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Libya coastguard rescues 89 migrants from drifting boat

altLibya's coastguard has rescued 89 sub-Saharan African migrants who had been drifting in a boat for five days and had to dump the bodies of five people who died on the journey overboard, the state news agency said on Saturday.
   

Tunisian police clash with hardline Islamists, one killed

altPolice fired on Islamists attacking a police station in a southern Tunisian town, killing one person, a security source said, in the latest incident to raise religious tensions in the North African country.
   

Congo suspends 12 senior army officers in probe of mass rape

altThe Democratic Republic of Congo has suspended a dozen senior military officers and is interrogating suspects in connection with a mass rape incident in the country's turbulent east, a spokesman for the U.N. peacekeeping department said.
   

Tunisia recovers $29 million from Ben Ali's wife's account

altTunisia received $28.8 million in the first such retrieval of what it calls looted assets held abroad by ousted President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and his family.
   

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