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Mali's interim leader Dioncounda Traore will hold talks with Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara Wednesday, as a post-coup political crisis drags on in his country, officials said. "The president will go to Abidjan this afternoon for consultations," said a source from Traore's communication team. The Ivorian presidency said the two leaders would meet at 1700 GMT. Ouattara is the current
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The UN powers on Tuesday expressed concern that Somalia's transitional administration is behind on a timetable to set up a permanent government by August. The United States, Britain, France and Germany all warned Somalia's president at a Security Council meeting that international support was conditional on reaching key political targets. With Somali and African forces claiming decisive victories over Islamic
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Cairo - The face of Hosni Mubarak's last prime minister beams down from huge billboards on major highways promising "Egypt for everyone", but Ahmed Shafiq is polarising voters ahead of next week's presidential poll. For some, his government experience and background as a former air force commander promise an end to the turbulence since Mubarak was ousted more than 15
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Rwandan legislature recently approved a bill legalising abortion in cases of rape, forced marriage or incest. The government hails the move as the promotion of women's rights. Churches see it as a violation of the fundamental right to life. Abortion remains a sensitive issue in a country still recovering from the 1994 genocide. Some Rwandan women would like abortion to
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A woman has died after a grenade attack in Mombasa, police told AFP on Wednesday - a day after armed men attacked a restaurant in the Kenyan port city. The BBC, which reported that the venue was a popular club for foreigners and Kenyans, said five people were injured when the attackers, who had been denied entry into the club,
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Algiers - Algeria's constitutional council on Tuesday released the definitive results of last week's legislative polls, which saw the former single party tighten its grip on power and the Islamists lose ground. President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's National Liberation Front took 221 of the enlarged national assembly's 462 seats, according to results slightly adjusted from the preliminary figures published on Friday. Prime
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A woman has died a day after armed men opened fire and threw explosives into a restaurant in the Kenyan port city of Mombasa, police said Wednesday. "We lost one of the victims, a lady who was a security guard at the club, she died in hospital," regional police chief Aggrey Adoli told AFP. Three others wounded in the attack
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Algiers - Algeria's legislative election saw women take almost a third of the seats, making the national assembly the most gender-balanced in the region but activists say the battle is far from being won. According to a provisional count, at least 145 of the new, enlarged national assembly's 462 seats will be occupied by women, up from a representation of
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The Hague - Sierra Leone's UN-backed war crimes court will hear arguments on Wednesday on the sentencing of Liberian warlord Charles Taylor, who has been convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity. Prosecutors before the Special Court for Sierra Leone are to say why they think Taylor, 64, should receive an 80-year term in a British jail, while his
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Tens of thousands of people on Tuesday filled a Dakar stadium to pay homage to Senegalese football icon Jules-Francois Bocande who died in France on May 7. Senegalese President Macky Sall was due to speak at the ceremony, along with government ministers and sports authorities. Bocande's coffin stood draped with the national flag as a choir sang and people gave
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Zambian President Michael Sata on Tuesday appointed a judge from neighbouring Malawi to probe three judges he claims acted unprofessionally in a $2.7 million loan extended to a local airline. Sata hired a foreign judge to chair a special tribunal to investigate three local high court judges over alleged misconduct in a ruling on a loan from a government bank
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Luanda - More than 40 Angolan opposition supporters were killed and six injured in a road crash as they returned from a party meeting, police said on Tuesday. "The accident happened late on Sunday afternoon in Menga, a community in Kwanza Sul province, and killed 42 people and injured six," said provincial police commander Cabinda Daniel. The Unita opposition said
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Kano - One hundred couples tied the knot at a mass wedding at the main mosque in Nigeria's second-largest city on Tuesday, part of an Islamic police programme aimed at promoting stable families. Hundreds of residents in the city of Kano, the largest in Nigeria's mainly Muslim north, thronged outside the central mosque for the wedding of divorcees and widows
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Nairobi - Sub-Saharan African nations will not be able to sustain their accelerated economic growth unless they eliminate hunger, the UN said in a report on Tuesday. Many sub-Saharan economies are growing fast but the growth rates have not translated into significant hunger reduction, said UNDP Administrator Helen Clark. Sub-Saharan Africa's growth, this year expected to be more than 5%,
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The capture of one of the Lord Resistance Army's top commanders is a major blow for the rebel group and will provide a boost for those hunting its leader Joseph Kony, analysts say. Caesar Acellam, the most senior LRA leader ever captured, surrendered after a brief clash with Ugandan soldiers in the Central African Republic who had spent around three
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Manzini - Swazi police fired tear gas as they waged running battles with bus drivers Tuesday in the kingdom's commercial centre Manzini, in the latest show of public anger at Africa's last absolute monarch. Violence erupted as police tried to force bus drivers to move from the main Manzini station to a new satellite hub outside the city. Drivers returned
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The United Nations Development Programme's Africa Human Development Report 2012 released today said the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has the potential to become sub-Saharan Africa's breadbasket, yet it has the highest estimated prevalence of malnutrition in the world. Nearly 70 percent of the country's 68 million people are classified as under-nourished by the United Nation, and 38 percent of
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Bamako - Two envoys from West African regional bloc Ecowas were to return to Mali on Tuesday, days after leaving the country following the breakdown of talks with coup leaders. Djibril Bassole, Burkina Faso's foreign minister, and Adama Bictogo, Ivory Coast's minister for African integration, were scheduled to fly to Bamako on Tuesday in order to revive talks with junta
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South African police fired teargas during clashes Tuesday between the opposition Democratic Alliance and the most powerful trade union in Johannesburg, an AFP photographer said. Marchers of the DA, angered by youth unemployment over 50 percent, threw stones and bricks, wounding bystanders and damaging cars, as hundreds of them marched on the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) head
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Blantyre - Malawi's devaluation of its currency by a third against the dollar provoked a strike over wages at the country's largest mine, condemned by the Australian firm's management on Tuesday. Mining company Paladin's uranium mine was operating at 65% capacity after a "small militant core" of the estimated 1 000 workers downed tools illegally, the company said in a
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Murders on the rise as gangs terrorise Kampala, Kiira, Mukono Annet Kayondo died in the most brutal way a young woman could die. It is believed she was on her way to work at 6am on April 3 when her attacker or attackers pounced on her in Kigandazi Zone in Bweyogerere, a busy suburb of Kampala city. Kayondo was attacked
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Displaced families have begun to return to their homes in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo during a lull in fighting between the army and mutineers, a local civilian leader said Tuesday. "The situation is relatively calm" around Rutshuru on the border with Rwanda and Uganda in the wake of heavy fighting on Sunday, he told AFP. "Since Monday, the number
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A Zimbabwean human rights group has threatened South Africa's chief crime fighting unit with international legal action, over on ongoing probe into the illegal renditions of Zimbabwean citizens from South Africa. Several senior officials in the Hawks criminal unit and the South African police were last year accused of conducting the renditions, in partnership with Zimbabwean police. This has reportedly
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European Union military forces carried out an air raid on what they called "pirate equipment" on the coast of Somalia on Tuesday. It is the first time the European Union Naval Force (EU Navfor), deployed off the country's coastline to fight piracy, has carried out a raid on Somali soil. Until now it has acted against pirates at sea, mostly
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Khartoum - An Indian special envoy headed to South Sudan on Tuesday after holding talks in Khartoum following a UN Security Council resolution that seeks to end border fighting between Sudan and the South. India is a non-permanent member of the Security Council which passed the 02 May resolution that also aims to resolve a series of protracted disputes over
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