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Floods leave thousands homeless in Malawi
Mar 9 2006 8:26PM (CT)
BLANTYRE, Malawi (AP) - Flash floods from the heaviest rains in 20 years have swept the south and central parts of Malawi, leaving more than 8,000 people homeless, officials said Thursday.
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Ethiopia-Eritrea border to be discussed
Mar 9 2006 4:15PM (CT)
ASMARA, Eritrea (AP) - Ethiopia and Eritrea will meet with international mediators Friday for the first time in three years to discuss the demarcation of the border over which they once went to war, a senior Eritrean official and diplomats said.
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U.N.: More than a billion lack clean water
Mar 9 2006 3:03PM (CT)
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - Mismanagement, limited resources and environmental damage have combined to deny 1.1 billion people access to safe water, a U.N. report said Thursday.
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Nigerian military battles armed men
Mar 9 2006 11:24AM (CT)
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) - Nigeria's military exchanged fire with armed men in this West African nation's oil-rich delta region, the military said Thursday, in an attack apparently against a militant group holding two American hostages and a Briton.
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23 dead in church wall collapse in Uganda
Mar 9 2006 5:57AM (CT)
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) - Uganda's government opened a criminal investigation into the collapse of a church wall that killed 23 people and injured nearly 100 during a thunderstorm, the state minister for health said Thursday.
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