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Liberia inaugurates truth commission
Feb 20 2006 10:31PM (CT)
MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) - Liberia's president inaugurated a truth commission Monday to investigate crimes and human rights abuses committed in the war-battered country over the last quarter century.
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Sudan opposes U.N. troops in Darfur
Feb 20 2006 7:52PM (CT)
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) - Sudan's vice president told a visiting U.S. delegation that the country opposed a proposal to deploy international peacekeepers to Darfur, but was committed to negotiations to end tensions in the region, state media reported Monday.
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Nigerian militants attack oil pipeline
Feb 20 2006 4:05PM (CT)
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) - Militants holding nine foreigners hostage launched attacks Monday on a pipeline and a boat in Nigeria's swampy delta region, vowing to spread their campaign across the petroleum-rich south from where most of the African oil giant's crude is pumped.
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Official says two generals leave Chad
Feb 20 2006 8:25AM (CT)
N'DJAMENA, Chad (AP) - Two top army generals related to President Idriss Deby have crossed the border into neighboring Sudan, an official said Monday, raising the prospect that dissatisfaction within Chad's military runs deeper than previously suspected.
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