Africa News – Headlines, Stories and Videos from CNN Int’l [May ‘11 Series]

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Wide-eyed youth watch as their commanders give step-by-step instruction on how to handle weapons -- most of the arms are twice as old as the young men who will use them.

Source: Libyan rebels: Training better but weapons still scarce

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Thousands of people streamed into Cairo's Tahrir Square on Friday and chanted for unity across the Arab world, and a couple of hundred staged a pro-Osama bin Laden protest in front of the U.S. Embassy.

Source: In Tahrir Square, Egyptians show support for other Arabs

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The war against the illegal ivory trade resulted in the seizure of 115 pieces of elephant ivory at the airport in Nairobi, the Kenya Wildlife Service said Friday.

Source: Kenya finds Illegal ivory in boxes disguised as diplomatic baggage

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At least six people were killed and 120 injured in sectarian clashes outside a church in Cairo on Saturday, officials said.

Source: At least 6 dead in Egyptian sectarian violence

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Several hundred protesters were gathered in the center of Tunisia's capital Sunday as riot police stood guard.

Source: Protesters gather in Tunisia's capital after overnight curfew

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"Turn around, don't go."

Source: Reporter's Notebook: Mere steps ahead of an angry Cairo mob

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Forensic experts have unearthed about 68 bodies from another cluster of mass graves in war-torn Ivory Coast, a United Nations spokeswoman said Monday.

Source: U.N.: About 68 bodies found in more Ivory Coast mass graves

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In 1993, during one of the worst days of the Burundi Civil War, one woman came to the rescue of 25 children and gave them hope for the future.

Source: War orphans turn tragedy into triumph

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NATO's leader confidently proclaimed on Sunday that Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's days are numbered, but he couldn't foresee how long the alliance's grinding mission to protect besieged civilians will last.

Source: NATO leader: 'Gadhafi's time is over'

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Benghazi, Libya (CNN) -- Inside the Intensive Care Unit at Benghazi Medical Center the injuries to the patients are horrendous. One patient has suffered a paralyzing bullet to the head, another is missing a left leg, has a broken right leg and is on a respirator, yet another has burns to his face and is barely conscious.

The maimed men are the latest arrivals in the Libyan rebel stronghold from the besieged city of Misrata -- the center of the most ferocious fighting between Colonel Moammar Gadhafi's forces and fighters trying to oust his government.

More than 800 people managed to get out of the city on the latest aid ship chartered by the International Organization for Migration.

Some were migrant workers, others extremely sick or wounded people who had no chance of survival if they stayed put.

"The ship was attempting to dock for two day but they could not. One day they were finally able to get in to get us. Some rushed to the ship but the rest of the wounded could not because the shelling was non-stop," Ibrahim Al-Neairy said.

Source: Wounded tell of hell in besieged Misrata - CNN.com.