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Reaction: Throngs of marches gather on Times Square as they listen to a speaker. Protests spread across the country Sunday in a second day of demonstrations in the wake of the sensational not-guilty verdict for George Zimmerman

Fever pitch: Activists demand justice for Trayvon Martin after marching to Times Square from New York's Union Square July 14. The march continued uptown toward Harlem as tensions mounted and arrests began

Massive protest: In Times Square on Sunday, thousands rally in response to the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the Trayvon Martin trial

Solidarity: Protestors chanted 'Justice for Trayvon' into the night at rallies across America, including a gathering of thousands in New York City's Times Square on Sunday night

Sonia Medina, of Suwanee, Ga., holds a sign while joining a protest the day after George Zimmerman was found not guilty in the 2012 shooting death of teenager Trayvon Martin, Sunday, July 14, 2013, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Flare up: Police try to calm a screaming protestor in Manhattan. Tensions flared as a group of thousands marched toward Harlem late Sunday and arrests began before 11pm

 

United States erupts into protest over Zimmerman trial verdict

Confrontation: Police confront a crowd of demonstrators on the Interstate 10 freeway as they protest

Pinched: At least one arrest was made in the Los Angeles protests Sunday when demonstrators on foot blocked traffic on a freeway

Dangerous: Los Angeles demonstrators began to block traffic on the Interstate 10 freeway while protesting the acquittal of George Zimmerman Sunday

Halted: Traffic came to a halt Sunday evening on Los Angeles' I-10 freeway as Trayvon Martin supporters swarmed the road in protest of his killer's acquittal, stopping all traffic

Blocked: With emotions high and traffic stopped, tensions rose as protestors blocked the Los Angeles freeway

Menacing: A police officer takes a defensive, albeit threatening, stance as Trayvon Martin protestors block LA's I-10 freeway Sunday

Clash: Police and protestors meet head on as the demonstrators take to a Los Angeles freeway on foot Sunday, blocking all traffic. The I-10 freeway was cleared and reopened by 7pm

Police line up against a crowd of demonstrators on the Interstate 10 freeway

Battle-ready: Police in riot gear convene on the I-10 freeway in Los Angeles Sunday evening as one protestors is arrested

Bold: Many demonstrators in cities across the U.S. demanded 'Justice for Trayvon' as they marched through streets, squares, and in the case of Los Angeles, a major freeway

Plan: LAPD cuts off Hollywood Blvd from Orange to Highland

An LAPD vehicle and a local news van were surrounded by angry Angelenos.

Some protestors climbed atop cars. Some of the cars were even moving, carrying the demonstrators down city streets toward Hollywood, where people would later fill and block the busy Hollywood and Highland Avenue intersection.

Five hundred chanting demonstrators had gathered in one of the the marches through Los Angeles streets by 10pm. 

At New York City's Middle Collegiate Church in Manhattan, congregants wore hooded sweatshirts - as the 17-year-old Martin did the night he was shot.

Camaraderie: Trayvon Martin supporters hold a speakers legs as she addresses the formidable crowd that gathered in demonstration Sunday night in Times Square

Keeping the peace? An officer prevents a man from marching on Times Square, where thousands gathered Sunday to protest George Zimmerman's acquittal in the murder of Trayvon Martin

Massive: The crowd of pro-Trayvon Martin protestors swelled in Times Square, where they marched from Union Square on Sunday before continuing uptown

Impressive crowd: A shot from high up shows the Times Square crowds considerable size

Peaceful protest: Solange Knowles spoke out in protest over George Zimmerman's not guilty verdict at a gathering in Brooklyn, New York on Sunday

Brooklyn: Solange Knowles, held a rally for Trayvon Martin, against the Zimmerman verdict, at Brooklyn's Borough Hall, in Brooklyn, New York on Sunday as other demonstrations raged nationwide

Armed and ready: LAPD lines up with cars eager to continue their commutes at their back after protestors shut down a freeway Sunday

'I'm sure jurors did what they felt was right in accordance with the law,' said congregant Jessica Nacinovich. 'But maybe the law is wrong, maybe society is wrong. There's a lot that needs fixing.'

Reverend Jacqueline Lewis addressed Trayvon Martin and gun control as part of her sermon at Middle Collegiate Church.

