March 10, 2008
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 »
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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March 07, 2008
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 »
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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March 06, 2008
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 »
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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March 05, 2008
Liberia: Daily Wrap Up - RUF Commander Describes Brutality, Murders, Rapes
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March 04, 2008
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 »
Liberia: RUF Commander Testifies in Open Session
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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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
February 27, 2008
Liberia: Taylor Taken From Trial to Hospital
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February 26, 2008
Nigeria: Amnesty Report Condemns Prison Abuses
The rights of Nigerian prisoners are "systematically violated," Amnesty International, a leading human rights advocacy organization, argues in a scathing report on the… Read more »
Africa: Kosovo Revives Hopes for Secession
The recognition of Kosovo by some of the West’s major powers is boosting the hopes of secessionist movements across Africa, judging by their websites. Read more »
Liberia: Cross-Examination of Radio Operator Foday Lansana Continues
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