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/ 10 November 2005
Liberia’s top female politician took a strong early lead in a presidential run-off as her millionaire soccer-star opponent charged the vote was fraudulent, throwing uncertainty over elections that had raised hopes for peace in the war-ravaged nation.
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/ 9 November 2005
Liberians crowded around radios on Wednesday awaiting results from the presidential run-off between a millionaire soccer star and the war-ravaged West African nation’s top female politician. Final results in the race between George Weah and Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf will not be announced for two weeks.
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/ 9 November 2005
War-ravaged Liberia voted to choose its first post-war president in a heated run-off pitting an international soccer star who dropped out of high school against the country’s Harvard-educated top female politician. With United Nations helicopters buzzing over the bombed-out capital, many prayed the vote on Tuesday would herald an era of peace.
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/ 8 November 2005
A soccer star vying to become Liberia’s first post-war president vowed to work for peace as he voted on Tuesday in a presidential run-off that many hope will herald a new era after a quarter-century of coups and conflict. George Weah and former finance minister Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf finished first and second, respectively, in the October 11 first round, which weeded out 20 other presidential candidates.
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/ 4 November 2005
Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo was expected in Côte d’Ivoire on Friday on a mission to help resolve this war-divided West African nation’s latest crisis. On Monday, Côte d’Ivoire President Laurent Gbagbo began a United Nations-backed extended year in office that has been opposed by opposition leaders and rebels.
Conservationists say the dreaded Ebola virus, along with decades of hunting and logging, is putting some ape species on the brink of extinction in Central Africa. Most at risk are western lowland gorillas and the Central African chimpanzee, both of which inhabit the dense rainforests of Central Africa.
Two years after Ibrahim Kone applied to renew his national identity card, he found it by chance — floating down a river in Bouake, a rebel-held Côte d’Ivoire town. Kone believes the laminated document was dumped there with a box full of others by authorities who doubted he was Ivorian, and ”never had any intention of issuing it”.
Appiah Kabran whipped a shiny 9mm pistol from a holster at his waist and explained why a bespectacled lawmaker like himself might need it in war-divided Côte d’Ivoire. ”To kill rebels,” the cigar-smoking politician said bluntly. ”I don’t trust anything but this.”
The number of United States troops killed in Iraq has topped 1 500, an Associated Press count showed on Thursday after the military announced the deaths of three Americans, while car bombs targeting Iraqi security forces killed at least four people in separate attacks. Meanwhile, talks aimed at forging a new coalition government faltered on Wednesday.
Crocodile, boa constrictor, tortoise and antelope top the menu, served up in banana-leaf sacks with potato chips on the side. And for the willing, there’s one dish that would make most carnivores squirm: monkey meat. At Mama Ekila’s Inzia restaurant, African bushmeat is flown in — and fried up — for discerning diners looking to put a bit of adventure on their plate.