"We're going to raise our voices against the root causes of this kind of tragedy,' she told the room full of hoodie-clad, emotional congregants. 'We'll aim our fight for justice against the ease with which people can get firearms in this country.'

The New York march made its way to Times Square from Union Square in Manhattan around 6pm.

Leaders yelled calls for justice into bullhorns and hundreds of fists remained raised in the air as neon advertisements backlit the fiery crowd.

Awe inspiring: A Mr. Softee Ice Cream vendor bears witness to Sunday's gathering of thousands of angry demonstrators in New York to protest George Zimmerman's acquittal Saturday

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Epicenter: A group of about 175 gathered to march to the federal courthouse in Tampa on Sunday. Protests were sparked in Florida and nationwide after George Zimmerman was acquitted in the murder of unarmed teen Trayvon Martin

Angry: Thousands of protestors march through New York City calling for justice in after Saturday's acquittal of George Zimmerman July 14

Justice: Protestors scream a call for justice in the memory of slain teen Trayvon Martin during a July 14 march from Manhattan's Union Square to Times Square

Angry: Lisa Archer, 24, of Atlanta, center, chants as protestors march, Sunday, July 14, 2013, in Atlanta the day after George Zimmerman was found not guilty in the 2012 shooting death of teenager Trayvon Martin

Taking action: People march during a demonstration at Union Square on Sunday

Nationwide: Ron Scott of the Detroit Coalition Against Police Brutality speaks at the start of the city's Sunday demonstration against the verdict in the trial of George Zimmerman

'No justice': Atlanta, Georgia also saw hundreds gather Sunday to protest the verdict in George Zimmerman's trial

Demonstrators gather at West End Park in Atlanta to protest the day after George Zimmerman was found not guilty

Prepared: Police stand at the ready as protestors demonstrating against the acquittal of George Zimmerman take to New York City streets Sunday

Incredulous: Protesters get a round of applause as they spell out their opinions with giant letters on the sidewalk across the street from the federal courthouse in Tampa July 14

Suspicious: Jebiah Jones, 3, holds a sign as her mother Keiota Jones, stands behind her during a protest in Atlanta

Hoodie: A demonstrator wears a hoodie during the Atlanta protest

Signs: A woman holds a sign during a demonstration at Union Square in New York on July 14, 2013

Chalk outline: Protestors converge on Union Square next to a chalk outline with the caption 'We are all Trayvon'

Making a stand: Chuck Helms holds a sign during a demonstration at Union Square in New York on July 14, 2013

Justice: Marchers pass a New York Police Department officer during a demonstration at Union Square

South Sudan: Upper Nile cattle battle kills scores

Cattle raids and revenge attacks in Jonglei have displaced thousands of people

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An estimated 100 people have been killed in South Sudan in the latest of a series of ethnic clashes and cattle raids, officials say.

Jonglei state Law Enforcement Minister Gabriel Duop Lam told the BBC that at least 200 people had been injured.

The BBC's James Copnall, in Khartoum, says these figures suggest the attacks were on a very large scale.

Cattle raids and revenge attacks have killed thousands of people in South Sudan since independence in 2011.

Our reporter says the fighting involved rival groups from Jonglei state, who clashed over the border in Upper Nile state.

Young men from the Murle ethnic group stormed several cattle camps on Friday, the local authorities said.

Thousands of cattle are also reported to have been stolen in the raids, which targeted eight areas north of the town of Akobo.

Jonglei state governor Kuol Manyang told the BBC that 100 people had been killed.

In January, hundreds of Murle were killed in Jonglei by a force of about 6,000 fighters, mainly from the rival Lou Nuer ethnic group.

Thousands of Murle fled their homes as a result of the attacks, which came in response to a massacre that left at least 600 people dead in August 2011.

The Murle and the Lou Nuer have a long history of stealing each other's cattle, often prompting a spiral of violence.

South Sudan's armed forces and the UN peacekeeping mission said they would send more troops to Jonglei state in response to those attacks.

The latest violence comes as the authorities prepare to launch a disarmament campaign in Jonglei state.

Some 12,000 soldiers and police are deploying to collect an estimated 30,000 weapons from Jonglei civilians.

