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UN: Peacekeepers plan to leave Eritrea
Feb 8 2008 11:24PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - In an unusual move, the United Nations is being forced to prepare an imminent pullout from Eritrea and plans to relocate all its peacekeeping troops there across the border in Ethiopia, senior U.N. officials and diplomats told The Associated Press on Friday.
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Sudan military bombs West Darfur towns
Feb 8 2008 8:13PM (CT)
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) - The Sudanese military said it bombed three towns in West Darfur while striking at rebel forces Friday as senior U.N. officials warned that security was deteriorating dramatically in Sudan's vast western region.
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Letter tells of rocket hit on US embassy
Feb 8 2008 7:13PM (CT)
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - As combat raged in Chad's capital last weekend, U.S. Embassy staffers were busily shredding sensitive documents in the ambassador's office when a rocket blasted through a wall, roared across the room and burst out the opposite wall before exploding.
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Residents take stock of damage in Chad
Feb 8 2008 6:38PM (CT)
N'DJAMENA, Chad (AP) - Turbaned troops patrolled the streets of Chad's capital in pickup trucks Friday while residents took stock of the damage from days of fierce fighting that brought rebels to the doorstep of the presidential palace.
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Residents take stock of damage in Chad
Feb 8 2008 6:38PM (CT)
N'DJAMENA, Chad (AP) - Turbaned troops patrolled the streets of Chad's capital in pickup trucks Friday while residents took stock of the damage from days of fierce fighting that brought rebels to the doorstep of the presidential palace.
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Residents take stock of damage in Chad
Feb 8 2008 6:38PM (CT)
N'DJAMENA, Chad (AP) - Turbaned troops patrolled the streets of Chad's capital in pickup trucks Friday while residents took stock of the damage from days of fierce fighting that brought rebels to the doorstep of the presidential palace.
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Residents take stock of damage in Chad
Feb 8 2008 6:38PM (CT)
N'DJAMENA, Chad (AP) - Turbaned troops patrolled the streets of Chad's capital in pickup trucks Friday while residents took stock of the damage from days of fierce fighting that brought rebels to the doorstep of the presidential palace.
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Algeria: 8 police killed in ambush
Feb 8 2008 5:56PM (CT)
ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) - Suspected Islamist militants gunned down eight police officers in an overnight ambush in eastern Algeria, security officials said Friday.
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Annan hopes for Kenya agreement soon
Feb 8 2008 4:11PM (CT)
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - Kenya's rival political parties moved toward an agreement to share power, the chief mediator said Friday, raising hopes for a breakthrough in the postelection crisis that has left more than 1,000 people dead.
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Annan hopes for Kenya agreement soon
Feb 8 2008 4:11PM (CT)
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - Kenya's rival political parties moved toward an agreement to share power, the chief mediator said Friday, raising hopes for a breakthrough in the postelection crisis that has left more than 1,000 people dead.
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Annan hopes for Kenya agreement soon
Feb 8 2008 4:11PM (CT)
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - Kenya's rival political parties moved toward an agreement to share power, the chief mediator said Friday, raising hopes for a breakthrough in the postelection crisis that has left more than 1,000 people dead.
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Annan hopes for Kenya agreement soon
Feb 8 2008 4:11PM (CT)
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - Kenya's rival political parties moved toward an agreement to share power, the chief mediator said Friday, raising hopes for a breakthrough in the postelection crisis that has left more than 1,000 people dead.
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Event canceled, France to pay Mauritania
Feb 8 2008 12:34PM (CT)
NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania (AP) - French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner on Friday said France would reimburse Mauritania for the losses it suffered after the cancellation last month of the Dakar Rally.
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Tanzanian PM dissolves Cabinet
Feb 8 2008 10:42AM (CT)
DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania (AP) - Tanzania's prime minister and two Cabinet ministers have resigned over a corruption scandal involving a contract with a nonexistent firm supposedly based in the United States, and the president dissolved the entire Cabinet as a result.
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Zoe's Ark children still in camp
Feb 8 2008 8:42AM (CT)
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - The 103 children French aid workers are jailed for trying to kidnap from Chad have yet to be reunited with their families more than three months after their ordeal began, the U.N. children's agency said Friday.
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