KIBATI, Congo, Dec. 1, 2008 (Reuters) — Congolese Tutsi rebels withdrew on Monday from an eastern border town in what they said was a gesture to persuade President Joseph Kabila's government to open peace talks with them. ... > full story
BOSASSO, Somalia, Dec. 1, 2008 (Reuters) — Somali pirates have agreed to release a Yemeni cargo ship without ransom after successful negotiations between the hijackers, local elders and a Yemeni official, a local official said Monday. ... > full story
BAGHDAD, Dec. 1, 2008 (Reuters) — Blasts at Baghdad's police academy and in the northern city of Mosul killed 30 people and wounded dozens more on Monday, hours after a roadside bomb wounded a senior Iraqi official, police said. ... > full story
BAGHDAD, Dec. 1, 2008 (Reuters) — Blasts at Baghdad's police academy and in the northern city of Mosul killed 29 people and wounded dozens more Monday, hours after a roadside bomb wounded a senior Iraqi official, police said. ... > full story
JOS, Nigeria, Dec. 1, 2008 (Reuters) — Authorities in the central Nigerian town of Jos may relax a curfew Monday after the army quelled clashes between Muslim and Christian gangs which killed hundreds of people. ... > full story
JOMBA, Congo, Nov. 29, 2008 (Reuters) — Congolese Tutsi rebel leader General Laurent Nkunda threatened war Saturday unless Congo's government entered a new round of talks with him. ... > full story
JOS, Nigeria, Nov. 29, 2008 (Reuters) — More than 200 bodies have been brought to the main mosque in the Nigerian city of Jos following ethnic and religious clashes and the final death toll is likely to be much higher, the Red Cross said on Saturday. ... > full story
BAGHDAD, Nov. 29, 2008 (Reuters) — The Iraqi army unearthed 30 decomposed bodies in a series of shallow graves in northern Iraq's volatile Diyala province, the army said on Saturday. ... > full story
KINSHASA, Nov. 28, 2008 (Reuters) — A U.N. special envoy met Congo's president on Friday in a fresh attempt to negotiate peace with Tutsi rebels, but the warring sides seemed far apart on how to end their festering conflict in the country's east. ... > full story
ADDIS ABABA, Nov. 28, 2008 (Reuters) — Ethiopia said on Friday it would withdraw its troops from Somalia by the end of this year, piling pressure on Somalia's feuding government and African nations that had promised to send peacekeepers. ... > full story
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Pirate ransom agreed on Dec. 1, 2008 (Press Democrat, Santa Rosa, CA) — The saga over a pirated Ukrainian freighter stuffed with weapons may finally be coming to an end.. . Andrew Mwangura, who as head of a Kenyan ...
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Pirates okay ransom for Ukrainian ship Dec. 1, 2008 (Toronto Sun) — Somali pirates have agreed on a ransom for a Ukrainian freighter carrying tanks and other heavy weapons and it could be released within days, a ...
Somali pirates to release Yemeni cargo ship without ransom Dec. 1, 2008 (GulfNews, United Arab Emirates) — A Yemeni cargo ship hijacked by Somali pirates is due to be released without ransom following negotiations between hijackers, local elders and ...
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