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TRIPOLI (Reuters) - A U.N envoy trying to find a way to end the war in Libya said after talks with the prime minister in Tripoli on Tuesday that the government and the rebels remained far apart in the drive for an end to the crisis.

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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain is to expel all Libyan embassy staff from the country, a Foreign Office spokesman said on Wednesday.

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ReutersTRIPOLI (Reuters) - The former Libyan intelligence agent convicted of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing over Scotland made a rare public appearance on Tuesday at a rally in support of Muammar Gaddafi.

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KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan said on Tuesday it was ready to negotiate an end to fighting in its main oil state of South Kordofan but accused armed groups there of trying to prolong the violence by teaming up with rebels in neighbouring Darfur.

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HAMBURG (Reuters) - A United Nations aid agency has purchased about 90,000 tonnes of wheat for donation to Ethiopia, European traders said on Wednesday.

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ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan said on Tuesday he will send a constitutional amendment bill to parliament aimed at changing presidential and state governorship tenures to a longer, single term.

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VOINJAMA, Liberia (Reuters) - Liberia's Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf pledged on Tuesday to step up the fight against unemployment in her West African nation if re-elected later this year, saying in an interview she was confident of securing a second term.

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Mogadishu — The prime minister of Somali transitional federal government on Tuesday charged international aid agencies, including UN relief organizations with not properly assisting the drought displaced Somalis.

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Addis Ababa — Ethiopia and Uganda have signed bilateral agreements to cooperate in regional security operations.

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Guelmim — Seventy-eight people were killed, and three were seriously injured following a crash, on Tuesday, of a C-130 aircraft of the Royal Armed Forces northeast the southern city of Guelmim, the Royal Armed Forces (FAR) said in a statement.

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GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) - Rwanda handed over six orphaned gorillas to the Democratic Republic of Congo after poachers smuggled them out of the country to sell as exotic pets, or for consumption as bush meat.

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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African coal workers went on strike on Monday seeking inflation-busting 14 percent wage increases, but power utility Eskom said the stoppage would not have an immediate impact on plants providing electricity to Africa's largest economy.

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CAIRO (Reuters) - A court postponed on Monday the trial of Egypt's former interior minister over the killing of protesters until next week so that he will be tried alongside ousted President Hosni Mubarak.

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BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - A U.N. envoy will seek to persuade warring parties in Libya to accept a plan that envisages a ceasefire and a power-sharing government - but with no role for Muammar Gaddafi, a European diplomat said.

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PORT LOUIS (Reuters) - Mauritius' anti-corruption watchdog arrested the Indian Ocean island's health minister on Friday after he was accused of inflating a government tender to acquire a private hospital.

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BLANTYRE (Reuters) - Shops were closed and Malawi troops patrolled streets in major urban areas on Friday after rare protests against President Bingu wa Mutharika this week left 18 people dead in the destitute south African state.

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RABAT (Reuters) - Morocco said on Friday one of its paramilitaries had died after a shoot-out with suspected Algerian rebels, the first such incident since the start of an insurgency in Algeria two decades ago.

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MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somali Islamist rebels accused the United Nations on Thursday of exaggerating the severity of the drought gripping the south of the country and of politicizing the humanitarian crisis.

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SEOUL (Reuters) - The humanitarian crisis unraveling in southern Somalia, which the United Nations says is the worst famine in the area for 20 years, has been compounded by political instability that is nearly impossible to deal with, a top UN official said.

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GENEVA (Reuters) - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Friday that it had made its first visit to former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo, along with other detainees in the north this week.