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CONAKRY (Reuters) - Guinean President Alpha Conde escaped two attacks on his residence on Tuesday that killed at least three people and left his home riddled with bullets, in assaults which authorities linked to former senior officers in the army.

20110720
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JUBA (Reuters) - South Sudan has sold its first oil this week, heralding its appearance on the market 10 days after gaining independence and despite having yet to reach a deal with the north on the split of oil revenues.

20110719
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CONAKRY (Reuters) - Guinea's President Alpha Conde escaped a sustained rocket and gunfire attack by unknown assailants on his residence on Tuesday that left one person dead and his home riddled with bullet holes.

20110719
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TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libyan and U.S. officials met face-to-face, but while Tripoli said it was seeking talks with no preconditions, Washington said it delivered a clear message: Muammar Gaddafi must go.

20110719
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CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian Prime Minister Essam Sharaf was taken to hospital because of blood pressure problems on Monday, and the swearing in of a much-changed cabinet was delayed.

20110719
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MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) - A U.S. man pleaded guilty on Monday to providing material support to a militant group that recruited young men of Somali descent to fight in Somalia, at least two of whom blew themselves up in attacks.

20110719
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RABAT (Reuters) - Constitutional reform crafted by Morocco's king protects human rights better but won't amount to much unless the state apologises for past abuses and holds to account those responsible, a top rights group said.

20110719
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BANJUL (Reuters) - Gambia's President Yahya Jammeh said on Monday neither an election nor a coup could remove him from power, adding that it would take divine intervention for him to leave the post he has held for 17 years.

20110719
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CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - South Africa's fuel workers union has rejected a minimum 8 percent wage increase and is holding out for a double-digit hike, the union's chief negotiator said on Tuesday, signalling a week-long industry strike is likely to drag on.

20110719
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa celebrated Nelson Mandela's 93rd birthday on Monday with songs by millions of children and calls for public service, but the nation he led out of apartheid is divided by poverty and his ANC movement seems to many to be losing its moral compass.

20110719
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LAGOS (Reuters) - Nigeria's senior oil workers' union PENGASSAN said it would join a three-day strike this week, including shutting down oil and gas installations, after it said the government and private sector employers failed to implement a minimum wage law.

20110718
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MISRATA, Libya (Reuters) - Libyan rebel forces on Sunday entered the oil town of Brega and fought street battles there with forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi, a rebel spokesman said, in the biggest offensive in eastern Libya in weeks.

20110718
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia on Monday criticised the United States and other countries that have recognised the Libyan rebels' National Transitional Council as a legitimate government, saying they were taking sides in the civil war.

20110718
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July (Reuters) - Egypt's former President Hosni Mubarak, hospitalised since April and due to stand trial in August, is in a coma, his lawyer said on Sunday, although the state news agency MENA cited a hospital official as denying the report.

20110718
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CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt picked a new finance minister on Sunday as part of a cabinet reshuffle demanded by protesters camped out in central Cairo, and the outgoing minister said policy-making had become "confused".

20110718
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SAO TOME (Reuters) - Sao Tome's former president Manuel Pinto da Costa and current parliament speaker Evaristo de Carvalho will face each other in a run-off for the country's presidency after neither won an outright majority in Sunday's election, the election body said.

20110718
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MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somali pirates have seized a United Arab Emirates owned and flagged oil tanker with a crew of 16 people, the European Union's naval force for Somalia said on Monday.

20110718
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MONROVIA (Reuters) - West African leaders urged the United Nations and regional grouping ECOWAS on Sunday to step up monitoring of the Liberia-Ivory Coast border after signs mercenaries have been operating there since the end of the Ivory Coast conflict in April.

20110718
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RABAT (Reuters) - Thousands of supporters and opponents of constitutional changes offered by Morocco's king protested on Sunday, indicating debate over the country's future sparked by the "Arab Spring" uprisings has not ended.

20110718
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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council said on Friday it was gravely concerned about violence in a volatile and oil-rich Sudan border territory, and called for an immediate end to hostilities there.