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Mauritania charges 5 with coup plot
Jul 18 2006 11:39PM (CT)
NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania (AP) - Mauritania authorities on Tuesday charged five men with plotting to overthrow this desert nation's military junta, which has pledged to restore civilian rule by next year.
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Striking doctors defy Zimbabwe government
Jul 18 2006 5:30PM (CT)
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) - Nearly 300 striking doctors in Zimbabwe ignored government demands Tuesday for them to return to hospital wards, officials said.
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Nelson Mandela celebrates 88th birthday
Jul 18 2006 4:43PM (CT)
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) - South Africans marked former President Nelson Mandela's 88th birthday Tuesday with tributes and praise, and the man who led his country out of apartheid celebrated privately with his children and grandchildren at his Johannesburg home.
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Sudan faces pressure to accept U.N. force
Jul 18 2006 2:54PM (CT)
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) - World powers pressed the Sudanese government Tuesday to accept a U.N. peacekeeping force in Darfur province to replace overstretched African Union troops who have struggled to protect civilians from rebels and pro-government militias.
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Kabila faces little opposition in Congo
Jul 18 2006 2:15PM (CT)
BUNIA, Congo (AP) - With less than two weeks to go in the race to become the first democratically elected Congolese leader since 1960, President Joseph Kabila's 32 rivals are all but invisible, particularly in the vast country's outlying provinces.
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Voting a logistical nightmare in Congo
Jul 18 2006 12:42PM (CT)
BUNIA, Congo (AP) - Getting the vote to this eastern Congo town means conquering jungle and coping without phones or banks to pay poll workers. And then there are the militiamen running rampant across this lawless corner of a vast nation just emerging from civil war.
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Somalia gov't agrees to talks with militia
Jul 18 2006 12:08PM (CT)
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) - Somalia's weak transitional government has agreed to attend peace talks with the Islamic militia controlling most of the country's south, a government spokesman said Tuesday.
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