Mozambique riots push fuel down
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Mozambique's government cuts diesel prices for private minibus taxis after deadly riots.
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Nigeria's government cuts the price of fuel in a bid to avert a planned general strike by the country's biggest unions.
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HARARE, Zimbabwe, Jan. 20 -- Power outages shut down basic services across Zambia and Zimbabwe as anger mounted in South Africa over power cuts that have wreaked havoc in the continent's economic hub.
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A nationwide strike is underway on Monday in Nigeria to protest against rising fuel prices, bringing much of Africa&#39;s top oil producer to a near standstill.
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By Andrew Hay URUCU, Brazil  - A tower of orange flame risesabove the Amazon jungle, firing the energy goals of theBrazilian government.
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The Liberian capital Monrovia was under curfew after citywide riots killed at least five people two days before the end of a UN disarmament effort, provoking fears of a return to conflict in the west African state.
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Violence in Kenya leads to fuel shortages throughout East Africa, as fuel remains stuck in Kenyan ports.
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Recent protests in Burma by democracy activists, defiant monks and other citizens objecting to an unprecedented spike in fuel prices have sparked a brutal crackdown by the country's ruling military junta and cast a new spotlight on the gravity of conditions in the resource-rich country.
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PARTICIPANTS in the Redfern riots were among an angry mob who burned down a police station on Queensland&#39;s Palm Island, police said yesterday.
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Cyclone Favio, which left a trail of destruction after sweeping through parts of Mozambique, has been downgraded on Friday to a tropical depression as it moved towards neighbouring Zimbabwe.
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Kisumu, Kenyaâs third largest city, was on fire again on Monday as the police and military struggled to stop a wave of revenge killings.
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An escalation of ethnic violence is threatening to plunge the country into chaos.
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Angry Iranian motorists queued for gasoline for hours on Wednesday after the world's fourth-largest oil exporter imposed fuel rationing, sparking chaotic scenes and the torching of at least two pump stations.
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Gaza's main power plant began shutting down on Sunday due to a fuel shortage caused by Israel's closure of the Hamas-controlled territory's borders, a move taken in response to Palestinian rocket attacks.
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Thousands of people waved machetes and burned down homes as tensions flared over the slow return of results from the closest presidential election in Kenyaâs history.
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Angry residents have set fire to dozens of heaps of rubbish in a worsening dispute with the authorities.
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Angry Iranian motorists queued for gasoline on Wednesday hours after the world's fourth largest oil exporter imposed fuel rationing, sparking chaotic scenes and the torching of two pump stations in the capital.