Yahoo! News: World - AfricaTsvangirai postpones Zimbabwe return after threat
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AP - Zimbabwe's opposition leader was on the way to the airport when word came that assassins were awaiting him in his homeland Saturday, derailing plans for his return.
AFP - Fears of an assassination plot against Zimbabwe's opposition leader delayed his long-awaited homecoming on Saturday ahead of an election showdown with veteran President Robert Mugabe on June 27.
Reuters - Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan
Tsvangirai postponed his return home on Saturday to contest an
election run-off after his party said it had discovered an
assassination plot against him.
AFP - Nigerian security forces intensified efforts Saturday to secure the release of two foreigners -- a Portuguese and a Ukrainian -- and nine Nigerians abducted early in the week.
AFP - Zimbabwe's opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai will not return home on Saturday after his party learned of an assassination plot against him, a party spokesman told AFP.
AFP - Authorities in Zimbabwe have rejected opposition and international calls for additional election observers for the second round of presidential elections due on June 27, state media said on Saturday.
AP - In a May 11 story about Sudan severing ties with Chad, The Associated Press, relying on a state television report, erroneously reported the dollar value of a reward offered by the government for Darfur rebel leader Khalil Ibrahim.
Libya's Kadhafi claims migrants being drowned deliberately
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AFP - Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi accused Europe of deliberately provoking the drowning of illegal African migrants as they attempt to reach Europe by sea, the official JANA news agency reported on Friday.
AFP - Nigeria will not invite any foreign mediators to help it deal with the crisis bedevilling the oil-rich Niger Delta, President Umaru Yar'Adua said Friday.
AFP - Thousands gathered on Friday around charred destruction from a deadly pipeline explosion as Nigerian firefighters doused flames triggered by the blast that had burnt for more than a day.
AFP - Nigerian aviation authorities said Friday they were investigating allegations that a group of 130 Nigerians were maltreated on board a British Airways flight in March.
AFP - A delegation of exiled Burundian rebel leaders on Friday arrived in the central African country in a bid to revive the implementation of a 2006 ceasefire with the government.
AFP - A Chad army helicopter fired rockets Friday in an area close to Sudan's Darfur border racked by tension over rebel activity and refugee flows, a French military source told AFP.
AFP - Nigerian firefighters Friday managed to douse the flames from a burst oil pipeline a day after a huge explosion triggered a blaze that lasted more than a day.
AFP - Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe turned the tables on the country's opposition on Friday, accusing them of being behind political violence since the country's March 29 polls.
AFP - Zimbabwe's run-off presidential election will take place on June 27, the electoral commision announced on Friday in a government gazette.
AFP - Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai will return to Zimbabwe on Saturday after more than a month out of the country following disputed elections, officials in his Movement for Democratic Change party said.
The Christian Science Monitor - A flare-up this week in an oil-rich flashpoint in central Sudan is jeopardizing a shaky 2005 peace accord between north and south. That's raising concerns of a return to all-out civil war, even as conflict in the western region of Darfur rages on.
London explorer strikes oil in western Uganda
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AFP - London-based Tullow Oil Plc on Friday announced the discovery of oil reserves in western Uganda, boosting hopes for the energy-starved east African nation.
AP - A Moroccan court broadened investigations Thursday into two alleged terrorism cells, one accused of supporting insurgents in Iraq and the other of plotting suicide bombings in Casablanca last year.
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