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March 13, 2012
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Bloodhounds deployed to fight elephant poaching in DR Congo
Kinshasa (AFP) March 12, 2012
The Democratic Republic of Congo's famed Virunga National Park has deployed bloodhounds to track down elephant poachers, a park official said Monday. "The first operation of the specially-trained bloodhounds was launched after a succession of elephant-poaching incidents," LuAnne Cadd, the park's public relations officer, told AFP. "The operation lasted two days and resulted in an armed contact between park rangers and suspected elephant poachers followed by the recovery of an illegal cache of we ... read more

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AU troops to replace Ethopian forces in key Somali cities
African Union troops are set to replace Ethiopian forces in two Somali cities recently taken from Shebab rebels, the AU Commissioner for the Peace and Security Council said Friday. ... more
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Former Ugandan child soldier backs viral video
A former child soldier at the heart of a viral campaign to bring accused Ugandan war criminal Joseph Kony to justice said Friday he backed the video and urged people to watch it. ... more
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Mali rebels strike amid post-Libya anarchy
North Africa, never the most placid of places, has been plunged into turmoil in recent weeks by groups of heavily armed fighters that have fanned out across the Sahara to destabilize the region known as the Maghreb. ... more
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Campaign to arrest Uganda rebel chief goes viral
A campaign to bring accused war criminal Joseph Kony, the fugitive head of Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army rebels, to justice has gone viral on the Internet. ... more
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Algerian Islamists set to score in polls
Newly legalized Islamic parties in Algeria, which fought a savage war with Muslim fundamentalists throughout the 1990s, are likely to score heavily in parliamentary elections scheduled for May. ... more
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US pledges aid after 150 die in Congo blast
The United States led international pledges of emergency aid to Congo after huge blasts at an arms depot in Brazzaville killed more than 150 people and left 1,000 injured. ... more
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Nigerian soldiers killed in creek attack: government
Four Nigeria soldiers are missing and presumed dead after an attack by gunmen in the southern oil-rich Niger Delta creeks, the military and a state government said Friday. ... more
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ICC issues warrant for Sudan defence minister
The International Criminal Court said on Thursday it has issued an arrest warrant for Sudan's defence minister for crimes against the civilian population in Darfur. ... more
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South Sudan rebels sign truce deal with government
South Sudan has signed a ceasefire with the largest of several rebel groups which threaten the stability of the world's newest nation, the government said on Tuesday. ... more
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UN asks Angola for helicopters
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Monday asked Angola to provide helicopters for peacekeeping missions in countries including the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan. ... more
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Missile strike kills Islamist fighters in Somalia
A missile strike killed four Al-Qaeda allied Shebab rebels in war-torn southern Somalia, officials and witnesses said Friday, as the extremists are squeezed on three fronts by regional forces. ... more
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In Somalia, securing peace harder than seizing territory
The bullet-scarred hospital is basic but operational, the school is simple but has laughing children. Small successes for most nations; a major achievement in war-torn Somalia. ... more
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Kenyan troops make slow progress in Somalia
Draped in belts of bullets and carrying a machine gun, Kenyan soldier Philip Namanda peers out into the shimmering heat of the yellow scrubland of southern Somalia, waiting for guerrilla attacks. ... more
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Somali PM would 'welcome' air strikes against Shebab
Somali Prime Minister Abdiweli Mohamed Ali said Wednesday he would welcome European air strikes against Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab insurgents in Somalia, as long as they did not hurt civilians. ... more
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UN Council to increase Somalia force to 17,700
The UN Security Council will on Wednesday vote to increase the African peacekeeping force in Somalia to up to 17,000 troops, diplomats said. ... more
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Nigeria's Boko Haram on the rise
Nigeria's Joint Task Force in Borno state said it killed eight Islamic fundamentalist Boko Haram fighters in a shootout in northeastern Nigeria. ... more
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Jonas Savimbi, the vicious, charismatic rebel who fought Angola's socialist government in a 27-year civil war, died 10 years ago Wednesday, leaving behind a haunting legacy of violence. ... more
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Soldier killed in fresh clashes in southern Senegal
A soldier was killed by presumed separatist rebels in Senegal's troubled southern Casamance region on Wednesday, a day after clashes left three troops dead, a military source told AFP. ... more
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Sudanese air strike hits S Sudan, breaking pact: army
Sudanese warplanes dropped several bombs wounding four soldiers in a contested area claimed by South Sudan, breaking a fresh non-aggression pact between the two sides, Juba's army spokesman said Tuesday. ... more
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Nigeria army kills 12 suspected Islamists in flashpoint city
Nigeria's army has killed 12 suspected fighters from the Boko Haram Islamists during a raid in the northeastern city of Maiduguri, the group's base, a military spokesman told AFP on Monday. ... more
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Inter-ethnic fighting displaces 40,000 in Kenya
More than 40,000 people have fled clashes between two northern Kenyan tribes over access to water and pasture, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies said Friday. ... more
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Mali army tries to fend off Tuareg rebels as crisis grows
Mali's army launched airstrikes Thursday to halt the advance of Tuareg rebels amid calls for a ceasefire and as clashes sent thousands fleeing to neighbouring countries, military sources said. ... more
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Chinese, Russian arms fuel Darfur abuse: Amnesty
Chinese-made bullets and aircraft bought from Russia are used to commit rights violations in Sudan's Darfur under an ineffective UN arms embargo, Amnesty International said on Thursday. ... more
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Explosion rocks military barracks in northern Nigeria
Two blasts rocked a northern Nigerian city Tuesday, including one targeting a military barracks, but the number of casualties was not immediately clear, officials said. ... more
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S.Africa's strike-hit Kruger Park to hire retired rangers
South Africa's Kruger National Park is recruiting retired game rangers to replace its striking ranger force, a spokesman said Tuesday, amid a rhino poaching crisis that has hit record scale. ... more
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Liberia Nobel Laureate Gbowee launches peace foundation
Joint Nobel Peace Prize winner Leymah Gbowee on Monday launched a peace foundation in her country Liberia aimed at lifting young girls out of social squalor and giving them life skills. ... more
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UN says 30,000 fled recent Sudan fighting
About 30,000 people have fled recent fighting in Sudan's South Kordofan state, the UN said on Friday after rebels captured 29 Chinese workers in the same area. ... more
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New study shows millions risk losing lands in Africa
New studies released in London suggest that the frenzied sell-off of forests and other prime lands to buyers hungry for the developing world's natural resources risk sparking widespread civil unrest ... more
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Mali instals new defence minister after Tuareg raids
Malian President Amadou Toumani Toure Thursday swapped his defence and security ministers after a series of Tuareg rebel raids and warned against attacks on civilian members of the nomadic tribe. ... more
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Tuareg rebels take Mali town after army pullout
Mali's Tuareg rebels took over the northern town of Menaka Wednesday after the government forces stationed there pulled out overnight, officials and witnesses said. ... more
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Sudan army frees 14 'kidnapped' Chinese: report
The Sudanese military has freed 14 Chinese workers "kidnapped" by rebels in the country's South Kordofan state, the official SUNA news agency reported on Monday. ... more
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