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• Mauritania: Troops stage coup, arrest president and prime minister
  2008-08-06 06:00:07 - (SomaliNet) Security sources in Mauritania said troops staged a coup in Mauritania on Wednesday, arresting the president and prime minister and shutting down state radio and television. Mauritani
  
• Zimbabwe: Amnesty plan for President Mugabe-draft report
  2008-08-06 05:19:12 - (SomaliNet) Under a gracious exit plan, Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe will become Zimbabwe\'s ceremonial president during the forthcoming transition, after which he will retire as the Founding Pre
  
• France played active role in 1994 Rwanda genocide-report
  2008-08-06 05:07:52 - (SomaliNet) A report unveiled on Tuesday by the Rwandan government said France played an active role in the 1994 Rwanda genocide, The report named French political and military officials it says
  
• DRC: Governor cleared of murder of opposition politician
  2008-08-06 04:58:39 - (SomaliNet) A man accused of taking part in the murder of an opposition politician in the Democratic Republic of Congo apologised to the governor of Kinshasa Tuesday for fingering him in the crime.
  
• Nigeria: No ransom demand made for the two Frenchmen abducted- Rivers State police
  2008-08-06 01:21:51 - (SomaliNet) Nigeria’s Rivers State police said Tuesday that no ransom demand has been made for the two Frenchmen abducted by gunmen in oil-rich southern Nigeria. \"No group has claimed responsibil
  
• Angola: Historic parliamentary election campaigns kick off Tuesday
  2008-08-05 08:47:30 - (SomaliNet) With concerns already being raised that the vote will not be fair, campaigning for Angola\'s first parliamentary elections since the end of a nearly three-decade civil war officially begins
  
• Africa: Estimated 70 million girls, women mutilated in Africa
  2008-08-05 08:41:23 - (SomaliNet) According to UNICEF, an estimated 70 million girls and women in 27 African and Middle Eastern countries have been \"circumcised\". According to a report, the age-old tradition, also kn
  
• Zimbabawe: Opposition, Gov’t agree to share power
  2008-08-05 08:36:31 - (SomaliNet) According to a number of sources close to the Tshwane negotiations, Zimbabwe crisis talks are close to a settlement although it will require more than the 14 days initially allocated to th
  
• Nigeria: Top militant group threatens to attack foreign workers
  2008-08-05 08:30:44 - (SomaliNet) If it does not halt operations here within a week, the leading Nigerian militant group on Monday threatened to attack foreign workers at construction firm Julius Berger. Nigeria’s Mo
  
• South Africa: Pretoria\'s most wanted robbery gangs arrested
  2008-08-05 01:06:00 - (SomaliNet) A pre-dawn sting operation has ensured arrest of 10 men belonging to Pretoria\'s most wanted robbery gangs. A news source said the suspects, who have been linked to a spate of crimes i
  

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