The exploitation of a tin mine is emblematic of the deadly role that Congo’s natural wealth has played in its misery.

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A harrowing account suggests that the sinking of a Thai fishing trawler in the Gulf of Aden was a case of mistaken identity.

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The mediator said that the only thing left was planning the transfer of money and handover of the ship, which was captured by Somali pirates two months ago.

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Soldiers recently wrested control of the streets from armed Christian and Muslim gangs that had roamed the city, in the worst religious violence Nigeria has seen in four years.

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The opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai, declared his relationship with the mediator Thabo Mbeki, the recently ousted South African president, irretrievably broken.

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Robert Mugabe kept three members of the Elders, founded by Nelson Mandela, out of his country, but they gave him and other leaders an earful about Zimbabwe’s crisis.

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A southern African regional court in Namibia ruled that 78 white Zimbabweans could keep their farms, saying the government’s land reallocation policy was racially motivated.

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A rebel offensive to expel some of the perpetrators of Rwanda’s 1994 genocide prompted more than 3,000 civilians to flee eastern Congo to neighboring Uganda in a single day.

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Thabo Mbeki’s government could have prevented the premature deaths of 365,000 people, a new study says.

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The bureaucratic and legal gears of Europe’s effort to respond to pirate attacks are proving to be not as swift as the hijackers, as Somali pirates captured another ship.

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