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ABIJDAN (Reuters) - A judicial inquiry in Ivory Coast into corruption allegations against Interior Minister Desire Tagro cleared him on Monday of charges including stealing money meant for victims of a toxic waste dumping.

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Rwanda needs to tightly control journalists and politicians to prevent the ethnically divisive rhetoric that sparked a 1994 genocide, Foreign Minister Louise Mushikiwabo said on Monday.

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LUANDA (Reuters) - Oil-producing Angola owes $6.8 billion -- twice what was previously estimated -- to foreign firms involved in its post-war reconstruction, President Jose Eduardo dos Santos admitted on Monday.

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Bharti Airtel is to empower rural communities with affordable telecommunications services. The Indian telecom company, which now holds a controlling stake in Zain Nigeria, said it will be the rural network of Nigeria and will provide high quality service at low cost for that sector.

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Senegalese musician Youssou N'Dour is among 14 eminent African figures proposed as "Ambassadors of the Year of Peace and Security in Africa," according to a statement by the African Union.

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Police in Burundi is holding a journalist for alleged "treason" for an article questioning whether the security forces could deal with an attack like one that hit Uganda a week ago, an official said.

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Uganda Police released on Sunday images of two men suspected to be behind the twin attacks on Uganda killing at least 75 people. "Our intelligence so far confirms that last Sunday's bomb attacks were suicide attacks," Maj. Gen. Kale Kayihura, Uganda's national police chief, told reporters.

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Nobel Peace Laureate Nelson Madiba Mandela celebrated his 92nd birthday in the company of his family on Sunday. Mandela, the global icon who campaigned tirelessly for peace and emancipation of his people, stayed on in Johannesburg, South Africa, for an event he has occasionally celebrated in Qunu, the village where he grew up.

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A Tory MP has made a fresh call for a full public inquiry into the release of the only man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing.

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Police have rescued the four journalists and their driver who were abducted last week. Uncomfirmed reports say the journalists are on their way to Umuahia, the Abia state capital.

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Nairobi — Piracy and the big money being made out of it is seeping into Kenya's economic fabric, presenting a serious threat to the economy as well as law and order, experts warn.

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Lagos — The four journalists kidnapped last week in Abia State returned to the warm embrace of their colleagues yesterday at exactly 7.50pm at the Lagos State secretariat of the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ) in Alausa, Ikeja.

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ISMAILIA Egypt (Reuters) - Egypt freed 16 Bedouin tribesmen on Sunday, including an activist whose release was requested by tribal leaders in a meeting with the interior minister last month.

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VIENNA (Reuters) - The United Nations and the world's largest backer of programmes against HIV/AIDS said on Sunday they feared wealthy donor nations may cut funding to fight the disease because of global recession.

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ONITSHA Nigeria (Reuters) - Gunmen in Nigeria's southeastern oil region released four local journalists and their driver unharmed on Sunday, after nearly a week in captivity.

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BUJUMBURA (Reuters) - Burundi authorities have arrested a journalist over an article questioning security forces' ability to respond to attacks by Somalia's al Shabaab insurgents, his relatives said on Sunday.

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LONDON (Reuters) - The International HIV/AIDS Alliance warned on Saturday that the annual cost of tackling the HIV epidemic could balloon to $35 billion by 2030 if governments fail to invest in efficient, targeted and cost-effective prevention measures.

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VIENNA (Reuters) - Treating HIV patients with cocktails of AIDS drugs helps to stop them spreading the infection further and more than halved the number of new HIV diagnoses in a study in Canada, scientists said on Sunday.

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CAIRO (Reuters) - An Egyptian court has freed a ruling party lawmaker jailed for selling defective blood bags to state hospitals, closing a case an analyst said reflected the dysfunction of the country's justice system.

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KAMPALA (Reuters) - Twin bomb attacks in Uganda that killed 73 people last week were carried out by suicide bombers and Pakistanis were among 20 suspects arrested, the head of police said on Sunday.