20110104
reuters

The H1N1 infection toll in Egypt has risen to 2172 following a resurgent of the flu virus which infected some 838 people in the last week of 2010, Egypt's MENA news agency said on Monday.

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reuters

President Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria has vowed to make sure that the perpetrators of the bomb blasts in Jos and Abuja on the eves of Chirstmas and New Year were apprehended and brought to justice.

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reuters

BEIJING (Reuters) - China will send observers to Sudan when the south holds an independence referendum on January 9, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday.

20110104
reuters

NAIROBI (Reuters) - A Kenyan government minister pleaded not guilty to a dozen counts of abuse of office on Tuesday, hours after resigning to allow for an investigation into a scam involving imports of untaxed vehicles.

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reuters

JUBA, Sudan (Reuters) - Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir made his final trip to the southern capital Juba on Tuesday before a January 9 vote on secession, offering a hand of peace to the southerners he fought for so long.

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reuters

ABUJA (Reuters) - Ivory Coast's Laurent Gbagbo has agreed to further talks over a bitter election dispute and has promised to lift a blockade around the temporary headquarters of rival Alassane Ouattara, regional bloc ECOWAS said on Tuesday.

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PressTV

A group of Iranian students have gathered in front of Egypt's Interests Section in Tehran to protest Cairo's continued policy on preventing Iranian activists from reaching the Gaza Strip.

20110102
Sudan Tribune

Juba — Jimmy Carter, the ex-American president and Koffi Annan, former UN Secretary General are due to lead the Cater Center's international observation delegation set for the 9 January self-determination referendum in southern Sudan.

20110104
reuters

ABIDJAN (Reuters) - African leaders ended meetings in Ivory Coast on Monday without persuading Laurent Gbagbo to cede power to his rival Alassane Ouattara, but the talks will go on, one of the envoys said.

20110104
reuters

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt is screening people who arrived recently from countries where al-Qaeda is known to recruit after early findings suggested the militant network was behind a New Year's church bombing, security sources said.

20110104
reuters

ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan announced a series of anti-terrorism initiatives on Monday as he looks to regain control after a wave of attacks in the last week of 2010 rocked Africa's most populous nation.

20110102
reuters

ADEN (Reuters) - More than 40 African migrants trying to reach Yemen by boat have drowned in heavy seas off the coast and a second boat with up to 40 Ethiopians aboard is missing, Yemeni and U.N. officials said on Monday.

20110104
reuters

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya's Industrialisation Minister Henry Kosgey resigned on Tuesday, a day after the east African nation's anti-corruption body said he should be arrested for abuse of office, his lawyer said.

20110104
reuters

JUBA, Sudan (Reuters) - Almost 4 million southern Sudanese, or roughly half the south's population, have registered to take part in an independence referendum next week that is likely to split Africa's largest country in two, officials said on Monday.

20110103
reuters

LONDON (Reuters) - Crisis-torn Ivory Coast has missed a coupon payment on its $2.3 billion Eurobond that was due on Friday, but a month grace period means it is not yet in default, the London Club of commercial creditors said on Monday.

20110102
africanews

Nigeria's U20 team the Flying Eagles are scheduled to begin camping from January 8 to prepare adequately for the upcoming CAF U20 Championships taking place in Libya in March. CAF will hold draws for the tournament on Tuesday January 4 in Tripoli.

20110102
africanews

Turkish petroleum company TPOC has discovered oil at a well on a Libyan concession it operates, Libya's state oil company NOC said.

20110103
africanews

An Egyptian policeman was gunned down by human traffickers on the Egyptian-Israeli borders. Rami Ahmed Abdel-Latif was shot in the head when he tried to prevent a group of human traffickers from smuggling a number of Africans into Israel at the southern Rafah land port, an Egyptian security said.

20110103
africanews

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is to pay an official visit to Tunisia on Monday at the invitation of his Tunisian counterpart, Yemen News Agency (SABA) said on Sunday.

20110103
africanews

The United Nations peacekeepers in Ivory Coast have been instructed to do all they can to investigate sites of alleged human rights violations, following November's disputed election. The UN says it had tried to go to the site of one reported mass grave, but was blocked by security forces loyal to incumbent President Laurent Gbagbo.