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 AFP - China beat South Africa 4-1 to get off the mark at the third attempt, England drew with South Korea, and Argentina dished out a 4-0 rout to Spain at the women's field hockey World Cup on Friday.
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 AFP - Police in Mozambique fired rubber bullets and live ammunition to quell more demonstrations against rising food prices, as the death toll from the unrest climbed to 10 with more than 440 injured.
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 AP - Mozambique's economy has lost more than $3 million because of deadly riots over the rising prices of food and other goods, the government said Friday, as state media reported new protests in two other towns.
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AFP - China beat South Africa 4-1 to get off the mark at the third attempt, England drew with South Korea, and Argentina dished out a 4-0 rout to Spain at the women's field hockey World Cup on Friday.
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AFP - Police in Mozambique fired rubber bullets and live ammunition to quell more demonstrations against rising food prices, as the death toll from the unrest climbed to 10 with more than 440 injured.
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AP - Mozambique's economy has lost more than $3 million because of deadly riots over the rising prices of food and other goods, the government said Friday, as state media reported new protests in two other towns.
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Reuters - More than two dozen children in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are among the hundreds of victims of a recent wave of rapes in the nation's conflict-torn east, the United Nations said on Friday.
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 AFP - Standard Bank Africa announced Friday a 100 million dollar scheme to reach some 750,000 small scale farmers in Ghana, Mozambique, Tanzania and Uganda in a bid to boost output.
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 AFP - The African Union force in Somalia has boosted its size and set up nine new positions in Mogadishu where it is protecting the government from a fierce Islamist insurgency, an official said Friday.
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AP - A nationwide civil service strike entering its third week is causing massive backlogs at courthouses, and a top South African lawyer said Friday that defendants whose legal proceedings are delayed could end up suing the government for damages.
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AFP - China beat South Africa 4-1 to get off the mark at the third attempt, England drew with South Korea, and Argentina dished out a 4-0 rout to Spain at the women's field hockey World Cup on Friday.
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AFP - Police in Mozambique fired rubber bullets and live ammunition to quell more demonstrations against rising food prices, as the death toll from the unrest climbed to 10 with more than 440 injured.
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AP - Mozambique's economy has lost more than $3 million because of deadly riots over the rising prices of food and other goods, the government said Friday, as state media reported new protests in two other towns.
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Reuters - More than two dozen children in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are among the hundreds of victims of a recent wave of rapes in the nation's conflict-torn east, the United Nations said on Friday.
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AFP - Standard Bank Africa announced Friday a 100 million dollar scheme to reach some 750,000 small scale farmers in Ghana, Mozambique, Tanzania and Uganda in a bid to boost output.
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AFP - The African Union force in Somalia has boosted its size and set up nine new positions in Mogadishu where it is protecting the government from a fierce Islamist insurgency, an official said Friday.
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AP - A nationwide civil service strike entering its third week is causing massive backlogs at courthouses, and a top South African lawyer said Friday that defendants whose legal proceedings are delayed could end up suing the government for damages.
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 AFP - Politicians from northern Nigeria on Friday accused President Goodluck Jonathan of ordering corruption investigations against those opposed to his candidacy in upcoming elections.
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AP - The two candidates facing off in Guinea's historic runoff election later this month say they'll respect its outcome.
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 AFP - A Darfur rebel group said on Friday that Sudanese forces had launched a major offensive using air power on its territory killing 74 people, most of them civilians -- a claim denied by the army.
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 AP - African Union peacekeepers have established nine new bases in Somalia's capital in recent months and will help develop Somali government forces to defeat al-Qaida-linked Islamist insurgents, an AU official said Friday.
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 AFP - English Premiership star Steven Pienaar has warned his South Africa team-mates not to underestimate little Niger when they clash Saturday in a 2012 African Nations Cup qualifier.
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 Reuters - Armed men killed dozens of people in attacks on a busy market and surrounding villages in rebel-held territory in Sudan's Darfur region on Thursday and Friday, rebels said.
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 AFP - Nigerian police on Friday named three rival gang members as suspects in the murder of a notorious ex-militant, whose killing has sparked fears of fresh violence in the country's oil-producing region.
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 AFP - Striking civil servants' unions held a second day of meetings in South Africa on Friday as an impasse between government and workers dragged out a crippling 17-day strike.
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AFP - Calm returned to the capital of Mozambique Friday following two days of protests over food and fuel prices that left seven people dead and hundreds injured. officials said.
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 AFP - Greenpeace chief Kumi Naidoo on Friday likened Japan's treatment of two of its anti-whaling activists to the tactics of the former apartheid regime he once campaigned against in his native South Africa.
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 AP - Four months before Southern Sudan is scheduled to hold an independence referendum, tensions are already rising in this oil-rich region that sits on the expected future border, with allegations the central government is using violence and ethnic cleansing to sway the vote.
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Reuters - Sudan's referendum commission agreed on a key post on Thursday, ending a deadlock which has stalled plans for the January 9 southern vote on independence from the north against which it has fought decades of civil war.
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The Christian Science Monitor - South Africaâs civil servants continue to flex their muscles, rejecting the latest government offer of wage increases in a nationwide strike that has reached its 16th day.
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