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S. Africa first to legalize gay marriage
Nov 30 2006 6:34PM (CT)
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) - South Africa on Thursday became the first country in Africa, and only the fifth in the world, to legalize same sex marriages.
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U.N. food agency may halt distribution
Nov 30 2006 3:07PM (CT)
WINDHOEK, Namibia (AP) - The U.N. World Food Program said Thursday it may halt food distribution to 90,000 orphans and vulnerable children in Namibia by the end of the year because of a critical shortage of funding.
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10 suspected militants killed in Algeria
Nov 30 2006 3:06PM (CT)
ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) - Ten suspected Islamist militants were killed in clashes with the Algerian army, which was conducting sweeps in remote mountainous regions, the Al Khabar newspaper reported Thursday.
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Sudan president rejects peacekeeper plan
Nov 30 2006 2:53PM (CT)
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) - Sudan's president rejected a proposal Thursday to send U.N. peacekeepers to Darfur to boost a beleaguered 7,000-member African Union force, crushing hopes for a quick solution to the violence spreading across central Africa.
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3 suicide bombers kill 8 in Somalia
Nov 30 2006 2:43PM (CT)
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) - A veiled woman and two other suicide bombers exploded cars outside the base of Somalia's weak government Thursday, killing eight people after Ethiopia took another step toward war with its Islamic rivals in the country.
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Jets bomb Central African Republic town
Nov 30 2006 1:43PM (CT)
BANGUI, Central African Republic (AP) - French fighter jets bombed a rebel-held town in Central African Republic on Thursday, and rebels pulled troops out of another town after fighting with government forces, a rebel official said.
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Weapons trafficking in Somalia condemned
Nov 30 2006 12:22AM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The U.N. Security Council condemned a "significant increase" in the flow of weapons to and through Somalia in violation of a 1992 arms embargo and voted unanimously Wednesday to keep monitoring weapons trafficking in the poor and lawless Horn of Africa nation.
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