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/ 26 November 2009
Two journalists from Canada and Australia flew out of Somalia on Thursday at the end of a 15-month hostage ordeal.
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/ 24 November 2009
”If I’d met you in the street I wouldn’t have spared you,” Mohamed Sheikh Abdullahi said, only half smiling.
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/ 14 September 2009
In the space of a month, Yoweri Museveni’s 23-year-old grip on Uganda appears to have been rattled by deadly riots and the return of a major rival.
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/ 11 January 2009
Rebel National Congress for the Defence of the People forces led by renegade Tutsi general Laurent Nkunda have taken over the centre at Mabenga.
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/ 4 December 2008
Just a few hundred metres separate the army and rebels near Kibati in the DRC’s volatile east, where hundreds cross the front line daily.
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/ 29 November 2008
The UN’s special envoy was set to meet on Saturday with DRC rebel leader Laurent Nkunda after a fresh onslaught by his troops shattered a truce.
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/ 19 January 2007
Marwan was in a hurry. Stuck in traffic in the mixed west Baghdad district of Al-Jihad, the Sunni Arab taxi driver took a short-cut down a side street inhabited by Shi’ites and disappeared. Two days later, the 32-year-old cabbie was found dead in a dusty alley nearby, with a bullet wound to his head. Both his knees had been broken and pierced with an electric drill.
Rebel leaders controlling half of the West African state of Côte d’Ivoire said on Tuesday their forces have begun pulling back from sections of the front line as agreed under an ongoing peace process. The military council of the New Forces rebels said earlier on Tuesday it is committed to ”applying peace accords in full”.
Warring factions in Côte d’Ivoire are set to take tentative steps towards peace on Thursday with voter registration trials and the beginnings of a disarmament process in the divided West African country. After numerous false starts and failed ceasefires, a process will be launched to determine who among the Côte d’Ivoire’s 16-million inhabitants will be qualified to vote.