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• Libya: 6 killed as gun battles break out in southeastern Libya
  2008-11-11 02:30:28 - (SomaliNet) A pro-government Libyan newspaper said in a rare report of a security breach in the country that gunbattles broke out between two tribes in southeastern Libya last week and six people were
  
• Nigeria: Militants threaten to renew \"oil war\" if attacked
  2008-11-11 02:28:12 - (SomaliNet) Nigeria\'s most prominent militant group threatened on Monday to renew attacks on the oil sector if soldiers stormed its hideouts; however, a military spokesman denied such plans. The
  
• Zimbabwe: Opposition chief Tsvangirai rejects SADC compromise
  2008-11-11 02:25:36 - (SomaliNet) Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe says he wants to form a government of national unity as soon as possible. Mugabe’s ZANU-PF party has asked the Movement for Democratic Change to pr
  
• Ivory Coast: Political leaders postpone November 30 election
  2008-11-11 02:21:47 - (SomaliNet) Urging the electoral officials to set a new date by December 31, Ivory Coast\'s political leaders on Monday postponed a post-war presidential election planned for November 30. Meanwhi
  
• Sudan, Chad restore full diplomatic ties, exchange envoys
  2008-11-11 02:14:20 - (SomaliNet) In a move that brought to an end a bitter six-month-old row between Sudan and Chad, the pair of African nations have restored full diplomatic ties and exchanged ambassadors. Sources
  
• Africa: African Union says displaced Africans returning home
  2008-11-11 02:11:28 - (SomaliNet)The African Union (AU) said Africans displaced due to the various conflicts occurred in the continent are returning to their villages as democracy-building process in Africa is progressing
  
• Southern Africa: Leaders attending summit call for DRC ceasefire
  2008-11-10 02:11:03 - (SomaliNet) In a bid to give displaced people access to humanitarian assistance, a summit of Southern African leaders on Sunday called for a ceasefire in eastern Congo. Despite an appeal by Afric
  
• Zimbabwe: Opposition leader urges African leaders to end creation of new gov’t
  2008-11-10 02:05:14 - (SomaliNet) Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has asked African leaders to set an ultimatum to end an impasse in the formation of a new government. Movement for Democratic Change (MD
  
• DRC: Angola to provide DRC with military support
  2008-11-10 02:00:56 - (SomaliNet) Angolan units are to be stationed in the town of Kibati, just north of the provincial capital Goma, A UN peace-keeping representative in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo says.
  
• Egypt: Authorities deny Bin Laden’s son entry in Egypt
  2008-11-10 01:14:08 - (SomaliNet) One of the sons of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, Omar bin Laden, is no longer welcome in Egypt. Sources say the authorities there refused him and his British wife, Zaina al Sabah,
  

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