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africa.reuters.com
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Some 3,200 miners were trapped deep underground in a South African gold mine on Wednesday and a union spokesman said they could be suffocating.
The miners at the Elandsrand mine were caught about 2.2 km down after a power cable to a lift broke at aroun..
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CNN
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At the only hospital in the capital of this tiny West African nation, a 3-year-old AIDS patient named Suleiman receives his daily dose of medication -- a murky brown concoction of seven herbs and spices served out of a bottle that once contained pancake s..
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Reuters
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Chinese President Hu Jintao on Saturday pledged to double his country's assistance to the African continent by 2009, and proposed a raft of new loans, development projects in health and agriculture, and debt cancellations...
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BBC News
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Militias backing Sudan's government have killed at least 63 people in attacks in Darfur in the past week, African peacekeepers say...
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BBC News
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African and European politicians are meeting in the Ghanaian capital Accra to discuss how to stem the illegal flow of African migrants to Europe.
One plan is to publicise in Africa the stories of hazardous journeys to Europe, in the hope of persuading..
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MSNBC
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African peacekeepers
On Air Force One en route from Tanzania, White House press secretary Dana Perino said that Bush will announce the availability of $100 million to train and provide equipment for African peacekeepers, who will deploy to Darfur. She..
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SF Gate
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South African President Thabo Mbeki received a stinging rebuff Sunday from supporters of his bitter rival, Jacob Zuma, in the lead-up to a crucial leadership vote at the national conference of the ruling African National Congress.
Moments after Mbeki's..
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CNN
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More African countries should send peacekeepers to Somalia, where an Islamic insurgency has killed thousands of civilians this year, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Wednesday. Rice was in the Ethiopian capital, where the African Union is headquar..
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BBC News
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South African mine workers are holding a one-day strike in protest at poor safety in the country's mines.
Some 240,000 people were expected to take part in the first countrywide stoppage by miners over safety issues.
In Johannesburg, protesters are..
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CNN
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A judge in Chad on Friday freed three Spanish flight crew members who had been detained for allegedly plotting to kidnap African children from the impoverished central African country, a senior Spanish foreign ministry spokesman told CNN. The three Spania..
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CNN
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Mozambique's former President Joaquim Chissano, who brought peace and democracy to his country, won the first Mo Ibrahim Prize Monday for achievement in African leadership. Chissano wins a cash award of US$5 million -- a prize intended to encourage Africa..
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BBC News
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South African prosecutors have said they have obtained an arrest warrant for national police chief Jackie Selebi, but will not act on it yet.
The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) said the warrant would not be executed until its new acting director..
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BBC News
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Rescuers are slowly bringing to the surface thousands of workers trapped for hours in a South African gold mine.
More than 3,000 men became trapped 2.2km (1.4 miles) underground when a broken pipe severed power cables to a lift early on Wednesday.
B..
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BBC News
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Aid agencies have started appealing for funds to assist people hit by the floods in several African countries.
United Nations agencies are seeking extra funds for Uganda, where the government has declared an emergency.
The British Red Cross has laun..
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Los Angeles Times
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JUST WHEN IT SEEMED that Western images of Africa could not get any weirder, the July 2007 special Africa issue of Vanity Fair was published, complete with a feature article on "Madonna's Malawi." At the same time, the memoirs of an African child soldier..
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USA Today
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Though Sudan has accepted the notion of a joint U.N.-African Union peacekeeping force in Darfur, the operation could still be derailed by a lack of funding and political will, African Union chairman Alpha Oumar Konare said Sunday.
"What is lacking toda..
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BBC News
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The African Union summit has opened in Accra, Ghana, focusing this year on the idea of a pan-African government.
Libya's Colonel Muammar Gaddafi is championing the idea, but correspondents say many African leaders do not support his initiative.
Ther..
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BBC News
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African countries have agreed a deal on the immediate future of the ivory trade.
Southern African nations will be permitted a further one-off sale of legally-acquired ivory from stockpiles, with funds going for conservation.
No further sales will th..
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BBC News
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African nations failed to find a compromise on the ivory trade after negotiations continued into the early hours at a wildlife trade meeting.
Southern African countries want to expand ivory exports, other nations want a complete ban for many years...
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CNN
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African nations struggled to find a compromise Monday for managing the ivory trade and elephant populations, which are exploding in some countries on the continent and being poached to their limits in others.
European mediators at the talks suggested t..
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