'Friendly fire' an epidemic in S. Africa
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South Africans are killing relatives and acquaintances at an alarming rate, police said Wednesday, acknowledging traditional methods for battling crime do little to stem the tide.
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Nearly five years after the fall of   the Taliban in Afghanistan, Africa has emerged as a leading   front in a U.S. military campaign to deny al Qaeda a new safe   haven in the continent's vast, hard-to-govern regions.
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An escalation of ethnic violence is threatening to plunge the country into chaos.
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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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A deadly outbreak of hepatitis E in Sudan's Darfur region has spread rapidly, with the number of cases almost tripling in less than a month, the World Health Organization said.
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Nairobi, Kenya  - Amid fears that war could return to Africa&#39;s Great Lakes region following the massacre of 160 Congolese Tutsi refugees in Burundi, the African Union is pressing for the killings to be treated as a terrorist ...
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Many African countries now have more medics working abroad than they do at home, research shows.
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Nine South Africans were hospitalized for observation after coming into contact with a substance feared to be anthrax at the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry&#39;s Pretoria offices on Wednesday morning.
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In what may be a glimpse of things to come, some U.S.-backed local militias are starting to shoot at each other
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INSTABILITY is a way of life in West Africa, and Ivory Coast is the latest tragic example. A 2-year-old cease-fire, brokered by France, between Muslim rebels and the government of President Laurent Gbagbo
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The fighting between government troops and Congolese rebels has raised fears of a renewal of the warfare that broke out in August 1998.
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AIDS may be killing elected  officials in some Southern African countries faster than they  can be replaced, creating a new threat to democracy and  governance in the region, a new study said.
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African authorities are warning of a further disaster in Darfur as massive quantities of arms and ammunition pour into the region.
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South African President Thabo Mbeki is engaged in political fire-fighting in the Ivory Coast, where fears of a full-scale civil war between government and rebel forces loom large.
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South Africa and other African nations hard hit by AIDS should consider a mass campaign to circumcise males to help stem the spread of the epidemic, researchers at a major AIDS conference in South Africa said.
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David Rattray died in one of the senseless killings that have become all too common in crime-ravaged South Africa. Will his killing be a turning point in the nationâs fight against violence?
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African television and radio  stations are planning an on-air campaign to build hope in the  face of the AIDS pandemic, in a bid to raise spirits on the  worst-hit continent where millions have died from the disease.