Disease Stages Revival in Rebel-Held Ivory Coast
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ODIENNE, Ivory Coast  - A battered pick-up truck  weighed down by a dozen passengers sitting on sacks of mangoes  crawls though a checkpoint and enters Ivory Coast's rebel zone.
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Johannesburg - Ivory Coast rebels were on Friday due to hold a second day of talks with South African leader and mediator Thabo Mbeki on their proposals for a new peace plan after a very encouraging start, according to Pretoria.
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Polio has spread to two more African  countries where it had been eradicated, Guinea and Mali,  highlighting the risk of a major outbreak across west and  central Africa, international campaigners said on Tuesday.
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JOHANNESBURG  - Ivory Coast rebels wrapped up a two-day meeting with South African leader and mediator Thabo Mbeki on proposals for a new peace plan, with both sides expressing optimism in a speedy process.
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South African President Thabo Mbeki flew to Ivory Coast on Tuesday to launch an African effort to rein in four days of violence that have killed at least 20 people, wounded more than 600 and shut down cocoa exports from the world's largest producer.
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DAKAR, Senegal The news reports streaming out of Abidjan, Ivory Coast&#39;s once-shining metropolis, seem like a throwback to a bygone era: white men and women cowering in their homes, black men and women rampaging through the streets, European soldiers
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ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast -- Rebel fighters clashed with government troops, and warplanes struck rebel positions in the north yesterday, escalating hostilities a day after army hard-liners broke a cease-fire and relaunched Ivory Coast's civil war after more than a year of relative peace.
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KINSHASA, Congo, Sept. 3 -- Two hospitals, named for two mothers. One is mired in the past; the other represents beaten-down Congo's hopes for a better future.
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BOUAKE, Ivory Coast - President Thabo Mbeki on Sunday arrived in the central Ivory Coast rebel stronghold of Bouake, where he received a rousing welcome as a potential peacemaker in the divided country.
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BWEFUM, Tanzania, Feb. 18 -- Not all that long ago, Mininyi Othman showed up at his clinic in this tiny village each morning to find a row of feverish people waiting on the bench outside. Malaria was ravaging his community. Now he has so few patients, his clinic was empty on Monday afternoon and he...
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The west African state of Cameroon launched a campaign to vaccinate four million children against polio, a disease once thought eradicated here but feared again because of outbreaks in neighbouring states.
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Government warplanes bombed the largest city in Ivory Coast&#39;s rebel-held north twice on Thursday in what a government military commander said was the launch of a new offensive to reunite the war-divided nation.
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All sides in Ivory Coast&#39;s conflict have agreed on measures to revive a moribund peace plan and speed up its implementation, South African President Thabo Mbeki said on Monday at the end of a mediation mission.
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TRENTON, NJ -- A New Jersey man who recently returned from a trip to Liberia died last week of an illness that had not been detected in the United States since 1989, but is common in West Africa.
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Ivory Coast's rebels pledged on Monday to drive President Laurent Gbagbo's army back to the main city Abidjan if it attacks their territory again, raising the specter of all-out war in the West African country.
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YAMOUSSOUKRO, Ivory Coast  - Two years ago Ivory  Coast's rival forces traded only gunshots and grenades as they  fought a civil war for control of the West African state.
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Deforestation and climate change are returning the mosquito-borne disease to parts of Peru after 40 years.