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/ 19 January 2010
Relief workers say pockets of violence in Haiti’s devastated capital are hindering a slow increase in much-needed aid delivery.
A Taliban code of conduct that pledges to limit attacks on civilians and curb suicide bombings appears aimed at mustering support among Afghan people.
The Algerian army killed seven Islamist militants during a raid on a secret base near the Algerian capital, a security official said on Monday.
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/ 23 September 2008
The leader of al-Qaeda in North Africa has called for Muslims to unite in holy war against the region’s governments.
Moroccan security forces have foiled a terrorist plot to attack tourists this summer in a ”near-daily” struggle to root out extremist cells.
A fire roared through a mattress factory in a poor section of Casablanca, killing up to 55 workers and injuring at least 12 others. A rescue chief said firefighters arrived hours late and that the emergency exit of the building was blocked. The fire broke out midmorning Saturday in an industrial neighborhood outside of sprawling Casablanca, the economic centre of this North African country.
Sudan on Wednesday strongly denied that its army had opened fire on a United Nations convoy that was attacked in Darfur days after peacekeepers began their new mission to the troubled western Sudanese region. A Sudanese driver was critically injured, a fuel tanker truck destroyed and an armoured personnel carrier damaged late on Monday.
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/ 27 October 2007
Darfur peace mediators said they will press on with negotiations due to start Saturday in Libya despite the decision by two main rebel groups to boycott the talks, saying time was running out for the war-torn Sudanese region. Officials from the United Nations and the African Union plan to open the negotiations with a call for an immediate ceasefire.
A key Darfur rebel leader warned on Saturday his movement will not attend peace talks this month in Libya unless the United Nations and the African Union can convince a rival group to unite its splinter factions.Khalil Ibrahim, leader of the Justice and Equality Movement, had said he would attend talks set to begin October 27 in Tripoli, Libya.
A group of elder statesmen, including former US president Jimmy Carter and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Desmond Tutu, urged all sides in Darfur’s bloodshed to reach a peace deal as they began a tour on Tuesday of the war-torn region. The visit comes days after rebels overran an African Union peacekeeping base in northern Darfur.