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Activists: Congo army using forced labor
Oct 16 2006 3:26PM (CT)
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) - A U.S.-based rights group on Monday accused soldiers in Congo's postwar, national-unity army of abducting civilians and forcing them to serve as personal attendants and mine workers in the troubled Central African country.
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Ivory Coast cocoa farmers go on strike
Oct 16 2006 2:35PM (CT)
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) - Cocoa farmers across Ivory Coast went on strike Monday, holding back their crops to protest low retail prices and high export taxes. If the action is sustained it could affect the global chocolate industry.
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U.N. accuses Eritrea cease-fire breach
Oct 16 2006 1:44PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The United Nations on Monday accused Eritrea of moving 1,500 troops and 14 tanks into a buffer zone established after a 2 1/2-year border war with Ethiopia in "a major breach" of a cease-fire agreement reached in 2000.
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