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Joseph Kony (left) (AP Photo)

Obama administration offers $5M Kony bounty

Matthew Lee, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Obama administration on Wednesday offered up to $5 million in rewards for information leading to the capture of Lord's Resistance Army chief Joseph Kony, two of his top aides and a Rwandan rebel leader suspected of crimes against humanity...
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Former leader of the National Integrationist Front, Mathieu Ngudjolo, right, listens to his lawyer prior to his verdict at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, Netherlands, Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2012. The ICC acquitted Ngudjolo of all charges of leading fighters who destroyed a strategic village in eastern Congo, hacking to death and raping some 200 people including women and children in 2003. Tuesday’s acquittal is only the second verdict in the court’s 10-year history and the first time it has cleared a suspect. (AP Photo/Robin van Lonkhuijsen, Pool)

UN court acquits Congo rebel leader of war crimes

Mike Corder, Associated Press
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) - The International Criminal Court acquitted a Congolese militia leader Tuesday of all charges of commanding fighters who destroyed a village in eastern Congo in 2003, raping and hacking to death some 200 people, including children...
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Simone, the wife of Ivory Coast strongman Laurent Gbagbo arrives at the Hotel du Golf in Abidjan after her arrest on April 11, 2011. Ivory Coast leader Alassane Ouattara's forces, backed by French and UN troops, captured his besieged rival Laurent Gbagbo in Abidjan today at the climax of a deadly five-month crisis. Gbagbo, who has held power since 2000 and stubbornly refused to admit defeat in November's presidential election, was detained and taken to his rival's temporary hotel headquarters, with his wife Simone and son Michel. (STR/AFP/Getty Images)

Ivory Coast may try wife of ex-president

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PARIS (AP) - Ivory Coast's president is leaving open the possibility that his country won't hand over the wife of ex-leader Laurent Gbagbo to the International Criminal Court, which has indicted her on charges including murder, rape and persecution...
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Congolese warlord sentenced to 14 years in prison

Mike Corder, Associated Press
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The International Criminal Court sentenced a Congolese warlord to 14 years in prison on Tuesday, a watershed moment for the 10-year-old tribunal and a potential landmark in the struggle to protect children during wartime.
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Congo warlord convicted of using child soldiers

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THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) - The International Criminal Court convicted a Congolese warlord on Wednesday of using child soldiers, a verdict hailed as a legal landmark in the fight against impunity for the world's most serious crimes...
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Obama sending 5 US military officers to South Sudan

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WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama is sending five American military officers to South Sudan amid recent outbreaks of violence in the newly independent African nation...
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US insists operation in Africa a limited mission

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WASHINGTON (AP) - Facing skeptical members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, administration officials said the roughly 100 American troops -- mostly U.S. Army Special Forces -- had been dispatched to central Africa...
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