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About 50 inmates Friday staged a jailbreak from Ivory Coast's main prison but about 20 were apprehended, an informed source said. Interior Minister Hamed Bakayoko deplored the "regrettable" incident, which he blamed on a surveillance breach but added no details of the raid. Locals however reported hearing sustained gunfire in the morning near the prison. Police set up roadblocks near
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Harare - Zimbabwe's longtime president said splits and greed are threatening his party ahead of elections he is pushing for this year during a spirited speech at the funeral of a party stalwart on Friday. President Robert Mugabe told mourners at the state funeral that leaders have become "too materialistic" and are fighting each other for top party posts ahead
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At least two people were killed on Friday in fierce clashes between anti-military protesters and soldiers in Cairo and nearly 300 others wounded, hospital officials and medics said. Egypt's military rulers imposed an overnight curfew around the defence ministry in central Cairo where the skirmishes occurred and the military prosecution announced that 170 people were arrested. The clashes erupted just
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Shell announced Friday a significant cut in its Nigerian oil production due to pipeline damage caused by theft, and warned that it might not meet contractual obligations as a result. "The Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Ltd (SPDC) declared force majeure on outstanding cargoes of Bonny Light with effect from noon (1100 GMT) today, 4th May 2012," a statement
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Cairo - Protesters and soldiers threw rocks at each other over a barbed wire barricade near the defence ministry in Cairo on Friday, with several protesters injured, AFP reporters said. Bleeding protesters were ferried away by motorbike by fellow demonstrators and ambulances rushed to the scene of the anti-military rally. Islamist and secular protesters had gathered in Abbassiya near the
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Pressure mounted on coup leaders in Mali and Guinea Bissau Friday after west African presidents vowed more sanctions amid fears of growing instability in the region. In Mali, junior officers who toppled the government in March are still imposing their authority despite formally giving way to a new government. Guinea-Bissau's ruling military junta, hit with EU sanctions on Thursday, has
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The army in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo said it was closing in Friday on a farm where renegade General Bosco Ntaganda, an indicted war criminal, was holed up. The Congolese armed forces (FARDC) began their move Thursday towards Mushaki, in the Masisi territory of Nord-Kivu province, where they have been fighting the mutineers led by Ntaganda since Sunday. The
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Libyan authorities on Thursday granted immunity to former rebels who fought to oust Moamer Kadhafi's regime and unveiled legislation that cracks down on the fallen strongman's supporters. "There is no punishment for acts made necessary by the February 17 revolution," read the law published on the National Transitional Council's website. The immunity covers "military, security or civilian acts undertaken by
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Nairobi - Kenyan security forces have abused ethnic Somalis in the country's northeastern region in retaliation for attacks by suspected Somali Islamist rebels, Human Rights Watch said on Friday. Since Kenya sent forces into southern Somalia in October to fight the al-Qaeda-linked Shabaab rebels, attacks have rocked the border towns of Garissa, Mandera and Wajir as well as the vast
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Prosecutors in the trial of former Liberian President Charles Taylor have said that he should be handed an 80-year sentence following his war crimes conviction in The Hague last week. In a brief, the team told the Special Court for Sierra Leone that the "extreme magnitude" of the crimes he committed warranted the long-term sentence. The 64-year old was found
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The Africa Cup of Nations champions next year will be crowned in the same calabash-inspired Johannesburg stadium as the 2010 World Cup winners, sport minister Fikile Mbalula said Friday. "We will host the opening and closing ceremonies in Johannesburg," said Mbalula, ending long speculation and dilly-dallying on the announcement of the five host cities. Other hosts are Rustenburg, Nelspruit, Port
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Khartoum - South Sudan on Friday accused Sudan of launching an air strike on one of its oil regions, imperilling the chances of a promised ceasefire between the two former civil war foes, but Khartoum denied the charge. The 1 800km-long border between the two countries had been largely quiet for the past 48 hours, raising hopes that they could
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Cairo - Egyptian activists have called for anti-military demonstrations across the country on Friday, days after bloody clashes near the defence ministry left at least nine people dead. Several pro-democracy movements, including 06 April, as well as the powerful Muslim Brotherhood said they would be joining the protests in Cairo and the Mediterranean city of Alexandria, amid a tense political
