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Representatives of the world's leading economies have gathered in Paris to look at ways of handling the faltering world economy and a European debt crisis that threatens to spread beyond the continent. One French official has described the eurozone as the
epicentre
of a global crisis.
The Somali Islamic rebel group al-Shabab has held a ceremony to present famine relief aid said to be from al-Qaeda. A man described as American and
purporting
to represent al-Qaeda addressed a crowd which had gathered in Ala-yasir, 50km from Mogadishu. Al-Shabab has largely prevented international aid agencies from operating in areas of Somalia under its control despite estimates that three quarters of a million people are at risk of death from famine there.
President Obama has announced he is sending 100 American troops to Uganda to help in the fight against rebels of the Lord's Resistance Army. The LRA is accused of human rights abuses during a 20-year campaign, in which tens of thousands of people have died. From Washington, here's Marcus George.
Announcing the deployment, President Obama said the atrocities committed by the Lord's Resistance Army pose a disproportionate threat to regional security. After more than two decades of murder, rape and kidnap, he said it was time to eliminate it. The contingent will assist national forces in Uganda and its neighbouring countries, in what's been described as an operation to remove its leader Joseph Kony from the battlefield. The force will use high-tech equipment to assist in what analysts say is a "kill or capture" policy.