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Cape Town — President Jacob Zuma and his counterparts from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Mali, Mauritania and Uganda would travel to Libya within the next days to assess the crisis gripping the north African state, Deputy International Relations Minister Marius Fransman said on Tuesday. The five presidents will do so in their capacity as a high-level panel appointed by
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Forces loyal to Libyan strongman Moamer Kadhafi attacked a key rebel-held town, as the major powers remained split on measures to ground his warplanes. Rebel fighters in Ajdabiya said four shells had crashed west of the town, while former air force colonel Jamal Mansur, who had defected from Kadhafi's army, reported air strikes. Mansur also said rebels had regained a
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Harare - Officials say police have raided the headquarters of the political party of Zimbabwe's prime minister and arrested three staff members. It appeared to be the latest installment of a crisis in the country's unity government, which united Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai with Zimbabwe's longtime ruler Robert Mugabe in an unlikely power-sharing agreement in 2009. Last week, Tsvangirai said
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NAIROBI, Kenya – The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court on Monday warned six Kenyans facing charges of crimes against humanity that they will be arrested if they do not follow conditions set by the court. Six Kenyans — among them Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta — have been summoned to appear before the court on April 7 to answer
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Young militants who spearheaded Egypt's pro-democracy revolution called Monday for a "no" vote in next weekend's referendum on constitutional reform. "We have decided on our position, we are saying 'go and vote but say no', said Shadi al-Ghazali Harb, a member of the youth coalition which helped to overthrow president Hosni Mubarak last month. "We want a new constitution and
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Nairobi — The emergence and proliferation of Internet-enabled mobile phones, e-readers and other connected devices has spurred fresh demand for a new Internet addresses protocol and depletion of the current Internet address regime. In February, the Number Resource Organisation (NRO), the consortium of the world's regional Internet registries, announced that the pool of free Internet protocol version 4 (IPv4), the
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Tripoli - Former Libyan soldiers who defected to the rebels will be pardoned if they surrender to government forces, state television said on Monday, quoting the military. The announcement came as forces loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi pursued their eastward drive towards the rebel capital of Benghazi, threatening the key town of Ajdabiya. A number of soldiers and military
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TOBRUK, Libya – A rebel official says Moammar Gadhafi's warplanes have bombed a strategic opposition-held city as his forces try to push ahead in an offensive into the east. The official, Ahmed al-Zwei, says warplanes struck at weapons depots in the city of Ajdabiya on Monday, trying to cut off supplies to rebel fighters at the front nearby. Al-Zwei, who
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Two people suffocated to death in a crowd of 10,000 at the weekend opening of a new church building in the Mozambican capital Maputo, state media reported Monday. The two died Sunday as the throng pressed to enter the building -- designed to hold 3,000 -- for the inaugural sermon in the new Universal Church of the Reign of God,
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Veteran opposition leader Mahamadou Issoufou won elections intended to return Niger to civilian rule after a military coup, taking 57.95 percent of the vote, the election commission announced Monday. Issoufou, 59, defeated former prime minister Seini Oumarou, 60, who took 42.05 percent of the votes cast in a runoff election on Saturday, electoral commission chief Gousmane Abdourahamane announced. Voter turnout
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia wants more information on the Arab League's call for a no-fly zone over Libya and will consider any proposal put before the U.N. Security Council, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday. "We need to understand specifically what the Arab States want to see," Lavrov said at a news conference with his Dutch counterpart. He said
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London - International powers should consider arming Libyan rebels and need to take swift action to prevent Muammar Gaddafi's forces from crushing an insurrection, British Foreign Secretary William Hague said on Monday. He said it would be a nightmare for Libya's people if Gaddafi remained in power and that "a point of decision" was looming for meaningful international intervention. Britain
