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...Prokhladny air force base to the nearby city of Mozodokin. Moscow blamed the bombing on Chechen Islamic extremists. This, the third such bombing in less than a month, came after the Kremlin-backed government in Chechnya said the situation in the province was stabilizing. Peace Talks Break Down LIBERIA President Charles Taylor remained defiant as rebel forces attacked Monrovia and peace talks between the government and rebels were postponed. Taylor was indicted for war crimes by a U.N.-backed court in neighboring Sierra Leone and charged with supporting guerrillas during the country's own brutal 10-year civil war, which...
...children - some wearing women's wigs - firing AK-47s into the air. The western region has seen brutal fighting since an armed rebellion split the country in two eight months ago. Ivorian rebels, many of them children, have engaged in recent weeks in pitched battles with mercenaries from neighboring Liberia. - By Kate Davenport/Zouan-Hounien Caught on Camera BRITAIN An 18-year-old British soldier on leave from his unit in Iraq was arrested for allegedly taking photos of other soldiers torturing Iraqi prisoners of war. Workers at a Tamworth photo shop called police when the soldier took the film...
...Killed. Sam (Mosquito) Bockarie, 40, West African warlord, former hairdresser and champion disco dancer; in a shootout with Liberian soldiers; near the Ivory Coast-Liberia border. A native of Sierra Leone, Bockarie was one of the most feared guerrilla fighters to emerge from the overlapping civil uprisings in West Africa. In March, a U.N.-backed special court investigating atrocities in Sierra Leone indicted Bockarie for crimes against humanity. In a 1999 interview with a wire service, he admitted, "I cannot tell how many people I have killed...
...Lord’s Resistance Army faces allegations of mass murder, rape and cannibalism. Moreover, Jenkins reports, countries with growing population also have growing tensions between Christians and Muslims. Regions in Nigeria, Sudan and the Philippines are brimming with conflict. In 1991, Zambia officially became a Christian nation. Liberia, Kenya and Zimbabwe have mentioned similar plans...
...opposition parties were barred - and rebels allegedly led by General Robert Gue?, who headed a successful 1999 coup, was ousted by Gbagbo in 2000 and shot dead three weeks ago, one of this uprising's early fatalities. The violence - which the government has also blamed on neighboring Burkina Faso, Liberia and Sierra Leone - has left more than 300 dead and the country divided between rebels in the north and the government in the south. Worried that an implosion in Ivory Coast could destabilize the region, a group of West African leaders put a 2,500-man intervention force on standby...