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/ 21 February 2011
A DRC court has sentenced a colonel to 20 years in the highest-profile rape case ever held in the massive state where sexual violence is endemic.
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/ 15 October 2010
Each year, lions are raised in captivity in South Africa and then set loose in enclosed areas where hunters, many from the US, gun them down.
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/ 18 September 2010
First the soldiers told residents of the villages in the mineral-rich eastern DRC not to worry. They were just there for a rest and would do no harm.
Rwanda has threatened to withdraw from UN peacekeeping if the world body publishes a report accusing the Rwandan army of possible genocide.
In the east of this vast country, ongoing rebel attacks and poor healthcare have produced a generation of mourning mothers and fathers.
More than a decade and billions of dollars after UN peacekeepers deployed to the DRC during a civil war, President Joseph Kabila wants them out.
The mother of a 15-year-old murder suspect said on Monday that her son struck Eugene Terre’Blanche with an iron rod after he refused to pay him.
France’s national anthem blared across the tarmac on as Nicolas Sarkozy made the first visit ever by a French president to Haiti.
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/ 19 January 2010
For two days, Ticia Vital refused doctors’ pleas to allow them to amputate her festering left leg, even as the gangrene spread.
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/ 16 January 2010
Hundreds of thousands of Haitians are in need of drinking water because of a damaged pipeline and drivers unwilling or unable to deliver their cargo.