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Juba — Hundred of citizens from the contested region of Abyei demonstrated across South Sudan and in the United States on Monday, according to an official from the area, in protest at the failure of the Sudanese government to withdraw troops from the area. A resolution from the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on May 2, as per a roadmap
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Cairo — Proposed plans to change the interim constitution before Egypt's landmark presidential election have made some candidates nervous - enough to break the 48 hour campaign silence rule. Egypt's military council will make changes to the Constitutional Declaration in order to define the role of the president, according to reports. "These changes that the army wants to make to
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One person was killed when a car exploded on Sudan's Red Sea coast on Tuesday, state media reported, about a year after Sudan blamed Israel for an air strike in the same region. There was no immediate word on the cause of the blast, which witnesses said left two holes in the road. "A car exploded inside Port Sudan and
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Uganda's top prosecutor said Tuesday that any case against a captured Lord's Resistance Army commander would proceed on merit, amid concern he could be offered amnesty for information on LRA leader Joseph Kony. In a rare statement sent to journalists, Chief of Public Prosecutions Richard Buteera said that Ceasar Acellam "will be investigated and the prosecution of the case will
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Mali's one-year transition back to democratic rule got off to a shaky start on Tuesday amid fears that the process may be derailed after president Dioncounda Traore was attacked by angry protesters. The 15-nation Economic Community of West African States mediators of the transition deal threatened sanctions against those responsible for the attack, which they said cast a shadow over
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When Joyce Banda was sworn in as president on 7th April, following the death of President Bingu wa Mutharika, she was faced with an uphill struggle. Her constitutionally-ordained succession had been briefly resisted by several members of Mutharika's cabinet and she had to establish her authority and move quickly to put right policies that had moved the country back towards
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A South African court Tuesday found one of two black farmworkers accused over the 2010 death of white supremacist leader Eugene Terre'Blanche guilty of murder. "After all the evidence given, I conclude that accused number one (Chris Mahlangu) is guilty as charged," said Judge John Horn. Co-accused Patrick Ndlovu was found guilty of house breaking. Ndlovu's identity was kept secret
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For weeks now, the Boko Haram sect spreads panic at the border between Nigeria and Cameroon. The latest attack left at least twelve persons injured. Residents on both sides of the border are traumatised. On the attack site, charred motorbikes are still visible a few weeks after the attack. "Over twenty bikes were destroyed," said a religious leader in Banki.
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Bamako - The 15-state West African bloc Ecowas warned on Tuesday it would punish those responsible for orchestrating violence after hundreds of protesters stormed Mali's presidential palace and beat up interim leader Dioncounda Traore. Monday's attack on Traore was the latest setback for efforts to stabilise Mali after a March 22 coup and a subsequent rebellion by northern separatists and
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Egypt's premier Kamal al-Ganzuri on Tuesday urged for calm during the country's first presidential election since a popular uprising, calling on political forces to accept the results of the historic vote. Ganzuri called on Egyptians to "stand together to ensure the success of the electoral process and to accept the decision of the majority of Egyptians who will express their
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ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — A man tried to smuggle grenades and rifle ammunition into Nigeria's Information Ministry where ministers were attending a news conference Monday, witnesses and authorities said. The man apparently made it past the gate of the Radio House compound in Nigeria's capital Abuja, heading toward where the ministers were meeting before being stopped. Footage aired on the
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Khartoum - One person was killed when a car exploded in the Sudanese city of Port Sudan, state news agency SUNA said on Tuesday. It gave no reason for the explosion at the Red Sea port. SUNA showed a picture of the damaged front of the car. Government officials contacted by Reuters declined to comment, saying the incident was under
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Cairo — As Egyptians prepare to elect their country's first president since the uprising that toppled dictator Hosni Mubarak, the military junta that has ruled for the last 15 months has shown little sign it is prepared to accept civilian oversight. "Dismantling the military's hold on the state is a process that will take years," says Robert Springborg, professor of
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Libya's former prime minister Baghdadi al-Mahmudi has begun a hunger strike to resist his possible extradition from Tunisia for fear of being executed in his home country, his lawyer said on Monday. The action, which began on Saturday, comes after Tunisian Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali said he did not want Tunisia to be a "refuge for those who threaten the
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The transitional president of Mali has been admitted to hospital after protesters reportedly burst into his office and beat him. According to BBC, Traore was unconscious when he arrived at hospital. AFP reports that hundreds of demonstrators stormed the headquarters of the general secretariat next to the presidential palace because they were angry at his appointment. The army told BBC
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A Nigerian man said Monday that he helped carry out deadly attacks on April 29 at a university church service and admitted belonging to Islamist group Boko Haram in his confession to police. Police in the northern state of Kano presented Augustine Effiong to journalists Monday following his arrest on Friday for attempted murder. According to a police statement, the
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Lesotho has seen political violence flare ahead of May 26 elections, with the opposition claiming that dirty tricks have undercut their turnouts. Fifteen political parties and several independent candidates will fight for the country's 120 parliamentary seats, although the main battle will be between Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili's newly formed ruling Democratic Congress and his former party, the Lesotho Congress
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BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Demonstrators forced their way into the office of Mali's interim president on Monday and attacked the elderly leader, who was later brought to a local hospital unconscious, a witness and one of the president's collaborators said. Dioncounda Traore was brought into the Point G Hospital with an injury to the head, said Sekou Yattara, a medical
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Nouakchott - Mauritanian authorities have charged Abdullah al-Senussi, Muammar Gaddafi's intelligence chief, with attempting to enter the country on forged documents, a judicial source told dpa on Monday. Al-Senussi, who appeared on Sunday in a Nouakchott court amid heavy security, was remanded to the city's central prison on Monday, the source said. The long-time spy chief disappeared from Libya after
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Classrooms have been burnt, reduced to piles of broken glass and shards of cement, but children and teachers remain, squeezing into the part of the building still standing for lessons. "We thought of closing, but there are parents who are still insisting that they must come and learn," said an English teacher at the school, one of several burnt by
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Harare - Zimbabwe's justice minister said on Monday that reports of torture and violence against political activists were "lies", during a visit by UN rights chief Navi Pillay. "There is no state-sponsored violence, these are all lies. We told her that there are no torture chambers in Zimbabwe," Patrick Chinamasa said after an hour-long meeting with the UN's High Commissioner
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Malabo — The government of Equatorial Guinea's Prime Minister Ignacio Milam Tang resigned in line with a constitutional reform approved in November, the country's communications minister said on Friday. "The government will present its letter of resignation to Equatorial Guinea President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo today (Friday) so he can form a new government according to the law," said Communications
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Mogadishu — Multiple explosions in Mogadishu's busy Bakara market and another blast in east Mogadishu killed 8 and injured more than 15 on Saturday, Radio Garowe reports. There were two blasts in Mogadishu's busy Bakara market - one of the biggest and busiest in east Africa - was timed when AMISOM and Transitional Federal Government (TFG) troops were dismantling shops
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Four Kenyan soldiers were wounded Monday when a landmine exploded beneath their vehicle in the northeastern Mandera region bordering war-torn Somalia, police said. "Officers have been injured, we have sent a team to investigate," regional police chief Leo Nyongesa said. "Four officers have been injured, the tanker passed over a landmine," said a police official who was not authorised to
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Cairo - They came out in droves united in their desire to overthrow Hosni Mubarak, but on the eve of Egypt's landmark presidential election, the youth that spearheaded that revolt are divided over how to keep it alive. After a tumultuous, sometimes bloody, transition following the strongman's fall, activists say they are tired of the constant struggle with those left
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