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The 30-minute Kony 2012 video by San Diego-based charity Invisible Children went viral last week promoted further by social media endorsements and campaigns by celebrities like Oprah Winfrey.

The vain Italian Fascist and the modest, unassuming Indian ascetic got along extremely well and admired each other.

Angelina Jolie's sultry, leg bearing dress at the Oscars has spawned a media frenzy. Now reports are surfacing that she may have had a very good reason for making people focus to her leg. Angie is said to be expecting her 7th child!

Hours after Yemen’s new President Abdurabu Mansur Hadi took office, al-Qaeda network launched a massive suicide bomb attack in the country to signal the arrival of the new, democratic era in the strife-torn country.

Renown street artist creator of the famous Obama Hope image plead guilty to contempt in Federal court Friday; we examine a few other art-related crimes.

The technology sector is slowly growing in Kenya, but this weekend a misplaced anchor near the port of Mombasa has damaged high-speed connectivity in East Africa.

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Two major explosions shook the key Somalia city of Baidoa, only hours after Ethiopian troops and pro-government forces there helped wrest the Baidoa from the hands of Al-Qaeda backed insurgents. The intensifying conflict falls on the same day world leaders gather in London for a conference to address diplomatic response to decades of instability in Somalia.

An ancient goldmine discovered on a hill on the Gheralta plateau in northern Ethiopia is said to be the treasure trove of Queen of Sheba.

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Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi announced Wednesday that he may pardon journalists, politicians, and dissidents detained under an 2009 anti-terrorism law, while refuting claims that the arrests were politically motivated.

The famine is Somalia is officially over, the United Nations said on Friday.

They had fled the recent civil war in Sri Lanka between Tamils and the Sinhalese.

The Senate Banking Committee is proposing news sanctions on Iran in an effort to stall its nuclear ambitions.

They are now facing deportation, even though some of the Ethiopians have legally resided in Saudi Arabia for as long as 16 years.

Libya will do all it can to protect its 75 percent stake in Zamtel, the fixed-line telecoms firm in Zambia, whose government announced plans last week to seize Libya's stake in the firm, Libyan Foreign Minister Ashour bin Khayyal said Monday.

Iran sent conflicting signals in a dispute with the West over its nuclear ambitions Sunday, vowing to stop oil exports soon to some countries but postponing a parliamentary debate on a proposed halt to such sales to the European Union.

South Sudan has totally shut down oil output in a dispute with Sudan over export transit fees and will only restart after the two reach a deal covering border security and the disputed Abyei region, its oil minister said Sunday.

Iran on Sunday declared itself optimistic about the United Nations experts' visit aimed at probing suspected military aspects of its nuclear program, and its lawmakers postponed debate on a proposed halt to oil flows to the European Union watched closely in energy markets.

The building took three years to construct and involved 1,200 Chinese and Ethiopian workers.

Gunmen killed five European tourists, wounded two and kidnapped two others in Ethiopia's remote Afar region, an Ethiopian official said Wednesday.