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Count begins in Zambia after election
Sep 28 2006 8:41PM (CT)
LUSAKA, Zambia (AP) - Election officials began counting ballots Thursday after Zambians voted to decide whether President Levy Mwanawasa would stay in office for a second term despite a strong challenge from opposition candidates who lambasted his economic policies.
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Congo leader's coalition claims majority
Sep 28 2006 7:53PM (CT)
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) - A coalition of parties supporting Congolese President Joseph Kabila said Thursday that it has assembled a majority in parliament, meaning the group will select the prime minister to head the country's first democratically elected government in decades.
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Nigerian vice president suspended
Sep 28 2006 6:46PM (CT)
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) - Nigeria's vice president was suspended by his party for three months because of corruption allegations, preventing him from running for president on the party's ticket, an official said Thursday.
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U.N. peacekeepers in Darfur unlikely
Sep 28 2006 6:11PM (CT)
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) - The U.N. chief in Sudan said Thursday the government is unlikely to let U.N. peacekeepers in the country anytime soon, and the international community should instead push for the African Union force to remain in the war-torn region indefinitely.
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Sudan, former Darfur rebel faction clash
Sep 28 2006 2:59PM (CT)
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) - Sudanese authorities and a Darfur rebel group that signed a peace agreement with the government clashed Thursday in an affluent neighborhood of the country's capital, the head of the U.N. in Sudan said.
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Kenyan aristocrat's trial stirs tensions
Sep 28 2006 2:49PM (CT)
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - A descendant of Kenya's most famous white settlers shot and killed a black poacher just weeks after a series of violent armed robberies on his vast estate, a court heard Thursday in a murder trial that is stirring racial tensions.
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Ugandan rebels boycott peace talks
Sep 28 2006 10:46AM (CT)
GULU, Uganda (AP) - Ugandan rebels have walked out of peace talks aimed at ending a 19-year conflict in which thousands of civilians have died, officials said Thursday. Lord's Resistance Army rebels said they were boycotting the talks with the government because of a heavy military buildup by the Ugandan army, a senior rebel leader said.
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3 arrested in Somali assassination try
Sep 28 2006 8:22AM (CT)
BAIDOA, Somalia (AP) - Somali police investigating a car bomb assassination attempt on the president arrested three suspected members of a fundamentalist Islamic group Thursday and recovered explosives, an official said.
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