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Police: Nigeria gunmen shoot 2; 1 dies
Feb 23 2007 2:26PM (CT)
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) - Gunmen opened fire Friday on a vehicle carrying foreign workers in Nigeria's unruly oil-producing south, killing one Lebanese man, while assailants on speedboats kidnapped two Italians in separate violence.
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Anger mounts in Zimbabwe as crisis nears
Feb 23 2007 2:01PM (CT)
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) - Zimbabwe is reaching the end game, witnessing the last, desperate throes of a regime that has destroyed one of Africa's few successful economies, plunged millions of people into grinding poverty and led to the deaths of tens of thousands from malnutrition and lack of medical care.
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Chadian Prime Minister Yoadimnadji dies
Feb 23 2007 11:35AM (CT)
PARIS (AP) - Pascal Yoadimnadji, the Chadian prime minister named to the post by the country's powerful president, died Friday at a Paris hospital following a brain hemorrhage. He was 56.
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Uganda promises to aid, protect Somalia
Feb 23 2007 11:34AM (CT)
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) - Uganda's top military officials promised to help train a national army for Somalia and help provide security for its government, a Somali official said Friday.
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S.Africa's health minister in ICU
Feb 23 2007 6:37AM (CT)
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) - South Africa's health minister, the target of international criticism for espousing garlic and lemons for AIDS patients, is in intensive care with a lung ailment and acute anemia, her doctor said Friday.
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Sierra Leone war crimes defendant dies
Feb 23 2007 12:35AM (CT)
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) - Sam Hinga Norman, a former government minister on trial for allegedly overseeing a militia accused of torturing and mutilating civilians during Sierra Leone's decade-long civil war, died Thursday at a Senegalese hospital, a court statement said.
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