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• Zimbabwe: President Mugabe ready to form a new gov’t without MDC
  2008-08-28 23:57:23 - (SomaliNet) Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe is ready to form a new government without the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), it has been reported. Zimbabwe’s Deputy information
  
• Egypt: Police detains 21 brotherhood members in Sharkia
  2008-08-28 23:34:58 - (SomaliNet) Egypt’s Brotherhood and security sources said on Thursday that at least 21 members of the Muslim Brotherhood were detained by Egyptian police in the Nile Delta province of Sharkia. A
  
• Botswana: Two South Africans jailed for 18 years in Botswana on murder charges
  2008-08-27 01:35:46 - (SomaliNet) One Botswana local was on Tuesday sentenced to execution, and two South African men jailed for 18 years each by a Botswana court for the murder of a businesswoman seven years ago, court do
  
• Egypt: Israeli Defences Minister in Cairo for talks with President Mubarak
  2008-08-27 01:24:43 - (SomaliNet) In a bid to to continue talks with the Egyptian president Hosny Mubarak, Israeli Defences Minister Ehud Barak arrived in the Egyptian coastal city of Alexandria on Tuesday. According
  
• Angola: Ruling party may clean sweep in Angolan polls
  2008-08-27 01:20:49 - (SomaliNet) While opposition groups complain they are being marginalized, Angola\'s ruling MPLA party appears increasingly dominant in the campaign for the first national election in 16 years. Ex
  
• Zimbabwe: President Mugabe heckled, jeered in parliament
  2008-08-27 01:13:32 - (SomaliNet) While delivering his speech at the official opening of parliament, Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe was heckled and jeered by the opposition on Tuesday. According to media reports, an
  
• Zimbabawe: Four opposition MDC MPs arrested
  2008-08-27 01:09:41 - (SomaliNet) Bringing the total number of Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) MPs to five currently in custody, four MDC MPs were arrested on Tuesday in Harare, police said. The MDC had earlier
  
• Senegal: Boat carrying 23 holiday makers capsizes, one dead, two missing
  2008-08-26 02:35:57 - (SomaliNet) According to local authorities, two boats (fishermen\'s dugouts) transporting 23 holiday makers were capsized Sunday on the Casamance river, in the south of Senegal. Ibrahima Diédhiou,
  
• Zimbabawe: Opposition MDC wins key post in parliament
  2008-08-26 02:24:08 - (SomaliNet) A surprise victory for democracy that could give the Zimbabwean opposition leverage in deadlocked power-sharing talks following Zimbabwe’s disputed election, Zimbabwe\'s main opposition par
  
• Liberia: President Ellen Johnson in Libya on a two-day official visit
  2008-08-26 02:09:16 - (SomaliNet) Liberia\'s President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf Liberia Monday on a two-day official visit to Libya to finalise negotiations for the renovation of the multimillion-dollar five-star Ducor Interco
  

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