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The death toll from clashes between Muslims and Christians in the Egyptian capital Cairo has risen to 10, state TV said on Sunday.

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Nairobi — As the world celebrated the killing of Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in Pakistan Sunday by US Special Forces, East Africa stared at a possible new political nightmare.

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No fewer than 20 people have been feared killed and 20 houses destroyed during an attack on Kurum village in Bogoro Local government Area of Bauchi state.

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TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisia's prime minister suggested on Sunday that July elections for an assembly to draw up a new constitution could be delayed, potentially fuelling unease among anti-government protesters over the path to democracy.

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KINSHASA (Reuters) - Democratic Republic of Congo's plans to hold parliamentary and presidential elections in November are unconstitutional and unrealistic, the country's leading opposition parties said on Sunday.

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CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's military-led government faced a major challenge after two days of clashes between Muslims and Christians in which state media reported 12 people died and 238 were injured.

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ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Ivory Coast resumed cocoa bean exports on Sunday more than three months after they were halted by the country's political conflict, officials and a Reuters witness said.

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MARRAKESH, Morocco (Reuters) - Thousands of protesters marched in Morocco on Sunday to demand reform in the Arab world's longest-serving dynasty and to oppose militant violence after a deadly bomb attack.

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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African mobile operator MTN said on Sunday it had resolved a fee row with the government of Guinea that had seen the west African country seize its assets there.

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TUNIS (Reuters) - Forces loyal to Libya's Muammar Gaddafi are hiding tanks and artillery and using "shoot and scoot" tactics in Misrata, frustrating NATO air efforts to break a weeks-long siege of the rebel-held Libyan city.

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WASHINGTON/ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - The Obama administration took some heat off Pakistan on Sunday, saying it had no evidence that Islamabad knew Osama bin Laden was living in the country before he was killed by U.S. commandos in a garrison town a short drive from the capital.

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TUNIS (Reuters) - A Tunisian court convicted on Saturday a nephew of ousted president Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali's wife on charges of drug use and sentenced him to two years in jail, the official TAP news agency said.

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BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - The head of the rebel forces in eastern Libya retracted on Saturday an assertion by a rebel spokesman that Italy had agreed to supply them with weapons to aid in their fight to oust leader Muammar Gaddafi.

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Cote D'Ivoire's Alassane Ouattara took his presidential oath Friday, cementing his rule over the West African state in a tense ceremony conducted by an ally of ousted leader Laurent Gbagbo.

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Doha — Tunisia's former interior minister has warned that lingering members of the country's former political elite may carry out a coup d'etat if Islamists win a majority in the upcoming election.

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Cape Town — Governor of Bank of Botswana Linah Mohohlo has advised African countries to begin to build blocks across the continent to boost their fortunes.

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Addis Ababa — The Ethiopian government has started receiving food and non-food aid for hundreds of thousands of vulnerable people in the country's southern and south-eastern lowlands after an appeal in April, Agriculture Minister Mitiku Kassa told IRIN.

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Geneva — While foreign direct investment in least developed countries (LDCs) in Africa has risen sharply over the past decade, most of it went to resource-rich economies and had little impact on employment creation.

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ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Ivory Coast's Alassane Ouattara took his presidential oath on Friday, cementing his rule over the West African state in a tense ceremony conducted by an ally of ousted leader Laurent Gbagbo.

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TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisian police used teargas on Saturday to disperse protesters demanding the departure of the government and angry at a heavy handed response to demonstrations this week.