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CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's ruling military council plans to hold a snap referendum next month on constitutional amendments, a lawywer who helped draft them said on Sunday.

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TUNIS (Reuters) - Three people were killed in clashes between Tunisian security forces and youths rioting in central Tunis on Saturday, an Interior Ministry official told Reuters.

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HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe threatened on Saturday to pull out of a process to draft a new constitution, accusing his coalition partners of delays designed to avoid holding elections this year.

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TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Poor neighbourhoods of the Libyan capital Tripoli openly defied Muammar Gaddafi on Saturday as his grip on power after 41 years of rule looked increasingly tenuous in the face of nationwide revolt.

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ROME (Reuters) - Muammar Gaddafi does not seem to be in control of Libya anymore, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, Gaddafi's strongest European ally, said on Saturday.

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CAIRO (Reuters) - A judicial committee formed to draft changes to Egypt's constitution on Saturday proposed capping to eight years the time a president can stay in office and loosening the rules that curbed competition for the post.

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CAIRO (Reuters) - Soldiers used force on Saturday to break up a protest demanding more political change in Egypt in the toughest move yet against demonstrators who accused the country's military rulers of "betraying the people".

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KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan has suspended the work of the humanitarian agency Catholic Relief Services in West Darfur state, accusing it of distributing Bibles, a local aid official said on Saturday.

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TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisian soldiers fired shots into the air on Friday in an attempt to disperse tens of thousands of protesters in central Tunis demanding changes to the interim government, some burning tyres and throwing rocks.

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BANGUI (Reuters) - Central African Republic's main opposition coalition said it will boycott legislative polls next month in protest against what it said was fraud in presidential elections that gave putsch leader Francois Bozize another term.

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NOUAKCHOTT (Reuters) - Hundreds of people took to the streets in Mauritania on Friday calling for better living conditions and more jobs in the vast, impoverished desert nation that straddles black and Arab Africa.

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KAMPALA (Reuters) - Ugandans cheering skywards as a yellow plane circles and blares out President Yoweri Museveni's popular rap single are sure an opposition call to protest against his election win is ridiculous.

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africanews

Learned friends believe that education is the key to success. Indeed, many people have made their 'dreams come true' through success and hard work in education. However, this precious fruit of knowledge will never be achieved in learning atmosphere where pupils quench their thirst for education under big trees.

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It was a total carnage along the Douala-Yaounde highway in Cameroon on at about 9:30 am when thirty people lost their lives to a ghastly car accident. It was an ugly scene; once again thirty Cameroonians were dragged in to their graves because of a human error.

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The upsurge of urban guerilla that has broken out in Abidjan and in the western region of Ivory Coast may augur a return to civil war in the West African cocoa-rich country. Heavy fighting occurred between FDS (pro-Gbagbo security forces) and an mysterious combat unit, calling itself "the invisible commando", in the working-class district of Abobo (a Ouattara stronghold, in the north of Abidjan) early this week, as the AU panel stepped up efforts to break the impasse over the country disputed election.

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KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Safiya Eshaq said she was kidnapped in Khartoum by plainclothed security men, beaten, gang raped and left in the street to limp to safety for her part in anti-government protests.

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ALGIERS (Reuters) - Algeria on Thursday lifted a 19-year state of emergency in a concession to the opposition designed to keep out a wave of uprisings sweeping the Arab world.

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KHARTOUM (Reuters) - The Sudanese army said it had attacked a Darfur rebel stronghold to open roads in the central Jabel Marra region and killed 25 rebels, the latest step in an escalation of fighting in western Sudan.

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MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somali forces pushed deeper into rebel-controlled pockets of Mogadishu, the president said on Friday, as the beleaguered government sustained its offensive against insurgents in the city and in southern Somalia.

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CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's new military rulers, promising to guard against "counter-revolution", faced political pressure on Friday to purge the cabinet of ministers appointed by Hosni Mubarak as thousands of protesters gathered in Cairo.