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• Mauritania: Police arrests two Algerian terror suspects in eastern Mauritania
  2008-08-26 01:54:33 - (SomaliNet) Security sources said on Monday that military police on Sunday arrested two Algerian terror suspects in the Mauritanian city of Nema, 1,200 kilometres east of Nouakchott border with Mali.
  
• Nigeria: Rebels accuse gov’t soldiers of killing 12 unarmed civilians in Niger Delta
  2008-08-26 01:46:38 - (SomaliNet) Nigeria’s Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) has accused government troops posted to Bayelsa in Nigeria’s oil producing Niger DFelta region of killing 12 unarmed passe
  
• South Africa envoy in Uganda seeks to visit SA nations jailed in Uganda
  2008-08-25 02:56:35 - (SomaliNet) The South African high commission in Uganda is applying for permission to visit two South Africans held in prison in Uganda. Ronnie Mamoepa, South African foreign affairs spokesperson
  
• Zimbabawe: Opposition MDC oppose Parliament meet, but will attend
  2008-08-25 02:52:27 - (SomaliNet) The Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) of Morgan Tsvangirai said it opposes the calling a parliamentary session but will attend the swearing-in on Monday. The meeting is also to elect a
  
• Zimbabawe: Zimbabwe\'s parliament meets on Monday first time since elections
  2008-08-25 02:49:10 - (SomaliNet) For the first time since elections that unleashed a major crisis and increased President Robert Mugabe\'s international isolation, Zimbabwe\'s parliament meets on Monday. However, the M
  
• Nigeria: Gunmen briefly abduct six top government officials
  2008-08-25 02:45:46 - (SomaliNet) Nigerian gunmen abducted six top officials of a government oil agency in the southwestern Ondo state but released them after a few hours, police said on Friday \"The gunmen in speedboa
  
• Nigeria: 16 killed as oil truck collides with bus in southern Nigeria
  2008-08-25 02:43:25 - (SomaliNet) At least 16 died when an oil truck has collided with a bus in southern Nigeria, police said on Saturday. News reports said the accident happened on Friday in Ogun state when the tanke
  
• West Africa: Floods displace over 150 000 people
  2008-08-20 08:39:47 - (SomaliNet) The World Health Organisation said on Tuesday that floods in western Africa have displaced at least 186 000 people, and urgent international aid is needed to help victims and prevent the s
  
• Chad: President Deby’s forces, rebels clash
  2008-08-20 08:32:30 - (SomaliNet) Days of clashes in the Birak region of eastern Chad between rebels and forces loyal to President Idriss Deby Itno have claimed a large number of lives. The fighting broke out on Mond
  
• Egypt border killings \'unacceptable\'- Amnesty International
  2008-08-20 07:38:42 - (SomaliNet) Amnesty International urged the Egyptian government on Wednesday to launch an investigation into the killing by police of people illegally crossing the border into Israel. The London-
  

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