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DAKAR (Reuters) - Three Senegalese soldiers were killed and six wounded over the weekend by suspected separatist rebels in the southern Casamance region, a security source said on Monday.

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SOMERSET WEST, South Africa (Reuters) - Floods in South Africa have cost the farming sector about 2.8 billion rand in damages, and farmers are hoping for a government bailout, an industry official said on Monday.

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LAGOS (Reuters) - The main opposition candidate in Nigeria's presidential election said he was optimistic it would be a more credible race than in the past but warned events in north Africa showed people would no longer accept a rigged vote.

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OBIA, Nigeria (Reuters) - An explosion hit the offices of a Nigerian opposition party in the Niger Delta oil region on Monday just before the start of campaigning, in what appeared to be the latest act of thuggery ahead of April polls.

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MOGADISHU (Reuters) - A suicide car bomb by rebels who profess loyalty to al Qaeda killed at least 17 people near a police training camp in Somalia's capital Mogadishu on Monday, and police forecast the death toll would rise.

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ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Ivorian troops killed at least six protesters calling on Laurent Gbagbo to step down as leader on Monday, witnesses said, as African presidents charged with resolving Ivory Coast's crisis arrived in Abidjan.

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CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's public prosecutor on Monday moved to freeze the foreign assets of Hosni Mubarak, the first sign that the deposed president would be held to account by the rulers to whom he handed power 10 days ago.

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HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe has arrested dozens of activists on charges of plotting protests against long-serving President Robert Mugabe similar to those that toppled the leaders of Egypt and Tunisia, police said on Monday.

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LONDON (Reuters) - Libyan warplanes were bombing indiscriminately across Tripoli on Monday, a resident of the Libyan capital told al Jazeera television in a live broadcast.

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TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's four-decade-old rule appeared in increasing jeopardy on Monday when days of anti-government protests reached the capital for the first time and security forces killed dozens of people.

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ISTANBUL, Feb. 17 (Xinhua) -- Istanbul is hosting the Iranian Cultural Legacy Festival to introduce Turks to tourism in Iran, reported the Anatolia news agency.

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TUNIS, Feb. 18 (Xinhua) -- Tunisian caretaker Prime Minister Mohammed Ghannouchi said a general amnesty will be officially proclaimed by the end of this week, the official press agency TAP reported Friday.

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TUNIS, Feb. 18 (Xinhua) -- A large number of prisoners escaped Friday from a jail in Libya's second major city Benghazi amid anti- government demonstrations, Tunisian official press agency TAP reported.

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TRIPOLI, Feb. 18 (Xinhua) -- At least 20 people in Libya's second largest city of Benghazi and seven in Derna in eastern Libya were killed in anti-government protests, Oea newspaper reported on its website Friday.

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TRIPOLI, Feb. 18 (Xinhua) -- Libya's anti-government protesters hanged two policemen in the eastern city of Al-Baida, Oea newspaper reported Friday on its website.

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NYALA, Sudan, Feb. 18 (Xinhua) -- The third international conference on peace in Darfur on Friday reiterated its support for the Qatari-hosted Darfur peace talks, and reaffirmed its call for the Darfur militants to join the ongoing efforts to settle the conflict in the region.

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ANTANANARIVO (Reuters) - Madagascar urged an airline expected to carry exiled leader Marc Ravalomanana back to the Indian Ocean island on Saturday to block his departure for security reasons, a senior civil aviation source said on Friday.

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CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt has approved the passage of two Iranian warships through the Suez Canal, an army source said on Friday.

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NIAMEY (Reuters) - Mali and Niger, two West African neighbours struggling to contain groups linked to al Qaeda groups in their desert regions, plan to enter into a formal defence agreement aimed at improving military cooperation.

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CAIRO (Reuters) - The army, thrust to the forefront of Egyptian politics with Hosni Mubarak's overthrow, has turned to the Web to win over youths who used the Internet to such devastating effect in bringing down the president.