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Taylor haunts a Liberia in transition
Jan 18 2007 9:07PM (CT)
MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) - The face of the man whose army burned and raped its way across Liberia smiles down on the capital from a white billboard with a bold proclamation: Charles Taylor is innocent.
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Former Ugandan rebel leader dies in camp
Jan 18 2007 4:13PM (CT)
GARISSA, Kenya (AP) - Alice Lakwena, a Ugandan warrior priestess who led an insurgency in the 1980s and claimed to have spiritual powers to protect her fighters from bullets by anointing them with oil, has died at a Kenyan refugee camp, a government official said Thursday.
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Nigeria militants release 6 hostages
Jan 18 2007 11:36AM (CT)
PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria (AP) - Five Chinese telecommunications workers and an Italian oil worker abducted in Nigeria's restive southern delta region have been released, militants and officials said Thursday.
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Top U.N. envoy flies to Somali capital
Jan 18 2007 6:43AM (CT)
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) - A top U.N. envoy on Thursday stressed the need to protect Somalia's government so Ethiopian troops can pull out without leaving the country vulnerable to remnants of the ousted Islamic movement.
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U.N. team heads to Chad, Central Africa
Jan 18 2007 4:19AM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - A U.N. team heads to central Africa over the weekend to explore the possibility of deploying a U.N. force in Chad and the Central African Republic to protect civilians threatened by the spillover of the conflict in Sudan's neighboring Darfur region.
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Street protests spread across Guinea
Jan 18 2007 2:05AM (CT)
CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) - Security forces fired tear gas at demonstrators in Guinea's capital on Wednesday as street protests spread across the West African country on the eighth day of a general strike aimed at forcing the volatile nation's ailing president to step down.
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