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The illegal ivory trade may not fund a major terror group, after all

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The 5 most toxic myths about Ebola, debunked

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Liberian security officers in Monrovia (AP/Abbas Dulleh)

15 numbers that explain the Ebola outbreak

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This Sunday Dec. 13, 1998 file photo shows former South African president Nelson Mandela, left, with Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe in Harare. (AP/Rob Cooper)

4 African leaders who learned nothing from Nelson Mandela

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How climate change is helping al-Qaida

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Whistle-selling hipsters: We ended war in the Congo!

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Do you earn more than a Somali pirate?

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5 reasons Al Shabaab militants attacked Kenya

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Elephant tusks are the new blood diamonds

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Kenya's President-Elect Uhuru Kenyatta (AP/Ben Curtis)

Is The Hague racist?

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Elephant poaching on the rise in Central African Republic

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Kenyan Presidential candidate Uhuru Kenyatta casts his vote, accompanied by his wife Margaret Wanjiru Gakuo, right, at the Mutomo primary school near Gatundu, north of Nairobi. (AP/Ben Curtis)

Machete attacks mar Kenya elections

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Tribal conflict in Kenya leaves more than 180 dead

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French soldiers man an observation post outside Sevare, some 620 kms (400 miles) north of Mali's capital Bamako Thursday. (AP/Jerome Delay)

Militants in Mali have destroyed a strategic bridge to Niger

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French soldiers patrol in armored vehicles, in the outskirts of Sevare, Mali. (AP/Thibault Camus)

Malians want the French to stay

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Al-Qaida rising in Africa

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Libyan locusts spread

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Sudan’s return to war?

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