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Page last updated at 23:19 GMT, Monday, 23 November 2009

Members of al-Shabab at a training camp outside Mogadishu (4 November 2008)
US-Somali terror suspects charged
Eight people are facing charges in the US as part of an investigation into young men sent to fight in the Somalia conflict.
Minneapolis to Mogadishu
US men 'joined Somali Islamists'
Country profile: Somalia

Kenya Aids clinic stacked with retrovirals Kenya in HIV/Aids testing drive
Kenyan health officials are launching a controversial drive to get one million people tested for HIV/Aids.

Chad locator French aid workers seized in CAR
Two French aid workers have been kidnapped by gunmen in the Central African Republic, their employer says.

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Morocco's wine growers sniff success abroad
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An EU taskforce soldiers shoots Dangerous seas
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