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• Zimbabawe: President Mugabe to form cabinet if MDC does not sign deal
  2008-09-05 02:47:24 - (SomaliNet) If opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai did not sign a power-sharing deal on Thursday, Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe said he would go ahead and form a cabinet, state media reported.
  
• Nigeria: US journalist charged with spying in Niger Delta
  2008-09-05 01:46:31 - (SomaliNet) A media watchdog said early this week that authorities in Nigeria have charged a US journalist working on a documentary film in the oil-producing Niger Delta with spying. Andrew Beren
  
• Nigeria: Wreckage of 6-months missing plane found-authorities
  2008-09-05 01:43:19 - (SomaliNet) Authorities in the southern Nigerian state of Cross River said on Wednesday that the wreckage of a plane which went missing six months ago has been found together with the bodies of its th
  
• Mauritania: EU top official condemns Mauritania coup gov\'t
  2008-09-05 01:39:43 - (SomaliNet) Calling it an illegitimate move, the European Union\'s top foreign-policy official on Wednesday condemned the formation of a new government by coup leaders in Mauritania. A statement r
  
• Mauritania: 14 illegal migrants die in southern Mauritania
  2008-09-05 01:35:10 - (SomaliNet) Police said a boat carrying the bodies of 13 would-be immigrants and 46 survivors was intercepted on Wednesday off Spain\'s Canary Islands after crossing from Africa. Another body was
  
• DR Congo: Borderlands risk plunging back into war-UN chief
  2008-09-05 01:27:23 - (SomaliNet) The UN peacekeeping mission chief said the DRC\'s eastern borderlands risk plunging back into all-out war between the army and Tutsi rebels after the heaviest clashes in months. Meanw
  
• Zimbabwe: Mugabe committing \"political suicide\"-MDC
  2008-09-05 01:24:25 - (SomaliNet) The Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) says Robert Mugabe will be committing \"political suicide\" if he carries out his threat to form a government unilaterally if MDC leader Morgan Tvsan
  
• Zimbabwe: Opposition wants Mugabe pressurized to be flexible
  2008-09-02 03:34:37 - (SomaliNet) The Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), Zimbabwe\'s main opposition called on regional powers on Monday to pressure President Robert Mugabe\'s ruling Zanu-PF party to be more flexible in p
  
• Mauritania: Junta-appointed prime minister names new Cabinet
  2008-09-02 03:31:44 - (SomaliNet) Nearly a month after a coup in the Islamic nation, Mauritania\'s junta-appointed prime minister has named a new Cabinet. Media reports said all those named to the 28 posts come from po
  
• Nigeria: Hospitalized President insists he\'s in good health
  2008-09-02 03:26:07 - (SomaliNet) Saying that he in good health, Nigerian President Umaru Musa Yar\'Adua, who has been hospitalized in Saudi Arabia, insisted in a newspaper interview on Monday that he expects to be released
  

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