March 13, 2008
Liberia: Isaac Mongor Alleges Charles Taylor Planned 1999 Freetown Invasion With Sam Bockarie
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Cameroon: Protests Against Biya Planned For Washington
Protestors demanding democratic change in Cameroon will gather Friday in Washington, DC to demonstrate against President Paul Biya just weeks after protests rocked the central… Read more »
March 11, 2008
Africa: Continent's Top Young Leaders Named
Twenty-three Africans are among 245 executives, scientists, journalists, sports stars and other public figures named by the World Economic Forum as "Young Global Leaders"… Read more »
Liberia: Next Prosecution Witness Called
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March 10, 2008
Liberia: Daily Wrap Up - Taylor Late Due to Security Search
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Liberia: Defense Continued Questioning Prosecution Payments to RUF Insider Witness
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Liberia: Taylor Arrives Late, Defense Questions RUF Insider on Time in Liberia, Payments By Court
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Africa: Americans Shouldn't Give Up on Africa
The news Americans hear about Africa these days is mostly bad – the periodic outbreak of violence, the worsening of the humanitarian crisis in Darfur, runaway inflation in… Read more »
March 07, 2008
Liberia: Defense Challenges Reliability of RUF Insider's Memory and Accuracy of Testimony
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Liberia: Defense Questions Reliability of Witness' Memory
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Liberia: RUF Insider Questioned About Executions at Mines
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Liberia: RUF Insider's Cross-Examination Continues
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Africa: Continent Needs World Trade Deal, Says WTO Chief
The first international trade negotiations which proclaim as one of their objectives reducing discrimination against developing countries in the global trading system are entering… Read more »
March 06, 2008
Liberia: Daily Wrap Up - After tales of killings, forced labor, arrests of UN peacekeepers
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Liberia: RUF Insider Tells of Diamond Mining, Killing of Recruits
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Liberia: RUF Insider Tells of Forced Marriages, Forced Labor, Arrest of Peacekeepers
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Liberia: RUF Commander Continues Testimony
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Southern Africa: European Trade Deal Challenges Unity
Trade talks between the European Union and southern African countries have opened up serious differences between Europe and South Africa, and between South Africa and her… Read more »
March 05, 2008
Liberia: Daily Wrap Up - RUF Commander Describes Brutality, Murders, Rapes
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March 04, 2008
Liberia: RUF Commander Testifies in Open Session
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Africa: Islamic Countries to Forge New Partnership
Several heads of state and more than 5,000 guests are expected in Dakar next week as Senegal hosts the 11th summit of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC). Read more »
March 03, 2008
Somalia: U.S. Targets al-Qaida in Airstrike
The United States bombed a town in southern Somalia on Monday in a strike on suspected terrorists, United States defense officials told news agencies. Six people are reported dead. Read more »
South Africa: Parliament Embraces France - For An Afternoon
AllAfrica staffer Verna Rainers blogs from South Africa's parliament on the unusual experience of a high-level French visit to the country. Read more »
Africa: France Promotes New Relationship With Continent
After a brief stop in Chad last week, President Nicolas Sarkozy of France went on to visit a country not traditionally part of the French area of influence in Africa – South… Read more »
February 28, 2008
Africa: France to Review, Publish Military Agreements
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has announced in the South African parliament that France will overhaul and publish full details of all its military agreements with African… Read more »