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TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisian police stormed a protest camp on Friday, to disperse demonstrators who have held a round-the-clock sit-in for five days demanding the resignation of the interim government, witnesses said.

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MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - A main governorship candidate for April elections in the northeastern Nigerian state of Borno was shot dead on Friday after leaving a mosque in the city of Maiduguri, party officials and witnesses said on Friday.

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DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) - Egypt is the absent ghost at this year's Davos feast.

The global elite of bankers, CEOs and politicians attending the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum have generally sidestepped any mention of the protests sweeping the Arab world's most populous nation.

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(Reuters) - The Tunisian government ditched loyalists to its ousted president on Thursday -- a move which won backing from the powerful labor union and could help defuse protests which have inspired people across the Middle East.

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(Reuters) - Egyptian police clashed with angry protesters who had promised a "Friday of Wrath" in Cairo to demand the end of President Hosni Mubarak's 30-year rule in a wave of unrest gripping the Middle East.

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JOHANNESBURG, Jan. 28 (Xinhua) -- After days of speculation about the health South Africa's iconic former President Nelson Mandela, the country's Vice President Kgalema Motlanthe told reporters on Friday that Mandela is well.

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XinhuaCAIRO, Jan. 27 (Xinhua) -- Egypt's reform leader and Nobel Price laureate Mohamed El Baradie arrived in Cairo Thursday evening to join the anti-government demonstrations that are scheduled to take place after Friday prayers.

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TUNIS, January 27 (Xinhua) -- Anti-government protestors at the Kasbah square in Tunis have staged their fifth day of sit-in calling for the resignation of the current interim government.

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CAIRO, Jan. 27 (Xinhua) -- Egypt's ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) Secretary-General Safwat el-Sherif denied on Thursday that some officials had fled the country as nationwide protests went on for a third day.

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JOS, Nigeria, Jan. 27 (Xinhua) -- Two soldiers have been reportedly killed during an attack at a village in central north Plateau state.

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NAIROBI, Jan. 28 (Xinhua) -- The African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved 655,000 U.S. dollars for emergency relief assistance grant for Somalia.

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CAIRO, Jan. 27 (Xinhua) -- Egypt's nationwide anti-government protests continued for the third consecutive day on Thursday with protestors calling for a one-million-march after Friday prayers.

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ATHENS, Jan. 27 (Xinhua) -- Tension rose in the Greek capital on Thursday evening over the approximately 300 illegal migrants who have been in Athens University Law School since Jan. 24, demanding legal residence status in Greece through a hunger strike.

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NAIROBI, Jan. 25 (Xinhua) -- The World Bank is to help Kenya increase its investments, innovation and identify new opportunities in information technology and tourism sectors that the bank said the country enjoys a competitive edge in the African continent, the bank announced on Tuesday.

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BUJUMBURA, Jan. 25 (Xinhua) -- Somali President Sherif Ahmed Sherif visited Burundian troops serving in the African Union Peacekeeping Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) to comfort them in the fight against terrorism, the mission said on Tuesday.

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CAIRO, Jan. 25 (Xinhua) -- An Egyptian security officer and two protesters died in a nationwide demonstration held Tuesday against President Hosni Mubarak and the government.

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CAIRO, Jan. 25 (Xinhua) -- Thousands of Egyptian protesters hit the streets Tuesday in an unprecedented demonstration against President Hosni Mubarak and the government, clashing with police and bringing downtown Cairo to standstill.

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PARIS (Reuters) - Supporters of Ivory Coast's Alassane Ouattara had to break through the main gates of the country's embassy in Paris on Tuesday into order to install the presidential claimant's choice as ambassador to France.

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LONDON (Reuters) - Better equipped Somali pirates operating deep at sea threaten oil tankers in key waterways, and more naval firepower is "desperately needed" to combat the growing risk, shipping groups warned on Tuesday.

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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A Rwandan rebel group leader accused of mass rapes in the Democratic Republic of Congo has been handed over to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, the court said on Tuesday.