LAGOS: Dozens of bodies lined the dusty streets of three Christian villages in northern Nigeria yesterday. Other victims of Sunday morning’s Muslim rampage were jammed into a local morgue, the limbs of slaughtered children tangled in a grotesque mess.
One toddler appeared fixed in the protective but hopeless embrace of an older child, possibly his brother. [...]
March 9, 2010 | Posted in
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Canada welcomed late Tuesday the signing of a ceasefire and framework for a final peace between Sudan and Darfur’s main rebel group. Since the conflict broke out in February 2003, some 300,000 people have
February 24, 2010 | Posted in
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ABIDJAN: Ivory Coast’s main opposition groups said they no longer recognised Laurent Gbagbo as president of the country on Saturday after he dissolved the government and electoral commission.
The top cocoa grower’s leading opposition parties, who accused Gbagbo of staging a coup with the decision, said supporters should reject the president and called on the security [...]
February 14, 2010 | Posted in
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SOWETO: Oscar winner Charlize Theron, Congo President Denis Sassou Nguesso and 2010 World Cup fraudsters have learned the knuckling-rapping lesson: the Nelson Mandela brand is not for sale.
All have been rebuked by representatives for the 91-year-old who guard against misuse of Mandela’s name and image, which crops up everywhere from t-shirts to email scams 20 [...]
February 10, 2010 | Posted in
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EL FASHER (Sudan): The changes across the landscape here would have been hard to imagine just a few years ago.
The rebel groups that started the war in Darfur in 2003, catalyzing a conflict that has claimed hundreds of thousands of lives, almost seem to have gone into hibernation. So, too, have the infamous janjaweed, the [...]
January 1, 2010 | Posted in
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Hundreds of al-Qaeda militants are planning terror attacks from Yemen, the country’s Foreign Minister said today.
Abu Bakr al-Qirbi appealed for more help from the international community to help to train and equip counter-terrorist forces.
His plea came after an al-Qaeda group based in Yemen claimed responsibility for the failed Christmas Day airliner bomb plot.
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, [...]
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