Kibaki Urges Eradication of Landmines
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Groups campaigning against the eradication of landmines must not rest until all countries ratify the Mine Ban Treaty, President Mwai Kibaki said yesterday.
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Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo appealed for an end to the anti-French violence which erupted after France destroyed most of the country's air force in retaliation for the killing of nine French ...
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Opposition to restart protests against President Mwai Kibaki's disputed re-election
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Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki flew to Ethiopia on Thursday for an African summit likely to be dominated by the violence gripping his country.
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Kenya's opposition leader called Sunday for the African Union to send peacekeepers to stem violence sparked by the country's disputed presidential election.
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Kenya's President Mwai Kibaki offered to talk to political rivals on Thursday as corpses lay in the street and smoke rose from burning slums after a day of battles between police and anti-government protesters.
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BOGOTA -- Colombia's armed forces blew up 6,800 stockpiled land mines yesterday as President Alvaro Uribe, Queen Noor of Jordan, and dozens of mine blast victims watched on large screens, launching an effort aimed at ridding the country of the weapons.
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Bodies and debris lay in Kenyan streets on Tuesday as Western powers exerted pressure on President Mwai Kibaki to investigate his disputed re-election that has triggered days of riots killing around 150 people.
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Science & environment: Project billed as future model for responsible mining in developing world threatens biodiversity and increasing poverty, conservationists say.
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Few PSAs are as harrowing as the new work by the Brooklyn Brothers for the United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS), the organization devoted to ridding the world of landmines. One new spot, which you can see at www.stoplandmines.org, shows a bucolic afternoon gone haywire as a girl playing soccer steps on a mine, triggering a huge explosion and widespread panic. "If there were landmines here, would you stand for them anywhere?" asks onscreen copy.
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Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo  appealed for an end to the anti-French violence which erupted  after France destroyed most of the country's air force in  retaliation for the killing of nine French peacekeepers.
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More ground was cleared of landmines in 2005 than ever before, says a group monitoring use of the weapons.
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Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki opened an international landmine conference in Nairobi with a plea for countries to sign a treaty banning the bombs.
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Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has defended the use of landmines by weak countries countering aggression by stronger adversaries, and said the Ottawa treaty banning anti-personnel mines should be amended or scrapped.
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A mine in the Democratic  Republic of Congo that provided uranium for the U.S. atomic  bombs dropped on Japan in 1945 -- the first nuclear weapons  used in warfare -- is too dangerous to reopen, the United  Nations said on Tuesday.
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Former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan met Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki on Thursday to try to end a crisis over the nation's disputed election, after having persuaded the opposition to call off street protests.
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Anti-landmine activists meeting in Nairobi say the US is setting a  bad example by not joining a worldwide ban.