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ALEXANDRIA, Egypt (Reuters) - An Egyptian activist, whose death last year contributed to the uprising that ousted President Hosni Mubarak, died from asphyxiation caused by a roll forced into his mouth while he was unconscious, the state news agency MENA reported on Saturday.

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CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt deported a French journalist on Saturday who had been placed on a banned list for allegedly insulting the country, security sources said.

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CAIRO (Reuters) - Thousands of Egyptian teachers demonstrated outside the cabinet office in central Cairo on Saturday, demanding higher pay and the sacking of the education minister.

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LUSAKA (Reuters) - Zambia's new leader Michael Sata will struggle to deliver quickly on his economic promises to the young and unemployed voters who propelled him to power without upsetting foreign investors in Africa's biggest copper producer, analysts said on Saturday.

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JUBA/KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan has deployed a heavily armoured brigade along a road leading to an armed opposition group's stronghold in Blue Nile State and may be poised to launch an attack, a satellite monitoring activist group said on Friday.

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MADRID (Reuters) - Pirates operating in West Africa have released a Spanish-owned tanker and its 23-member crew hijacked in the Gulf of Guinea on Sep. 14, a spokeswoman from Spain's foreign ministry said on Saturday.

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Ivory Coast called on Friday for international financial backing for a West African security plan in a volatile border region to help protect elections next month in Liberia.

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Libya's fugitive former ruler Muammar Gaddafi's daughter says her father is doing well, describing members of the National Transitional Council (NTC) as “traitors.”

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New Zambian President Michael Sata (R) takes the oath of office in Lusaka on September 23, 2011.

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LUSAKA (Reuters) - Zambian opposition leader Michael Sata, a critic of Chinese investment, was sworn in as president on Friday after an upset poll victory that ushered in a smooth handover of power in Africa's biggest copper producer.

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A global downturn may tone down the roar of Africa's bounding "lion" economies, but they can keep a spring in their step if governments deepen reforms and maintain prudent policies, the World Bank and IMF say.

20110924
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BENGHAZI/SIRTE, Libya (Reuters) - Libya's interim rulers will announce a "crisis" government within the next few days, signalling a breakthrough in efforts to form a more inclusive administration after the war that ousted Muammar Gaddafi.

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RABAT (Reuters) - Moroccan security has arrested three people, including an active blogger on jihadist websites, who had planned to receive training at an al Qaeda camp abroad in order to carry out attacks in Morocco, the Interior Ministry said on Friday.

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JUBA (Reuters) - South Sudan faces severe food shortages because the new African nation will produce less than half the food it needs to feed its population this year due to heavy rains and widespread violence, the United Nations said.

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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's President Jacob Zuma has launched a probe into a real estate deal by a former ally, the second major corruption investigation in two weeks, in what analysts called an attempt to defuse scandals that could threaten his party leadership.

20110924
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FREETOWN (Reuters) - Sierra Leone's police have imposed an indefinite ban on political rallies following a spate of violence in the West African nation which is still recovering from a long civil war, a police spokesman said on Friday.

20110924
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DAKAR (Reuters) - Liberia's top court may have to do some fancy footwork to keep next month's presidential elections on course, and allow President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, and some other leading candidates, to run.

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YAOUNDE (Reuters) - Cameroon's fuel subsidy bill may top $600 million by the end of the year, 25 percent over budget, as the central African nation seeks to shelter the public from rising global energy prices in an election year.

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RABAT (Reuters) - Morocco's cash-strapped government has offered flag carrier Royal Air Maroc 1.6 billion dirhams to shore up its finances hurt by growing competition, lower sales and higher fuel prices.

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CAIRO (Reuters) - An Egyptian youth coalition that played a major role in ousting President Hosni Mubarak has said it will field candidates for parliamentary elections to counter organised Islamist groups and remnants of the former regime.