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  • Obama honors Mugabe foes for defying a "dictator"

    Reuters – Mon Nov 23, 8:46 pm ET  

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama honored a group of women Monday who have confronted Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and said they had defied a dictator. Full Story »

  • Congo warlords in the dock at Hague court

    Reuters – Mon Nov 23, 6:18 pm ET  

    THE HAGUE (Reuters) - The world's first permanent war crimes court opens its second trial on Tuesday when two Congolese warlords face charges they ordered subordinates to attack civilians, rape women and enlist child soldiers. Full Story »

  • AP Enterprise: Bullet tears open Somali boy's face

    AP – Mon Nov 23, 5:30 pm ET  
    In this Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2009 photo, Dr. Igohwo Etuh examines... AP

    NAIROBI, Kenya - The bullet hit mother and son as they walked through Somalia's capital. She felt a sharp pain in her palm. Then she saw her 8-year-old: The bullet tore through his cheekbones, nose and mouth. Blood gushed down to his waist. Full Story »

  • Peacekeepers should prepare to leave Darfur: Sudan

    Reuters – Mon Nov 23, 4:19 pm ET  
    A Sudanese man walks while a peacekeeper from the United Nations-African... Reuters

    UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Khartoum's U.N. envoy, rejecting a bleak U.N. assessment of the situation in Sudan's conflict-torn western Darfur region, said on Monday it was time for international peacekeepers to prepare to leave. Full Story »

  • French aid workers kidnapped in Centr.Africa: diplomat

    AFP – Mon Nov 23, 2:52 pm ET  
    A French soldier speaks with children in Birao, Central African... AFP/File

    LIBREVILLE (AFP) - Two French aid workers were kidnapped overnight by a gang of armed men in the northeast of Central African Republic, close to the border with Sudan, a Bangui diplomat in Sudan said Monday. Full Story »

  • Nigeria leader off to Saudi check-up: official

    AFP – Mon Nov 23, 2:09 pm ET  
    Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua, pictured in July 2009,... AFP/File

    ABUJA (AFP) - Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua is due to travel to Saudi Arabia late Monday for a medical check-up, his office said. Full Story »

  • South Africa hit by injury crisis

    AFP – Mon Nov 23, 1:35 pm ET  
    World champions South Africa on Monday put off naming the team... AFP/File

    DUBLIN (AFP) - World champions South Africa on Monday put off naming the team to play Six Nations Grand Slam holders Ireland this Saturday in Dublin because of an injury crisis which forced them to cancel training. Full Story »

  • Iran's Ahmadinejad on controversial trip to Brazil

    AFP – Mon Nov 23, 11:26 am ET  
    Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad delivers a speech during... AFP

    BRASILIA (AFP) - Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday began a controversial visit to Brazil, the key leg of a tour to sympathetic Latin American and African countries he sees backing Tehran's vision of "a new world order." Full Story »

  • ICC trial of Congolese militiamen to reveal 'the truth'

    AFP – Mon Nov 23, 10:32 am ET  
    An undated picture of Congolese militia chief Germain Katanga,... AFP/File

    THE HAGUE (AFP) - Lawyers for two Congolese militiamen accused of seeking to wipe out a village blocking a strategic route in an ethnic war, on Monday welcomed start of their trial in The Hague this week as a step towards "the truth". Full Story »

  • Pirates free hijacked ship bound for Somali port

    AP – Mon Nov 23, 8:38 am ET  
    Crew members of the Spanish trawler Alakrana embrace, moments... AFP/File

    MOGADISHU, Somalia - A Somali businessman says a ship hijacked by pirates off East Africa two weeks ago has been released. Full Story »

  • Absent judge forces Nigerian graft trial delay

    AFP – Mon Nov 23, 8:20 am ET  
    The former governor of Nigeria's oil rich Delta State, James... AFP/File

    ASABA, Nigeria (AFP) - A judge failed to turn up to preside over a high-profile Nigerian corruption trial on Monday, causing the second postponement in the case in a month. Full Story »

  • Sudan extends voter registration by a week

    AFP – Sun Nov 22, 3:57 pm ET  
    A Sudanese child holds a poster to mark the launch of voter registration... AFP/File

    KHARTOUM (AFP) - Sudan's National Electoral Commission said on Sunday it is giving people another week to register to vote in the country's first elections in 24 years, scheduled for April. Full Story »

  • Sudan delays elections by six days

    Reuters – Sun Nov 22, 2:21 pm ET  

    KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan on Sunday announced a six-day delay to long-awaited elections to make up for hold-ups in registering millions of voters in the oil-producing country. Full Story »

  • Algerian court clears Guantanamo detainees

    AFP – Sun Nov 22, 1:43 pm ET  
    Detainees stand during an early morning Islamic prayer at the... AFP/Getty Images/File

    ALGIERS (AFP) - An Algiers court on Sunday cleared two men held at Guantanamo Bay for seven years, according to a legal source. Full Story »

  • Iran's Ahmadinejad arrives in Gambia

    AFP – Sun Nov 22, 12:26 pm ET  
    Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, pictured on November 9,... AFP/File

    BANJUL (AFP) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived in Gambia on Sunday for a 24-hour working visit aimed at fostering relations between the Islamic republic and the West African nation. Full Story »

  • Algeria court acquits two ex-Guantanamo detainees

    Reuters – Sun Nov 22, 12:15 pm ET  

    ALGIERS (Reuters) - Two men who had been held for seven years in the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay on suspicion of belonging to an extremist group were acquitted in an Algerian court on Sunday, state media reported. Full Story »

  • Collingwood hits century as England down Proteas

    AFP – Sun Nov 22, 12:06 pm ET  
    England bolwer Tim Bresnan (left) celebrates dissmissing South... AFP

    CENTURION, South Africa (AFP) - Paul Collingwood, making a record 171st one-day appearance for England, hit a century, took two wickets and held a superb catch as England gained a comfortable seven-wicket win over South Africa in the second one-international at SuperSport Park on Sunday. Full Story »

  • Israeli president plays down settlement work

    Reuters – Sun Nov 22, 11:56 am ET  

    CAIRO (Reuters) - Israel's president said on Sunday expanding Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank was a "marginal" issue blocking resumption of peace talks with the Palestinians. Full Story »

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