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Debate surrounds Nigerian election
Apr 24 2007 10:42PM (CT)
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) - President Olusegun Obasanjo said in remarks released Tuesday that Nigeria's deeply flawed weekend presidential elections should not be voided and asked observers not to judge his country by developed-world standards.
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Extradition hearing set for tech exec
Apr 24 2007 5:29PM (CT)
WINDHOEK, Namibia (AP) - Fugitive businessman Jacob "Kobi" Alexander has taken out full-page ads and erected billboards touting his commitment to Namibia, where a judge planned a hearing Wednesday on whether to send him to the United States to face trial on stock-options fraud charges.
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Bombs, shelling rock Somali capital
Apr 24 2007 4:29PM (CT)
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) - Car bombs exploded in Somalia's capital Tuesday and fighting raged for a seventh straight day, with Ethiopian and Somali government troops making a final push to wipe out an insurgency ahead of a peace conference.
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Bombs, shelling rock Somali capital
Apr 24 2007 4:29PM (CT)
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) - Car bombs exploded in Somalia's capital Tuesday and fighting raged for a seventh straight day, with Ethiopian and Somali government troops making a final push to wipe out an insurgency ahead of a peace conference.
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Darfur refugees plead for U.N. help
Apr 24 2007 2:51PM (CT)
EL-GENEINA, Sudan (AP) - Refugee leaders pleaded with the visiting U.N. refugee chief Tuesday for better security as he toured camps around this increasingly lawless regional capital, where feared janjaweed militiamen roam freely and have infiltrated the police forces.
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Darfur refugees plead for U.N. help
Apr 24 2007 2:51PM (CT)
EL-GENEINA, Sudan (AP) - Refugee leaders pleaded with the visiting U.N. refugee chief Tuesday for better security as he toured camps around this increasingly lawless regional capital, where feared janjaweed militiamen roam freely and have infiltrated the police forces.
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Darfur refugees plead for U.N. help
Apr 24 2007 2:51PM (CT)
EL-GENEINA, Sudan (AP) - Refugee leaders pleaded with the visiting U.N. refugee chief Tuesday for better security as he toured camps around this increasingly lawless regional capital, where feared janjaweed militiamen roam freely and have infiltrated the police forces.
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Ethiopian rebels kill 74 in oil attack
Apr 24 2007 2:38PM (CT)
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) - Ethiopian rebels who have fought alongside Islamic militants in neighboring Somalia stormed a Chinese-run oil field at dawn Tuesday, killing 74 people and destroying the exploration facility in a restive border region.
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U.S. seeks to extend Sudan peacekeeping
Apr 24 2007 3:09AM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The United States sought to use a U.N. resolution that would extend the U.N. peacekeeping mission in southern Sudan to press for the deployment of 20,000 U.N. troops in Darfur.
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