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Envoy: Somalia could become terror haven
Nov 9 2005 8:09PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Somalia could become a terrorist haven because it is a failed state where the number of extremist groups is growing, the top U.N. envoy for the country warned Wednesday.
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Johnson-Sirleaf leads runoff in Liberia
Nov 9 2005 5:27PM (CT)
MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) - Liberia's top female politician took a strong early lead Wednesday in a presidential runoff as her millionaire soccer star opponent charged the vote was fraudulent, clouding elections that had raised hopes for peace in the war-ravaged country.
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Congo's hippos hunted, eaten to extinction
Nov 9 2005 2:10PM (CT)
VIRUNGA NATIONAL PARK, Congo (AP) - In his poaching days in the Congo forests, Guillaume Kasereka used a rusty Russian-made rocket launcher to kill hippos for meat. These days, he says, they're too scarce and the competition too fierce _ rebels and militiamen machine-gun the animals and even dynamite lakes to bring dead hippo to the surface.
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Nigeria marks 10 years since worker deaths
Nov 9 2005 11:49AM (CT)
PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria (AP) - From his studio overlooking Port Harcourt cemetery, Pius Waritimi watched a police truck deliver the bodies of nine human rights and environmental activists fresh from the gallows.
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Zimbabwe government summons U.S. diplomat
Nov 9 2005 11:29AM (CT)
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) - Zimbabwe's Foreign Ministry summoned the U.S. ambassador Wednesday to protest a speech he made blaming President Robert Mugabe for the country's economic crisis, and the envoy will fly to Washington for consultations.
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Ethiopian PM: Treason for opposition
Nov 9 2005 9:07AM (CT)
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) - Prime Minister Meles Zenawi said Wednesday that opposition leaders and newspaper editors under detention will face treason charges, which carry the death penalty in Ethiopia, for their alleged roles in protests last week in which at least 46 people were killed.
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