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Marooned Ethiopians refuse rescue

Hundreds of Ethiopians marooned on small outcrops above flooded plains refused to abandon livestock despite rescuers' pleas on Saturday.
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U.N. envoy slams South Africa on AIDS

The South African government promotes "lunatic fringe" AIDS policies, a top U.N. envoy said Friday, as activists occupied government offices and took to the streets demanding the dismissal and arrest of the country's health minister.
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Genocide suspects won't face execution in Rwanda

Rwanda plans to strike capital punishment for genocide suspects from its statute books to encourage European and North American countries to extradite suspected masterminds of the 1994 genocide, the attorney general said Friday.
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Lord's Resistance Army, Uganda resume talks

Talks between Ugandan officials and rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) resumed in south Sudan on Friday, after several delays postponed negotiations to end one of Africa's longest wars.
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	August 17

• Zimbabweans scramble to get rid of old currency
• Peacekeepers accused of buying sex in Congo


	August 16

• South Africa, Mozambique and Zimbabwe open border to animal park
• African bishops warn priests against witchcraft
• Ethiopian floods feared to have killed 700


	August 15

• Four kidnapped oil workers freed
• Guinea radio listeners finally get chance to channel surf
• Zimbabwean arrested for insulting Mugabe


	August 14

• Low condom use fuels Southern Africa AIDS crisis
• Flood kills 125 in southern Ethiopia
• Filipinos released in Nigerian oil region; 4 more foreigners seized


	August 11

• Health expert: Obesity on rise in South Africa
• Thousands in Somalia rally for holy war


	August 10

• Nigeria oil worker kidnapping makes 4 this week
• Kabila ahead in early Congo vote results
• CEO: German worker abducted in Nigeria OK
• Priest gets 30 years for sex with teenager


	August 9

• U.N. envoy: Sudanese government telling 'fairy tales'
• Norwegian, Ukrainian oil workers kidnapped off Nigerian coast


	August 8

• Expert: Libyan HIV outbreak in children was deliberate
• Flooding kills at least 210 in eastern Ethiopia
• Early Congo election results show president winning eastern cities


	August 7

• Darfur rebel leader sworn in as presidential aide
• Observers call Congo vote counting chaotic
• Nigeria says troops withdrawing from Bakassi


	August 6

• 150 dead in Ethiopian floods


	August 4

• Filipino oil workers abducted in Nigeria
• Sierra Leone sets elections after brutal war years
• Democracy sends out shoots in Mauritania
• Sorious Samura: 'Living With Illegals'
• Q&A: Sorious Samura


	August 3

• Congo ballots go up in flames
• German oil worker kidnapped in Nigeria
• Flooding, snow as severe cold grips South Africa
• Venezuela's leader visits, vows to invest in Benin
• Suspected Somali pirates to be tried in Kenya


	August 2

• Zuma points finger at Mbeki in arms-deal case
• 29 ministers leave Somali government
• Burundi: President target of assassination, coup plot


	August 1

• Former Congo rebel leader alleges fraud in historic presidential vote
• Ugandan rebel leader emerges from bush for peace talks


	July 31

• Supporters rally behind Somalia leader
• Police: Attackers leave Nigeria oil facility
• Congo may face toughest test after vote
• Sunbathers aid beached migrants


	July 30

• Incumbent wins Seychelles poll
• War-weary Congolese flock to polls
• Millions vote in Congo's historic election


	July 29

• Congo goes to polls for first time in decades
• Somali militants to free 25 sailors
• War-battered Congo set for historic vote


	July 28

• Jubilation, violence mark days before Congo vote
• Somali minister assassinated


	July 27

• Congo's holdout militias agree to disarm
• Attacks, pipeline leak may hurt Shell production
• Malawi's ex-president faces corruption charges


	July 26

• Liberia's presidential palace burns
• Ivory Coast militia begin disarming
• Official: U.N. must stay in Congo after vote
• Somalia says Eritrea sending arms to militants


	July 25

• Protesters clash with Congo riot police ahead of historic vote
• Nigerian oil pipeline springs leak
• Somalia's Islamic militia rules out peace talks


	July 24

• Somali protesters vow to fight Ethiopia
• At least 15 killed in Nigerian fighting
• Report: Congolese children bear brunt of war
• Tensions rise ahead of Congo's historic vote
• The laughter of children carries Rwanda's hope
• Two Africans die in new wave of migration


	July 23

• Famine response 'too little, too late'


	July 21

• Cameroon's 'jungle justice' replaces corrupt cops
• Taylor 'unhappy with jail food'
• Charles Taylor appears in court
• Ethiopia troops cross into Somalia


	July 20

• Ethiopia troops cross into Somalia
• South Africa trying to give blacks more land


	July 18

• Wolfowitz: Africa is my priority


	July 17

• Amanpour: World fails to save Africa's AIDS orphans


	July 16

• Nigerian wins 2006 African journalist award
• School program helps South Africa's most vulnerable


	July 9

• 15 dead in Somalia gun battle


	July 2

• South Africans: 'Leave' is no answer to violence


	June 30

• Eye on Africa: Full TV schedule
• CNN Connects: The panel
• Harsh life of Egypt's neglected street kids


	June 26

• U.S. won't deal with Somalia Islamist


	June 23

• TV man shot dead in Somalia


	June 22

• Somalia cease-fire deal reached


	June 21

• Prosecutors seek quick start to Taylor trial


	June 20

• Your e-mails: Response to the global refugee crisis
• Taylor taken to Hague for trial


	June 19

• No end in sight for Africa's suffering masses
• The shocking truth about covering refugees
• Somalia war could spread, U.N. warns
• Diplomats mull peacekeepers for Somalia


	June 17

• Two Somali warlords flee Mogadishu

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