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Reuters
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - North Sudan's army battled southern-aligned troops across the volatile Southern Kordofan border state for a seventh day on Saturday, adding to tensions ahead of talks between the northern and southern leaders.

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Reuters
ZAWIYAH, Libya (Reuters) - Libyan troops loyal to Muammar Gaddafi fought gun battles with rebels in the town of Zawiyah on Saturday, witnesses said, shutting the coastal highway that links the capital Tripoli with Tunisia.

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Reuters
BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - A Libyan rebel military spokesman said a senior aide to leader Muammar Gaddafi was wounded on Saturday in a NATO air strike on a city near Tripoli and was being treated in hospital.

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Reuters
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somalia's prime minister said on Saturday he would not resign unless the country's parliament endorses an agreement signed by the country's president and speaker that stipulates he leaves office within 30 days.

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Reuters
DAFNIYA, Libya (Reuters) - Rebels at this Mediterranean front-line in Libya say the tank was 300 metres away and in the open when it fired the rounds that did the most damage.

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xinhua
KAMPALA, June 11 (Xinhua) -- Uganda’s new Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi regards highly China's partnership with the East African country in economic development, noting that within the next five years Uganda will go through an economic transformation.

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xinhua
DAR ES SALAAM, June 11 (Xinhua) -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Saturday arrived in Tanzania for a three-day official visit to enhance bilateral relations and partnership between the two countries.

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xinhua
MOGADISHU, June 11 (Xinhua) -- The Somali government on Saturday confirmed that its forces killed Fazul Abdullah Mohamed who was Al Qaeda’s chief operative in East Africa.

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xinhua
BENGHAZI, Libya, June 11 (Xinhua) -- Libyan rebel fighters caught 17 soldiers of the troops loyal to leader Muammar Gaddafi on Saturday in a battle in the western town of Zawiyah, a rebel's spokesman told Xinhua.

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xinhua
ADDIS ABABA, June 11(Xinhua) -- The African Union High Level Implementation Panel (AUHIP) for Sudan will convene a summit meeting here on Jun 12-13 to discuss immediate issues between northern and southern Sudan.

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xinhua
KHARTOUM, June 11 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Special Envoy on African Affairs Liu Guijin on Saturday urged north and south Sudan to adhere to the peace option, commit themselves to calmness, exercise self-restraint and adopt the principle of dialogue to resolve the outstanding issues between them.

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allafrica
Albertina Sisulu has been celebrated in obituaries as a political leader in her own right, as the matriarch of a political dynasty whose stature rivals that of the Mandelas, and as "mother of the nation" -- a term once reserved only for Winnie Madikizela-Mandela. Less well known is how she helped to change relations between South Africa and the United States.

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allafrica
Ouagadougou — Despite decisively putting down the most recent mutiny by rebellious soldiers, the Burkinabé government is facing questions over its ability to provide a long-term resolution to a crisis that has gripped the country for several months.

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allafrica
The international community sought on Friday to put concerted pressure on SADC to push parties in the Global Political Agreement to adopt an election roadmap that will guarantee free and fair elections in Zimbabwe.

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Xinhua
TUNIS, June 10 (Xinhua) -- More and more foreign diplomats and businessmen are fleeing Libya to neighboring Tunisia amid intensified NATO bombardment to expedite defiant leader Muammar Gaddafi's demise.

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Xinhua
UNITED NATIONS, June 10 (Xinhua) -- Thousands of people have been displaced by recent clashes between the Sudan Armed Forces ( SAF) and elements of the southern Sudan People's Liberation Army ( SPLA) in the South Kordofan region of Sudan and its regional capital Kadugli, UN spokesman Martin Nesirky told reporters here Friday.

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Xinhua
MOGADISHU, June 10 (Xinhua) -- Somalia's interior and security minister on Friday died after sustaining severe wounds in a suicide attack at his home in the capital Mogadishu, a government official said.

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Xinhua
ADDIS ABABA, June 10 (Xinhua) -- Chairperson of the African Union Commission (AUC) Jean Ping participated as invitee in the third meeting of the International Contact Group (ICG) on Libya held in Abu-Dhabi of the United Arab Emirates, the pan-African bloc said here on Friday.

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Xinhua
JOHANNESBURG, June 10 (Xinhua) -- Minister in the South African presidency Trevor Manuel on Friday denied he is in the running for the post of International Monetary Fund managing director.

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aljazeera
Clashes near the Libyan rebel-held city of Misurata have killed 31 people, according to a doctor at Hikma Hospital.