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Yatta — In the remote east Kenyan village of Makutano, Jane Mutinda Maingi is feeding maize to her Friesian dairy cow, bought just a week ago with proceeds from selling produce grown on her one-hectare plot. Despite frequent droughts in the semi-arid Yatta region, the 60-year-old mother of six has healthy maize crops on her farm, as well as vegetables
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Mogadishu — Nearly 10 mortars slammed at Somalia's presidential palace on Friday night as explosions and gunfire rocked Mogadishu in the latest outbreak of violence in chaotic Somalia, witnesses said. "I can confirm two mortars have hit near VillaSomalia," a source told Shabelle Media of the building where President Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed stays. "We do not have word yet
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Nairobi - Newly released documents show that Osama bin Laden didn't want the Somali militant group al-Shabaab to publicly announce a merger with al-Qaeda so as not to bring extra attention from "enemies." Despite that view, the two militant groups announced a merger in February. Bin Laden said in a letter to al-Shabaab leader Mukhtar Abu Zubeyr that the world
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Maiduguru — NO fewer than 56 persons were killed, Wednesday night, after gunmen set off explosives and fired on a cattle market in Potiskum, Yobe State. A nurse who received bodies in the local hospital confirmed the casuality figure which he said could be higher. Yobe State police commissioner, Mr. Moses Namiri, however, put the number of dead at 34.
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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expressed deep concern that despite the international community's calls for the restoration of civilian rule in Guinea-Bissau, the military junta there remains in power while the country's security and socio-economic situation deteriorates. "The collective hope of the international community is to see the country's swift return to constitutional normalcy and the continuation of critical reform programmes," Mr.
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Harare - Zimbabwe on Thursday threatened a crackdown on the media over what it called sensational and inaccurate reporting, following stories over the health of 88-year-old President Robert Mugabe. However critics said the warning from the country's information ministry, controlled by Mugabe's Zanu-PF party, could be an attempt to intimidate journalists ahead of elections expected next year. Senior Zanu-PF officials
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Bujumbura — Tension is mounting on Burundi's political scene. Opposition parties continue to contest results of the 2010 presidential elections and recently condemned a series of laws seen as a government control tactic. Meanwhile, civil society just wants some democracy. Burundi currently has 44 political parties for a population estimated at 8.5 million. The political parties that withdrew from the
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Sudan pledged on Thursday to cease hostilities with South Sudan in accordance with a UN Security Council resolution, hours after the South alleged fresh Sudanese bombing of its border region. While welcoming the United Nations resolution which on Wednesday gave Sudan and the South 48 hours to stop fighting, including air raids, Khartoum's foreign ministry warned it retains the right
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The chief prosecutor in the trial of Charles Taylor has suggested an 80-year sentence after the Liberian former president's conviction for war crimes, according to a document made public Thursday. The prosecutor said the term would be fair given Taylor's role in arming and aiding rebels who killed and mutilated thousands in neighbouring Sierra Leone during the 1991-2001 civil war,
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Archbishop Desmond Tutu's peace and human rights group on Thursday urged Ivory Coast to make more decisive efforts at reconciliation, more than a year after a political crisis left thousands dead. The Elders, chaired by the veteran anti-apartheid activist and made up of world figures including former US president Jimmy Carter, voiced concerns that some of those responsible for the
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Blantyre - President Joyce Banda on Thursday sacked Malawi's former first lady from a controversial job, in her latest purging of late president Bingu wa Mutharika's allies. Banda's office announced in a statement that well-known rights activist Dorothy Ngema will be the new co-ordinator for safe motherhood, removing Mutharika's widow Callista who had occupied the position for two years. The
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Tunis - A Tunisian court on Thursday slapped a small fine on the head of the Nessma television station for undermining morality by screening the film "Persepolis", which included depictions of God. Nabib Karoui broadcast the award-winning Franco-Iranian film which recounts the Iranian revolution and its aftermath through the eyes of a young girl, on 07 October last year. The
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