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South African President Jacob Zuma says the country's Black majority has not benefited from post-apartheid land reform programs due to poor management and legislation.

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Somali lawmakers have elected former Finance Minister Sharif Hassan Sheikh Aden as the new head of parliament after the former speaker was forced to resign.

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Kigali — Rwanda has said an American lawyer intending to represent the embattled opposition politician Victoire Ingabire was arrested for "negating and denying" the 1994 genocide.

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Nairobi — A porous border with lawless Somalia and rough terrain continue to drive sugar and arms smuggling in northern Kenya, threatening to cripple the local sugar industry and increasing insecurity.

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Visiting Darfur on Saturday, the top United Nations humanitarian official emphasized that the situation in the war-ravaged Sudanese region remains serious, as recent clashes between the government and rebels have uprooted tens of thousands of people from their homes.

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Starting in Kampala on Monday, representatives of governments, the United Nations and civil society groups will meet for the first time to review the workings of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and of the international treaty which set it up, the Rome Statute. The 10-day review conference will consider among other issues the question of extending the court's mandate, which at present covers war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide. Congolese human rights lawyer Olivier Kambala wa Kambala reviews the ICC with a particular focus on its operations in Africa.

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President Goodluck Jonathan has said that an electoral offences tribunal would be established to try electoral crimes in the country.

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Two different women groups have protested against the quizzing of Senator Ahmad Sani Yarima over his marriage to an under-aged Egyptian girl.

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The Australian government has insisted that Robert Mugabe must be out of Zimbabwe's political picture, before international aid will be available to help rebuild the country.

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Mutare police on Thursday clamped down on a rights group that has exposed the level of abuse at the Chiadzwa diamond fields. They raided the group's offices, the home of the group's director and arrested his younger brother.

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The United Nations International Children's Fund (UNICEF) is seeking an estimated US$17 million to help humanitarian emergencies in Zimbabwe, which the group said this week is still 'fragile'.

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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa has invited Sudan's Omar al-Bashir to the continent's first World Cup along with the rest of Africa's leadership, but will arrest him if he takes up the invitation, President Jacob Zuma said.

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VICTORIA FALLS Zimbabwe (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's government will not expropriate mines and was refining a controversial local ownership law to enable miners to expand their operations, President Robert Mugabe said on Friday.

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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - The ruling ANC party dismissed threats of a national strike during the World Cup, but a fresh stoppage loomed after a miner's union said 3,000 workers would down tools at diamond producer De Beers.

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Dr. Donald Kaberuka has been re-elected as the President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), giving him five more years at the helm of the continent’s development bank.

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Kigali — The Rwandan government has told off the United States over the human-rights situation in the country, saying that America does not understand Rwanda.

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In an effort to protect children and pregnant women in the Central African Republic (CAR) from malaria, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) today said it was working with the Government to provide each household across the country with at least one mosquito net treated with long-lasting insecticides.

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The UN says over 60 civilians have been killed and 14,300 others have been displaced in recent clashes between government troops and opposition forces in Mogadishu.

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The United Nations Security Council has approved a partial withdrawal of its peacekeeping force from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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A veteran opposition leader in Togo, Gilchrist Olympio, has agreed to join a power-sharing deal with the government. He said his party will get eight ministerial posts in the coalition. But some members of his party - such as the former presidential candidate, Jean-Pierre Fabre - disagreed with the move.