NAIROBI, July 26 (Xinhua) -- A Kenya Airways in-flight crew delivered a baby girl on board a flight that had just landed from Muscat, Oman in Nairobi late last week.

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Johannesburg — SOUTH African editors yesterday vowed to resist attempts to institute a state-appointed media tribunal and rejected legislation that they said restricted public access to information.

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all africa

The African Union has agreed to change the mandate of its peacekeeping mission, Amisom, in Somalia into a peace enforcement in an effort to engage the Al Shabaab militia.

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KAMPALA (Reuters) - Britain on Friday threw its weight behind calls for more African troops to be sent to Somalia to battle Islamist rebels, whose suicide attacks in Uganda last week killed 73 people watching the World Cup final.

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ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Ivory Coast Prime Minister Guillaume Soro, whose rebel group occupies the country's north, has resigned as party chief to focus on organising long-delayed presidential elections, his spokesman said on Friday.

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. senator has asked that a Scottish representative appear at next week's congressional hearing on the release of the Libyan man convicted

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NOUAKCHOTT (Reuters) - French-backed Mauritanian military operations against al Qaeda fighters in the Sahara desert wound up on Saturday after four days of hunting Islamists deep inside Mali, security sources said.

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Accra Mail

A monorail system is being planned to help ease traffic congestion in the Accra Metropolis.

Dubbed "Greater Accra Transit System," the project would operate on elevated beams in order not to disturb pedestrians and traffic.

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Concord

Freetown — On her second visit to Sierra Leone as the Prosecutor of the Special Court for Sierra Leone, Ms. Brenda J. Hollis expressed pleasure in the courage displayed by Sierra Leoneans in demanding justice for the wrongs done to them during the country's decade-long civil war.

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KHARTOUM (Reuters) - President Omar Hassan al-Bashir returned to Sudan on Friday after defying indictment for genocide by visiting Chad, a party to the International Criminal Court and so in theory obliged to arrest him.

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RFI

France is reported to be making fresh efforts to free hostage Michel Germaneau, held in Mali by Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (Aqim). French officials deny that an operation is taking place but Mauritania's army is said to be moving in on the group in its desert stronghold.

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Nation

Nairobi — Two Nobel laureates have called upon Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade to speed up the trial of former Chadian dictator Hissene Habré.

This follows similar calls by West African states and the African Union earlier this year.

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Monitor

President Museveni on Friday night met intelligence chiefs over the July 11 attacks on civilians and pressed them to individually explain why they had failed to detect and prevent the attack.

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africanews

Cape Town — A Botswana judge has prohibited the Basarwa people of the Kalahari from re-equipping a borehole or drilling a new one in the Central Kgalagadi Game Reserve - the latest incident in an ongoing dispute between the Basarwa and the government over land rights.

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Washington, DC — Rwandan officials have defended the government of President Paul Kagame against recent criticism that it was cracking down on its opponents and the press ahead of upcoming presidential elections.

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africanews

Dark cloud now hangs over the January date of the 2011 elections as the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is now in a serious dilemma over the date. Following the reworking of some clauses of the 1999 Constitution, it is now mandatory for the commission to hold the forthcoming elections between December 30, 2010 and January 29, 2011.

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GENEVA (Reuters) - Somali refugees are being harassed and rounded up in Kenya and the semi-autonomous enclave of Puntland in the wake of deadly bombings by al Shabaab Islamist rebels in Uganda, the United Nations said on Friday.

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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A Dutch court fined commodities trader Trafigura one million euros on Friday for illegally exporting toxic waste to Ivory Coast which ended up in the open air, and for concealing the waste's harmful nature.

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BUJUMBURA (Reuters) - Burundians voted on Friday in a parliamentary election, one of a series of ballots seen as a test for the central African country's democratic credentials after years of civil war.

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NAIROBI (Reuters) - A majority of Kenyans intend to vote for a new constitution next month, although land remains a divisive issue in the province that bore the brunt of post-election violence in 2008, opinion polls showed on Friday.