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• Zambia mourns death of president Mwanawasa
  2008-08-20 07:32:41 - (SomaliNet) Zambians wept on the streets of the capital as they received news of President Levy Mwanawasa\'s death on Tuesday in the French military hospital where he had been treated since suffering a
  
• Egyptian police shoots dead Sudanese man
  2008-08-20 07:23:17 - (SomaliNet) Egyptian security officials said on Tuesday that an Egyptian police shot dead a 27-year-old Sudanese man as he tried to slip over the border into Israel. This brings to 20 the number
  
• Algeria: Two Car bombs kill 11 people in Algeria
  2008-08-20 07:09:47 - (SomaliNet) A day after an attack that killed 43 people at a military academy, at least 11 people were killed in a double car bombing on Wednesday in Algeria. Sources say the killing was the blo
  
• Egypt: 10 people killed in motor accident in Egypt
  2008-08-18 06:54:12 - (SomaliNet) Egypt’s state-run Middle East News Agency (MENA) said a minibus rammed into the back of a truck carrying steel bars north of Cairo on Sunday, killing 10 people, including a three-year-old
  
• Egypt: 14 Muslim Brotherhood members detained
  2008-08-18 06:45:26 - (SomaliNet) Brotherhood and security officials said Egyptian police detained 14 members of the Muslim Brotherhood, the country\'s most powerful opposition group, in the Nile Delta province of Menufia o
  
• Zimbabwe: President Mugabe rejects Opposition’s Prime Minister offer
  2008-08-18 06:24:41 - (SomaliNet) The Southern African Development Community (SADC) has offered Morgan Tsvangirai a 50-50 power-sharing deal as prime minister with President Robert Mugabe, but the Movement for Democratic C
  
• Botswana: President to boycott Africa summit over Mugabe presence
  2008-08-16 05:49:30 - (SomaliNet) Botswana\'s Foreign Ministry said on Friday that the country’s president will boycott a weekend summit of southern African leaders because the country does not recognise Zimbabwean Presiden
  
• Zimbabwe: Ruling party, opposition to resume power-sharing talks
  2008-08-16 05:45:10 - (SomaliNet) A local newspaper in Zimbabawe quoted a ZANU-PF official as saying; Zimbabwe’s ruling ZANU-PF and the opposition will resume power-sharing talks at a weekend regional summit in South Afric
  
• Southern African leaders should pressurize Mugabe to end political violence- Rights Watch
  2008-08-13 03:46:23 - (SomaliNet) Southern African leaders should put pressure on Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe to end political violence in order to resolve Zimbabwean crisis, Human Rights Watch urged on Tuesday
  
• Nigeria to finally hand over oil-rich Bakassi to Cameroon
  2008-08-13 03:38:54 - (SomaliNet) In what is expected to put an end to a decades-old dispute that brought Nigeria and Cameroon to the brink of war, Nigeria is to finally hand over the oil-rich Bakassi peninsula to Cameroon
  

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