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Saturday, November 22, 2008

Jimmy Carter, Kofi Annan, others refused entry to Zimbabwe

Former US President Jimmy Carter, former UN head Kofi Annan, and Graca Machel, wife of former South African President Nelson Mandela, seen from left, during a news conference in Johannesburg, Staurday.
By Associated Press
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter said Saturday that...
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Rwanda protocol chief says she’ll prove innocence

Rwandese Rose Kabuye speaks to the media after a press conference in Paris, Friday.
By Associated Press
PARIS - She knew she risked arrest, and yet she made the trip. Sure enough, police picked her up at the airport. Was...

MTV launches African music awards

By Associated Press
ABUJA, Nigeria - MTV launches its first-ever music award program for Africa on Saturday, with acts from across the world’s poorest continent nominated...
Thursday, November 20, 2008

Arabs focused on preventing piracy in Red Sea

By Associated Press
CAIRO, Egypt - Arab countries said today they were determined to prevent the growing problem of piracy from spreading into the Red Sea from the Gulf of Aden,...

UN agrees to send 3,100 more peacekeepers to Congo

By Associated Press
GOMA, Congo - The U.N. Security Council agreed today to send 3,100 more peacekeeping troops to Congo, while rebels said they remained committed to a pullback...

Tsvangirai: Zimbabwe needs gov’t within 2 months

Zimbabwe’s main opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai speaks during an interview with the Associated Press in Berlin, Germany, on Thursday, Nov. 20, 2008.
By Associated Press
BERLIN - Zimbabwe’s main opposition leader said today that he and President...
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Commander: rebels, Sudanese troops clash in Darfur

By Associated Press
KHARTOUM, Sudan - A Darfur rebel commander says his troops have fought with Sudanese government forces in northern Darfur and that the clashes killed at least...
Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Indian navy sinks suspected pirate ’mother ship’

In this Nov. 11 file photo made available by Indian Navy, Indian warship INS Tabar, right, escorts the MV Jag Arnav ship to safety after rescuing it from a hijack attempt by Somali pirates.
By Associated Press
NEW DELHI - An Indian naval vessel sank a suspected pirate "mother ship" in the Gulf...
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Somali pirates transform villages into boomtowns

By Associated Press
MOGADISHU, Somalia - Somalia’s increasingly brazen pirates are building sprawling stone houses, cruising in luxury cars, marrying beautiful women —...

Hungry in Zimbabwe: ’If you rest, you starve’

By Associated Press
MHANGURA, Zimbabwe - Katy Phiri, who is in her 70s, picks up single corn kernels spilled from trucks that ferry the harvest to market. She says she hasn’t...
Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Pirates who seized oil tanker anchor off Somalia

This undated picture made at an unknown location shows the the MV Sirius Star a Saudi oil supertanker which has been hijacked by Somali pirates.
By Associated Press
MOGADISHU, Somalia - Pirates who seized a Saudi supertanker loaded with $100 million in crude anchored the ship...

Congo rebels advance despite cease-fire

A young girl struggles to fill a water container in a camp for displaced people, Monday, Nov. 17, 2008 in Kibati just north of Goma in eastern Congo. Congo’s army clashed with rebels in some of the worst fighting in a week despite the rebel leader&r
By Associated Press
KANYABAYONGA, Congo - On one side of this mountaintop ghost town, a line of black-booted rebels approaches on foot with...

South African cartoonist makes light of Mandela

Cartoonist Jonathan Shapiro depicts the former South African President Nelson Mandela dancing, during an interview with the Associated Press at the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Johannesburg, South Africa, Tuesday Nov. 18, 2008.
By Associated Press
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - Don’t worry, Nelson Mandela can laugh at himself. At least that’s the opinion...
Monday, November 17, 2008

Somali pirates seize supertanker loaded with crude

This undated picture made at an unknown location shows the Sirius Star tanker conducting a trial run in South Korea. Somali pirates have hijacked the Saudi-owned oil tanker the Sirius Star off the Kenyan coast, the U.S. Navy said today.
By Associated Press
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Somali pirates hijacked a supertanker hundreds of...
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Fighting in Congo despite rebel promises to UN

A boy starts a cooking fire as people line up to receive food aid, in the background, in a camp for displaced people, Sunday, Nov. 16, 2008 in Kibati, north of Goma in eastern Congo.
By Associated Press
RWINDI, Congo - Congo’s army clashed with rebels in some of the worst fighting in a week despite the rebel leader’s...

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