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Clashes between government forces and two rebel groups in Sudan's war-torn western region of Darfur have killed at least 21 people on the two sides, the army said on Friday.
"Soldiers travelling on the road between Nyala and El-Fasher reached an area between Menwashi and Tiknir where they were blocked by members of the Justice and
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Addis Ababa - Government troops have executed civilians and conducted ethnic cleansing in Ethiopia's Somali Region, a rebel group said on Friday.
The Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) said the bodies of a civil servant and a businessman were found dead in Kebridehar in eastern Ethiopia on January 17, a day after they and 17 other
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Maputo - Flood alert levels are on orange in parts of Mozambique as disaster management services mobilise to respond to flooding potentially as bad as the catastrophe in 2000.
Heavy downpours are steadily swelling the Southern African country’s rivers, while authorities watch rainfall and water level indicators in countries upstream.
Some people living
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Algerian pro-democracy opposition party, Rally for Culture and Democracy (RCD), said it would stage a rally in Algiers on Saturday to call for democracy, defying a government ban on such a meeting, AFP said.
Algeria: Opposition to hold street protest
Public grievances over unemployment and rising costs sparked protests in Algeria earlier this month which left five
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Sierra Leone's Armed Forces (RSLAF) confirmed they will soon deploy troops to Ivory Coast, a third country in the Mano River Union. A press release from the Joint Forces Command reads: "On the situation in Ivory Coast, the Commander of Joint Force disclosed that RSLAF is expected to deploy peacekeepers once the ECOWAS military force deployment is finalized during
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Abuja - Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan held talks Friday with the prime minister of Ivory Coast's internationally recognised government after the latest attempt to mediate the crisis in Abidjan failed.
Jonathan and Guillaume Soro, the prime minister for Ivory Coast's Alassane Ouattara, entered talks at the presidential villa in Abuja. Jonathan is the current chairman of
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Harare- Researchers say nearly one-third of Zimbabwe's 5.5 million registered voters are dead, and others appear to be up to 120 years old, well exceeding life expectancy in the southern African nation.
The independent Zimbabwe Election Support Network says the list should be overhauled before elections scheduled this year. Their report released on Friday also found
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Tunisia on Friday began national mourning for victims of the "Jasmine Revolution" -- a week after the ouster of veteran ruler Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in the Arab world's first revolt in recent history.
Flags flew at half-mast and state television broadcast prayers from the Koran for the 78 people that officials say were killed
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South Korean navy commandos stormed a ship hijacked by Somali pirates in the Indian Ocean, rescuing all the crew and killing eight pirates, according to military officials.
"Our special forces stormed the hijacked Samho Jewelry earlier today and freed all hostages," said Colonel Lee Bung-Woo, a spokesman for the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
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Africa’s football governing body, CAF has given the green light for the confederations cup game between Ashanti Gold and Sewe sports of Cote d’Ivoire.
The first leg of the game is scheduled to hold in the tension-packed Cote d’Ivoire with two governments but CAF has downplayed any claims of insecurity surrounding the game. “We wrote to
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The destitute Central African Republic votes for a new president and parliament on Sunday with peace the prize for a resource-rich country undercut by years of instability and rebellion.
Incumbent Francois Bozize is tipped to be the favourite pick of the 1.8 million eligible voters, with a rival he toppled and an ex-rebel chief among the
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Arusha - The trial of some 30 opposition members and leaders on charges of illegal assembly that was due to start here Friday has been postponed until February 22, an AFP journalist reported.
"The investigations are not yet complete," the prosecutor's representative Zacharia Elisante told the court, prompting judge Charles Magesa to push back the date
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President Goodluck Jonathan hinted yesterday that because of the problems that have bedevilled the process, government may have no option but to extend the period of voter registration. He said the government is determined to ensure that every eligible voter is registered.
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had fixed two weeks for the registration, which
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Tunis - Tunisia on Friday began national mourning for victims of the "Jasmine Revolution" that toppled veteran ruler Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, as the new government legalised banned political parties.
The three-day mourning is for the 78 people Tunisian officials say were killed when security forces tried to quell protests that started mid-December, culminating in
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TUNIS, Tunisia – For decades, Tunisians espousing political Islam were banned, jailed and forced underground by their country's autocratic regime.
Now they are seeking a place in government — raising fears that Islamic radicalism might take root in Tunisia, long seen by the West as a bulwark against terrorism.
With the promise that
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Madagascar's former president Marc Ravalomanana has lodged a complaint following a 2009 army-backed coup that brought his rival Andry Rajoelina to power, a statement said Thursday.
Ravalomanana, who lives in exile in South Africa, lodged the complaint with justice authorities in the Indian Ocean island against "the authors and accomplices of the March 2009 coup," according
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Harare - Zimbabwe's top lawyer says he may seek treason charges against former opposition politicians named in diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks.
Attorney-general Johannes Tomana has formed an unnamed five-member expert panel to assess some 3 000 Zimbabwe-related US cables for breaches of security laws.
But Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights chief Irene
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Durban - A man drowned when he jumped into a river while running from police in Pietermaritzburg on Thursday, KwaZulu-Natal police said.
“Two men were walking along the road and upon noticing the police both men began running in different directions. It is alleged that one of the men then ran towards the Msunduzi River and
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A Rwandan court on Thursday refused for the fourth time to grant bail to opposition leader Victoire Ingabire who has been in detention since her arrest in October over terrorism charges.
The High Court rejected her bail application and she will remain in custody until her next bail appeal or trial, whose date has not been
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The Sundeland backliner revealed his anxiety to work with the new Ghana coach who takes over on February 1.
“Am 100% in support of Goran and I know and believe my colleagues are also in massive support of him,” the 28-year-old stated on his website.
“Working with a new coach won’t be an
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Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi offered aid Thursday to Brazil in the wake of devastating floods in the Latin American country that have killed at least 744 people, Brazilian officials said.
"The Libyan leader called the president (Dilma Rousseff) to congratulate her on her January 1 inauguration. During the conversation, Kadhafi offered his support and whatever help
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West African armies are ready to intervene in the Ivory Coast, where Laurent Gbagbo has refused to give up the presidency, and only need the political nod to go ahead, a Nigerian general said on Thursday.
West African nations have threatened to send in troops to dislodge Gbagbo who has refused to step aside after a
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Acute malnutrition rates in Niger remain high despite a good harvest, and more international aid is needed to avoid another food crisis, the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said on Thursday.
A joint report by FAO and the World Food Programme (WFP) "urges the international community to continue to provide assistance to Niger so that
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The European Union Naval Force says that Somali pirates have seized a Vietnamese-owned bulk carrier with 24 crew onboard.
Thursday's statement says the MV Hoang Son Sun was taken approximately 836km southeast of the port of Muscat in Oman. The crew are all Vietnamese and the ship is Mongolian-flagged.
The statement says the
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JOHANNESBURG – South African police pursuing a French couple who were involved in a deadly confrontation that left a police officer dead say they believe they have found the couple's bodies.
Lt. Col. Hendrik Swarts said Thursday police found the bodies of a man and a woman near where the incident occurred. He said police could
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