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Militia threatens Nigerian oil facilities
Sep 20 2005 9:29PM (CT)
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) - A militia with a history of violence in Nigeria's oil-rich south on Tuesday threatened to blow up oil installations if the government did not release its arrested leader.
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Anglican rift over gays deepens in Nigeria
Sep 20 2005 5:51PM (CT)
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) - Nigeria's Anglican church has deleted all references to the mother church in Britain from its constitution, deepening a rift over homosexuality but stopping short of a feared schism.
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Ethiopian Jews on hunger strike to migrate
Sep 20 2005 5:32PM (CT)
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) - Hundreds of Ethiopians who claim their ancestors were forced to convert from Judaism began a three-day hunger strike at a prayer house Tuesday to press the Israeli government to let them migrate to the Jewish state.
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Sudanese president: Unity Cabinet formed
Sep 20 2005 2:03PM (CT)
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) - President Omar el-Bashir said Tuesday he had formed his unity Cabinet, ending weeks of tough negotiations between his party and former rebels and taking another step toward securing peace.
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Vending blitz hurting Zimbabwean hawkers
Sep 20 2005 12:35PM (CT)
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) - A toothless flower-seller rushes up to a well-dressed shopper outside a supermarket, peers around anxiously through watery eyes as though about to offer drugs for sale, and begs her to buy a 20-cent bunch of asters. Suddenly two policemen appear in riot gear.
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Rights group urges Ugandan prosecutions
Sep 20 2005 10:42AM (CT)
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) - Both government troops and rebels from the notorious Lord's Resistance Army are responsible for killings, torture, rape and other abuses in the 19-year civil war in northern Uganda, a U.S.-based human rights group said Tuesday.
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