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2013-03-16

[AF] Gunmen kill justice official in Nigeria's north
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[AF] ICC team in Mali to investigate potential war crimes

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[AF] Reconciliation needed after Ivory Coast clashes: UN

2012-07-22

[AF] Madagascar troops 'mutiny' near main airport

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[AF] Rio summit keeps African hopes alive

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[AF] African leaders meet on AU top job, hotspots

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[AF] Mali crisis 'one of biggest challenges' for Africa
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[AF] African women's economic summit begins in Nigeria

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[AF] Gbagbo's party renews talks with I.Coast leaders

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[AF] Liberals claim early lead in Libya vote count
[AF] War crimes court's first sentence due on DR Congo warlord

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[AF] Police defuse bomb in central Nigerian city
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[AF] Libyans cast ballots in historic post-Kadhafi vote
[AF] West African bloc seeks unity government for Mali

2012-06-30

[AF] Egypt's President Morsi sworn in
[AF] Mali Islamists threaten nations that join intervention force

2012-06-23

[AF] Egypt to announce presidential poll result Sunday
[AF] Explosion outside nightclub in Nigerian capital

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[AF] Egyptians choose new president amid political chaos

2012-06-10

[AF] African sleeping sickness shrouded in superstition
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2012-06-09

[AF] Gunmen kill four in Nigeria's troubled north

2012-06-03

[AF] Worst post-poll violence by Gbagbo camp: prosecutor
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[ 2013-03-16 ]

Gunmen kill justice official in Nigeria's north
KANO, Nigeria (AFP) - Gunmen have killed a senior
judicial official in northern Nigeria's largest
city of Kano, police said Saturday.

A Kano State police spokesman said Usamatu Badawi,
a high court registrar, was pulled out of his car
by gunmen and shot in the eyes as he was driving
home.

"We have received report of the killing of a court
registrar in Hotoro area by some gunmen last night
who took away his car," the spokesman, Magaji
Majia, said of Friday's incident.

"We have opened an investigation to identify the
killers and their motive," he told AFP.

Majia refused to say if the killing was carried
out by Boko Haram Islamists, blamed for series of
targeted killings in the city.

The slain judicial officer was a former national
president of the judicial workers union JUSUN.

Suleiman Aliyu, a JUSUN spokesman in Kano, said
Badawi "shot in the eyes at close range."

Source - AFP



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