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• Zimbabwe: Inflation hits new record high of 2.2-million percent
  2008-07-16 07:55:21 - (SomaliNet) Zimbabwe\'s the central bank\'s governor Gideon Gono said on Wednesday that Zimbabwe’s annual rate of inflation has hit a new record high of 2.2-million percent. \"Statistics provided by
  
• Zimbabwe: Opposition MDC seeks second mediator
  2008-07-16 07:45:24 - (SomaliNet) Zimbabwe\'s opposition party Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) said on Tuesday it hopes a meeting this week between the South African president and a top African Union official will resu
  
• Middle East: Obama to visit West Bank on Mideast trip says Palestinian official
  2008-07-16 03:43:38 - (SomaliNet) As part of a visit through the Middle East, Democratic US presidential candidate Barack Obama will visit the West Bank next week, a Palestinian official said on Monday, giving an important
  
• Nigeria: Oil drivers suspend strike as gov’t pledges to lower cost of diesel
  2008-07-15 06:35:48 - (SomaliNet) After the Nigerian government pledged to lower the cost of diesel, Nigeria\'s petrol tanker drivers suspended a nationwide strike that had sparked panic fuel-buying, a senior union official
  
• Zimbabwe: MDC won’t sign draft accord until demands met- Tsvangirai wing insist
  2008-07-15 06:22:37 - (SomaliNet) As Zimbabwe\'s rival parties were locked in talks in Harare on Monday night, putting the finishing touches to a draft document intended to pave the way for power-sharing negotiations to beg
  
• Nigeria: No casualties as passenger plane skids on runway
  2008-07-15 06:16:05 - (SomaliNet) A police spokesperson said a passenger plane run by a Nigerian carrier overshot the runway while landing on Monday in Nigeria\'s south-eastern oil town of Port Harcourt. However, no casualt
  
• Zambia: Fuel crisis looms as sole oil refinery shut down
  2008-07-14 08:06:50 - (SomaliNet) After the shutdown last week of Zambia\'s sole oil refinery, Zambia\'s oil marketing companies have started importing refined petroleum products, energy officials said on Monday. Last w
  
• Liberia president’s ‘anti-Mugabe’ message earns Mandela applause
  2008-07-14 08:01:46 - (SomaliNet) Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf has said all Africans must speak out about injustices in places such as Zimbabwe. The Liberian leader, delivering the sixth annual Nelson Man
  
• Zimbabwe: S.A’s Mbeki, AU chief to hold emergency meeting over Zim
  2008-07-14 07:55:28 - (SomaliNet) African Union Commission chief Jean Ping will hold an emergency meeting on the political crisis in Zimbabwe with South African President Thabo Mbeki, a source said on Monday. An Afric
  
• Sierra Leone seizes 700kg cocaine from Lungi International Airport
  2008-07-14 07:43:18 - (SomaliNet) A senior official said Sierra Leone made its biggest catch of cocaine on Sunday when it seized 700kg of the drug on a plane which landed at Lungi International Airport. Sierra Leone,
  

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