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ACCRA (Reuters) - Ivory Coast's President Alassane Ouattara on Thursday urged Ghana to arrest and hand over Ivorians indicted for war crimes and other abuses during four months of post-election conflict in Ivory Coast.

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LISBON (Reuters) - Angola's main opposition party UNITA plans to hold a leadership contest in December with its head, Isaias Samakuva, facing calls for his resignation, state news agency Angop said on Thursday.

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BLANTYRE (Reuters) - The Archbishop Bishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, wants to meet Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe during his visit to Africa and call on him to end a violent suppression of the Anglican Church and its priests in the country.

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CAIRO (Reuters) - A go-slow protest by air traffic controllers at Cairo airport ended on Thursday after grounding four-fifths of flights from the major regional hub and leaving as many as 3,000 travelers stranded, state media and airport staff said.

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SIRTE, Libya (Reuters) - Snipers loyal to Muammar Gaddafi held back government forces trying to capture his hometown on Thursday and the deposed leader warned the heads of the developing world who have recognised Libya's new rulers that they would face a similar fate to his own.

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DAKAR (Reuters) - Cameroon's president, Paul Biya, on course to win Sunday's election, will use a new term to try to build a favourable legacy to his decades in power with major construction projects, and to anoint a successor, analysts say.

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KAMPALA (Reuters) - A Ugandan court has summoned three senior government officials to answer corruption charges in what analysts say is an increased attempt to stem endemic misuse of public funds and end a culture of impunity.

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BUKAVU, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) - Rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo killed 10 people, including members of a local aid group, in attacks on vehicles travelling in the province of South Kivu this week, the local government said on Thursday.

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Thirty-nine people, including civilians, have been killed in clashes between Somali troops and al-Shabab fighters in the southern Gedo region, Press TV reports.

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LUSAKA (Reuters) - About 2,000 Zambian workers at NFC Africa Mining, majority-owned by China Nonferrous Metals Mining Corporation, have gone on a strike for higher wages two weeks after a new president took office, pledging to improve conditions at Chinese-owned mines.

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CAIRO (Reuters) - A group of six presidential hopefuls said on Wednesday they wanted Egypt's first free election to be held in April, far earlier than the timetable envisaged by the ruling military council.

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MAHALLA EL-KUBRA, Egypt (Reuters) - Like many Egyptians, textile factory worker Magdi el-Aleemy expected the uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak to change his life. It did, but not for the better.

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SIRTE, Libya (Reuters) - Libyan government forces fought their way, street by street, into the centre of Muammar Gaddafi's birthplace, Sirte, on Wednesday after their commanders said the battle for the city was entering its final hours.

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HARARE (Reuters) - Six year after Zimbabwe's mass slum clearance evicted 700,000 people, many of the children of those made homeless have yet to return to school, Amnesty International said on Wednesday.

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MONROVIA (Reuters) - Liberia's Supreme Court said on Wednesday it has dismissed a challenge to the eligibility of six candidates in next week's presidential election, including incumbent leader Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf and her main rivals.

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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African political firebrand Julius Malema was admitted to hospital on Wednesday and is not expected to attend a ruling ANC disciplinary hearing that resumes this week, his ANC Youth League said in a statement.

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LONDON (Reuters) - Libya's top oil body is pursuing international oil firms for bills worth around $6 billion that were left unpaid this year due to U.N. sanctions imposed in March, a source in the National Oil Corporation (NOC) told Reuters this week.

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LUSAKA (Reuters) - Zambia has appointed a new deputy governor at the central bank but has yet to name a new governor, the bank's spokesman said on Wednesday.

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DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) - Tanzania's ruling party narrowly won a key parliamentary by-election after a tight race marked by low voter turn-out, pointing to a decline in popularity of the party even in regions where it enjoyed strong support.

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LUSAKA (Reuters) - Zambia has fired one of its deputy central bank governors, a source said on Wednesday, the latest move by newly elected President Michael Sata to remove vestiges of the previous administration.