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Group tries new way to help Kenya kids
Jul 1 2006 9:15PM (CT)
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - On almost any day, at almost any time, children dressed in rags with bottles filled with glue pressed to their faces stake out the major intersections of Kenya's capital.
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Witnesses: Ethiopian troops enter Somalia
Jul 1 2006 5:46PM (CT)
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) - About 100 Ethiopian troops crossed the border into Somalia on Saturday, witnesses said, the latest sign that Ethiopia might try to bolster this country's weak interim government as an Islamic militia gains increasing power.
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African leaders grapple with many issues
Jul 1 2006 5:36PM (CT)
BANJUL, Gambia (AP) - U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan told African leaders Saturday that Sudan's Darfur conflict is "one of the worst nightmares in recent history," but just one of the challenges facing a continent wracked by war, poverty and disease.
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African migrants struggle with split lives
Jul 1 2006 10:42AM (CT)
KEBEMER, Senegal (AP) - Maimouna Niang lives pretty well for a young mother in a dusty corner of West Africa. Although her house sits on a dirt road and a sheep pen occupies half her yard, she also has a DVD player, a phone line in her house and an elegant wooden crib for her 1-year-old son.
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S. Africa train crash kills 1, injures 42
Jul 1 2006 8:03AM (CT)
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) - One commuter train rear-ended another, killing one passenger and injuring 42 others, rescue officials said Saturday.
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