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Lions seek to salvage pride in final Springbok Test (AFP)

AFP - South Africa play the British and Irish Lions in the third and final Test here Saturday with the series already sewn up and seeking a first-ever whitewash in 118 years of fixtures between the two sides.

AFP - The African Union refused to act on an international war crimes warrant for Sudan's president, at a summit that also yielded a deal on the powers of a new regional Authority.

AFP - Two women aid workers from Ireland and Uganda were kidnapped Friday by armed men in Sudan's volatile Darfur region, the scene of Africa's longest running conflict, officials told AFP.

AFP - An Irish aid worker has been kidnapped in the troubled Darfur region of Sudan, a spokeswoman for the Department of Foreign Affairs in Dublin confirmed Friday.

AP - After bitter wrangling, Africa's leaders agreed Friday to denounce the International Criminal Court and refuse to extradite Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir, who has been indicted for crimes against humanity in Darfur.

AFP - The African Union decided Friday not to cooperate with a war crimes warrant against Sudan President Omar al-Beshir and again appealed to the United Nations to delay the case.

Reuters - African leaders will consider a resolution Friday to give African Union peacekeepers in Somalia a mandate to do more than just defend themselves from attacks by hardline rebels.

AFP - Peacekeepers in Somalia and the war crimes warrant for Sudan's president dominated the final day of an African Union summit Friday, after a late-night compromise on a new regional Authority.

AFP - Three African countries on Friday signed an accord to build a 10-billion-dollar trans-Saharan gas pipeline linking vast reserves in Nigeria to Europe.

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