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Liberia begins training post-war army
Jul 24 2006 8:55PM (CT)
MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) - Liberia on Monday began training the first soldiers of a post-war army that officials hope will grow into a small but effective force to take over peacekeeping from U.N. troops in the war-ravaged West African nation.
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Oxfam: Emergency food aid failing Africa
Jul 24 2006 3:26PM (CT)
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) - Governments and aid groups are failing Africa by giving emergency food donations instead of addressing the causes of hunger crises, Oxfam said in a report released Monday.
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UNICEF: 600 Congolese children die per day
Jul 24 2006 2:12PM (CT)
LONDON (AP) - More than 600 children die every day in war-ravaged Congo and even more are displaced, sexually abused or swept into the camps of combatant groups, a UNICEF report said Monday.
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Congolese army inspires fear, not trust
Jul 24 2006 1:55PM (CT)
GOMA, Congo (AP) - Elections on Sunday are supposed to herald the birth of a new Congo, but that future is threatened by old soldiers who won't give up their habits of looting, raping and killing.
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Somali militant vows to produce 'corpses'
Jul 24 2006 1:33PM (CT)
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) - A leader of the Islamic militia controlling most of southern Somalia said Monday he will produce "corpses or POWs" to prove that neighboring Ethiopia has sent soldiers across the border to protect Somalia's weak government.
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July 30 election is watershed for Congo
Jul 24 2006 7:51AM (CT)
NDAKU YA PEMBE, Congo (AP) - Election banners festoon the rutted main road that divides the village, but no candidates have come to press for votes from these cassava farmers whose lives seem locked in another century.
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Algerians risking all to enter Europe
Jul 24 2006 7:08AM (CT)
ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) - Early one morning in April, a desperate young Algerian man slipped into a warehouse on the outskirts of Algiers and sealed himself inside a shipping container destined for France.
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