Beslan policeman may be amnestied

A total of 333 hostages were killed, including 186 children, as a result of the terrorist attack on Beslan school # 1 on September 1-3, 2004

http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=11516774&PageNum=0

Algeria elections: Voters' views

"I suspect that the recent attacks were state-sponsored"

Aicha, 63, retired council worker

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6666751.stm

Algeria ruling bloc wins polls

The poll was the third legislative election since an Islamist revolt erupted after the cancellation of a national election in January 1992, which a now-outlawed Muslim fundamentalist party was poised to win.

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/EAD77C49-59FD-420E-B17E-39554B3DB923.htm

D.E.A., a “Drug Cartel”

"We were able to determine the presence of a new drug cartel in which the United States Drug Enforcement Agency was monopolizing the shipment of drugs."

Venezuelan Minister of the Interior Pedro Carreño

http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/news.php?newsno=2291

Nigeria: call for strike

Unions say April's elections were fraudulent and unacceptable; call for re-run.

Annulments and military coups ruined all earlier attempts for such a transfer in the country of 140 million people. Africa's largest oil producer.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/africa/05/17/nigeria.strike.ap/index.html

an example of transformation

“You are an example of transformation. We in Africa must learn from your success”

Madagascan President Marc Ravalomanana

http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=9296&size=A

A dying horse

"It is a terrorist attack to try and intimidate our force. But those are kicks of a dying horse."

Gen Nyakairima

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6665011.stm