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24 May 2012 Last updated at 08:11 ET

Egyptians queue to cast ballotsAn Egyptian woman searches for her name outside a polling station on the second day of presidential election in Cairo May 24, 2012

Egyptians are queuing for a second day to vote in the country's first free presidential elections - 15 months after Hosni Mubarak was ousted.

Defaced painting of Jacob Zuma at the Goodman Gallery'Obscene' Zuma art case in court

South Africa's ruling party takes legal action to try and remove a controversial painting of President Jacob Zuma from public view.

President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh AhmedSomalia's leaders agree deadline

Leaders of Somalia's disparate factions agree a historic deal to elect a new president by 20 August to end the country's two-decade political crisis.

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“You can steal a drum and hide it - but you can't hide and play it”

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