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Security Council calls for large increase to African peace force in Somalia
African   Peace   Photos   Security   Somalia   Wikipedia: United Nations Security Council  
Security Council calls for large increase to African peace force in Somalia
| UNODC Executive Director Yury Fedotov addresses the Security Council on the situation in Somalia. UN Photo/Devra Berkowitz22 February 2012 – The Security Council today called on the African Union (A... (photo: UN / UN) United Nations
AMISOM soldiers walking between the civilians in the Karan district of Mogadishu , Somalia Thursday, Aug.11, 2011.
Africa   Photos   Somalia   War   Wikipedia: Somali Civil War  
Somalia can be reborn as a country of progress and prosperity
| For all the difficulties it has faced, Somalia has the resilience, talent and natural resources to shape a better future UK foreign secretary William Hague with officials at Mogadishu airport. Hague... (photo: AP / Ali Bashi) The Guardian
Defected Libyan soldiers and volunteers load weapons onto a truck on the outskirts of the eastern town of Brega, Libya, Thursday, March 3, 2011. Mutinous army units in pickup trucks armed with machine-guns and rocket launchers deployed around the strategic oil installation at Brega Thursday, securing the site after the opposition repelled an attempt by loyalists of Moammar Gadhafi to retake the port in rebel-held east Libya. Libya court orders civil trial for Gaddafi "loyalists"
| BENGHAZI (Reuters) - A Libyan military court ruled on Wednesday that 50 people accused of fighting for Muammar Gaddafi and helping a mass jail break by alleged supporters of the deposed leader shoul... (photo: AP / Tara Todras-Whitehill) Daily Press
Court   Libya   Photos   War   Wikipedia: Libyan civil war  
Former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, center, arrives at the airport in Dakar, Senegal Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012. Obasanjo arrived in Senegal on Tuesday to try to mediate a solution to the country's political impasse, less than a week before a contentious presidential election takes place. In the hour before his arrival, police once again fired tear gas to disperse demonstrators as they took to the streets and set fire to tires in a show of anger over the candidacy of the country's 85-year-old leader Abdoulaye Wade. Nigeria’s former president to meet with Senegal’s opposition candidates
| DAKAR, Senegal — Former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, who is in Senegal to observe and help mediate a solution to this weekend’s contentious election, is meeting opposition candi... (photo: AP / Tanya Bindra) The Washington Post
Africa   Nigeria   Photos   Politics   Wikipedia: Senegal  
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Egypt's former President Hosni Mubarak arrives by gurney to court in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, Jan. 28, 2012 Egypt's Mubarak declines chance to address court
| CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's ousted President Hosni Mubarak has turned down the chance to address the court on the last session before the verdict in his seven-month trial. |... (photo: AP / Mohammed al-Law) The Guardian
Court   Egypt   Photos   Politics   Wikipedia: Hosni Mubarak  
File - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks at a town hall discussion in Dushanbe, Tajikistan Saturday Oct 22, 2011. Clinton heads abroad to push Syria diplomacy
| WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is trying to ramp up diplomatic efforts against Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime on a trip to North A... (photo: AP / Kevin Lamarque) Springfield News-Sun
Photos   Politics   Syria   Washington  
An unidentified woman lays clothes out to dry on an oil pipeline running through the Okrika neighborhood of Port Harcourt in Nigeria's oil-rich delta region, in this Oct. 7 2006 file photo. Oil prices dropped nearly $2 a barrel, Tuesday, May 29, 2007 on hopes that the inauguration of a new president in OPEC member Nigeria would contribute to a stable supply from the Niger Delta region Nigeria losing 150 000 barrels of oil per day
Abuja - Oil companies in Nigeria are battling against a rising theft that is costing them an estimated 150 000 barrels of crude each day, an oil major official said on Tu... (photo: AP / Sunday Alamba, file) Independent online
Abuja   Africa   Business   Photos  
File - In this photo of Tuesday Aug. 9, 2011 released by the African Union-United Nations Information Support Team, Ugandan soldiers serving with the African Union Mission in Somalia, AMISOM, patrol through the deserted streets of Bakara Market in central Mogadishu. 'Somalia should be enjoying its own Arab Spring'
London - Somalia should be enjoying an Arab Spring of its own but its Al-Shebab insurgents are fomenting jihad both in and out of the country, British Prime Minister Davi... (photo: AP / AU-UN IST/ Stuart Price) Independent online
Africa   Peace   Photos   Somalia   Wikipedia: Somali Civil War  
Robert Mugabe, president of Zimbabwe Gyrations of a geriatric: Robert Mugabe at 88
Our infuriating neighbour, who cunningly clings to his cushy job after 32 years, despite losing the elections he violently subverted in 2008, has vowed to lead his Zanu-P... (photo: Public Domain / Martin H.) Independent online
Elections   Photos   Politics   Wikipedia: Robert Mugabe   Zimbabwe  
This video image taken from Egyptian State Television shows 83-year-old former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak laying on a hospital bed inside a cage of mesh and iron bars in a Cairo courtroom Wednesday Aug. 3, 2011, as his historic trial began on charges of corruption and ordering the killing of protesters during the uprising that ousted him from office. The scene, shown live on Egypt's state TV, was Egyptians' first look at their former president since Feb. 10, the day before his fall when he gave a defiant speech refusing to resign. Defense to make final pitch in Hosni Mubarak's trial
