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Why Ghana has been spared much of the chaos that surrounds it in West Africa?

Samsung will be releasing a follow up to its Galaxy Note device during a press event on August 15, according to BGR. The Galaxy Note 2 is said to boast a thinner and taller 5.5-inch display, in comparison to the current model’s 5.3-inch screen.

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A new base for Al Qaeda has emerged in the heart of the African Sahel, where no state army has yet been able to contest its presence.

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The West African regional bloc ECOWAS is calling for the creation of a national unity government in Mali in order to take urgent steps to confront the terrorist peril in the north of the country.

Whether it's a phone, or a tablet, or a music player, each and every new product released by Apple is thinner, lighter, faster and more powerful than its predecessor. With this in mind, the latest report about Apple's next iPhone, presumably dubbed the iPhone 5, should come as no real surprise: According to DigiTimes, Apple has chosen the powerful Exynos 4 quad-core processor built by Samsung to power its next-gen iPhone.

Less than a week after the U.N.'s cultural agency Unesco added Timbuktu to a list of historically significant sites in danger, Islamist rebels, who have taken control of the fabled city in northern Mali, began a systematic attack on its centuries-old cultural heritage.

The United Nations cultural agency has added the legendary city of Timbuktu to a list of historically significant sites in danger as rebel factions skirmish in northern Mali.

As rebels attack more high profile targets in Damascus, Assad concedes that Syria was in a state of war for the first time in 16 months.

Refugees from Myanmar's embattled state of Kachin are suffering from a lack of humanitarian aid in China's Yunnan Province, according to a Tuesday report from Human Rights Watch (HRW).

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The U.N. has stopped short of supporting a request from African leaders for a military intervention in politically unstable Mali until more information is obtained about the operation.

The United States has been building drone bases across the African continent since 2007, as well as flying old-fashioned ... spy flights, and is spending tens of millions of dollars to track groups like al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb and Boko Haram.

French President Francois Hollande said he would support a U.N. intervention in Mali over concerns that political instability in the country will turn it into a hotbed for terrorist activity.

African leaders considered a request for U.N. intervention in politically unstable Mali during a meeting Thursday in the Ivory Coast.

Nigerian forces shot and killed at least 16 suspected Boko Haram militants during a firefight in the northern city of Maiduguri on Tuesday.

Samsung Galaxy S3, the South Korean tech giant's flagship smartphone hit stores on Tuesday in 28 European and Middle East countries, including Germany and Britain. The company also claimed that the device would be offered by as many as 296 carriers in 145 countries by July.

Tunisia announced Tuesday that it intends to extradite former Libyan prime minister Al-Baghdadi Al-Mahmoudi back to his home country after detaining him for eight months.

Diancounda Traore, the interim president of Mali, was beaten in his office by protesters on Monday in the capital city of Bamako.

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