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Resentment and Rations as Eritrea Nears a Crisis
Facing rising prospects of war with Ethiopia and increasing tensions with the West, Eritrea has hit its most difficult point since winning its hard-fought independence 14 years ago.
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For most Ivorians, little has improved since rebels signed a peace pact in March ending a five-year war.
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For each sub-Saharan African who was placed on anti-AIDS drugs last year, experts say, five more were newly infected.
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Former President Charles G. Taylor of Liberia is on trial on charges of backing rebels who plunged Sierra Leone into civil war.
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Ethiopia has become a hot spot for international adoption, but the sudden popularity comes with risks, officials say.
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Largely confined to a sprinkling of islands off South Africa?s tip, the African penguin, the continent?s only native penguin, is endangered.
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Advertisements by the Save Darfur Coalition strained relationships with aid groups working on the ground.
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For the first time in Nigeria?s coup-riddled history, power passed between two civilians, as the army hailed the new president, Umaru Yar?Adua, with a 21-gun salute.
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Since a disastrous blast at a munitions depot in Maputo, Mozambique on March 22, some residents fear that the depot will again explode due to government neglect.
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In a tradition-bound nation, women are emerging as an economic and political force unheard of in the rest of the Arab world.
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The renaming of Durban?s landmarks has become a political brouhaha of the first order, and an object lesson in the pitfalls of building South African democracy.
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