February 22, 2012 -- Updated 0905 GMT (1705 HKT) Egypt's Hosni Mubarak is on trial on charges of corruption and ordering the deaths of hundreds of protesters. | Cairo (CN... (photo: AP / Egyptian State TV) CNN
Corruption   Egypt   Photos   Trial   Wikipedia: Hosni Mubarak  
In this Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010 photo, Senegalese pop star Youssou Ndour gestures during the launch of his television station, TFM, in Dakar, Senegal. Senegal's Youssou Ndour injured during rally: spokesman
| AFP - Senegalese music icon and opposition activist Youssou Ndour was injured in the leg after being hit by a projectile at the scene of a banned rally in Dakar, his en... (photo: AP / Rebecca Blackwell) France24
Elections   Photos   Protests   Senegal   Wikipedia: Youssou N'Dour  
Darfur Patrol Returns Home Safely After Rebel Blockade - UN Darfur Patrol Returns Home Safely After Rebel Blockade - UN
Wednesday, 22 February 2012, 2:53 pm | Press Release: UN News | New York, Feb 21 2012 7:10PM | A 55-person patrol of the United Nations-African Union peacekeeping force i... (photo: UN / Albert Gonzalez Farran - UNAMID) Scoop
Africa   Darfur   Peacekeepers   Photos   UN   Wikipedia: War in Darfur  
The Secretary General meets with Olusegun Obasanjo, Special Envoy on the Great Lakes region African envoy in Senegal to defuse tension
| Former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo has arrived in Senegal to mediate the country's political standoff, while police once again fired tear gas to disperse prote... (photo: UN / Eskinder Debebe) Al Jazeera
Elections   Photos   President   Senegal   Wikipedia: Olusegun Obasanjo  
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UK to double military aid for Somalia
A woman of extraordinary bravery who charmed tyrants
Sudan closes another newspaper
Mubarak to learn fate in June
Former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, center, arrives at the airport in Dakar, Senegal Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012. Obasanjo arrived in Senegal on Tuesday to try to mediate a solution to the country's political impasse, less than a week before a contentious presidential election takes place. In the hour before his arrival, police once again fired tear gas to disperse demonstrators as they took to the streets and set fire to tires in a show of anger over the candidacy of the country's 85-year-old leader Abdoulaye Wade.
Nigeria’s former president to meet with Senegal’s opposition candidates
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UN approves more peacekeepers for Somalia
Global Hotels eyes expansion into RAK, Kenya
Uganda investigates death of U.S. TV producer
SSNLA Passes and Adopts the Companies Bill, 2012
An unidentified woman lays clothes out to dry on an oil pipeline running through the Okrika neighborhood of Port Harcourt in Nigeria's oil-rich delta region, in this Oct. 7 2006 file photo. Oil prices dropped nearly $2 a barrel, Tuesday, May 29, 2007 on hopes that the inauguration of a new president in OPEC member Nigeria would contribute to a stable supply from the Niger Delta region
Nigeria losing 150 000 barrels of oil per day
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Ben Affleck Joins Facebook and Shares Photos From His Trips
S. African Fuel-Free Generator Preparing for Market
UN advocate Mia Farrow spotlights need for polio vaccination
Watch: First Look at the Museum of African American History
Time to act over looming food crisis in Africa's Sahel
Time to act over looming food crisis in Africa's Sahel
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Newark mayor: NYPD Muslim files 'deeply offensive'
Newark mayor Cory Booker: NYPD misled us on Muslim spying
Rio's Carnival a big draw for gay tourists
Newark mayor: NYPD misled us on Muslim spying
Here's what we get from global warming
Here's what we get from global warming
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Health & Science Energy & Industry
S. African Fuel-Free Generator Preparing for Market
Top diplomats to visit Kenyan woman in hospital
Parents fail to report child sex abuse to police for fear of
NH jury chosen in Rwanda genocide case
Robert Mugabe, president of Zimbabwe
Gyrations of a geriatric: Robert Mugabe at 88
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Tehran defiant as nuclear talks fail
Showbiz Arabia: Yousra's back
Senegal leader’s age becomes campaign issue
Fresh scandal embroils US climate science debate
AMISOM soldiers walking between the civilians in the Karan district of Mogadishu , Somalia Thursday, Aug.11, 2011.
Somalia can be reborn as a country of progress and prosperity
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Sport Internet & Education
Ireland prove too strong for Kenya
Job well done as coach bids adieu
Reality check for India after 5-2 loss to South Africa
Rugby: Age-old rivalries alive and kicking in South Africa
Ghana's Asamoah Gyan, foreground, celebrates after scoring the team's second goal during the World Cup round of 16 soccer match between the United States and Ghana at Royal Bafokeng Stadium in Rustenburg, South Africa, Saturday, June 26, 2010.
As Asamoah Gyan retires from international football, here are the five Ghana moments that he ...
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Yaounde - Staff College Graduates Officers
University of Witwatersrand Continues its Xenophobic Policy
Iran Internet disruption points to government control
USAF crash in Djibouti killed Citadel graduate-Captain Ryan
Save the Children starts school meals for Somali refugees
Save the Children starts school meals for Somali refugees
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