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HARARE (Reuters) - Mining firms in Zimbabwe have mostly met a September deadline by which they were required to submit plans to transfer a 51 percent stake in their operations to locals, empowerment minister Saviour Kasukuwere said on Thursday.

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YAMOUSSOUKRO (Reuters) - Ivory Coast has launched a South Africa-style truth and reconciliation commission on Wednesday to try to heal the wounds of a post-election conflict that killed more than 3,000 people and drove a million from their homes.

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VICTORIA (Reuters) - Voters in Seychelles began casting their ballots on Thursday in a parliamentary election that should hand the ruling People's Party a large majority after the main opposition group said it would boycott the poll.

20110929
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CAIRO (Reuters) - Political parties from across Egypt's political spectrum threatened to boycott elections scheduled to start in November unless the country's military rulers amend the election law.

20110929
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KHARTOUM (Reuters) - President Omar Hassan al-Bashir said Sudanese government forces were poised to attack a stronghold of armed rebels in Blue Nile state, and vowed not to negotiate with what he called mutineers, state news agency SUNA reported on Wednesday.

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CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's military prosecutors launched an investigation into a case of abuse of detainees at a police station north of Cairo after footage of an alleged assault was shown on social networking sites, state news agency MENA reported on Wednesday.

20110929
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ABUJA (Reuters) - An email, saying it was sent by a Nigerian militant group based in the oil-producing Niger Delta, said on Wednesday it would place bombs in the capital Abuja during Independence Day celebrations on October 1.

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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Home Secretary Theresa May has given the go-ahead for the extradition to South Africa of a British businessman accused of murdering his wife while on honeymoon in Cape Town, the Home Office said on Wednesday.

20110929
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SIRTE (Reuters) - Libya's new rulers said on Wednesday they believed fugitive ex-leader Muammar Gaddafi was being shielded by nomadic tribesmen in the desert near the Algerian border, while his followers fend off assaults on his hometown.

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TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libya's interim justice minister Mohammed al-Alagi said on Wednesday he was ready to work with Scottish authorities to probe the possible involvement of others in the Lockerbie bombing apart from the sole Libyan convicted for the attack.

20110929
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NAIROBI (Reuters) - The appeals chamber at the U.N. war crimes tribunal for Rwanda upheld the 25-year prison sentence on former military officer Ephrem Setako for genocide crimes and crimes against humanity, the tribunal's news agency said on Wednesday.

20110928
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SIRTE, Libya (Reuters) - A Libyan commander leading the attack on Muammar Gaddafi's hometown of Sirte said on Tuesday he was in talks with elders inside the city about a truce, but the head of another anti-Gaddafi unit rejected negotiations.

20110928
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CAIRO (Reuters) - A television station broadcast footage dated September 20 of what it said was Muammar Gaddafi's son Saif al-Islam apparently rallying his forces in one of the last strongholds of the Libyan leader.

20110928
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TUNIS (Reuters) - A Tunisian court of appeal has freed Muammar Gaddafi's former Prime Minister Al-Baghdadi Ali al-Mahmoudi, who was sentenced to six months in jail last week after he was arrested near the North African country's border with Algeria.

20110928
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CONAKRY (Reuters) - Three people died in Guinea on Tuesday, according to hospital and police sources, when security forces used truncheons and tear gas to break up an opposition protest in the capital.

20110928
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CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's parliamentary election will start on November 28, a military source said on Tuesday, launching the process of handing back power to civilian rule nine months after President Hosni Mubarak was ousted in a popular uprising.

20110928
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ALGIERS (Reuters) - Algerian security forces killed five Islamist militants in a sparsely populated area east of the capital on Tuesday, a security source told Reuters.

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KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan's security forces have forced an independent newspaper to close, its editor said on Tuesday.

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TUNIS (Reuters) - Tourism revenue in Tunisia has tumbled since the uprising that forced autocratic leader Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali to flee the country in January, sliding about 40 percent year-on-year in the first nine months of 2011, official figures showed on Tuesday.

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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Wouter Basson, dubbed "Dr. Death" faces a medical ethics board this week that could cancel his medical licence for producing chemicals used in numerous crimes.