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The Nigerian rebel group, Movement for Emancipation of the Niger Delta, stated on Wednesday that it wants peace talks before a ceasefire agreement.
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Despite readily available vaccines, death rate of sickle-cell anemia in African children remains to be a growing concern, researchers said Thursday.
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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton emphasized that her seven-country tour of Africa was intended to promote unity and democracy, fight corruption, and boost US investments in African trade and agriculture.
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There was great joy and relief in Switzerland this evening as news came through that Swiss national Werner Greiner, who had been held hostage by an al-Qaeda group in Mali since January, had been freed.
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Royal Dutch Shell has agreed to a $15.5 million out-of-court settlement in a case that accuses the company of complicity in human rights abuses in Niger Delta, Nigeria.
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Mali officials say that two Canadian diplomats held hostage by African militants were released on Wednesday. The two were held captive for four months.
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The United Nations said it is shutting down its Humanitarian Air Service in West Africa due to a serious lack of funding.
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The International Court of Justice in The Hague holds hearings in April, requested by Belgium, about Senegal 's refusal to extradite convicted war criminal and self-exiled former leader Hissène Habré, who was sentenced in absentia in Chad...
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Fifty-three million children under five are expected to be reached across eight West African countries in a coordinated polio immunization campaign.
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A Canadian company this week was granted exclusive uranium-prospecting licenses in two ecologically very sensitive nature reserves in Namibia in the Namib Naukluft Park. The local Nama tribal chief warns that mining would destroy their desert homeland.
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