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NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya's president said on Friday he had acted properly in making nominations for top legal posts after the speaker of parliament deepened divisions in the coalition by declaring them unlawful.

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TUNIS (Reuters) - Near an olive grove on the outskirts of Tunisia's seaside capital, men stack walls of bricks on muddy earth and fasten roofs of tin and plastic against the wind-blown rain.

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PARIS (Reuters) - India's finance minister said on Friday South Africa was being brought in alongside his country, China, Brazil and Russia as part of the group of developing economies hitherto known as the BRIC club.

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CAIRO (Reuters) - Dressed in black and gathered in a wealthy suburb of Cairo, thousands of Egyptians took to the streets, not to celebrate the downfall of Hosni Mubarak but to apologise for the way he was deposed after 30 years.

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CAIRO (Reuters) - Millions took to the streets to celebrate the new Egypt on Friday, reminding military rulers to keep their promise of a swift transition to democracy after protests swept away autocrat Hosni Mubarak in just 18 days.

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TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Soldiers sought to put down unrest in Libya's second city on Friday and opposition forces said they were fighting troops for control of a nearby town after crackdowns which Human Rights Watch said killed 24 people.

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ABIDJAN, Feb. 18 (Xinhua) -- Cote d'Ivoire's producers in the cocoa-coffee industry protested angrily on Thursday in front of the European Union (EU) offices in the West African country's economic capital Abidjan.

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KAMPALA, Feb. 18 (Xinhua) -- Presidential and parliamentary polls in Uganda opened on Friday in which 13.9 million Ugandans will choose a new president and members of parliament.

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BEIJING, Feb. 18 (Xinhuanet) -- The wave of anti-government protests continued spreading in the Middle East and North African regions in the wake of uprisings that toppled leaders in Egypt and Tunisia.

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TUNIS, Feb. 17 (Xinhua) -- Former Tunisian President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali was in a serious condition in a Jeddah hospital in Saudi Arabia, local reports said Thursday.

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ABUJA, Feb. 17 (Xinhua) -- The Nigerian Senate on Thursday passed the Anti-Terrorism Bill 2011 barely 24 hours it received President Goodluck Jonathan's letter of appeal on the issue.

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NAIROBI, Feb. 17 (Xinhua) -- Kenyan National Assembly Speaker Kenneth Marende on Thursday declared the nominations of the country's judicial officers unconstitutional and ordered a fresh start. In his ruling which was delivered in Parliament, Marende said the nominations of four key legal and finance office holders by President Mwai Kibaki are unconstitutional and women were also discriminated against.

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HARARE, Feb. 17 (Xinhua) -- A high-powered Iranian state media delegation on Thursday arrived for a four-day visit to Zimbabwe to explore areas of cooperation with their local counterparts.

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NAIROBI, Feb. 17 (Xinhua) -- The Kenyan government on Thursday approved the sending of 80 civil servants to southern Sudan in a bid to help if an independent country is established following last month referendum.

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JOHANNESBURG, Feb. 17 (Xinhua) -- South Africa has no favorite in Cote d'Ivoire presidential election crisis, the country's International Relations Minister Maite Nkoane-Mashabane said on Thursday.

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KIGALI, Feb. 17 (Xinhua) -- Rwanda's Minister of Sports and Culture Joseph Habineza has been forced to resign after photos circulating on internet over the last few days show that he was in infatuation with young women, the official sources said here Thursday.

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BISSAU, Feb. 17 (Xinhua) -- Guinea-Bissau's marine chief Americo Bubo Na Tchuto has asked the European Union (EU) to give "tangible evidence" to prove that he is involved in drug trafficking.

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LUSAKA, Feb. 17 (Xinhua) -- The government of Zambia has said it would thoroughly investigate reports that some civil society organizations are planning to carry out clandestine activities to destabilize government operations, the Zambia Daily Mail reported on Thursday.

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MAIDUGURI, Nigeria, Feb. 17 (Xinhua) -- Nigerian troops operating in northeast Borno has confirmed the killing of two soldiers by hoodlums suspected to be Boko Haram sect members.

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KAMPALA, Feb. 17 (Xinhua) -- Uganda is set to go to the polls to elect a new president on Friday. The following are the key political events in Uganda after independence.