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N'DJAMENA (Reuters) - Chad's election monitoring committee sacked the head of the electoral commission, according to a letter obtained by Reuters on Thursday, amid allegations he manipulated preparations for upcoming elections.

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UNITED NATIONS/ABIDJAN (Reuters) - U.N. advisers expressed grave fears on Thursday about ethnic violence in Ivory Coast after its disputed presidential election and Abidjan's new ambassador to the United Nations warned that the West African nation was on the "brink of genocide."

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CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's military has resisted U.S. pressure to modify its strategy to counter new regional threats, stressing the country's national security was "a red line" the United States could not cross, leaked U.S. diplomatic cables showed.

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BAMAKO (Reuters) - West African cotton producer Mali has secured 103.2 billion CFA francs in loans from China to finance road, bridge and telecoms projects, the government said.

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MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Nigerian police have arrested 92 suspected members of a radical Islamist sect after a string of attacks this week in the northeast of Africa's most populous nation, a police spokesman said on Friday.

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ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria has distributed $1 billion of its windfall savings from oil revenues to three tiers of government, in addition to a usual monthly allocation, the finance ministry said on Friday.

There is $300 million left in the account, into which it saves revenues from oil sold above a benchmark price, Yabawa Wabi, minister of state for finance, told reporters.

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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Queues stretched for kilometres at immigration offices in South Africa on Friday as thousands of Zimbabweans tried to meet a year-end deadline to file papers for legalising their stay in the country.

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GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations' High Commissioner for Human Rights said on Friday she had written to Laurent Gbagbo and other senior Ivorian officials to make clear they could be held criminally accountable for human rights violations.

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ABIDJAN/LONDON (Reuters) - Ivory Coast stood hours away from missing an international debt payment on Friday, with one of the crisis-torn country's rival governments saying the cash had run out and the other offering no guarantees.

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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain said on Friday it would give support at the United Nations for the use of force to oust Ivory Coast's incumbent president Laurent Gbagbo if West African nations sought backing for a military intervention.

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DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) - Tanzanian police fired teargas and water cannon to disperse hundreds of opposition protesters marching in the commercial capital, Dar es Salaam, on Tuesday calling for a new constitution, police said.

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TUNIS (Reuters) - President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali warned on Tuesday that violent protests were unacceptable and would hit jobs and tourism after protests by graduates demanding work and what they called an end to corruption.

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At least 20 people have reportedly been killed and more than 33 others seriously injured after a heavy clash between the Government Troops and the insurgent group of Al-Shabaab has erupted in the capital of Mogadishu according to local media.

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The president of the young religious leaders of Senegal, Modou Bousso Dieng, has called on the EOWAS, African Union and the West not use military means to forcefully oust incumbent President Laurent Gbagbo from power.

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Jika Nkolokosa, one of Malawi's most prolific veteran journalists has died. He has worked for most of the country's newspapers as a reporter, editor, and a well known columnist.

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Guinea's new Prime Minister Mohamed Said Fofana has vowed to work for peace and national unity. It was reportedly his first public comments since his appointment by President Alpha Conde. Fofana said he was aware of the delicate nature of his task as Prime Minister in the West African Country, reports MISNA.

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A three-member delegation from the Economic Community of West African States [ECOWAS] are due in West African nation of Ivory Coast on Tuesday to counsel embattled president Laurent Gbagbo to cede power to his opponent Alassane Ouattara.

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Ivory Coast presidential claimant Alassane Ouattara has called for a nationwide general strike from Monday to paralyse the country until incumbent Laurent Gbagbo cedes power. The country has faced a violent political impasse since a presidential election last month, which was intended to heal the scars of a 2002-2003 civil war but has instead triggered bloodshed between the rival camps.

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Malawi's President Bingu wa Mutharika defended himself that the multi-million dollar mausoleum he unveiled last Christmas for his late wife, Ethel, was solely funded by well-wishers and not a penny from government went into the project, AfricaNews monitored the event broadcast live on state radio and television, Malawi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC).

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ALGIERS, Dec. 26 (Xinhua) -- The Algerian army ambushed militants in the coastal province of Jijel, about 360 km east of the Algerian capital of Algiers, killing at least two and wounding five others, local Ennahar newspaper reported on Sunday, citing senior sources.