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Eritrea refuses meeting with U.N. official
Dec 13 2005 11:21PM (CT)
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) - Eritrean officials refused to meet the U.N. peacekeeping chief, who visited the country Tuesday in an effort to defuse tensions along the Eritrea-Ethiopia border amid fears of a new war, a U.N. official said.
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Ex-Rwandan officer gets prison for genocide
Dec 13 2005 8:54PM (CT)
ARUSHA, Tanzania (AP) - A United Nations tribunal convicted a retired Rwandan army officer of genocide Tuesday and sentenced him to 25 years in prison for participating in the slaughter of ethnic minority Tutsi.
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Nigerian airlines grounded after crashes
Dec 13 2005 8:45PM (CT)
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) - President Olusegun Obasanjo grounded two private Nigerian airlines Tuesday after plane crashes killed 224 people in seven weeks.
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Authorities exhume mass grave in Morocco
Dec 13 2005 4:07PM (CT)
RABAT, Morocco (AP) - Authorities have exhumed the remains of about 100 people killed during riots 24 years ago from a mass grave in Morocco and reburied them individually in a nearby lot.
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U.N. to begin repatriating Sudan refugees
Dec 13 2005 2:38PM (CT)
GENEVA (AP) - The U.N. refugee agency will start repatriating a first group of refugees to their homes in southern Sudan later this week, the organization said Tuesday.
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Leading Tanzanian candidate collapses
Dec 13 2005 1:15PM (CT)
DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania (AP) - The man widely expected to win Tanzania's presidential elections collapsed Tuesday while addressing thousands of supporters on the eve of the vote.
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