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CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's cabinet will meet on Wednesday to discuss ways to resolve a dispute over real estate firm Talaat Moustafa Group's (TMG) $3 billion Madinaty flagship development, the housing ministry said on Sunday.

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CONAKRY (Reuters) - Political in-fighting is preventing Guinea's electoral commission setting a new date for the West African country's delayed poll, raising the danger of unrest, politicians and analysts said at the weekend.

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KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan hopes to start registering voters in mid-October for a referendum on the independence of its oil-producing south, a senior official said on Sunday, the first formal indication of a date.

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ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria's national security adviser has resigned to run against President Goodluck Jonathan in the ruling party primaries next month, raising the stakes ahead of presidential elections in January.

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Two radio stations have been seized in Somalia capital Mogadishu by Islamist insurgents. The stations, Horn Afrik and GBC, were raided on Saturday by militants from the two main rebel groups al-Shabab and Hizbul Islam.

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Nigeria's national security adviser Aliyu Gusau has resigned to run against President Goodluck Jonathan in the ruling party primaries next month, raising the stakes ahead of presidential elections in January.

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New York — Thousands of activists are gathering at events in 14 countries in a coordinated global day of action, calling on world leaders to take urgent steps to prevent a collapse in diplomacy in Sudan that could lead to deadly conflict in 2011.

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The international community is neglecting the security threat from Somalia, Kenyan Foreign Minister Moses Wetangula said on Friday, suggesting that the United States wanted to avoid a repeat of a failed 1992 military intervention.

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NOUAKCHOTT (Reuters) - Mauritanian military forces killed 12 members of al Qaeda's North African wing and suffered two fatalities in fighting in the desert along the border with Mali, a Mauritanian security source said on Saturday.

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund said on Friday it had raised $8 billion in new resources for poor countries from four donors, including China which has a growing presence in Africa.

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TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libya has opened an investigation into an incident last week in which one of its patrol boats opened fire on an Italian fishing vessel and has also suspended the boat's captain, the foreign ministry said.

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MOGADISHU (Reuters) - A vote of confidence in Somalia's prime minister, seen as a power-struggle between the leader of the government and President Sheikh Sharif Ahmed, has been postponed, officials said on Saturday.

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CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt has secured the wheat quantities it needs to avoid shortages in subsidised bread and would not face a rerun of riots in 2008 over bread shortages, the trade minister said on Saturday.

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ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan showed the power of incumbency on Saturday, mustering the support of more than two thirds of powerful state governors for the launch of his re-election campaign.

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Countries in Sub-Saharan Africa are leading a global decline in new HIV infections, the UN has said. UNAids said 22 countries in the world's worst affected region had seen a drop in new cases of more than 25%. The fall was because of greater awareness and better use of preventative measures, it said.

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The police in Uganda have arrested two Kenyans - a lawyer and a human rights activist - as they arrived in Uganda to attend a hearing for suspects in July's Kampala bombing. Mureitha Mbugua and Al-Amin Kimathi had been due at a hearing for dozens of people charged with the attack which killed 76 people.

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The Gambia has experienced heavy, torrential rains throughout July, August, and September 2010, which caused extensive flooding and resulted in loss of lives, crops and livestock, as well as large scale damage to infrastructure and household property.

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The Namibian government has taken a hard-line stance to diversify the economy in a bid to move away from the overreliance in the mining sector the country's Finance Minister told Africa News.

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Growing demand for the expulsion of one of the contestants of the ever popular continental reality show Big Brother Africa for punching a female housemate is gaining high proportion. Reports say women's rights activists have strongly criticized producers of the show and pushing for immediate sanctions.

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Liberia's government said the decision by a group of creditor nations to write off its debt will allow the country to write a "new Liberian story". The 19-nation Paris Club pardoned $1.2bn (£764m) worth of debt owed by the West African country.
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