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DAKAR (Reuters) - Abundant rains in Chad have raised hopes for an end to severe food shortages but the effects will linger and lead to new difficulties across Africa's Sahel region in 2011, aid workers predict.

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ROME (Reuters) - The number of people in the world suffering chronic malnutrition fell for the first time in 15 years in 2010, but volatile food prices could hamper efforts to fight hunger, the United Nations' food agency said on Tuesday.

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DAKAR (Reuters) - Gabon managed to execute less than a third of its 2010 investment plans by mid-year, an International Monetary Fund official said in an interview, raising questions over its drive to revamp its economy.

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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's powerful labour federation called on Tuesday for more exchange controls and a capital flow tax to ease unemployment, further fraying an alliance with the ANC government amid mounting social unrest.

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Madagascar's government launched a fresh effort to resolve an 18-month political crisis that has brought the Indian Ocean island international isolation.

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The head of Guinea's election commission has died, amid speculation that Sunday's presidential run-off could be postponed. Last week election chief Ben Sekou Sylla was convicted of fraud during the first round in June, raising the first serious doubts about the second round.

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Libya has apologised for opening fire on an Italian fishing boat off its coast using a vessel supplied by Rome, Italy's interior minister said, promising an investigation into the incident. The shooting has embarrassed Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's government, who has cultivated close ties with Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and struck a deal with Tripoli to curb the arrival of African migrants into Italy.

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University lecturers and other supporting staff of Ghana are planning a sit-down strike. The Teachers and Educational Workers Union (TEWU) at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) has served notice it is joining others in public universities to register their protest over salary arrears.

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The Ghana Football Association is on the search for a new coach for the Black Stars following the departure of Serbian Milovan Rajevac. The 56-year-old has communicated his decision to take on a new challenge following the expiration of his two-year contract with the FA.
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Africa's first high level pan-African conference on biodiversity opened in Libreville, on the theme 'Biodiversity and the Fight Against Poverty: What opportunities for Africa?' The opening ceremony on Monday included an address to the audience of scientific experts by Gabon's Environment Minister, Mr Pacome Ruffin Ondzounga, and Mr Serge Bounda, representative of the United Nations Environment Programme in Africa.

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A family of six from the undesignated township of Malota in Zambia's tourist capital Livingstone died Tuesday afternoon after a taxi driver who lost control of his car slammed into their seating room killing them on the spot. The family was having lunch at the time the car crashed into their mud house.

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Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan said he has proposed a legislation that seeks to improve the management of the country's oil revenue through a special fund for savings and infrastructure.

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Electoral campaigning was suspended and demonstrations have been banned by Guinea's interim government after one person died and 50 were hurt in violent pre-election rally clashes.

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The US government has boosted its assistance to Uganda's AIDS programme with an emergency supply of antiretroviral (ARV) drugs worth more than US$5.5 million - enough to put an estimated 72,000 HIV-infected people on the treatment over the next two years.

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Washington, DC — Somalia increasingly represents a direct threat to U.S. national security.

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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa plans to establish an independent power purchasing authority by April 2011 in an effort to encourage private investment in power generation, a senior energy official said on Monday.

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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Monday he has convened a high-level meeting at the United Nations to discuss the situation in Sudan as it prepares for a vote on the self-determination of the south of the country.

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Cape Town — A high-profile international commission which advocates for Africa has criticized the "glacial" progress of talks on world trade reform that would enable the continent to take more responsibility for its own development.

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NAIROBI (Reuters) - Rwanda plans to introduce a scheme to help buyers certify the origin and supply chain of tin and other ores to ensure they were not from conflict zones, a mining official said on Monday.

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DAKAR (Reuters) - Congo will struggle to enforce its new ban on mining in rebellious eastern areas and the move is likely to increase smuggling rather than help clean up an industry accused of fuelling conflict, analysts say.