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Nouakchott -
African leaders are heading for Libya in an attempt to broker a peace deal between rebels and forces loyal to Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. The team will consist of South African President, Jacob Zuma and four other leaders, representing the African Union.
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Marseille -
A 16-year-old boy was immediately rushed to the hospital after he drenched himself with a flammable liquid in a toilet at his public school. He then set himself on fire and burned 70 percent of his body.
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Cairo -
An Egyptian man set himself alight over the weekend near his country's parliament. Hours later, a man in Mauritania set himself ablaze as well. These incidents echo the recent attempt of a man in Tunisia over the low standards of living.
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Nouakchott -
Three anti-slavery activists were jailed in Mauritania in North Africa after exposing a case of two young girls allegedly forced to work as servants. Amnesty International is calling for their immediate release.
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France’s reputation for influence-peddling and widespread corruption in Africa is nobody’s secret, but Nicolas Sarkozy's reactions to the current electoral deadlock in the Ivory Coast indicate that France's shadowy African era may be coming to an end.
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Nouakchott -
The Mauritanian army has launched an offensive against the local Al Qaeda branch, killing a dozen militants, reports say.
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Bamako -
Italian and Malian officials recently announced that two Italians, who were detained in Mauritania by al-Qaeda a few months ago, were released in Mali.
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Nairobi -
The International Monetary Fund has announced that the African economy is recovering much quicker than a lot of other regions of the world and they believe the private sector was a key attributing factor to the recovery.
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Alger -
One day before the expiration of the ultimatum, the terrorist group ‘Al Qaeda in the Maghreb released an audio message by Sergio Cicala, the Sicilian abducted with his wife last December, in the desert of Mauritania, on the border with Mali.
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Gallup polls conducted during 2009 show that among Arab League countries, the opinion of United States leadership has improved over the last year.
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