Jacob Zuma, the president of the governing African National Congress, is taking a third wife, according to local press accounts.

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The Lord’s Resistance Army, a rebel group, killed at least 12 people in northeastern Congo, officials said Tuesday.

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As people in Mogadishu, Somalia, watched the first convoy of trucks head toward the Ethiopian border on Friday, many said they feared what would happen next.

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The decision from the U.S. came hours after the new military junta acknowledged that it had arrested several generals who had been forced into retirement after a coup last month.

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President Bush has authorized an immediate airlift of vehicles and equipment to bolster the international peacekeeping mission in the conflict-torn Darfur region of western Sudan.

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A sustained Israeli operation in Gaza would sharply raise public pressure to do more to help the Palestinians there.

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Kenya and Uganda plan to build a new railway from the Indian Ocean port of Mombasa to cope with increased trade among the East African countries and their landlocked neighbors, officials said.

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John Atta Mills of the opposition National Democratic Congress party narrowly won a runoff vote for the presidency of Ghana, electoral officials announced Saturday.

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The Ebola virus, which causes a deadly hemorrhagic fever, has surfaced for the second time in less than two years in south-central Congo.

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President Robert Mugabe has started preparations to form a new government, firing a dozen ministers from his party to clear the way for a new cabinet, state news media reported Saturday.

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