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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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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At the epicenter of a separatist war pitting impoverished nomads against one of the biggest armies in Africa, people said they had been brutalized by government troops.
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CAPETOWN, South Africa -- After two years of fragile peace, one of Africa's most volatile regions -- the border area of Rwanda and Congo -- has been pushed back to the brink of war, as Rwandan soldiers reportedly staged raids in eastern Congo and Congolese militias clashed with each other.
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loods have ravaged African nations including Ghana and Togo in the west, along with Sudan, Uganda, Somalia and Kenya in the central and eastern regions. At least 200 people have died and hundreds of thousands are displaced
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History today is not so much written by the victors as by the vanquished.
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Children clustered around the charred body, its features melted into an unrecognizable black mask. The man, accused of being a thief, was the fourth person to be burned alive this month in this western Kenyan city.
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The picture in Darfur is one of distress, denial and disappointment. Distress of people whose lives and livelihood have been destroyed, denial of responsibility by the Sudanese government and disappointment
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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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Annapolis, Md. - One can scarcely imagine any form of failure marching on these monument-laden grounds. It has, though, about as abject as it can get without live ammunition.
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Scarred by war and worn by time, the tumbledown wooden houses which dot Freetown are a vestige of the Krios, descendants of freed slaves who once made Sierra Leone a beacon of Western culture in Africa.
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On my last visit to the Darfur area in Sudan, in June, I found a man groaning under a tree. He had been shot in the neck and jaw and left for dead in a pile of corpses.
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UN forces hold off a rebel advance in the wake of a failed offensive by government forces.
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'Blood Diamond' tries to mix African politics and action.
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Smaller but mightier than its neighbors, Rwanda&#39;s greatest clout may come from its nightmare past: a widespread sense around the world that the country was largely abandoned
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At the age of 3, Aduei Riak began traveling across Africa, going from country to country looking for refuge from the civil war that had erupted in her homeland the year before she was born.
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Abu is not sure exactly how old he was the first time he killed.