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South Sudan's President Salva Kiir will address disputes over oil and territory when he arrives in Khartoum on Saturday for talks with Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir in his first visit since southern independence in July.

Sudan's central bank said on Tuesday export traders needed to repay foreign currency gains within three months instead of six, the latest measure to fight a scarcity of dollars driving up inflation.

As the Tesla Model S electric Sedan was unveiled in all its power and elegance last week, an even higher performing version of the car is expected to follow rumored to top the speed of the 2011 Porsche 911.

Sudan plans to double gold production at its main mine run together with Canada's La Mancha Resources within around two to three years and launch a copper production by 2015 or later, company officials said.

Sudan's massive debt risks exacerbating a difficult economic situation as annual debt servicing costs hit about $1 billion following the secession of the south earlier this year, its foreign minister Ali Karti said.

South Sudan wants to stop the pound weakening by setting an exchange rate target of 2.9-3.3 against the dollar and will intervene to ensure the currency stays in that band, a senior government official said on Tuesday.

Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will arrive in Sudan late on Sunday for talks expected to focus on boosting political and economic ties between the two allies, Sudanese officials said.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas addressed the UN General Assembly on September 22 to make a plea for Palestinian statehood.

Banda conceded to Sata on Friday, ending three days of riots and protesting. The presidential vote was held nationwide on Tuesday, but the government had been slow to tally the votes, a fact which angered eager Zambians.

After 85 of 150 voting districts have been tallied, Sata leads the race with 43 percent of the vote, compared to President Banda's 36 percent. However, Banda still leads in the most recent opinion polls.

Zambia held presidential elections Tuesday, but two days later only 85 of the country's 150 constituencies have reported results, sparking wide-scale unrest in the country and again bringing up fraud allegations. While all eyes are on Zambia, one nation's gaze is especially fixed: China.

In a speech to the U.N. General Assembly, President Barack Obama said the Palestinian people deserve a state of their own, but this goal can only be achieved via direct talks with Israel.

Doctors at the London’s Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital have successfully separated twin girls born conjoined at the head.

Sinohydro Group Ltd, the builder of the Three Gorges Dam, said on Monday it would launch a $2.7 billion initial public offering this week, confirming a Reuters report last week.

Sudanese security forces have banned an independent newspaper from publishing its entire Thursday edition, its editor said.

In a fiery message broadcast on Syria-based television channel on Thursday, the fugitive Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi vowed to come back and defend his country from the ‘colonial power’.

Tales of intimidation, racial violence and even murder are multiplying for the hundreds of thousands of black Africans who came to Libya to find work.

George Clooney has ruled himself out of running for the U.S. presidency. Answering to a series of questions regarding his probable interest in running for public office, a subject that has cropped up in the past as well, Clooney replied that he has no interest.

Before the revolt started, there were an estimated 2.5-million migrant workers in Libya, perhaps the majority from black Africa. Many remain trapped in the country with no way to get home.

El Nino is not only responsible for creating an abnormal warming of ocean waters in the tropical Pacific but it has also influenced ancient civil wars, a new study has found.

A new study has revealed a stronger evidence for the climate-conflict link, with data showing that tropical countries affected by the El Niño-Southern Oscillation are twice as likely to suffer internal unrest compared to the phenomenon's cooler, wetter counterpart, La Niña.