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Congolese soldier stripped of his rank and uniform after the mass trial of 39 soldiers, Goma, DRC, 5 may 2014.

Only two rape convictions in a mass trial of 39 soldiers on charges of rape and murder in DRC
World press freedom map, Reporter Sans Frontière.

World press freedom day in Africa
Residents displaced by recent fighting in Malakal camp, South Sudan, 1 may 2014.

Church representatives visit South Sudan
U.S. Navy SEALs have seized a tanker that fled with a cargo of oil from a Libyan port, 17 March 2014.

US Navy Seals take control of rogue Libya oil ship
Former national security minister Oyai Deng Ajak, former secretary general of the SPLM party Pagan Amum, former deputy finance minister Majak D'Agoot and ex-ambassador to the US Ezekiel Gatkuoth, attend their court trial in Juba, 11 March 2014.

South Sudan opposition leaders to return to face trial for treason
Gambia's President Yahya Jammeh

Gambia's new party declared political war on Yahya Jammeh
Pope Francis at Saint Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, 1 January, 2014

Strike-hit African diocese finds comfort in pro-poor stance of Pope Francis

Africa's top Tweeting cities
Women displaced by the conflict wait in line for registration at a camp for displaced people in Juba, 8 March 2014.

Violence spreads in Sudan's Darfur

Aliyu Mohammed Gusau, Nigerian new Defense Ministry.

Nigeria appoints new defence minister to fight Boko Haram
Headquarters of the IPU in Geneva

African women advance in parliamentary representation
The Abu Shouk camp for internally displaced people in El-Fasher, North Darfur

Violence escalates in Darfur as conflict resolution seems remote
A herder in the Peul region in Senegal

Expert says multinational land lease in Senegal pushes herders off land
Uganda President Yoweri Museveni signs an anti-homosexual bill at the state house in Entebbe, 24 February, 2014

Ugandan organisation to challenge anti-gay law in court
The courtroom where the trial of former Rwandan army captain Pascal Simbikangwa takes place

Paris trial of Rwandan Pascal Simbikangwa approaches key moment
The Areva's Somair uranium mining facility in Arlit, Niger

Niger and Areva continue uranium mining negotiations
Nigeria's Central Bank Governor Lamido Sanusi in October 2013

Nigerian Central Bank governor suspended
Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir

Sudan civil servants in Paris to discuss bilateral relations
Thousands of boys from the Eastern Cape undergo circumcisions as part of an initiation tradition

Boys die after circumcision rituals in South Africa
Explosion near the entrance of the airport in Somalia's capital Mogadishu, 13 February 2014.

Somali officials arm al Shebab, UN monitors report
ANC supporters flee after they tried to confront members of the opposition Democratic Alliance party in Johannesburg

ANC election campaign tarnished by supporter violence
Suad Abdi, country manager in Somaliland of the NGO Progressio

Women and politics in Somaliland
Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni at the African Union summit in Ethiopia, January 2014.

NGOs challenge Museveni reelection bid
Pierre Korkie's wife, in a press conference in Johannesburg, 16 January 2014.

South African Al Qaeda hostage still held in Yemen
Muslim youths, who were detained by police from Sunday's raid at the Masjid Musa mosque, disembark from a vehicle as they arrive at a court in Shanzu, near Monbasa, 3 February 2014.

Are Kenyan Muslims getting radical?
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