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Topic: African Union
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3 questions US forces must answer before declaring victory in Libya
Even as fighting in Libya continues, Pentagon officials and US commanders overseeing operations on the ground are wrestling with tough questions about the future of the campaign – and what military forces still need to do before they can consider it a victory.
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Four reasons help is slow to reach Somalia’s famine victims
As more information about East Africa’s famine reaches Western audiences, the situation looks increasingly grim – but aid doesn’t seem to be keeping pace with the publicity. What challenges do humanitarian organizations face?
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Uganda election: Four reasons donor nations won't turn their backs on President Museveni
As recent events in Egypt have shown, international support for aging despots can wane quickly once crowds hit the street and violence kicks off. Here are some reasons why the international community might not want to push Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni too hard.
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Why Tunisia's winds of change aren't blowing south to sub-Saharan Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa has remained quiet even as protests spread across North Africa from Tunisia to Egypt and onward to Yemen and Jordan.
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In Pictures: Following Qaddafi's fashion
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Will a London conference help set Somalia on path to peace?
Somalia aid groups and experts welcome renewed international attention, but warn that a focus on either state-building or military action alone could make things worse rather than better.
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Africa asks itself: Where is the aid money?
African nations pledged five months ago to do more to help each other when famine and disaster strike. But so far, they haven't come up with the promised cash.
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African Union summit: disunity on display
With the leadership of the African Union in question, old powers like France and new powers like China are vying for influence. Will peacekeeping missions and conflict resolution efforts suffer?
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A negotiated solution to Syria? Unlikely.
Syria's war is going to end with a defeat for Bashar al-Assad or the uprising, but not because of events at the UN or Arab League.
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Senegalese take to streets after president cleared for third election run
Protesters in Dakar and other cities overturned cars and killed one policeman after a high court cleared Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade to run for a third term in office.
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Global News Blog
Hillary Clinton to step down from 'high wire' of US diplomacy
It's too early to talk of her legacy, or to grade the Obama administration's foreign policy, but four years of repairing relationships and defending US interests have taken a physical toll.
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Africa Monitor
The UN standard to prevent genocide, 10 years later
Ten years after the UN created the 'Responsibility to Protect,' standard still stymied by politics and competing interests.
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Attack on foreign tourists widens rift between Ethiopia, Eritrea
Five European tourists, touring the spectacular volcanic moonscape of the Danakil Depression, were killed by unknown gunmen. Ethiopia blamed Eritrea, promises tough action.
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Global News Blog
Aid groups: With new Africa drought looming, donors must speed response
Aid groups warned that a drought was coming to the Horn of Africa in 2011, and say now that a late response by donor nations unnecessarily cost thousands of lives.
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Africa Monitor
Joint UN-African mission seeks to end LRA violence
A United Nations and African Union joint mission traveled to the Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, South Sudan, and Uganda last week seeking regional cooperation from countries affected by the Lord's Resistance Army.
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Zuma tells the UN: Listen to African Union
South African President Zuma airs complaints of UN interference in Libya during a UN Security Council meeting on how the African Union and the UN can work more closely.
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Terrorism & Security
Syria on edge as monitors prepare to give initial report
The Arab League monitors will make their report on Syria today as critics worry the mission is not credible.
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Africa Rising: Sub-Saharan Africa set for 2012 boom
Rising demand for natural resources is a boon for countries such as Sierra Leone, Niger, and Angola. But high consumer prices still pinch Africa's middle class.
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Africa Monitor
Ethiopia enters Somalia, but avoids African Union joint operation
Unlike Uganda, Burundi, Kenya and Djibouti, which have sent thousands of troops under the African Union banner, Ethiopia is intervening in Somalia unilaterally, and won't stay for long.
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Africa Monitor
2011 a banner year for the International Criminal Court
The International Criminal Court continued to build credibility in 2011, but new challenges exist as Luis Moreno-Ocampo steps down as the ICC’s first chief prosecutor in 2012.
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Somalia's Al Shabab Islamists are on the run
But the Somali officials, backed by international forces, are too busy fighting among themselves to govern.
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Global News Blog
2011 Reflections: Africa rises, taking charge of its affairs
Seven Monitor correspondents reflect on the world's hotspots. In this installment, Scott Baldauf says Africa showed signs of both the willingness and ability to solve their own problems in 2011.
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State of the world: Global gender gap narrows
Part 5 of the surprisingly upbeat state of the world: Women's lot rises as the gender gap narrows worldwide.
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For tiny Burundi, big returns in sending peacekeepers to Somalia
For poorer countries like Burundi, sending soldiers to join a UN or African Union peacekeeping mission offers financial and political benefits, as well as better arms and training.
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Ethiopia convicts Swedish journalists of terrorism
Rights groups protest the conviction of Swedish journalists Johan Persson and Martin Schibbye, saying Ethiopia is using its antiterrorism laws to silence dissent.
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Africa Monitor
US troops against the LRA? A war worth winning
Guest blogger Kellen McClure argues that sending US military advisors to fight the LRA's Joseph Kony is a small price to pay for removing one of the world's worst mass murderers.
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UN chief visits a safer Somali capital
In the first visit of a UN Secretary General since 1993, Ban Ki-moon promised aid and military support, but warned Somali leaders they must stick to reform pledges.
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Global News Blog
What's the hurry, Belgium? Somalia has gone without a government for 20 years.
Today, Belgium announced the formation of a coalition government after 541 days of stalemate.
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Somali Islamists ban aid groups, renewing famine concerns
Somalia's Islamist insurgency banned Western aid agencies from its territory, raising concerns that famine could return to parts of the northeast African nation.
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Former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo extradited to Hague (VIDEO)
Human rights activists say the extradition of former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo is a big step for ending a decade of bloodshed and impunity, but peace will only be sustained if justice is even-handed.
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