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Chad rebels free U.S. missionary after 9 months

Reuters - 1 hour, 22 minutes ago

N'DJAMENA (Reuters) - Chadian rebels have freed a U.S. missionary after holding him hostage for more than nine months in the remote north of the central African country, his U.S. evangelical organization said on Friday.

  • This picture released by Albany Associates earlier this month shows South African soldiers serving with the United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur during a patrol to the village of Kafod, North Darfur. Sudan threatened Friday to expel peacekeepers from Darfur if President Omar al-Beshir is indicted for war crimes by the International Criminal Court.(AFP/HO/File/Stuart Price)
    Beshir aide makes Darfur peacekeeper threat AFP - 2 hours, 31 minutes ago

    ADDIS ABABA (AFP) - An advisor to President Omar al-Beshir threatened Friday that peacekeepers could be expelled from Darfur if the Sudanese leader is indicted for war crimes by the International Criminal Court.

  • Residents of Bakassi ride in a boat at Atabong in 2006. Nigeria is fully committed to an agreement to hand over to Cameroon next month the disputed and potentially oil-rich Bakassi Peninsula, Nigeria's presidency said in a statement Friday.(AFP/Pius Utomi Ekpei)
    Nigeria 'committed' to deal with Cameroon over Bakassi AFP - Fri Jul 25, 2:57 PM ET

    ABUJA (AFP) - Nigeria is fully committed to an agreement to hand over to Cameroon next month the disputed and potentially oil-rich Bakassi Peninsula, Nigeria's presidency said in a statement Friday.

  • South African cricketer JP Duminy, seen here in March 2008, smashed 166 to help South Africa to 397-3 on the opening day of their three-day tour match against Bangladesh A at Worcester on Friday.(AFP/File/Dibyangshu Sarkar)
    Duminy smashes century as South Africa pile up runs AFP - Fri Jul 25, 2:54 PM ET

    LONDON (AFP) - Opener JP Duminy smashed 166 to help South Africa to 397-3 on the opening day of their three-day tour match against Bangladesh A at Worcester on Friday.

  • Zimbabwe's ruling party has resolved that President Robert Mugabe's controversial re-election is a "non-negotiable" issue in ongoing talks with the opposition in South Africa, state media said Friday.(AFP/Desmond Kwande)
    Official says Zimbabwe power-sharing talks go well AP - Fri Jul 25, 2:20 PM ET

    JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - Power-sharing talks between Zimbabwe's rival political parties were proceeding well Friday, a South African official said, although violence continued and hundreds of opposition supporters remained jailed.

  • Kidnapped Indian oil worker released in Sudan AFP - Fri Jul 25, 2:18 PM ET

    KHARTOUM (AFP) - Sudanese kidnappers on Friday released an Indian oil worker and his driver in good health, following a 74-day hostage ordeal in the heart of the African country, the Indian ambassador said.

  • Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe waits to welcome his South African counterpart Thabo Mbeki before signing a framework deal committing his party and Morgan Tsvangirai's main opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party to talks, in Harare's Rainbow Towers Hotel July 21, 2008. (Philimon Bulawayo/Reuters)
    U.S. expands sanctions against Mugabe's government Reuters - Fri Jul 25, 2:17 PM ET

    HARARE (Reuters) - The United States expanded sanctions against President Robert Mugabe's government on Friday, increasing pressure on the Zimbabwean leader as his party discusses a power-sharing deal with the opposition.

  • Gunmen kidnap eight oil workers in Nigeria: sources Reuters - Fri Jul 25, 2:14 PM ET

    PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria (Reuters) - Gunmen have kidnapped eight oil workers in three separate incidents in Nigeria's oil-producing Niger Delta in the past 24 hours, security sources said on Friday.

  • Sudan's President Omar Hassan al-Bashir speaks to supporters during a tour of Niyala, south Darfur, July 23, 2008. (Mohamed Nureldin Abdallh/Reuters)
    Sudan bombed Darfur during Bashir tour: rebels Reuters - Fri Jul 25, 1:53 PM ET

    KHARTOUM (Reuters) - A Darfur rebel faction that has a pact with Sudan's government accused the army on Friday of bombing a village this week even while President Omar Hassan al-Bashir was in the region making a call for peace.

