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BLANTYRE (Reuters) - Malawian President Bingu wa Mutharika, facing a public outcry over his administration, has dissolved his cabinet, a state-owned radio reported on Friday.

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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's ruling African National Congress on Friday charged controversial youth leader Julius Malema with "sowing divisions" in its ranks and bringing the party into disrepute.

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HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's government has given foreign companies including miners and banks a 14-day ultimatum to submit plans on how they propose to transfer majority stakes to local owners or risk losing permits, state media reported on Friday.

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DAKAR (Reuters) - Expected aid cutbacks in developed nations and a push by some African governments to tackle yawning infrastructure gaps by public-private partnerships present a real opportunity for investors on the continent, the World Bank private sector arm said on Friday.

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ZAWIYAH, Libya (Reuters)- - Fierce fighting broke out on Friday in the Libyan city of Zawiyah, Reuters witnesses said, in an apparent counter-offensive by Muammar Gaddafi's forces against rebels advancing toward Tripoli.

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CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt lodged a formal protest with Israel on Friday over the killings of three members of its security forces during an Israeli border raid against Palestinians.

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MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Members of a radical Nigerian Islamist sect shot dead three policemen and a civilian after breaking into the house of one of the officers in the northeastern town of Maiduguri on Friday, police said.

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ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan added billionaire businessman Aliko Dangote and the managing director of Access Bank, Aigboje Imoukhuede, to his newly formed economic management team, bringing more private sector weight to his line-up.

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MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan, keen to strengthen Ankara's ties with the African continent, said on Friday he would set up an embassy in Somalia and promised major infrastructure projects in Mogadishu.

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HARGEISA (Reuters) - Somaliland has struck a deal with Chinese businessmen to extend its Berbera port as well as TO build a refinery and new roads in the breakaway northern enclave, its president said.

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RAS JIDR, Tunisia (Reuters) - Five months after Sudanese worker Mohammed Hassan fled civil war in Libya he is still stranded in a tent city just across the border in Tunisia.

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LISBON (Reuters) - Lawmakers from the Angolan opposition party UNITA walked out of a key parliament debate on Tuesday, accusing the ruling MPLA of undermining the independence of the national elections committee ahead of a ballot next year, state news agency Angop reported.

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KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan said on Tuesday it would form its own committee to assess the human rights situation in its conflict-ridden Southern Kordofan region, a day after the U.N. called for a probe into reports of violence and abuses there.

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LILONGWE (Reuters) - Some leading Malawi rights groups said on Tuesday they could pull out of mass demonstrations scheduled for this week against President Bingu wa Mutharika as they await a court decision on whether the rallies would be legal.

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HARARE (Reuters) - A retired Zimbabwean army general and key figure in internal battles over President Robert Mugabe's succession in his ZANU-PF party has died in a fire at his farmhouse, government officials said on Tuesday.

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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Unions representing more than 1 million South Africa state workers said on Tuesday they had reached a wage increase deal with the government to avert a mass strike that could have slowed Africa's largest economy.

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CAIRO (Reuters) - An army crackdown on armed groups in Egypt's lawless north Sinai has netted four Islamist militants as they prepared to blow up a gas pipeline in the city of el-Arish, security sources said on Tuesday.

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ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Ivory Coast reopened Abidjan's main prison on Tuesday and promised to improve notoriously poor conditions there, almost five months after insurgents freed its more than 5,000 inmates.

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DAKAR (Reuters) - Benin is seeking to buy planes and patrol boats to fight a rise in piracy off its coast, and may also ask the United Nations for help policing regional waters, the U.S. envoy to the West African state said on Tuesday.

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ZAWIYAH, Libya (Reuters) - Libyan rebels said on Monday they had seized a second strategic town near Tripoli within 24 hours, cutting off the capital's two main supply routes after the boldest advances of their six-month-old uprising against Muammar Gaddafi.