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On today's Daybreak Africa, transportation and trade grinds to a halt in Guinea's capital with an opposition protest aimed at the country's military, a prominent Mozambique opposition leader in exile says he's returning home, and in Uganda, an opposition leader's trial resumes in a military court. All this and more on Daybreak Africa

African Beat showcases the latest and the greatest of contemporary African music and conversation. From Benga to Juju, Hip Life to Bongo Flava, Bubu to Soukous and more, host David Vandy has his finger on the pulse of the hottest African music and related issues today.

Fears are growing in the Maghreb countries about Syria’s release of prisoners, because some of those freed might be militants from the region who will want to return home. Ivory Coast joins a growing list of countries, including Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger, and Senegal, that have severed military ties with France, their former colonial ruler. The small island nation of the Seychelles off the east coast of Africa has become the unlikely setting of a great-power rivalry.

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