Ethiopia frees 38 opposition members
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Ethiopia on Friday freed 38 opposition members jailed this week for inciting violence, Prime Minister Meles Zenawi said, in a case critics say was politically motivated.
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Ethiopia has reduced its child mortality rate by 40 percent over the last 15 years, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said Wednesday.
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Sudanese authorities have arrested 14  members of an opposition Islamist party for plotting sabotage  after soliciting help from abroad, party officials and security  sources said on Wednesday.
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The party that has governed Botswana for the past 38 years has won another election by a landslide. The Botswana Democratic Party has taken 38 of the 50 parliamentary seats that have been declared so far, leaving
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A human rights organisation in Ethiopia said Wednesday that the government has been holding three of its members without charge for more than two weeks in the west of the country.
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Burma&#39;s junta has freed at least two dozen members of democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi&#39;s political party during a mass release of 4,000 people detained &quot;inappropriately&quot;.
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Kenya's opposition claimed victory on  Saturday in the presidential election but fears of rigging  after counting delays ignited ethnic violence across the east  African nation.
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Adams Oshiomhole, the head of Nigeria's main union body, is said to have been freed after his arrest on Saturday.
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Former Ethiopian leader Mengistu  Haile Mariam was found guilty in absentia of genocide on  Tuesday after a 12-year trial of one of Africa's bloodiest  governments.
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JOHANNESBURG - Zimbabwean police yesterday arrested 20 supporters of opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai after he was cleared of plotting to kill President Robert Mugabe, although most were later released, an opposition party official said.
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An Ethiopian court found exiled former ruler Mengistu Haile Mariam guilty in absentia of genocide on Tuesday, ending a 12-year trial.
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Cuba this week freed five of 75 of the independent journalists, opposition party members and rights activists sentenced to long terms in April 2003 after a crackdown on dissent.
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The country's military-backed 'emergency' rulers have arrested 20 major politicians since Sunday in the name of reform.
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Togo's government frees some 500 prisoners, after they were pardoned by President Eyadema.
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Ethiopia foiled an Eritrean-backed attack that had targeted the African Union summit attended by some 40 heads of states in Addis Ababa this week, an Ethiopian police statement said on Friday.
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Five members of a British embassy group missing for two weeks in a remote part of Ethiopia have been released and are safe and well, British Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett said Tuesday.
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KIGALI, Rwanda, July 16 -- An Ethiopian judge handed life sentences  instead of the death penalty to 30 of the country's top political opposition leaders Monday in a trial  the prisoners have called a sham.