmacological secrets
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As economic forces push them toward a former ruler, they struggle to redefine their identity.
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The threat of violence in petroleum-rich Nigeria this week, followed by a spike in oil prices, underscored yet again that country&#39;s importance and danger to companies that work there.
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The charges against the new leader of South Africaâs dominant party could precipitate a political crisis.
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THE war between two of South Africaâs largest gold companies is set to intensify this week as the battle moves from the stock market to the courts.
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The continent struggles to contain a locust swarm that a UN official says could be more dangerous than Darfur.
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A club of African leaders fighting for improved democracy and better governance came under the spotlight Friday ahead of a summit looking at transforming the 53-member African Union (AU) into a closer-knit federation.
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ENVIRONMENTAL activists claim the latest outbreak of violence in Nigeria is simply the beginning of a civil war that could force Shell into a huge shake-up of its activities in the oil-rich country.
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MUNDEMBA, Cameroon  - The Cameroonians of the  Bakassi Peninsula have learned like many other communities that  the prospect of oil can be more of a curse than a blessing.