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Breaking News Sun, 13 Apr 2008
Pedestrians walk past a newspaper poster in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, Friday, March 28, 2008 on the eve of elections in the southern African country.
Elections   Photos   Police   Politics   Zimbabwe  
 The Australian 
Zimbabwe police detain diplomats during tour of Mugabe's victims
| FOUR Western diplomats in Zimbabwe, including the British ambassador, were intercepted and detained by police yesterday as they tried to investigate the violence being inflicted on the country's rur... (photo: AP / )
 Rebel Commanders from Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) , Mohamed Bashir Ahmed , left, and Fadul Mohamed Idriss at the DPA non-signatories conference held in Ngurdoto Mountain Lodge in Arusha, Tanzania, Sunday, Aug 5, 2007. The focus of the three-day m
Killing   Photos   Rebels   Sudan   Terrorism  
 International Herald Tribune 
Clashes break out in Sudan's Abyei region
| : South Sudanese former rebels fought northern government forces on Wednesday in the disputed oil-rich Abyei region, killing up to four people and sending hundreds fleeing, south Sudanese and U.N. o... (photo: AP Photo/ Frederic Roy- United Nations- HO)
 Palestinians hold Hizbollah´s chief Hassan Nasrallah poster during a demonstration out side the Palestinian parliament in Gaza City July 17, 2006. (WN/Ali Hassan)SJ1  The Washington Times 
Hezbollah's guns trump the pen
| Lebanon has always been a country of many contradictions. | It's the only country in the Arab world with a functioning parliamentary system not dependent on, and which does not answer to, the execut... (photo: WN/Ali Hassan)
Country   Guns   Hezbollah   Lebanon   Photos  
 Displaced children wait for World Food Programme (WFP), trucks carrying food aid to arrive at Elasha camp on the out skirts of the capital Mogadishu, Thursday, April 26, 2007. More than 300,000 people have fled Mogadishu since the fighting started in Mog  IRINnews 
GLOBAL: Export controls curtail aid for hungry neighbours
web | Photo: Abdullah Shaheen/IRIN JOHANNESBURG, - Government attempts to control food supplies to ensure that their people have enough to eat are hampering efforts by the World Food Programme (WFP) t... (photo: AP/Farah Abdi)
Aid   Export   Food   Ghana   Humanitarian   Photo   Photos   WFP   World  
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Former Liberian President Charles Taylor, left, with others unidentified, in court as his trial reopened at the U.N.-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone in The Hague, Netherlands, Monday Jan. 7, 2008 BBC News
Taylor's vice president testifies
| The war crimes trial of the former Liberian President Charles Taylor is hearing evidence from the man who was once his deputy. | Moses Blah fought alongside Mr Taylor i... (photo: AP / POOL/Michael Kooren)
Court   Crimes   Liberia   Photos   War  
 United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (left) visited the International Criminal Court (ICC) and met with Philippe Kirsch, President of (ICC), at The Hague. (mb1) ISN
Call for Congo rebel charges to cover rape UN representative says child soldier charges against ...
By Katy Glassborow in The Hague (14/05/08) | A high-ranking United Nations official has urged international judges to bring justice to girls coerced to join a Congolese m... (photo: UN /Eskinder Debebe )
Africa   Congo   Crime   Hague   Justice   Photos   Rape   Sierra Leone  
Samuel Mbugua walk through his burned house, Wednesday, May 7, 2008 on his return to his house on the outskirts of Molo, in Kenya's Rift Valley. The 45-year-old carpenter is in the first wave of people that the government started helping to return home this week, four months after they were driven away in violence following the rigged Dec. 27 presidential election. More than a thousand people were killed and 600,000 forced from their homes. The Charlotte Observer
Uprooted Kenyans head home in fits and starts
By KATHARINE HOURELD | Associated Press Writer | AP Photo Samuel Mbugua walk through his burned house, Wednesday, May 7, 2008 on his return to his house on the outskirts ... (photo: AP / Khalil Senosi)
Elections   Kenya   Photos   Politics   Society  
An old man chants the opposition party slogan while surrounded by police at a rally addressed by Morgan Tsvangirai, one of the main opposition leaders in Zimbabwe in Buhera about 200 km, 124 miles, east of Harare, Tuesday, March, 25 2008. Tsvangirai who is standing against President Robert Mugabe in the March 29 elections urged his supporters to vote for him in order to remove Mugabe from po Business Day
Zimbabwe violence 'shocks' SA generals 
RETIRED South African army generals investigating post- election violence in Zimbabwe have uncovered "shocking levels" of state-sponsored terror, sources close to them sa... (photo: AP / Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)
Africa   Election   Photos   Violence   Zimbabwe  
 South African Airways  - Airlines - Travel /aaeh Business Day
SAA to expand, upgrade fleet as fuel price soars  
SOUTH African Airways (SAA) would expand and modernise its aircraft fleet over the next few years as it expanded its network and attempted to cap soaring fuel costs. | Th... (photo: GFDL)
Aviation   Business   Economy   Photos   South Africa  
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, left, and his wife Grace, right, react during a visit to Harare hospital in Harare, Zimbabwe, Thursday, March 27, 2008. Mugabe donated hospital equipment to the government owned hospital ahead of elections to be held on March Business Day
