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TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libya's new rulers on Tuesday unveiled a group of fighters trained to serve in a national army, in a step toward bringing armed groups under central authority in a capital bristling with revolutionary volunteers who ousted Muammar Gaddafi.

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MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somalia's al Qaeda-linked rebels struck at the heart of the capital on Tuesday, killing scores of people with a truck bomb in the group's most deadly attack in the country since launching an insurgency in 2007.

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States condemned a bombing by al Qaeda-linked Somali rebels that killed more than 70 people in Somalia's capital Mogadishu on Tuesday, and said those responsible for the attack must be held accountable.

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MOMBASA, Kenya (Reuters) - Kenyan coastguards have surrounded a boat carrying gunmen and an elderly French woman kidnapped earlier on Saturday from the northern Kenyan coast and the abductors are firing in the air, a government minister said.

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JUBA/KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan said it would not withdraw its army from the disputed Abyei region by Friday as expected by the United Nations, triggering sharp criticism by its former civil war foe South Sudan.

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DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) - The U.N. war crimes tribunal for Rwanda on Friday acquitted two former ministers of genocide charges, making them among the most high-profile officials to be found not guilty of playing key roles in the 1994 slaughter of about 800,000 people.

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CAIRO (Reuters) - U.S. actor Sean Penn joined thousands of Egyptian activists who packed downtown Cairo on Friday demanding that military rulers speed up the transfer of power to civilians and end emergency laws once used by Hosni Mubarak against his opponents.

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MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somali pirates have freed a Greek-owned bulk carrier held off the Horn of Africa coast for seven months after a multi-million dollar ransom was air-dropped to secure its release, a pirate source and local maritime expert said on Friday.

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MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somali militants launched an offensive on border towns in southern Somalia, killing government troops, residents and officials said on Friday.

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ABUJA (Reuters) - Gunmen boarded a ship supplying an Exxon Mobil oil platform offshore Nigeria on Friday, wounding one on board and abducting another, the local unit of the U.S. oil major said.

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THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Kenyan Finance Minister Uhuru Kenyatta, appearing at The Hague on Thursday to try to avoid being tried for crimes against humanity, put the blame for violence that followed an election four years ago on his prime minister.

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Opposition supporters in Democratic Republic of Congo have clashed with police after authorities tried to stop a march towards the country's electoral body.

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TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Desperate civilians are fleeing the besieged Libyan coastal city of Sirte where the battle to dislodge fighters loyal to ousted leader Muammar Gaddafi has caused heavy casualties, U.N. and other sources said.

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As the dust settles after six months of fighting in Libya, U.S. officials are stepping up efforts to identify Islamic militants who might pose a threat in a post-Gaddafi power vacuum.

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THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Kenyan Finance Minister Uhuru Kenyatta, appearing at The Hague on Thursday to try to avoid being tried for crimes against humanity, put the blame for violence that followed an election four years ago on his prime minister.

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LIBREVILLE (Reuters)- Gabon has launched a crackdown on expatriate oil workers who do not have work permits, spurred on by a powerful union that has given the government two weeks to safeguard more jobs for locals.

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YAOUNDE (Reuters) - Gunmen dressed in military fatigues opened fire in Cameroon's economic capital Douala on Thursday in an apparent protest against President Paul Biya days before he seeks re-election, a security official and local media said.

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TANGIERS, Morocco (Reuters) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Thursday inaugurated work on a future high-speed train link in Morocco, the first such project in Africa and the Arab world, and welcomed constitutional reform introduced by King Mohammed.

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CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian police raided the offices of an Al Jazeera channel in Cairo on Thursday and confiscated equipment for the second time this month, the broadcaster said.

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BEIJING (Reuters) - China has agreed to $2.5 billion in investment projects with South Africa, the African nation's deputy president said on Thursday, on a three-day trip to China during which he brushed off controversy over a potential visit by the Dalai Lama.