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• Sudan blames Jews for U.N. peacekeeper push
• U.N. team to meet Somalia’s Islamic group
• Britain offers to imprison ex-Liberian leader
• Sierra Leone police hunt for killer chimps
• Those maimed in Sierra Leone war still victims
• South African rape trial raises AIDS alarm bells
• Congolese warlord shipped to new world court
• AU presents new proposals for Darfur cease-fire
• At least 27 die in Ugandan church-wall collapse
• Museveni reelected in Uganda
• Haiti's Preval says exiled Aristide can return
• Nigerian militants claim they will free hostages
• Flooding kills more than 200 in Ethiopia
• 127 feared dead in Cameroon ferry disaster  
• Nigerian abductors free more foreign hostages
• Yale dumps investments linked to Sudan
• Islamist forces gather as Somalis prepare to flee
• Battle for livestock leaves 38 dead
• Liberian becomes Africa's first female president
• Peace comes to part of Sudan, but still suffering
• Militias prepare for battle in southern Somalia
• Bus plunge off Tanzanian bridge kills at least 54
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• Nigerian militants release 8 foreign oil workers
• Unsettling view of a settlement’s erasure
• Americans arrested in alleged Congo coup plot
• Cholera death toll in Angola tops 1,300
• Nigeria ups security after deadly pipeline blast
• At least 75 killed in fighting in Somali capital
• Darfur peace plan signed by one rebel group
• Chad breaks diplomatic ties with Sudan
• Ex-Liberian leader Taylor now faces judgment
• Official: 7 million land mines buried in Angola
• Famine threatens 11 million in Horn of Africa

• Alleged war crimes leader arrives at site of trial
• U.S. says it would talk to Somali Islamic faction
• Islamic militants seize last Somali stronghold
• Car bomb kills 2 at Nigeria oil hub
• Torrential downpour kills 13 in Angola
• Liberia's Taylor denies atrocities before tribunal
• Kenya clans' struggle for water turns deadly
• New Jersey teacher becomes top cop in Liberia
• Sudanese lobby against U.N. peacekeeping 
• At least 120 killed in sectarian strife in Nigeria
• Nigerian militants holding hostages refuse talks
• Nigerian president promises nuclear power
• Ethiopian troops enter central Somalia
• U.N. appeals for aid for drought-hit Somalia
• Nigeria militants seize nine foreign oil workers
• U.S. Navy battles suspected pirates, kills 1
• Somalia militia vows to oust Islamist fighters
• U.N. attempts to quell violence in Ivory Coast
• Gunmen seize foreign oil workers in Nigeria
• Millions in Africa will die if promises unfulfilled
• Afghan security forces kill 15 militants
• Factions begin talks about future of Somalia
• Islamic militia says it captured Somalia capital
• Americans tell story of detainment in Congo
• Liberian president relishes role of grandmother
• U.N. says Darfur violence reaching new levels
• U.N. speeds process for Darfur peacekeeping
• Fighting rages in Somalia's capital
• Interpreter killed as U.N. aid chief tours Darfur
• South Africa to crack down on ‘canned hunting’
• Troops put down rebel attack on Chad’s capital
• Dutch asked to host Taylor war crimes trial
• Liberian warlord Taylor vanishes while in exile

• Liberia's Taylor heads to war crimes trial
• South Africans mark pivotal Soweto uprising
• Bush orders sanctions in Darfur atrocities
• At least 69 die when Djiboutian boat capsizes
• Standing up to Charles Taylor
• 32 may have died in Mauritania boat collision
• The haunting story of Chad's children
• U.N.: A fifth of world lacks clean drinking water 
• Chadians flee to Sudan’s Darfur region
• Powerful quake rattles Mozambique, Zimbabwe
• Death toll rises to 14 in Kenya building collapse
• Tales of war crimes, atrocities grow in Darfur
• South Africa rape case politically charged
• Bush hosts Liberian president at White House
• U.S. military: 10 died in twin copter crash
• Red Cross: Nigeria blast kills at least 260
• Nigerian militia frees kidnapped oil workers
• U.S. announces $163M for Nigeria AIDS fight
• Congolese voters approve new constitution
• Richardson presses Sudan leadership
• U.S. to convene strategy session on Somalia
• ‘Trust Africa’ hopes Africans help themselves
• Islamic militia says it takes Somalia’s capital
• Interpol puts out alerts for war crimes suspects
• Hundreds of residents flee Somali capital
• Sierra Leone charges American in Taylor plot
• Nine bombs explode in Ethiopia’s capital
• 96 Somalis die as Islamic, secular gangs battle
• New film re-examines Africa’s role in WWII
• Painful memories spur Sudanese to rally in D.C.
• 14 killed as Kenya military plane crashes
• U.N. flies warlord Taylor to face tribunal
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