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Rwanda to release 8,000 more suspects
Jan 27 2007 11:20PM (CT)
KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) - Rwanda will release more than 8,000 prisoners convicted or awaiting trial in the country's 1994 genocide, many of them elderly and sick, the justice minister said.
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Guinea union leaders call off strike
Jan 27 2007 9:30PM (CT)
CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) - Guinea's union leaders ended a deadly 17-day strike Sunday after the president agreed to name a new prime minister with boosted powers.
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U.N. chief praises Congo as symbol
Jan 27 2007 4:12PM (CT)
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon pointed to Congo's first elections in more than four decades as a sign of hope for the rest of Africa, praising the country's fragile democracy in his first official tour of the continent Saturday.
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Senegalese police detain opposition head
Jan 27 2007 3:28PM (CT)
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) - Senegalese riot police fired tear gas Saturday at protesters calling for early parliamentary elections, beating back the crowd with rifle butts and detaining the head of the country's main opposition party.
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U.S. Embassy carjacking in Kenya; 2 dead
Jan 27 2007 3:05PM (CT)
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - Gunmen carjacked a U.S. Embassy vehicle on the outskirts of the Kenyan capital Saturday and killed the wife of an embassy employee and his mother-in-law. Police later killed two of the carjackers.
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U.S. Embassy carjacking in Kenya; 2 dead
Jan 27 2007 3:05PM (CT)
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - Gunmen carjacked a U.S. Embassy vehicle on the outskirts of the Kenyan capital Saturday and killed the wife of an embassy employee and his mother-in-law. Police later killed two of the carjackers.
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U.S. Embassy carjacking in Kenya; 2 dead
Jan 27 2007 3:05PM (CT)
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - Gunmen carjacked a U.S. Embassy vehicle on the outskirts of the Kenyan capital Saturday and killed the wife of an embassy employee and his mother-in-law. Police later killed two of the carjackers.
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Benin becomes unlikely democracy leader
Jan 27 2007 3:04PM (CT)
COTONOU, Benin (AP) - When this West African nation ran short of funds to finance its election machinery, voters raised cash, loaned computers, and lit up vote-counting centers with their motorcycle headlights.
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Somali gov't blames unrest on militants
Jan 27 2007 5:27AM (CT)
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) - The spate of deadly violence in Somalia's capital in recent days is the work of an Islamic movement that was driven from Mogadishu and much of the country's south last month, a government spokesman said Saturday.
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Indian peacekeeper killed in Sudan
Jan 27 2007 12:01AM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Gunmen killed an Indian peacekeeper and wounded two others in southern Sudan on Friday, the U.N. said.
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