The UN says some 350,000 people were displaced because of intercommunal violence in South Sudan last year.

South Sudan is one of the world's poorest regions and has hardly any roads, railways, schools or clinics as a result of two decades of conflict leading up to independence from Sudan in July 

BREAKING NEWS kenya atack

'Four killed' as explosions hit Kenya bus terminal

Passersby helped carry the wounded to ambulances outside

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At least four people have been killed and dozens of others injured after a grenade attack on a bus terminal in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, officials say.

Witnesses say three grenades were hurled from a vehicle passing the bus station in central Nairobi.

Police blamed the attack on militants of the Somali Islamist group al-Shabab.

The incident is similar to attacks last October when one person was killed and many injured after grenades were thrown into a bar and a bus station.

That attack happened just days after the Kenyan military had crossed into Somalia to fight the Somali militants and was also blamed on al-Shabab.

"This is a cowardly act by al-Shabab elements," police spokesman Charles Owino is quoted by the AFP news agency as saying at the bus station. "But we will not relent in the war. We will get them and we will continue with the war."

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However, no group has said it carried out the attack.

There has been a string of small arms attacks and explosions on Kenyan soil ever since Kenyan troops crossed the border. Kenyan soldiers fighting al-Shabab in Somalia are due to be integrated into the African Union peacekeeping force next week.

The group has threatened to attack Kenya on several occasions. Police there recently arrested several people over an alleged plot to blow up a hotel on the Kenyan coast.

After Saturday's explosions, a fire blazed in a small crater at the Machakos bus station and bystanders helped carry the wounded to ambulances, Reuters news agency reports.

One witness said that the grenades were thrown from a passing vehicle.

"I survived because I was in a bus that was still loading people," Charles 

La Fédération sénégalaise de football remercie Amara Traoré

Amara Traoré limogé de son poste de sélectionneur du Sénégal après une Can 2012 désastreuse.

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Amara Traoré a été débarqué ce mardi 7 février de son poste de sélectionneur du Sénégal. Cette décision du Comité exécutif de la Fédération sénégalaise de football fait suite au parcours catastrophique des Lions de la Teranga lors de la CAN 2012. Annoncés comme des favoris en puissance, les coéquipiers de Mamadou Niang sont sortis la tête basse de leur compétition en perdant tous leurs matches.

« L’échec est sportif et la responsabilité de l’entraîneur n’est pas contestable ». C’est en ces termes que la Fédération sénégalaise de football (FSF) a annoncé ce mardi les raisons du limogeage d’Amara traoré de son poste de sélectionneur des Lions de la Teranga.

Ce renvoi fait suite au parcours calamiteux des coéquipiers de Mamadou Niang, trois matches pour trois défaites, lors de la CAN 2012. Le président de la FSF a justifié ce choix en précisant qu’il « fallait situer les responsabilités dans leur ensemble. C'est un échec qui interpelle et le Comité exécutif a décidé de mettre fin à la collaboration avec l’entraîneur et ses collaborateurs ».

Nommé le 15 décembre 2009,  Amara Traoré avait pourtant bien rempli les objectifs que la Fédération sénégalaise lui avait assigné en qualifiant son équipe pour la CAN 2012. Le brillant parcours des Lions, cinq victoires et un nul pour seize buts concrétisés lors des éliminatoires, avait marqué les observateurs qui plaçaient le Sénégal parmi les sérieux outsiders au sacre final. Il avait aussi aiguisé les appétits des membres de la FSF qui avaient fixé contractuellement, lors du renouvellement du contrat de son sélectionneur, les demi-finales comme objectifs. Mais le terrain d'une phase finale livre parfois une vérité différente de celle des éliminatoires, et les Sénégalais en ont fait l'amer expérience.

Ce limogeage intervient aussi dans un contexte politique des plus tendus, avec la future élection présidentielle, et une jeunesse sénégalaise qui espérait beaucoup de joueurs qui brillent dans les championnats européens.

Pour assurer l’intérim, les membres du Comité exécutif se sont tournés vers les entraîneurs de la sélection olympique, Karim Séga et Aliou Cissé. Ces derniers seront sur le banc pour le match amical face à l’Afrique du Sud le 29 février prochain.