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africanews

Kenyan government has stepped in an attempt to prevent a strike due to start on Monday that could damage East Africa's biggest economy with blackouts, sole power supplier said.

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africanews

The chief lawyer of the former Liberian president Charles Taylor at the crimes trial is visiting South Africa, a defense team spokesperson said on Thursday.

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.

LIBREVILLE (Reuters) - African environment ministers pledged on Friday to set up an international research body to study and protect the continent's wildlife, aiming to reverse the loss of its biodiversity.

PARIS (Reuters) - Hostage takers took seven foreigners across the border into Mali on Friday, a day after abducting them in Niger, French public radio reported, citing security sources.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Sudan risks "violence on a massive scale" if there is any delay to a planned January referendums that will likely split the oil-rich African nation in two, South Sudan's leader said on Friday.

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.

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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Washington, DC — Southern Sudanese leader Salva Kiir appealed to Washington on Friday for heightened international engagement in preparations for the January referendum in which southerners are expected to vote to secede from Sudan, Africa's largest country.

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aljazeera

Hospital and six doctors allegedly conducted illegal transplants in case that stretches to Israel and Brazil.

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aljazeera

Central African nation criticised for not acting swiftly against militiamen behind recent orgy of rapes.

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africa news

At least 37 people were killed and 26 injured on Thursday when two buses collided in the northern Sudanese state of White Nile, the director of Sudan's traffic police said. Four children were among the dead.

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africa news

The chief lawyer of the former Liberian president Charles Taylor at the crimes trial is visiting South Africa, a defense team spokesperson said on Thursday.

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africa news

Kenyan government has stepped in an attempt to prevent a strike due to start on Monday that could damage East Africa's biggest economy with blackouts, sole power supplier said.

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africa news

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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africa news

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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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters)

South African farmers have received new land offers to grow crops across Africa, bringing the total number of countries offering farming opportunities to 22, a major farmers' group said on Friday.

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NEW YORK (Reuters)

A U.S. Appeals Court on Friday dismissed a case against Royal Dutch Shell Plc that could have held the company liable over accusations it assisted Nigerian authorities in violently suppressing protests against oil exploration in the 1990s.

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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters)

Leaders of the ruling ANC are unlikely to bow to pressure from unions and within the party by agreeing to nationalise South Africa's mines during a policy review conference next week.

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all africa

The United Nations refugee agency sounded the alarm today about the situation facing thousands of residents of southern and south-eastern Chad, where the heaviest rains in 40 years have destroyed homes and infrastructure, wiped out cropland and cut off access to towns and communities.