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U.N. hits housing for evicted Zimbabweans
Dec 6 2005 6:38PM (CT)
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) - The U.N. emergency relief coordinator said Tuesday that Zimbabwe's efforts to rehouse hundreds of thousands of people displaced in a massive slum-clearance drive have been inadequate.
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Cocoa industry is booming in Ivory Coast
Dec 6 2005 6:38PM (CT)
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) - On the streets of this skyscraper-lined West African metropolis, tension and rumors of an imminent return to war are always thick in the air _ and so too, is the sweet smell of chocolate. Despite more than half a decade of coups, fighting and failed peace deals, a $2 billion a year cocoa industry is a booming in Ivory Coast, producing more of the raw material for chocolate than any other country on the planet.
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Outages mar Mugabe's speech on electricity
Dec 6 2005 2:26PM (CT)
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) - Widespread power outages struck Zimbabwe on Tuesday, blacking out much of President Robert Mugabe's state of the nation address in which he promised to address the country's chronic electricity shortages.
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Ex-South Africa official charged with rape
Dec 6 2005 2:12PM (CT)
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) - South Africa's popular former deputy president, already facing corruption charges, was charged with rape Tuesday in a case that could destroy his chances of taking the helm of the continent's economic and diplomatic powerhouse.
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Workers search for African quake survivors
Dec 6 2005 1:07PM (CT)
KALEMIE, Congo (AP) - Rescuers in fishing boats searched for survivors Tuesday in a central African lake at the epicenter of a strong earthquake that killed three people.
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