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Page last updated at 20:25 GMT, Monday, 9 November 2009

Pirate (file photo)
Mid-ocean pirate attack on tanker
Somali pirates attack an oil tanker 1,000 miles from the coast - the furthest yet, the EU anti-piracy mission says.
Inside story of pirate attack
Somalia's pirate capital

Soccer stadium in Cape Town SA World Cup rail project delayed
One of South Africa's major projects for next year's World Cup will not be ready, the BBC has been told.

The Star newspaper captures a resident of Johannesburg's city centre during a blackout SA power chief quits amid race row
The chairman of South Africa's national power company resigns after he was accused of pushing out his black chief executive.

FEATURES, VIEWS, ANALYSIS
A black and white picture of John Henry Smythe looking through a camera. Freedom fighters
The Africans who fought the Nazis - and colonialism
Children in Zimbabwe pictured at dusk Child victims
Sex abuse of boys and girls rises amid Zimbabwe crisis
Senegalese and Chinese workers Money talks
What does China want for its $10bn loan to Africa?

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DR Congo army 'used aid as bait'
Madagascar rivals reach deal
Somali adulterer stoned to death
Ivorian joy at Trafigura ruling
Spain resists deal with pirates
Niger-Nigeria 'blockade' mystery
Zimbabwe's MDC calls off boycott

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SA satirists pulling the strings
UK expats learn Nigerian culture
South Sudan awaits oil bonanza
'Big guns' herald Guinea's crisis

BUSINESS
Vodacom cautious about recovery
South Africa cancels Airbus deal

AFRICA HAVE YOUR SAY
Women in Somaliland Can women resolve Africa's wars?


Are diamonds still forever?
African view: Guinea rape

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FEATURES, VIEWS, ANALYSIS
RUF soldiers (left); amputees after the war (right) Price of justice
What did war crimes court do for Sierra Leone?
Somali children playing in water in Kenya In pictures
From water frolics to stuck in the mud in Africa's week
Ugandans practicing with AK47s at Watertight training ground Aiming for riches
Why 10,000 Ugandans have gone to Iraq
OTHER TOP STORIES
Zimbabwe's Bennett trial delayed
Somalis seize Kenyan print staff
Corruption costs $1.6tn, UN says
Bashir cancels visit to Istanbul
China pledges $10bn Africa loans
ICC seeking speedy Kenya trials
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Tinariwen Mali's Tinariwen beat Bob Dylan to win best album award

Giraffes near Koure, Niger Giraffes stage a comeback in Niger, living alongside farmers

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Young African in China Africans finding success in China


AFRICAN SPORT
Coach John Uboh Nigeria through to semi-finals

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SA police issue hooligan warning
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