Brave voters 
As someone who lived in Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe for a dozen years, before and after he - as Desmond Tutu once put it - became a caricature of a despotic African autocrat... (photo: AP Photo / )
Africa   Mugabe   Photos   Politics   Zimbabwe  
 President George W. Bush departs on Marine One en route to Canada from the South Lawn of the White House, Tuesday, November 30, 2004(gm1) Independent online
Bush kicks off Mideast tour
| Jerusalem - US President George W Bush flies into Israel on Wednesday where he hopes to push ahead with Middle East peace efforts while marking the 60th anniversary of ... (photo: White House)
Israel   Mideast   Peace   Photos   US  
Senator Romeo Dallaire a retired Lieutenant-General in the Canadian Army and commander of the U.N. Assistence Mission for Rwanda (UNAMIR),jsa1 Canada Dot Com
Dallaire blasts Canada on Khadr
| OTTAWA - The federal government's refusal to return Omar Khadr to Canada for trial should be likened to the terrorist activities that Khadr is alleged to have committed... (photo: AP / David Karp)
Canada   Crime   Guantanamo   Human Rights   N.America   Ottawa   Photos   Trial  
Rice Business Report
Food costs to top agenda in Maputo
| By Gordon Bell | Johannesburg - African finance ministers today and tomorrow will seek ways to keep momentum in economic growth and thrash out strategies to tackle surg... (photo: WN / Sweet Radoc)
Africa   Food   Inflation   Photos   Prices  
Signs on a street in Cairo Thursday, Sept. 5, 2002, advertise ``Free Internet'' with the access number 0777 0666. In Egypt Daily Star Lebanon
How the internet is challenging Egypt's government
| By Ahmad Zaki Osman | Commentary by | Wednesday, May 14, 2008 | Although the general strikes of April 6 and May 4 drew limited public participation, they have revealed ... (photo: AP / Mohammad al sehety)
Egypt   Internet   Photos   Politics   Religion  
UNAMID Supply Convoy Attacked by Sudanese Army Elements. (mb1) The Australian
Sudan rebel attack kills 250
| ALMOST 100 Sudanese soldiers were killed along with at least 91 Darfur rebels and 34 civilians in several days of fighting during an unprecedented assault on Khartoum, ... (photo: UN / David Manyua)
Attack   Darfur   Death   Photos   Sudan  
Business & Economy Terrorism
- Grade R Learners to Benefit From Transport Scheme
- SBTS Group (SL) to Introduce Electronic Payment System
- New Airline in Town
- Forecast: Future Growth in Country's Telecoms Market
 South African Airways  - Airlines - Travel /aaeh
SAA to expand, upgrade fleet as fuel price soars  
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- Country's Ability to Fight Terrorism to Be Tested
- House-to-house hunt of terror
- Darfur rebels to terror list, Sudan urges world
- Sudan want rebels on terror list
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Money raised for Africa 'goes to civil wars'
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Environment & Nature Science & Technology
- Only the Cover is Green
- Environment - As Senate Considers Climate Bill
- World Environment Day Targets Carbon Gases
- Logging Ban Boosts Trade
Wetland
Nema Chief Accused of Abetting Wetland Destruction
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- Military: Gunmen in Nigeria hijack boat with 11 crew onboard
- School to cut Mugabe tie?
- Money raised for Africa 'goes to civil wars'
- 'Africa fastest growing market for telecom'
Robert Mugabe
School to cut Mugabe tie?
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Religion Health
- Cardinal Bernardin Gantin, Africa's leading cardinal, ha
- Muslims Challenged On Education
- Prayer Houses Pulled Down for City Bypass
- An oracular experience while seeking the Ark
Shiite gunmen patrol the streets as they take control of the area during clashes between pro-government supporters of Druse leader Walid Jumblatt and Shiite gunmen and their allies in Chouweifat south of Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, May 11, 2008.
Lebanese clashes shift to mountains
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- Over 100 STD Cases Recorded
- Somali surprise at Ethiopia aid
- New HIV/Aids Infections Still Rising
- SANDF taken to court for Aids policy
 Displaced children wait for World Food Programme (WFP), trucks carrying food aid to arrive at Elasha camp on the out skirts of the capital Mogadishu, Thursday, April 26, 2007. More than 300,000 people have fled Mogadishu since the fighting started in Mog
GLOBAL: Export controls curtail aid for hungry neighbours
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Human Rights Refugees
- Zimbabwe police detain diplomats during tour of Mugabe's
- Zim to declare state of emergency?
- Zimbabwe violence 'shocks' SA generals 
- Dallaire blasts Canada on Khadr
Pedestrians walk past a newspaper poster in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, Friday, March 28, 2008 on the eve of elections in the southern African country.
Zimbabwe police detain diplomats during tour of Mugabe's victims
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- Black Sash questions R124m allocation
- Witnesses say Kenya police emptying refugee camp
- Witnesses Say Kenya Police Emptying Refugee Camp
- Alex cops guard 1 000 refugees
 A picture taken Saturday, May 26, 2007, and made available by the Italian Navy Monday, May 28, 2007, showing a group of 27 immigrants hanging on a tuna fishing net after their boat sank off the coast of Malta. The immigrants, coming from Africa, were res
50 immigrants die off Tunisia
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