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africanews

US President Barrack Obama joined other world leaders to congratulate the controversial winner of Ivory Coast's presidential election and called on incumbent Laurent Gbagbo to accept defeat. The electoral body declared Alassane Ouattara winner with 54.1 percent of votes, but the announcement was overturned by the country's Constitutional Council.

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reuters

WARRI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Several civilians have been killed and scores displaced during raids by the Nigerian military against armed gangs in the creeks of the oil-producing Niger Delta, local residents said on Friday.

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reuters

CAIRO (Reuters) - A reshuffle of Egypt's cabinet could soon take place but Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif is likely to stay in place, a state news website quoted sources as saying on Friday.

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reuters

ABIDJAN (Reuters) - The United Nations mission in Ivory Coast refused on Friday to approve Laurent Gbagbo's re-election as president on Friday, saying the true results showed his rival Alassane Ouattara was the victor.

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africanews

ABIDJAN (Reuters) - The United Nations mission in Ivory Coast refused on Friday to approve Laurent Gbagbo's re-election as president on Friday, saying the true results showed his rival Alassane Ouattara was the victor.

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Financial Gazette

PRESSURE is being brought to bear on Zimbabwe's top leadership to reconsider the decision to go to the polls next year in order to give the country's economy sufficient time to recuperate after a decade of a record-breaking recession while at the same time nursing the polarisation dividing its people in what has rendered the 2011 plebiscite doubtful.

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IRIN

People across Abidjan shuttered shops and offices and rushed home fearing violence after the Constitutional Council on 3 December declared Laurent Gbagbo winner of Côte d'Ivoire's presidential election - nullifying provisional results released by the Independent Electoral Commission (CEI) the previous day.

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RFI

Guinea's Supreme Court has declared Alpha Condé president, confirming results in the country's first free vote since independence after a two-week wait.

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allAfrica.com

Cote d'Ivoire's Constitutional Council has overturned poll results announced by the nation's electoral commission and declared President Laurent Gbagbo the winner Sunday's election, reports said.

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africanews

An explosive device hurled into a police van in Kenya killed one officer in what a police commander said appeared to be a terrorist attack.

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africanews

About 5,319 HIV/AIDS cases were reported in Morocco at the end of September, with young women aged 15-24 making up 62 per cent of cases.

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africanews

The military in the Ivory Coast closed that country's borders with its neighbours and blocked foreign media as tensions rise over the outcome of the presidential election run-off. "The air, land and sea border of the country are closed to all movement of people and goods," Ivorian military spokesman Babri Gohourou said.

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africanews

Human rights activists have been called upon to investigate the high death rate of babies in communities resettled by Zimbabwe's government after a widely condemned slum clearance drive.

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africanews

Guinea's Supreme Court confirmed early Friday the election victory of long time opposition leader Alpha Conde. Mr Conde had won 52.52 percent of votes as against rival Cellou Dalein Diallo's 47.48 percent in the last election run-off.

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africanews

Nigeria's Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) said on Thursday it would file charges against former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney in a $180 million bribery case. The case involves KBR which is a former unit of oil services firm Halliburton.

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africanews

The AU peacekeeping force in Mogadishu and its ally, Somali government troops, have successfully extended their positions to the North East of the Presidential villa in Somalia in the districts of Shibis and Boondere, witnesses and AU officials said.

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africanews

Ghanaian agricultural researchers are not enthused at the high concentration in increasing crop production to the neglect of animal production.

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RFI

Egypt's main opposition party, the Muslim Brotherhood, said on Monday that it had lost most of its seats in parliament in an election it charged had been "rigged and invalid".

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allAfrica.com

A confidential 2007 diplomatic cable from the outgoing American ambassador to Zimbabwe, Christopher Dell, is among the U.S. State Department documents released online by the website WikiLeaks on Sunday.

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allAfrica.com

A secret diplomatic cable sent to American diplomatic missions in the name of Secretary of State Hilary Clinton last April sought personal details – including fingerprints, DNA and iris scans – of leaders in the Great Lakes region, including political, military, business and religious figures.