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Apr 28, 2013 | 1128 GMT

At least 200 gunmen allegedly armed with AK-47s and sniper rifles have surrounded the Libyan Foreign Ministry in Tripoli to demand that officials who worked for ousted leader Moammar Gadhafi be banned from senior positions in the new government, witnesses and a military official said April 28, Al Jazeera reported.

Apr 27, 2013 | 1518 GMT

Joseph Kony, the leader of the Lord's Resistance Army rebel group, is not in Sudanese border areas, a spokesman for Sudan's armed forces said April 27, Sudan News Agency reported.

Apr 27, 2013 | 1325 GMT

A bomb detonated outside a police station around 6 a.m. April 27 in Benghazi, extensively damaging the building but causing no injuries, Reuters reported.

Apr 26, 2013 | 0948 GMT

Apr 25, 2013 | 1745 GMT

Two policemen and five suspected members of Islamist militant group Boko Haram were killed when the militants attacked a security formation in the Bade Local Government Area of Yobe, Nigeria, on April 25, News Agency of Nigeria reported.

Apr 25, 2013 | 1440 GMT

The U.N. Council approved a resolution that will establish a 12,600-strong peacekeeping force in Mali on April 25, AP reported in a message posted on Twitter.

Apr 24, 2013 | 2139 GMT

French troops in Timbuktu ceded control of the city to forces of the African-led support mission in Mali, RFI reported April 24.

Apr 23, 2013 | 1729 GMT

The U.S. Department of State warned U.S. citizens April 23 of the risks of visiting Burundi, according to a State Department Travel Warning.

Apr 23, 2013 | 1256 GMT

Incidents of violence occurred in several districts of Abidjan and other towns in Ivory Coast on April 22 after the results of local elections were announced, Xinhua reported April 23.

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