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A Nigerian who serves as a FIFA executive committee member Amos Adamu and his other colleague are being investigated for offering to sell their votes in the contest to host the 2018 World Cup. President of the Oceania Football Confederation Reynald Temarii was also caught in the undercover report demanding payment.

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The United Nations have come under fire in Sudan following moves to set up buffer zones along the country's north-south border ahead of the political referendum. The Sudanese army has called the plan a sign of either ignorance or interference.

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Campaigns for the presidential election in Ivory Coast kicked off officially on Friday October 15, which will last for two weeks before Election Day of October 31.

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The former number two of Niger's ruling military regime, Colonel Abdoulaye Badie, and another officer are reportedly being held after they plot to destabilize the regime. They were also alleged to have planned to eliminate the leader of the West African nation.

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A new governor has been sworn-in in Ekiti state, south west Nigeria after a Federal Appeal Court declared the gubernatorial candidate of the Action Congress of Nigeria Kayode Fayemi, as the governor of Ekiti State, deposing incumbent governor Segun Oni of the ruling People`s Democratic Party.

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The dreaded Somali militia group Al-shabaab has released a radio director after a week of keeping him in custody.

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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African stocks and the rand currency weakened on Friday, after HSBC ended talks to acquire a majority stake in Nedbank, pushing shares of the bank lower and blunting expectations of capital inflows.

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ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria needs to move quickly to establish a new election timetable and get on with registering voters if it is to hold credible polls next year, a group of international observers said on Friday.

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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo aims to boost its presence in the vast nation's turbulent east, but it can never protect everyone there without more troops and resources, a senior U.N. official said on Friday.

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MAN, Ivory Coast (Reuters) - Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo officially opened his election campaign on Friday in the rebel-held west, pledging to industrialise the West African nation by putting a cocoa factory in every growing region.

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LUSAKA (Reuters) - Zambian police on Saturday questioned two Chinese managers over the shooting and wounding of 11 miners protesting over pay and conditions, an official said.

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LAGOS (Reuters) - A Nigerian militant group said on Friday it planned to carry out another bomb attack in the capital Abuja this month, after claiming twin car bombs in the city two weeks ago which killed at least 10 people.

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NIAMEY (Reuters) - The head of Niger's ruling military junta has arrested two senior officers from within his ranks on suspicion of conspiring to overthrow him, security sources told Reuters on Saturday.

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KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan's army has criticised U.N. moves to set up buffer zones along the country's north-south border ahead of a politically sensitive referendum, calling the plan a sign of either ignorance or interference.

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At least 21 people have been reportedly killed and more than 52 others injured in heavy clashes between moderate Islamists of Ahlusuna Waljamea and Al-shabab fighters.

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Farmers across Africa have been urged to take keen interest in conservation farming if they are to ensure long-term food security on the continent.

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The United States of America has taken another step forward in bilateral relations with Libya after Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs Andrew J. Shapiro travelled to the North African nation for consultations with officials from the government.

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Thirty four individuals were arrested in Morocco on Friday after the police dismantled an international drug trafficking ring bringing cocaine and marijuana from South America to Africa and on to Europe. Government spokesperson Taieb Cherqaoui at a news conference in Rabat confirmed the arrest, which included a Spaniard who led the group out of Morocco.

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Zimbabwe's president, Robert Mugabe, has said a power-sharing deal which expires in four months' time should not be extended. He said the country should hold a referendum on a new constitution early in 2011 and then elections. Mugabe said he was reluctant to renegotiate the unity deal as some events happening in the coalition were "foolish".

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Troubled Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has caught the eye of Cameroon football legend Roger Milla in its bid to host the 2015 or 2017 Africa Cup of Nations tournament. "It has been a long time since the Africa Cup of Nations was hosted in the Central African region," Milla said in a footafrica365report.