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Libyan Prime Minister Al Baghdadi Ali al-Mahmoudi says the regime of longtime ruler Muammar Gaddafi is prepared for an immediate UN-monitored ceasefire in the crisis-hit North African country.

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The African Union (AU) has called for a diplomatic solution to the crisis in Libya amid the increasing Western alliance pressure on the Libyan regime to relinquish power.

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The UN says all the residents of the Sudanese oil town of Abyei have left due to the recent violence on the border between South and North Sudan.

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Reuters
ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Ivory Coast's former ruling party acknowledged on Wednesday that President Alassane Ouattara had won November's disputed election, but said it would not join a unity government until ex-president Laurent Gbagbo was freed.

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Reuters
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African President Jacob Zuma will visit Tripoli next week for talks with Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and is optimistic that the meeting could help find a lasting solution to the Libyan crisis.

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Reuters
KHARTOUM/JUBA (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of people fled Sudan's contested Abyei region as northern militias accused of helping seize the area over the weekend moved further south, the United Nations said on Wednesday.

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Reuters
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations has proposed a new peacekeeping force of some 7,000 blue-helmeted troops for south Sudan once it secedes from the north in July, according to a new U.N. report published on Wednesday.

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Reuters
LA BAULE, France (Reuters) - Tunisia, touch-paper for unrest that swept the Arab world, will suffer rising unemployment through most of 2011 as the economy struggles to grow, Employment Minister Said Aidi told Reuters on Wednesday.

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Reuters
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo have arrested one of the masterminds of Rwanda's 1994 genocide, a United Nations court handling their cases said on Wednesday.

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NOUAKCHOTT (Reuters) - Mauritanian security forces shot dead a suspected member of al Qaeda's North African wing and captured another after a firefight in the country's remote desert late last week, the army said.

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Reuters
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's Prime Minister promoted his interim government's achievements on Wednesday since taking office in February before a rally planned in Cairo on Friday.

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Reuters
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Denmark has signed an agreement with the Seychelles to enable the Danish navy operating off the Horn of Africa to hand over pirates to the Seychelles to be prosecuted, officials said on Wednesday.

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PressTV
Tunisia is set to hold elections for a Constituent Assembly on July 24 despite calls from the election commission for a delay until October.

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PressTV
South African President Jacob Zuma plans to visit Libya in order to discuss an exit strategy for embattled ruler Muammar Gaddafi.

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Xinhua
KHARTOUM, May 24 (Xinhua) -- Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir said Tuesday that north Sudan would not allow double nationality, and southerners who want to reside in north Sudan must get residence permission after July 9, 2011, when south Sudan will be officially independent.

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Xinhua
LAGOS, May 25 (Xinhua) -- Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan expects a new federal cabinet two weeks after his inauguration, barring any unforeseen circumstances.

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TRIPOLI, May 24 (Xinhua) -- A NATO airstrike killed 19 people and injured over 130 others in Tripoli overnight Tuesday, a government spokesman said.

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KHARTOUM, May 24 (Xinhua) -- Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir said Tuesday that Abyei "belongs to north Sudan" and the Sudanese army would not pull out of it.

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KHARTOUM, May 24 (Xinhua) -- The Sudanese government on Tuesday reiterated commitment to protect the civilians in Abyei and provide them with relief supplies.

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TUNIS, May 24 (Xinhua) -- Following a cabinet meeting held on Tuesday, the country's interim government recommended maintaining the election date for the country's constituent assembly on July 24, the state-run press agency TAP reported.