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Côte d’Ivoire leaders postpone election
Côte d’Ivoire’s political leaders on Monday postponed a post-war presidential election planned for November 30.
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Nigerian director wins Africa’s top film prize
Nigerian director Newton Aduaka lifted the top prize at Africa’s most prestigious film festival for Ezra, the tale of a child soldier who struggles to readapt after Sierra Leone’s civil war. Aduaka was awarded the Golden Stallion of Yennenga at the closing ceremony of the Fespaco film festival in Ouagadougou on Saturday.
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West Africa to seek delay to EU trade deal
West Africa plans to ask the European Union for a two-year delay to a planned economic partnership agreement (EPA), leaders said at a summit on Friday, but the EU’s executive Commission ruled out a postponement. Brussels hopes to negotiate far-reaching EPAs with six regions in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific to come into force by January 1 2008.
