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CAIRO (Reuters) - Senior police officers will testify on Monday at the trial of Hosni Mubarak, the first witnesses in a case that has stoked simmering tensions between supporters and opponents of the ousted Egyptian president.

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JOS, Nigeria (Reuters) - Muslim youths hacked a Christian family of eight to death in Nigeria's volatile Plateau state on Sunday, local officials said, continuing a week of violence that has pitted gangs from the two faiths against each other and civilians.

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JUBA (Reuters) - South Sudan said on Sunday it planned to move its capital to a more central location in the next few years, a project analysts say would be a costly distraction for a nation with almost no roads.

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KHARTOUM/JUBA (Reuters) - Sudan demanded on Sunday that the southern-aligned Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) cease operations in the country, stoking tensions with the newly independent south after fighting flared in border areas.

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NEAR BANI WALID, Libya (Reuters) - Tribal elders from the besieged
town of Bani Walid, a bastion of support for Muammar Gaddafi, came out negotiate on Sunday with fighters for Libya's interim government who have said they are ready to attack.

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MOGADISHU (Reuters) - At least 27 people have been killed in heavy fighting near the border of two semi-autonomous regions of Somalia, witnesses said on the eve of a political conference to hammer out a road map towards elections in the chaotic country.

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NORTH OF BANI WALID/TRIPOLI, Libya (Reuters) - Libya's interim council said it hoped to seize one of Muammar Gaddafi's last strongholds without resistance on Sunday as it tries to control the entire country and restore normality.

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JUBA (Reuters) - Seventeen people were killed in fighting between Sudan's army and rebels aligned to South Sudan in a Sudanese state on the border with the newly independent south, the official news agency SUNA said on Saturday.

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TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Documents found in the abandoned Tripoli office of Muammar Gaddafi's intelligence chief indicate the U.S. and British spy agencies helped the fallen strongman persecute Libyan dissidents, Human Rights Watch said on Saturday.

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LISBON (Reuters) - Angolan authorities arrested 24 people at an anti-government youth rally in the capital Luanda on Saturday during which several protesters, journalists and police officers were injured, according to media reports.

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PARIS (Reuters) - When the officials guiding Libya's post-Gaddafi transition list their most urgent tasks, they talk about supplying water, paying salaries or exporting oil, and then add something quite different -- fostering reconciliation.

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KHARTOUM/JUBA (Reuters) - Sudan's army and forces aligned to South Sudan clashed on Friday in a Sudanese state on the border with the newly independent south, prompting what witnesses said was an exodus of people from the state capital.

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TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libya's new leadership reaffirmed its commitment to democracy on Friday and worked on its priorities for spending billions of dollars released from the frozen assets of fugitive strongman Muammar Gaddafi.

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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Two Kenyan politicians offered people money to attack rivals' supporters after a disputed election in 2007 and gave them weapons and maps of where the targets lived, the International Criminal Court heard on Friday.

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TUNIS (Reuters) - Muammar Gaddafi's son Saif al-Islam has been travelling around close to Tripoli, meeting tribal leaders and preparing to retake the Libyan capital, his spokesman said on Friday.

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TRIPOLI (Reuters) - The huge numbers of weapons circulating in a postwar Libya with unsecured borders pose a risk to Europe and other nations, the European Union's senior representative in Tripoli said on Friday.

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MOGADISHU (Reuters) - A Malaysian television cameraman was shot dead on Friday and another wounded by African peacekeepers in the Somali capital of Mogadishu, witnesses and a local aid worker hosting the journalists said.

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ABIDJAN (Reuters) - An aggressive striker on the soccer field, Didier Drogba is now a peacemaker in his home country.

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TRIPOLI (Reuters) - The shortage of water in Tripoli and surrounding areas remains a serious problem but it is not critical, the U.N. humanitarian coordinator for Libya said, adding the body was putting in place stop-gap solutions.

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SOFIA (Reuters) - Bulgarian police stormed the Libyan embassy in Sofia on Friday and forced out diplomats of Muammar Gaddafi's regime after a new ambassador appointed by Libya's interim authority arrived in the Balkan country, the foreign ministry said.