  • REUTERS NEWS PICTURES COVERAGE HIGHLIGHT ADVISORY WEDNESDAY JULY 23, 2008 AT 0330 GMT. SRI SA KET, THAILAND- Villagers make air raid shelter near Preah Vihear national park along Thai-Cambodian border. SINGAPORE - ASEAN Regional Forum. SHAH ALAM, MALAYSIA - Mongolian murder trial resumes. NEPAL - Swearing-in ceremony of new president. Event scheduled from 1200 GMT. NEW DELHI - Covering celebrations after India's ruling Congress party won vote of confidence in parliament. NORTHWEST TRIBAL AREA, PAKISTAN - Government troops suspend their operations against suspected insurgents and hold negotiations. KIMPO, SOUTH KOREA - Military training camp for civilians organised by Marine Corps. Event scheduled from 0100 GMT. VARIOUS - Monitoring situation after arrest of fugitive Bosnian Serb wartime President Radovan Karadzic. JERUSALEM - U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama visits Israel and the West Bank. BERLIN - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki speaks in Berlin. Event scheduled from 1045 GMT. ZIMBABWE - Monitoring situation after Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai on Monday signed a framework deal committing their political parties to talks to end the country's deep crisis. GENEVA - World Trade Organisation (WTO) holds a meeting of a select group of ministers to push the Doha round of global free trade talks toward conclusion. LONDON - Kenya's President Mwai Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga to hold talks with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Foreign Secretary David Miliband. MOSCOW - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez continues his visit to Russia. TEMPLATE OUT
    Mugabe re-election 'non-negotiable': state media AFP - Fri Jul 25, 1:52 PM ET

    HARARE (AFP) - Zimbabwe's ruling party has resolved that President Robert Mugabe's controversial re-election is a "non-negotiable" issue in ongoing talks with the opposition in South Africa, state media said Friday.

  • Burkina Faso Trade Minister Mamadou Sanou gestures after a press conference during World Trade Organisation (WTO) talks at the WTO headquarters in Geneva. African nations piled pressure on seven leading economies on Friday to show leadership and political will to end a gridlock on reaching a global trade deal, warning that time was running out.(AFP/Fabrice Coffrini)
    Africa tells top WTO countries to play the game and deal AFP - Fri Jul 25, 1:36 PM ET

    GENEVA (AFP) - African nations piled pressure on seven leading economies on Friday to show leadership and political will to end a gridlock on reaching a global trade deal, warning that time was running out.

  • U.S. President George W. Bush makes remarks on his freedom agenda at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington July 24, 2008. (Jason Reed/Reuters)
    Bush orders expanded U.S. sanctions on Zimbabwe Reuters - Fri Jul 25, 12:44 PM ET

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush on Friday expanded U.S. sanctions against the "illegitimate" Zimbabwe government of President Robert Mugabe and the United States moved to freeze assets of 17 state-controlled businesses.

  • Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe (right) and his South African counterpart Thabo Mbeki are seen here at Harare international airport on July 21. South Africa and the European Union wrapped up a landmark summit with Brussels solidly backing Pretoria's mediating role in Zimbabwe as the only way of ending ruinous political chaos.(AFP/File/Desmond Kwande)
    Mbeki lauded as Zimbabwe saviour at SAfrica-EU summit AFP - Fri Jul 25, 11:50 AM ET

    BORDEAUX, France (AFP) - South Africa and the European Union Friday wrapped up a landmark summit with Brussels solidly backing Pretoria's mediating role in Zimbabwe as the only way of ending ruinous political chaos.

  • Armed members of an ethnic group in the creeks of the Niger Delta. Unknown gunmen have kidnapped five oil workers off Bonny in southern Nigeria, security and industry sources said.(AFP/MEND-HO/File)
    Gunmen 'kidnap five oil workers' in southern Nigeria AFP - Fri Jul 25, 11:13 AM ET

    LAGOS (AFP) - Unknown gunmen on Friday kidnapped five oil workers off Bonny in southern Nigeria, security and industry sources said.

  • At least 45 killed as Congo boat sinks Reuters - Fri Jul 25, 10:36 AM ET

    KINSHASA (Reuters) - At least 45 people were killed and another 100 were missing after a boat sank on a remote stretch of river in Democratic Republic of Congo, a local government official said on Friday.

