Sierra Leone Holds Aid Workers for Child Smuggling
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Police in Sierra Leone have arrested  the head of a local aid agency suspected of helping to smuggle  29 children out of the country for adoption in the United  States, a senior police official said on Monday.
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The Mauritanian Red Crescent delivered a ton of emergency humanitarian aid Tuesday to hundreds of illegal immigrants stranded on a ship off the West African coast.
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The United Nations Children's Fund confirmed a case in Indonesia of trafficking in children orphaned or separated from parents by the Indian Ocean tsunami as ravaged countries were warned to be on high alert for kidnappers.
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Armed gangs are seizing children for ransom in the Central African Republic, Amnesty International says.
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Sudanese officials said the aid workers - three from the UN World Food Programme and five from the Sudanese Red Crescent â-ad been kidnapped by rebels waging an 18 month insurgency against the government.
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The United Nations Children's Fund  confirmed a case in Indonesia of trafficking in children  orphaned or separated from parents by the Indian Ocean tsunami  as ravaged countries were warned to be on high alert for  kidnappers.
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The United Nations said on Tuesday it  was concerned children orphaned or separated from their parents  by Asia's tsunami may be falling prey to criminal gangs bent on  selling them into slavery.
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Thirteen people are held during dawn raids by police targeting two human-smuggling rings.
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Recent fighting in eastern DR Congo has led to a surge in child abductions by armed groups, a charity says.
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The United Nations said on Tuesday it was concerned children orphaned or separated from their parents by Asia's tsunami may be falling prey to criminal gangs bent on selling them into slavery.
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From Monday, people all over the world  can become virtual neighbors to the residents of a Sierra Leone  slum, plagued by infant mortality and rampant disease, through  an Internet campaign by the charity Save the Children.
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FREETOWN : UN peacekeepers were handing over charge of security for Freetown to Sierra Leone&#39;s nascent police and armed forces, the latest step in a staggered withdrawal after a five-year mission to restore calm to the west African state.
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A Sierra Leonean naval patrol catches Guinean military personnel robbing fishing boats of their catch.
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The head of an international charity's operations in Iraq was seized by kidnappers today.
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A human rights group has accused government forces of aiding a militia in the kidnapping of children.
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Eritrea has arrested some United  Nations staff working for a peacekeeping mission in Eritrea and  Ethiopia on accusations that they tried to smuggle young people  out of the country, the government's Web site said.
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BAGHDAD - Foreign aid workers have bolted their doors, hired more guards and installed spy cameras outside their offices here, and are considering whether to quit Iraq altogether following the kidnapping of two relief workers.