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• South African singer Miriam Makeba dies in Italy
  2008-11-10 00:57:13 - (SomaliNet) After being taken ill near the southern Italian town of Caserta following a concert, South African singer Miriam Makeba has died aged 76, ANSA news agency reported Monday. The Italian
  
• DRC: Cholera threatens victims in refugee camp
  2008-11-10 00:47:28 - (SomaliNet) Amid fears that renewed fighting could scatter infected patients and launch an epidemic, doctors are struggling to contain an outbreak of cholera in a sprawling refugee camp just outside t
  
• Kenya: African summit in Nairobi to tackle Congo crisis
  2008-11-07 07:46:09 - (SomaliNet) An emergency summit on the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo has gotten underway in the Kenyan capital Nairobi. According to reports, one of the main goals of the talks is
  
• Egypt: Scores injured as rival opposition factions clash
  2008-11-07 07:40:15 - (SomaliNet) In what sources say occurred after a leadership dispute, several people were injured on Thursday in clashes between rival factions of Egypt\'s opposition Ghad party, including one headed by
  
• Southern Africa: Leaders must “force\" Zimbabwean peace deal-Zuma
  2008-11-07 07:35:22 - (SomaliNet) South Africa\'s ANC leader Jacob Zuma said on Friday that Southern African leaders must \"force\" Zimbabwe\'s sparring parties to break the deadlock over a power-sharing deal at a summit this
  
• DRC: “UN unable to protect villagers”(exclusive)
  2008-11-07 07:32:52 - (SomaliNet) Villagers who fled fighting in this rebel-held town have trickled home to find the bodies of more than a dozen men in civilian clothes in and around mud huts - and accused rebel leader Lau
  
• (Opinion)Africans should not expect special treatment from president-elect Obama-Kenyan professor
  2008-11-06 00:22:14 - (SomaliNet) Barack Obama, the son of an African man from Kenya is now the president-elect of the United States. But is there a lesson that African electoral politics, often dominated by tribal affilia
  
• DRC: Approve more 3,000 peacekeepers in eastern Congo-UN chief
  2008-11-05 02:43:32 - (SomaliNet) The U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has asked the Security Council to approve a \"surge\" of more than 3,000 troops and police to help prevent a full-scale war from erupting in eastern Co
  
• Cameroon: Gov’t official says court jails elephant poacher for 5 years
  2008-11-05 02:32:41 - (SomaliNet) A government official said on Tuesday that a Cameroon court sentenced a poacher to five years in jail and a hefty fine for killing eight elephants. The official said after a tip-off f
  
• South Africa: Court to hear Zuma graft appeal this month
  2008-11-05 02:26:13 - (SomaliNet) Saying the South African state would be ready, a spokesman for the National Prosecuting Authority, which has spearheaded the case against Zuma, confirmed a media report that the court in B
  

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