  • 47 dead, 100 missing in Congo boat accident AP - Fri Jul 25, 9:06 AM ET

    KINSHASA, Congo - At least 47 people died when a motorized boat sank on a river in Congo, and more than 100 people are missing, a district official said Friday.

  • A man concentrates as he plays scrabble in Dakar during the 37th edition of the World Scrabble Championships on July 21. Senegal is Scrabble-mad. Street vendors all over Dakar hawk the board game and now the West African nation is the proud host of the French language Scrabble world championships.(AFP/File/Georges Gobet)
    Scrabble -- a national passion for Senegalese AFP - Fri Jul 25, 8:40 AM ET

    DAKAR (AFP) - Senegal is Scrabble-mad. Street vendors all over Dakar hawk the board game and now the West African nation is the proud host of the French language Scrabble world championships.

  • South African President Thabo Mbeki, center, attends a EU-South Africa Summit, Friday, July 25, 2008, in Bordeaux, south western France. Zimbabwe looked likely to top the agenda of Mbeki's meeting with European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso and French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who holds the rotating EU presidency. (AP Photo/Nicolas Tucat, Pool)
    US strengthening Zimbabwe sanctions AP - Fri Jul 25, 7:29 AM ET

    JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - The U.S. Embassy in Zimbabwe says the United States is in the process of strengthening sanctions against individual Zimbabweans blamed for deadly electoral violence.

  • Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe (right) and his South African counterpart Thabo Mbeki are seen here at Harare international airport on July 21. South Africa and the European Union have begun their first-ever summit in the French city of Bordeaux with Pretoria set to defend its role as mediator in the Zimbabwean political crisis.(AFP/File/Desmond Kwande)
    SAfrica-EU summit opens in France AFP - Fri Jul 25, 5:21 AM ET

    BORDEAUX, France (AFP) - South Africa and the European Union on Friday began their first-ever summit in the French city of Bordeaux with Pretoria set to defend its role as mediator in the Zimbabwean political crisis.

  • Zambian ex-president Frederick Chiluba, seen here in 2007, who is on trial for corruption, has been allowed to return to South Africa for medical treatment following the rise in his blood pressure.(AFP/File/Alexander Joe)
    Zambia ex-president travels to SAfrica for medical treatment AFP - Fri Jul 25, 4:26 AM ET

    LUSAKA (AFP) - Ex-Zambian president Frederick Chiluba, on trial for corruption, has been allowed to return to South Africa for medical treatment following the rise in his blood pressure, his spokesman said Friday.

  • Navanethem Pillay, president for the War Crimes tribunal in Rwanda, takes part in a news conference in the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, in this March 17, 2003 file photo. The former South African judge who was the first black woman to serve on her country's highest court will be the next U.N. human rights commissioner, diplomatic and U.N. officials said Friday, July 18, 2008. (AP Photo/Keystone, Sandro Campardo)
    South Africa lawyer nominated as UN rights chief AP - Fri Jul 25, 3:35 AM ET

    UNITED NATIONS - One of South Africa's leading female jurists who won acclaim defending apartheid opponents was nominated Thursday to serve as the next United Nations high commissioner for human rights.

  • Hannibal Kadhafi, seen here in 2005, a son of Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi. Libya has said it will halt fuel supplies to key oil client Switzerland, in the latest reprisal for last week's brief detention in Geneva of Hannibal.(AFP/SCANPIX/File/Morten Juhl)
    Libya, Italy to sign compensation deal: Gaddafi son Reuters - Thu Jul 24, 5:19 PM ET

    TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libya and Italy will soon seal a deal worth "billions" to compensate for the European country's three-decade colonial rule, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's influential son said on Thursday.

  • Correction: Sudan-Darfur story AP - Thu Jul 24, 5:08 PM ET

    NYALA, Sudan - In a July 23 story about Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir's trip to Darfur, The Associated Press erroneously reported that it was his first visit to the western Sudanese region in more than three years. Al-Bashir has visited Darfur on several occasions since 2003, most recently in July 2007. It was al-Bashir's first visit since an international prosecutor filed genocide charges against him on July 14.

