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Libya : Tense reconciliation begins with Libya's Saharan tribes
on 2011/11/12 12:38:05
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(Reuters) - "Let us all speak frankly, the Tuareg were with Gaddafi," the revolutionary fighter spat across the table.
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Liberia : Liberia's Sirleaf offers hand to rivals after vote win
on 2011/11/12 12:33:58
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(Reuters) - Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf promised to involve opponents in her second term after winning a landslide victory in an election boycotted by her main rival over fraud allegations.
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South Sudan : South Sudan, U.N. accuse Khartoum of new attacks
on 2011/11/12 12:31:34
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(Reuters) - South Sudan Friday accused Sudan of orchestrating fresh cross-border attacks on its troops, the same day the United Nations said Sudanese military aircraft bombed a refugee camp in South Sudan.
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Niger : Niger offers asylum to Gaddafi son: report
on 2011/11/12 12:29:21
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(Reuters) - Niger's President Mahamadou Issoufou said Friday he had granted Muammar Gaddafi's son Saadi asylum on humanitarian grounds but did not know the location of another fugitive son Saif al-Islam, South African media reported.
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Uganda : Ugandan jailed for 30 years for murder of gay activist
on 2011/11/12 12:27:53
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(Reuters) - A man who confessed to murdering a Ugandan gay activist by beating him with a hammer has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for the crime, a local newspaper reported on Friday.
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Libya : Africa to miss Gaddafi's money, not his meddling
on 2011/11/12 12:26:31
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(Reuters) - Muammar Gaddafi plucked some fluff from his flowing golden robes, poured himself another steaming cup of tea and continued with his lecture, not seeming to notice the wide yawns around him. It was 2 a.m. Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe was dozing in a corner.
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Sudan : Sudan upgrading air bases in volatile border region
on 2011/11/12 12:23:37
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(Reuters) - Sudan's military is repairing and improving air bases in its Blue Nile state, potentially helping it step up air strikes in the conflict-stricken region along the border with South Sudan, a satellite monitoring group said Friday.
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Libya : Israel rushes airliner defenses as Libya leaks SAMs
on 2011/11/12 12:22:20
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(Reuters) - Israel has accelerated the installation of anti-missile defenses on its airliners, a security official said on Friday, seeing an enhanced risk of attack by militants using looted Libyan arms.
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Liberia : Liberia's Sirleaf eyes reconciliation after landslide
on 2011/11/12 12:19:31
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(Reuters) - Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf has pledged to involve opponents in her second term after winning a landslide victory in a poll boycotted by her top rival over fraud allegations.
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Sudan : U.N. blames Khartoum for bombing S.Sudan refugee camp
on 2011/11/12 12:17:18
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(Reuters) - U.N. peacekeeping chief Herve Ladsous on Friday accused Khartoum of air strikes in the vicinity of a refugee camp in South Sudan a day earlier, an allegation that Sudan has rejected.
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Nigeria : Nigeria Islamists joining with jihadists: army
on 2011/11/12 12:06:08
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(Reuters) - A violent Islamist sect responsible for scores of killings in northeast Nigeria is increasingly linking up with global jihadist movements like al Qaeda, a military commander in the area told Reuters Thursday.
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South Sudan : South Sudan accuses Sudan of air strike
on 2011/11/12 12:04:58
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(Reuters) - A refugee camp in South Sudan's Unity state was bombed Thursday, South Sudan officials and witnesses said, threatening to raise tensions with Sudan in the violence-plagued border region.
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Liberia : Liberia's Sirleaf set for landslide, eyes reconciliation
on 2011/11/12 12:03:00
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(Reuters) - Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, who appears to have won re-election by a landslide, will seek to reunite the country by forming a government that includes her rivals.
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Egypt : Egyptian gas pipeline to Israel attacked
on 2011/11/10 12:53:27
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An Egyptian pipeline supplying gas to Israel and Jordan has been hit with two explosions, making it the seventh assault on the energy route since February.

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South Africa : IFC to spend up to $400 mln on Africa telecoms next financial yr
on 2011/11/10 12:52:49
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CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - The International Finance Corporation plans to spend up to $300 million in the financial year ending June and another $400 million in the following year on new African telecoms projects that are not commercially attractive to traditional financiers.
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Nigeria : Amnesty urges Shell Nigeria to start $1 bln clean up
on 2011/11/10 12:51:57
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LAGOS (Reuters) - Royal Dutch Shell's failure to mop up two oil spills in the Niger Delta has caused huge suffering to locals whose fisheries and farmland were poisoned, and it must pay $1 billion to start cleaning up the region, Amnesty International said on Thursday.
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Angola : IMF approves $134.8 mln loan tranche to Angola
on 2011/11/10 12:51:39
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund on Wednesday approved a loan disbursement of $134.8 million to Angola under a 27-month standby arrangement agreed in November 2009.
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Senegal : Senegal's Wade offers rivals cabinet jobs before poll
on 2011/11/10 12:51:17
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DAKAR (Reuters) - Senegal's President Abdoulaye Wade late on Wednesday offered two key rivals cabinet jobs in exchange for working with him in the run up to elections in February, but both men's parties immediately rejected the offer.
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Côte d'Ivoire : Some Gbagbo allies freed, but FPI to miss Ivorian poll
on 2011/11/10 12:50:56
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ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Ivory Coast's government has freed on bail a handful of allies of jailed former president Laurent Gbagbo as part of a deal to see his camp take part in a parliamentary poll, but his main FPI party is still set to boycott the vote.
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Guinea : Guinea to seek more changes to new mining code
on 2011/11/10 12:50:37
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CONAKRY (Reuters) - Guinea's government plans to change a number of tax clauses in the West African state's newly adopted mining code after discussions with companies and investors, the mines minister said on Wednesday.
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