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From AP News  |  2009-07-03 19:38:50
Mideast Libya AU Summit
From AFP Global Edition  |  2009-07-04 03:00:12

The African Union refused to act on an international war crimes warrant for Sudan's president, at a summit that also yielded a deal on the powers of a new regional Authority. The refusal to arrest Sudan President Omar al-Beshir granted a continent-wide reprieve to a leader accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur. While the measure ...

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From AP Features  |  2009-07-03 23:48:40

Gunmen abducted two female aid workers in Darfur on Friday, said the international peacekeeping mission in the western region of Sudan. It was the third kidnapping of foreign humanitarian workers since March, when an international court issued a warrant for the country's president on charges of orchestrating war crimes in Darfur. The series of abductions, along with Sudan's ...

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From AFP Global Edition  |  2009-07-03 23:00:19

Two women aid workers from Ireland and Uganda were kidnapped Friday by armed men in Sudan's volatile Darfur region, the scene of Africa's longest running conflict, officials told AFP. "Unidentified armed men came to the quarters of the (Irish) NGO Goal at Kutum in Northern Darfur," the source said. "They took a Sudanese watchman, an Irishwoman and a ...

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