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The UN refugee agency has urged Saudi Arabia to stop deporting Somalis, saying 2,000 people have recently been sent to Mogadishu.

Liberia's government says it will require all children to get birth certificates, a document most of them lack.

A draft constitution that Kenya votes on next week guarantees women the same rights as men -- unless a judge in a Muslim family court decrees otherwise.

The president of the Central African Republic has issued a decree delaying the country's elections again, to Jan.23. The decree from President Francois Bozize was read Friday on national radio and calls for an 11-day campaign starting Jan.

A South African court on Friday ordered four white former students to pay fines of nearly $3,000 each for a video they made that humiliated black university employees and drew global attention to entrenched racism on the campus.

Actress Mia Farrow and models' agent Carole White will testify next month about a "blood diamond" Naomi Campbell is said to have been given by Liberia's Charles Taylor, court papers showed Thursday.

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President Jacob Zuma has asked traditional communities to embark on a path of "acceptance, healing and reconciliation" after a recommendation by a traditional leadership commission that South Africa lose six of its kings and queens.

At least 140 people have died after an ferry overturned in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a local official said Thursday.

The party of Zimbabwe's president says his sister Sabina Mugabe - a former lawmaker and one of his closest allies - died after a long battle with illness.