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Somali pirate: $3.3M ransom paid, 36 hostages free

AP - Wednesday, November 18

MOGADISHU, Somalia - Pirates freed 36 crew members from a Spanish trawler Tuesday after holding them for more than six weeks off the coast of Somalia, while a self-proclaimed pirate said the hostage-takers were paid $3.3 million in ransom. More »

  • Afghan President Hamid Karzai gestures during a press conference in Kabul on November 3. Somalia and Afghanistan topped a blacklist of the world's most corrupt countries drawn up by the anti-graft watchdog Transparency International.

    Somalia, Afghanistan shamed in graft league table

    AFP - Wednesday, November 18

    BERLIN (AFP) - - Lawless Somalia and war-torn Afghanistan topped a blacklist on Tuesday of the world's most corrupt countries drawn up by the anti-graft watchdog Transparency International.

  • Mozambique opposition claims election fraud

    AP - Wednesday, November 18

    MAPUTO, Mozambique - Mozambique's main opposition party says the ruling party stuffed ballot boxes and expelled opposition monitors from polling stations to help it win the country's Oct. 28 presidential election.

  • New Greenpeace chief has fought apartheid, poverty

    AP - Tuesday, November 17

    JOHANNESBURG - An African has taken over as director of Greenpeace, bringing experience honed as a teenage opponent of white rule in South Africa and a network of powerful contacts to the battle against global warming.

  • AP IMPACT: Kenyans recruited to fight in Somalia

    AP - Tuesday, November 17

    DADAAB, Kenya - The recruits assembled by moonlight at a watering hole.

  • SAfrican woman survives after thrown from bridge

    AP - Tuesday, November 17

    JOHANNESBURG - Police say a South African woman has survived after carjackers threw her off a nearly 200-foot (60-meter)-tall bridge.

  • Spain moves to win hostage sailors' freedom

    AP - Tuesday, November 17

    MADRID - Spain moved Monday to win the release of 36 fishermen held hostage on a Spanish trawler off Somalia by indicting two captured pirates in a fast-track procedure so they can be returned to Somalia as demanded by the hijackers.

  • Egypt to apply for first Arabic domain name

    AP - Monday, November 16

    SHARM EL-SHEIK, Egypt - Egypt will apply for the first Internet domain written in Arabic, its information technology minister said Sunday at a conference grouping Yahoo's co-founder and others to discuss boosting online access in emerging nations.

  • Nigeria militants start peace talks with president

    AP - Monday, November 16

    ABUJA, Nigeria - Nigeria's main militant group in the oil-rich Delta region said Sunday that it had started formal peace talks with the country's president for the first time since it declared an indefinite cease-fire last month.

  • File picture shows Ethiopian soldiers. Ethiopian rebels have launched a wide offensive in the southeastern Somali ethnic Ogaden region and recaptured seven towns from government forces, they claimed Saturday in a statement.

    Ethiopia rebels claim massive counter-offensive

    AFP - Saturday, November 14

    ADDIS ABABA (AFP) - - Ethiopian rebels have launched a wide offensive in the southeastern Somali ethnic Ogaden region and recaptured seven towns from government forces, they claimed Saturday in a statement.

  • Activist: Rights, liberties waning in Ethiopia

    AP - Saturday, November 14

    JOHANNESBURG - An Ethiopian human rights activist who was jailed for 2 1/2 years said Friday that his country is less free today than it was during its disputed 2005 election.

  • UN children's agency warns of south Sudan famine

    AP - Friday, November 13

    CAIRO - The deputy head of the U.N. children's agency said Thursday that a famine is looming in southern Sudan because of scarce rainfall and inadequate foreign funds for the region.

  • SAfrica business dispute sets off racism charges

    AP - Friday, November 13

    JOHANNESBURG - A struggle over how to manage South Africa's state-owned power company has opened debates on racism in the boardroom and political meddling in a country where politics and race remain a volatile mix.

  • Libya to try 2 Swiss amid spat over Ghadafi's son

    AP - Friday, November 13

    TRIPOLI, Libya - Two Swiss businessmen arrested in Libya amid a spat with Switzerland involving leader Moammar Gadhafi's son, are to go on trial on accusations of tax evasion and violating residency laws, a Foreign Ministry official said Thursday.

  • Junta leader Moussa Dadis Camara talks with UN Assistant Secretary General Haile Menkerios last month in Conakry . Guinea's ruling junta presented proposals for the creation of a transitional government that would keep Camara in place.

    Guinea junta seeks to hold on to power

    AFP - Thursday, November 12

    OUAGADOUGOU (AFP) - - Guinea's ruling junta presented proposals for the creation of a transitional government that would keep junta chief Captain Moussa Dadis Camara in place.

  • Scientists: New dinosaur species found in SAfrica

    AP - Thursday, November 12

    JOHANNESBURG - A newly discovered dinosaur species that roamed the Earth about 200 million years ago may help explain how the creatures evolved into the largest animals on land, scientists in South Africa said Wednesday.

  • Make peace _ mom's dying wish to rebel leader son

    AP - Thursday, November 12

    KAMPALA, Uganda - The mother of one of Africa's most notorious rebel leaders relayed one last wish for her son before her death Wednesday, according to a nurse at her deathbed.

  • Pirate risk forges unlikely high seas alliances

    AP - Thursday, November 12

    NAIROBI, Kenya - World powers including the U.S., Russia and China are teaming up at sea to tackle the pirates plaguing Somalia's lawless coast, as a sharp increase in attacks has forced nations who may be rivals on land to make unlikely alliances.

  • Somali pirates demand $3M for ship with 18 crew

    AP - Wednesday, November 11

    MOGADISHU, Somalia - Pirates have hijacked a Panamanian-flagged ship with 18 crew off the east coast of Africa, the latest in an increasing number of attacks, a Somali businessman said Tuesday.

  • Prosecutor: Rwanda genocide suspect 'killed kids'

    AP - Tuesday, November 10

    ARUSHA, Tanzania - A prosecutor at a U.N.-backed tribunal is accusing a Rwandan official of ordering the murder of children too weak to walk during the country's 1994 genocide.

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