20110417
Sudan Tribune

Khartoum — Sudanese authorities paid a ransom of 500 thousand pounds to free nine foreigners held captive in the restive Darfur region, a Sudanese court disclosed on Sunday.

20110418
PlusNews

Johannesburg — A three-country study has been halted after daily doses of the antiretroviral (ARV) Truvada, used as a pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), failed to prevent HIV infection in the women participating.

20110418
reuters

KANO, Nigeria (Reuters) - Soldiers patrolled the streets in Nigeria's mostly Muslim north on Tuesday and aid workers began to assess the toll from deadly rioting against President Goodluck Jonathan's election victory.

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reuters

BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - Western powers committed to helping rebels overthrow Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi face increasingly difficult choices on the military, economic and diplomatic front as the conflict enters its third month.

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reuters

RABAT (Reuters) - NATO warplanes launched air strikes on the Libyan capital Tripoli and Gaddafi's hometown of Sirte to the east on Tuesday, state television reported.

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reuters

TUNIS/BERLIN (Reuters) - Battling tanks and snipers in Misrata's streets, the rebels holding the city are exploiting a defender's natural advantage in urban warfare to survive a two-month onslaught by better-armed government troops.

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reuters

ROME (Reuters) - A meeting of Western and Middle Eastern states in Rome next month will seek ways of enabling oil from Libyan rebel areas to be sold on world markets, Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini said on Tuesday.

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reuters

ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Ivory Coast's newly-formed military is not ready to conduct security patrols without U.N. and French help as soldiers might be prone to looting on their own, a top Ivorian commander said on Monday.

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reuters

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran has appointed an ambassador to Egypt for the first time in 30 years as diplomatic relations are re-established following the fall of President Hosni Mubarak, Iran's Press TV reported on Tuesday.

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reuters

RABAT (Reuters) - Morocco hosted a visit by a Libyan deputy foreign minister on Monday, a rare diplomatic link between Muammar Gaddafi's government and one of the staunch allies of the Western coaltion determined to overthrow him.

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reuters

LONDON (Reuters) - Up to 200,000 deaths from severe malaria could be averted each year if malarial countries were to switch to a more expensive but more effective drug, the medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said on Tuesday.

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reuters

KAMPALA (Reuters) - Ugandan soldiers and police fired teargas to disperse thousands demonstrating against the arrest of opposition leader Kizza Besigye on Monday who was charged with inciting violence in protests over price rises.

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reuters

A mutiny launched by soldiers in Ouagadougou spread to the southern town of Pô, near Burkina Faso's border with Ghana, on Sunday. Witnesses reported seeing soldiers fire into the air, loot shops and official buildings, and seize cars.

20110418
Monitor

Kampala — Opposition leaders intending to take part in today's walk-to-work campaign will not be allowed to leave their homes although Police authorities last evening denied that they have been placed under house arrest. However, it emerged yesterday that Police Chief Major General Kale Kayihura had ordered Kampala Metropolitan Commander, Grace Turyagumanawe and Paul Kato, the Metropolitan Criminal Investigations Director and others, to block the walk-to-work ring-leaders before they leave their homes today.

20110418
This Day

Lagos — Dr. Goodluck Jonathan is the president-elect only awaiting official confirmation from the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Monday, going by the results that were announced Sunday by the Resident Electoral Commissioners (RECs) in the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).

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Leadership (Abuja)

Katsina — Violence erupted yesterday in three states in the north, namely, Adamawa, Gombe and Katsina with youths taking to the streets in protest, after presidential election results were declared in favour of President Goodluck Jonathan of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party

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reuters

KANO, Nigeria (Reuters) - Security forces deployed on the streets of Nigeria's northern cities on Monday to try to contain protests by youths angered at results showing President Goodluck Jonathan won this weekend's presidential election.

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reuters

KAMPALA (Reuters) - Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye and a number of associates were arrested as they prepared to take part in a third round of protests over rising food and fuel prices, police said on Monday.

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reuters

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi bombarded Misrata with rockets and artillery on Monday and 17 people were killed in the previous day's shelling of the besieged Libyan city, a rebel spokesman said.

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reuters

OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) - Soldiers rampaged in southern Burkina Faso on Sunday, firing shots into the air, stealing vehicles and ransacking shops in continued protest over pay, witnesses said.