Anti-American Cleric Returns To Iraq

Muqtada al-Sadr offered a brief speech to followers Saturday, following his return to Iraq from Iran, where he had lived in a self-imposed exile. He told thousands of supporters U.S. troops need to be gone by 2012. The fiery cleric also said support for the current government could continue, provided it addresses basic needs.

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Sudan Vote May Give Birth To New Nation

In Sudan, voting starts Sunday in a referendum that will likely break that nation in two and create the world's newest country. It's an oil-rich but deeply impoverished region. Six years after a U.S.-brokered peace deal ended decades of conflict between Sudan's north and south, southerners are choosing whether to go it alone as an independent nation. NPR's Frank Langfitt talks with host Liane Hansen from a polling station in southern Sudan and the vote that will create the world's newest nation and break Africa's largest country in two.

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Ivory Coast Smolders, Caught Between Presidents

In Ivory Coast, the man who is widely believed to have won November's presidential election is under U.N. guard at a city hotel. The man who is widely believed to have lost the election refuses to step down and retains control of the army. It's a political tinderbox that has sparked violence and reports of death squads.

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