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U.N. tells Darfur peace force to focus on security
(Reuters)
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 18:24:36 GMT
 Reuters - The U.N. Security Council extended the stay of peacekeepers in Sudan's western Darfur region by another year on Friday, telling the force to focus primarily on protecting civilians and aid deliveries.
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Liberia to require registration of new births
(AP)
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 18:00:20 GMT
AP - Liberia's government, still recovering from a 14-year civil war and previous decades of poverty and illiteracy, said Friday it will now require all children to get birth certificates, a document most of them lack.
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Nigeria lauds efforts to achieve stability in G.Bisssau
(AFP)
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:34:30 GMT
 AFP - Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan on Friday lauded international efforts to achieve lasting peace and political stability in crisis-wracked Guinea-Bissau, his office said.
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UN-AU peace force in Darfur to stay for another year
(AFP)
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:17:16 GMT
 AFP - The UN Security Council on Friday extended by a year the mandate of a joint UN-African Union force in strife-torn Darfur, stressing the need to protect civilians and ensure safe humanitarian access.
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Thousands flee Congo clashes, security worsens
(Reuters)
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:13:38 GMT
Reuters - Almost 90,000 people have fled fighting in eastern Congo in the past month, aid agencies said, underscoring a worsening security situation despite the official end of Congo's 1998-2003 war.
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Sudanese head to Canada to learn referendum lessons
(AFP)
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:14:49 GMT
AFP - Senior MPs from north and south Sudan are heading for Canada this weekend to learn from Quebec's independence referendums, officials said Friday, as the African state prepares to vote on southern secession.
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South Sudanese mourn war dead ahead of key vote
(AFP)
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:34:12 GMT
 AFP - Thousands of southern Sudanese gathered at the grave of their first president John Garang on Friday in memory of those killed in a 22-year war with the north, six months before an independence vote.
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Zimbabwe 'housing blitz victims still homeless'
(AFP)
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:31:04 GMT
 AFP - The government of Zimbabwe has failed to build houses and provide jobs to victims of mass evictions five years ago that left thousands homeless and unemployed, a human rights group said Friday.
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Central African Republic to go to polls in January
(AFP)
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:25:16 GMT
 AFP - Presidential and parliamentary elections will take place in the Central African Republic next January 23, President Francois Bozize decreed on Friday.
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Central African Republic election delayed to Jan.
(AP)
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 13:08:31 GMT
AP - The president of the Central African Republic has issued a decree delaying the country's elections again, to Jan. 23.
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Ex-students fined in SAfrica racist video case
(AP)
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:53:02 GMT
AP - A South African court on Friday ordered four white former students to pay fines of nearly $3,000 each for a video they made that humiliated black university employees and drew global attention to entrenched racism on the campus.
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Moroccan king marks anniversary with clemency
(AFP)
Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:01:31 GMT
 AFP - King Mohammed VI of Morocco on Thursday granted pardons or reduced sentences to nearly 1,000 people to mark his 11 years on the throne, the justice ministry said.
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Russian pilot missing in Sudan's Darfur returns to UN base
(AFP)
Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:21:00 GMT
 AFP - A Russian helicopter pilot who went missing in Sudan's war-torn Darfur region was returned to his UN peacekeepers' base on Thursday, as Moscow said he had been taken prisoner and freed.
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Three killed in factional clashes in Darfur: UN
(AFP)
Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:14:04 GMT
 AFP - Three people were killed Wednesday during a gun battle between supporters of rival rebel groups in a camp for displaced people in west Darfur, a UN spokesman said Thursday.
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Border must be agreed before south Sudan vote: party
(AFP)
Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:40:35 GMT
 AFP - A referendum in south Sudan on possible independence cannot he held as planned in January unless the border between north and south is demarcated in advance, a senior official of Sudan's ruling party said on Thursday.
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South Africa abolishes 6 traditional monarchies
(AP)
Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:39:46 GMT
AP - South Africa's president says six of the country's traditional monarchies are being abolished.
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Nigerian regulator to sanction 260 stock operators
(AFP)
Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:23:55 GMT
 AFP - Nigeria's Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) financial regulator has vowed to haul 260 organisations and individuals, including banks, before a tribunal for alleged fraudulent share activities.
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South Africa axes six traditional kings
(AFP)
Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:04:30 GMT
 AFP - President Jacob Zuma announced Thursday that South Africa would stop recognising half the nation's traditional kings and queens, dismissing them as artificial creations of the apartheid regime.
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Uganda bombings bring Africa together. Except Eritrea.
(The Christian Science Monitor)
Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:58:00 GMT
The Christian Science Monitor - Shortly after marking two weeks since suspected twin suicide bombings killed 76 people watching the World Cup Final in Uganda's capital of Kampala, leaders from across the continent pledged to tackle the terrorist threat from Somalia at an African Union summit in the city.
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Shebab vow to make Mogadishu graveyard for extra troops
(AFP)
Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:52:39 GMT
 AFP - Hardline Somali Islamist rebels promised Thursday to turn Mogadishu into a graveyard for the extra troops African Union sends to boost its force in the war-torn Horn of Africa country.
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