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Envoy: Somalia has best chance for peace
Mar 1 2007 11:00PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Despite a recent surge in violence, Somalia has its best opportunity in years to emerge from anarchy and the world must help the interim government assert its authority, a top U.N. envoy said Thursday.
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10 French tourists kidnapped in Ethiopia
Mar 1 2007 4:59PM (CT)
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) - Ten French tourists were kidnapped Thursday in northern Ethiopia, a businessman and a tour operator who work in the region said.
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Wade took 56 percent of vote in Senegal
Mar 1 2007 4:43PM (CT)
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) - President Abdoulaye Wade received 56 percent of the vote to avoid a runoff and easily win re-election in this West African nation, officials said Thursday.
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Evangelicals' work in Africa criticized
Mar 1 2007 2:51PM (CT)
ALER, Uganda (AP) - "Telephone to Jesus. Hello?" the children of Aler refugee camp sing, their bare feet thumping the ground as they dance wildly in their concrete chapel. Most camp residents have never used a phone, but they are learning about Jesus. The Rev. Franklin Graham, son of famed evangelist Billy Graham, smiled as he watched the children _ members of a club run by Samaritan's Purse, the Christian missionary organization he leads.
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African peacekeepers arrive in Somalia
Mar 1 2007 1:03PM (CT)
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) - The advance team of an African peacekeeping force to Somalia arrived unannounced in the country on Thursday, a senior police officer said. A Ugandan military spokesman, however, denied that any troops were in Somalia.
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Ahmadinejad: U.S., Israel cause problems
Mar 1 2007 11:18AM (CT)
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) - Iran's president blamed the United States and Israel for the world's problems Thursday in a lecture to Sudanese officials and intellectuals during his visit to Sudan.
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Chad wants only U.N. police for refugees
Mar 1 2007 8:07AM (CT)
N'DJAMENA, Chad (AP) - Chad's government is voicing opposition to a U.N. plan to deploy troops along its border with Sudan to protect tens of thousands of people who have sought refuge there from the conflict in neighboring Darfur.
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