Gabriela Barnuevo
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Ghanaians went to the polls to choose between four candidates, including President John Dramani Mahama, who inherited the top post in July after President John Atta Mills, who died in office.
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A six-storey shopping center in Ghana's capital city of Accra collapsed leaving at least four dead and dozens trapped in the rubble. Family members joined rescue services in a desperate search for relatives.
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Strike held in the basque country. Thousands of people demonstrate in Bilbao, Spain the day of a general strike, one month before the province's elections.
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Senegal's opposition group M23 organized a peaceful protest calling for Senegalese to join in prayer in downtown Dakar. The group prays for peace and the ones who died during the violent protests in the past weeks. 3rd February 2012
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Protesters opposed to President Abdoulaye Wade running for a third term, light street fires in Dakar. Police opened fire with tear gas on demonstrators and left at least one person dead in Senegal's capital. Senegal. 31st January 2012.
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The Senegalese Constitutional Court rejects music icon Youssou N'dour's appeal, invalidating his presidential candidacy, declaring 4,000 out of 12,000 signatures invalid, with 10,000 required. Dakar, Senegal. 28th January, 2012
