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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African President Jacob Zuma will travel to Tripoli on Monday to hold discussions with Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, the presidency said in a statement on Wednesday.

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TRIPOLI (Reuters) - NATO has carried out its heaviest air strikes against Libya's capital in more than two months of bombing, amid upbeat comments from France and the United States on progress towards ending Muammar Gaddafi's rule.

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KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan's president on Tuesday refused to withdraw troops from the disputed Abyei region they seized over the weekend, defying international calls for them to pull out and raising the stakes in a standoff with the south.

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CAIRO (Reuters) - Hosni Mubarak was ordered on Tuesday to stand trial for the killing of protesters and could face the death penalty, scotching speculation the former leader would be spared public humiliation by Egypt's military rulers.

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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa has culled 10,000 ostriches but an outbreak of avian flu which resulted in the halt of ostrich-meat exports to the European Union is "on-going," the department of agriculture said on Tuesday.

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two more Somalis pleaded guilty in U.S. court on Tuesday for pirating a yacht that led to the murder of two American couples and face mandatory sentences of life in prison.

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ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Ivorian forces loyal to both former president Laurent Gbagbo and current president Alassane Ouattara committed war crimes during a violent standoff over a disputed poll, Amnesty International said on Wednesday.

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XinhuaKAMPALA, May 24 (Xinhua) -- Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni is consulting his regional counterparts to prevent the situation in Sudan's oil-rich region of Abyei turning into a fully-blown war that would comprise peace efforts in the region, a senior government official said on Tuesday.

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ABUJA, May 24 (Xinhua) -- The Nigerian government has released the program for the inauguration of President Goodluck Jonathan on May 29.

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Ivory Coast's President Alassane Ouattara has warned neighboring countries that mercenaries may threaten the security of West Africa.

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Forces loyal to embattled Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi have pounded the western town of Zintan near the border with Tunisia.

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A major Egyptian political organization has called for the boycott of a nationwide protest next Friday, insisting that acceleration of former President Hosni Mubarak's trial as the objective of the rallies is misleading.

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A plume of smoke has risen in Tripoli after several large explosions from NATO airstrikes once again rocked the Libyan capital, killing at least three people.

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TRIPOLI (Reuters) - NATO warplanes hammered Tripoli on Tuesday with some of their heaviest air strikes yet after the United States said Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi would "inevitably" be forced from power.

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DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) - Two businessmen have been jailed for defrauding Tanzania's central bank of over $1 million in the first of a series of cases on scams on the bank that cost the country $87 million in 2005, their lawyer said on Tuesday.

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ABIDJAN (Reuters) - British companies are illegally dumping thousands of tonnes of harmful electronic waste such as old computers in West Africa, instead of recycling them, an investigation by an environmental group said on Monday.

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Sudan has risked $38 billion in potential debt relief and other incentives by occupying Abyei and must agree to resume talks on the disputed region quickly, the U.S. special envoy for Sudan said on Monday.

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CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's public prosecutor has unfrozen the assets of 13 businessmen on a list of people barred from trading because of graft investigations launched after the fall of Hosni Mubarak, the Cairo stock exchange said on Monday.

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CAIRO (Reuters) - Two of Egypt's most prominent youth groups walked out of a conference of national dialogue, saying members of ousted President Hosni Mubarak's party were using the meeting to try to return to political life.

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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) said on Monday it would seek a 14 percent rise in salaries from gold and coal miners in upcoming wage talks.