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Chad could pardon 6 French aid workers
Mar 6 2008 5:52PM (CT)
PARIS (AP) - Chadian leader Idriss Deby said Thursday that he could issue a presidential pardon in less than a month for six French aid workers convicted of trying to smuggle 103 children out of Chad.
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Africa hard hit by health worker gap
Mar 6 2008 1:55PM (CT)
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) - Every week, Charity Kiconco drives hundreds of miles down some of the world's worst roads on a motorbike, bringing drugs and counseling to hundreds of AIDS patients.
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Republic of Congo ends adoption ban
Mar 6 2008 12:28PM (CT)
BRAZZAVILLE, Republic of Congo (AP) - Central Africa's Republic of Congo lifted a ban on foreign adoptions Thursday, three months after it was instituted amid an uproar over attempts by a French charity to fly a planeload of children out of Chad.
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Kenya peace deal before Parliament
Mar 6 2008 12:27PM (CT)
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - President Mwai Kibaki urged lawmakers to pass the laws needed to enforce the country's new power-sharing agreement as Parliament convened Thursday for the first time since the deal was reached.
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Islamic fighters move into Somali town
Mar 6 2008 11:42AM (CT)
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) - More than 100 masked Islamic militiamen entered a strategic town Thursday in the latest bold move by a force defeated two years ago at the hands of Somalia's Western-backed government and its Ethiopian allies.
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Egypt arrests 26 Brotherhood members
Mar 6 2008 7:26AM (CT)
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - Police arrested 26 members of the Muslim Brotherhood in an ongoing crackdown on Egypt's largest Islamic opposition group ahead of next month's local election, a security official and the group's Web site said.
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US pushes for deployment of Darfur force
Mar 6 2008 3:27AM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The United States has called for a new initiative to get a 26,000-strong peacekeeping force on the ground in Darfur, where the 5-year conflict has escalated and malnutrition is rising.
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