Africa's failed health plan seen costing 40 mln lives
African governments' failure to deliver on a 2001 vow to spend 15 percent of budgets on health has cost the continent 40 million lives, activists including Nobel winners Desmond Tutu and Wangari Maathai said on Sunday.
Nations:Eritrea Libya Sierra Leone Nigeria Ethiopia South Africa
2007-01-22
Islamic hideout in Somalia said captured
Ethiopian-backed government forces captured the last remaining stronghold of the Islamic movement in southern Somalia, the Somali defense minister said Friday, hours after warlords met with the president and promised to enlist their militiamen in the army.
Nations:Eritrea Ethiopia Somalia Uganda Tanzania South Africa People:Ban Ki-moon Activities:2005 Somalia Civil War
2007-01-12
China courts Africa with aid, projects
China paid for the marble and tile parliament building soaring above the crumbling homes of this former Portuguese colony, and is also promising a dam and a military hospital -- all with none of the political strings Western donors might attach.
Nations:Guinea Eritrea Central African Republic France Chad China People:Li Zhaoxing
2007-01-04
Kenya on alert as battle for Somalia nears border
Kenyan soldiers and helicopters beefed up defenses at the Somali border on Wednesday after Ethiopian warplanes and ground forces attacked fleeing Islamists on the other side of the frontier.
Nations:Somalia Eritrea Ethiopia Kenya Uganda Nigeria Activities:2005 Somalia Civil War
2007-01-03
Somali minister assassinated outside mosque
Gunmen shot dead a Somali minister outside a mosque on Friday at the fragile interim government's provincial base Baidoa in what one official called an "organized assassination."
Nations:Eritrea Somalia Ethiopia Activities:2005 Somalia Civil War
2006-07-28
U.S. Military: 'Copter Crashes Kill 10
The U.S. military confirmed Sunday that 10 U.S. troops died when two transport helicopters crashed into the sea last week off the coast of the African nation of Djibouti.
Nations:Eritrea Somalia Sudan Yemen Uganda Tanzania
2006-02-19
Military: Troops Accounted for After Crash
The 10 U.S. troops missing after two Marine Corps transport helicopters crashed into the sea have been accounted for, the military said Saturday, but it did not specify whether they had survived the mishap.
Nations:Eritrea U.S.
2006-02-18
British police arrest key bomb suspect
LONDON - Police arrested four men in central England on Wednesday while hunting for those behind last week's failed London bomb attacks, and media reports said one of the men was a suspected bomber.
Nations:Eritrea Activities:2005 London Bombings
2005-07-27
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