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Eight civilians died in southwestern Ivory Coast in the attack that killed seven UN peacekeepers, the United Nations said on Saturday.

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Gunmen in Nigeria's troubled north killed two policemen and two civilians wounded in the separate attacks died later, witnesses said onSaturday.

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Somalia's Al-Qaeda-allied Shebab rebels Saturday mocked a US offer of up to $33 million for tip-offs enabling the arrest of its top leaders, saying they would give 10 camels to anyone who helped locate Barack Obama.

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Australian officials were seeking access to an Australian lawyer detained in Libya as she was arranging the defence for slain dictator Moamer Kadhafi's son Seif al-Islam, a government spokesman said.

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MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — Ivorian government forces vowed Saturday to hunt down those responsible for an ambush that killed at least seven U.N. peacekeepers, while Liberia sealed its border amid fears that the gunmen had used the country to stage the cross-border attack.

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Thousands of civilians in Ivory Coast have fled their homes after seven UN peacekeepers and eight civilians were killed in raids near the Liberian border, a UN official and residents said Saturday.

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Four International Criminal Court staff have been arrested in Libya during a visit to arrange the defence for slain dictator Moamer Kadhafi's detained son Seif al-Islam, the tribunal said Saturday.

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Elections for a constituent assembly, originally set to be held by June 19 as Libya's first such vote for four decades, are to be postponed, electoral commission members said on Saturday.

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ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — Ivorian government forces will launch a military operation to hunt down the men responsible for an ambush that killed at least seven peacekeepers in an unprecedented attack on U.N. forces in the country. Officials said Saturday that at least eight civilians also were killed in the area.

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Angolan troops, whose presence in Guinea-Bissau angered local soldiers and prompted a coup in April, ended their pullout from the west African country on Saturday, a military official said.

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Libya has arrested a female Australian lawyer from the International Criminal Court for trying to pass "dangerous" documents to Seif al-Islam, detained son of slain leader Moamer Kadhafi, the ICC's Libyan representative said on Saturday.

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Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe on Friday asked South Africa's ruling African National Congress to stop probes into human rights abuses by Zimbabwean officials against activists.

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The European Union on Friday deployed an election assessment team to Libya ahead of constituent assembly polls scheduled to take place this month, a statement said.

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MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — A suicide bomber blew up his car just outside the police headquarters in the northeast Nigerian city of Maiduguri, killing eight people, a Nigerian Red Cross report said Friday amid warnings that the situation in the city is worsening.

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Malawi's civil servants will receive an average 21-percent pay increase, the finance minister said Friday in presenting the country's $1-billion (820-million euro) budget.

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Two leading Gabonese activists and some 40 others were arrested as they tried to hold a "Counter-Forum of Indignants" alongside a meeting on African development opening Friday in Libreville.

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MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — A suicide bomber blew up his car outside police headquarters Friday in the northeast Nigerian city of Maiduguri, killing himself and six other people and wounding 20, the Nigerian Red Cross said amid warnings that the situation in the city is worsening.

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Mali's Tuareg rebels clashed overnight with their former Islamist allies, witnesses said Friday, after the two groups fell out over forming a breakaway state in the northern desert region they control.

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Peace talks between Khartoum and Juba have ground to a halt after failing to agree on where to set up a demilitarised zone along their contested border, officials said Friday.

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Malawi said Friday it will not host the African Union summit in July because the bloc insisted on inviting Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir, wanted on international war crimes charges.