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PARIS (Reuters) - World leaders meet in Paris on Thursday to discuss Libya's future, with hosts France and Britain hoping to show that a costly military campaign can lead to a political transition that avoids the mistakes of Iraq.

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TRIPOLI/TAWARGA, Libya (Reuters) - Libyan forces backed by NATO bombers struck at loyalist troops dug in around Muammar Gaddafi's hometown on Wednesday, as refugees streamed out of the besieged bastion fearing a bloody showdown in the coming days.

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CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - South Africa has reversed gains in its goal of transferring 30 percent of commercial farmland to blacks by 2014 after aspirant farmers resold land bought for them by the government, a cabinet minister said on Wednesday.

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PERTH (Reuters) - South Africa's debate on the question of nationalising mines is discouraging investment, but the policy will be clear by mid-2012, an adviser to mines minister Susan Shabangu told reporters on the sidelines of a mining conference on Wednesday.

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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - With his political career at stake, firebrand South African politician Julius Malema faced a ruling ANC disciplinary hearing for a second day on Wednesday as Johannesburg police deployed in force to prevent any repeat of riots by Malema's supporters.

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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A fiscal crisis gripping Swaziland, Africa's last absolute monarchy, is deepening despite an emergency $370 million loan from South Africa earlier this month, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Wednesday.

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ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Ivory Coast is in talks with creditors over its defaulted $2.3 billion Eurobond but there is "no doubt" repayments will restart in 2012, the managing director of the treasury said on Wednesday.

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HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe needs $13 billion -- about double its estimated GDP -- to revive its dilapidated energy sector, but is still a "long way" from having a normal relationship with the World Bank, a senior bank official said on Wednesday.

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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) said on Wednesday it had agreed a 2-year wage deal with Anglo American Platinum, the world's top producer of the precious metal which accounts for about 40 percent of global supply.

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ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigerian authorities investigating last week's fatal bombing of the U.N. headquarters arrested two members of Islamist sect Boko Haram a week before the attack and said they suspect a third member with an al Qaeda connection led the plot.

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TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libya's new masters meet their Western backers in Turkey on Thursday to secure funds and make plans for a future without Muammar Gaddafi after they announced a million dollar bounty for his capture.

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OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) - Burkina Faso, a former recipient of large amounts of Libyan aid, has offered Muammar Gaddafi exile but has also recognised the rebel National Transitional Council (NTC) as Libya's government.

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TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libya's new masters offered a million-dollar bounty for the fugitive Muammar Gaddafi on Wednesday, after he urged his men to carry on a battle that kept the capital in a state of fear.

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BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - Libyan rebels closed in on Muammar Gaddafi's home town of Sirte on Wednesday, the last remaining bastion of government loyalists and where Gaddafi himself could be hiding, rebels said.

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LONDON (Reuters) - British Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said on Wednesday he would like to see convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdel Basset al-Megrahi put back in jail after the overthow of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.

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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Sudan's U.N. envoy dismissed fresh allegations by a U.S. group that says it has identified a total of eight mass graves in the African country's conflict-ridden Southern Kordofan region.

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LONDON (Reuters) - West African countries are discussing the creation of a regional force to tackle growing piracy in the Gulf of Guinea, a senior Nigerian government official said on Wednesday.

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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's ruling African National Congress has charged four more members of its youth wing with violating its rules, piling pressure on a group that has rattled elements in the ANC leadership and investors with calls to nationalise mines.

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NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya's prime minister axed rebel party members from his cabinet on Wednesday, dismissing suspended higher education minister William Ruto, who has been named by the International Criminal Court as a suspect in post-election violence.

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NAIROBI (Reuters) - A Kenyan junior minister is suing the east African country's anti-corruption chief for defamation over his accusations that her husband attempted to buy his way out of an investigation.