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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The International Criminal Court will decide on January 23 whether six high-profile Kenyans, including presidential contenders Uhuru Kenyatta and William Ruto, should be tried for crimes against humanity, it said on Friday.

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KAMPALA (Reuters) - Ugandan police said they had released the country's main opposition leader and several of his allies late on Thursday after detaining the group to stop them leading an anti-government rally in the capital.

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KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan's army has clashed with rebels in Blue Nile state, which borders South Sudan and where fighting has been going on for five months, but the army denied on Thursday that rebels had shot down a helicopter.

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MOGADISHU (Reuters) - A bomb blast on Thursday killed two Somali policemen and four refugees close to a camp for displaced people in the capital, Mogadishu, the African Union's peacekeeping force in Somalia said.

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BAMAKO (Reuters) - Mali's military said on Thursday its armed forces had killed 45 gunmen and lost two soldiers in attacks on two towns in the north of the country this week, a toll immediately rejected by a spokesman for the Tuareg-led rebels.

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ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Authorities in Ethiopia's northern Afar region have sent elders to try to secure the release of two German tourists and two Ethiopians kidnapped by gunmen and who the government believes are now inside Eritrea, officials said on Thursday.

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MONROVIA (Reuters) - Liberia's re-elected President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf named the first ministers of her new cabinet on Thursday, shuffling the finance and foreign affairs posts but retaining her defence minister.

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BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - The deputy head of Libya's ruling National Transitional Council (NTC) was roughed up on Thursday by university students in the eastern city of Benghazi, in a rare incident that indicates a growing popular discontent with Libya's new rulers.

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ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria's police are offering a 50 million naira reward for information leading to the recapture of the main suspect in a Christmas Day bomb attack, who escaped within 24 hours of his arrest this week.

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RABAT (Reuters) - Moroccan authorities should draft laws to criminalise the use of torture by some security officials, activists from a group of human right organisations said on Thursday.

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A Canadian oil company says it has begun drilling exploratory oil wells at two locations in Somalia's impoverished region of Puntland.

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LISBON (Reuters) - Angola's government has denied a report by Human Rights Watch suggesting that $32 billion are missing from state funds thought to be linked to the state oil company Sonangol, state news agency Angop reported on Tuesday.