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Cheick Modibo Diarra, Microsoft Corp’s chairman for Africa, has been appointed Mali’s interim prime minister, tasked with helping to restore civilian rule to the West African country after last month’s coup.

Morocco’s foreign minister urged Russia on Wednesday to press the Syrian government to adhere to a ceasefire and withdraw forces from cities in accordance with U.N.-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan’s peace plan.

Myanmar’s Nobel Peace Prize laureate and pro-democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, is set to travel outside the country for the first time in 24 years.

A prominent Libyan military commander is taking legal action against Jack Straw, the former British foreign secretary, to determine whether Straw signed papers allowing his rendition to Libya.

African countries will gain more from oil related investments if they fast track revision of oil exploration laws and regulations to attract more oil industry investors, a development analyst has said.

Fighting spread further along the Sudan-South Sudan border when soldiers from both countries got into a firefight, killing 22 troops, a southern spokesman said Wednesday.