Tanzanian envoy to South Africa attacked by robbers: police
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Tanzania's ambassador to South Africa and his wife were attacked by armed robbers at a farewell dinner hosted for them in the capital Pretoria, police said Saturday.
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Victim hit in chest after going to aid of security guard during robbery.
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JOHANNESBURG, Feb. 2 -- A series of attacks on prominent South Africans, including entertainers, business leaders and a renowned historian, has pushed a contentious, racially charged debate over crime to the center of the country's political agenda as lawmakers begin their new parliamentary year in...
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A U.N. military officer deployed to Sudan's war-ravaged Darfur region to support African Union peacekeepers has been killed by robbers at his residence in el-Fasher, an African Union spokesman said on Saturday.
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Police enter the Spanish consulate in the Swiss capital where intruders took several people hostage.
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NAIROBI -- An unimposing man known as Joe, alias Robertson Buili, alias Ndegwa, appeared about 2 p.m. at the Maxland Restaurant here, took a seat and ordered a warm beer. At least five bodyguards followed, and tailing them a few minutes behind, the area police chief.
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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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PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni ordered the arrest of the thugs who took hostage state minister Maria Mutagambaâs aides after security briefed him on the rescue plan.
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South Africa's tourist minister says crime may put off tourists visiting for the 2010 World Cup.
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Sudanese officials said Tuesday they were investigating a shooting attack on a vehicle carrying at least one diplomat in the capital.
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Somalia's independent Shabelle media house said government troops surrounded its Mogadishu office on Tuesday and opened fire at the building, wounding a security guard.
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The Nairobi residence of the newly elected Somali president is attacked by unknown gunmen.
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The Iranian and British consulates in the southern Iraqi city of Basra have come under attack, Iraqi police and British officials said.
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Khartoum - A group of 120 Nigerian pilgrims were attacked in Sudan&#39;s Darfur region, an official Sudanese newspaper said on Tuesday, after another report that 300 Nigerians were robbed on their way to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, last week.
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At least one gunman opened fire on the Israeli Embassy in Mauritania Friday, setting off a battle with guards that wounded one person, according to Israeli officials and witnesses.
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The Italian, German and U.S. Ambassadors to Sri Lanka were slightly injured on Tuesday when Tamil Tiger rebels shelled a delegation of diplomats led by the island's human rights minister, the military said.
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A gunman has opened fire on foreign tourists in the centre of the Jordanian capital, Amman, reports say.