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KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Heavy rains and floods across Sudan have killed at least 16 people and driven thousands from their homes, aid groups and government officials said on Tuesday.

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ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia's highest court on Tuesday rejected a case brought by the country's opposition against the ruling party's landslide May election victory, finally exhausting legal appeals for the defeated parties.

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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's military joined police on Tuesday to patrol an impoverished Johannesburg township after assaults on foreign migrants injured at least 11 and increased concerns of a fresh wave of xenophobic attacks.

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CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - South Africa said on Tuesday platinum producers needed to provide tangible plans on how to curb mine accidents after they protested over new safety directives introduced last week to help reduce fatalities.

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MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Fighting between al Shabaab rebels and government forces in the north of Somalia's capital has killed at least 52 civilians and wounded scores over the past week, a local rights group said on Tuesday.

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VIENNA (Reuters) - More than 4 million new HIV infections could be prevented in eastern and southern Africa by 2025 if male circumcision rates were increased to 80 percent, researchers said on Tuesday.

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is prepared to step up assistance to African Union forces in Somalia and take more aggressive action against al Shabaab Islamist rebels who carried out deadly bombings in Uganda earlier this month, U.S. officials said on Tuesday.

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ISIOLO Kenya (Reuters) - Kenyan security forces clashed along the border on Tuesday with gunmen from the Somali rebel group that was behind deadly suicide bombings in Uganda this month, an official and residents said.

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Addis Ababa — The African Union summit in Kampala, initially set to discuss ways to improve maternal and infant health in Africa, has been overridden by the issue of Somalia.

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With less than six months before the residents of southern Sudan vote on a reform which is expected to result in the cessation of South Sudan from the north, a new report implicates Sudan's security services in "carrying out a brutal campaign of arbitrary detentions, torture, and mental and physical intimidation" against opponents of the government.

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Johannesburg — A vaginal gel containing Gilead Science's AIDS drug tenofovir almost halves the risk of women getting HIV from their male partners, according to a South African study presented today at the 18th International AIDS Conference in Vienna.

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The Federal Government, weekend, raised alarm over the increasing rate of unemployment in the country which hits a high of about 19.47 per cent.

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Cape Town — Scientists have proclaimed a breakthrough in research into the use of an antiretroviral microbicide which they say could prevent more than 500,000 new HIV infections in South Africa alone over the next decade.

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MONROVIA (Reuters) - Liberia, fresh from having its foreign debt wiped out, is ready to borrow money again but will limit net borrowing to three percent of gross domestic product (GDP), Finance Minister Augustine Ngafuan said in an interview.

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Abuja — As the abduction and release of four journalists and their driver continues to generate controversy, opposition political parties under the aegis of the Conference of Nigerian Political Parties (CNPP) have called for a security summit to discuss the rising cases of kidnapping, armed robbery and other related crimes in the country.

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ALGIERS (Reuters) - Algerian prosecutors denied a local newspaper report on Monday that the son of a government minister allied to President Abdelaziz Bouteflika had been placed under criminal investigation.

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ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Farmers whose crops are raided by wild animals like elephants should try driving them away with pepper spray, using guard donkeys or booby trapping food with snakes, the U.N. said on Monday.

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LONDON (Reuters) - The United States is studying ways to foment division among Somali rebels behind bombings in Uganda, without inflaming anti-foreigner feelings that could cause a closing of ranks, a U.S. official said on Monday.

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KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan's security forces systematically torture detainees and enjoy immunity from prosecution, Amnesty International said on Monday, urging Khartoum to reform a law which grants security agents wide powers.

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Rwanda, racked by genocide over a decade ago, is investing in innovative agriculture, methane gas, fiber optics and ice tea in a bid to become a middle-income economy by 2020, its foreign minister told Reuters on Monday.