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africanews

Ghana coach Milovan Rajevac is set to extend his contract with four-time African champions Ghana in the weeks to come. "It is sure I will be signing a new contract soon," the Serbian told the press in South Africa.

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africanews

About 54 Uganda nationals are behind bars in China with 20 on death row, stated Uganda ambassador to China Charles Madibo Wagidoso on tour in China. "It is unfortunate but we have more than 50 Ugandans detained in various prisons in China and counting because just last week another one was arrested."

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A French soldier has been condemned by France top officials for berating a local Togolese journalist. Lt Col Romuald Letondot was filmed ordering photographer Didier Ledoux to delete images from his camera during a protest in Togo's capital Lome.

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Zimbabwe's government netted about $71m from a major sell-off of rough diamonds from its controversial Chiadzwa diamond fields, the country's mining minister has said.

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President Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria has been told by his party chairman that he has the right to contest the upcoming January primaries. Okwesilieze Nwodo of the ruling People's Democratic Party however stopped short of giving the president his full backing.

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Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika has said Malawi cannot afford life ministers. Swearing in new ministers, some of them returnees into his cabinet, he said nobody should think ministerial posts are for life. He also defended his inclusion of his wife, First Lady, Callista Mutharika, on the cabinet list.

20100813
africanews

The suspected brainpower of the July 11 twin bomb attacks on Kampala, Uganda said on Thursday he was motivated by "rage against the Americans." Issa Ahmed Ruyim claimed his membership of Somali Islamist rebels group of Al-Shabaab which has taken responsibility for the blasts killing 76 people.

20100812
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The Prime Minister of Ethiopia has said his country may not need any food aid within five years thanks to an ambitious development plan that targets a heady average economic growth of 14.9 percent over the period. Ethiopia is still one of the world's poorest countries, with nearly 10 percent of the population relying on emergency food aid last year.

20100810
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DAKAR (Reuters) - Seasonal flooding has killed almost 100 people across West Africa, destroyed thousands of homes, encouraged the spread of disease and threatens to worsen a food crisis by washing away farmland, aid groups said on Tuesday.

20100810
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BAMAKO (Reuters) - A failed French-Mauritanian military raid to rescue a hostage in the Sahara last month has complicated efforts to free two remaining Spanish captives, but negotiations could still work, a Malian official said.

20100810
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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The Central African Republic on Tuesday pleaded with the U.N. Security Council for help as it grapples with rebels ahead of an expected withdrawal of U.N. peacekeepers stationed there and in neighboring Chad.

20100810
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JUBA Sudan (Reuters) - Corruption, a small private sector and the reluctance of southern Sudanese to farm the land are stalling development just months before the region could become the world's newest country, a minister said on Tuesday.

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KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan's former north-south foes began much-delayed talks this week on how to divide wealth and power, with time running out five months before a referendum on independence for the south.

20100810
reuters

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A proposed South African tribunal to oversee the print media, derided by critics as muzzling the press, will enhance accountability and improve reporting, a senior ruling party official said on Tuesday.

20100810
reuters

By Themistocle Hakizimana and Hereward Holland

KIGALI (Reuters) - Rwandan President Paul Kagame danced his way towards a second seven-year term on Tuesday after preliminary results gave the bush war veteran 93 percent of the vote in more than a third of country's districts.

20100810
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's ruling African National Congress is not looking at ways to nationalise mines but wants to intervene in ways to best manage the sector crucial to the state's economy, an official said on Tuesday.

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ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria's Senate approved three new cabinet nominees on Tuesday including two opposition politicians from the north, a region whose support President Goodluck Jonathan needs if he is to contest polls next year.

20100810
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ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigerian lawmakers on Tuesday approved a planned bond issue to fund an 88 billion naira budget for the electoral commission to overhaul voter lists and buy more ballot boxes ahead of January polls.

20100810
africanews

Former Nigeria President Olusegun Obasanjo has denied rumours of his death. According to rumours on Monday, Obasanjo was killed by an assassin's bullet shortly after one of his children got wedded last Saturday.

20100810
africanews

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has extended a hand of friendship to the European Union and the United States during the celebration of the southern African country's National Heroes' Day. His conciliatory speech follows a week after he told the US and EU to "go to hell" at his sister's funeral.