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  • S. Sudan insists UPDF must withdraw 5 Jul 2008 22:15 GMT
    ... verification exercise the other members from five African countries confronted the UPDF members with the ... members with the evidence. The CHMT comprises military officers from Republic of South Africa, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, Southern Sudan ...

  • Protests as G8 gathers for diplomacy 5 Jul 2008 17:13 GMT
    ... from soaring food and fuel prices to African poverty and global warming amid doubts about ... her sister said. Agence France-Presse HARARE - Zimbabwe's political impasse looks set to drag on ... in the city. AFP BOGOTA - Colombia's military showed for the first time Friday a ...

  • Film shows unfairness in Zimbabwe vote 5 Jul 2008 16:30 GMT
    ... JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) — A Zimbabwe prison officer has used a hidden camera ... study says. BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombian military intelligence agents posing as aid workers and ...

  • Zimbabwe's political crisis set to drag on: analysts 5 Jul 2008 16:12 GMT
    ... 84-year-old Mugabe escaped serious censure at an African Union summit this week which instead ended ... the head of the Media Institute of Southern Africa-Zimbabwe (MISA-Zimbabwe). Takavafira Zhou of the Great Zimbabwe ... not have," Masunungure said. Mbeki, the 14-nation Southern African Development Community (SADC)'s main mediator on the ...

  • Senator Jesse Helms dies 5 Jul 2008 13:15 GMT
    ... opposing international aid programmes as "pouring money down foreign rat holes", and avidly supporting military juntas in Latin America and minority white regimes in Southern Africa. In domestic politics he denounced the 1964 Civil Rights Act as "the single most ...

  • 'Senator No' waged tough battles 5 Jul 2008 12:35 GMT
    ... some in his last years, lobbying for African children orphaned by AIDS, a disease he ... was El Salvador's Roberto d'Aubuisson, a rightist paramilitary leader identified by the State Department as ... to back the white apartheid regimes in southern Africa. Helms also supported Chilean dictator Augusto ...

  • On a continent where despotism is rife, few leaders willing to cast a stone at Mugabe 5 Jul 2008 10:52 GMT
    ... cast a stone at Mugabe JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) -- Nigeria. Rwanda. Uganda. Ethiopia. Gabon. ... have managed to avoid international condemnation include Angola, which hasn't held a presidential election since ... is "the single greatest challenge ... in southern Africa, not only because of its terrible humanitarian ...

  • Civilians killed in air strike, Afghan governor says 5 Jul 2008 09:57 GMT
    ... civilians leaving their villages ahead of a military operation against Taliban insurgents. AFPAcknowledge my victory, ... of talks with his opponents on ending Zimbabwe's political crisis yesterday unless they acknowledged his ... of supporters after flying home from an African Union summit, Mr. Mugabe said opposition leader ...

  • African leaders don't dare cast stones at Mugabe 5 Jul 2008 09:54 GMT
    ... Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe addresses supporters Friday after ... Harare from Egypt, where he attended the African Union summit. (AP) While Robert Mugabe has been singled ... have managed to avoid international condemnation include Angola, which hasn’t held a presidential election since ...

  • South Sudan President Kiir orders Uganda army to withdraw 5 Jul 2008 08:09 GMT
    ... verification exercise the other members from five African countries including the SPLA members confronted the ... the evidences. The CHMT membership comprises of military officers from a number of African countries ... include Republic of South Africa, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, Southern Sudan ...

  • To be recognised at last, the Swiss VC hero of Wales' most heroic stand: Rorke's Drift 5 Jul 2008 07:58 GMT
    ... the Natal border with Zululand in South Africa a tiny British garrison of 139 men - many of ... and conspicuous by the badge of his military unit, a red rag twisted around his ... had to be buried at sea off Angola. He was just 28. One of his ...

  • West condemns Mugabe, but ignores other Africa despots 5 Jul 2008 07:37 GMT
    ... JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- Nigeria. Rwanda. Uganda. Ethiopia. Gabon. Robert ... have managed to avoid international condemnation include Angola, which hasn't held a presidential election since ... is "the single greatest challenge ... in southern Africa, not only because of its terrible humanitarian ...

  • Military behind Mugabe crackdown 5 Jul 2008 07:36 GMT
    ... HARARE, Zimbabwe -- President Robert Mugabe called his top ... direct knowledge of the meeting. But Zimbabwe's military chief, Gen. Constantine Chiwenga, said the choice ... for security reasons. Mugabe's party, the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front, took power in 1980. ...

