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Wife of anti-apartheid hero Tambo dies
Jan 31 2007 11:33PM (CT)
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) - Adelaide Tambo, widow of South African anti-apartheid hero Oliver Tambo and a stalwart in the struggle against racial segregation, died Wednesday, officials said. She was 77.
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More peacekeepers heading to Somalia
Jan 31 2007 4:56PM (CT)
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) - Three battalions of peacekeepers from Uganda and Nigeria will be airlifted as soon as possible into Somalia amid rising violence that threatens the government's grip on power, an African Union official said Wednesday.
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Sudan justice minister discounts ICC
Jan 31 2007 4:18PM (CT)
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) - The Sudanese can do a better job prosecuting crimes in Darfur than anyone else, Sudan's justice minister said Wednesday, asserting international courts have no valid reason to investigate suspects in the vast area of western Sudan.
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Activists report on Nigeria corruption
Jan 31 2007 12:15PM (CT)
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) - A human rights group said Wednesday its study of one of Nigeria's oil-producing states found that officials squandered or stole public money, some hospitals required patients to bring their own beds, and schools were running out of chalk.
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Somali peacekeeping mission to go ahead
Jan 31 2007 6:40AM (CT)
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) - Three battalions of peacekeepers from Uganda and Nigeria are ready to be deployed in Somalia and will be airlifted in as soon as possible, a senior AU official said Wednesday.
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U.N. cuts Eritrea-Ethiopia peacekeepers
Jan 31 2007 12:07AM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The Security Council voted Tuesday to reduce the peacekeeping mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea from 2,300 troops to 1,700, expressing disappointment in the stalled process to draw the border between the feuding Horn of Africa neighbors.
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