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Somalia detains U.N. food aid official
Oct 17 2007 2:48PM (CT)
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) - Dozens of heavily armed government security forces stormed a United Nations compound Wednesday and spirited away the official overseeing emergency food aid for Somalia's war-ruined capital, prompting the agency to suspend distributions.
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Zimbabwe: Meltdown in slow motion
Oct 17 2007 11:51AM (CT)
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) - Around dawn, Susan lights a fire of wood and garbage in the yard to boil tea. There's no sugar, and sometimes no tea either _ just mugs of tepid water for her two boys to drink before they head to school.
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3 UN food agency drivers slain in Darfur
Oct 17 2007 10:36AM (CT)
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) - Three truck drivers working for the U.N.'s World Food Program have been killed in recent days while delivering aid to Darfur, the agency said Wednesday.
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UN staffer kidnapped in Somalia
Oct 17 2007 4:29AM (CT)
ROME (AP) - A U.N. food agency in Rome said Wednesday that one of its staffers had been kidnapped in Mogadishu, Somalia.
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