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DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) - The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda sentenced a former top civil servant to life imprisonment on Tuesday for genocide and extermination, the court's affiliated news service said.

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ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Forces loyal to Ivory Coast presidential claimant Alassane Ouattara seized two major towns in the western cocoa belt in an offensive that is also picking up momentum in the east of the country.

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CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt will pick liberalism over Islamism but a legislative election in September may produce a parliament of conservative forces, said politician Ayman Nour, who ran against former president Hosni Mubarak in 2005.

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Butuo, Liberia — This Butuo man only knows one phrase in French: Viens manger. Come eat.

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UN News

A joint United Nations-African Union fact-finding mission to several villages in North Darfur that saw fighting earlier this month between Sudanese Government forces and rebels has found them almost entirely deserted.

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Fresh fighting erupted today in a strategic town in western Côte d'Ivoire, the United Nations peacekeeping operation reported, amid mounting international concerns about the humanitarian situation in the West African country.

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IPS

Nawfaliya And Doha — Forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi are resisting an advance by Libyan rebels towards the embattled Libyan leader's hometown of Sirte in the fiercest clashes since the start of a sweeping offensive that has brought a string of coastal towns under opposition control.

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NAWFALIYAH, Libya (Reuters) - Rebels advanced towards the birthplace of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi on Monday, firing mortars and heavy machineguns in sporadic clashes with loyalist forces.

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CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt will hold a parliamentary election in September, its military rulers said on Monday, setting a date that analysts said would suit well-organised Islamists and remnants of former leader Hosni Mubarak's party.

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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union governments are preparing possible harsher sanctions against Ivory Coast's Laurent Gbagbo to try to force the incumbent leader to relinquish power, EU diplomats said.

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ABUJA (Reuters) - Violence during Nigeria's elections which begin this week is a concern but is unlikely to disrupt the overall process, the head of the Commonwealth election observer mission said on Monday.

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DOHA (Reuters) - Qatar became the first Arab country on Monday to recognise Libya's rebels as the people's sole legitimate representative, in a move that may presage similar moves from other Gulf states.

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OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) - Soldiers in eastern Burkina Faso fired shots into the air and blocked the entrance to the town of Fada-Ngourma on Monday, residents said, the second protest by soldiers in the country in less than a week.

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BANGUI (Reuters) - The ruling party in Central African Republic (CAR) looked set on Monday to secure a commanding majority in parliament after a weekend election dominated by a low turnout due to an opposition boycott.

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NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya has charged six men, including three foreigners, with drug trafficking for bringing more than 100 kg (220 pounds) of heroin into the East African nation, a court said on Monday.

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TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisia's interim President Fouad Mebazza named a new interior minister on Monday, the official TAP news agency said, continuing a cabinet overhaul after the January overthrow of Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali.

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RFI

Libyan rebels on Sunday recaptured the key eastern oil town of Ras Lanuf, and are pushing further west towards the capital, Tripoli.

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A human rights organization has written to Justice Minister Mutula Kilonzo to seek an assurance that Kenyans being held in Uganda on suspicions of terrorism will be released.

The Muslims for Human Rights Executive Director Hussain Khalid has also urged the Minister to organize a meeting with the lobby to discuss the issue of when the detained Kenyans will be taken to court.

This comes soon after Mutula, during a human rights conference in Mombasa, said the Kenyan Government was against the rendition of Kenyans adding the detention was a mistake that needed to be corrected.

MUHURI also wants to meet the Minister for Internal Security Prof. George Saitoti to know whether the suspects who include Humana rights activist Sheikh Al’Amin Kimathi will face trial in Kenya.

Khalid’s letter to Justice Minister said, “MUHURI believe that as top advocate and a human rights activist, the minister will see the need to have the matter resolved at the earliest opportune time and ensure the Kenyans are accorded their full rights.”

MUHURI says that it has been following the case of the Kenyans rendition to Uganda in 2010 following terrorist attack that left more than 70 dead in Kampala in July of the same year as they watched the World Cup matches

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Garowe Online (Garowe)

Somali ministers voted to extend the government's mandate for another one year on Sunday, government officials told Garowe Online.

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The escalating pre-election violence in the country may be met with a stiff crackdown as the Federal Government prepares to deploy massive security measures ahead of the polls.