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• South Africa: S.A media attack people personally-ANC boss Zuma
  2008-07-14 07:39:46 - (SomaliNet) Criticizing the media of attacking people personally, African National Congress President Jacob Zuma has accused the South African media of being insensitive. Zuma\'s attack on the med
  
• Egypt: Egyptian authorities find 250 kilos of explosives in Sinai desert
  2008-07-13 04:02:54 - (SomaliNet) A security official said Egyptian authorities on Friday found 250 kilos of explosives in the Sinai desert which they believe were probably destined for the Hamas-run Gaza Strip. The o
  
• Nigeria: Gasoline tanker drivers hold nationwide strike
  2008-07-13 03:11:40 - (SomaliNet) A senior union official said Nigeria\'s gasoline tanker drivers went on an indefinite nationwide strike on Friday in protest over high fuel prices and the state of the country\'s dilapidated
  
• Zimbabwe: Gov’t, opposition holds talks in South Africa
  2008-07-12 04:05:27 - (SomaliNet) In the first the talks aimed at laying the groundwork for negotiations to resolve Zimbabwe\'s political crisis, were the first since Mugabe won another term as president in a June 27 poll w
  
• Zimbabwe: Russia, China bar Mugabe proposed sanctions
  2008-07-12 03:57:25 - (SomaliNet) Rejecting US efforts to step up punitive measures against President Robert Mugabe\'s authoritarian regime after a widely discredited presidential election, Russia and China barred proposed
  
• Equatorial Guinea’s situation is worse than in Zimbabwe-opposition legislator
  2008-07-12 03:56:45 - (SomaliNet) Equatorial Guinea\'s only opposition legislator said in an interview published on Friday the situation in his country is worse than in Zimbabwe, but Western nations turn a blind eye because
  
• Nigeria: Gunmen kidnap two foreign construction workers in Port Harcourt
  2008-07-12 03:50:27 - (SomaliNet) Security forces in Nigeria said gunmen kidnapped two foreign workers with a German construction firm in the southern Nigerian oil city of Port Harcourt on Friday. \"Two expatriate staf
  
• Zimbabwe: MDC accuses gov’t forces of murdering a polling agent
  2008-07-12 03:45:36 - (SomaliNet) In fresh political violence that could undermine preliminary talks with President Robert Mugabe\'s ruling party, Zimababwe’s opposition on Friday accused government security forces of murde
  
• Nigeria: Militant group abandoning two-week-old ceasefire
  2008-07-11 06:17:40 - (SomaliNet) Blaming Britain\'s pledge to back the Nigerian government in the country\'s oil region, Nigeria\'s main militant group said on Thursday that it is abandoning a two-week-old ceasefire. Th
  
• Africa: EU commits €620-million towards African nations development
  2008-07-11 06:10:25 - (SomaliNet) The European Union head of delegation, Glauco Galzuola said the European Union has set aside €620-million to help African countries develop their economies in the next six years. The
  

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