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8 February 2012 Last updated at 00:42 ET

Uganda MP revives anti-gay billMP David Bahati has said the death penalty provision is likely to be dropped from the controversial anti-gay bill

The Anti-Homosexuality Bill is reintroduced to Uganda's parliament - without the death penalty but still calling for life in prison for some offences.

People gather around a minibus struck in an apparent explosion as it sits near a highway overpass in Kaduna, Nigeria, on 7 February 2012. Two explosions struck Tuesday near army and air force bases on the outskirts of the central Nigerian city at the heart of riots last year that killed hundreds, officials said 'Suicide attack' on Nigeria army

A man in military uniform blows himself up outside a Nigerian army barracks in the city of Kaduna, which is also rocked by other blasts, officials say.

Police close the door of an ambulance carrying the body of a Chinese worker killed during a kidnapping, after he was handed over to Chinese Embassy representatives by a Sudanese Red Crescent representative and a Sudanese Foreign Ministry official at the Chinese-run Hawasha hospital in KhartoumChinese workers released in Sudan

A group of Chinese workers kidnapped by rebels in Sudan last month has been freed and flown to Kenya, officials from both countries say.

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