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Al Jazeera says journalist and team detained in Somalia   The detentions come less than a week after the offices of a Somali newspaper were raided and its editor held for three days.

Burundi: Pierre Nkurunziza signs law withdrawing country's ICC membership   Burundi will the first country in history to International Criminal Court.

Former Congolese VP Bemba convicted of witness tampering at war crimes court   The ICC said that 14 key witnesses had been coached about what to say and that Bemba and four other defendants had conspired to present false evidence

#HowTheyRobbedUs: Hashtag reveals the story of Zimbabwe's pain over the last 15 years   Fed-up Zimbabweans have taken to Twitter to tweet their examples of #HowTheyRobbedUs.

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