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• Egypt: 38 Brotherhood members detained ahead of elections on Sunday
  2008-07-11 04:09:49 - (SomaliNet) Security sources said on Thursday that Egypt has detained at least 38 members of the opposition Muslim Brotherhood ahead of elections due on Sunday for four open parliament seats that the
  
• Zimbabwe on the brink of civil war- new report
  2008-07-11 03:33:02 - (SomaliNet) According to a fresh report released on Thursday in Johannesburg South Africa, Zimbabwe is on the brink of civil war The report - a collaborative effort between the Human Sciences Res
  
• Nigeria: Niger Delta rebel chief faces more charges
  2008-07-09 06:20:59 - (SomaliNet) Court officials said on Tuesday that Nigerian federal prosecutors have filed additional charges against a suspected Niger Delta rebel leader facing a treason trial. \"Seven additional
  
• Senegal: President Wade urges G8 not to slap sanctions on Zimbabwe
  2008-07-08 08:00:54 - (SomaliNet) Senegal\'s President Abdoulaye Wade said on Tuesday that he had urged Group of Eight powers meeting in Japan not to slap sanctions on Zimbabwe about its contested election. The Senegal
  
• Nigeria: Former president Olusegun to testify in treason, gun-running trial
  2008-07-08 07:38:28 - (SomaliNet)Lawyers for a leading Nigerian oil-region militant will subpoena former president Olusegun Obasanjo and foreign oil firms to testify in his trial for treason and gun-running. The Nige
  
• Guinea Equatorial: British man jailed for 34 years for failed 2004 coup plot
  2008-07-08 07:05:53 - (SomaliNet) A court in Equatorial Guinea on Monday jailed a British mercenary Simon Mann for 34 years by for a failed 2004 coup plot in which he said the son of former British Prime Minister Margaret
  
• South Africa: False rumors of Zambian President’s death being investigated- SA minister
  2008-07-07 06:39:31 - (SomaliNet) South Africa’s deputy foreign affairs minister Aziz Pahad said Monday that the origin of false rumours that Zambian President Mwanawasa had died was being investigated. Aziz said Sou
  
• South Africa: Thousands homeless as floods sweep Cape Town
  2008-07-07 06:25:07 - (SomaliNet) Torrential rain lashing the Western Cape has left at least one person dead in Citrusdal and thousands homeless on the Cape Flats. A report said the City of Cape Town is trucking food
  
• Sierra Leone: Low turnout as people vote in local elections
  2008-07-07 02:35:30 - (SomaliNet) After a campaign plagued with violence and intimidation, Sierra Leone\'s local elections, seen as a popularity test for the government of President Ernest Koroma, were marked by low voter t
  
• Nigeria: 12 students among 18 killed as buses collide
  2008-07-07 02:31:39 - (SomaliNet) Twelve students are among the eighteen people killed when their bus collided with an oncoming bus on a road in southern Edo state, police said Saturday. The accident happened when the
  

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