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Sweden's public prosecutor opened a criminal probe on Monday into allegations that Swedes working for a consortium of oil companies during the Sudanese civil war may have been complicit in human rights abuses.

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Armed men killed three Rwandan peacekeepers in Sudan's Darfur region on Monday in the latest assault on members of the U.N./African Union (UNAMID) force operating in the area, an official from the force said.

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Civil society groups urged diamond trade regulators on Monday to suspend ties with Zimbabwe because of human rights abuses in its Marange diamond fields.

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A man from Nyamira has confessed killing four women in Rift valley and Nyanza provinces in Kenya. He was arrested in Kaplong town, Sotik, while apparently on the run after killing a woman lodging in Keroka town, Nyamira District, some 45km away.

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Over 3,000 Sudanese refugees in Imvepi and Rhino camps in Arua district, Uganda, have refused to return home, a refugees desk officer who pleaded anonymity told AfricaNews on Sunday.

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One of Africa's finest and most decorated investigative journalists Anas Aremeyaw Anas with the New Crusading Guide named winner of the 2010 Excellence in Journalism Award's Community Reporting category.

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Islamist insurgent group Hizbul Islam may have banned music in Somalia but artists say it would not stop singing. "This is my work and life. Till my childhood, I was in the music. The feed of my family depends on," said Mohamud Goh Qarbosh, a veteran Somali musician currently living in Nairobi, Kenya.

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A police constable Edward Kirui accused of killing two demonstrators in Kisumu during the 2008 post-election violence has been acquitted. High Court judge Fred Ochieng on Monday ruled that the bullets found in the victims' bodies did not match the gun used by Kirui hence his innocence.

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A group of scientists from the central Netherlands University of Wageningen have discovered that an imitation foot odour could be the latest weapon to fight against malaria - the deadliest tropical disease - in Africa. The specialists hope to produce socks with special aroma to shy away mosquitoes at night.

Flow Energy of Australia is set to explore for oil and gas in the block L6 along Kenya’s coast, pending National Environmental Management Authority’s approval. ]

The company, formerly known as Gippsland Offshore Petroleum Ltd, has submitted to NEMA an environmental impact assessment report on the proposed oil and gas exploration.

NEMA’s Director General Muasya Mwinzi, said submission by the firm of the report on exploration work in Lamu and Tana Delta Districts is in compliance with environmental regulations. He however added that, Flow Energy in partnership with ministry of energy intends to explore for hydrocarbon resources. Where successful, commercially produce for local consumption, power generation and export excess.

This comes as China National Offshore Oil Corporation is preparing to quantify the commercial viability of gas deposits in block 9 near Merti in Isiolo North.

The Constitution Review Opposing campaign team has told off the United States of America over alleged meddling in Kenya’s constitution making.

Red Card Centre “The NO Team” or the opposition side chief Executive Tom Namwamba said it was “contemptuous” of US Vice-President Joe Biden to peg President Barrack Obama’s visit to Kenya and the pouring in of aid on the passing of the proposed constitution. He added that, Kenyans are making constitution for themselves and not for Americans. Kenya is a sovereign state and not a colony of any nation.

He however said section 27(4) of the Bill of Rights, which stipulates that the State should not discriminate against any person on the grounds of sex, legalizes same-sex marriages meant to open floodgates for American investors, some of whom are professed homosexuals and lesbians, to come to Kenya.

His remarks came a day after reports of heated debate in the US Congress over abortion provisions in the proposed constitution.

Plans are underway to establish the first Islamic University in Kenya. The Kshs. 1 billion Umma University on Islamic Law, among other faculties, is sponsored by the Kuwaiti government with construction set to begin next month. This is the second attempt by the Muslim community in Kenya to find ways of establishing Islamic university after attempt in starting first Mombasa Islamic University which has not been started due to lack of sponsorship from Islamic states as well as the government.

The institution will have its main campus in Kajiado in the Rift Valley Province and a constituent college in Thika where the College of Shariah is currently situated. Board chair Abdulrahman Al-Muhailan announced the plans during an inaugural graduation of the first batch of students at the Thika College for Sharia and Islamic Studies.

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Europe will import its first solar-generated electricity from North Africa within the next five years, European Energy Commissioner Guenther Oettinger said in an interview on Sunday.

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Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan said on Sunday it was too early to declare whether or not he will contest an election due by next April.

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South African police said on Monday they had arrested four people for the shooting of an exiled Rwandan army general on Saturday.

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Executives from three Australian mining firms, Gindalbie, Sundance Resources and Western Areas are missing after their aircraft disappeared in West Africa, the companies said on Monday.

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A senior official of Ghana’s government says President John Atta Mills will be holding bilateral talks with his Angolan counterpart, President Jose Eduardo Dos Santos, in the capital, Accra Monday.

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A rebel militia leader said on Sunday his forces had fought six battles with south Sudan's army in the past week, killing scores of people in the region's Jonglei oil state.

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Zimbabwe has ordered creditors owed millions of dollars by its bankrupt central bank to stop auctioning the bank's property, local state media reported on Sunday, saying the seizures were tantamount to asset stripping.

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A blast was heard across Johannesburg on Sunday followed by a plume of smoke, visible from the Soccer City where World Cup matches are being played, but South African police said it was a routine test.