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LILONGWE (Reuters) - Malawi has expelled the British ambassador after he criticised the southern African country's leadership as autocratic in a leaked diplomatic cable, a government spokesman said on Wednesday.

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ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - The African Union on Tuesday accused Western nations of undermining its efforts to find a homegrown solution to the Libya conflict and said the civil war was in danger of becoming a stalemate.

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CAIRO (Reuters) Saboteurs blew up a pipeline running through Egypt's North Sinai on Wednesday that supplies gas to Israel and Jordan, a security source told Reuters.

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NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenyan police are hunting three individuals they suspect of planning to carry out suicide bombings, including two known to have received training in neighbouring Somalia, a haven for hardline Islamist militants.

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RABAT (Reuters) - Morocco's government has agreed to raise public sector salaries and the minimum wage as growing demands for reform put pressure on the Arab world's longest-serving dynasty.

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TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Britain and the United States plan to step up military pressure on Muammar Gaddafi on Tuesday, as the Libyan leader's army presses its bloody siege of the rebel-held city of Misrata.

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KAMPALA (Reuters) - Uganda accused Irish and Dutch diplomats of breaching rules to visit detained opposition leaders in jail and said some unnamed countries were funding the opposition to destabilise the country.

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Often seen as the most keenly contested electoral exercise, as Nigerians file out today to vote in the governorship election, signals emanating from some states yesterday indicate that several governors are on edge in the face of tough opposition challengers. The other polls also holding today include the state house of Assembly and the postponed National Assembly ones.

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Human rights activists and southern African exiles, organised by the Swaziland Vigil, are planning to protest outside one of London's most expensive hotels this evening to condemn the decision to invite King Mswati III to the royal wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton.

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Nairobi — North Sudan's governing National Congress Party (NCP) has more than once proved to be able to overcome divisions - but a rare show of discord between senior party officials this week has indicated it might be teetering on the edge of implosion.

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The Uganda Communication Commission (UCC) is under pressure from security apparatus to block social media platforms as activists and politicians intensify "Walk to Work" campaign actions protesting the high cost of fuel and other commodities.

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Kampala — Ugandan opposition leaders were Monday morning blocked from visiting their detained colleagues Kizza Besigye and Norbert Mao.

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Before a popular revolt ousted Egypt's autocratic president this year, it seemed certain that a film about the desperation of Cairo's poor would never reach the country's cinemas.

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TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libya's rebel-held city of Misrata won no respite from two months of bitter siege as Muammar Gaddafi's forces bombarded the city and battled rebel fighters, despite pulling out of the city centre.

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UYO, Nigeria (Reuters) - After a parliamentary vote delayed by administrative chaos and a presidential election that triggered deadly rioting, Nigerians head to the polls on Tuesday to elect state governors who exert more control on their lives.

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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia said on Tuesday it will not support any United Nations Security Council resolutions on Libya which could escalate the conflict in the North African nation, local news agencies reported.

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HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe is considering legislation to force miners to fund development in local communities, the state-owned Herald newspaper said on Tuesday, citing Ministry of Mines and Mining Development officials.

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N'DJAMENA (Reuters) - Chadians voted on Monday in an election almost guaranteed to secure President Idriss Deby a fourth term in office, as his main rivals boycotted the race.

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BEIJING (Reuters) - China said on Tuesday it will send its Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi to Egypt in a show of support, marking Beijing's first big diplomatic foray into building ties with new governments emerging from upheaval across the Arab world.

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NOUAKCHOTT (Reuters) - Security forces using teargas and batons dispersed several hundred anti-government protesters in the Mauritanian capital Nouakchott on Monday, the most serious clash in the West African state for nearly two months.