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U.N. OKs Sudan peacekeepers resolution
Aug 31 2006 5:58PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The U.N. Security Council passed a resolution Thursday that would give the United Nations authority over peacekeepers in Darfur as soon as Sudan's government gives its consent _ which it has so far refused to do.
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Somali Islamists fly to Sudan for talks
Aug 31 2006 5:39PM (CT)
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) - Islamic militants who seized much of Somalia's south sent delegates to Sudan Thursday to discuss the chaotic African nation's future with its struggling U.N.-backed transitional government.
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Obama visits flood-displaced Ethiopians
Aug 31 2006 10:27AM (CT)
DIRE DAWA, Ethiopia (AP) - Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., visited a sprawling tent camp in eastern Ethiopia on Thursday for people displaced by devastating floods earlier this month, saying the U.S. military will continue to help the region.
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Uganda sets emergency plan for displaced
Aug 31 2006 9:17AM (CT)
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) - The government has drafted an emergency resettlement plan for the close to 2 million people displaced by the brutal 19-year northern Uganda insurgency, the prime minister said Thursday, two days after a truce with rebels began.
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