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

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CNN has won an Amnesty International Media award for its documentary World's Untold Stories: Locked up and Forgotten.

Source: CNN documentary wins Amnesty International award

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A barrage of at least 18 rockets struck Tripoli Tuesday, killing 19 people and wounding another 150 in the heaviest onslaught since NATO's aerial strikes began, a government official told CNN.

Source: NATO aircraft pound Tripoli; U.S. envoy courts rebels

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The Libyan opposition is not asking to be recognized as the "sole legitimate" authority in the country, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Tuesday, a day after meeting with opposition representative Abdel Rahman Shalgam.

Source: Libyan opposition wants only a place at negotiating table, Lavrov says

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President Jacob Zuma will visit Tripoli next week for talks with embattled Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, according to a statement on the South African leader's website.

Source: South African president to meet Gadhafi next week

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Explosions erupted in Tripoli for a second consecutive night Wednesday into Thursday morning as NATO jets struck a vocational secondary school, a Libyan government official said.

Source: Explosions erupt for second consecutive night in Tripoli

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A journalist who openly supported the Ivorian Popular Front of former President Laurent Gbagbo has been killed in a suburb of Abidjan, Reporters Without Borders said Wednesday.

Source: Reporters group condemns killing of Ivory Coast journalist

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Just who are the Africans who helped shape the Americas, and where did they come from?

Source: Tracing the slaves who shaped America

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The office of Libya's prime minister sent a message to the Spanish government listing "a series of proposals that could lead to a ceasefire," a spokesman for Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero said Thursday.

Source: Libya lists 'proposals' for ceasefire, Spain says

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Egypt will permanently open its Rafah border crossing into Gaza beginning Saturday, an Egyptian official reported Wednesday. The move provides Gazans with an open door to the outside world for the first time in four years.

Source: Egypt to open Gaza border crossing at Rafah

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Tensions remained high Thursday as the president of the Southern Sudanese government demanded an immediate withdrawal of Sudanese armed forces that continue to occupy the disputed oil-rich Abyei border region.

Source: Thousands flee fighting in disputed Sudan border region