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PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria - Oil major Royal Dutch Shell said Saturday it was losing the equivalent of 30,000 barrels of crude oil per day because of recent attacks against its installations in Nigeria.
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HARARE - Levels of organised violence and torture have escalated dramatically in the last fortnight in Zimbabwe amid mounting tensions over the country's disputed elections, a coalition of doctors said on Friday.
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LAGOS - Nigeria's Justice Minister Michael Aondoakaa has launched a scathing attack on the administration of the country's former president, calling it anarchic and lawless, it emerged Friday.
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WASHINGTON - US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice spoke Friday with African leaders and former UN chief Kofi Annan for their insight into how to end Zimbabwe's presidential election crisis, her spokesman said.
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BEIJING - Three Chinese construction workers who were abducted in southern Nigeria's troubled oil region have been released, the government said Saturday.
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KHARTOUM - Darfur rebels and Sudan's army fought heavy battles in the North Kordofan province near Khartoum on Saturday, a local government official and witnesses said.
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NAIROBI (AFP) - US economist Jeffrey Sachs blasted the West Thursday for responding to the world food crisis by shipping "unsustainable" aid, and said just 10 billion dollars could double Africa's food production.
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WASHINGTON - The US House of Representatives adopted a bill Thursday aimed at taking South African former president Nelson Mandela and his party, the African National Congress, off a US terror black list.
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HARARE, Zimbabwe - The editor of an independent Zimbabwean newspaper has been arrested and the country's largest farm union said Thursday that 40,000 farm workers have been displaced in postelection violence.
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ABUJA - Nigeria's central labour organisation on Thursday calledon President Umaru Yar'Adua to set up a judicial panel of inquiry in order to investigate more comprehensively allegations of graft in government.
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HARARE (AFP) - Pressure mounted on Zimbabwe Friday to admit foreign observers to oversee a presidential election run-off amid fresh claims that pro-government militias are deliberately instilling terror.
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KINSHASA - Armed groups in Congo's violence-torn east have ignored pledges made this year to stop recruiting children to fight and to free minors already in their ranks, the United Nations said on Wednesday.
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ABECHE, Chad - EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana told grieving aid workers in Abeche Wednesday there was "no miracle" solution to their security, after the killing of a French colleague last week.
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MAPUTO - Mozambique has been chosen to take part in a pilot UN programme to identify risks and enhance early warning systems in disaster-prone countries, a UN official said Wednesday.
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ADDIS ABABA - The African Union (AU) on Wednesday urged all Zimbabwean parties to hold a free, transparent and non-violent presidential runoff.
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