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Somalia's Islamists vow to heed al-Qaida
Jan 5 2007 8:36PM (CT)
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) - Islamic fighters hiding in Mogadishu since their movement's main force was driven from the Somali capital say they will heed al-Qaida's call for guerrilla attacks and suicide bombings against Ethiopian troops whose intervention was key to the Islamists' defeat.
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South Africa's former president dies
Jan 5 2007 11:12AM (CT)
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) - Marais Viljoen, who in the 1980s held what was then South Africa's largely ceremonial post of president in the apartheid state, died Thursday, a news agency reported. He was 91.
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5 Chinese workers in Nigeria kidnapped
Jan 5 2007 10:44AM (CT)
PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria (AP) - Gunmen kidnapped five Chinese workers fixing overhead telephone lines in southern Nigeria on Friday, the latest abductions of foreigners in the restive, oil-rich region, officials said.
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U.S. envoy wants peacekeepers in Somalia
Jan 5 2007 5:33AM (CT)
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - Somalia's president told top diplomats Friday that his country has a rare opportunity to reverse 15 years of anarchy but needs international help. Officials from the United States, Europe, Africa and the Middle East are exploring ways to help the Somali government following the defeat of an Islamic movement that tried to destroy it.
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New U.N. chief focusing on Darfur crisis
Jan 5 2007 12:31AM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon devoted much of his first days on the job to the three-year conflict in Sudan's Darfur region, which has killed more than 200,000 people and displaced 2.5 million.
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