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TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libyan government forces bombarded a residential area outside Misrata on Tuesday, said rebels trying to maintain their grip on the city in the face of a fierce onslaught.

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MOGADISHU (Reuters) - The United States voiced concerns on Tuesday about Somalia's decision to temporarily block dozens of lawmakers from travelling abroad as a power struggle among its bickering leaders intensified.

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ABIDJAN (Reuters) - In a muddy slum at the edge of Ivory Coast's main city, palm leaves stuck in reddish mounds of earth mark the mass graves of locals killed by rampaging gunmen.

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JUBA, Sudan (Reuters) - More than 80 rebels and civilians were killed when insurgents attacked a cattle camp in south Sudan, the army said on Tuesday, in the latest violence to mar preparations for the region's independence.

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Paris — Increasing industrial production of oil palm in sub-Saharan African countries, carried out by foreign corporations, is destroying the livelihoods of millions of Africans and the biodiversity of ecosystems. Despite this, industrialised countries' governments and development agencies continue to promote such production.

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SciDev.Net (London)

Kampala — Coffee farmers in Uganda are missing out on improved, disease-resistant varieties developed three years ago, because of a lack of government funding to roll them out, say scientists.

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IPS

Istanbul — Least Developed Countries do not need charity; they want more and smarter investments. This is the point of departure for the Fourth U.N. Conference for the world's poor countries (LDC-IV) begins in Istanbul, Turkey.

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UN News

United Nations human rights workers have found the bodies of nearly 70 people, apparently the victims of a militia backing the former Ivorian president Laurent Gbagbo, in a series of graves in a suburb of Côte d'Ivoire's biggest city, Abidjan.

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Egypt's army rulers face a dilemma as a bolder stance adopted by Islamists in the post-Mubarak era is worsening sectarian tension and triggering demands for the kind of crackdown that made the former president so unpopular.

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Wal-Mart's acquisition of South Africa's Massmart could lead to thousands of job losses and worsening labour conditions, the South African government will argue at a hearing that starts on Monday.

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Thirty-six people were killed when gusting winds capsized several boats on a lake in southeastern Togo at the weekend, the government and witnesses said.

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A stalemate on the battlefields of Libya and a political deadlock on the U.N. Security Council have left Western powers with a stark choice -- covertly aid the rebels or leave them in the lurch.

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Liberia signed a deal with the European Union on Monday promising to crack down on illegal logging on its territory, home to more than half of West Africa's rainforests, a group linked to the accord said.

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Egypt stepped up security around churches in Cairo on Monday after two days of clashes between minority Christians and Muslims that killed 12 people and highlighted rising inter-faith tensions.

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NATO planes pounded Libyan government weapons depots southeast of the town of Zintan on Monday, in a sign of widening conflict in the Western Mountains region as rebels battle to unseat Muammar Gaddafi.

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Switzerland has opened a money-laundering investigation following a criminal complaint lodged by the Ivory Coast government of President Alassane Ouattara, Swiss officials said on Monday.

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Angloplat and Implats, the world's top platinum miners, are cooperating with Zimbabwe on proposals to sell majority shares in their local operations to blacks, a government minister said on Monday.

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People in the shabby Tunisian city where a street vendor set himself on fire last December have seen two Arab leaders fall in the wave of protests they started. But they see little change in their lives.

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Sudan Tribune

Washington — U.S. and French officials were present at the inauguration ceremony of Djibouti president Ismail Omar Guelleh on Sunday along with Sudanese president Omer Hassan Al-Bashir.

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Sudan Tribune

Khartoum — The Egyptian government assured Sudan that president Omer Hassan Al-Bashir will not be arrested on its territories once Cairo ratifies the Rome Statute which is the founding treaty of the International Criminal Court (ICC).