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• Rice meets with terror-fighting allies in Africa
Tunisian Foreign Minister Abdelwahab Abdallah right, greets Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in Tunis on Saturday. Rice's three-day visit to North Africa, including Libya, Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco, is her first as Secretary of State in this ...
• Unidentified ship captures 14 Somali pirates
The chaos in Somalia have also made the Horn of Africa a dangerous place for aid workers or foreigners. Two journalists, Canadian Amanda Lindhout and Nigel Brennan, an Australian freelance photojournalist, were kidnapped last month.
• U.N.: Nations not doing enough on poverty
Of that, $7.3 billion would have to go to Africa." At that summit, the major industrialized powers agreed to increase yearly aid to developing countries, amounting to an extra $50 billion by 2010 compared to 2004, and to channel $25 billion of the ...
• Gaddafi offers Rice kitchen diplomacy, locket
Gaddafi's appearance was regal rather than military and he wore a crisp, white robe with a green brooch in the shape of Africa, shedding his trademark dark glasses.
• Bhutto widower elected Pakistani president
... Pakistan faces, about the centrality of fighting terrorism, about the fact that the terrorism fight is Pakistan's fight and also his very strong words of friendship and alliance with the United States," Rice told reporters on a trip to North Africa.