Central African Republic frees 17 rebels
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The government Wednesday freed 17 people who had been arrested for rebel activities, following the terms of a peace accord that aims to return the restive nation to stability after more than a year of sporadic insurgency.
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Tuareg rebels who ambushed a Malian army base last week agree a truce and promise to free captured soldiers.
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A court on Thursday convicted three IRA-linked men of training Colombian rebels in terrorist tactics and sentenced them to up to 17 1/2 years in prison.
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A final group of rebel field commanders arrived from the wartorn western Sudanese province of Darfur, clearing the way for the start of formal peace negotiations with the Khartoum government.
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Congo&#39;s government has announced that forces loyal to Kinshasa have ousted gunmen that seized a southern mining town earlier this week, killing 30 rebels.
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At least 17 people, mostly women and children, were killed in Democratic Republic of Congo when a passenger ferry sank on Lake Tanganyika, but around 120 people survived, a senior official said on Wednesday.
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Seventeen Afghans were released Thursday from a U.S. base at the center of an investigation into the deaths of two prisoners in custody, the international Red Cross said.
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Members of a small rebel faction signed a peace deal with the Central African Republic government, state radio reported Saturday, but the main rebel coalition's military chief rejected it.
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The first group of Ugandan rebels have turned up at a neutral camp in southern Sudan as part of a truce to end 19 years of conflict with the government, the chief mediator said Monday.
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Gunmen who kidnapped 30 people at a Red Crescent office in Baghdad on Sunday have freed 17 hostages, an official of the humanitarian group said on Monday.
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MONROVIA  - UN peacekeepers arrested a dissident rebel leader and seized weapons in a clampdown on the Liberian capital on the last day of a campaign to disarm fighters in the west African state.
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Former rebels in the restive Central African Republic have signed a pact with the UN children&#39;s agency for the demobilisation of hundreds of child soldiers, state radio said Sunday.
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Bolstered by French and African support, government forces in the Central African Republic recaptured a northeastern town from rebels without incident, rebels and French officials said.
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Left-wing Farc rebels in Colombia have killed 17 soldiers in an ambush the north-east of the country, the army says.
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Rebels fighting government forces in Chad said they had withdrawn from the capital Monday to allow the civilian population the chance to escape.
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The first group of Ugandan LRA rebels reach an assembly point in southern Sudan - agreed under a truce.
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KHARTOUM, Sudan  - Fighting near a village in Sudan's crisis-plagued Darfur region killed at least 17 people Monday, while helicopters rescued dozens of workers who fled into the bush to escape.