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Johannesburg — Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa and his defence counterpart Lindiwe Sisulu deployed police and soldiers in the Western Cape yesterday to clamp down on xenophobic violence which saw more foreigners fleeing their homes at the weekend.

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Johannesburg — SEACOM, the broadband cable operator, said yesterday that a major fault in its cable north of Kenya would be fixed only around July 22, more than a week later than first hoped.

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Kampala — Police four foreign nationals have been arrested in connection with the discovery of an unexploded suicide vest in a disco hall in Makindye Kampala.

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Yonas Embye has been holding weekly one man protest in Uganda calling for the release of Eritrean journalists held unjustly in his native country Eritrea. The journalist and rights activist was jailed for four years before he eventually escaped.

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Nairobi — THE International Criminal Court investigators have zeroed in on two Cabinet ministers, one former and one sitting MP as their main targets for prosecution, the Star has established.

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Nairobi — The discovery by Ugandan police of an unexploded suicide vest only a day after 76 people were killed in a double bombing in Kampala has sent terror fears across the region.

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Canadian Prime Minister, Stephen Harper has announced new federal funding of $20 million for rapid growth on science and technology in Africa by developing talents of its brightest young minds through the 'Next Einstein Initiative' in Ethiopia, Ghana, and Senegal.

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The Emir of Kano, Alhaji Ado Bayero, over the weekend escaped assassination attempt by a lone gunman during the Muslim Juma'at prayer in Kano.

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Uganda's army insists it will not withdraw from peacekeeping mission in Somalia due to the Sunday night bombings in Kampala by Al Shabaab- an al-Qaida-affiliated militant faction in Somalia. The twin blasts in Kampala that targeted people watching World Cup finals killed 74 people and left 70 others critically injured.

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The problems of Sudanese president, Omar al-Bashir doesn't seem to go away. The International Criminal Court has issued a second arrest warrant for Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir - this time for charges of genocide. He already faces charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity, which he denies.

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As the Soccer City Stadium switched off its lights after the last whistle of the 2010 World Cup on July 11, football fans and sport analysts ponder over some questions: Will the 2010 FIFA World Cup benefit South Africa? Will this benefit filter down to middle-class South Africans and people living in impoverished townships?

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africanews

A veteran Cameroonian journalist Pius Njawe has died in a horrible motor accident in Virginia, USA. The founder and publisher of Le Messager newspaper passed on when a tractor ramped into a Lexus Jeep in which he was being driven and he died on the spot, according to media reports.

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Police in Uganda have arrested four persons all foreigners in connection with Sunday's twin bombings in Kampala. Uganda Police Boss Major General Kale Kaihura said the arrest of the four persons is linked to the discovery of an unexploded suicide vest in a disco hall in Makindye-a Kampala city suburb.

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LUANDA (Reuters) - Four human rights activists went on trial in Angola's oil producing region of Cabinda on Monday on unspecified charges of crimes against the state.

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ABIJDAN (Reuters) - Ivory Coast's electoral commission announced on Monday that it had enlarged its provisional voter list to 5.77 million from 5.3 million to include voters who were too young at the last polls.

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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's investment in the Soccer World Cup will lead to increased tourism, trade and more investment after the country's succesful hosting of the sporting event, President Jacob Zuma said on Monday.

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ABUJA (Reuters) - Gunmen in Nigeria's southeastern oil region kidnapped three local journalists and their driver on Sunday and are demanding 250 million naira for their release, the journalists' union said on Monday.

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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union and Brazil will sign an agreement with Mozambique this week to develop bioelectricity and biofuels projects, officials said on Monday.

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The Hague — Today, Pre-Trial Chamber I of the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued a second warrant of arrest against the President of Sudan, Omar Hassan Ahmad Al Bashir, considering that there are reasonable grounds to believe him responsible for three counts of genocide committed against the Fur, Masalit and Zaghawa ethnic groups, that include: genocide by killing, genocide by causing serious bodily or mental harm and genocide by deliberately inflicting on each target group conditions of life calculated to bring about the group's physical destruction.

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Nairobi — Kenya has heightened the level of surveillance along the borders following explosions in Kampala, Uganda in which seventy people are reported dead.