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| Darfur Ambush Kills 7 Peacekeepers |
United Nations officials announced on Wednesday that seven
international peacekeepers were killed and 22 injured in an audacious day
ambush by armed men in the Sudanese northern province
of Darfur.
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 September 11th is a day of celebration for the people of Ethiopia as
they cheer the coming of the third millennium.
The explanation for this lies in the history of the Western
calendar system. When Europe converted to the
Gregorian calendar in 1582, Ethiopians stuck with the Julian calendar, which
they had been using happily for...
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 According to local officials, a bus and a lorry collided in
southern Tanzania
on Sunday killing 28 people.
The accident took lace near the town of Mbeya, 630 km southwest of Dar el Salaam.
“The bus with registration number T443 APF owned by SABCO
Company was heading to Dar el Salaam
from Tunduma when the accident occurred...
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 Africa does it again. The
world’s biggest diamond was found.
A diamond was discovered recently in a mining camp in the North West province of Africa.
According to SAfm public radio the stone found was twice the
weight of the previous record-holder, the Cullinan Diamond, which weighed about
3,106 carats when found in present-day...
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"We are trying to determine the cause of the
accident," spokesman Maj. Felix Kulayigye said after a truck transporting
more than 100 soldiers and their families crashed. The accident took place on
Monday in the eastern part of Uganda,
Kampala, after
the truck hit the concrete side railing. The cause of the event is...
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 The war crimes trial of the former Liberian President, Charles Taylor, was postponed by the Special Court for Sierra Leone to allow Taylor's new defense team more time to prepare. The trial was set to start on Monday, but the Court only held a hearing to decide whether to allow the postponement.The new court date is January 7, 2008....
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 The general director of a local independent radio station in Mogadishu and another colleague have been brutally assassinated Saturday in Somalia, apparently for criticizing the poor conditions of Somali people today and the people responsible for it. They are Ali Iman Sharmarke, the owner of the Somali media group HornAfrik, and Mahad...
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 The U.N. Security Council unanimously adopted on Tuesday a resolution to create a peacekeeping force of up to 19,555 soldiers in Darfur. They will be aided by 3,772 police, alongside 19 police units of 140 people each. The peacekeeping force will be made up mostly of peacekeepers from Africa with backup from Asian troops.The resolution...
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 France has signed a nuclear reactor deal with Libya, during a visit by French President Nicolas Sarkozy. The French world nuclear leader Areva will build a nuclear reactor which will desalinate sea water."The objective is to cooperate so as to work on the installation in Libya of a nuclear reactor to supply drinking water from...
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 A suicide bomber detonated a large amount of explosives hidden in a truck inside a military camp on the outskirts of Lakhdaria on Wednesday, killing ten people and wounding 35 more, media and security officials informed.The truck entered the army post during morning hours as groups of personnel arrived at the site, located about 48 miles...
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 France’s newly-elected President Nicolas Sarkozy made his first visit to Africa on Tuesday since he became head of state, meeting with his Algerian counterpart Abdelaziz Bouteflika in the country’s capital Algiers.Sarkozy left with the target of promoting one of his projects, the Mediterranean Union, a cooperation between states that...
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 90th Birthday Of Nelson Mandela
Former South African President Nelson Mandela, symbol of the anti-apartheid movement, is celebrating his 90th birthday. He planned to spend his birthday on Friday...
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Today is Thursday, June 5
the 157th day of 2008 with 209 to follow. The moon is waxing. The morning stars are Venus, Jupiter, Neptune and Uranus. The evening stars are Mercury, Mars and...
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 General Petraeus Set for Central Command
It appears that U. S. President George W. Bush’s favorite
general has been handed the task of winning the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
as well as confronting the...
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 A culinary journey through Crete
Almost as soon as you set foot on the southern Mediterranean island of Crete the poignant smell of oregano, wild flowers and wild teas tickles your senses while the...
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