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Reuters
(Reuters) - South Sudan accused its neighbor Sudan of bombing its troops as they pulled out of the disputed oil region of Heglig on Saturday, dampening already faint hopes of any imminent settlement between the bitter foes.

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Reuters
(Reuters) - Kidnappers in Nigeria have released a Spanish doctor they abducted three weeks ago, police said on Saturday.

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Reuters
(Reuters) - The Muslim Brotherhood's new presidential candidate, pitched into the race after its first choice was disqualified, promised on Saturday to govern in coalition and to steady Egypt after more than a year of political turmoil.

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Reuters
(Reuters) - About 200 soldiers claiming to be government loyalists have moved back into northern Mali saying they will fight to take it back from Tuareg-led separatist and Islamist rebels that routed the army across the region three weeks ago.

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AP
RIVER VOVODO, Central African Republic (AP) — For Ugandan soldiers tasked with catching Joseph Kony, the real threat is not the elusive Central Africa warlord and his brutal gang. Encounters with the Lord's Resistance Army rebels are so rare that Kony hunters worry more about the threats of the jungle: Armed poachers, wild beasts, honey bees, and even a fly that torments their ears.

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AFP
South Sudanese forces were pulling out from Sudan's main Heglig oil field on Saturday, an official said, as US President Barack Obama called on both states to resume talks.

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AFP
Four Togolese peacekeepers have been shot and wounded in separate attacks in Sudan's Darfur region, the AU-UN mission said on Saturday.

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AFP
Sweat dripping from his unkempt beard, second lieutenant Kasim Lukumo halted briefly to point at the thick tangle of the central African jungle.

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AFP
Zimbabwe's Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has got engaged to a Harare businesswoman whose father is a high ranking member of President Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF, his spokesman said Saturday.

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AFP
Southwest Tunisia has some of the world's richest phosphate deposits, but a recent series of violent protests by jobless residents highlights the region's desperate unemployment problem.

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AFP
Libya has been building up evidence against Seif al-Islam Kadhafi in the hope of persuading International Criminal Court judges to sanction a local trial, an ICC envoy said on Saturday.

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AFP
Tensions eased in post-coup Mali on Friday after the release of 22 political prisoners and as the regional grouping ECOWAS announced a summit on the crisis next week.

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AFP
South Africa's polygamous President Jacob Zuma on Saturday celebrated his sixth wedding in a second day of weekend festivities filled with traditional Zulu culture.

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AFP
Mali's Red Cross said Saturday it had delivered five tonnes of supplies and medicine to rebel-held Timbuktu, in the north of the country, as witnesses reported deaths in the region.

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AFP
The junta in Guinea Bissau on Saturday said its plan for a two-year transition had only been a suggestion, in an apparent climbdown following threats of UN and regional sanctions.

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AFP
A Spanish doctor kidnapped in the southeastern Nigerian city of Enugu on April 4 has been freed and is in good health, his country's foreign ministry said on Saturday.

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AFP
French duo Bruno Metsu and Pierre Lechantre are the leading candidates for the vacant position of coach of the Senegalese national team, the Senegalese Football Federation (FSF) revealed on Saturday.

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AP
JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — Sudan and South Sudan both claimed to be in control of a contested oil town near the countries' ill-defined border on Friday after the south said it was withdrawing its troops to avert a return to war.

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AFP
International Criminal Court prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo said Friday that he wants to investigate rapes committed during the Libyan conflict last year in a way that respects local traditions.

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AFP
Tensions eased in post-coup Mali on Friday after the release of 22 political prisoners and as the regional grouping ECOWAS announced a summit on the crisis next week.