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Fly from Africa, having set out twice (6)

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I believe the answer is:

tsetse

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'fly' is the definition.
(I know that tsetse fly is a type of fly)

'africa having set out twice' is the wordplay.
'africa' becomes 't' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'having' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'out' means to remove the last letter.
'twice' says to double the letters.
'set' with its last letter taken off is 'se'.
't'+'se'='tse'
'tse' duplicated is 'TSETSE'.

'from' is the link.

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(Other definitions for tsetse that I've seen before include "cause of sleepiness?" , "bloodsucker" , "source of sleeping sickness" , "Disease-carrying fly" , "fly across Africa" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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