Ugandan parents await abductees
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Dozens of people abducted by a Ugandan rebel group are due to be flown home, hoping to be reunited with families.
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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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Ugandan police are holding a Ghanaian preacher over a stage magic device they fear may dupe people into believing they have experienced miracles.
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The Ugandan vanguard of an African peacekeeping force intended to help Somalia's interim government tighten its tenuous grip on the anarchic nation flew into the country on Thursday, witnesses said.
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Both the rebels and Uganda's government say they are ready to talk to end a brutal, 18-year conflict.
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The grim monotony of waiting had been punctuated only by stomach-churning sounds &#151; the clatter of gunfire, the boom of grenade launchers. Then came an announcement that gripped parents with a forgotten emotion: Hope.
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PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria  - Contacts began on Friday to try to win the release of a British toddler seized by kidnappers who have threatened to kill her unless they are paid ransom.
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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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Relatives of 'disappeared' fighters hope the International Criminal Court will investigate.
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N'DJAMENA  - The leader of a French aid group accused of trying to kidnap 103 African children in Chad told a court on Friday France's government had known from the start about the group's plans to rescue war orphans from Darfur.
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As talks with North Korea progress, families fear Japanese citizens snatched 30 years ago are forgotten
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UK officials attempt to obtain access to the site where five Britons were kidnapped in Ethiopia.
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Â· Alleged kidnappers posed as police to snatch family  Â· Prosthetic disguises used to hide faces, jury hears
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Liverpool - The family of a British engineer anxiously awaited news on Friday of his fate at the hands of Islamic extremists in Iraq who abducted him eight days ago along with two Americans who have since been executed.
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The first camp for people displaced by Uganda's civil war is set to close, in a sign of improved security.
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The kidnapping and torture of  children by a Uganda religious sect was high on the list of a  new United Nations appeal on Thursday for the world's forgotten  tragedies.
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The parents of the missing four-year-old Madeleine McCann said today they were clinging on to the hope that their daughter was safe and being looked after by someone who wanted a child of their own.