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Many buildings in the old city of Suakin in the Red Sea state along the Red Sea are being restored in a bid to attract tourism to the state.

A delegation from the Arab League, tasked with helping end the violence in Syria, met Wednesday with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to facilitate the ceasefire demanded by the Arab nations in a resolution last week.

Sitting in his empty seafood restaurant in Sudan's historic port of Suakin, Hashem Abdullah is dreaming of better times -- particularly the hope that foreign tourists will one day visit his run-down hometown.

Tens of thousands of supporters of President Bashar al-Assad rallied in Damascus on Wednesday while his opponents staged strikes across Syria ahead of an Arab league mission aimed at bringing the two sides together for talks.

Egypt's Citadel Capital plans to scale back investments outside its existing projects until the political and economic outlook becomes clearer, its chairman told Reuters.

NASA's Spitzer has identified signs of icy bodies raining down in an alien solar system. This downpour is said to resemble own solar system several billion years ago during a period known as the Late Heavy Bombardment, which may have brought water and other life-forming ingredients to the Earth.

U.S. oilfield services company Halliburton Co conducted an internal investigation of its Angolan operations after an anonymous email alleged its employees breached corruption laws.

South Sudan expects the South Sudanese pound to improve further after doubling the monthly supply of foreign currency to financial institutions, central bank officials said on Friday.

South Sudan is welcoming U.S. military assistance to help fight Ugandan rebels of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) accused of murder, rape and kidnapping children, officials said on Friday.

Jean Beliveau left his home in Montreal, Canada 11 years and two months ago when his business went bankrupt. He returned on Sunday after literally walking around the world.

The White House announced Friday that President Barack Obama will deploy 100 combat-equipped U.S. soldiers to central Africa to assist, train and provide intelligence in the fight against the Lord's Resistance Army.

President Barack Obama said on Friday he was sending about 100 U.S. military advisers to Uganda to support central African allies pursuing Joseph Kony, leader of the Lord's Resistance Army, and other rebel commanders.

U.S. President Barack Obama has ordered that approximately 100 American troops be dispatched to central Africa to help hunt down and find the Lord's Resistance Army's notorious leader Joseph Kony.

President Obama is sending 100 troops to Uganda to help hunt down the leaders of the feared and brutal insurgency, the Lord's Resistance Army.

Bashir has been welcomed in the Malawi capital of Lilongwe by government officials in order to attend a trade summit.

Malawi will allow Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir into the country for a regional trade summit starting on Friday and has no plans to arrest him under an International Criminal Court warrant, a senior government official said on Thursday.

Angelina Jolie is in Libya Wednesday, where she is meeting with refugees of the ongoing Libyan revolution, as well as the county's new, post-Moammar Gadhafi leadership.

Space-obsessed teenagers have got an opportunity to come up with ideas for science contest to be carried out in space. If successful, the two selected experiments will be performed aboard the International Space Station and live streamed on YouTube to the world in 2012.

Sudan said Sunday it expects its mining industry to produce around 7 metric tons (tonnes) of gold this year, and it plans to launch a gold refinery next year.

Clooney, who has long denied every attending one of Berlusconi's infamous bunga bunga parties, revealed for the first time that he was invited to the orgiastic festivities by the statesman.

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