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africanews

Ghana and Sunderland defender John Mensah is rooting for England to win the bid for the 2018 World Cup. The Sunderland defender told Safc.com England is the ideal place to stage the global football showpiece.

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africanews

Sierra Leone has expressed surprise at the sudden closure of its border with its fellow West African country Guinea over the weekend.

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africanews

Two people were killed during Ivory Coast second round presidential run-off held on Sunday, bringing the number of deaths in the days leading to the polls to six, after three opposition rioters lost their lives on Saturday in Abidjan and one pro-incumbent president militant was reported killed in the hinterland.

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africanews

Four Algerian Christians have been taken to court and risk one year in jail each for opening a place of worship without permission, AFP said on Sunday.

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africanews

Sudan is boycotting African-European summit that begins in Libya on Monday in protest at EU pressure on President Omar Hassan Al-Bashir not to attend, foreign ministry said. "Mr Bashir will not attend the summit and Sudan pulling out of at any level," said Sudanese foreign Minister Ali Ahmad Kari.

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africanews

Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni was on a brief visit to Somalia on Sunday where thousands of his forces are participating in African Union peacekeeping mission in the capital Mogadishu.

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africanews

A new governor was installed amidst cheers from a mammoth crowd in Osun State, south west Nigeria after an appeal court ruled that the sitting governor gathered less votes compared to his main challenger in the 2007 election.

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Nation

Nairobi — Prime Minister Raila Odinga on Sunday ordered for the arrest of gay couples.

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africanews

Abuja — Following the resurgence of militancy in the Niger Delta region and the successes recorded so far in the on-going rehabilitation and the reintegration of former Niger Delta militants, Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta, Mr. Timi Alaibe said that President Goodluck Jonathan has moved to finally consolidate peace in the oil-rich Niger Delta.

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BuaNews

Pretoria — Zimbabwe's top leaders are said to have acknowledged the need to work together to resolve disputes in that country's power-sharing government.

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Sudan Tribune

The Sudanese government on Sunday issued a strongly worded statement after president Omer Hassan Al-Bashir was forced to cancel his attendance at the 3rd Africa-European Union (EU) summit that starts Monday in the Libyan capital.

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africanews

World Soccer governing body FIFA have told the petitioners of the Kalusha Bwalya executive to wait for the elections in 2012 if they want change of administration. The news surfaced at FA emergency council meeting in the central part of the country through FIFA manager of associations Primo Corvaro.

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africanews

The amount of water available per person in Africa is declining and only 26 of the continent's 53 countries are currently on track to reduce by half the number of people without sustainable access to clean drinking water by 2015, according to a survey by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).

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africanews

A new report by a coalition of European and African economic and political think-tanks shows that the return to war in Sudan would entail costs in excess of US$100 billion. The 35-page report also recognises the difficulties in measuring the costs of potential future conflict.

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reuters

HARARE (Reuters) - South African President Jacob Zuma on Friday said he had persuaded Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai to start talking again to address the rifts in their power-sharing government.

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reuters

PORTLAND, Oregon (Reuters) - A Somali-born teenager was arrested on Friday for attempting to detonate what he thought was a car bomb at a Christmas Tree lighting ceremony in Oregon, officials said.

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HRW

Moroccan security forces repeatedly beat and abused people they detained following disturbances on November 8, 2010, in the Western Sahara capital city of El-Ayoun, Human Rights Watch said today. Security forces also directly attacked civilians, a Human Rights Watch investigation showed. The Moroccan authorities should immediately end the abuse of detainees, and carry out an independent investigation into the abuse, Human Rights Watch said.

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reuters

LAGOS (Reuters) - Nigeria's anti-corruption police have raided the offices of U.S. firm Halliburton and arrested 12 people in a bribery case involving former Halliburton unit KBR Inc, a spokesman said on Saturday.

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RFI

The president of Cote d'Ivoire, Laurent Gbagbo, imposed a curfew on the country, starting Saturday. His opponent, former Prime Minister Alassane Ouattara, has denounced the curfew as unconstitutional. The curfew is being imposed the night before the second round of the presidential election, whose campaign has already been violent.

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africanews

Egypt is on high security alert on the eve of a parliamentary election scheduled for November 28, after activists clashed with police at the end of a tense campaign.