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Page last updated at 23:07 GMT, Friday, 18 July 2008 00:07 UK

Nelson Mandela speaking at his home on his birthday, 18 July
Mandela at 90 makes call for poor
Nelson Mandela, a key figure in bringing down South Africa's apartheid, turns 90 and calls for the nation's rich to help the poor.
Timeline: The Mandela story
Rainbow nation?
Mandela the man

Unidentified Somali gunman Somalis shot as they hand out aid
Somali gunmen shoot dead three elders distributing aid in a refugee camp near Mogadishu.

map Kenyans reject circumcision plan
Elders from Kenya's Luo group reject a plan to promote circumcision to stem Aids.

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Black and white South Africans joined hands in dancing and singing 11 February 1990 at a mass African National Congress (ANC) rally in Soweto Rainbow nation?
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A Zimbabwean policeman stands guards at a display a few moments before the arrival of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe for the opening of the "People"s shops" in Harare on July 16, 2008. In pictures
Smart soldiers and angry rallies in Africa this week
Protest in Khartoum on 16 July against request for the president to be tried for war crimes Sudan challenge
ICC faces biggest problem on its 10th birthday

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