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Congo denies Ugandan claim on pull-out deadline
By Jack Kimball
KAMPALA, Feb 15 (Reuters) - Congo's government on Sunday denied a claim by Uganda that an end of February deadline for its army to leave Congo, where it has been hunting rebels, had been extended.
The joint operation to hunt the Ugandan Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels in Congo began in mid-December when Ugandan war planes and helicopters bombed rebel bases before ground troops followed.
A few dozen rebels have been killed or surrendered, but hundreds o Full Article
Congo denies Ugandan claim on pull-out deadline
By Jack Kimball
KAMPALA, Feb 15 (Reuters) - Congo's government on Sunday denied a claim by Uganda that an end of February deadline for its army to leave Congo, where it has been hunting rebels, had been extended.
The joint operation to hunt the Ugandan Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels in Congo began in mid-December when Ugandan war planes and helicopters bombed rebel bases before ground troops followed.
A few dozen rebels have been killed or surrendered, but hundreds o Full Article
Key human rights advocate dies in U.S. plane crash
ATLANTA (Reuters) - A prominent human rights advocate who documented genocide in Rwanda was among the victims of Thursday's commuter plane crash near Buffalo, associates said on Friday. Full Article
Uganda's Besigye on course to fight Museveni in 2011
KAMPALA, Feb 14 (Reuters) - Uganda's main opposition leader, Kizza Besigye, is on course for a third tussle with President Yoweri Museveni for the east African nation's top job after retaining his party's leadership.
Besigye, who was once Museveni's close ally and personal doctor, has lost twice to the former guerrilla leader, most recently in Uganda's 2006 presidential election.
Besigye kept the presidency of his Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) in a landslide victory at a vote Full Article
Key human rights advocate dies in U.S. plane crash
ATLANTA (Reuters) - A prominent human rights advocate who documented genocide in Rwanda was among the victims of Thursday's commuter plane crash near Buffalo, associates said on Friday. Full Article
Key human rights advocate dies in U.S. plane crash
ATLANTA (Reuters) - A prominent human rights advocate who documented genocide in Rwanda was among the victims of Thursday's commuter plane crash near Buffalo, associates said on Friday. Full Article
Key human rights advocate dies in US plane crash
By Matthew Bigg
ATLANTA, Feb 13 (Reuters) - A prominent human rights advocate who documented genocide in Rwanda was among the victims of Thursday's commuter plane crash near Buffalo, associates said on Friday.
Historian Alison Des Forges was one of the 50 people killed when the plane crashed into a house and burst into flames.
Des Forges, 66, dedicated her life to studying Rwanda and wrote a definitive study of the 1994 genocide in which some 800,000 people from the count Full Article
UPDATE 1-Hu launches China's "largest gift" to West Africa
BAMAKO, Feb 13 (Reuters) - Chinese President Hu Jintao laid the first brick of a "Friendship Bridge" in Mali's capital on Friday, calling it China's largest gift to impoverished West Africa. Full Article
Hu launches China's "largest gift" to West Africa
BAMAKO (Reuters) - Chinese President Hu Jintao laid the first brick of a "Friendship Bridge" in Mali's capital on Friday, calling it China's largest ever gift to impoverished West Africa. Full Article
Hu launches China's "largest gift" to West Africa
BAMAKO, Feb 13 (Reuters) - Chinese President Hu Jintao laid the first brick of a "Friendship Bridge" in Mali's capital on Friday, calling it China's largest ever gift to impoverished West Africa. Full Article