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Tensions are high in Ghana as official results from the knife-edge run-off presidential poll are to be released.

Opposition candidate John Atta Mills claims he has won, but the governing NPP party insisted the result remained too close to call. Paul Ndiho has been monitoring the results as they come in very closely and files this report.

In a historic move, the Tanzanian government is offering citizenship to Burundian refugees and their families who fled their homeland in 1972. Burundi has been plagued by civil strife since it achieved independence from Belgium in 1962. Paul Ndiho has more.

Hundreds of Nigerian children from the richest and poorest homes in Lagos are beginning to document their lives in a photo exhibition meant to help educate the world about the extremes between the Rich and the poor in Africa’s most populous nation. Paul Ndiho has the story

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As piracy explodes off Somalia’s lawless coast, the questions become ever more stark: How can ragtag bands of Somali pirates stand up to international warships? And why not just shoot the bandits when they try to clamber aboard?

First, the pirates are not as ragtag as one might expect. And second, it’s a big ocean.

In Somalia, pirates are well-funded, well-organized and have easy access to heavy weapons in a country that has been in tatters for nearly two decades. Pirates travel in open skiffs with outboard engines, working with larger ships that tow them far out to sea. They use satellite navigational and communications equipment and have an intimate knowledge of local waters, clambering aboard commercial vessels with ladders and grappling hooks.

Any blip on an unwary ship’s radar screens, alerting the crew to nearby vessels, is likely to be mistaken for fishing trawlers or any number of smaller, non-threatening ships that take to the seas every day. Here is more…