Northern Africa

Summary:Chávez says he plans to emulate repressive regimes around the world.

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Impeachment is a vital protection against evisceration of the balance of power among the three branches of government.

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Eleven demonstrators against repressive constitutional amendments were held in a jail cell of three by four meters.

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Western Sahara is a sparsely populated territory about the size of Colorado, located on the Atlantic coast in northwestern Africa just south of Morocco. Traditionally inhabited by nomadic Arab tribes, collectively known as Sahrawis and famous for their long history of resistance to outside domination, the territory was occupied by Spain from the late 1800s through the mid-1970s, well over a decade after most African countries had achieved their freedom from European colonialism.

The nationalist Polisario Front launched an armed independence struggle against Spain in 1973, and Madrid eventually promised the people of what was then still known as the Spanish Sahara a referendum on the fate of the territory by the end of 1975.

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Archbishop Odama of Gulu has offered himself to the International Criminal Court in place of the indicted Lords Resistance Army leaders -- if they agree to end the war.

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The failure to stop genocide once again is clear, and the outcome remains the same — the loss of hundreds of thousands of African lives as the world looks on.