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Kidnapped schoolchildren freed in Cameroon
Most students kidnapped from a boarding school have been freed, officials say.
Most students kidnapped from a boarding school in Cameroon's North-West region have been freed. EU observers say Madagascar presidential vote is going smoothly. Ten men have been arrested on suspicion of being gay on the Tanzanian island of Zanzibar. And the return of the famous Dur Dur band from Somalia.
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