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NAIROBI (Reuters) - Detectives investigating a network smuggling tonnes of gold from eastern Democratic Republic of Congo will question people in the United Arab Emirates and South Africa, a Kenyan minister said on Friday.

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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Africa's $107 billion financial services industry will log impressive growth for the rest of the decade as more banks target the continent's emerging middle class, a study by consultancy Bain & Company found.

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CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's new Prime Minister-designate Essam Sharaf told thousands of protesters in Tahrir Square on Friday that he would work to meet their demands and saluted the "martyrs" of the country's revolution.

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TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisia's interim prime minister said on Friday he would appoint a new government in two days, the third caretaker administration since the overthrow of veteran leader Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali in January.

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COTONOU (Reuters) - Benin's parliament on Friday voted to fix errors in the country's voters registration lists, likely forcing a delay in presidential elections in the West African nation scheduled for this weekend.

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TRIPOLI, March 5 (Xinhua) -- The anti-government protest in Libya has become an armed rebellion supported by foreign parties, instead of a peaceful movement, spokesman of the Libya government Mousar Ibrahim told Xinhua in an exclusive interview on Thursday in the capital of Libya.

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ABIDJAN, March 4 (Xinhua) -- Seven women were killed in a clash on Thursday in Cote d'Ivoire's economic capital Abidjan, which has turned into a battleground between the rival forces since the Nov. 28 presidential election, according to the UN peacekeeping mission in the West African country.

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BEIJING, March 4 (Xinhua) -- Some foreign governments and international organizations heaped more pressure on Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi on Thursday, as Russia warned of a civil war in this Northern African country.

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TUNIS, March 3 (Xinhua) -- Assistant Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Eric Laroche, warned Thursday against an impending danger of epidemics threatening refugees on Tunisia's Ras El Jedir border point with Libya.

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TUNIS, March 3 (Xinhua) -- Tunisian interim President Fouad Mebazaa said Thursday an election is expected on July 24 to form a constitutional council.

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LAGOS, March 3 (Xinhua) -- Undisclosed numbers of lives have been lost on Wednesday in Suleija, central north Nigeria's Niger State when a bomb blast exploded during political rally organized by the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

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NAIROBI, March 3 (Xinhua) -- Somali pirates have released a German-owned ship which was seized in December last year with eight crew members onboard, European Union anti-piracy mission said late Thursday.

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THE HAGUE, March 3 (Xinhua) -- Three Dutch soldiers have been taken hostage by an armed unit of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi after a failed evacuation, a Dutch newspaper reported Thursday.

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ABIDJAN, March 3 (Xinhua) -- At least five people were killed in clashes in Cote d'Ivoire's economic capital Abidjan on Thursday, local sources reported.

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RIYADH, March 3 (Xinhua) -- A senior Egyptian diplomat denied a report claimed that former President Hosni Mubarak is now in Saudi Arabia for a medical treatment, local daily Arab News reported on Thursday.

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TUNIS, March 2 (Xinhua) -- Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) launched Tuesday an "urgent call " to the international community in view of a massive humanitarian evacuation of tens of thousands of refugees fleeing the violence in Libya, Tunisian official press agency reported.

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ABUJA, March 2 (Xinhua) -- Chairman of Nigeria's Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Atahiru Jega has said the commission had mapped out a strategy to ensure credible elections in April.

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KINSHASA, March 2 (Xinhua) -- The Ugandan rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) has killed at least 35 people in the northeastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) since the beginning of the year, the UN refugee agency.

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TRIPOLI, March 3 (Xinhua) -- The chairman of the rebel National Libya Council said to Al-Jazerra TV on Thursday that the body has not been reached out by anyone regarding a plan put forward by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to peacefully end the crisis in Libya.

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NAIROBI, March 3 (Xinhua) -- Kenya's humanitarian agency has registered more than 11,000 refugees from neighboring Somalia as fighting between the Horn of Africa nation's militant group and government forces rages, the Kenya Red Cross Society (KRCS) told Xinhua Thursday.