CONGO PRESIDENT VOWS TO KEEP COUNTRY UNITED
By SALEH MWANAMILONGO Congolese soldiers look into Rwandan territory from an outpost in territory retaken last week from M23 rebels, north of Goma, Congo, Friday, Sept. 6, 2013. The South…
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POLICE: 15 DIE AFTER BLASTS HIT SOMALIA RESTAURANT
By ABDI GULED Somali soldiers look at the bodies of some of those who were killed in a suicide and car bomb blasts at a restaurant in Mogadishu, Somalia, Saturday,…
RWANDAN TANKS, ARTILLERY SEEN MOVING TOWARD CONGO
By SALEH MWANAMILONGO and RUKMINI CALLIMACHI CORRECTS DATE – A Rwandan armored vehicle with soldiers on top drives past residents of Kigali, Rwanda Friday Aug. 30, 2013 as it heads…
CONGO CONFLICT SPILLS OVER INTO RWANDA
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KENYA: RADICAL MUSLIM CLERIC DEATH STILL A MYSTERY
By TOM ODULA FILE- In this file photo of Friday Nov. 21, 2003, Aboud Rogo Mohammed, talks to his 8-year-old son, Khubaid Aboud, in the Nairobi High Court. A Kenyan government…
CONGO SOLDIERS, UN FORCES BATTLE M23 REBELS
By NICK LONG Residents carry the body of a person killed hours earlier when a rocket struck a home, as they take to the streets in protest over recent violence,…
YEAR AFTER LEADER DIES, ETHIOPIA IS LITTLE CHANGED
By KIRUBEL TADESSE Ethiopian prime minister Hailemariam Dessalegni and Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir chat during the the first year anniversary ceremonyof the death of long-time ruler Meles Zenawi in Addis…
AP NAMES KENNEDY NEWS DIRECTOR FOR SOUTH ASIA
The Associated Press chief of bureau for Lebanon and Syria Elizabeth Kennedy is shown in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2013. AP has named Kennedy to the new position…