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American among hostages freed in Nigeria
Aug 23 2006 10:41PM (CT)
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) - Kidnappers freed six foreigners Wednesday, including an American boat captain, abducted from a nightclub in Nigeria's southern oil region, the government said.
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Ivory Coast may miss election deadline
Aug 23 2006 10:18PM (CT)
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) - Ivory Coast will not be able to hold planned elections on Oct. 31 because of voter registration problems, the head of the U.N. mission said Wednesday.
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Cease-fire holds in Congo's capital city
Aug 23 2006 9:27PM (CT)
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) - A truce between troops loyal to Congo's two presidential candidates held Wednesday and calm returned to the capital, officials said, after three days of Kinshasa's worst violence in several years.
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Somalia rulers reopen main seaport
Aug 23 2006 9:23PM (CT)
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) - The seaport in the Somali capital reopened Wednesday for the first time in 11 years, the latest sign that the city's Islamic fundamentalist rulers are trying to restore confidence after more than a decade of anarchy.
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Obama moved by S. Africa's freedom fight
Aug 23 2006 8:47PM (CT)
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) - Sen. Barack Obama, the only African-American in the Senate, paid tribute Wednesday to South Africans' fight for freedom, saying they helped inspire his own political career.
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Rapes increase in Darfur refugee camp
Aug 23 2006 3:52PM (CT)
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) - More than 200 women have been raped in a refugee camp in Darfur in the past five weeks, a sign of the worsening humanitarian crisis in the violence-wracked Sudanese region, an aid group said Wednesday.
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Injustice lingers in Tunisia for women
Aug 23 2006 2:33AM (CT)
TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) - In a country praised as a standard-bearer of women's rights in the Muslim world, Basma Hammami says the women in her family have been victims of lingering injustice.
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