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Africa has been rooting for Democrat Barack Obama from the very moment he announced he was running for U.S. president.

Now the election victory of this son of a Kenyan father is being celebrated and savored all over the continent.

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Business owners and shopkeepers are the vanguard of China's ever-expanding presence in Africa. One scholar says China is hungry for the continent's raw materials and warns that the relationship is unbalanced.

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African governments meet to stop illegal and unregulated fishing that costs the continent $1bn a year.

A small piece of jawbone unearthed in a cave in Spain is the oldest known fossil of a human ancestor in Europe and suggests that people lived on the continent much earlier than previously believed, scientists say.

An unprecedented 40,000 people will visit Antarctica this year. For many, reaching the icy continent represents a great personal achievement -- but waves of tourists could potentially do more damage there than climate change.

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Reuters - President George W. Bush said on Wednesday that the United States was not planning to build new military bases in Africa and played down the risk of rivalry with China for influence on the continent.

Reuters - President George W. Bush reassured Africa on Wednesday that the United States was not planning to build new military bases there and played down the risk of rivalry with China for influence on the continent.