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Xinhua
KINSHASA, Feb. 17 (Xinhua) -- Up to 98,678 Rwandese refugees have been repatriated from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) to Rwanda since Aug. 1, 2007, authorities reported on Wednesday.

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Xinhua
KAMPALA, Feb. 17 (Xinhua) -- Uganda will on Friday hold presidential and parliamentary elections in which a total of eight candidates are vying for the country's presidency.

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Xinhua
KAMPALA, Feb. 17 (Xinhua) -- Uganda is set to go to the polls to elect a new president on Friday. The following are the basic facts about the East African country.

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Xinhua
KAMPALA, Feb. 17 (Xinhua) -- Uganda is set to go to the polls to elect a new president on Friday. Incumbent President Yoweri Museveni is one of the eight candidates vying for the country's top job.

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Xinhua
ENTEBBE, Uganda Feb. 16 (Xinhua) -- Uganda's presidential campaigns closed on Wednesday with incumbent President Yoweri Museveni predicting to win the elections with a landslide victory.

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Xinhua
ALGIERS, Feb. 16 (Xinhua) -- Algerian Prime Minister Ahmed Ouyahia on Wednesday announced that the state of emergency that has existed for 19 years will be lifted before the end of February.

20110215
reuters

RABAT (Reuters) - Morocco said Algeria and the Polisario Front, which wants independence for Western Sahara, may use political upheavals sweeping some countries in the Arab world to stir unrest in the disputed desert region.

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reuters

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's military said on Tuesday it hoped to hand over to an elected government in six months, but the Muslim Brotherhood said ending emergency law and freeing political prisoners would build a "bridge of confidence".

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reuters

HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwean police have seized cars belonging to Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's official escort and arrested his drivers for possessing beacon lights usually found on police vehicles, their lawyer said on Tuesday.

20110214
UN News

United Nations peacekeepers in Côte d'Ivoire, where former president Laurent Gbagbo refuses to step down despite his electoral defeat, are crucial to preventing a possible resumption of civil war, and they will respond with force if attacked, the top UN envoy in the country said today.

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SAPA

Johannesburg — Unions and the Road Freight Employers Association (RFEA) will meet on Tuesday to thrash out solutions to a wage dispute in the sector, which has sparked violent protests in Johannesburg.

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UN News

The recruitment and use of children by armed forces and other armed groups in Chad persists, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says in a new report, while noting that reduced tensions last year enabled many children to leave such groups.

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RFI

Egyptian authorities on Monday asked France to freeze the assets of former high-level Egyptian politicians, according to the French Foreign Ministry, but not those of former president Hosni Mubarak and his family.

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reuters

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African police fired rubber bullets at striking truck drivers on Monday after they stoned vehicles transporting goods in Johannesburg and pulled drivers out of their cabs.

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reuters

KINSHASA (Reuters) - Eleven members of a family kidnapped by suspected Ugandan Islamic rebels in eastern Congo were found dead two weeks after they disappeared, a local official and a civil society organisation said on Monday.

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reuters

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudanese authorities on Monday expelled French aid group Medecins du Monde from a state in the Darfur region, accusing it of spying on the government and helping rebels.

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reuters

NAIROBI (Reuters) - A new vaccine to protect against pneumonia, the world's leading killer of children under five, was launched in Kenya on Monday, one of 19 developing countries which will introduce the vaccine this year.

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reuters

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's ruling Higher Military Council hopes to finalise drafting constitutional amendments within ten days, members have told youth activists.

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reuters

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's ruling Higher Military Council hopes to finalise constitutional amendments within 10 days and put them to a referendum within two months, paving the way to democratic elections, members have told youth activists.

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reuters

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - An angry mob killed three traders in Sudan's flashpoint town of Abyei, officials said, underlining growing tensions in the area claimed by both the country's north and the south, which is about to secede.