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• S. Sudan holds firm on oil production stoppage (Source: AP)
  South Sudan's minister of petroleum and mining says the nation will not restart oil production unless Sudan accepts a list of demands.
• Sudans, Somalia top issues at African Union summit (Source: AP)
  Oil negotiations between Sudan and South Sudan and war and hunger in Somalia are expected to dominate discussion at a summit of African leaders in Ethiopia's capital.
• Sudan rebels say holding 29 Chinese workers (Source: Reuters)
  Reuters - Rebels in Sudan's oil-producing border state of South Kordofan said on Sunday they were holding Chinese workers for their own safety after a battle with the Sudanese army.
• More than 20 Chinese missing after attack in Sudan (Source: AP)
  More than 20 Chinese nationals are missing after militants attacked their remote worksite in a volatile region of Sudan, the Foreign Ministry and embassy said Sunday.
• Egypt Islamists seek more gains in upper house polls (Source: Reuters)
  Reuters - Polls opened on Sunday in an election for Egypt's upper house of parliament, with Islamists seeking to repeat the success they enjoyed in elections for the lower house.
• Ex-soldier behind Papua New Guinea mutiny arrested (Source: AP)
  A retired colonel who attempted to take over Papua New Guinea's military and ordered the prime minister to step down has been arrested and charged with mutiny.
• Freed Egypt activist says will not stay silent (Source: Reuters)
  Reuters - An Egyptian activist who became a symbol of resistance to the army's trials of civilians said Saturday he would not be silenced and denounced the army for detaining and mistreating "prisoners of conscience."
• Glitzy new AU headquarters a symbol of China-Africa ties (Source: Reuters)
  Reuters - Standing on what was once Ethiopia's oldest maximum security prison, the new African Union headquarters funded by China is a symbol of the Asian giant's push to stay ahead in Africa and gain greater access to the continent's resources.
• Frenchman killed in armed robbery in Red Sea resort (Source: Reuters)
  Reuters - A Frenchman was killed when armed men raided a currency exchange office Saturday in the Egyptian tourist resort of Sharm el-Sheikh on the Red Sea, security officials and the French embassy said.
• Burundi court jails 16 for bar killing of 36 (Source: Reuters)
  Reuters - A court in Burundi has sentenced 16 people to jail terms ranging from three years to life for killing 36 people in a bar, the most violent attack last year in the central African country, a defense lawyer said Saturday.
• Sudan says to release ships seized from South Sudan (Source: Reuters)
  Reuters - Sudan said on Saturday it would free tankers carrying cargoes of South Sudanese crude it had seized earlier this month, in a push to defuse a row over transit fees between former civil war foes that both depend on oil for almost all their income.
• Sect kills police officer at station in N. Nigeria (Source: AP)
  Police say gunmen from a radical Islamist sect have attacked another police station, killing one officer in a north Nigeria city where they killed 185 people last week.
• Nigeria army says kills 11 Boko Haram insurgents (Source: Reuters)
  Reuters - Nigeria's army killed 11 suspected Boko Haram insurgents during a gun battle at a checkpoint in the Islamist sect's heartland of Maiduguri on Saturday, the field operations officer in the remote northeastern city said.
• Congo opposition leader calls for strike over poll (Source: AP)
  Congo's top opposition leader is calling for a strike over last year's much-criticized election.
• US Embassy: US citizen kidnapped in Nigeria freed (Source: AP)
  A U.S. citizen kidnapped by gunmen in Nigeria's oil-rich southern delta has been freed after a week in captivity, the U.S. Embassy said.
• Egypt plans to send delegation to U.S. as NGO furor mounts (Source: Reuters)
  Reuters - A Egyptian military team plans to visit the United States next week as Cairo's crackdown on pro-democracy organizations has called into question the future of U.S. aid to Egypt, American officials said on Friday.
• Libyan commander says will retake Bani Walid (Source: Reuters)
  Reuters - A militia commander whose troops were driven out of the Libyan tribal stronghold of Bani Walid this week said on Friday that his forces were massing to recapture the town but were holding back at the government's request.
• Boko Haram leader tape threatens Nigeria forces (Source: Reuters)
  Reuters - In an audio tape posted on the Internet, the purported leader of the violent Nigerian Islamist sect Boko Haram threatened to kill more security personnel and kidnap their families, and accused U.S. President Barack Obama of waging war on Islam.
• S.Sudan sees oil shutdown complete by Saturday (Source: Reuters)
  Reuters - South Sudan's top negotiator said his country would complete an oil production shutdown by Saturday, after Sudan and South Sudan failed to agree on a deal to end an oil crisis.
• One million children in Sahel at risk, UNICEF warns (Source: Reuters)
  Reuters - More than 1 million children in the Sahel are at risk of severe malnutrition and urgent action is needed to avert starvation akin to that in Somalia, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) warned on Friday.