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The BBC's Soutik Biswas asks why malnutrition is not a key issue with politicians as the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh goes to the polls.
Nick Bryant explores US President-elect Barack Obama's path to the White House.
South Sudan's government expresses outrage after police arrest more than 30 women for wearing tight trousers.
Pictures of ancient techniques for casting brass still being used in a Nigerian street-side forge.
The BBC's Soutik Biswas visits the area in the eastern Indian state of Orissa at the centre of the latest anti-Christian riots.
DR Congo is to investigate the deaths of 13 people in a stampede at a football game following claims of witchcraft.
A unique traditional festival in Nigeria is under threat from commercial interests, cultural guardians say.
The editor of one of two banned Sudanese newspapers says he will continue to publish.
Why reforming the economics of food production and supply would be beneficial for a number of environmental and social ills.
Damian Grammaticas reports on the confrontation in the Indian state of Orissa between local tribes and the Vedanta Resources mining company.
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Japan finally recognises its Ainu as an indigenous people, writes the BBC's Philippa Fogarty.
Rival troops from north and south are converging on central Sudan, a UN official tells the BBC.
The head of Nigeria's Anglican Church tells polygamous Christian converts to give up their extra wives.
After several delays, Sudan starts its first census since the end of the war in the south - a key stepping stone on the road to future elections.
Sudan's new government will divide its time between Khartoum and the small town of Juba in the south.
The leader of South Sudan's former rebels accuses President Omar al-Bashir of "mobilising for war".
South Sudan's leader has met the president to seek to resolve a crisis threatening to tear the country apart.
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