  • Residents of Bakassi ride in a boat at Atabong in 2006. Cameroonian troops killed 10 unidentified gunmen who attacked a military camp Thursday in the oil rich west close to the Nigerian border, Defence Minister Remy Ze Meka said.(AFP/Pius Utomi Ekpei)
    Cameroon says kills 10 gunmen in disputed Bakassi Reuters - Thu Jul 24, 2:57 PM ET

    YAOUNDE (Reuters) - Cameroonian soldiers killed 10 gunmen who attacked them on Thursday in the Bakassi peninsula, a long-disputed territory Nigeria is transferring to Cameroon under a World Court order, Cameroon's Defence Ministry said.

  • Sudanese President Omar al-Beshir visits a girl's high school in South Darfur's state capital Nyala. Beshir paraded as a man of peace on Thursday as he wrapped up a heavily protected tour of Darfur defying accusations that he masterminded genocide in the region.(AFP/Khaled Desouki)
    Sudan's Beshir pledges peace as he leaves Darfur AFP - Thu Jul 24, 2:30 PM ET

    EL GENEINA, Sudan (AFP) - Sudanese President Omar al-Beshir paraded as a man of peace on Thursday as he wrapped up a heavily protected tour of Darfur defying accusations that he masterminded genocide in the region.

  • Libyans protest in front of their foreign ministry in Tripoli, Libya, Thursday July 24, 2008. Libya has halted all of its oil deliveries to Switzerland to protest the arrest there of Moammar Gadhafi's son, a state-run shipping company said Thursday. The oil cutoff was Libya's latest action in response to the arrest last week of Hannibal Gadhafi and his wife. Police arrested them on July 15 at a luxury hotel in Geneva for allegedly beating two of their servants, according to their lawyer. (AP Photo/ Abdel Magid Al Fergany)
    Libya halts oil shipments to Switzerland AP - Thu Jul 24, 1:59 PM ET

    TRIPOLI, Libya - Libya has halted all of its oil deliveries to Switzerland and barred Swiss ships from its ports to protest the arrest of Moammar Gadhafi's son in Geneva, a state-run shipping company said Thursday.

  • Libya and the United States have resumed talks on compensation for the relatives of US victims of Libyan terrorist attacks and Libyan victims of US air raids, the daily Oya said. The talks are led by David Welch, assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern Affairs, and Libya's deputy Foreign Minister Abdelaati Laabidi.(AFP/File/Joseph Barrak)
    Libya and US discuss attack compensation: report AFP - Thu Jul 24, 12:58 PM ET

    TRIPOLI (AFP) - Libya and the United States have resumed talks on compensation for the relatives of US victims of Libyan terrorist attacks and Libyan victims of US air raids, the daily Oya said on Thursday.

  • Motorists queue at a petrol station in Lagos in 2007. Nigeria's oil workers' union NUPENG has threatened to resume a suspended strike over the high cost of diesel and kerosene in the oil-rich west African country.(AFP/File/Pius Otomi Ekpei)
    Nigerian oil union threatens fresh strike over diesel cost AFP - Thu Jul 24, 9:16 AM ET

    LAGOS (AFP) - Nigeria's oil workers' union NUPENG has threatened to resume a suspended strike over the high cost of diesel and kerosene in the oil-rich west African country, its leader said Thursday.

  • Sudan's President Omar Hassan al-Bashir speaks to supporters during a tour of Niyala, south Darfur, July 23, 2008. (Mohamed Nureldin Abdallh/Reuters)
    Sudan invites foreign experts to check judiciary Reuters - Thu Jul 24, 9:12 AM ET

    KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan has invited international experts to inspect its legal system to see whether it is capable of holding trials for war crimes committed in Darfur, the justice minister said on Thursday.

  • Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe is seen here on July 21. Talks have begun in earnest on resolving Zimbabwe's political crisis after Mugabe gave his senior lieutenants the final go-ahead to negotiate power-sharing with the opposition.(AFP/File/Desmond Kwande)
    Zimbabwe talks begin in SAfrica: Mbeki spokesman AFP - Thu Jul 24, 6:23 AM ET

    PRETORIA (AFP) - Top-level talks between Zimbabwe's ruling party and opposition aimed at resolving the country's political crisis were underway in South Africa Thursday, a spokesman for President Thabo Mbeki said.

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