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Ugandan rebels pull out of peace talks
Jan 12 2007 9:42PM (CT)
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - Ugandan rebels pulled out of peace talks with the government Friday, dealing a blow to already faltering negotiations aimed at ending one of Africa's most brutal conflicts.
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Doctors strike stalls Zimbabwe hospitals
Jan 12 2007 8:35PM (CT)
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) - A strike by junior doctors demanding pay increases in Zimbabwe's beleaguered health service paralyzed the country's main hospitals Friday.
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In Tunisia, extremists bore blueprints
Jan 12 2007 3:29PM (CT)
TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) - Nearly 30 Islamic extremists involved in a deadly gunbattle with police in this North African country had blueprints of foreign embassies and documents naming foreign envoys, the interior minister said Friday.
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Islamic hideout in Somalia said captured
Jan 12 2007 3:21PM (CT)
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) - Ethiopian-backed government forces captured the last remaining stronghold of the Islamic movement in southern Somalia, the Somali defense minister said Friday, hours after warlords met with the president and promised to enlist their militiamen in the army.
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Darfur rebels deny truce with government
Jan 12 2007 2:59PM (CT)
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - A Darfur rebel group denied Friday that it agreed to a cease-fire with the Sudanese government during a meeting this week with New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson. The cease-fire was "probably made for public consumption as we have not been officially consulted in that regard," said Abdullahi el-Tom, a leader of the Justice and Equality Movement rebel group.
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9 South Korean workers in Nigeria freed
Jan 12 2007 2:55PM (CT)
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) - Nine South Korean pipeline workers and a Nigerian kidnapped in southern Nigeria were released Friday with the help of a youth group in the restive oil region, the regional government said.
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Boy soldiers among the hidden in Somalia
Jan 12 2007 2:18PM (CT)
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) - Interviews with boys as young as 14 who said they fought in the recent weeks of violence in Somalia lend credence to accusations that children have been recruited for battle in this chaotic Horn of Africa nation.
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Muslim expected to lead Nigeria next
Jan 12 2007 1:09PM (CT)
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) - The minarets of the national mosque and the tower of the main cathedral soar to equal heights over Nigeria's capital, neither eclipsing the other.
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