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At least fifteen civilians were killed and sixty others were wounded after clashes between Somali forces and rebel militias in Mogadishu. The clashes which took place Taleh and Taribunka in the capital has caused shells and mortars in Mogadishu. Some of artillery shells hit the main market of Bakara .

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The Southern African Development Community is expected to discuss the political progress in Zimbabwe during its annual two-day summit. Regional heads of states are taking part in the meeting in Windhoek, Namibia. While some progress since the last summit is being reported, analysts say Mugabe and his ZANU-PF party leaders still dominate the 18-month-old unity government.

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Sudan Authority has expelled five humanitarian staff from the United Nations and the Red Cross in west Darfur, aid officials. The aid workers, along with the head of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation office in the state capital El-Geneina, were ordered to close and back to Khartoum.

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Food prices in the war-torn Somalia have increased during the fasting holy month of Ramadan. Somali businessmen in Mogadishu told AfricaNews that the food prices had gone up by 50 percent since Ramadan began last week.

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A two-day conference of African Finance Ministers and Bank Governors has started in Freetown, Sierra Leone. The meeting which is tag the African Caucus will discuss issues relating to African in the context of global financial and economic crises, lessons learnt and the way forward.

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LAGOS (Reuters) - Nigerian Central Bank Governor Lamido Sanusi said on Monday he would be satisfied with a headline inflation rate of 9.0-9.5 percent and that creating economic growth should be the priority.

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KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan has expelled five U.N. and ICRC workers from West Darfur state, a U.N. official said, in the latest confrontation with international organisations in a region with the world's largest aid operation.

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KAMPALA (Reuters) - A Ugandan member of parliament and a human rights campaigner on Monday accused government troops of torturing and killing civilians as part of a disarmament exercise in a remote and lawless region.

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RABAT (Reuters) - Al Qaeda's North African wing has warned France it will avenge its fighters killed in a raid by French troops in the Sahara desert last month.

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HARARE (Reuters) - A leading diamond trading network has barred its members from dealing in stones from Zimbabwe's Marange fields, saying their certification by global regulators did not guarantee they were free from human rights abuses.

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LAGOS/ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan's chances of winning vital support from the Muslim north for a 2011 election bid have suffered a setback after two rival northern candidates declared they would run against him.

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NIAMEY (Reuters) - Aid groups in Niger evacuated Western staff from some regions due to security threats, a move that risks undermining relief efforts at the heart of a food crisis, aid workers said on Monday.

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LAGOS (Reuters) - Nigeria's central bank has received bids for four of the nine lenders rescued in a $4 billion bailout last year, Central Bank Governor Lamido Sanusi told CNBC Africa television on Monday.

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NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya's President Mwai Kibaki appointed Chirau Ali Mwakwere trade minister on Monday, moving the incumbent Amos Kimunya to the Transport Ministry and shuffling five other ministers around.

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MELBOURNE/JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's Aspen Pharmacare will buy the drugs unit of Australia's Sigma Pharmaceuticals for $804 million in cash, having sweetened its offer to gain about a quarter of Australia's generic market.

The bid from Aspen likely ends a three-month tussle between the two companies over the price of debt-laden Sigma.

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Malawi's Professor Moses Chirambo, fired from cabinet last week, died at a South African clinic, about four days after President Bingu wa Mutharika relieved him from heading the Ministry of Health.

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A local court in Somalia has sentenced a radio journalist to six years in jail for an interview with a notorious warlord Mohamed Said Atom.

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Two opposition parties, Independent Democrat party and Democratic Alliance in South Africa are planning to merge in a bid to form a united front against the ruling ANC to challenge its overwhelming grip of power. The two parties will merge in their fight of corruption, infighting, and a failure by the ANC to deliver on its election promises.

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Nigeria's former vice president Atiku Abubakar has announced he's running for president in the oil-rich nation.

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Niger is now facing the worst hunger crisis in its history, the UN's World Food Programme has said, with almost half the population - or 7.3 million people - in desperate need of food.