News - Africa
Monday, February 4th, 2008
BBC - Pirates have seized a Russian ship off the coast of Somalia, officials say. The Svitzer Korsakov tug was taken to the port of Eyl in Somalia's northern semi-autonomous Puntland region, the local governor told the BBC.
However, Russia's Interfax news agency quoted officials as saying the vessel was ...
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Saturday, February 2nd, 2008
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Chadian rebels are facing off against army troops and President Idriss Deby in the capital N'Djamena, after a day of heavy fighting in which rebels closed in on the presidential palace. VOA's Nico Colombant ...
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Saturday, February 2nd, 2008
By ANITA POWELL
Associated Press Writer
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia The United States of Africa. It's one of few concrete plans African leaders agreed on as they struggled with issues of peacekeeping and political disputes at this week's continental summit.
One problem is, so many countries want to be Washington, D.C.
African leaders have been ...
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Friday, February 1st, 2008
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete won the rotating chairmanship of the African Union on Thursday, succeeding Ghana's John Kufuor.
The 53-nation organisation is holding a summit in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa under the shadow of a violent standoff in Kenya between government and opposition supporters over a ...
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Friday, February 1st, 2008
U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Jendayi Frazer described postelection violence in Kenya as "ethnic cleansing" while speaking to reporters on Jan. 30 at an African Union summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. State Department spokesman Sean McCormack distanced the administration from the emotionally charged phrase, refusing to repeat ...
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
By Stephanie McCrummen
washingtonpost
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A second opposition lawmaker was shot dead in Kenya on Thursday in the western town of Eldoret in the volatile Rift Valley region, where tens of thousands of people from President Mwai Kibaki's Kikuyu community have been chased from their homes.
The exact circumstances remained unclear, though early ...
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
ADDIS ABABA (AFP) - African Union heads of state began a three-day summit Thursday in Addis Ababa focused on the deadly crisis in Kenya and the challenges facing the body's peacekeeping missions.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon was expected to address the 53-state organisation and call for a peaceful resolution of ...
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Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
By Daniel Wallis
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Kenya's bloody turmoil will dominate an African summit in Ethiopia this week, underlining how quickly the neighbouring nation has gone from apparently stable regional anchor to the continent's most urgent crisis.
Summits of the 53-nation African Union have been regularly dominated by Darfur, Somalia and ...
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Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
Philippe Naughton and agencies
The top US envoy in Africa gave warning today that Washington was reviewing all of its aid to Kenya because of Bosnian-style "ethnic cleansing".
Amid increasing international concern about the bloodshed in Kenya, Jendayi Frazer, the US Assistant Secretary of State responsible for Africa policy, also warned ...
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Tuesday, January 29th, 2008
TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi said on Tuesday African leaders meeting in Ethiopia this week should stop wasting time and unite in a single government to stop foreign powers taking control of the continent.
"The (summit) will be decisive. It will either put an end to stalling and time ...
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