Innocence Lost, on a Battlefield Somewhere in Africa
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âEzraâ is a scorching portrait of an African child who is kidnapped and turned into a soldier for a rebel militia.
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Thirteen people have perished on board a makeshift boat as they attempted a perilous voyage, in search of a new life. The victims were from Africa.
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Looting, arson and murder have become hallmarks of Kenya's conflict over a disputed presidential election. Another, less talked about tactic in the violence that has degenerated into ethnic clashes: rape.
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BERAHILE, Ethiopia  - The mysterious kidnapping of five Europeans and eight locals has put the international spotlight on a remote, barren and searingly hot corner of Ethiopia left behind by the modern world.
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The fighting between government troops and Congolese rebels has raised fears of a renewal of the warfare that broke out in August 1998.
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IRBIL, Iraq -- He was promised a straight shot to heaven and 72 maidens to wait on him once he got there, but Hoshir Sabir Hasan was not ready to die.
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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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The smoldering civil war in Ivory Coast - a two-year, on-again off-again conflict between the government and northern rebels
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As rebels, soldiers and pro-government militia fight on, civilians pay the price
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DAMAN, Mali  - Lying in the shade of an acacia tree, Malik Kulubali recalls a distant time when lions prowled the villages of southern Mali and the capital Bamako was little more than a village.
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Nine dead after AA gun goes haywire South Africa authorities are investigating how nine soldiers were killed and 15 injured during a training exercise when an anti-aircraft gun went haywire.â¦
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JOHANNESBURG Say &quot;Africa&quot; and what comes to mind? The genocide in Darfur, Sudan, or the HIV-AIDS epidemic affecting some 30 million Africans, or the violence in the Ivory Coast, a country once considered an oasis of calm on a calamity-stricken continent?
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NAIVASHA, Kenya -- Benson Onyango slipped behind the door of his house, terrified as he watched about two dozen young men chase his friend down the dirt paths of their neighborhood in this lakeside town. His friend stumbled to the ground, and the gang began beating him with clubs and iron bars.
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"You drop on the top of some mountain somewhere in some tiny little village in the middle of the night, and it's pitch-black all around you," Lara Logan remembers. "When you land, it's like the ground rises up to devour you, and from intelligence you know there are people with weapons in that village &#151; and they may or may not be ready to attack."
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Dinka men once danced in a green field here in Darfur. A weave of drum rhythms would rise with the smoke of their twilight bonfires.
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U.S. soldiers have seen a sudden lull in violence in a neighorhood that has been a hotbed of sectarian attacks. Now the unnerving question is: Where is the enemy?
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When the populist politician Pim Fortuyn was assassinated two years ago, it was said the Netherlands had lost its innocence. By comparison, film maker Theo van Gogh&#39;s murder has evoked sensations of dÃ©jÃ  vu, rather than disbelief.