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Report attacks SA crime and corruption

JAN 29, 2007

African governments have warned South Africa that growing corruption, rampant violent crime and xenophobia are undermining confidence in the continent...

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Sudan snubbed as Ghana given African Union chair

JAN 29, 2007

Addis Ababa - The African Union (AU) handed its leadership to Ghana on Monday, after it made a controversial promise last year to appoint Sudan, a mov...

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South Africa: Letter from the President

JAN 28, 2007

In June 1974, a few of us spent some days in Mogadishu, Somalia, as members of an ANC delegation. We had come to the capital of Somalia to attend the ...

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Somalia in danger of reverting to chaos, U.S. military says

JAN 28, 2007

DOHA, Qatar: U.S. military officials here said Somalia could return to chaos in four months if international peacekeepers don't quickly replace depart...

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Somali police convoy attacked

JAN 28, 2007

Two people have been killed after armed men attacked a convoy transporting Mogadishu's police chief, according to residents....

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The Quiet War in the Horn of Africa

JAN 28, 2007

ALI ADDÉ, Djibouti — A curious crowd of women and men in billowing skirts streamed toward the landing zone as two U.S. Marine helicopters touched d...

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K'Naan, the rapper from Africa is harder than 50 Cent

JAN 28, 2007

When K'Naan Warsame was 11 and walking through the city of his birth, he found what he thought was a rotten and strangely skewered potato. He pulled o...

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Local Somalis ask for help

JAN 28, 2007

Huddled under the eaves of a building at South Huron Street and Michigan Avenue in Ypsilanti, about 15 local Somalis waved signs and posters urging an...

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IGAD ministers meet over Somalia

JAN 28, 2007

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (Angola Press) - The Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) Executive Secretary Dr Atallah Bashir Saturday met forei...

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Somali gunmen attack police stations, 7 wounded

JAN 28, 2007

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Gunmen fired rocket-propelled grenades at Mogadishu police stations in the latest of a wave of guerrilla-style ambushes on the g...

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