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1. Mali Islamists attack Unesco holy site

Malian fighters from the Ansar Dine Islamist group attacked and burned the tomb of one of the town’s saints, which is a Unesco World Heritage Site

2. Angry neighbours

Such is the bad blood between them that reconciliation cannot be assured. But a tough and even-handed international approach is to be welcomed

3. Africa sees 27% surge in FDI projects

The continent attracted $82bn in foreign direct investment in 2011 and Ernst & Young forecasts that it could reach $150bn by 2015

4. Dozens dead in Nigeria attack

The police commissioner said security forces had confirmed 34 killed and that Islamist sect Boko Haram was suspected to be behind the attack

5. Residents flee Mali in third day of clashes

A Malian security source said the junta’s troops were asking people to leave their buildings as they searched for loyalist fighters

6. UN threatens two Sudans with sanctions

Security Council resolution follows weeks of escalating border fighting with both sides disputing oil revenues and frontier demarcation

7. UN set to vote on Sudan resolution

Security Council measure threatens Sudan and South Sudan with unspecified measures if they fail to halt a simmering border conflict

8. Mali junta claims defeat of counter-coup

Military junta alleges foreign forces helped supporters of ousted president try to regain control

9. Bomb attack in eastern Nigeria kills 11

Islamist insurgents Boko Haram have been blamed for recent incidents, including two blasts targetting churchgoers and a newspaper

10. Confusion over Sudan border conflict

Khartoum declares a state of emergency in areas affected by fighting while at the same time South Sudan tells the UN it will withdraw police

11. At least 21 die in Nigeria prayer raids

Attackers hurled homemade bombs at a lecture theatre and a mass at Bayero University where students, staff and other Christians were praying

12. Cubans court controversy in malaria battle

Advisers from a Havana-based company, using high-level diplomatic connections, push larvicide technology to fight the disease in Africa

13. South Sudan says conflict is expanding

Khartoum and Juba accuse one another of supporting rebel militias to destabilise opponents in neighbouring nations. Each denies other’s allegations

14. Guinea-Bissau junta given ultimatum

Ecowas has told the coup leaders to allow in a regional force or face sanctions, and will also send troops to Mali

15. Ghana’s opposition targets Chinese loan

The NPP presidential candidate has ‘serious reservations’ about the $3bn finance deal and has suggested a renegotiation

16. Sierra Leone gets its day of justice

Charles Taylor’s conviction is a victory for the rule of law and the precedent will have repercussions from the Congo and Sudan to Syria

17. Charles Taylor guilty of aiding war crimes

Former Liberian leader fuelled conflict in Sierra Leone by helping militias – with convictions including use of child soldiers and terrorism

18. Suicide bombers target Nigerian newspapers

No group claimed responsibility for the bombings on This Day’s offices, though the operations bore the hallmarks of the Islamist group Boko Haram

19. War victims welcome Taylor verdict

Those affected by Sierra Leone’s brutal war have had a long wait to see justice done, but some were angry about cost to jail former Liberian president

20. Nigerian newspaper offices bombed

At least three are killed by two suicide blasts at the Abuja and Kaduna offices of This Day, which broadly supports the government