20110927
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BERLIN (Reuters) - Africa is starting to appear on the radar screens of western retailers as they look for the next growth opportunity in emerging markets while having to cope with subdued consumer spending at home.

20110927
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SIRTE, Libya (Reuters) - Snipers defending Muammar Gaddafi's hometown of Sirte held off an advance on Tuesday by interim government forces into the centre of the city, one of the last bastions of supporters of the ousted Libyan leader.

20110927
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LONDON (Reuters) - The investigation into the 1988 bombing of a U.S.-bound airliner over Lockerbie in Scotland is closed and Tripoli will not release more evidence that could lead to others being charged, Libya's interim leaders said on Monday.

20110927
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TRIPOLI/ALGIERS (Reuters) - Tuareg tribesmen fought skirmishes at the weekend with armed groups affiliated to Libya's interim government, two sources with local contacts told Reuters, a clash that highlighted the challenges Libya's new rulers face in winning over fractious tribes.

20110927
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TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libya's new rulers plan to abolish the state security courts used by Muammar Gaddafi to imprison political dissidents, the country's interim justice minister said on Monday.

20110927
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RABAT (Reuters) - The death toll from clashes at the weekend after a soccer match in Western Sahara has reached 7, Morocco's MAP official news agency reported on Tuesday.

20110927
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KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Police used tear gas on Monday to disperse around 300 people who demonstrated for several hours in the Sudanese capital against spiralling inflation, witnesses and activists said.

20110927
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CAIRO (Reuters) - Amnesty International urged Egypt on Monday to immediately release a detained blogger who has been on hunger strike for more than a month.

20110927
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LUSAKA (Reuters) - New Zambian President Michael Sata told Beijing on Monday he welcomed Chinese companies investing in Africa's biggest copper producer but only if they obeyed the law, especially by employing more Zambian workers.

20110926
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NAIROBI (Reuters) - Wangari Maathai, the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize for her campaigns to save Kenyan forests, died in hospital on Sunday after a long struggle with cancer.

20110926
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LISBON (Reuters) - Angolan police on Sunday blocked about 100 protesters from marching through the capital, said Portugal's state news agency, in the second youth rally in under a month demanding President Jose Eduardo dos Santos relinquish power after 32 years.

20110926
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TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Muammar Gaddafi's chief spokesman said on Sunday the deposed Libyan leader and his family had not helped themselves to Libya's oil wealth and that they were "among the poorest citizens".

20110926
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CAIRO (Reuters) - Lawyers representing the families of those killed in the uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak said on Sunday that Egypt's top general had been given an easy ride in questioning behind closed doors at the trial of the deposed president.

20110926
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As the world's finance czars clamored this week for decisive action to clean up Europe's debt crisis, ministers from the planet's poorest region Africa were quietly saying "been there, done that".

20110926
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SIRTE, Libya (Reuters) - Libya's interim rulers said on Sunday they had found a mass grave containing the bodies of 1,270 inmates killed by Muammar Gaddafi's security forces in a 1996 massacre at a Tripoli prison.

20110926
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TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libya's interim authorities said on Sunday they had found a mass grave in the capital containing the bodies of more than 1,270 people killed by Muammar Gaddafi's security forces in a 1996 massacre at Tripoli's Abu Salim prison.

20110926
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NORTH OF BANI WALID, Libya (Reuters) - The hilltop desert badlands of Bani Walid could be where Muammar Gaddafi's supporters make their final stand. They could hardly have picked a better place.

20110925
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SIRTE, Libya (Reuters) - Libyan interim government forces backed by NATO warplanes have mounted their deepest thrust into Muammar Gaddafi's home town of Sirte, getting as close as half a kilometre from the centre of the deposed leader's coastal stronghold.

20110925
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The World Bank said on Saturday it was more than tripling funding to $1.88 billion for a worsening drought in Horn of Africa countries affecting more than 13 million people.

20110925
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TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Weapons seized from sites in Tripoli have been taken to other parts of Libya by fighters who filled the capital to overthrow Muammar Gaddafi, a representative of one of the city's armed groups said on Saturday.