  • Report: Mugabe was ready to step down 5 Jul 2008 07:26 GMT
    ... HARARE, Zimbabwe - President Robert Mugabe summoned his top ... direct knowledge of the meeting. But Zimbabwe's military chief, General Constantine Chiwenga, responded that the ... that have taken hold in some other African nations born from anticolonial independence movements. Mugabe's ...

  • West slams Mugabe, ignores other despots 5 Jul 2008 07:17 GMT
    ... JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Nigeria. Rwanda. Uganda. Ethiopia. Gabon. Robert ... have managed to avoid international condemnation include Angola, which hasn't held a presidential election since ... is "the single greatest challenge … in southern Africa, not only because of its terrible humanitarian ...

  • Letter: I have been following African politics for a very long time 5 Jul 2008 06:30 GMT
    ... he is wrong. I have been following African politics for a very long time. During my ... 1970s, when the Cuban soldiers were in Angola helping the MPLA led by Dr Augustino ... army and other administrative officials out of Mozambique and Angola. I would like Mr Louden ...

  • Eyewitnesses detail Zimbabwe's repression 5 Jul 2008 06:17 GMT
    ... 07/04/2008 10:34:29 PM CDT Zimbabwe — President Robert Mugabe summoned his top ... direct knowledge of the meeting. But Zimbabwe's military chief, Gen. Constantine Chiwenga, responded that the ... that have taken hold in some other African nations born from anti-colonial independence movements. ...

  • Zambia: Government And France Deny Mwanawasa Death Rumours 5 Jul 2008 04:33 GMT
    ... Zambia's chief government spokesman Mike Mulongoti has denied ... government spokesman Mike Mulongoti has denied South African media reports that President Levy Mwanawasa had ... He was later transferred to the Percy military hospital in Paris. On Thursday South Africa's ...

  • Government And France Deny Mwanawasa Death Rumours 5 Jul 2008 04:33 GMT
    ... Zambia's chief government spokesman Mike Mulongoti has denied ... government spokesman Mike Mulongoti has denied South African media reports that President Levy Mwanawasa had ... He was later transferred to the Percy military hospital in Paris. On Thursday South Africa's ...

  • Brangelina's £11m bump: How the couple are planning to turn their twins into the most lucrative newborns ever 5 Jul 2008 01:59 GMT
    ... be planning to adopt another child from Africa after the birth of her twins, which will ... turned into a virtual fortress with her military-trained security force - which amounts to a ... flew to a remote desert town in Namibia for her birth. And even before the ...

  • Zimbabwe: How an angry prison officer with a secret camera shamed a tyrant 4 Jul 2008 23:31 GMT
    ... a first-hand visual account of life in Zimbabwe under Robert Mugabe. What he did not ... gangs or members of the police and military. Thousands more have been severely beaten, many ... is critical of Thabo Mbeki, the South African president: "The person who let us down, ...

  • Casualties of war 4 Jul 2008 23:30 GMT
    ... former apartheid-era intelligence officer in the South African military. He left the company in 2003 to ... leader of the UNITA rebel forces in Angola, and was replaced by former SAS officer Alastair ... military of dubious legality that fought in Namibia to prevent it achieving independence and whose ...

  • Betancourt arrives in France with tears of joy 4 Jul 2008 21:10 GMT
    ... campaigned against a constitution proposed by the military government have been jailed for one year. ... and Jews are nearly nonexistent. JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) — Nigeria. Rwanda. Uganda. Ethiopia. Gabon. ... Uganda. Ethiopia. Gabon. Robert Mugabe's regime in Zimbabwe has plenty of competitors for the title ...

  • Brangelina twins will always have Nice 4 Jul 2008 21:10 GMT
    ... campaigned against a constitution proposed by the military government have been jailed for one year. ... and Jews are nearly nonexistent. JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) — Nigeria. Rwanda. Uganda. Ethiopia. Gabon. ... Uganda. Ethiopia. Gabon. Robert Mugabe's regime in Zimbabwe has plenty of competitors for the title ...

  • » Not so unusual for Africa? 4 Jul 2008 20:55 GMT
    ... he is far from the only long-serving African leader with a questionable rights record. As the 84-year-old ... in February 2003. From Mugabe's own region, Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos has ruled ... Ethiopia's military action against Islamists in Somalia. Swaziland, not far from Zimbabwe's border, meanwhile is ...


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