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ISMAILIA, Egypt (Reuters) - Security forces in Egypt's Sinai peninsula say they are launching an operation to control those behind a series of attacks in the northern town of el-Arish and stations that export gas to Israel.

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MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somalia on Saturday called for the creation of a special humanitarian force to protect food aid convoys and feeding camps in the famine-hit Horn of Africa country and secure the capital.

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NIAMEY (Reuters) - Niger's government has launched a telephone hotline through which citizens can call to report the corrupt practices which have undermined the economy of one of the world's poorest nations, officials said on Saturday.

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BUJUMBURA (Reuters) - South Africa plans to invest in tourism, energy and infrastructure in Burundi to help the central African nation which is still struggling to revive its economy after two decades of civil war.

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BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany plans to waive debt of 240 million euros to Egypt if the funds are used to support democratic reforms, Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said on Friday after a meeting with his Egyptian counterpart.

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AJDABIYAH, Libya (Reuters) - Rebels on the eastern front of Libya's civil war lost 11 men in the past 24 hours fighting to capture the strategic oil terminal and refinery at Brega on the Mediterranean coast, hospital sources said.

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TRIPOLI (Reuters) - The impact of the West's two-pronged effort to oust Muammar Gaddafi was apparent this week in Tripoli, where doctors struggled to treat Libyans injured in recent NATO air strikes amid a deepening shortage of electricity and medical supplies.

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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - British Foreign Secretary William Hague has asked Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika to show restraint ahead of mass protests planned for next week, after his administration last month violently crushed anti-government rallies.

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DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) - Tanzania BP, an oil trading joint venture owned by the government and a subsidiary of commodity trader Trafigura, has been suspended from selling fuel for three months after refusing to do so because of a fall in oil prices, the energy regulator said.

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ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria distributed 616 billion naira from federal accounts to its three tiers of government for July, up by 1.6 percent from the previous month, the accountant general said on Friday.

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PORT LOUIS (Reuters) - Visitor arrivals to Mauritius rose by 1.3 percent between in July from a year earlier, buoyed by an increase in tourists from China and South Africa, the government said on Friday.

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GENEVA (Reuters) - A cholera epidemic is spreading in famine-hit Somalia, with alarming numbers of cases among people driven to the capital Mogadishu by a lack of food and water, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday.

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TUNIS (Reuters) - Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali's feared former security chief was acquitted on Friday on charges of forging passports to help relatives of the deposed Tunisian leader and his wife escape with cash and jewellery.

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KAMPALA (Reuters) - Uganda has invited Eritrea's leader, President Isaias Afewerki, accused by the West of stoking Somalia's Islamist rebellion and destabilising the east African region, to a state visit next week, Uganda's State House said.

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HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's annual inflation rate quickened to 3.3 percent year-on-year in July from 2.9 percent in June, the Zimbabwe National Statistical Agency said on Friday.

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ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Ivorian forces have carried out 26 extrajudicial killings in the past month, the U.N. mission said on Thursday, a revelation likely to increase pressure on President Alassane Ouattara to discipline his troops and bring some commanders to justice.

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ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Ivorian authorities arrested 57 soldiers from former president Laurent Gbagbo's regime on Thursday, and charged them with crimes ranging from murder and kidnapping to attacking state security and buying illegal arms, the military prosecutor said.

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SHALGHOUDA/BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - Libyan rebels said they had captured part of the oil town of Brega on Thursday while their forces in the west pushed toward Zawiyah, trying to get within striking distance of Muammar Gaddafi's capital.

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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon voiced alarm on Thursday over recent reports of civilians killed in Libya's civil war and called on all sides to do as much as possible to avoid killing innocent people.

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ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria's ministry of defence said on Thursday it will investigate military misconduct in the remote northeast of the country where a Joint Task Force (JTF) has been criticised for its handling of attacks by a radical Islamist sect.