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JOS, Nigeria, March 3 (Xinhua) -- The police in northern Nigeria's restless Plateau State has arraigned 40 suspects for their alleged involvement in rioting and being in possession of illegal weapons in the state.

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MANILA, March 3 (Xinhua) -- The 20 Filipino seafarers who were abducted by Somali pirates five months ago were released last weekend, local media Philippine Daily Inquirer reported.

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UNITED NATIONS, March 2 (Xinhua) -- The head of the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) called on enhanced global action to prevent what he called "humanitarian disaster" in Libya, UN spokesperson Martin Nesirky said here Wednesday.

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ADDIS ABABA, March 2 (Xinhua) -- The Peace and Security Council of the African Union (AU) on Wednesday extended the mandate of the high level panel set up to deal with the situation in Cote d' Ivoire for a month.

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LUSAKA, March 2 (Xinhua) -- Some 38 people were feared dead when a boat capsized Tuesday night on Lake Mweru in Nchelenge district in north Zambia's Luapula province.

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Nairobi — The government will cooperate with the International Criminal Court (ICC) in prosecuting post-election violence suspects.

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The situation at the Libyan-Tunisian border has reached crisis point as tens of thousands of people flee the reported violence by President Muammar Al-Qadhafi's loyalists, with 14,000 people crossing yesterday alone, the United Nations refugee agency said today.

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TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libya could descend into civil war if Muammar Gaddafi refuses to quit, the United States said on Tuesday, its demand for his departure carrying fresh weight after news of Western military preparations.

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DJAN (Reuters) - Youth supporters of Ivory Coast's incumbent Laurent Gbagbo rampaged through the business district of Abidjan on Tuesday, pillaging shops owned by foreigners.

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FREETOWN (Reuters) - Sierra Leone's Supreme Court has banned the country's main opposition party from meeting to choose its presidential candidate, sparking accusations of government interference.

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HARARE (Reuters) - Internet campaigns calling for protests against the 31-year rule of President Robert Mugabe on Tuesday did not lead to any mass gatherings in Zimbabwe, where police have threatened to crush any "Egypt-style" protests.

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LONDON (Reuters) - Libya's oil installations are undamaged and a cut in the country's oil output was caused by the departure of oil workers, the chairman of Libya's National Oil Corporation said on Tuesday.

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ABIDJAN (Reuters) - U.N. investigators trying to confirm if Ivory Coast incumbent leader Laurent Gbagbo broke an arms embargo by importing helicopters had to abandon the search at the weekend after his forces shot at them, a spokesman said on Tuesday.

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MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somali rebels have launched a recruiting drive to counter a government offensive aimed at breaking the back of the insurgents, a rebel commander said on Tuesday, as fighting continued a stone's throw from Kenya.

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KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan's health minister said on Tuesday he had quit because members of the north's dominant party had been taking decisions in the ministry behind his back.

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TUNIS (Reuters) - Three Tunisian ministers resigned on Tuesday, leaving the caretaker government which took over power after the president was overthrown teetering on the brink of collapse.

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CAIRO (Reuters) - An Egyptian judicial panel ruled on Tuesday that a state land sale to Palm Hills Development, Egypt's second biggest listed developer, was illegal and should be scrapped.

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TRIPOLI, Feb. 28 (Xinhua) -- A Libyan government spokesman said Monday that Western powers and the terrorist group of al Qaida are the behind-the-curtain masterminds of the ongoing unrest in this North African country.

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A Federal High Court in Abuja, Nigeria, stopped the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from conducting governorship elections in Kogi, Adamawa, Sokoto, Bayelsa and Cross River states. In his judgment which lasted for more than an hour in the consolidated suits by Governors Ibrahim Idris (Kogi), Murtala Nyako (Adamawa), Timipriye Sylva (Bayelsa) and Liyel Imoke (Cross River), Justice Adamu Bello held that there were no vacancies in the affected states for now.

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TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Foreign powers accelerated efforts to help oust Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi on Monday as rebels fought government forces trying to take back strategic coastal cities on either side of the capital Tripoli.