#SpyCables: African Union Chief assassination plot

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Documents show South African and Ethiopian agencies in crisis, suspected Sudan, amid reported 2012 plot to kill AU chief, reports by Al Jazeera


Secret intelligence documents leaked to Al Jazeera's Investigative Unit reveal that spies in Addis Ababa were alerted to a plot by "an unnamed state" to kill a top African Union diplomat.

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