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Washington, DC — The approach of elections next month in Nigeria has raised hopes and apprehension in almost equal measure. In a dozen years of civilian rule, Nigerians have endured a string of votes of deteriorating quality and credibility. The last polls, in 2007, showed signs of entrenching a dominant party regime that exhibits uncertain leadership and little accountability. Sporadic
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Maiduguri - A Muslim cleric who embraced nonviolence and spoke out against the sectarian violence plaguing northeast Nigeria died on Sunday after suffering gunshot wounds in an apparent attack by a radical sect, witnesses said. Imam Ibrahim Ahmed Abdullahi died in the shade of his Maiduguri mosque after gunmen from the Boko Haram sect apparently jumped out of a sport
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A Bangladeshi ship hijacked by Somali pirates in December last year with 26 people aboard was freed on Monday after its owners paid a $4 million ransom, company executives said. The M.V. Jahan Moni, which has 25 Bangladeshi crew and the wife of the chief engineer on board, was captured in early December about 550 kilometres (340 miles) off the
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Nairobi — I don't know whether to laugh or cry. Last week, President Mwai Kibaki appointed a pack of ministers - headed by Vice-President Kalonzo Musyoka - to ratchet up the PNU/KKK's bid for the deferral of The Hague trials of the Ocampo Six. Which begs the question - why is Mr Kibaki so desperate to pursue this errand? The
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Libyan rebels beat a further retreat on Saturday under air strikes and shellfire from Moamer Kadhafi's forces, even as an Arab League decision to back a no-fly zone boosted their uprising. Having abandoned an operation to recapture the oil town of Ras Lanuf, the outgunned anti-regime fighters struggled to set up a new defensive line 30 kilometres (about 20 miles)
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Benghazi - Al-Jazeera says a cameraman for the pan-Arab satellite station has been killed near the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi. It was the first death of a journalist since the Libyan uprising began on January 15. The station identified the slain journalist as Ali Hassan al-Jaber but did not specify his nationality. It said he was killed in what
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A pre-dawn rebel attack on the capital of south Sudan's oil-rich Upper Nile state has killed 11 people, a southern official said on Saturday, with the army battling to regain control of the town. "Nine rebels have been killed in the fighting, and two policemen. Some of the rebels are still inside the town. We can hear heavy gunfire," said
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The people of Niger voted for a new civilian president Saturday in landmark polls that the outgoing head of the military junta said should serve an example of democracy to the whole of Africa. Thirteen months after Mamadou Tandja was jettisoned from office over his attempts to amend the constitution, voters were choosing between a former ally of the toppled
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Near Ras Lanuf - Libyan fighter jets bombed anti-Faddafi forces on Friday as the European Union called on the Libyan leader to go and Barack Obama urged the world to keep up the pressure. "Colonel Gaddafi must relinquish power immediately," said a European Union statement from Brussels at the end of an emergency summit on the crisis. "His regime has
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Tunis - A Tunisian court has convicted a brother-in-law of the nation's deposed president of deceiving customs authorities and fined him $32m. It is the first conviction to hit the entourage of ousted President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, who fled in a popular revolt in January that prompted uprisings across the Arab world. The state news agency TAP says
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Men of the Special Military Task Force ,STF on Jos Crises Friday in Jos, Plateau state capital intercepted a truck-load of large consignment of explosives being brought into the state from neighbouring Kaduna State The truck with registration number XH 379 KMC was accompanied by a police escort in mufti, simply identified Kingsley Charles. The Commander of the STF, Brig
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Sudan is a world away from Washington. And while American attention has been focused on the tumultuous events in Egypt, and the domestic crisis at home, Sudan continues to pose enormous challenges potentially eclipsed by other news. After weeks of cautiously optimistic statements about progress toward dividing Sudan into two countries, the United States on Wednesday issued a sharply worded
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Harare — PRIME Minister Morgan Tsvangirai yesterday threatened to pull out of the shaky inclusive government after the arrest of Minister of Energy and Power Development Elton Mangoma on corruption charges and the Supreme Court's nullification of the MDC-T Speaker of Parliament Lovemore Moyo's election. The arrest of Mangoma and removal of Moyo as Speaker of the House of Assembly
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