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An uprising brought Blaise Compaoré's 27-year rule of Burkina Faso to an end last month, but his lengthy term in power was not unusual for the continent's leaders. Test your knowledge of those who have held top office the longest
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Writers including Yann Martel and Alberto Manguel hope to let incarcerated writers and the wider world know that they ‘are not forgotten’
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25 - 29 August: Catch up with all the development-related news you may have missed this week
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If Africa – given its wealth of human and natural resources – cannot contain Ebola, then we must accept that the continent is not developing as fast as we thought, writes Fungai Machirori
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Algerian football fans queue up to pay their respects to Cameroonian striker Albert Ebossé who died on Saturday
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Cameroonian striker Albert Ebossé has died after being hit in the head by an object thrown from the stands during an Algerian league game
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