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  • Guinea Bissau president Joao Bernardo Viera
    The suspected mastermind of the attack on Guinea Bissau's presidential palace is arrested.

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  • The International Criminal Court intensifies its campaign to have Sudan's president arrested.

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  • A breakthrough global treaty against cluster bombs is being signed in Oslo, Norway.

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  • As anti-homosexual legislation is debated in Burundi, we hear about life for gay people.

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  • Efforts to protect trees in Chad have restricted charcoal production and inflated prices.

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