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Ethiopia's regional leader steps down
Reports and analysis of the day's political, economic and sports news from across Africa.
Violence between Oromo and Somali communities over the weekend trigger resignation of regional president Abdi Mohamud Omar.
Two million Kenyans could go blind over a multimillion dollar hold up of their medicine.
In South Africa: a new book reveals how white government ministers raped and abused young black men during the apartheid era.
(Photo: People in the Somali Oromo region of Ethiopia. Credit: YONAS TADESSE/AFP/Getty Images)
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