Protesters dispersed; Africa tensions mount
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TOGO LOME -- Security forces used tear gas and batons to scatter hundreds of opposition demonstrators yesterday, and tension heightened between Togo and its neighbors over what West African and other leaders call a Togolese military coup. Five West African leaders summoned Togo's authorities to talks in Niger today, calling for sanctions if the new leader, Faure Gnassingbe, did not ...
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Rising sea levels force millions  of Bangladeshis into India, fueling ethnic and religious  tensions that end in bloody riots.  In Africa, crops wither in the parched landscape of a once-lush  nation, bringing strife to the countryside and leading city  dwellers to clash with the army as they loot shops for food.
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Kenyan police battled protesters in blazing slums on Monday after disputed elections returned President Mwai Kibaki to power and triggered turmoil believed to have killed more than 100 people.
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Kenya's main opposition party called Friday for mass rallies nationwide in the wake of the African Union's failure to resolve a deadly election dispute
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An exodus of foreigners from Ivory  Coast showed no signs of easing on Saturday as African leaders  prepared to met to seek ways to end the crisis in the West  African country.
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Thousands of President Gen. Pervez Musharraf's opponents demonstrated in several Pakistani cities Thursday, the first street protests since a burst of political violence deepened a crisis clouding his plans to stay in power.
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Police clashed Thursday with students, environmentalists and left-leaning Brazilians protesting a visit by President Bush and his push for an ethanol energy alliance with Latin America's largest nation.
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Rwandan riot police chased away  thousands of protesters gathered outside the French embassy in  the capital Kigali on Monday as a deadline expired for French  diplomats to leave the tiny central African nation.
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Rebel accusations that new government air raids killed 26 civilians in Sudan&#39;s troubled Darfur region cast a pall over peace talks in Nigeria, where African Union
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Clashes break out between protestors and police in Thailand's troubled south, with reports of three dead.
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Protesters held demonstrations in several countries on Sunday to urge world leaders and the U.N. General Assembly to work harder to end the crisis in Darfur.
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KISUMU, Kenya  - Protests and looting flared in Kenyan opposition strongholds on Saturday as delays announcing a presidential election result prompted rigging claims in east Africa's economic power.
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A planned opposition rally faltered on Friday, giving Kenya some respite from post-election turmoil that has killed more than 300 people and threatened one of Africa's strongest economies.
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Police fired tear gas to disperse protesters in several Kenyan cities Wednesday, but the East African nation was mostly calm at the start of an opposition call for three days of mass demonstrations over a disputed election.
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BANGKOK : Six protesters were killed Monday when security forces broke up a demonstration outside a police station in Thailand&#39;s troubled Muslim-majority south, a hospital source said.
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The row between South African President Thabo Mbeki and Archbishop Desmond Tutu worsens.
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Protests erupted in west Kenya and machete-wielding mobs faced off in the Rift Valley on Monday after dozens died in ethnic violence that complicated mediation efforts by former U.N. boss Kofi Annan.