Ethiopian police kill opposition politician
Jun 13 2005 7:30PM (CT)
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) - Police shot and killed an opposition politician, prompting the arrest of six officers, a government spokesman said Monday, as the government rejected an opposition offer to renew a peace deal.
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Marauding animal kills 9 in rural Malawi
Jun 13 2005 2:32PM (CT)
BLANTYRE, Malawi (AP) - A marauding animal killed at least nine people and wounded 11 in rural Malawi early Monday, police and hospital officials said.
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U.N.: 3,600 Rwandan refugees repatriated
Jun 13 2005 2:20PM (CT)
BUJUMBURA, Burundi (AP) - Burundi has forcibly repatriated 3,600 Rwandan refugees, putting them in trucks and transporting them out of the country, the United Nations and government officials said Monday.
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Morocco immigrant boat sinks, killing 12
Jun 13 2005 2:16PM (CT)
RABAT, Morocco (AP) - At least 12 people _ six of them children _ drowned when a rubber dinghy carrying would-be immigrants to Europe capsized off Africa's northern coast, Moroccan officials said Monday.
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South Africa's famed rain queen dies
Jun 13 2005 11:05AM (CT)
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) - Makobo Modjadji, the famed rain queen of South Africa's Balobedu people, has died of unspecified causes after just two years in power, the Modjadji Royal Council said Monday. She was 27.
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War often fuels hunger in Africa
Jun 13 2005 12:23AM (CT)
BUKAVU, Congo (AP) - In places like Congo and Sudan, war and hunger are linked in a cycle of horror and desperation.
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